User talk:Thaimoss

WikiProject Airports

Greetings! While reviewing the assessment change log for Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports, I noticed that you created the article Dhahran Airfield. You contribution to improving Wikipedia's collection of airport articles is greatly appreciated. If at all interested, I'd like to extend an invitation to join the project. You can join by simply adding your name to the list of participants. If not interested, please disregard this message. Thanks! thadius856_{talk|airports|neutrality} 19:23, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Allen

Not a problem! It was done in good faith. --D-Day ^{I'm all ears} 21:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Burma MerguiArchipelagoMap.png

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David Petraeus

Thanks Thaimoss. I knew his new command was approved, just wasn't sure if his rank promotion was immediate, or at a later date. Thanks. GoodDay 03:03, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

OXCART clean up

My pleasure. Rich Farmbrough, 10:52 31 January 2007 (GMT).

David H. Petraeus Dates

I don't see what the confusion is, I put down the date in which the article was published. If the date I put down was incorrect, by all means, please change it. -Signaleer 23:12, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Your Thailand link

Is there anything wrong with the link, explains the history in a different light under external links, let it be. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.210.117.59 (talk) 00:11, 6 February 2007 (UTC).

I've removed that link to the Assumption University of Thailand "History of Thais" because it doesn't belong here. The nice piece on their web page doesn't materially contribute to the wikipedia article Thailand. The article History of Thailand contains complete supporting articles on Sukhothai kingdom, the Ayutthaya kingdom, etc. Additionally, the external cite is a blend of its very abbreviated history of the country of Thailand with a very loose history of the Thai people, which is covered in Thai people. - Thaimoss 23:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Why the table needs to be erased

we refer to the format of the 2006 in NASCAR page and the bandwidth issues. If you want to set up a seperate page for that table, please do so. NoseNuggets 3:51 PM US EST Feb 15 2007.

Rocket Festival Update

Thanks, but now I need to upload pix of the murals at the BangFai Museum. I know how to do that, but not how to put them in the article. Also, I would like to show you a table of the Thai consonants I made up myself, that shows how the letters relate as ladies and gentlemen,boys and girls, that works great for alphabetizing [which you may know the Thai can't do.] Lee 11:32, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

• Added wow photo; have 40-second ASF video file with about 3 seconds where the wow can be clealy heard, but dunno how to clip it.Lee 17:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
• Please see my user page for jpg's I've uploaded to Wikicommons of Rocket Festival ribald images, and Nang Ai & Pah Dang, with which I do not know what to do!Lee 17:02, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Found source for Nāng Ai Phādāēng that makes it out to be significant in preserving the Isan language. Have also been busy at Yasothon Lee 14:07, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I've put a lot of work into the article, in an attempt to make it more "scholarly" (tho' I'm not one). Please check it out. Pawyilee 09:34, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on my Talk page. Here's what I replied

Thanks! Non-Wikipedian Asger Mollerup <macsida@hotmail.com>, author of Thai-Isan-Lao Phrasebook with sound tracks <www.thai-isan-lao.com>, is helping me now. We both have frustratingly slow connections at home, and have to go to town for ADSL. We also can't just drop by our local library for help. I've put (or left) in links to this refs without ever having read them:

Kammerer, Cornelia Ann and Tannenbaum, Nicola (1996) MERIT AND BLESSING: In Mainland Southeast Asian Comparative Perspective.. New Haven (Conneticut): Yale University.: Southeast Asia Studies (Monograph 45).. ISBN ISBN 0-93869261-5.

Frank H. Winter, "The `Boun Bang Fai' Rockets of Thailand and Laos: Possible Key to determining the Spread of Rocketry in the Orient," in Lloyd H. Cornett, Jr., ed., History of Rocketry and Astronautics - Proceedings of the Twentieth and Twenty-First History Symposia of the International Academy of Astronautics, AAS History Series, Vol. 15 (Univelt Inc.: San Diego, 1993), pp. 3-24.

Coedès, George (1968). The Indianized states of Southeast Asia, tr. by Susan Brown Cowing and edited by Walter F. Vella. Honolulu: East-West Center Press.

Tossa, Wajuppa (1990). Phādāēng Nāng Ai : a translation of a Thai-Isan folk epic in verse. Includes bibliographical references. London and Toronto: Bucknell University Press. ISBN 0838751393.

Gray, Paul and Ridout, Lucy. Rough Guide to Thailand. Rough Guides, 2004. ISBN 1-84353-273-5.

Can you help in that regard?Pawyilee 01:24, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

PS. The article has now grown to such a length that it needs consolidated History and Etymology paragraphs, but I'll defer to you on that. Be sure to see my comments on Talk:Sato. I'll try to get you your pix. Pawyilee 17:59, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Thai vs. Lao festival

(Thai festival - ref Thai language first) Someone else put the Lao name before the Thai; I left it that way when I rewrote the intro to break out the long-overdue Etymology and History paragraphs, as it is NOT a Thai festival, nor even Tai, but Lao. I'm not going to revert you, however, as we've wandered into a semantic jungle where we could wind up hacking each other instead of overgrowth. Strictly POV & OR, I think that the Thai regard it as a custom of ignorant Lao rubes. In Kalasin, the Putai [damned if I know how to spell that] have their own Bangfydarai บั้งไฟตราย Danger Bang Fy made of a steel pipe. A friend gave me an MPEG of one exploding about 30 m. high and starting fires on the ground from molten metal. Damned if I know how to work Bangfydarai into the present article without OR. Nor, for that matter, more conventional rocket festivals in the Shan states.

More OR-POV: Thai ไทย is a 2-syllable word, the second of which has been elided. Sethaputra gives only one example where ย is pronounced: Thaiyathan ไทยทาน offerings, gifts, charity, Synonym Than ทาน, which begs the question of what the middle syllable means. (But it does remind me of Greeks bearing gifts.) He says Tai ไท, ไท้ means a lord, a boss; Penthai เป็นไท to be a a lord or a boss. Ayutthaya has a hotel named ไทยไท which the owner told me meant "We Thai." As for the word Lao, it is so similar to a host of words with tone, vowel and consonantal variations (lao, rao, how) that I think its underlying meaning is "us." Pawyilee (talk) 05:25, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Comments on PawYiLee's talk page

Comments on Talk:Rocket_Festival#Intro

Thanks

Thank you for your great help in the NASCAR Wikiproject. I had meant to make a list of NASCAR winners nearly a year ago, but never got around to it. Thank you for your great work! Casey14 17:04, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

thai food links

I added back in the aharnthai link as i believe it to be a good resource and doesn't have any commercial stuff on there. Please let me know if you think this is incorrect. Keep up the good work Rakaom 06:42, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

response left on Rakaom's talk page:

Rakaom,

I noticed the return of the link Aharnthai - Thai Food Videos, Pictures and Recipes. Naturally, I took a look at the pages, and while I enjoyed them, and found some interesting stuff there, I don't think it really belongs in this article on the Cuisine of Thailand. However, I won't remove it. To avoid the back-and-forth with you, I'll leave it to the concensus of other contributors to the Cuisine of Thailand article. - Thaimoss 13:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Request for Semi protect on Thailand article

March 27, 2007 - All three edits were vandalism by ip addresses

           13:55 Thailand‎ (6 changes) . . (0) . . (Page history) [124.120.95.100‎; Maurog‎; Ahoerstemeier‎; Alan Rockefeller‎; 202.191.107.93‎ (2×)]
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March 26, 2007 - All four edits were vandalism by ip addresses

     13:30 Thailand‎ (8 changes) . . (+34) . . (Page history) [58.8.98.190‎; 202.191.107.172‎; Ocatecir‎; Ahoerstemeier‎; Moreschi‎; Majorly‎; 61.7.138.190‎ (2×)]
        m   13:30 (cur; last) . . (+1,586) . . Majorly (Talk | contribs) (Reverted edits by 61.7.138.190 (talk) to last version by Moreschi)
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        m   05:59 (cur; last) . . (+3,261) . . Ocatecir (Talk | contribs) (Reverted 1 edit by 202.191.107.172 identified as vandalism to last revision by Alan Rockefeller. using TW)
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Discussion on Ahoerstemeier talk page: Stop the madness - Thailand

Ahoerstemeier, where do I go to open for discussion, request, recommend, what-have-you a restriction on that Thailand article. You and a couple others are forever undoing vanadlism by ip addresses. What is the proper approach to pursue having edit of the Thailand article restricted to account-holding users? Seems like a never-ending battle, and every single case I've noted has been anonymous (ip). Or, am I making too much of it? - Thaimoss 00:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Thailand is a relatively popular target for stupid vandalism, but it's usually fixed very fast as well as there are a lot who monitor that article. I don't know if the amount of vandalism is high enough for a semi-protection, but you can always go to Wikipedia:Requests for protection and add it there. I normally only use my admin-rights to do semi-protection (or full protection) when an article is targeted several times within one hour, not for about one or two a day. andy 11:18, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

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Tuskegee Airmen

Signaleer, Provided citation. Fact-stranger-than-fiction... the March 1945 article is cited as the source of the legend of the Tuskegee Airmen not having lost any bombers, and (as reported in the current Air Force assessment) is the same date that some bombers actually were lost. The amazing coincidence, to me, is that there were only a handful of dates, like 5, out of the many missions they flew (the AF report contains a list, and the articles cite them) where any were lost. That an article headlining "no losses" would appear on one of those days is pretty amazing. - Thaimoss 21:53, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Not citing valid information will result in it being removed from the article. -Signaleer 21:56, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey Signal, I think I'm missing your point. The information was solid, and references within the article pointed to the sources from which the information I entered was drawn. Yeah, I could have provided an explicit citation for the information I inserted in the "facts and trivia" section, and after you pointed it out, I did. Is there something else you're taking exception with? - Thaimoss 22:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Barge-Major-Procession.jpg

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Tagged, and described. - Thaimoss 23:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Louis Vuitton Cup 2007

Noticed your edit which changed the sequence of the article to run backwards from the final. The books which will get published reporting this event will not report the events in reverse chronological sequence. It is illogical way to document sequential linked events. Would we write an article on a boxing event starting at round 15? etc etc Please see the 'discussion' page of the Louis Vuitton Cup 2007 and update us on your reasoning. Thanks Boatman 14:02, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Peru

Hello, nice to see there are people watching the article. Thanks for the compliments, though I can't take credit for the map, it was made by Eric Bronder who did a great job. About the list, I was so happy with the map that I thought a list was no longer needed. However, as you say, it seems useful to have both of them. I'll put the list back. Greetings, --Victor12 03:39, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Phadaeng & Nang Ai

I have found (and rougly translated) an abbreviated account of the legend [1]; and a summary[[2]. I posted a summary already to Nong Han Lake, but don't know what to do with the translations, which I have in Word.doc format. Pawyilee 14:42, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I had to revise the section to remove nonsense and add Phangkhi. It's a lot shorter now, but I think it is more 'encyclopedic.' Pawyilee 17:08, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Re:NASCAR Criticism

It's no problem. --Michael Greiner 00:36, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 27 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 2007 WD5, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Maxim_(talk) 14:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Bio in Thai

Hi, thanks. I've just put that article up for speedy deletion as a non-notable biography. By the way, I was just looking at your user page and I noticed you have some flags of American states you've visited. It looks like you've accidentally put the flag for Georgia, the country in the Caucasus, rather than the flag of the US state (which is available here [3]). Hope you don't mind me pointing that out. Cheers. --Folantin (talk) 18:12, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

อุษา ดุลนิมิตร

Thanks. Someone has already deleted the article. Cbdorsett (talk) 10:51, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of NASCAR Criticism

An article that you have been involved in editing, NASCAR Criticism, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NASCAR Criticism. Thank you. Sawblade05 ^{(talk to me | my wiki life)} 22:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

RE: International School Bangkok

Thaimoss, I agree with your points, but the operational changes cannot be cited, nor can Rashima's cocaine results, as the administration have tried to downplay the strong concentration of drinking and drug use among students. I understand that such issues are present at many schools, but in the last two years, these problems have become more and more frequent and prevalent, and I cite Rashima as a evidence of what the current administration is doing. I understand the need for NPOV and I just wanted to bring up some of the issues and concerns of parents and students of the school. The 7-11 hours have changed because although the store is outside Nichada, it's still in walking distance/motorcycle distance from the houses in the area. I have proof that these hours changed due to the amount of liquor being sold, but unfortunately, none of this can be cited. For reference, Rashima was cited during her senior year last year, while she was valedictorian. Her position was taken away, but then given back not soon after, for reasons beyond my understanding. FOr now, I have taken the section out, until anyone else can find substantial backing to my information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enchinda9 (talk • contribs) 18:46, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Thai baht

I made some changes to Thai baht I wish you would check out. Also, the present article has a remark#4 Many commemorative 10-baht coins have been made for special events. None are shown, but I have gathered nine from change and had them scanned today. I got one of them in the row upside down, so will have to cut-and-paste to get individual images if I can't figure out how to turn that one around. That would be a lot of work if they're fair-use-rationaled into limbo. Pawyilee (talk) 14:25, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand

Hi there!!! You are welcome to join the new WikiProject Thailand, please sign in. We need as many editors from Thailand as possible!!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:32, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

FAR on Isan

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