User talk:JLogan

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I will reply here, if we're talking on yours don't be surprised if I forget to check it.

I'm trying to make useful contributions here. As I have very little time and am bugged on numerous sides I apologise for my rapidly worsening temper; but I do hate people obsessed with deleting things left, right and centre. Do something positive you vandals! I've no time for you.

European Parliament (talk)

Didn't you mean "half a billion? --Boson (talk) 22:17, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Aye! Oops. Thanks!- _J.Logan`^t: 22:20, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Question

On the Map showing the Member States of the European Union, included in the Outline of the European Union, what do the different shades of green mean? The Transhumanist 01:18, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

If you mean the clickable map, it means nothing. It is just to differentiate one from another more easily (like in an atlas where each country is a different colour or shade). If you mean the GDP map, the darker the green the higher the GDP. Hope that helps.- _J.Logan`^t: 08:41, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

EU topics

Hi! Just want to congratulate you for the work in EU articles. Nice job! --Waldir ^talk 11:32, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
By the way, could you explain this edit? I'm not sure I understand all that you did there. --Waldir ^talk 11:36, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. That edit is so we can have a bilateral relations box in the article. You can't put a normal one there because there is no country data for ASEAN (and the flag is non-free) so I just copied the code for the template and adjusted it manually to include the ASEAN name without a flag.- _J.Logan`^t: 15:27, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

I see. However, you included code that only works for pages that are included in others (usually templates). The switch there in practice works but will always present the default option, so I'll go ahead and remove the extra code. I'll also convert the html table to wiki syntax and simplify some of the css definitions. Cheers, Waldir ^talk 08:30, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

EFSF article is 340 billion euros out

JLo, hi! Long time, no see. I still have restricted internet access but I've noticed that the European Financial Stability Facility article is out of date. The situation is this:

• Last year the EFSM (European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism) was set up, which was a fast emergency loan of €60 billion from the financial markets using the EU budget as collateral. The loans took the form of bonds, the first of which were issued on 5 January.
• Then the Original EFSF (European Financial Stability Facility) was incorporated on 7 June 2010. It was the EZ16 (later EZ17) finance ministers getting together to issue loans. The total guarantee was 440,000.00 million euros[2] (€440 billion). The German component of that guarantee was 119,390.07 million euros[2] (€119 billion). The loans took the form of bonds, the first of which were issued on 25 January 2011.
• Then the Amended EFSF was created. On 21 July 2011[3] the Eurozone component of the European Council decided to amend the EFSF[3][4] to bring the total guarantee up to 779,783.14 million euros[3][4] (€780 billion). The German component of that extended guarantee was 211,045.90 million euros[3][4] (€211 billion)
• All the above are distinct from the European Stability Mechanism

Can you be so kind as to update the article for me? Conversely, could you chuck it onto somebody else in WP:European Union?

Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 23:17, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

• [2] http://www.efsf.europa.eu/attachments/efsf_framework_agreement_en.pdf
• [3] http://www.efsf.europa.eu/attachments/efsf_framework_agreement_amendment_agreement.pdf
• [4] http://www.efsf.europa.eu/attachments/efsf_framework_agreement_consolidated_version.pdf
• [5] http://www.efsf.europa.eu/attachments/201107-efsf-newsletter-n02.pdf

No problem. I did some research of my own on that a while back. Don't have the sources but I know what i'm talking about at least. I'll quickly put this up.- _J.Logan`^t: 23:20, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Actually, to be honest it looks mostly up to date. The EFSF may have been agreed to be enlarged but it hasn't been ratified yet (has to get past the Germans and the Slovaks first) so not all the article should be brought up with the tenses corrected etc. - _J.Logan`^t: 23:26, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Woah, just like old times. (Don't you sleep?) Anyhoo, yes I know, but I'm fielding questions about the vote in the German Parliament tomorrow and people are getting confused about the 440 then, the 780 to be, and the German component of both. Since this is the kind of thing the 'pedia was set up to handle, I thought it'd be a good idea, especially since authorisation won't be complete until December and the kerfuffle is becoming deafining. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 23:41, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

I've put in a section on enlargement and expanded the contributions table - does that help?- _J.Logan`^t: 08:09, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Yes it does, thank you. As for your question here, I don't know: I'll see what I can find out but no promises. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 21:28, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Regarding your question about the Irish opt-outs, this board entry discusses the Protocols, and this Euractiv report gives further details. The Croatia Accession Treaty ("Treaty of Warsaw") will be signed on 19 December 2011 and will then be ratified by the EU27 member parliaments. The Protocols for the Irish and Czech guarantees will be in separate documents and those documents will be ratified by the EU27 member parliaments at the same time. When the Protocols are ratified they will be attached to/modify/whateva the TEU and TFEU. Hope that helps, regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 10:30, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I can now finally update that article! :).- _J.Logan`^t: 15:35, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

eu-yemen

thank u for expanding euro-yemeni relations article, Superzohar Talk 08:24, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

economic maps

Hi, I've just been reading some of the stuff on the eurozone - excellent articles by the way - and was wondering how you produced your economic maps? I wanted to do something myself for a project but don't know what people use to generate these nifty little maps. Hopefully you're not doing this by hand with some painting app.

I'm just looking for the name of the app or addin which you use, not instructions on how to do this.

Ian — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ianpmurphy (talk • contribs) 10:41, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Just pop on commons:Category:Blank maps of Europe and commons:Category:Blank maps of the world and find a base map of what you want to show. ind a PNG though as they are easier to edit. If you're using Windows then Paint should be enough to just use fill to colour in each country according to the categories you want to show. If you're using Mac, then you'll need to download something like GraphicConverter of Gimp. Hope that helps, if you need elaboration on something just say.- _J.Logan`^t: 13:20, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Franco Maria Malfatti Press C.jpg

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Great job especially on the LGBT Eurozone article. Keep up the good work!  Magister Scientatalk (8 November 2011) 23:45, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks :)- _J.Logan`^t: 22:23, 9 November 2011 (UTC)