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Photos on U.S. government sites

No, not all images on .gov or .mil sites are in the public domain, but most are. In general, U.S. government sites indicate (by giving a credit line) when an image is not U.S. government property and thus is copyrighted. Which ones were you thinking about? Lupo 14:51, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

US Govt images

Saw your message on Lupo's page... hope you don't mind if I chime in. AFAIK, most images on US Govt websites are held in the public domain. I understand they are not in the public domain if they are taken by a government worker who did not take it directly for work. However, you may still be able to use the image under fair use legal doctrine. My suggestion: have a look at one of my images on exploding whale to see how I justified fair use. (I used a checklist). Not sure if this helps answer your question, and also remember IANAL! - Ta bu shi da yu 14:52, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Images...

Re Gregory W. Meeks: you must state the source where you got that image from. (And likewise for other images: all images should have a source.) Without source it is impossible for a third party to evaluate whether the image is tagged correctly. This is especially important for images tagged as "fair use", but citing sources is good practice anyway and should always be done. I usually do it in the upload comment itself, where I typically state "Description; from [<URL>].<br>{{tag}}". "Description" is typically short (might be just "[[Gregory W. Meeks]]" in this case), and "tag" is the appropriate tag ("{{PD}}" in this example). In most cases, that's sufficient, and I have to go edit the image description page only if I want to add more information. Lupo 07:15, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

also.. regarding Theresa le pore.jpg .. the source shows it as a state of Florida web site. That is not US Federal government, you will need to research the State of Florida copyright laws on web sites to see if its legal to use it. That is why every image should have both source and copyright status so others can double check. All of this is for your own protection, you are personally legally liable for anything you upload to Wikipedia. Stbalbach 08:17, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

U.S. state governments can hold copyright. The thing about government works being in the public domain applies only to the U.S. federal government. Most state governments, including Florida, see e.g. [1], do indeed copyright their works, a noteable exception being California, where most published gvt works are in the public domain. Foreign governments (such as France, Germany, the UK, Canada) usually do hold a copyright on their works, and one needs to check their terms carefully. For Image:Theresa le pore.jpg, a fair use claim could probably be made, given that the image is of poor quality, has no commercial value, and is used for information purposes only. (I'm not a lawyer, though, and personally I try not to upload pictures useable only under the fair use doctrine.) Lupo 10:08, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi — thanks for your comment about my articles about New Zealand. It's nice to know that people are reading them and finding them interesting. -- Vardion 06:58, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Same goes for me, too. I'm glad they're appreciated! Grutness 10:42, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments about my articles, I appreciate your support. Adam 16:20, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC) (Cute photo, by the way)

Civil war in Ivory Coast

Thanks! Wizzy 22:33, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

are .edu images in the public domain?

I'm a little bit confused by the context of your question. In any case, I can tell you that in general, images from .edu sites are definitely not in the public domain, unless specifically stated to be so. Even for the case of public (state-run) universities in the U.S., for example University of California, University of Illinois, Colorado State University, etc., the copyright rules for the federal goverment do not apply because thos institutions are owned by individual U.S. states. That's pretty much my understanding of things (IANAL). -- Decumanus 22:20, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)

My understanding is that it is possible in some cases to claim fair use for .edu site images. But I am by no means an authority on that, even casual. I stay away from all such images and only create my own. It is best to consult other people about fair use standards in Wikipedia. Off the top of my head, I think fair use tends to be allowed when images are released to the public for publicity purposes (don't take that with anything more than a grain of salt). I think it is an unresolved issue for Wikipedia at the present time. -- Decumanus 22:37, 2004 Nov 16 (UTC)

I would caution you that not all .edu subdomains are for government institutions. Nonetheless, if you can justify fair use, then by all means go ahead and use the images. However I would also advise you to add the reasons why you think fair use applies in the image description page. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:04, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Drug stubs

Hi, Darwin. Are drugs supposed to be listed as med-stubs? If so, I'll start doing that from now on. Axl 10:50, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

1911EB scrubbing

Hey, I appreciate your scrubbing of the 1911EB lists! I have one little request; when I notice synonyms being listed together and break them into the semicolon-separated groups, could you not delink the one before the redir from other is created? I usually try to do it right away, but sometimes overlook, and it's more work to rediscover the redir opportunity without the blue link right there (Google searching of WP is terrible, tells me an article doesn't exist when I'm looking right at it). Stan 14:36, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness|^hello? 06:16, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Request for Admin

I decided to test my strength. Do you want to nominate me for admin?

Okay - you seem like a good candidate for it. Your lack of involvement with some of the areas of Wikipedia may count against you a little, but I think that what you have shown so far is definitely worth you being considered. Grutness|^hello? 00:28, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Done - now you need to go to Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Darwinek to formally accept nomination and answer a few questions... Grutness|^hello?

Sad to say it doesn't look like you succeeded - this time. It wasn't an outright rejection, but a "failure of consensus", with a few more supporting than opposing, but not a big enough majority (80%, IIRC). I think that - if you clear up those copyvio problems - you've got a very good chance of becoming an admin if you try again in two or three months time. Grutness|^hello? 05:47, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

AID project

On this week's Article Improvement Drive voting, an article you supported was selected. This week we focus on improving Antigua and Barbuda and Criticisms of War on Terrorism to featured article status. Hope you can help. 119 01:02, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

User:Vaoverland - administrator

Thank you for supporting my appointment as an administrator. I appreciate the pat on the back this represents. It felt nice to read the comments during the voting. Please let me know if you see something I should be doing as admin, as I intend to be fairly passive unless it is clear I should do otherwise. Thanks. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 20:06, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)

Row yer boat

Thank you very much for the picture (image:Boat on the Euphrates) you added to the Euphrates article. It's very much appreciated. Gareth Hughes 11:30, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Howland Island

Thanks for putting up the NASA photo of Howland Island! Wyss 22:13, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Foo (Trinidad and Tobago) vs. Foo, Trinidad and Tobago

I got the impression from the naming convention that the former was preferable to the latter. Am I mistaken? (If so, I have a LOT of mis-named stubs). And thanks for adding "and towns" to List of cities in Trinidad and Tobago - I was always wondering what one does with a list that can't have more than two items. Guettarda 22:13, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. And I do plan to keep adding to the list. They're pretty much all stubs, so now I need to convert them to full-fledged articles. Guettarda 22:40, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Category removed from everything except Port-of-Spain and San Fernando. Guettarda 01:30, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Cameroon

Hi Darwinek - I suspect this is going to be a common problem with using regions rather than individual countries for geo-stubs, but technically Cameroon is west Africa, not central Africa (see the maps in the respective stub categories), so articles about towns in Cameroon should get "AfricaW-geo-stub". Good to see more articles being made and stubbed though! Grutness|^hello? 01:35, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank You!

Hi Darwinek,

I would like to thank you for your vote of support and confidence for my adminship, it has been much appreciated. If you need anything in future that requires my attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. :)

- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 18:34, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi Darwinek, I would like to add my own thanks for your support in my nomination. I look forward to helping out. - BanyanTree 04:16, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Also, thank you so much for your very kind words. Cheers, BanyanTree 04:21, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my adminship — I vow to use my super powers for good not evil. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:35, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I also thank you for your vote of confidence. —wwoods 16:52, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the adminship nomination, it was kind of unexpected, but appreciated--nixie 01:23, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

{{Vote about move|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn}} violet/riga (t) 19:16, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

John Sloan image

Thanks for adding that great image to the John Sloan page! It looks great, and definitely adds to the value of the page. I am planning to add more content to this page over the weekend. -- Ethomsen 05:57, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

admin

Thanks for supporting my admin nomination; I promise to keep up the good work! Btw, quite an impressive list of articles you've started. Take care, Antandrus 05:27, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Urnes stave church

Hi Darwinek. Just thought I'd leave you a note saying that I've translated no:Urnes stavkyrkje into English as you requested, see Urnes stave church. Rje 13:48, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Albert Gomes, categories

I noticed you fixed the categories on Albert Gomes - almost as soon as I created the article. Thanks for fixing them. I hadn't intended to leave both in - I entered them, previewed, and then forgot to fix it (cat's don't show up when you preview). The reason I put the TT category in there first had to do with the fact that Gomes was a national figure, so I was wondering about how that is usually handled. "People" is too broad a category. I suppose I could create a Trinidad and Tobago politicians (or is it, Politicians of Trinidad and Tobago? the convention on naming seems to keep changing). Anyway, thanks for catching my mistakes. Guettarda 16:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer. I didn't realise you weren't an admin yet - figured anyone who makes that many nominations for adminship probably is one already. As for me - right now is definitely not the time - I think there are several people who are at least a little unhappy with me. I would really like to meet jguk's threshold before I tried for adminship - ie, getting an article to featured article status. I think I can do it eventually with Eric Williams - it's an article that is important for me to NPOV because I strongly dislike the man and his legacy, so if I can write a good, NPOV article about him (it's not easy for me to be NPOV about him) I feel I can do NPOV. Regardless of whether I get it to FAC or not, working on it is a good way to learn humility - and it has actually helped me get a more balanced view of the man. Guettarda 17:38, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Culture of Africa

Great, beautiful picture. --Bhadani 10:56, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Dear Darwin, thanks for your message. I don't wish to be an Admin, but thanks for the thought. The photo is beautiful :) Adam 03:05, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Jubail satellite photo

I found the satellite image you uploaded for the Jubail article. Do you have similar images for Dhahran and Ras Tanura? Eagle 17:10, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for supporting my RfA! I shall attempt to put the shiny new buttons to good use. (Also, that's a nifty user photo.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:54, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Emperors of Ethiopia

Thanks for taking the time to fix the category tags on these. When I wrote & posted these 40-odd articles, didn't realize that I selected the wrong category for them, & was wondering if I'd have to go back & fix them all myself. Be assured that the rest I am working on will be tagged correctly! -- llywrch 17:26, 3 May

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Livestock chicago 1947.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

My RFA: Thanks

Thank you for your support on my RFA. Now that I have been promoted, I promise to be as hardworking and fair with the admin tools as I have been with the other areas here on Wikipedia. See you around and happy editing. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:31, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Category:Lakes of Trinidad and Tobago

The Pitch Lake really isn't a lake - it looks like a badly maintained car-park. Not sure if the category is appropriate. There aren't any natural lakes in TT - just four dams/reservoirs. Guettarda 14:45, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I made a list of reservoirs so the Cat isn't empty. But not, no natural lakes. Natural lakes actually aren't terribly common in land that was not glaciated - they fill in over the course of a few tens of thousands of years. Guettarda 15:03, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

U.S. disambig

Hello. I reverted your move of the Cape Blanco (Oregon) article backs to the parentheses form. In North American geography articles, there is a general consensus to the parentheses when disambiguating geographical features such as rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. The reason is that in the U.S. and Canada, the comma form tends to be reserved for actual municipalities, of which some have the same name as geographic features (see Grand River for example, for an illustration of this). So Cape Blanco, Oregon would be the form used if there were a municipality named "Cape Blanco" in the state of Oregon. Of course, you're free to have a differnet opinion about how things should be, but it would go against the bulk of the articles and the general consensus that has emerged in this area for these North American articles. By the way, that's a nice satellite image. -- Decumanus 00:09, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)

Image copyrights

Hi Darwin. What exactly did you ask them for when you asked permission? If they granted only permission to use the images in Wikipedia, then these are likely to be deleted since that is a non-free license. See Jimmy's mailing list post for details on this. Are you able to ask them to release the images under the terms of the GFDL or one of the free Creative Commons Licenses (not a non-commericial one)? Angela. 11:59, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

Looking at the usage guidelines on their site, it seems the images are not free.

"UN photographs are reproducible for editorial purposes only. They may not be used in advertising. All photos used must show the UN Photo credit line."

"There is a charge of US $ 50.00, payable to the United Nations, for each UN photo used in publication. No payment is necessary for downloaded thumbnail images; payment should be made for downloaded larger images only when used in publication (see "Use of UN Photos" above). "

Although they've said they don't charge for posting in websites, Wikipedia is allowed to be distributed offline, and people can and do publish it commercially, so I don't think these images can be used here unless they are willing to state that they are releasing them under a free license, with the understanding that this applies not only to this website, but to any re-use of Wikipedia's content, which may be commercial and may be offline. Angela. 15:34, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

No. It's {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat|credit is given and copyright is attributed}}. See Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags.

Offer

If the offer still stands, I'm interested. Guettarda 15:41, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks very much. Guettarda 17:38, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. Since you've been previously nominated I added an '*' immediately before your name in this list. If for any reason you're NOT interested, my apologies and please remove the '*' (you could remove yourself also, if you'd like). I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:33, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Theo RFA

Thank you for supporting my nomination. I appreciate it. --Theo (Talk) 13:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

African American literature

Since you placed the request for expansion template on the African-American literature article, I was hoping that you would check out my recent additions to the article. I greatly expanded the history section of the article. As you probably know, this article covers a massive amount of territory. Even after my additions, I feel that the article needs more history on recent African American lit (1950s onward), more on the Harlem Renaissance, and an expanded criticism section. I'll try getting to these sections in the coming weeks but any help and feedback you can give is appreciated. --Alabamaboy 14:56, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:34, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, part 2

Thanks for the nice comments about the African-American literature article. I've expanded more sections of the article since you read it and I now think it's a decent accounting of the subject. Thanks for the support on the subject. --Alabamaboy 02:01, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for supporting my RFA (and for nominating me). Guettarda 23:33, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cabral and Folklore

Hi Darwin, I'm new to this site, so hope netiquette is ok. Are you continuing to add to the Amilcar Cabral entry? I have some info to add too. Also, why the interest in American folkloristics? Are you a folklorist? And also the interest in African-American politicians, like the mayor of Newark? Eclectic interests for someone in Europe, if you don't mind my asking. (You can email me or reply, thanks!) Keep up the good work, Bruxism 23:36, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Adminship JoJan

Thanks for your support. JoJan 17:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Botkin

Hi Darwin, me again. Do you know how to change entry headings? Botkin's entry heading should more properly be Benjamin A. Botkin or B.A. Botkin (how he signed his books), not - as you point out - Ben. Also I've noticed other such mistakes in entry headings. I am new to this, so how can they be corrected? Also, what country are you in? Thanks, Bruxism 18:23, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, yes, I'm still new to this and new to learning about alphabetizing links, so thanks for the pointer. But how did you change the entry heading? (I am from the U.S., from New Jersey basically). Thanks for your support. Bruxism 23:18, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Darwin - I am learning. Now my next question: if you type "Botkin" in the search box and hit go, it redirects to one Sergei Botkin. I am wondering if it's possible (or if it's good netiquette) to undo the redirect page from Botkin to Sergei Botkin. When I go into "what links here" on the Sergei Botkin page, I see there are 3 entries that link to Botkin - would I need to go into each of those three pages and manually re-direct the links using the pipe | so that they say Sergei Botkin|Botkin? (I think I am getting the hang of this, in which case just tell me yes and I will do it.) I think this is important, because I hope to expand the Ben Botkin entry and also link some other entries to it, because in my field we believe he's a very important figure, with implications also for African American history. Also, his son is somewhat notable, and may merit an entry of his own someday. Bruxism 17:48, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Darwin, you're amazing. I will check this out more next week and fix the links, but today I am a little busy. No, Botkin was not African American himself by any means, but his edited volume from the ex-slave narratives, Lay My Burden Down, was the first book to treat oral testimony about slavery in the U.S. as historical evidence - and no other book would do so again for another 25 years after that. It was also the first edited volume on the ex-slave narratives marketed for a popular audience. Clearly I need to expand his entry, too. Thanks again! (Are you a student? What/where?) Bruxism 18:03, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Darwin: Now that I've added the entry on public folklore, I want to revert to the previous version of Benjamin Botkin - although I will add to this later on as well. How to revert? Thanks (btw, in answer to your question, no, I am no longer a student, well past that). Bruxism 01:29, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Identifying plants

The first one is hard to identify looking at your picture. It could be a Prunus, but you should take a closer look at the leaves, the blossoms and, later in the year, at the type of fruit. Prunus armeniaca and Prunus cerifera are shrubs. But are there are a lot of hybrids and cultivars. This complicates the picture. As to the second picture, that is definitely a foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). JoJan 15:05, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Paeonia

This is definitely a Paeonia lactiflora cultivar, most probably 'President Roosevelt' JoJan 29 June 2005 14:55 (UTC)

Back

Good to see you back. Hope you had a good break. Any further thoughts on Adminiship? Guettarda 17:14, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Good to hear you had a good time. Unfortunately I taught summer classes, but I did manage to get away for a few days to a wedding, and I am off to a conference in 2 weeks, so I will call that a holiday too (thinking of re-visiting a town where I lived as a child). Living without internet would be too difficult though :) Next summer or the one after I plan to make it to Europe - my family in Germany, my wife's in England - I'd like to visit the Czech Republic too (have heard really good things from my parents). Guettarda 23:05, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Terrorism incidents

I wonder if creating by-year subcategories might have been a mistake. There are a couple problems:

1. Some terrorist incidents are sorted by date and some are not. This is confusing.
2. Sorting by date is not extremely useful, and it prevents getting an overview of terrorist incidents. Weighing in favor of lumping everything together is the fact that the category is not excessively large.

Perhaps sorting by region would be more useful? Mirror Vax 16:46, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Image:Uscapitolindaylight.jpg

Hi! You modified the image Image:Uscapitolindaylight.jpg, which I originally created. I realized that I never put a GFDL tag on that image, even though my intention was to dual-license it as GFDL and cc-by-sa. I'm going to put a GFDL tag on it now. If you have any problem with it (since you've created a modified version of it), please remove the tag and let me know. :) kmccoy (talk) 21:33, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

African American Literature

I posted the African American literature article a while back on the Wikipedia talk:Tomorrow's featured article page so it had a chance to be seen on the front page. After two weeks, it seems that this is not going to happen. Could you go there and voice your support for the article? I think it would be great for a lit article to be seen on the front page. Thanks. --Alabamaboy 12:14, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Admin

Yeah, 'spose so :) Head over to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Darwinek (2) and answer the questions. Grutness...wha? 01:13, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Volcanoes

Hi Darwinek... I'm not sure why you think I know about Indonesian volcanoes (or Ecuadorean ones, for that matter). I really have no information that could help on that proposed page move. Grutness...wha? 13:02, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Yeah but... thanks for the compliment, but the geography articles I've edited have either been to change stub categories or about places I know about (mainly New Zealand and the U.K.) I know very little about Indonesia - certainly not enough to be able to comment on local spellings. Grutness...wha? 13:11, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

BaronLarf's RFA

Darwinek — Thanks for your "absolute" support on my recent RFA, and good luck on yours. Please let me know if I can help with any particular administrative responsibilities, or if you have any problems with the way I use the admin tools. Cheers. --BaronLarf 12:37, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations

Hi, Darwinek/Archive1, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop

Hey there. Congratulations, you've just been made a sysop! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except junk like "aojt9085yu8;3ou BOB IS GAY"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun!

— Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 01:27, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Looks like congratulations are in order... there's a mop with your name on it in the janitor's store-cupboard :) Grutness...wha? 01:38, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Fernando Rizo's RfA

Darwinek, thank you for your support vote on my RfA. I was promoted last night, and I will do my best to be a good admin. Thanks, again. Fernando Rizo T/C 18:29, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Lake Enriquillo, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Track and field

Thanks for making articles about track and field athletes. Punkmorten 11:35, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

New Portals

Hi Darwin. I appreciate your efforts in participating to develop Moroccan as well as related articles. I am informimg you that both portals, Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Morocco, Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Algeria and Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Spain have been created recently and need some help. Your help will be surely appreciated. Cheers from Svest 22:27, August 23, 2005 (UTC) - ^{Wiki me up&#153;}

Great job. It was an immeadiate response. Cheers mate. Svest 22:45, August 23, 2005 (UTC) Svest 22:27, August 23, 2005 (UTC) - ^{Wiki me up&#153;}

Jtkiefer's RFA

Thanks for your support on my RFA. Jtkiefer ^{T | @ | C} ----- 05:13, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Japan-geo-stub

well....ok, but it's a very heavily-used template (we really need someone who knows Japanese geography to work out how to split the category). You sure about this? Grutness...wha? 14:46, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article irrigation in Saudi Arabia, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Irrigation in Saudi Arabia

My bad. You should probably put the actual link to the information at the bottom of the article instead of the generic NASA link, since it may cause the same reaction as mine.

The KoG | Talk 23:29, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Hi Darwinek, just a quick note to thank you for your support on my RfA. I was pleased to see so much support, especially from people such as you who I do not know very well, if at all. Now that I am an administrator I will do my best to please the community’s expectations. Best regards, Sam Hocevar 17:13, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Question about stubs

Hi Darwinek - you wrote: Do you plan to include Tibet to your Geo-stub tallying page?

I hadn't intended to, no. Tibet-stub is for things specifically Tibetan about the culture, and can be added without stepping off that line of trying on to offend anyone. Making a separate Tibet-geo-stub, though, is likely to cause offence to someone somewhere. The China geo-stub category's not so big that it needs splitting yet, anyway. Maybe sometime, but it's not a high priority - for now Tibetan stubs can quite happily stay in there. In any case, I have enough of a job keeping up with other geo-stub splits! Grutness...wha? 00:53, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

More athletics

Out of curiosity; what are your favorite events in athletics? Mine are the jumping events, I am a jumper myself. Punkmorten 23:48, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

When it comes to football, I have the same views as you. I've tried to make footybio(stub)s for some African and Asian players, which I regard as countering systemic bias. Punkmorten 08:16, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Just wanted to notify you of Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by interest in sport. You can add yourself if you want. Punkmorten 10:49, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Athletes formerly representing Kenya

Hi. I thought maybe we could make a category with athletes formerly representing Kenya (people who would go in that category include Abdullah Ahmad Hassan, Wilson Kipketer, Saif Saeed Shaheen, Bernard Lagat, Musa Amer Obaid, Belal Mansoor Ali and Youssef Saad Kamel). Or do you think that's a bad idea? And what should we call it? "Former Kenyan athletes" doesn't sound right. If you don't like the idea of a category, maybe we could listify? Punkmorten 13:47, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

I like the idea of a list. I may not be the one to suggest names as English is not my first language. However, I've seen IAAF refer to the phenomenon as "transfers of allegiance". Maybe we can base the list title on that? For instance List of allegiance transfers in athletics? Because, you see, I think we shouldn't involve nationality in this. Punkmorten 16:20, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Nationality change

Hi again. What is the difference between "nationality transfer" and "allegiance transfer"? Punkmorten 17:11, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying the issue. But how would you suggest that we implement such a distinction? Labelling Saeef Said Shaheen and others as "allegiance transfers" may create POV issues, seeing as Shaheen denies that money is substantially involved. Maybe we can add a small note for each athlete about the reason for the switch? Or maybe that would be problematic as well?

Here is a sketch I made for a list:

Name of athlete	From nation	To nation	Reason
Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	Denmark	Travelled to Denmark as a foreign exchange student in 1990
Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Ethiopia	Bahrain	Political refugee

Or, alternatively, without specific reasons (this might be more neutral):

Name of athlete	From nation	To nation
Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	Denmark
Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Ethiopia	Bahrain

Do you think it's wrong to list athletes like in the latter alternative? Punkmorten 17:50, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

• • The list is now located at List of nationality transfers in athletics. Feel free to ad, update, discuss or even move the page to a better title if you want. Punkmorten 19:32, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you very kindly for your support for my nomination. I promise your trust will not be misplaced; I may occasionally be slightly buzzed with power, but never drunk. ;) · Katefan0^(scribble) 21:57, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Pole vaulters

I think such a list would be fine. It could improve the somewhat thin coverage of pole vault on Wikipedia. We should maybe include a list of women who have reached 5 metres; alas it's only one person :) Punkmorten 11:35, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

The name is okay, and I think it looks better with "m". Punkmorten 11:54, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I was watching Morten's talk page so I found out about the pole vaulter list and took the liberty to complete it. This list got me thinking, too. Is there an article (or a category of several articles) on "dream limits" in athletics and other sports, that is, results that are or have been conceived as important landmarks to beat, most often for no other reason than the figures looking neat in one measure system or another? The four-minute mile and the six-metre pole vault are certainly not alone. I don't doubt that 10 seconds in the 100 metres, 20 seconds in the 200 metres, 8 minutes in the steeplechase etc. are marks that have influenced the sports, as was 8 feet (2.44 m) in high jump. I'm also sure that whoever beats 9 metres in long jump will get much bolder headlines than had he "only" reached 8.99. Not to speak of the first person to complete a marathon in 2 hours. We could add 100 metres in javelin, of course, only that event has seen so many rule changes that we hardly even know what the world record is anymore :) In other sports, there's things like the maximum 600 in 10 m Air Rifle, which was broken not long ago by Tevarit Majchacheeap, that's certainly a landmark, too. Well, just an idea. I guess there are lots and lots of examples, and it could be worthy of a nice little article. The hard thing might be to keep it NPOV and referenced, but it should be possible. What do you say? -- Jao 13:37, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks awfully

Ta for supporting my RfA, much appreciated. I'll endeavour to contribute more to those necessary tasks and hope to bring the benefit of years of experience of tactfully sorting out recalcitrant contractors to bear in the gentler arena of wikipedia..You may want to look at the current state of the Charles Darwin article where my attempt at FaC has got rather bogged down but worthy improvements have resulted ..dave souza 00:58, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Split of Australian geo-stubs

Maybe - by state, at least. There should be enough from NSW, Queensland and Victoria, at least. Sigh... more to count up. Japan desperately needs a split, too, but I don't know enough about Japanese geography to know how to go about that one. Grutness...wha? 01:27, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

I thank you for your support for my RfA, We shall surely interact more. I am certain that our association shall grow. --Bhadani 09:51, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article George W. Ackerman, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

And I thought I'd drop by to say, this is quite a nice article, and the sort of off-beat thing I wish I saw more often in the DYK! Kudos... --Dvyost 22:36, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism

Some troll has been vandalising Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics as well as other articles. Is it possible for you to ban the vandal? And revert the changes ;)

Punkmorten 16:56, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Soldier photo

I think you may be asking for trouble with your use of the photo of a Marine on the Soldier page. Most Marines take offense to being called "soldiers", and chances are there are a few on Wikipedia that will revert it, vandalize it, start an argument about it, or some such thing.

If you're going for a US military photo, I'd recommend using one of an Army soldier. There are tons of them out there.

I'm going to see if I can find some more pics this weekend that would be more representative of the history of soldiering, but I just wanted to give you a heads-up about the faux pas. Have a good one. Kafziel 17:55, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Marine da nang.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

~ Veledan • Talk ^{+ new} 08:21, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Thank you for your kind support of my recent nomination on RfA. Best regards, RobertG ♬ talk 08:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

==Who's RfA== Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 20:44, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

RoyBoy RfA

Wanted to thank you for the support and your love of film. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 22:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Milinkiewicz

Dzięki serdeczne. Przy okazji okazało się, że mój artykuł został skopiowany przez anonima w kilku różnych miejscach w niezmienionej formie, więc i tak tekst będzie podpisany jego cyferkami, a nie moim nickiem, ale nic to. Dzięki za pomoc.

A co do adminowania - jakoś się nie złożyło. Sam siebie nominował nie będę, a dla innych najwyraźniej jestem zbyt konfliktowy... Dlatego ilekroć mam podobne problemy - muszę prosić kogoś dorosłego o pomoc. :) Halibutt 14:51, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Dzięki, ale nie wiem czy moja nominacja jest najlepszym pomysłem. Wielu ludzi na wikipedii ma o mnie dziwne mniemanie, a do tego, jak zauważył kiedyś Piotrus, rzadko udzielam się na VfD czy innych stronach technicznych. Oczywiście prawa administratora mogą być wygodne, więc na pewno się nie obrażę :)

A tak przy okazji: gdzie teraz studiujesz? Halibutt 15:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

2005 Indian subcontinent earthquake

Thanks for being at 2005 Indian subcontinent earthquake -pradeepsomani

hurricane categorization

I noticed you've been categorizing hurricanes according to regional history. This is...a very good thing.

• Could you add guidelines for regional categorization to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_Cyclones?
• Are you adding them to all hurricane articles? If so, how do you find a list of hurricane articles? All of the hurricane categories include disambiguations as well (in fact Category:Pacific hurricanes is mostly disambiguations). But "what links here" for Template:Infobox_hurricane and Template:Infobox_hurricane_needed should give a list I guess.
• How do you know when to use history (Category:History of Puerto Rico) versus non-history (Category:Guadeloupe) categories?

Jdorje 16:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Sounds good. I'll add a bit to the wikiproject page. Jdorje 18:46, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

From a new admin

Thank you for your interest in the candidates on RfA, and my recent candidature. Even though we've only bumped into each other a couple of times on WP, I hope that we might be able to work together in the future. --Gareth Hughes 18:12, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you Darwinek for your support in my recent request for adminship. It was successful thanks to you. I will strive to an open, approachable and transparent administrator. --Jcw69 18:30, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Battleboxes

Strikes me as a rather bad idea, actually, per the whole "a battlebox is not compulsory" thing.

On a more practical level, I think it would be easier to add a section to the list of wanted articles (titled "Battlebox needed" or something similar) and list the articles which are missing a battlebox (but have enough information to write a meaningful one) there, since the project pages will usually get more attention than obscure battle articles.

(The essential difference between us and the Cyclones project really boils down to the number of articles. They have only a few hundred potential articles on storms/hurricanes; we have 2000+ existing battle articles, and thousands more waiting to be written :-) Certainly a "Needs battlebox" category would include most of the articles in Category:Battle stubs; the resulting size would make it rather useless for any real work.) Kirill Lokshin 17:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Florida Folklife formatting

Darwinek, can you help clarify a formatting question for me? Go to Peggy Bulger, who wrote about Stetson Kennedy. There's a list of folklorists there, all of whom show links, but not to Wikipedia entries, but rather to a single webpage about them. I am not sure this is the consistent, or proper, way to add links to people who don't have their own entries yet. Can you have a look and see if this should be cleaned up? I hope you don't mind. Thanks. Bruxism 04:17, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for your support! If you should ever have any concerns about my actions as an administrator, please be sure to tell me! Kirill Lokshin 13:23, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Dvyost RfA thanks

Thanks for your support on my RfA! Rest assured that I'll do my best to wield the mop with honor and righteousness. And, Mr. Dean, let me add how sorry I am that things didn't go a little better for you in Iowa last year... --Dave 14:28, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Nope--just some kind of joke or irony, as the most self-righteous person I could think of off the top of my head. Why--wishing you could change your vote? =) --Dvyost 16:02, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Whoops!

Forgot to say thank you for your support on my RfA.

Thanks. DS 00:22, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Hebrew text

First image: "A decent an honst man" ... (can't understand) helped poor people ... Second::"A modest and impeccable woman... Lea; daughter of Moshe Grass, wife of Izhac Yaura. Amsterdam. Died Shvat 5761 R.I.P." (we are in the Hebrew year 5966 now). Haham hanuka 14:19, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

I could only pull up the first image, the others wouldn't come up. Unfortunately, the first was blurry and small, and I could only pick out a few words here and there:

Here is buried

An decent and honest man

God fearing (something)

Righteous (something

(something)

Close to the broken hearted

(something)

A helpful hand (something) to the poor

(more stuff I can't make out)

If you could get a better picture, larger and less blurry, it would help. Maybe GOP2 can pick out some other stuff. Jayjg ^(talk) 17:19, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

"Victims" of Nat Turner rebellion

I agree. But some would argue the page may not necessarily be racist, but, yes, it certainly is lopsided. I think some brief, explanatory introduction of what the rebellion is would be helpful. And if the names of the innocent blacks who were killed/brutalized in the fits of retribution that followed are available, then they certainly should be included. Even the names of those insurrectionists/freedom fighters who later were executed should be included -- and, perhaps, the word "victims" changed to something less value laden. ("Casualties"?) After all, many of these whites and their families thrived/prospered by victimizing, exploiting and degrading blacks. Slaves certainly also were "victims". And even those insurrectionists who perished because they felt compelled to take matters into their own hands because they could/would no longer tolerate bondage or the dehumanization of their kin as human chattel -- were they no less "victims"?deeceevoice 19:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

PRueda29 RFA

¡Gracias por tu voto! Lo aprecio. PRueda29 22:41, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting my RfA

I know I've been slow in saying this, but thanks for supporting my request for adminship. It was an honor to be both nominated and approved as an admin. If there is ever any adminish (is that a word :-) things you need help with, please let me know. --Alabamaboy 16:15, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

FireFox RFA

Darwinek/Archive1

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Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks!

FireFox 18:30, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Hebrew

Unfortunately, I am very much an American, and conform to the stereotype of not speaking any language very well (probably including my own). If you can't find a Hebrew speaker, however,I can get someone to translate, so let me know. But thank you so much for your vote on my RfA! --Goodoldpolonius2 16:33, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Getting off-line help

Hi Darwinek, forgive the random question, but you're the community expert I've had the most contact with. I need to ask an admin some questions about how to edit a legally controversial article, but I need to keep that discussion offline since the questions I raise are potentially defamatory (as is the current version) among other ethical considerations. I tried to email you, but your address is not accessible. Can you recommend someone I can email to resolve the questions I have about how to proceed? Or you can email me directly from my user page. Sorry I can't be more specific here. Thanks in advance,,, Bruxism 23:17, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Merci beaucoup

Hey, Darwinek! Thanks for your vote of support on my nomination to become an administrator. I passed, and my floor rag has since been bestowed upon me. Please let me know if you need me to help with anything in particular! —BrianSmithson 16:29, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Football

Thanks. It was great news - I've been waiting for it for 16 years. In 1989 we only needed a draw, at home, to qualify...and we lost. Sixteen years before that we were this close as well, in 1973. The play-off was in Haiti - TT scored 5 goals and lost 2-1 (iirc)...FIFA banned the ref after, but the result stands. Since 1989 they have not had a really good shot, and after they didn't beat Bahrain at home on Saturday I was a little worried about this game. It feels great. Guettarda 19:27, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

It all depends on what my finances look like next summer (I'm job hunting, so if I am successful I will be moving next summer). I'd love to make the trip (though I cringe at the thought of what ticket prices must be). Hope things go well for you. Guettarda 19:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Darwinek,

Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! Regards, JoanneB 14:02, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Sean Black RfA

Thank you very much for your support of my RfA. Thanks, in part, to you, I am now an Administrator, and I pledge to use my newfound powers for good rather than evil. Thanks again!--Sean|Black 07:24, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Lakes in Western Australia

Hi Darwinek,

Thanks for your support on my RFA. Most of the large inland lakes in Western Australia are utterly unremarkable intermittent salt lakes in unpopulated desert shrubland. The average Western Australian probably couldn't name a single one. I'm quite pleased with article Lake Barlee, because I found so much to say about such an unremarkable subject, but I don't think I'd want to work through the rest of them. Snottygobble | Talk 12:40, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks. WikiThanks.

I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works.
As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibutt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

File:Esperanza.Birthday.gif

Esperanza wishes you a Happy Birthday!!

Hope your birthday is great. I am sure you will get many more today who will wish you the same.--Dakota ^{t e} 15:29, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome

Many more to come, I hope. Saw your gallery, quite a journey.--Dakota ^{t e} 00:37, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Your message

Hello again.I did not realize you are an admin till just now. Will be waiting to see your photos and you're right there isn't much on Poland in photos. No, I am not in California but have lived there with my mother. Mostly grew up in Texas, and yes, I am Jewish. I remember college exams with no particular fondness so I wish you well on them. Good hearing from you--Dakota ^{t e} 19:09, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Requested move

Hi, and happy birthday! Could you help me in moving Yildiray Bastürk to Yıldıray Baştürk? Thanks, Punkmorten 09:29, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, and happy holidays. Could you assist me in moving The beasts of bourbon to The Beasts of Bourbon? Thanks, Punkmorten 10:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Mindmatrix adminship

I have recently been granted greater access to your systems, and can begin the process of salvaging the sensitive information from my politically unstable land, as I promised. Please accept this loonie as a token of faith that I will conduct myself as required to complete our transaction. Thank you for your support. Mindmatrix 20:28, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey

And a belated (late) birthday. Just popping in to say a very, very slow congratulations on sysop status. I've been away from Wikipedia since July or so now, other wikis steal my life :(. - Estel ^(talk) 12:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

2412's RFA

Although my RfA is not over yet, I figured that since so many people voted before it had been posted, I may as well start thanking people before it wraps up. It'll take me that long to thank everyone who voted anyway! Thank you, Darwinek, for your disambig support - I'll do my best as an admin to make the reality of Wikipedia rise to the level of the dream. 2412 T 23:46, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Darwinek, thanks for your support on my RfA. The final count was 46/0/0. I hope I'll live up to your faith in me in my use of the mop and bucket. Please accept this wikithanks as a token of my gratitude ;) --bainer (talk) 23:45, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza elections

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Hi Darwinek/Archive1: This is a quick note just to let you know that there's an election under way at Esperanza. If you'd like to become a candidate for Administrator General or the Advisory Council, just add your name here by 15 December 2005.

Voting begins at 12:00UTC on 16 December and all Esperanza members are encouraged to join in.

This message was delivered to all Esperanza members. If you do not wish to receive further messages, please contact Flcelloguy. Thank you.

➨ ❝ReDVERS❞ 09:47, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

News from Esperanza

Hello, fellow Esperanzians! This is just a friendly reminder that elections for Administrator General and two advisory council positions have just begun. Voting will last until Friday, December 30, so make sure you exercise your right to vote! Also, I'm pleased to announce the creation of the Esperanza mailing list. I urge all members to join; see Wikipedia:Esperanza/Contact for more information. All you need to do is email me and I will activate your account. This will be a great way to relax, stay in touch, and hear important announcements. Thanks! Flcelloguy (A note?)

This message was delivered to all Esperanza members by our acting messenger, Redvers. If you do not wish to receive further messages, please list yourself at WP:ESP/S. Thanks.

Your revert of my page

Hi, I do thank you for reverting my page. I discovered it when I logged out and got a test message. I looked at the ip and realized that it was my father who had done that. He has made a few edits as an ip but isn't much into it, doesn't even have a user name. I will tell him to not do it again. Thanks again.--Dakota ^{t e} 08:34, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

World Citizen userbox, {{User:1ne/Userboxes/User world}}

Hi, I noticed the message saying you're a World Citizen, I would like to invite you to add {{User:1ne/Userboxes/User world}} to your user page if you wish to proclaim it in a more effective way, and this template will also add you automatically to the Wikipedians with World Citizenship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Ianbrown's RfA

Thanks for voting in my recent RfA. I was overwhelmed at the turnout and comments received.

Ian ≡ talk 07:39, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the articles Arthur Rothstein and Gee's Bend, Alabama, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Merry Christmas!

Thank you! I wish you a merry Christmas as well! All the best from the summery south seas - hope things aren't too cold where you are and that you have a great festive season! Grutness...wha? 11:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you and Merry Christmas as well, and congratulations on both of your teams making it. I hope all is well with you and your family. Guettarda 14:54, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Thanks for the wikisanta and message. May you have a great Christmas season and your family also. I hope you aren't too cold either, but if you are just have a hot chocolate and bundle up.--Dakota ^{? e} 19:44, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas Darwinek!

Thanks for the award and wishes. I congratulate you for all the hard work you put in and for making my articles better. I have a question maybe you can answer. If you take a look at Death Valley National Park, it states that the nearest city is Shoshone. Shoshone has about 52 people-definitely not a city. Once I changed the template to "town" on a similar page and it was changed back to city. This doesn't look very good to a person viewing the encyclopedia for the first time. Do you think we should name a city that might be far away, reword the template, or change things like this to town? Take care. Snowfalcon 02:27, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy Crimbo!

Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. File:Pressie.gif, in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! File:Unclecrimbo.gif Dr. McCrimbo 23:25, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I saw you several times while going round to wish. I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 16:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi Darwinek! Thank you for your kind support on my RfA. -- Szvest 17:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC)  ^{Wiki me up&#153;}

Howcheng's RfA

Thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship. I was successfully promoted with a final tally of 74/0/0. I will endeavour not to let you down. Thanks again. howcheng {chat} 07:29, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Photo

Have you checked out the U.S. Fish and Wildlife digital photo library. There are some good images there if you browse awhile. They are all public domain. Sorry about the sloppy link, had to break it to fit the edit box. You may already know of it. Thanks.--Dakota ~ ε 01:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC) [. http://images.fws.gov/default.cfm?library_id=none&CFID=3957136&CFTOKEN=46276212].

{{PD-USGov-LOC}}

Sounds good to me. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2005-12-29 09:57

More wishes

Hello, I wish you and your family a prosperous and happy New Year 2006! We shall surely remain actively involved in the Project Wikipedia. --Bhadani 16:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

American Revolution reply

Hello. I just want to ask you a question, cause you're an expert. Do you think Category:American Revolution people should be renamed to "American Revolutionary War people" ? - Darwinek 15:41, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I am certainly no expert on all of the arcane decisions made by the Wikipedia maintenance people. However, I seem to recall that Wikipedia differentiates between the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War; the latter topic is considered a subset of the former, possibly including the political and social issues. I have limited myself on Wikipedia to American Civil War topics and fortunately we do not have a similar arbitrary division for that era or I might get really confused. Hal Jespersen 17:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Photo's

I have never seen a storm like that. It must be really cold. The winter picture's convey that, but they are good. Here are some of the images I uploaded from USF&W. They are really some of the better ones but, I have not checked that many yet. The Attwater's Prairie Chicken is on the endangered species list. I added it to the Attwater's Prairie Chicken article because it didn't have a photo. I have that in mind when I search for photo's because articles are much better with them. All the site's images are PD. Not in Texas now, going back in April. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]-----Dakota ~ ε 20:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for template link. Should I go back and change the copyright info on them?--Dakota ~ ε 20:28, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

That was quick, thank you. I didn't see that template when I was looking. I will use it from now on. Thanks again.--Dakota ~ ε 20:46, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello Darwinek/Archive1,

I wish to thank you for your vote on my RfA. It has passed with a final tally of 59/0/0. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 03:52, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza

Thank you for your vote for me in the council election. I really appreciate it. I entered my opinion re: Template:PD-USGov-LOC. I already knew that LoC images are not always public domain. They do have a site containing some interesting material elsewhere that I ran across previously that is USGOV and PD stated but I can't find it again. I am waiting for a email ok for a photographer's permisssion to use a photo for my article that woefully needs it. Happy new year to you.--Dakota ~ ε 18:03, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

thanks

Greetings Darwinek, I wish to offer my gratitude for supporting me on my recent nomination for adminship, which passed with the final tally of 65/4/3. If you would ever desire my assistance in anything, or wish to give me feedback on any actions I take, feel free to let me know. Cheers! Elle vécut heureusement toujours dorénavant (Be eudaimonic!) 08:01, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Bamangwato

Thanks for keeping an eye on my efforts here - I'm emerging from the newbie stage, but still need a guiding hand with new articles... Can I ask why cat:Botswana was taken off this article? There are so few articles on Bots, and they're so scattered, that I would have thought anything that ties them together would be a Good Idea? JackyR 01:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Aha. Thanks, I may take you up on that offer for future articles, as I always struggle with cats and stubs (so many...) JackyR 01:48, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Need for you to say it is alright to borrow one of your gallery images to cheer up another user that I am worried about.--Dakota ~ ε 05:04, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Culture of Asia

I was in a dilemma – to choose under section – See also – Culture of Australia or Culture of Oceania, and chose the former. You have helped me by changing it to Culture of Oceania, and setting at rest my doubts. Thanks Darwinek. --Bhadani 10:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Canadian copyrights

Do you know if we have Canadian public domain tags and where they are.Thanks--Dakota ~ ε 15:58, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

• If ever needed it's {{PD-Canada}}. Found it but not easily. Thank you.--Dakota ~ ε 16:34, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Thanks for voting in my RfA, I got it! :) If you need anything, just give me a shout! - FrancisTyers 00:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Rfa thanks

Hello Darwinek. Thank you for supporting my Rfa! :) I will try my best to be a good administrator. Please ask me if you need any help. --a.n.o.n.y.m t 17:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Library of Congress images

I see that you have redirected Template:PD-USGov-LOC to Template:PD-US-LOC. Of course you realize the intended difference in use, and that many images appropriate for the one will not be appropriate for the other. I see though that most images are in fact filed appropriately, but that a handful of pre-1923 images will have to be recategorized. Additionally, I would strongly suggest that Category:Library of Congress images should be replaced (I think it could fairly be speedied as its accompanying template has been deleted) with Category:Library of Congress-verified public domain images, as these are not actually works of the U.S. government, and also that this category should not be a part of Category:United States government images, but instead placed in Category:Images in the public domain in the United States. What's your thought on this?--Pharos 01:41, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

• Images that are PD for some other reason (e.g. because they're old) and just happen to be downloaded from the Library of Congress website would just be treated like any other images, and be tagged according to their original source. Of course we should also mention in the summary where they're downloaded from, but as this has no bearing on their copyright status, there's no need for a separate image tag (which is why the old tag was TfD'd). If this scheme is OK with you, I'll just go through and convert everything on your say-so.--Pharos 03:21, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks from rogerd

File:Baseball (ball) closeup.jpg

Hi Darwinek- Thanks for your support on my RfA. I appreciate the kind words that you used in your comments. If I can be of any service please leave me a message --rogerd 01:27, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

"Stubmaster"? :)

Hi Darwinek! Parks are regarded as geo-stubs. Struct-stub is only used for buildings and similar architectural or engineering features like masts and bridges. Zoos are also usually marked with geo-stub. One exception is amusement parks and specific amusement park rides (like giant roller coasters). These have their own stub type (ride-stub). Grutness...wha? 22:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

FPC

I like the photos looking down the river and the path, as well as the photos of the street cars during the blizzard. Your hardest part will be getting the images sharpened. If you have larger, less compressed versions of the files, I would start by uploading those. If you have Photoshop, you can try Smart Sharpen or Unsharp Mask, then downsize the image. If you get them sharpened, and mess around with the color/contrast to give the images some "vibrance" (whatever that means), they could have a chance. As Fir0002 suggested to me, however, I would wait until the FPC page is no longer loaded with the ultra-high-resolution images that it currently has. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-01-14 23:45

Re: Oceania-bio-stub

Hi Darwinek - I think it might have been suggested before... problem is with separate categories already for Australia-bio-stub, NZ-bio-stub, and Fiji-bio-stub, I don't know how many other Oceania-bio-stubs there would be. Might be worth suggestion, though. Grutness...wha?

D'oh! Forget all that - there is already an {{Oceania-bio-stub}} - newly created, too! It must have been suggested recently while I was taking a break from stub-sorting. Grutness...wha? 00:01, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Darwinek

Could you take a peak at this [7].You will know why when you see it.--Dakota ~ ε 06:14, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Stela?

If you've understood the topic you should guess what I'm trying to ask you. I've noticed that you added pictures to Český Těšín so I thought that you are Cieszyniok, stela ;) Just asking. D T G 13:57, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Ni, jo sie jyny urodził we Polskim Cieszynie, jako bajtliczek mieszkołech we Zamarskach, a teroz mieszkóm we Dymbowcu, uczyłech sie w Cieszynie, sztudiujym we Bielsku :) Z Qasinkiem ze Trzińca i Augiaszem ze Cieszyna planujymy spotkani Cieszynioków na piwie, sie rozumi bez ożralstwa (;)), ale to hań kiejsi, terozki muszym się uczyć co by wołem nie być ;P D T G 14:52, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

To Augiasz mo sesyje do dziesióntego, jo do dwanostego, Qasinka cosikej godoł, że musi się uczyć, isto też mo jakąsi sesyje, bydzie mioł fraj jako my. Nie chcym dołować, ale jo zaiste bydym mioł sesyje poprawkową :( Ale to jest jyny tako malućko fabulka, tuż cobych mioł się nie wyrobić z tym i na krygiela Brackiego ("braciszka") (browaru stela :D) sie z kamratami nie umówić ;) Ale raczyj honem tego spotkania nie bydzie, mi sie zdo, że kole marca, jaktóż w połowie lutego. Pozdrawióm D T G 21:06, 19 January 2006 (UTC) P.S. Nie wiysz jako to je z Ziemióm Czadecką (na Słowacyji)? Jest to Śląsk Cieszyński czy ni?

Jo żech jest sztudyntym informatyki, entuzjasta linuksa, ale cienko rachujym na matematyce i skyrs tego bydym musioł powtarzać egazaminy. Ale muszym przyznać, że nikierzi rechtórzy wymagajóm aż za wiela, a przeca to je cienko szkoła, wcale nie prestiżowo. Po prowdzie to jo tam poszeł coby jyny do woja nie pójść ;) Aspóń ta szkoła je we historycznych granicach Śląska Cieszyńskiego, ale to uż na zajst żodne Cieszynioki tam nie mieszkajóm, jak żech tak kapke chcioł pogwarzić do kamratów, to się na mnie podziwali jako na UFO, krymsko sranda, zaczli kombinować kim żech je: moja godka nie była podobno do Hanysów... kiery to może być... "góral!" ;P Idźcie w sakry, łoni uż ani nie wiedzóm co to znaczy "być stela" (sic!). Jak żyjesz we Czeskim Cieszynie, to Ci przynajmniej fórt nie bałuszóm o tym """"Podbeskidziu""""... We Czeskim Cieszynie to żech był kiejsi pore razy we tydniu na "pivie", baji Zlaty Bażant, Radegast, na tym ryneczku, we takij pizzerii taki fajne pivo lali, nie pamientóm jako sie zwało, ale lali to do krygiela 0,4 i samiutko piana ;S To były czasy jako my na przerwie z Osucha szli na piwo na Sejmowyj kole Studni Trzech Bracki... Braci ;) A Żywiec?... dyć to Zabystrzoki ;P "Zdravim" D T G 16:47, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Podziwej sie na tóm edycyje: [8] Jakbyś zareagowoł na cosikej takigo? Jo to ledwo zdzierżił :( D T G 16:31, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Mam do Ciebie pytanie: na polskiej wikipedii trwa taka mała wojna edycyjna Ślązakowców. Trochę się napracowałem, żeby opisać Cieszynioków i umieściłem tam zdanie typu: Śląsk Cieszyński leży w historycznych granicach Górnego Śląska, jednak w większości jego mieszkańcy nie chcą aby nazywano tak ich ziemie. Samych siebie nazywają "Cieszyniokami", przy tym bardzo często stosując określenie "jeżech stela" (co znaczy "jestem stąd"). oraz Narodowość śląską deklaruje znikomy odsetek ludzi (głównie po czeskiej stronie, gdzie zadeklarowało ją ponad 10 000 ludzi, a polską ok. 40 000), mimo tego iż powiat cieszyński zamieszkiwany jest przez znaczną grupę ludności autochtonicznej. Przyczyn tego można dopatrywać się także w zauważalnym antagonizmie do Górnoślązaków, gdzie ta narodowość jest o wiele powszechniejsza. No i właśnie taki jeden, kożdoniowiec jak się ich u nas nazywa (no nie? ;) zamienił ten fragment na: Śląsk Cieszyński leży w historycznych granicach Górnego Śląska i większość jego mieszkańców chce, aby nazywano tak ich ziemie. Wiem, może to był i mój błąd, że ten tekst był trochę nie-encyklopedyczny, ale chciałem wreszcie zaznaczyć, że Cieszyniocy nie mają za bardzo tyle wspólnego z Ruchem Autonomii Śląska, narodem śląskim itd. Opierałem się na własnym doświadczeniu, bo jak długo tu żyję, jak jestem wrośnięty w tą ziemię, to doskonale zdaję sobie sprawę z tego, że wszyscy których znam nie utożsamiają się z Górnym Śląskim i nigdy przenigdy nie powiedzieli by że żyją na Górnym Śląsku, a zawsze, że na Śląsku Cieszyńskim. Czy po Waszej stronie Olzy też występuje takie silne poczucie odrębności od Górnego Śląska? Czy Twoim zdaniem powienienem wszędzie gdzie takie info umieściłem - usunąć takiego typu sformułowania? Dla mnie np. taki artykuł mija się z prawdą, przecież ja jestem z Dębowca, ok. 6km od Skoczowa i muszę przyznać tu na dziedzinie :) osób, które się sprawami narodowościowymi interesują jest na prawdę mało i ja bym był chyba jedną z pierwszych osób, które by się o odrodzeniu kożdoniowców tutaj dowiedziała. Czy masz kogoś w rodzinie, kto czuje się członkiem narodu śląskiego? Bo np. u mnie wszyscy od prawieków czuli się Polakami, i to jest dla mnie najwyższą wartością, dlatego nie uległem temu entuzjazmowi "Obeschleisenowców", choć jestem rodowitym Ślązakiem :) D T G 11:16, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Dobra jutro Ci odpiszę, na razie muszę się uczyć na jutrzejsze zaliczenie poprawkowe, bo siostra mnie zabije ;) Tak po krótce powiem Ci, że wbrew pozorom jesteśmy dalej bardzo podobni do Was, poglądy liberalistyczne itd. ale jutro Ci to dopiero wytłumaczę. Na razie. D T G 16:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Albo dobra, sroł pies i tak się nic nie nauczym ;P Więc tak, dzięki za szczerość. Co do liberalnych poglądów - ja się polityką za bardzo nie interesuję, zresztą jak większość dziś Polaków, o czym świadczy żałosna frekwencja na wyborach. Ale jeśli z tego że to właśnie tutaj Donald Tusk miał prawie największe w Polsce poparcie chyba świadczy o poglądach liberalnych tutejszych. Myślę, że jeśli już ktoś stela interesował się polityką to też mu raczej będzie przykro w jakim kierunku zmierza Polska. Ateizm, no tutaj troszkę się chyba różnimy, dużo ewangelików stela, jest strasznie radych swojego wyznania i pod tym względem dużo osób ją u siebie podtrzymuje. Za komuny władze nawoływały do tępienia nas, odbierania kościołów itd., szerzono cichą propagandę, że jesteśmy Niemcami przez to że luteranami. Po komunie nastąpił renesans, zaczęto organizować Tydzień Ewangelizacyjny w Dzięgielowie, religia wróciła do szkół, wśród młodzieży bardzo popularne jest uczęszczanie na wszelkiego rodzaju spotkania młodzieżowe itd. Dodatkowo gdy cała Polska poznała fakty jakiego wyznania byli Jerzy Buzek, Adam Małysz, Jerzy Pilch itd. ewangelicy stela powoli zaczęli być dumni ze swojego wyznania i na tym polu czują swego rodzaju odrębność od reszty Polaków. W rodzinie mam kilka takich zagorzałych chrześcijan, że aż do przesady, Biblia po pięć razy od deski do deski przeczytana, starzik chodzi do chóru przy kościele itd. Choć muszę się przyznać, że mi też jest raczej daleko do wzorowej religijności ;) Katolicy stela również są trochę insi, np. gdy dorastają w klasie, w której na 30 osób jest 12 ewangelików i jeden sabatysta (w podstawówce mój kolega z ławki był sabatystą) to ogólnie siłą rzeczy są tolerancyjni i dla nich ta wieloreligijność jest po prostu normalna, Młodzieży Wszechpolskiej w ogóle tu nie widać :) Co do czechizacji Polaków-imigrantów: historia się powtarza, już kiedyś do pracy w kopalniach w okolicach Karwiny i Ostrawy ciągły tłumy z Galicji za Austryjoków, ale jak się okazało zwiększyli tylko szeregi pepików ;) Ale Czesi po prostu umią lepiej gospodarzyć, dziadek mi opowiadał jak jeszcze przed wojną, w 1936, jak miał sześć lat, co chwila z tatą przemycał skóry z garbarni żeby je sprzedawać w Frystacie, bo czeski pieniądz lepiej stał. Narodowość - my raczej czujemy ogromne przywiązanie do Ziemi Cieszyńskiej, przez to swego rodzaju poczucie odrębności kulturowej od reszty Polaków, ale na pewno nie narodowościowej. Co nas odróżnia od np. okolicznego Bielska-Białej, gdzie mieszka ludność głównie napływowa, to to że my tu chyba aż troszkę przesadzamy z tradycją, historią itd :) Pozrawiam D T G 19:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Dziękujym za winszowani, jeżech uż dzisio po analizie matematycznej, uwidzimy jak to bydzie... Podziwej się :) Z tego coch zrozumioł Wy uż nie rożróżniocie polskich Cieszynioków od inszych Poloków - ni stela. Wiesz co to jest radijo Maryja, "Moherowe Berety" itp. ? To oni kreujóm tyn stereotyp, o kierym mi tak szumnie opowiadosz. Ale wiesz co? Też żech jeszcze nigdy tej Polski przed światym nie bronił ;P Jo som tego wizerunku nie zmieniym, wolym się skupić na Wikipedyji i opisaniu Ziymji Cieszyńskij nejlepij jak potrafiym :) Co do godania po czesku - to nikierzi "stela" jak słyszóm jak prawiym po naszymu to zaczynajóm się ze mie napieprzać i odpowiadajóm po czesku :P ale to miastowi, a we miastach już kapke zapómnieli jako to się gwarzi ;) Zdravim D T G 12:14, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Spotkanie Wiki-Cieszynioków jutro o 12, w Cieszynie przy Florianie (na rynku). Będziesz? D T G 14:43, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Isto jyny jo i Augiasz, Qasinka wyjeżdżo do Pragi i też ni może. Piwa i tak nie mogym pić, bo muszym jeszcze o osiemnostej jutro do Bielska jechać. Następnym razem. D T G 15:57, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

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Cześć. Chciołbyś sie jako Cieszyniok wypowiedzieć na meta:Requests for new languages kaj je propozycyja wikipedyji po ślónsku ? Tak po prowdzie to jo tego nie popieroł, zrazu wiedziołech, że to bydzie norychta (norzyndzia po naszymu a nie hanyski "werkcojgi" ;P) w rynkach Ślónzakowców, nale żech pomyśloł, że to teraz trzeja wypromować odrybność Cieszynioków od Prajsoków >:). Mie sie bardzo moc nie podobo jak widzym jak tam wszecy tak normalnie prawióm, że kożdy Ślónzok to ni ma Polok :( Na siłę udziwoczajóm pisani: pl:Wikipedia:Górnośląska Wikipedia/Zasady pisowni coby je jak nejmocni rozróżnić od polskigo, i prawióm taki rzeczy: pl:Dyskusja Wikipedii:Górnośląska Wikipedia/Kodyfikacja - bojym sie tego moc, nie chcym i nie bydym uwożać gwarzinio po naszymu za "jynzyk narodu ślónskigo" :P Bezmali to óni nie rozumiejóm NPOV'u bo jakbyś taki coś opisoł: "A poradzicie pojoon'c', pojakymu szkryflo sie yncyklopedyjo po polsku? Ze Patryjotyzmusa cy Univeralizmusa?A morzno ze uobjektywizma? Bez to skirz uobjektywizmusa, trza dac' Goornoszloonzoukoom guos! Bo rzoudyn, nawet Polouki, niy soom we Prawje Go Jym uodebjyrac'! Janzyk szloonzki mo tako samo mocka djalektoow, a te kupa swojyh gwaroow, a morzno i kans wjyncy, niz'li janzyk polski. To se wez'cie pod rozwaga! I do ... serca.  :-) --Jaborygyn" - choć to aspóń było srandownie powiedziane :-) Pozdrawióm, D T G 17:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Proposal for admin

Thanks for the offer. I guess the answer is yes, I would be willing to run. I'm glad to see that editors I don't know see value in the work that I have been doing. Thanks. Vegaswikian 04:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again. I have accepted the nomination and answered the questions. Vegaswikian 20:27, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Are you in

I have problem and no one is at the Village pump, it isn't vandalism. I has to do with an extra page.--Dakota ~ ε 09:14, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Had a problem with auto-afd. Typed delete into the first box and boom I was straight back to the page

and the link was red. No second step. When I attempted to finish it manually it looked as though an extra page had formed because at articles entry remained red but the entry was present on the articles for deletion page as it should be. Make me think there might an extra page which we don't need. I have used auto-afd quite a few times before with no problems. No one was in and I couldn't connect to IRC. On a hunch I cleared my browser and it solved the problem. It could be a bug. Thanks for the reply, and have a good weekend.--Dakota ~ ε 14:50, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

No license tag

When you are using the no license tags on images, please include all the parameters like {{no license|month=January|day=20|year=2006}}. Otherwise, the images are just thrown into Category:Images with unknown copyright status as of unknown date 2006 instead of by exact date. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Re new stub splits

Hi Darwinek, yeah sure. What happens with new country-geo-stubs is that I put a list of all the articles that need re-stubbing on one of the user subpages (User:Grutness/Ongoing geo-stub splits). Then anyone who wants to can dive in and change some of them over. I'll pobably be putting the lists up for the new splits later today if I get time. Grutness...wha? 22:00, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Ichkeul Lake, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 09:22, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

For watching my page. I appreciate it.--Dakota ~ ε 09:27, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Chadian WikiProject

You may be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad. Thanks. KI 00:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much. How are you doing? I rarely run into you these days - probably because I haven't done enough article and category creation recently. Hope you are well - Guettarda 16:02, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

nationality transfers

Hi Darwinek, why did you remove Chris Armas from the list? Although born in New York he featured for the Puerto Rican national team 5 times. Even though the matches were unofficial I'd still say it's enough to be called a "nationality transfer". Punkmorten 15:34, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Ok, sorry.. I feel stupid now, I only read the diff. Punkmorten 16:23, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Image:Auschwitz_I.jpg on Commons

Hi Darwinek, I saw your photo on Commons and, incredible, I made a photo in the same position, direction and I put it in it.wiki with the same name [9]. I ask your agree to substitute your photo for mine on commons (the resolution is better). --Nick1915 12:40, 28 January 2006 (UTC) (sorry for my english)

The lost islands of the Maldives...

Hmm, I know I saw the listing on CFD but I can't find it in any of the archived logs so I suspect it was a speedy rename. Have you tried Category:Uninhabited islands of the Maldives? With speedy renames, all the articles are edited to place them in the renamed category and the old category is deleted. The software doesn't allow moves of categories at the moment. --Syrthiss 12:57, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Bleh. Do you happen to remember what one or two of them were? Whoever emptied the old category should have put them in the new category. I know the cat was empty if I was the one who deleted it, but I wasn't the one who emptied it. If we have the name of at least one of the ones who didnt get moved correctly we can maybe track them down from that person's contributions list. --Syrthiss 13:15, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Even more bleh. I checked a couple that are listed in the infobox as uninhabited, thinking I had found a way to re-find them but the ones I checked hadn't been touched since October of last year. I'll try to look at NekoDaemon's contributions and see if the bot moved them. --Syrthiss 13:43, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

NekoDaemon only moved those three that we see there currently, back on Jan 20th per your request. I don't know why it would have only done three articles and stopped. I am running a scan on the database dump from back in December to find the articles in the category...and it just finished, after finding only two articles. --Syrthiss 13:56, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

GOT THEM. They were categorized through the template, not through a direct category text...so each one of those pages needs to be touched to get it to re-categorize I believe. I'll work on that. --Syrthiss 14:04, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Just the follow up: the ones that still had the template were touched so they recategorized. As a side note User:Adrian Buehlmann had updated the template and moved the <noincludes> so while the tempate itself was in the category, the articles weren't. There were many in that category that had been changed into redirects to the articles on the atolls that contain them, and a bunch of others that had been deleted...but I still have the database dump so if you want the full list I can send you the text file. Cheers. --Syrthiss 15:56, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: Summary

Well sorry for not being clear enough, but I suppose reverting when you're an admin should automatically add a summary (which helps minimize the confusion - and sometimes mistaken reverts).

BTW, how come your user page doesn't mention anything about you being an admin? (I wouldn't have added the comment if I knew that) - Eagle^amn 23:39, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Zaolzie

Czołem! Dzięki za pozdrowienia, na pewno dam Ci znać jakby co. Dodam tylko że jako czechofil (a przy tym student etnologii) świetnie Cię rozumiem. Myślę że - w ramach odpoczynku od wojujących Rosjan - można by się zająć rozszerzeniem kilku artykułów o Ziemi Cieszyńskiej i jej historii. Jak pewnie widziałeś kiedyś już co nieco na ten temat pisałem, ale ciągle jeszcze artykuły z tej dziedziny wymagają sporo pracy... może byśmy się za to zabrali całym towarzystwem z Wikipedia:Polish Wikipedians' notice board? Halibutt 01:07, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Tak, tak, tak! Macie moje 1000% poparcie i możecie liczyć na pomoc z mojej strony :D Może na początek tekst o historii rodu Buzków, który fajnie oddaje tutejsze klimaty :) Ostatnio prosiłem niemieckich wikipedystów, żeby stworzyli definicje Śląska Cieszyńskiego na niemieckiej Wikipedii, bo mnie to aż razi, że jak dotąd tylko w dwóch encyklopediach są takie definicje :S D T G 11:36, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for the barnstar. Best wishes. --MK _{[22:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)]}

Three weeks of admin tools

Today three weeks have passed since I was granted access to the administrator toolbox. During this time I have made use of it in the following way:

• Protections and unprotections: 1
• Blocks and unblocks: 4
• Deletions and restorations: 69
• Rollbacks: 246

I've found that the rollback tool is much more useful than I'd thought for vandalism patrol. In fact it makes that task so easy that I've been doing it more than before. On the other hand I've been surprised by how little the blocking tool is needed. Having done a significant amount of vandalism patrol I have still only blocked one solitary vandal. The great majority of addresses which send out a vandal edit do so only once. Those who do it more often usually stop after a warning or two. Only rarely is a block actually needed and in those cases someone usually beats me to it.

As a side note I haven't retired from writing articles either. I'm still hoping to bring Freyr up to featured status but even though I've already performed more edits on it than on Hrafnkels saga back in the day, a lot of work remains to be done. Community expectations for featured articles have gone up and so have my own ambitions. I'm currently waiting for a couple of books I ordered to arrive and then I may be able to make the final push.

I'm trying my best to live up to the trust you showed in me by supporting my RFA. If ever you feel uncertain whether I'm using the admin tools in the best interests of the project, let me know. I am at any time willing to relinquish the mop and reapply for it to address concerns people have and ensure that I'm not using the admin tools without being trusted to do so. Haukur 22:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
--Celestianpower ^háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
(message delivered by FireFox using AWB on Celestianpower's behalf)

Thank you!

Thank you very much for your support during my recent Admin election, I appreciate the trust that you have put in me. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding my work as an admin.

Kind Regards, Elf-friend 08:32, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Category vote

You may wish to voice any concerns on a category vote invloving protected areas here:[10].--MONGO 04:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thanks for your vote My request for adminship passed with a final result of 78/2/0. Hopefully I will live up to everyone's expectations. Please ask if I can ever help out with anything in the future. Martyman - 09:37, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for supporting me in my successful RFA. The admin tools will definitely be handy for dealing with vandalism more swiftly. Please drop a note on my talk page, should you have questions about any of my actions. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:08, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Islam

Jasne, czemu nie. Trochę na ten temat wiem, choć specjalizuję się raczej w polskich Żydach niż w muzułmanach. Na początek skreślę krótki pieniek (stub) na temat, napisz czego Ci będzie brakowało a postaram się uzupełnić. Halibutt 12:52, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Dzięki. To na razie ledwie szkic, zasygnalizowałem parę spraw, ale nadal jest sporo do zrobienia. Zwłaszcza w temacie islamu w XX wieku. Napływ Arabów w latach 80tych, odrodzenie wśród Tatarów i inne takie. Do tego ciągle za mało jest twardych danych, zdjęć i innych upiększeń... masz jakieś pomysły? Halibutt 22:03, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:35, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you! Hi Darwinek/Archive1, thank you for your support in my Rfa! It passed with a final tally of 86/0/0. If you need help or just want to talk let me know! Again, thank you! – Dakota ~ ° 22:07, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Darwinek

Hello Darwinek,

I have been editing the errors on the African American fraternity and sorority wikipedia pages for a few weeks now.

Recently, my IP number was blocked from making anymore changes to these websites. You blocked my IP number which prevents me from making anymore changes. My IP was blocked becasue I kept removing numerous errors on African American fraternity/sorority wikipedia pages.

You must realize that although numerous African American fraternity/sorority websites on the internet list 'famous' members, they may not real be members of those organizations.

I have studied African American fraternities and sororities for about a decade now and I know that there are many errors within the histories of these organizations.

Errors occur because a famous person may receive an award from the fraternity or sorority and then individuals may conclude that they are members.

In other cases, word-of-mouth or confusion between people with the same name may be the reason for the error.

I REMOVED numerous names on African American fraternity/sorority wikipedia pages which include:

Debbie Allen and Ida B. Wells on the Delta Sigma Theta wikipedia page

Morris Chestnut, Quincy Jones, Rick James on the Phi Beta Sigma wikipedia page

Earl Monroe, Guion Bluford, Hank Aaron on the Omega Psi Phi wikipedia page

Loretta Devine on the Sigma Gamma Rho wikipedia page (she is really a member of another sorority)

Gwendolyn Brooks, Jasmine Guy, on the Zeta Phi Beta wikipedia page

Bill Jefferson, Mayor Walter E. Washington on the Alpha Phi Alpha wikipedia page

Ron Brown on the Kappa Alpha Psi wikipedia page (he was in another fraternity http://www.sigep.org/about/alumni_government.asp)

The names above were just a few of the names that I removed.

Mayor Walter E. Washington was not an alpha, he is often confused with the former president of Alpha Phi Alpha and Alcorn State University whom was also named Walter Washington.

The 1st Black astronaut in space Guion S. Bluford is not a member of Omega Psi Phi. He is often confused with the 1st Black person to 'become' an astronaut Robert H. Lawrence whom was a member of Omega Psi Phi.

Maxine Waters is definitely not a member of Delta Sigma Theta. If you do a google search using 'Maxine Waters delta sigma theta' only two websites will appear. If she was a Delta her name and picture would appear on hundreds of Delta Sigma Theta websites. Also, you can verify that she is not a member by contacting the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in Washington D.C. at www.deltasigmatheta.org

Ida B. Wells is not a member of Delta Sigma Theta. I read their history book and she was very close to Delta, but she was definitely not a member.

Rick James who sung 'SuperFreak' was not a member of Phi BEta Sigma. He is often confused with the Rick James from the popular show during the '80 named 'Star Search'.

Morris Chestnut is not a member of Phi Beta Sigma. Although his name appears on about 75 Phi Beta Sigma websites, he is definitely not a member of Phi Beta Sigma. And you can verify this by contacting Phi Beta Sigma through their official website www.pbs1914.org.

Also, you may look at their "official" notable members list. If he was a member he would have been listed on the national Phi Beta Sigma website and he is not: http://www.pbs1914.org/sigmatoday/notablesigmaentertainment.asp

Or you may chat with members of Phi Beta Sigma at http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/showthread.php?s=e82a1c4d5b17db99c48317fa63e41800&threadid=36400&highlight=morris

Gwendolyn Brooks is not a Zeta. She is not mentioned as a member anywhere in their history book as a member. Also, I spoke with a member of Zeta whom confirmed that she was not a Zeta.

I am well read in African American fraternity and sorority history. So if an 'edit'comes from my IP number you can consider it reliable. (laugh)

You do a good job with creating many pages for wikipedia, but I would recommend only using the famous members lists from the 'official' websites of these organizations, which are listed below:

Phi Beta Sigma http://www.pbs1914.org/sigmatoday/notablesigmas.asp

Alpha Phi Alpha http://www.alphaphialpha.net/alpha/legacy/alumni.html

Zeta Phi Beta http://www.zphib1920.org/heritage/notable_zetas.html

Delta Sigma Theta http://www.deltasigmatheta.org/inside.php?id=0305AH4N

Omega Psi Phi http://www.omega2dc4.org/images/2nd%20District%20Brochure%20page%203.jpg

Kappa Alpha Psi http://www.kappaalphapsi1911.com/

Iota Phi Theta www.iotaphitheta.org

Sigma Gamma Rho www.sgrho1922.org

Alpha Kappa Alpha www.aka1908.org

Jsmith212 14:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello Darwinek

The message above (IP# 131.96.18.139) was written by me - jsmith212, before I created an account.

Also, I am the same person with the IP number 66.56.94.89 that you blocked yesterday.

If you want to reply to me, only send messages to jsmith212. If you send or SENT messages to IP# 131.96.18.139, I will not receive them because it was on a public computer not my home computer.

You may contact Phi Beta Sigma (technology@pbs1914.org) and tell them that you are an administrator for wikipedia. You can ask them if Morris Chestnut is a Sigma and they will tell you although his name appears on many websites, he is not a member of Phi Beta Sigma.

You can contact all the other organizations for verification of the numerous errors on African American fraternity/sorority wikipedia pages.

Or you can just use the official national websites which I mentioned above as reliable references.

Jsmith212 14:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Russian cities & towns

Ouch! That's what I get for not reading the rules beforehand. No need to bother with CfD, though, I'll take care of them myself (there is still plenty of cities/towns to recategorize anyway). Thanks for bringing this to my attention before it was too late!—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 15:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Teszinsko a Śląsk Cieszyński, sprawy cieszyńskie, Archduke Friedrich

Cześć, ostatnio sobie dyskutowaliśmy na cswiki (cs:Diskuse:České Slezsko) o Rakouskim Slezsku ;P Tyś powinien trochę wiedzieć czy Czesi tustela utożsamiają się w końcu z tym samym Śląskiem Cieszyńskim co my, czy może dla nich Teszinsko to jest coś bliżej nieokreślonego i to że Polacy (szczególnie po polskiej stronie) utożsamiają się z regionem, który jest również po czeskiej stronie, odbierają jako coś złego (tzn. że np my ciągle patrzymy na Śląsk Cieszyński jakby to były "wiecznie nasze" ziemie ;P)? Poza tym, czy nie wydaje Ci się podejrzane hasło Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, bo mi tak, chciałem mu dać interwiki, a nie ma go na liście pl:Habsburscy książęta cieszyńscy :S (a przecież na plwiki dzięki działalności Alexa.stela mamy już opisanych prawie wszystkich książąt cieszyńskich i np. takie pl:Bracki Browar Zamkowy w Cieszynie, albo pl:Studnia Trzech Braci (więcej: pl:Cieszyn), btw. jeden z naszych napisał hasło pl:Stary Cmentarz Żydowski w Cieszynie i zgłosił do artykułów na medal i zapowiada się, że będzie je miał :), Pozdrawióm, D T G 18:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Ten Archduke to jest postać autentaczyna, ale jeszcze jej na pl-wiki nie mamy, co jest oczywiście tylko kwestią czasu ;) Pozdrawióm, D T G 12:22, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Um, do you translate czech.--Dakota ~ ° 04:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

The topic above is in Polish, sometimes in Cieszyn Silesian dialect :) D T G 12:18, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Translate

Arnost Lustig new article. I listed it with pages needing translation and left the author a note. I know just a very little about the person but not the language. If you wouldn't care to take a look at it. Thanks.--Dakota ~ ° 19:01, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Input request

Hi! Once again I request your input. But this time in the field of geography. I have made the (quite long) list of villages in Norway, and thought about splitting it into 18 subpages, one for each county except Oslo. Maybe using tables, I thought. I have made a draft here. Please have a look and and tell me if you like the table, or any other ideas you might have. The project is perhaps a bit ambitious, but we'll see. Punkmorten 20:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I have now made a proposal B, which I like better. Punkmorten 22:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Lochs/Lakes

Hi Darwinek, thanks for your question. Lochs in scotland ("Loughs" in Ireland) generally fall into two categories - freshwater and saltwater. A lake, by definition is an inland body of water surrounded by land, and the freshwater lochs are indeed lakes. The saltwater lochs are open to the sea and are therefore not lakes. This is often confusing to non Scots, but the main Loch article explains it better than I do :-) Although Cat:Lakes of Scotland contains only a few entries, it is an important subset of Cat:Lochs of Scotland and should be kept separate I think. I hope that helps. BTW, thanks for your vote on my RfA, and may the snows clear up soon. --Cactus.man ✍ 09:55, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Successful RfA

Thanks for your support and kind words on my recent RfA, which I am pleased to say passed with a final tally of 80/1/1. If you ever need any help, or if I mess something up as an admin, please let me know. Cactus.man ✍ 07:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Battle of Lwów (1939)

Czołem, Darwinku! Dodałeś prośbę o źródła do artykułu o bitwie o Lwów w 1939. Zacząłem dodawać co nieco (Wrzesień to mój konik i czytałem na ten temat sporo). Mam jednak problem, bo jako że sam napisałem większość artykułu, i to już dawno temu, trudno mi stwierdzić które stwierdzenia wymagają konkretnych źródeł, a które można zostawić czytelnikowi. Czy mógłbyś mi nieco pomóc i dodać szablon {{fact}} gdzie trzeba? Ja to zamienię na odnośniki do literatury i będziemy mieli kolejny porządny artykuł na koncie :) Halibutt 02:22, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Soviet cities

There are quite a few, actually. The ones I can think right away are Komsomolsk in Ivanovo Oblast (note it is different from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, which is in Amur Oblast), Magnitogorsk, Boksitogorsk, Novokuznetsk, and Krasnouralsk.

Towns like Asbest, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Pervouralsk were founded a lot earlier, but they became major industrial centers (and, as a result, were granted town status) in the 1930s.

Let me know if this is not enough; I'll look up more for you.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 16:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

Reach out Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience: "No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Note from the editor Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!

The last AC meeting (full log) Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Zaolzie, mniejszości etc.

Czy na enwiki są artykuły o rożnakich mniejszościach narodowościowych w różnych krajach, np. mniejszość polska w Rep. Czeskiej ;) Ostatnio trochę poprawiałem artykuł pl:Ślązacy, starałem się nauczyć używania <ref>blabla</ref>, bo niedawno zawitały na plwiki (właściwie to jest kompletna nowość u nas ;) i natrafiłem na fajny artykuł na necie: [11] - co o nim sądzisz? Pozdrawióm, D_T_G (PL) 18:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Podle mie to nejlepszo nazwa by była jednak Polish minority in the Czech Republic a nejlepszo referencyjo na necie je isto to :) Podziwej sie też na cieszyński strój ludowy z 1914 roku na pl:Ślązacy - szykowne ni ;) Chciołbych kiejsi sfotografować wszelki cieszyński stroje ludowe, nagrać jakiś pieśniczki, nie wiesz kie je gorolski świynto w Jabłónkowie? D_T_G (PL) 19:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Tak dej mi znać, chyntnie bych tam był "przitomny" ;) Zaczłech sie kapke uczyć czeskigo ([12], [13], [14]) wnet cosikej już bydym tak spikoł po czesku, że mie za pepiczka weznóm ;) Mogym sie cie spytać czymu używosz określynio "górol" a nie gorol, co je barży po naszymu niż hanysku, tukej w Dymbowcu wszecy prawióm gorol, a jak móm rodzine w Lysznej Górnej tak tam na siebie też prawióm "gorole", a w haśle Ślązacy żech to wytumaczył tak: >>><<<: Znaczenie tego słowa na Górnym Śląsku jest inne, często uznawane za obraźliwe, co prowadziło do nieporozumień, związku z tym można się też spotkać z określeniem Górol. Na Śląsku Cieszyńskim słowo gorol zachowało swoje pierwotne znaczenie: Góral, w szczególności Góral Śląski i nie ma ono wydźwięku negatywnego. Innymi słowy określa ono rdzennego mieszkańca gór. Sami Górale Śląscy, bez wątpienia nalężacy do śląskiej grupy etnograficznej, nie dostrzegają w samookreśleniu się jako Gorol niczego obraźliwego. :) Zresztóm tukej i tu je to też mianowane "Gorolski", podziwej sie: "Piękno i niepowtarzalność „gorolskiej“ Ziemi Jabłonkowskiej podkreśla również dzisiaj często używana i lubiana gwara." :) Zdravim, bywej zdrów D_T_G (PL) 10:37, 1 April 2006 (UTC) P.S. Teroz żech sie dziepro kapnył, że jakbych był nieprzitomny na gorolskim świyncie tak bych był nieobecny - nie o to mi szło, chcym, chcym być tam przitomny ;) D_T_G (PL) 18:53, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Costa Rica

No, I am from the UK. I just happened to fix up the Chira Island article which someone added and when I wikified it it was then full of redlinks even for things that I really expected to exist so I made them myself, and well continuing that process it happened repeatedly, to the point I am well past 100 articles made in the region now. Almost all are stubs of course, but I'm sure that can be fixed in time. -- Sfnhltb 14:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Barnstar Brigade The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date: "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Information Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!

The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Uzbekistan

I think it makes perfect sense, and similar distinction is made in Russia as well ("русские" for nationality and "россияне" for the citizens of the nation). It is important to remember, however, that I am no expert in Uzbek affairs. Still, if there is a vote on that matter, please let me know—I'll support your point of view as quite logical.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) 18:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Argentine related articles

Hi there! I saw you create an Argentina related stub now and then. I would like to ask you to add such newly created articles to the Argentina related notice board's 'new pages' section, so we can attack it right away. Thank you, and good wiking! Mariano(t/c) 11:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeap, Polish lastname. I also have a second one, but Spanish (that's Argentina!) Sadly I don't know a word of Polish. I'm currently living in Slovenia, so I know one slavic language, but it's not that similar to Polish. I agree there are lots of Argentine geography topics missing; I've done a couple, but I'm currently working more on Argentine history. If you have an idea of which really important articles of geography are missing, ideas are always welcome! What's more, if the Spanish article already exists (or Italian, Portuguese, Slovene, Croatian), I can quickly translate them into English. See ya! Mariano(t/c) 14:01, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Please, chech the articles Puelo-Fagnano-Buenos Aires articles, because I had some doubts regarding some technical words (mainly I didn't know how to say that a lake 'drains' or 'losses the excendent of water' through a river or so). Do you happen to have a list of 'most important rivers' or'most important geographical bodies' for Argentina? I could work on it if I had it, but I would like to start with the 'important ones' and not with just streams or hills. Mariano(t/c) 19:05, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm not much into minimalistic stubs, so give me a couple of days and I'll do something less shameful with the Lake San Martin/O'Higgins, with some comment on the two Libertadores after which its named. BTW: if your Czech atlas has lakes drwan as cows, I suggest you change it for a Slovakian one! ;o) Take care, Mariano(t/c) 10:33, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Served: O'Higgins/San Martín Lake, Espejo Lake. JIC:I won't be on-line 'til tuesday. Ta ta, Mariano(t/c) 09:31, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Revenge!! I saw you created Northern Patagonian Ice Field, so what about the Southern Patagonian Ice Field? Muahaha, Nau aj am zi uan givin ju vork! :oP Happy easter to you too. Mariano(t/c) 10:09, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Cieszyn dispute

You may want to advertise it at Wikipedia talk:Polish Wikipedians' notice board. It will attract much more attention that way.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 20:53, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Wyluzuj, nie podchodź do tego tak emocjonalnie :) Prawda jest taka, że i Polacy i Czesi naginali rzeczywistość dla swoich korzyści, takie czasy były. Właśnie wróciłem z Cieszyna, odwoziłem mamę do dochtora i tak sobie szpacerowałem tam i spadki wzdłuż Olzy... Może pozytywna propaganda Ci trochę poprawi humorek ;) Zdravim, D_T_G (PL) 22:15, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Darwinek, I really do not understand what the dispute is about, but I think it is not proper to label the removal of an NPOV-tag as a "minor" change. --Austrian 22:55, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Co byś powiedzioł na taki kształt?:

Until 1918 it was called Saska Kępa (local dialect: Sasko Kympa, German: Sachsenberg) and was a suburb of the town of Cieszyn (German: Teschen) in the Duchy of Cieszyn, within Cieszyn Silesia in Austria-Hungary. Following the fall of the dual monarchy, the Polish and Czechoslovak local councils agreed on a partition of the area running along ethnic lines, however that treatment wasn't fully accepted by goverment of Prague. In 1919, with Poland fighting on its eastern frontiers, Czechoslovakia (fighting in Slovakia against Red Hungarian Army), driven chiefly by economic aims and accordingly with purpose from 31.10.1918 to gover all area of Duchy of Cieszyn and after French permission to annex all past Bohemia Crown lands, invaded the area up to the Olza river (which included the suburb), later agreeing to hold a plebiscite. However, in 1920, with Poland engaged in the Polish-Soviet war - Czechoslovakia ally, Czechoslovakia annexed the area. This action was formalized at the Treaty of Versailles, thus leaving a sizeable Polish minority on the Czech side. In 1938, following the Munich agreement which allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland, Poland coerced Czechoslovakia to surrender Český Těšín, by issuing an ultimatum to that effect September 30, which was accepted by Czechoslovakia on the first of October. Following negotiations with Czech authorities, who were given an additional 24 hours to evacuate the area, Polish troops and authorities entered it on October 2, 1938, and the territory was annexed to Poland. <ref name="Lukes">[[Igor Lukes]], [[Erik Goldstein]], "The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II" , [[1999]], ISBN 0714649953, [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0714649953&id=T5hqSh8XUCQC&vq=poland&dq=tesin&lpg=PA66&pg=PA67&sig=crycfzwzvaWRqdnIQvDihxU7CLE page 66-67, viewable via Google Book search]</ref> After the German invasion of Poland, in 1939, the entire territory was annexed by Germany. During the World War II it was a part of Germany. The area was divided along the previous 1920 border again in 1945, and the Communist Government of Poland returned the disputed area to Czechoslovakia. Before the war there was a sizeable Jewish minority in the town, about 1500 in Cieszyn and 1300 in Český Těšín [15]. Almost all of them were killed by Nazis in the concentration camps. Today only one synagogue is still standing in the town (today, it is a Polish cultural centre). Jewish cemetery in Český Těšín is abandoned (see the photos below). Even more sizeable German community fled to Germany after the war. There are no Jewish and German communities in the town today.

Ale nejprzód by trzeja było wychladać jakisi angielsko-języczne referencyje, bo nie wiym czy sie bydóm ciepać o polsko-jynzycznóm stróne, co w nij je napisane: Podział etnograficzny pozbawił Czechosłowację zagłębia węglowego i jedynej wówczas linii kolejowej łączącej Czechy ze Słowacją i był sprzeczny z ówczesną czeską ideologią państwową, która głosiła jedność wszystkich ziem korony czeskiej. 28 września 1918 roku Benesz i francuski minister spraw zagranicznych Stephen Pichon podpisali układ o państwie czechosłowackim « w granicach jego byłych prowincji historycznych », co oznaczało francuskie poparcie dla roszczeń czeskich do całego Śląska Cieszyńskiego i stało w sprzeczności z czesko-polskim porozumieniem z 16 maja oraz późniejszym lokalnym z 5 listopada. Rząd w Pradze zapowiedział włączenie całego Śląska Cieszyńskiego (31.10), a pod koniec listopada premier Kramarz unieważnił umowę lokalną między polską Radą i czeskim Vyborem. Czesi chcieli też by wojska Ententy zapewniły im kontrolę nad Księstwem. W styczniu 1919 roku Ententa uznała tymczasowo prawa Czech do granic historycznych i armia czeska zaatakowała Bogumin, Karwinę i Jabłonków (23.01.1919), a następnie pokonała oddziały polskie w trzydniowej bitwie pod Skoczowem. Dalsze działania przerwało zawieszenie broni (1.02.1919). 3 lutego Benesz i Roman Dmowski zawarli w Paryżu ugodę, wiele której konflikt miała zbadać Komisja Międzysojusznicza (Anglia, Francja, Włochy). D_T_G (PL) 11:12, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Albo zróbmy tak: wytuplikujmy nejbarży kóntrowersyjne stwierdzynia i albo ji wyciepmy (w kóńcu tyn artykulik je yny o mieście ni o cołym Zaolziu) albo rozwińmy. D_T_G (PL) 11:24, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Smacznego wajuszka w Wielkónocne Świynta, bywej zdrów :) D_T_G (PL) 12:38, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for correcting the spelling on my stub-splitting page. Countries which use a slightly different local and international spelling (like Cameroon/Cameroun) often catch me out. It would have been caught when I do the proposal (in a couple of days, once the tally's finished), but it's good that it's been noticed now. Cheers - Grutness...wha? 00:51, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikics template

Hi Darwinek! I've just created a new template to indicate English Wikipedia users who also contribute to the Czech Wikipedia.

Template:User wikics

Feel free to add it to your userboxes if you like it (and if you actually contribute). Happy Easter. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 08:21, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Happy Easter

Just dropped in for a little while and wanted to wish you a happy easter here if you celebrate. Enjoy. Always the best.--Dakota ~ 05:17, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Proud to be stela :]

Cześć, właśnie żech uwidzioł tukej, że prawióm o artykule Tutejszy i tak żech se pomyśloł czymu nie stworzić artykuł stela (zaroz... teroz Ci tam sóm jakisi pierdoły :) Przikłod użicia: My som stela :) Miej sie, D_T_G (PL) 20:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Też mosz racje, mie to kapke za moc zaciykawiło i żech isto stracił na widoku cyl wikipedii, dyć to mo być w kóńcu encyklopedia dlo wszyskich, a dlo ludzi je ważniyjszo inszo wiedza jak jyny Cieszyniocy. Eszcze ni mómy ani dobrze rozwiyniynty artykuł o samyj krainie historycznej czy Ksiynstwie Cieszyńskim co je na pewno barży encyklopedycznóm wiedzóm. Jak żeś uż nadmiynił o artykule o naszym dialykcie (Cieszyn Silesian dialect), czymu ón je kontrowersyjny? Nie idzie Ci o Silesian? Naja, tóż dlo hanysów "ślónskość" a "nasz dialykt" je ganc inaczyj pojmowany jak tukej i skyrs tego tam sie fórt o to wadzóm ;P... Słyszołeś o jakisikej lašskych nařečach (dobrze to piszym?)? Podobno to je "czeski ślónski", żech sie kapke wadził o to tu: pl:Język laski, bo dycki żech myśloł że to uż ni ma polski (znaczy ślónski) ale czeski, choć eszcze go idzie fajnie zrozumieć, lepij jak takigo pepika z Pragi (przy okazji w Pradze "Polok" to je podobno gańbiónce wyzwisko, je to prowda?). Prawisz, że Wy uż nie czujecie zwiónzku z nami, Cieszyniokami po prawym brzegu Olzy, dodajesz że lepij jakby o tym nie było wspóminane na Wikipedii, ale jo uż isto aji za wiela napisoł na polskij wiki w haśle "Ślązacy" i teraz je to do mie ważne, bo bych to musioł poprowić (za barżo żech sie w to zaangażowoł...), co by tam nie cyganić :S Eszcze Bielszczanie (Podbeskidzianie) w ogóle nie czujóm sie Cieszyniokami (bo to sóm głównie tajojki - repatrianty ze wschodu ;P) też to bydym musioł isto dopisać... A o tyj pisowni "stela", "tu ztela", to żech słyszoł że po Waszyj strónie sie pisze aji jakisikej "z týla" (chodzi mi o te dziwne "y"). Zresztóm ostatno natrefiłech na tyn wóntek napisany przez jednego Poloka z Jabłónkowa, ón tam opisoł jak my Wos widzymy :), musisz sie zarejestrować co by to uwidzieć, wiync Ci to tukej zacytujym (jak mi to nie bydziesz mioł za złe, najwyżyj skasuj):

„Przedolzie” – jak nas widzą?!
Przedmiotem rozważania tego przyczynku będzie postrzeganie Zaolzian przez mieszkańców prawobrzeżnej części Śląska Cieszyńskiego. Dokładniej rzecz biorąc chodzi o szkic, w jaki sposób jest postrzegana nasza, czyli polska obecność za Olzą. Żeby jakkolwiek rozpocząć opis i charakterystykę tego zagadnienia, potrzebne jest cofnięcie się wstecz 85 lat, a więc do krytycznego momentu dzielenia dotychczas jednolitego organizmu. Konsekwencje rozdarcia spójnego monolitu ówczesnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego pociągnęło za sobą obopólną i szeroko rozumianą separację (dotyczyło to rodzin, przyjaciół, znajomych, stowarzyszeń, związków, instytucji, organizacji, itp.), a więc podstawowe elementy tworzące pełnowartościowe społeczeństwo. Pomimo przebiegającej granicy, społeczeństwo polskie nadal utrzymywała wspólną więź, co spowodowane było jednolitością, a dokładniej jedną wielką rodziną cieszyńską, pośrednio spokrewnioną. Jednak dzięki coraz szczelniejszemu zamykaniu granic, zwłaszcza po 2. Wojnie Światowej, doszło do pojawienia się pierwszych sygnałów obumierania tkanki w ciele Cieszynianka. Obumieranie tkanki przybierało postać będącą wypadkową chociażby wynaradawiania, czy wręcz zapominania przez następne pokolenia o istnieniu rodziny na drugim brzegu Olzy. Wynika z tego, że okres szczelnych granic wyraźnie działał na niekorzyść obu brzegów. Otwarcie granic w latach 90 przyniosło, zwłaszcza średniej i młodej generacji, szansę na reanimację tego, co zostało uśpione kilka dekad temu. Odkrywanie i penetrowanie na nowo ziemi utraconej jest jednak prawie wyłącznie domeną zaolzianską, co potwierdza istnienie chęci odrodzenia więzi z drugą częścią naszej ziemi cieszyńskiej, a więc uświadomienie sobie więzi narodowych. Świadomość ta jest elementem dziedzicznym we społeczeństwie Zaolzia. Skupmy się jednak na postrzeganiu nas przez Cieszyniaków prawobrzeżnych, gdzie niestety obowiązuje opinia, iż Zaolzie jest czeską ziemią w dosłownym znaczeniu, bez polskiego oblicza, czy akcentu. Należy się zastanowić, skąd biorą się tego typu opinie. Odpowiedź na powyższe pytanie nie jest prosta lub jednoznaczna. Za głównego winowajcę należy jednak oznaczyć ludność autochtoniczną, która w niewystarczający sposób przekazuje wiedzę o tym, co tak naprawdę jest po drugiej stronie Olzy. W kwestii tej istotną rolę odegrał poprzedni ustrój polityczno-gospodarczy, który w aktywny sposób wyciszał resztki jeszcze żywych relacji między nami. Program edukacyjny tego okresu też raczej nie kreował pamięci o Zaolzianach, co niestety nawet obecnie niezbyt się zmieniło. Istnieją jednak takie wspaniałe instytucje publiczne jak Książnica Cieszyńska, Muzeum, Uniwersytet Śląski w Cieszynie oraz Macierz Ziemi Cieszyńskiej, które lansują regionalna wiedzę przekraczającą granicę na Olzie. Potencjał zgromadzony przez wyżej wymienione instytucje nie jest jednak w pełny i kompleksowy sposób wykorzystywany w ramach szeroko rozumianej kultury masowej. Należy również zwrócić uwagę na środki masowego przekazu, gdzie największa rolę odgrywa Głos Ziemi Cieszyńskiej. Pismo to, oprócz regularnej rubryki „Co za Olzą”, publikuje również artykuły w płynny sposób nawiązujące do kontaktów z Zaolziem, które odgrywają się na różnych płaszczyznach. Istnieją również różnorakie strony internetowe, które propagują wiedzę o terenach znajdujących się na obu brzegach Olzy. Warto też podkreślić fakt, iż istnieją coraz bardziej popularne imprezy cykliczne o charakterze ponadnarodowym, które odbywają się w obojgu Cieszynach. Należy jednak sobie zadać kilka pytań. Jakie to ma odzwierciedlenie w praktyce? Jakie są relacje pomiędzy nami? Czy nasza obecność jest zauważalna w kręgach, w których niestety sposób jednoznaczny dominuje osobnik nieposiadający właściwie żadnej wiedzy o Zaolziu? Jakie uczucia towarzyszą osobie niezorientowanej, kiedy przekracza granicę? Przeciętny Cieszynianin z prawego brzegu Olzy, który przekracza granicę, wie tylko tyle, że kiedyś Czeski Cieszyn tworzył z Cieszynem jedno miasto. Jeżeli Czeski Cieszyn jest jeszcze w sposób logiczny rozszyfrowany to, co jest poza nim, postrzegane jest jako teren rdzennie czeski. Niestety brakuje jakiejkolwiek świadomości, iż stąpają ciągle po tej samej ziemi. Świadomość ta towarzyszy aż do momentu usłyszenia języka, który przypomina język ojczysty. Język ten to oczywiście gwara cieszyńska, z różnym nasileniem czechizmów, co jest w dużej mierze uzależnione od wieku rozmówcy. Język literacki jest właściwie nieobecny, gdyż został zepchnięty na obrzeża życia edukacyjno-kulturalnego. Następnymi miejscami, gdzie można napotkać polska obecność, są obiekty sakralne, które miejscami posiadają jeszcze polską inskrypcję. Istnieje jeszcze duża ilość krzyży, czy kapliczek przydrożnych z polskimi tekstami. W szczególny sposób wymownym świadkiem polskiej obecności są starsze cmentarze. Pojawiające się tu i ówdzie dwujęzyczne napisy, również mogą zdradzić co nieco o charakterze narodowym Zaolzia. Obecność domów z napisem PZKO jest dla osoby niewtajemniczonej anonimowa i niejasna. Także niewystarczające i niepoprawne promowanie lewobrzeżnej części znajduje swoje odzwierciedlenie w np. przewodnikach turystycznych, gdzie proponuje się odwiedzenie np. Lysej Hory, Bohumina, Komorni Lhotki itp. Jesteśmy zauważalni? Dla osoby, która nie wie, czego ma szukać, tak naprawdę nie istniejemy! Dlatego należy wystosować apel do wszystkich Zaolziaków o zacieśnianie kontaktów z „Przedolziakami”, w celu pokazania im prawdziwego oblicza także ich ziemi, z której, z całą pewnością, zdecydowana większość autochtonów wywodzi swoje, zapomniane korzenie. Mamy im do zaoferowania chociażby nasz zaolziański fenomen, który uzewnętrznia się w pielęgnowaniu tradycji i kultury rodzimej, a wiadomo przecież, że kontakty koleżeńskie pomiędzy Ćmielówną z Grodziszcza a Macurą z Dzięgielowa mogą przerodzić się w związek partnerski, czyli dochodzi do powrotu do pierwotnego stanu przedpodziałowego. Może to być ratunkiem przed niepokojącą erozją w społeczeństwie Zaolzia, czego jedną z przyczyn są związki małżeńskie narodowo mieszane. Jakie więc są wizje na przyszłość? Sporo możliwości daje nam unia europejska. Powrót do regionalizmu, większe kompetencje w decydowaniu o regionie, czy też tworzenie nowej jakości w obszarach o odmiennym charakterze etniczno-narodowym. Przyszłość ma więc pozytywne oblicze, nie należy jednak zapominać o najbliższych sąsiadach z drugiego brzegu Olzy. Wobec tego nasza manifestacja narodowa musi być odczuwalna na obu brzegach Olzy, ponieważ bez naszego aktywnego wkładu „Przedolziacy” pozostaną nieuświadomieni, co do autentycznego oblicza Zaolzia. Na marginesie należy zaznaczyć, iż na drugiej stronie Olzy istnieje grupa posiadająca szeroką i rzetelną wiedzę o naszej obecności na Zaolziu, lecz jej liczebność jest mocno ograniczono, zwłaszcza wśród młodej generacji. Nawet to, w istotny sposób, nie zmienia wyżej wymienionych opinii opartych na bezpośrednich relacjach z przyjaciółmi zza Olzy.

Wiym, prawiym o tym kapke za wiele, lepij by było jakbych rozwinół artykuły np. o Strumiyniu albo Ustróniu, czyli ty miynij kóntrowersyjne ;) ale nie martw sie, eszcze kiejsi je rozwinym. Na razie planujymy na polskij wiki nejlepij opisać polskóm stróne Olzy. Czymu to wszysko? Bo komuna sie skóńczyła, może nas, miłośników ziymi cieszyńskij je na tym świecie mało, zmierzło nas że coroz to miynij ludzi sie tym interesuje, ale aspóń na internecie chcymy cosikej ludzi zaszczypić do nimocy zamiłowaniym do korzyni, rdżyni swojij przeszłości, a podle nos Wolno Encyklopedia je do tego szykowno :) Mój kamrat planuje na prziszłość taki działania:

Będzie to poprawione, rozszerzone i uzupełnione. Na razie mam 37 stron czcionką 12! Mam nadzieję, że nasza "Historia Śląska Cieszyńskiego" będzie wszystkim pomocna. Bardzo chciałbym, aby cały tekst sprawdził jeszcze któryś z naszych historyków, a następnie zrobiłbym z tego zalążek pod KSIĄŻKO-ALBUM o nazwie "Śląsk Cieszyński". Ponadto niedługo zostanie uruchomiona "Skarbnica ox.pl" - skarbnica wiedzy o Śląsku Cieszyńskim. Nad nią też pracujemy w ramach współpracy MZC-BKC-OX (Macierz Ziemi Cieszyńskiej, Bractwo Księstwa Cieszyńskiego, http://www.ox.pl -> dop.). No i jest jeszcze Wikipedia. Także niedługo "wszystko najważniejsze" będzie w internecie. Ma to jeszcze ten plus, że na strony internetowe można wprowadzać zmiany i uzupełnienia. Spodziewam się, że za 5 lat żaden region nie będzie tak opisany w internecie, jak Śląsk Cieszyński. To musi zaowocować jakimiś publikacjami książkowymi. Coraz bardziej chodzi mi to po głowie...

Dzierż sie, D_T_G (PL) 16:54, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Szykuje sie dzisio spotkani na tym, bydziesz? D_T_G (PL) 09:56, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Flag

"Official flag", for the last 25 years. Doesn't represent every Iranian thats ever lived in the 2500 years of the country. That was my point. Why not discuss it first? -- - K a s h ^{Talk | email} 15:38, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

On the Jews and Their Lies

Dear Darwinek: Yes, there is a reason for the author's name in the title. Several editors are concerned that those who see the title would think we're saying the Jews lie rather than the author. The discussion is in the talk page archive and a note on it on the current talk page. Please move the article back. Thanks! --CTSWyneken 19:56, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

River names

Hi... I notice you've been changing a few river names from "River X" to "X River". This is a complicated issue because different strands of English name rivers in different ways. The British/Irish English convention is (usually, there are always exceptions) to talk about "River X", whereas "X River" is the usual form in American and Australian English (again, there are exceptions). So it would definitely be a mistake (even for an American) to talk about the Thames River flowing through London, or (even for an English person) to talk about the River Hudson flowing through New York. It's not obvious what to do when the river isn't in an English speaking country, but geographical promixity means that when talking about rivers in Europe or Africa there's a tendency to use the "River X" form, and when talking about rivers in South America there's a tendency to use the American form. There's a separate issue about some Spanish rivers, where quite often in English we use the Spanish name "Rio X". I haven't done any changing back, because there may have been discussion about this issue somewhere I haven't spotted. But in general I'd suggest it's not a good thing to do unless you are very confident about typical usage. The person who started the article may well have good reasons for choosing the format they did. seglea 22:17, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Translation complete

Nickerie River has been translated by Andries & proofed by myself. Suriname River has just been translated by me as requested - still needs proofing. There are a lot of redlinks, in fullness of time I'll look & see which of those are worth doing, unless you have specific requests. (this isn't my job here, just my hobby to keep language skills up)Bridesmill 16:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Just another RFA thank you note

Dear Darwinek, I appreciate your vote and your kind words in my RFA. It has passed with an unexpected 114/2/2 and I feel honored by this show of confidence in me. Cheers! ←Humus sapiens ну? 04:27, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Re geo-stubs

I'm always getting Suriname wrong! (ISTR it used to be spelt that way in English at one time). As to CAR/CentralAfricanRepublic, that can be debated when I propose the new split (which will be once I finish the current tally - hopefully by Monday or Tuesday). Grutness...wha? 11:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

True luck

Good luck on the essays and exams :) --Dakota ~ 18:49, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Image reuploaded

I reuploaded your image as

Image:Auschwitz I in 2001.jpg

Fred-Chess 09:46, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

About Spanish-English Translations

Darwinek, you're very welcome! I would love to do any other translations you need done. — † Webdinger ^{BLAH | SZ} 16:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I got Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia done if you'd like a look at it. I can work on the other two tomorrow because I am dead tired. No problem about the translating - I love having the opportunity to exercise what I've learned in Spanish class! — † Webdinger ^{BLAH | SZ} 05:56, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Darwinek: I've completed all of the translations. Feel free to have a look at them. — † Webdinger ^{BLAH | SZ} 00:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Hello Darwinek/Archive1, and thanks for supporting me on my recent request for adminship! It has succeeded with an unanimous support of 67 votes, so that I am now an administrator. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page should you wish to leave any comments or ask for any help. Again, thanks a lot, AndyZ t 21:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

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