User talk:Marek69/Archive 18

articulo de Cali

Hola si entiendes español, te pido un favor, puede colaborar en actualizar el articulo de Cali, he visto que haz hecho reviciones. El articulo de Cali en version español es un articulo destacado, asi que ahi hay un bien material para complementarlo, tambien el articulo del valle del cauca esta muy enfatizado a la violencia. En Wikipedia en español me identifico como roboting pero no he unificado mi nombre globalmente. Saludos--Koldorogollo (talk) 19:05, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Hola Koldorogollo, gracias por tu mensaje. He añadido el artículo acerca de Cali a mi 'cosas por hacer' lista. :-)

Saludos. -- Marek.69 ^talk 19:29, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Looking at the next five years – a day workshop on the future of Wikimedia UK

There's a sign up section on the event talk page. If you have a particular preference about work shops you want to attend, you might want to add you name to the relevant lists. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 16:11, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Richard, thanks for the message. I've now signed up. Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 04:14, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Lucan portrait of Leonardo da Vinci

I just want to correct a slight misunderstanding here. I watch that page diligently, and noticed your edit summary,

For the record, there's no reason to suppose the work was created as a forgery, i.e. with specific intent to deceive. In fact, it doesn't utilise the techniques that Leonardo and his closest followers employed. It is simply a picture that was painted, based on another portrait I would think, by someone commissioned to produce a likeness of Leonardo. Without photography, copying painted portraits that had been done from life was very common.

There are several reasons why I don't think this painting was done from life. But I'm sure it is a legitimate copy, not a forgery made many years or centuries later.

The only thing that is suspicious is the fact that someone, at some later date wrote that script, backwards, on the picture. (I have some expertise in this, and have concluded that it was written by a right-handed person). The inscription is a forgery. And it's not a very convincing one. But the painting itself is simply a "copy" of a lost portrait. Amandajm (talk) 11:16, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Amandajm, thank you for your message. The only thing I was trying to say was that it cannot be described as a self-portrait. Whether it a copy or a forgery, or whatever its history, it is not an original painting by Leonardo himself, therefore it not a self-portrait. I hope that makes sense.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 11:24, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Capital letters

Sorry, in italian we are not used to write with so many capital letters. Thank you for your precious help and forgive my mistakes. Mauro--2.231.122.160 (talk) 18:23, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi, no problem, :-)

By the way, good work on the article! A great improvement :-)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 18:29, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, for your support and encouragement.--151.13.16.218 (talk) 07:30, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Page != pages

I reverted your edit on Eureka, California because "page" is not the same thing as "pages". If a citation occurs on page 16 of a 255 page book, and the citation on Eureka says "page 16," that means "page 16 of the total book." The way you changed it, some of these huge tomes looked to be only a few pages long!! On the other hand your removal of all the extra "format" tags was useful and I have duplicated that. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 04:00, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Ellin, thank you for your message. I have made the edit you refer to with a script called Reflinks, written by user: Dispenser, so to a certain extent a lot of the edit is controlled by how that script is set to work.

I looked up templates Cite web and Cite book and in the 'In source locations' section (of both) it says:

• page: Page in the source that supports the content. Displays preceded with p. unless |nopp=y.
• OR: pages: Pages in the source that supports the content; separate page ranges with an en dash (–); separate non-sequential pages with a comma (,); do not use to indicate the total number of pages in the source. Displays preceded with pp. unless |nopp=y.

As I understand this, you use page if you only have one page, and pages if you have either a range or a list of pages. It is not supposed to refer to the total number of pages in a book or source.

In the edits made with Reflinks, the script appears to change the citation wording from pages to page if there is only one page number listed.

Forgive me if I have interpreted this wrong (or what you are saying in the wrong way), but I'm not really sure what the problem is.

I apologise in advance if I am wrong. :-)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 04:52, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

What happened was your script changed the word "page" which would refer to (for example) page 25 of a book of 200 pages, to read "pages 25", which would mean "this book has only 25 total pages." After all the hours that editors have spent on Eureka, California getting each page number in the proper place, to have a scripted edit wipe out the exact page number on which the reference can be found resulted in the reversion to the last human created edit and my notification to you. I am sorry for any misunderstanding but if a source is "Doe, John, The Big Book, page 18," it is not the same thing as "Doe, John, The Big Book, 18 pages." The Eureka editors had it as the former "page 18" and the script changed it to the latter "18 pages." Thank you for your understanding and thank you also for nomming up the "format = " characters, when I reverted the "page/pages" edit, I followed that with an edit which removed the "format = " as you had it. With best wishes, Ellin Beltz (talk) 05:21, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Ellin, you wrote "your script changed the word "page" which would refer to (for example) page 25 of a book of 200 pages, to read "pages 25",".

However if you look at my edit (from what I can see) it has done the opposite:

My edit has changed 'pages =' into 'page =' a total number of eight times (and 0 times the other way round page --> pages as you state is the case)

You continue on to say: "...to read "pages 25", which would mean "this book has only 25 total pages."

In the documentation for Cite book and Cite web on Cite book 'In source locations' section it says:

• page: Page in the source that supports the content. Displays preceded with p. unless |nopp=y.
• OR: pages: Pages in the source that supports the content; separate page ranges with an en dash (–); separate non-sequential pages with a comma (,); do not use to indicate the total number of pages in the source.

I understand this preceding paragraph (from the documentation) to mean pages=25 does not indicate the total number of pages in the source.

I understand it to mean that 'Page =' is used if there is one page number, such as 'Page=25'; 'Pages =' is used if there are multiple pages such as 'Pages = 25,28,30', or a range of pages, such as 'Pages = 25-30'

I'm very sorry if I'm not following what you are trying to say. Please explain which part of what I have just said you disagree with, so that we may find some understanding :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 05:45, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I saw a third opinion request, so I'm replying! |page and |pages are basically the same, except that |pages is used for multiple pages. It does not indicate how many pages there are. The only changes were to citations that only included one page (eg |pages=25 to |page=25), which is less ambiguous.

Compare the citations under ==References== with these two diffs: before and after. There are no differences. Xavexgoem (talk) 09:17, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment Xavexgoem. -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:28, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Reply

With apologies for any misunderstandings and no desire to get you upset. You are correct in that I attempted to explain the problem backwards above. I think I was in shock at having to revert an edit. I rarely undo, and even more rarely on edits from good editors like yourself. Let me try again to explain! I attach a photo of the diffs in question, there are indeed differences in the citations given by Xavexgoem, as you can also see here in the "prev" of the undo which shows what the script changed in the article. The diff cited by Xavexgoem also shows the page > pages change, as the books no longer have 346 pages, but instead the citation reads "p. 346". Instead of yakking more on page != pages, here is a photo.

A screenshot of the relevant differences. Please click on the image to go to larger version. Source "prev" of undo diff

I hope this image will perhaps explain better than another 1,000 words. The left hand column was after the script happened, the right hand column is both before the script and after the reversion.

As you can see in the photo, the script edit changed the meaning of many entries on Eureka, California. In the example on the left at top (Davidson's book) your script wrote "page 16" when the document has really "16 pages" as you see on the right hand column. In the second one (Coy's book), the script wrote "page 346" when the book has "346 pages" which is how it was before the script changes. There were a few uses of "page" on Eureka that refer to exact page numbers, they were written "page" as in "look on page #x".

As I tried to explain before, your script ran through and made major changes to the meaning of the citations, so I reverted your edit. I wrote you here to explain why I reverted your edit. I did reverse the explanation of the problem, my apologies for the reversal. Contrary to Xavexgoem's opinion, there were - as you can see in the photo - major differences between the two versions, the script changed the meaning of an important data points in the citations. While scripts may be fast and fun, they can also make some unexpected changes to carefully cultivated wiki entries. P.S. If I don't reply to you immediately, there's no need to leave additional tags on my talk page. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:03, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Ellin, you write "the script changed the meaning of an important data points in the citations". I'm not sure where this has happened. I'm sorry if I appear stupid.

As I am understanding you, you are saying that "Pages =" means the total amount of pages in the book. Is this what you are saying, or have I misunderstood?

In the documentation for Cite book it clearly states do not use to indicate the total number of pages in the source.. So by the template documentation, its not supposed to refer to the total number of pages in the book. I'm not sure what we are arguing about.

I have compared the references sections of before my edit to after my edit and I could not spot any noticeable differences.

I feel we are going around in circles with this conversation, so either we will have to (a) agree to disagree or (b) call in some outside help to solve it.

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 16:40, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't understand why you're having trouble with my explanations. I think it is really obvious that a book of 346 pages is not the same thing as "the citation is on page 346." Based on the link you provided to the instructions, someone shall have to go back through the entire Eureka article. There have been dozens of editors on that page over the years, I suspect few looked at the reference you provided, they merely put the total number of pages in the book, as that is a very common citation format in school. But even so, please don't change it to "page 346" until I can go through Coy's book (and all the other citations) to find the exact page that some unknown editor used for each reference? Otherwise the whole thing becomes very messy, as people would go to page 346 looking for the reference, and find that to be the last page in the book. I personally never saw the exact line of instructions on this before, there are several million words of instruction on how to do Wiki, and also the big one "Be Bold." So the Eurekans were bold and made that page slightly differently from the actual instructions. I saw the changes go past and realized it was a problem because I know that Coy's book is huge. I use it to hold up a whole row of other books on the shelf. So that one was obvious to me, that the reference could not possibly be on "page 346" as that is the last page of the book and the item cited is early in Eureka history. Ellin Beltz (talk) 16:54, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Ellin, I've had a look at the diff, and at the template documentation. From what I can see, Marek's edit ("pages=" to "page=") didn't change anything at all. Both fields are for the specific page(s) being cited, not the number of pages in the book. Or have I misunderstood? Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:16, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I think what Ellin is saying is that previous editors had used |pages to indicate the total number of pages. This actually seems to be the case! Looking at the cites, sure enough, general plan (pdf) has 30 pages, The discovery of Humboldt Bay, California has 16 pages, and California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names has 467 pages! So that explains the miscommunication.

That said, the purpose of |pages is to indicate a range of pages or an unordered sequence of pages. So instead of changing |pages to |page, they should probably be dropped entirely, since it appears in the citation as if the relevant passage will be found on page 30 or 16 or 367. As far as I know, there is no argument that indicates total number of pages. Xavexgoem (talk) 04:28, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Bad reflinks edits

Hi Marek; re edits like this, this and this - parameters like |author=about a year ago via OpenBuildings.com |author=England |author=March 6, 2009 aren't very sensible. Please take care that the parameters are filled in with suitable data. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:23, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Redrose64, thanks for pointing these out. The script is loading these parameters from the original website in the source, which is where they must be jumbled/mislabeled.

I'll take a break and review all my reflinks edits in case there are any more like this.

Cheers for your help :-)

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:34, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks; also, I noticed the previous thread - and then came across this edit. The problem here is that changing |pages=30 to |page=30 when a |page=2 already exists causes the |page=2 to be hidden - if a given named parameter occurs more than once, all instances except the last one are ignored. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:36, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Arhhh! So am I right in thinking that in that particular case it is referencing two pages and should read "pages=2,30"? -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:45, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

And there is another problem with Reflinks. It evidently inserts dates that are not necessarily in accordance with the date format being used in the article concerned. I think the Reflinks user should check the output and correct the date format if necessary, so that date formats are consistent within any one article, per WP:DATEFORMAT. -- Alarics (talk) 22:43, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		in recognition of your maintenance of various articles on my watchlist Amandajm (talk) 02:49, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you, Amanda :-) Marek.69 ^talk 00:44, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

I believe you are mistaken

Marek69 I believe you have me mistake for I have not edited wikipedia ever — Preceding unsigned comment added by Resistance343 (talk • contribs) 03:56, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

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Reversion at 4th World Congress of Biotechnology

Hi Marek69,

I noticed that you reverted the removal of a proposed deletion tag at 4th World Congress of Biotechnology. It is my understanding that anyone can delete such tags, for any reason. In particular, per WP:PROD, one cannot re-prod an article after a deprod. Not that I think the article would survive an AfD, but why the reversion? Thanks, --Mark viking (talk) 23:11, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mark, thank you for your message.

My mistake. I have now self-reverted. :-)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 23:16, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Best regards, --Mark viking (talk) 23:19, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

sajid Mahmood Bhatti

i m saadi babloo i have created the page and also cite references and news but this is an pakistani politition so news is in urdu but you cant accept it for sake of god remove this icon and check the page again ane approve it if you can;t i will leave wikipedia because it cant give any relaibility to me plz think about this article and search my references again this is a real personality not fake one — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saadi babloo (talk • contribs) 06:38, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

If you would like to help out with some WP:POLAND activities

I wonder if you'd be interested in my little current side project: ensuring that all individuals in List of Poles have a WPPOLAND talk template. This is so that this nice listing (Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Popular pages) would be more correct. I am currently working from top down, started yesterday with musicians.

Or perhaps would you like to do a few B-class reviews for WP:POLAND? We have a backlog at Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Reviews. PS.(Per your talk notice) If you would be so kind, please copy any reply to my talk page. Thanks, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:53, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism?

Just a moment here.

The last major set of revision was conducted by me. Since then, other revisions have been made, most of which are unsupported or biased.

I have engaged the last reviser in TALK, and reverting the page to his version doesn't qualify as vandalism? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.219.182.190 (talk) 05:51, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for your message. I've reverted my edit because I do not wish to take sides. However, it looks to me that you are engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on the Payday loan article. I see you have already been warned by user:DMacks. Please be aware you risk being blocked if you continue editing in this manner.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 06:45, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Warehouse13: Main Character Jinks Is Gay Why The Revert?

I received your message about my minor edit not being "constructive". Forgive me, but I'm not sure what that means. I merely added a completely accurate fact regarding one of the primary characters on the series, Stephen Jinks. The character of Jinks is gay. This is neither speculation nor allusion. It has been addressed in many episodes and is common knowledge amongst even casual fans. This is a fundamental trait of the character. How is it a bad thing to add this to his bio?

Thank you for your time

74.195.173.57 (talk) 04:32, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for your message. I've reverted my edit, however I've added a {{citation needed}} template.

I agree with the comment posted by user:Huntster on the article's talk page, that it is an unnecessary addition.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 06:32, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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Why are you changing massacre into repatriation?

Who are you and what right do you have to make those changes? We Croats see it as a massacre — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.166.166.75 (talk) 02:22, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

hi mark i want to know how to create main article with dvd covers like how the vampire diaries is an i forgot how i do it with hart of dixie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akim56 (talk • contribs) 04:31, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Rufus Wainwright - Prima Donna

Hi There, I had edited the prima donna synopsis because it is incorrect. The long version that is posted is full of factual errors so I have entered a shortened synopsis that was used previously to describe the opera at the manchester international festival. Can you please change it back to what I had edited yesterday? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.90.104.155 (talk) 18:19, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry

I'm sorry for making you mad and changing the she'll be coming 'round the mountain thingy. I will no longer comment on it at all. 173.26.226.58 (talk) 23:47, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Marianne Faithfull

Hi Marek, I feel my edits to the filmography section provided a more organized format. I have seen other articles in the format of what I had one, Anjelica Huston, Meryl Streep, the list goes on. However, like you, and I am just a loyal fan, and I see that you have been editing this page longer than I have, and I give you free reign. At least you left a considerate message consulting with me. Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avario87 (talk • contribs) 04:07, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

I completely revised Grace Jones' page, I was planning on editing Marianne Faithfull's page like this, what do you think? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Jones#Idiosyncrasies_and_media_controversies — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avario87 (talk • contribs) 04:14, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Avario87, thank you for your message.

I'm not sure if it was your intention, but your edit to Marianne Faithfull removed 3615 bytes of text from the filmography section. That is why I reverted it.

Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 04:17, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

I've looked at your latest edits and they look good. :-)

Best -- Marek.69 ^talk 04:27, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Himalayan (guinea pig)

Hello, I saw your message about my Himalayan guinea pig article. I would really like to know about them. Lusa bear (talk) 18:29, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Marianne Faithfull (cont.)

Marek, thank you for the words of encouragement, I need them more than ever when I say that I am underwhelmed by the organization of Faithfull's page; I hope you will agree with me, when I say that it is somewhat senseless to separate her 'acting career' from the '1960-2010' time frame, I think the acting career should be incorporated with those sections. We should also leave an organized filmography section, and bibliography section, where it should list her self-penned books; we don't need a 'career as a diarist' section, many famous eventually write an autobiography or two, that doesn't make them have a career of doing it. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Avario87 (talk • contribs) 19:54, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Assistance request neutrality dispute Haller's Blue Army (Poland) page

Hello, to resolve an ongoing neutrality dispute on the Blue Army (Poland) page, I'm requesting any assistance possible from experienced Wikipedia editors to look at the 'Controversies' section of the Blue Army page, and review the text for possible bias. I'm not an seasoned Wikipedia contributor myself, in fact I don't really edit much at all. But, when I came across the Blue Army page, I was taken aback by the blunt and inaccurate way in which the subject matter was portrayed! The list of possible neutrality violations is extensive, and due to my novice editor status all my past attempts to modify the text have been dismissed as being disruptive, and subsequently reversed:

Possible neutrality issues found on the Blue Army (Poland) 'Controversies' section: Neutrality Tag is constantly being taken down without reaching a final consensus on the subject matter. Weasel word are used to create an overall exaggerated impression of the events in question, and others are used to cast doubt on anything reported by the Polish side as being legitimate. POV and the use of questionable secondary source references, which contradict primary source accounts of the events. In this case the investigation conducted by the United States envoy to Poland Hugh S. Gibson and his subsequent State Department report on the issue. The American envoy found that: many of the newspaper reports alleging antisemitism were planted by the German and Soviet governments, and had been inflated or even based on hearsay and confabulation. Also, the envoy reported that many of the "pogroms" were in fact food riots, where an even larger number of Christian shops were ransacked. Undue Weight specific events are taken out of context, such as: abuse of civilians during the military campaign by the Blue Army troops is automatically labeled as antisemitic. Thus, taken out of context, when in fact looting was not only restricted to jewish households.

In the end, I understand that this is a difficult subject matter, and that some of the troops did engage in open antisemitism. But, by breaking the above listed neutrality rules, the editor (Faustian) who wrote much of the section, is creating a false picture of the Blue Army, in which the reader comes away with the bias impression that "Pogroming" is the only thing the Blue Army did.

Again, for a quick snapshot of the primary source's account of the events, please see the United States envoy Hugh S. Gibson Wikipedia page. And, thank you for any assistance in this matter. --68.191.79.36 (talk) 21:48, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

Many thanks for removing vandalism from my user page. Enjoy!! Denisarona (talk) 09:41, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

No Problem, thanks for lunch. :-) -- Marek.69 ^talk 17:22, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

editing !

Sorry I put that just to see if you can actually edit things ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nb123456 (talk • contribs) 01:31, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

UK Wikimedian of the Year 2013/Nominations

The Wikimedia UK AGM will be held in June, and nominations for the UK Wikimedian of the Year are currently open. If there is someone who you feel has made an important contribution to the UK Wikimedia movement in the last year please go ahead and nominate them here by 09:00 (BST) on Monday 20th May at the latest. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 13:18, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Page blanking

Stop promoting Thomas Whitfield who fails every test of notoriety.

You are the author/editor behind all his entries

It is fine that you keep reposting the article. It merely shows a trail.

If you are a true Wikipedia lover (I actually donate) then you would not risk your reputation

This will not go away.

End of chapter 1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.206.180.43 (talk) 12:26, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I have replied on your talk page. Marek.69 ^talk 12:35, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Silk Road edit

Hi.

You might want to look at [1] and [2]. Meters and miles confusion, I fancy, but makes the sightseeing trip more affordable potentially... Begoon ^talk 15:29, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks 'm' should have been 'mi'. Easy to miss :-)

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 16:29, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Yep, very easy. Sorry I just undid your whole edit instead of taking time to do it selectively, but I was rushing around and wanted to fix the lead for the edit-requesting new user, so I took the lazy option with it all being minor stuff. Begoon ^talk 16:37, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Begoon, did you have two different diffs, or did you mean to repeat the same one twice? :-) Marek.69 ^talk 16:55, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

No the second one should have been to the talk page edit request: Talk:Silk_Road#Edit_request_on_19_May_2013. It was just FYI. I think I must have copied and pasted it in kilograms instead of pounds... Begoon ^talk 17:01, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

OK :-D Take care. -- Marek.69 ^talk 17:03, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Re warning against this IP range

Hi there,

I just saw your messages re vandalism editing on different Wikipedia sites. Please note that we are a school and thus students will try to edit Wiki sites for just this reason. If you are able to put our IP range in a place where we cannot edit Wikipedia but still able to access it, this would be a rather good idea.

If you have any issues with this, please contact me at

Liam.Atwood@tkcoll.school.nz

Cheers,

Liam — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.98.53.66 (talk) 02:54, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

San Francisco de Macorís

Thanks. Editor is now blocked. Drmies (talk) 17:46, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

np, thanks for blocking him :-) Marek.69 ^talk 17:47, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Re: Your nomination for speedy deletion on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cogen

HI Marek69, Just wanted to let you know that the page I created, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cogen is no longer blank. I initially had some issues with the references not showing, but was able to fix it. Thanks! Acog (talk) 22:30, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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Witam.

Thank you for your kind welcome. This is my very first time editing WIKI and I do find it a tad overwhelming. I notice you yourself have done some editing of the Brzeg Dolny page. I grew up there until I was almost 11, at which point I moved to Canada (I am currently living in the US). I recently stumbled upon the English Brzeg Dolny page and thought it was a little lackluster compared to the Polish version. Since I have a little time on my hands right now, I started adding some photos, translating some text from the Polish page, etc. I hope it makes the English page a little 'nicer.' :) Cheers, Natasha ~~feles-caerulea~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Feles-caerulea (talk • contribs) 21:22, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Natasha, thank you very much for your message. :-)

Nice work on the Brzeg Dolny article, its great that you are able to give it the personal touch. :-)

If you ever do require any help or advice on editing, please do not hesitate to ask.

Happy wiki-ing :-)

Best Regards. Marek.69 ^talk 22:11, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Transnistria

The non-UN member unrecognized state Pridnestrovie is named with politicians from Moldova and Romania disrespectfully with a Holocaust name as Transnistria (it is a contemptuously term, ).

November 29, 2000 in accordance with the recommendations of the UN by former President PMR - Smirnov issued a decree № 591 "On the transliteration and place names", according to which the name of the Transnistria in the Latin alphabet was established as Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica (Pridnestrovie).

PRB, a financial representative of the TMR on the international scene has caused a stir. Its programmers have invented the three names of the republic: Trans-Dniester Moldavian Republic (TMR), Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublica (PMR), Moldova (Transdniestria). The coloring of the PRB and the Foreign Ministry website PMR added illiterate contraction of the words "street" and "city", ie «Ul» instead of «str», and «g» instead of «town».

06.04.2012 was repealed it Decree and in accordance with Art. 65 of the Constitution of Pridnestpovian Moldavian Republic new president Shevchuk signed a decree number 252, which recognized only the official name of the PMR in English - Pridnestpovian Moldavian Republic (Pridnestrovie).

http://profvesti.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/gerbi1-1024x407.jpg --217.19.208.101 (talk) 22:07, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for your message.

I must confess, I know very little about Pridnestrovie. I have probably only edited the article a few times making minor edits such as typo corrections.

You may be able to get a discussion going if you post on the article's talk page.

Kind Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 22:20, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Refs

File:London 2012 Olympic BMW.jpg

Hi Marek,

I work for a company called Quartix and we'd be interested in using the above photo in some corporate marketing: presentations, editorial, maybe advertising.

Would this be possible?

With thanks,

Best Regards,

Claire A. enquiries@quartix.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.153.95.106 (talk) 13:36, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi Claire, thank you for your message.

Sure, please feel free to use the photo. :-)

I have released the photo under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

If I could just ask you to add an attribution when you do use it, then everything will be good.

Best Regards Marek.69 ^talk 22:34, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

I don't recall making that edit, and I don't see how it is appropriate in any way. I think my password needs to be changed. Thanks for the notification and the correction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.74.136.28 (talk) 16:46, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:Sedna (mythology)

I wonder if you could have a quick look at this? I don't need a full translation but I wondered if the IP was raising some valid points or not. Although the IP looks to be in Poland the bit, "Sedna to Gwynned z wyspy Anglesy," makes it look as if they are talking about the place in Wales but Anglesey is not spelt right. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 18:06, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi CambridgeBayWeather,

Unfortunately I don't have enough knowledge of the subject material (mythology) to be able to comment

I've quickly done you a rough translation (luckily Google Translate wasn't far off).

I hope it helps.

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 18:58, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

“ Sedna as Gwynned daughter of Dahut of YS

Sedna is Gwynned from the island Anglesey, daughter of Daut of the sunken city of Ys next to the British Isless, according to one of the legends Daut cut off some fingers when she tried to grab the side of the boat in the storm after the sinking of Ys, according to another legend, Saint Barnon dropped her from his flying horse into the depths of a storm raging around the city of Ys,

Sedna, the adopted daughter or granddaughter of Ana of Abzu (Angut), was first of all wife of King of the Gulls or King of he Herulls lived in Denmark at Abzu, then married a dog. That Dog was Wot-Han, but she didnot like him to be called as such. It was very infuriating for Ana that Wot was the great enemy of Uranus - Dragon-Emperor of China,

Gwynned was firstly wife of King of Herulls, and then the wife of Han Wot (Torgarsuk), and at the same time was a granddaughter or step-granddaughter of the god Ana of Abzu.

Gwynned and Wot Han lived on the island of Britain or Anglesey near the mainland, they had six children, three were orange (pink) and three were yellow (flesh-colored), they divided among themselves the children, three were on the island, and three of them went with their father to the mainland.

These children are Samara, Penza and Goldenlips, and that time they all managed to be Isolde (Iseult). In addition to this their mother's city was Birmingham and Jekaternburg , and sometimes Rangoon, their grandmother's city was of Samara, and sometimes Rangoon, but not nearby - a long way away. Gwynned's daughter Samara was similar in appearance to her grandmother Samara.

Wales was divided into three counties, each belonging to one of the three daughters, and the Isle of Anglesey was where their mother lived, but Anglesey was so warm and so good to live, that the subjects/people sometimes forget to take good care of their Queens, more than this they also thought more about their city YS buried under the sea. From the inhabitants of these four Counties rose Inuit, Eskimos, Aleuci, Kurile, and then another Algonkini, they dispersed to the far ends of the cold corners of the world, the four tribes think of their mother-goddesses, the Algonkini think about where their city YS is, where the Adlivun country is and where they should all live together,

The three sons who Wot-Han he took with him became the tribes of Sami, Chant and Mansi, and cultivated the memory of Wocie Wotiacz, and recently Iżorow in place of votive offerings.

Gwynned and her daughters were the goddesses of linguistic correctness, so talking to them was no problem to the various tribes of shepherds and high tribes of giants,

Arnakuagsak is one of the names of Sedna, it appears that Sedna is the Goddess of the lost Saki Arny in India, according to my understanding "Kuag" would mean "lost", the same name is Arnapkapfaaluk - Arnapfaakpfaluk, Nulljajuk (Nulljasak) Arnaquagsak, some believe Marijczyków or Muromców for mammalian,

Perhaps King of Herulls was Han Sin, since he had his own country along a straight path from the place where she lived Gwynned and not on the other side of the wide river.

Torgar may be another name for Wot Han, because it usually has much in common with the noun 'Souk', and in Abzu he one owned the city Toruń (or Thorn which means thorn)

It was all in the heavens of Abzu, at a time when the Giants lived among normal people and dwarfs, so no-one would ever carry their keys, there are no rules, there are just pictures and buildings.

”

Thanks. I'm not completely sure about all this mythology either. I noticed some things such as Ys, a mythical city on the coast of Brittany, and Adlivun the Inuit underworld. I'll copy the translation over to Sedna and see if somebody has some ideas. Thanks again. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 20:02, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome. I'm sorry I couldn't help anymore, but I'm just not familiar with this particular subject. :-(

Best Regards -- Marek.69 ^talk 20:10, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

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FYI, I started a discussion on WikiProject Cities that was spurred by your revert on Rio de Janeiro (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities#Sister cities). -- tariqabjotu 14:13, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Tariqabjotu, thanks for letting me know. :-) Marek.69 ^talk 23:00, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Tariqabjotu, I've come up with a compromise on the Rio de Janeiro article; a collapsible wikitable. What do you think?

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RJ

Marek69,

Thank you for your patient message on my talk page about my edits on RJ. I should have read more about the situation before editing. Feel free to revert my edits, should what I reverted be general consensus.

Thank you and cheers,
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Thanks for your understanding Christiano :-). Kind Regards --Marek.69 ^talk 01:40, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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I've put your user page on semi-protection due to recent vandalism. If you wish to have semi-protection removed, please feel free to contact me or another admin. —Tom Morris (talk) 07:12, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you Tom -- Marek.69 ^talk 08:22, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for restoring the Kingkey 100 mention in the article's lead. I sense some bias in that IP address.... QatarStarsLeague (talk) 00:46, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

No problem QatarStarsLeague, I'm assuming good faith and just putting it down to inexperience.

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We have changed the number of suggested articles and which categories they are selected from. The number of stubs has been greatly reduced, the number of articles needing sources doubled, and two new categories added (orphans and unencyclopaedic articles). We have also modified the layout of the suggestions and added sortable columns with various types of information about each article. The first two columns are:

Views/Day

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Quality

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The method we use to predict article quality also allows us to assess whether an article might need specific types of work in order to improve its quality. The work needed might not correspond to cleanup tags added to the article, since our method is not based on those. We have added five columns reflecting this work assessment, where a red X indicates improvement is needed. Placing your cursor over an X should give you a pop-up with a short description of the work needed. The five columns seek to answer the following five questions:

Content

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Headings

Does this article have an appropriate section structure?

Images

Is the number of illustrative images about right?

Links

Does this article link to enough other Wikipedia articles?

Sources

For its length, is there an appropriate number of citations to sources in this article?

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GOCE July 2013 news report

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Ask your views before publishing

You are an experienced Wiki - User. As a wiki - amateur, I'm FSB since March, 2012 under observation and, since 18 Apr. 2013 under the supervision of the Public Prosecutor's office king (for unclear reasons). Find the lüstig for. I'm decent burger from Brussels. All that. Before that publication in Discussion ask your views. Thank you. <In the last 20 years (1993-2013), along with immigrants from North Africa, in the town crest and North - African culture. Today 35 - 40% city Inhabitants with mogametanische background. Islam, several Moshe, national clothes, as unfortunately negatieve Merkmallen (urinate in washing Salonen, etc.). European tourists can get a souvenir - brüsselose in small shop, buy it in the city center, a female face in arabic headscarf. >Ajhbdduosm (talk) 13:05, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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