User talk:The Tom/Archive 4

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Faroese

Why did you think it was particularly necessary to notify the reader that you can't speak it? Unless you're living in the Faroe Islands these days. Wareq

• HA! Kinda funny. Wareq 07:15, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Electoral calendar 2005 (templates)

Hi. I was curious what was going on with Electoral calendar 2005. I found it on the short pages list and saw it was just only a template and a category. Is there some advantage to doing things like that? Just wondering!  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 21:02, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

AID

-Litefantastic 00:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Template:Australian politics/party colours/Nationals

You have reverted my change and some-one elses without any reason stated. Why? Softgrow 06:29, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Please continue discussion at Template talk:Australian politics/party colours/Nationals Softgrow 06:42, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Lennart Meri

Why did you remove Lennart Meri's death from Template:In the news? Did I format it badly? Or is Meri's death a too minor news item (which I seriously doubt)? There's a mention of it in Current Events, with not one, but two links to news stories. JIP | Talk 16:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Rollback

Hello. I have seen you, several times, use the rollback tool in an innapropriate manner. This is especially troubling, with the relevant portion copied below:

• The_Tom rolled back edits by Brian0918 [1]
• The_Tom rolled back edits by CJCurrie [2]
• The_Tom rolled back edits by HOTR [3]
• The_Tom rolled back edits by VampWillow [4]
• The_Tom rolled back edits by Izehar [5]
• The_Tom rolled back edits by Ta_bu_shi_da_yu [6]
• The_Tom rolled back edits by JIP [7]

This is rather troubling to me, personally. The rollback tool is intended for vandalism, with a few exceptions (reverting the edits by a banned user, spam, etc.). It is especially hostile and rude to revert the edits of another user in good standing, and that is especially true of a fellow administrator. The edit summary produced by the rollback too, with a link to the user's contributions page, gives the impression that the user being reverted is one who's edits should be checked carefully for vandalism, which is rude and hostile to the one being reverted. Additionally, the edit summary is inheiritly uniformative- It doesn't say why the edits are being reverted, which is the most important function of an edit summary. Thank you, and I hope that you will consider your use of this tool more carefully in the future. Best regards, Sean Black ^(talk) 23:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Interim leader of the opposition

I took the "interim" designation as informal. In any case, if we're going to be consistent, List of Canadian Leaders of the Opposition needs to be reworked as several of those listed are marked as "interim". Homey 16:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Leadership convention infobox

Great work! I was thinking that you might want to add a field for the "Winner" as I assume the infobox will be added to historical convetions and remain on the current Liberal one after there is a winner. - Jord 00:00, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for History of the World Wide Web, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. PDXblazers 19:43, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox Canada Political Party

Hi, I added some functionality based on our discussion last year to the Infobox Canada Political Party template, I added support for territorial parties, made the seats function work and made the Presidents HQ and Leader go away for defunct parties --Cloveious 14:54, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Dominionism

Template:Dominionism has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.    GUÐSÞEGN   – UTEX – 21:30, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Re your CfD proposal

Hi The Tom,
Just wanted to say that though I'm all but voting to oppose your proposal, I haven't voted because I think you're onto something in your brief essay there, but am not sure your concluding that renames to "...by nationality" will work. I have the feeling that consensus over some general system of "X of Y", "Yish X", "X by Y", etc usage is possible, I'm just not sure what it might be, where to begin or even whether I'd be able or happy to take the deep breath required before beginning... Thanks, though, for your essay; it expresses something of what has been skulking around in the back of my mind. Regards, David Kernow 18:48, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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Parties in the Council of the European Union

How about including a column for the next expected elections or for when the mandate of the current government will expire? Just an idea. —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 12:56, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

• Excellent idea. I've made a dent in it. -The Tom 16:46, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
  • I've just gone ahead and done the rest. Will you be going through the other PitCotEU pages for 2005, 2004 and 2003 and include information about QMV standings back then? That would be great. =] Take care, —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 13:31, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
    • It's honestly near the bottom of my to-do list. A day even rainier than today, perhaps. ;) If anyone else wanted to tackle it I'd have few objections. The Tom 05:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Another issue: User:The Tom/Archive 4 states that "[the party] has made several attempts to sever the party's links to the European right, most recently an aborted 2004 agreement to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, with whom it already sits at the Council of Europe." Does this mean we need to introduce a footnote for Ireland explaining that the party is officially a member of the AEN, but that its leader sits with the ELDR at the Council? I'm slightly confused... This would also mean, of course, that we have to update all the maps from 2003 until 2006. —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 13:56, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Council of Europe, not Council of the European Union. ;) The Tom 20:10, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
      • My bad, sorry. ^_^;; Regarding the QMV-in-older-pages question? ;) Thanks! —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 05:51, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK!

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Canadian Town Template

I noticed you just added a template to Lytton, British Columbia. I've been using the {{British_Columbia_municipality_infobox}} template for B.C. cities and towns. Is one more appropriate than the other, or does it not really matter at this point? — Usgnus 02:57, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

oops! wrong user. Please disregard — Usgnus 02:58, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Trade unions of ***

Hey there. Well, I'm glad to meet someone else who thinks "in" would be a more suitable wording in many of these categories. I'm certainly willing to go with "of", as it does seem to be the standard usage, but I'm not convinced that it is as accurate. :)--Bookandcoffee 03:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi The Tom. You commented on the cat change proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Organized Labour#Category:Trade unions by country and as you seem to be quite active in naming conventions, I'm looking for a little procedural advice. I started the discussion at the project page, rather than the CfD page, to try and engage the project editors. However, now I have a small dilemma because, of course, outside the standard CfD arena I think people are hesitant to close the discussion. Would it be appropriate if I now moved the content into the CfD cycle and let things continue? Or would it be better to put a note on the CfD talk page looking for someone to close it where it sits right now? Or is there another solution? Thanks. Chris.--Bookandcoffee 20:18, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Law cats

Hey, thanks for showing me that Law CFRU. I agree with your points and have opposed. To pass a CFRU to use "in" I think in addition to your nationality adjectives/state-centric topics point we'll have to distinguish clearly the difference in scopes between "Law in x" categories and "Laws of x" categories. Kurieeto 15:39, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

YayyY!

Thanx for the pagemove! 68.39.174.238 03:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Commons images on the mainpage

Please remember to use the procedure on Template:C-uploaded when putting a Commons image on the mainpage. If an image has not been uploaded locally, then it is not protected from vandalism at all.--Pharos 23:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Media by country

Hey, regarding Category:Media by country and others - If the naming convention is by nationality, are they technically meritted for speedy renaming? For example, if Category:Media of Canada could be speedy renamed to Category:Canadian media, why can't Category:Media by country be renamed on the same grounds to Category:Media by nationality? I see them as violating the same naming convention, which is always grounds for speedy renaming. If this is objected to by other Wikipedians, then I think there's enough reason to move the Media-related cats into the Undecided naming convention section. Kurieeto 02:38, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

3RR

Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. SushiGeek 23:07, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Mathematics

Pruneau 21:31, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Albanian Influence in Montenegro's Referendum

Do you care to explain why you are removing the fact that Albanian’s played a crucial role in the Referendum?Ferick 01:50, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Ok, my bad.Ferick 06:26, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Kosovo

• 1 This has nothing to do with happy or somthing like this. The UN officel status of Kosovo is War burnied province in Yugoslavia. Beacose of that, we have three versions UN see up in this text, Serbians: Kosovo ist a district in Serbia and the Albanians Repubik of Kosovo. The UN version is the offical version. Only beacose the albanians dont wount to put there propaganda that is not meaning that the UN version is the albanian propaganda. Kosovo-Metohia and Republik of Kosovo dont exist for the UN or better to say they are history.--Hipi Zhdripi 13:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

ITN

Can you consider reverting your picture change, considering that the picture on reservations was added hardly an hour back? Pls. check the history in future. Also, it is preferable to have a non-flag image. It is not necessary that the image corresponds to the first entry in either ITN or "on this day." --Gurubrahma 14:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Also, when you change pics, pls. ensure that the images are uploaded to WP and are protected. The flag of East Timor has not been {{C-uploaded}} and protected. --Gurubrahma 14:40, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I realised that these messages should go to User talk:Cyberjunkie as he was the one who changed the picture. I've already informed him. --Gurubrahma 16:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

What the hell is this crap?

You removed facts from the site:
This is not right at all. -- GZLFB

The facts I added were not spam, if they were I would have only bothered with my own self serving referencing. Double check what I did first, you did it so quickly you had no time to have even seen what I have done; I linked to all candidates I could added some relevant resources and in fact even links relating to candidate(s) or party(s) I do not like or support, such as the Nude Garden Party. PS What do you know? I was a Candidate, I was involved. I was a voter, I get e-mails and so on from resources I have yet to have the time to add.

Bull! re: what is this crap?

The facts I added were not spam, if they were I would have only bothered with my own self serving referencing. Double check what I did first, you did it so quickly you had no time to have even seen what I have done; I linked to all candidates I could added some relevant resources and in fact even links relating to candidate(s) or party(s) I do not like or support, such as the Nude Garden Party. PS What do you know? I was a Candidate, I was involved. I was a voter, I get e-mails and so on from resources I have yet to have the time to add.

Writing about myself....

Had no choice, I could't ignore myself, I was one of them; am one of them. I picked out articles, links, and so on that were relevant to all of them, and at the time I had only the time for Mayoral. Did you notice anyone but me? Normally I'd be flattered by this is like cyber stalking.

The research aslo sucked come to think of it, my first hand knowlledge and resourse should have been deemed helpfull. Why remove Howell's amuzing article or even Only Mag? You could have even edited to the main directory of Only Mag.

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