User talk:Andrwsc

Olympic issue with editor

Thanks for your neutral help , but it seems the criteria that the IOC use in realtion to NOCs has been total missed by the other editor . Your example , Puerto Rico and Jnestorius example of Palestine - which isnt even recognised as a terriroty or political entity yet , I taught would show where the by-laws in the charter dont always flow with convention . He has edited the same phrase in the OCI page , I edited out and guess what , yep its back . I am not going to edit again until this issue is resolved - that would just create too much discussion on the one issue . Murry1975 (talk) 09:46, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

{{Infobox Country Olympics}}

Hi,

Now that the drama has died down a bit, do you mind unprotecting? I'm sure Headbomb can be persuaded to discuss any future controversial edits to the template on talk, and there's no history of disruption which really warrants protection at this time. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) - talk 10:16, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Guyana

Hi, can you update Template:Country data Guyana with this Flag of Guyana, I mean I can use {{flagicon|British Guiana}} but for example:

• {{flagathlete|[[Keevil Daly]]|GUY|1906}} ==> Keevil Daly (GUY),

it doesn't work for this template. Mohsen1248 (talk) 13:05, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

• • I found the solution, forget it. Mohsen1248 (talk) 13:33, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:26, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

French Algeria

Hi, any chance of creating {{Country data French Algeria}} (French flag) for use in the List of shipwrecks in 1939 article? Mjroots (talk) 10:18, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Lists of Russians

Per your comments here, would you care to comment at Wikipedia:Bot requests#Help removing a template. There is an editor who seems to believe we need this template at the bottom of every article about every Russian. Thank you. 198.175.175.57 (talk) 23:40, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 November 14#Template:Lists of Russians 198.102.153.2 (talk) 21:42, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Hidden sortability

Hey mate. I don't know if anyone has asked you this before, but is it feasible to have a hidden {{sort}} key written into templates like Template:Country data Republic of the Congo, so that they sort under "C" rather than "R" in wikitables? Nightw 05:27, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:FlagO

Template:FlagO has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — This, that, and the other (talk) 09:28, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Question about flag copyright

I was wondering if you could give me some advice. I was trying to create a country data template for Nassau County, New York. The flag is currently marked as fair use, but I'm not sure if that is the correct status because the flag has existed since 1899 (according to [1]). This would make the image essentially a faithful reproduction of something with an expired copyright. Do you know if this is a valid analysis in terms of how Wikipedia deals with flag copyrights? Thanks! Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 03:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

I went ahead and made a definitely-free version to replace the maybe-free one, just to be safe. I guess my question has been mooted, but I'm still curious as the copyright treatment of flags and seals seems to be wildly inconsistent within Wikipedia. Antony–22 (^talk⁄_contribs) 05:18, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Arkeia Software article

Dear Andrwsc,

About 1-2 months ago, this article had an advert template placed on it that I believe may no longer be necessary. I have since revised the article, removing (I hope) any unnecessary mentions of the company name, excessive product details, etc. When you have a chance, could you possibly look at the article and let me know if my changes have been sufficient to warrant removal of the template? Thank you!Michael Leeman (talk) 23:24, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

West Germany country data

Hi! Is it possible that you include the rugby union code ( | link alias-rugby union = Germany national rugby union team ) to the Template:Country data West Germany to avoid redirections? I'm asking you because the West Germany national rugby union team does not exist (it redirects to the Germany national rugby union team) and that template already has the codes for tennis, basketball, football, ice hockey, etc. Apart from the fact I can't edit it myself. Thank you in advance! Tibullus ^{call me} 13:04, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Andrwsc,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 04:17, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to events: bot, template, and Gadget makers wanted

I thought you might want to know about some upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the Chennai event in March, the Berlin hackathon in June, the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC, or any other of our events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumanah (talk) 22:13, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Virgin Islands at the 1984 Winter Olympics

A tag has been placed on Virgin Islands at the 1984 Winter Olympics, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

There was a mixup with the British Virgin Islands

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. Intoronto1125TalkContributions 02:33, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

talk page use for Template:Country data Netherlands?

He Andrwsc/Ed17; the template is protected so that only admins can edit. Probably this is done to avoid too many changes on a very heavily used template. I suggest thus to use a bit of restraint in editing even if you are one of the few who can edit there.... L.tak (talk) 21:02, 2 March 2012 (UTC)