User talk:Khoikhoi/Archived

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Sources for the correct translation of Great Romanain Party

Please read the talk page before doing reverts. I already pointed my sources there, including a link to the Romanian Parliament website. Additionally, since I am a Romanian native speaker I am myself able to confirm the correct translation and meaning. -Paul- 08:33, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

OTE

Please take a look at OTE article.Mustafa Akalp^TC 10:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Name of Thes/niki; Wiki Policies Question

Hi Khoikhoi. Thank you for your attention to the Thessaloniki name issue here. I am a bit put off by discussion that seems to be mocking in tone (I guess I've just learned what wikistress is). I am also a new user. What Wiki policies should I read up on for do's and don't's? About how to handle conflict? Some of my edits are in places (not just Thessaloniki) where there seem to be real disputes. Jd2718 13:04, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Kurdish people

Hiya Khoikhoi,

I have no idea about Kurdish history, but this pattern of people introducing unsourced, controversial edits & then being reverted doesn't bode well. Not sure if/how I can help. Best regards, --Ling.Nut 13:04, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your vigilance on Kurdish people. I wanted to ask you about the language of your poem. I know it isn't Vlach, it's much closer to Spanish, and you say it's from Bulgaria--Is it Ladino? --Anthon.Eff 19:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I just wanted to let you know that my RfA was a success. Though you didn't participate directly, I appreciated your diligence in dealing with the Bonaparte sockpuppet's backhanded "support". Thanks!

— Saxifrage

User:Marktheprices

You might want to give him a level 4 warning for his edit and previous edits. Just a suggestion.Diez2 22:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

The New Zealand article

Hi, Khoi. I know that you've really been around the block here, so I'll ask: Do you know anything about the New Zealand or Australia articles (i.e., disputes, trolls, editing styles, etc.)? Do you keep those or related pages on your watchlist? Have you noticed any differences in styles among editors from different regions (i.e., how do Indians compare to Turks or to Aussies or Kiwis)? Is there more "clanishness" or insularity among certain groups? Thanks. Saravask 00:25, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks anyway. Saravask 14:44, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Hephthalites

OK, I'll try. But could you please do me a favour and have a professional' and neutral look as an admin on the nonsense some users are writing in the article Hephthalites.

It's sad that you critisize us, but stay quite when leading Western scholars are insulted, and authoritative scholarly sources are dumped as "dogmatic and nationalistic".

Tājik 02:32, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

All sources are given in the article. The dispute is about the uncivilized manner of a few users who constantly remove other sources than those that only support their view. The Encyclopaedia Iranica and the Encyclopaedia of Islam are insulted as being dogmatic and nationalistic, and leading scholars, such as Prof. Frye, Prof. Enoki (THE leading expert on the Hephthalites), and Prof. A.D.H. Bivar (author of the article Hephthalites in Iranica) are dumped as Persian nationalists. THIS is hillarious.

Britannica does not give any information about the origin of the Hephthalites, the Columbia Encyclopaedia claims that they were "either Turkic or Tibetian". However, these two articles are not written by experts. The most authoritative works, meaning Enoki's "On the origins of the Hephthalites" (1955) and Frye's "The Heritage of Central Asia", describe the Hephthalites as an ethnically mixed confederation, ruled by an Iranian-speaking elite. The same information is given in Iranica and Encyclopaedia of Islam.

The mentioned users, however, delete all of these sources and simply copy and paste paragraphs from Britannica and CE into the article, further claiming that Enoki (a Japanese professor), Frye (an American professor), and the entire EI and EIr are dogmatic and Persian nationalistic. Just check his last edit.

Tājik 02:45, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

what???

what's going on? why did you rv? SosoMK 02:43, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I mean he does not discuss anything on the talk page and his argument has been crushed 24 hours ago. SosoMK 02:52, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I am still wondering why are you involved in ninja fighting against Georgia and Georgians, do you have some personal reasons against the country? SosoMK 02:52, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I bet you, shortly mikka, ghirla & Co are gonna show up and start making derogatory ethnic prejudices and they will probably be supported by you and then consensus: Authority Rule with No Legitimacy and Justice. SosoMK 02:58, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I guess you think that Georgians are evil people, who contriuted Stalin and Beria to the world, but even Stalin nor Beria did not do anything wrong to Hungary, Israel or the United States, so you attitude really makes me to feel mystified. SosoMK 03:03, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, you wonna war? Yoy want to piss me off. If you want to declare a war, you will get it. SosoMK 03:09, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I am Tony Montana :) SosoMK 03:10, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

You need people like me on wiki, say hello to the bad guy SosoMK 03:16, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Yoruba language

If you aren't too busy, can you look at the external links section of Yoruba language. I keep taking out what appear to be political propaganda links (which may include some language classes). Am I right to do so? Thanks--Ling.Nut 06:43, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

YOU NONSENSE IS NOT RELEVENT, ROSKAM IS THE WINNER OF THE 6th ...I LIVE THERE YOU Don't read and stay out..

ABC, CBS, FOX, TV...

Pekmez

Can you check the recent changes on Pekmez article? Pekmez Kola stuff was put there and now page looks awful in my opinion. I will discuss with author of the changes but first I want to hear your comments.Ugur Olgun 19:43, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

An interesting fact of life

Hi. If you remember the incidents on Talk:Mircea Eliade and Talk:Islam in Romania: User:Timor Stultorum is currently "replaced" by User:Timur Stultorum... And User:Azotlichid appears to be their twin brother... Dahn 20:11, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi and thanks for the reply. It appears that a reply of his on User talk:PelleSmith ("One more thing, PelleSmith: being myself a Romanian, I think of having a quite good understanding of that sort of compatriots like dahn: consciously or not, they interpret perfect urbanity like yours as a sign of weakness. Look at the way dahn is rushing you on the Eliade matter.") is similar to the insults on my page. It also looks to me like they have the same way of constructing a phrase. I'll see about running it through the system, and thanks for the suggestion. Dahn 13:46, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Opinion please

I've formulated a proposal and need to know what other people think about it. See User:NikoSilver/Disputed regions - Summary style (and click talk for your comments). The proposal is a result of a lengthy debate/poll in Template talk:Countries of Europe, but it extends obviously beyond Europe, so I made a subpage before I post it in WP:VPP. Thanks. •NikoSilver• 23:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Erxnmedia's edits in Atatürk article

As you've already realized, this user tries to attach links to genocide articles without any reference or proper mention of Atatürk's involvement in the article. I left a comment on User talk:Erxnmedia, but I'm not sure he would get my point. Could you please try to take care of this issue? And he recently called the revert of his edits as "vandalism" and put the page in protected status, which I didn't even know could be done by a non-admin. I regret that I still haven't reply to your question about an anon's edits in the Turkish language infobox. I will hopefully look into the matter soon. Regards, Atilim Gunes Baydin 23:15, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Caligvla

He has now brought accusations of some sort of politically motivated conspiracy into the Armenia talk page [1]. This is just getting more ridiculous each minute. -- Augustgrahl 23:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Map

Thanks for fixing the image. Cheers.--Eupator 23:48, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I mean how are they "his maps" when they are uploaded in commons? :rolleyes--Eupator 23:53, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Placenames

Sorry, I was just about to go to bed myself. It's pretty late here. Fut.Perf. ☼ 23:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Spain

The only thing I'm trying to "prove" is that "Spain" is pertinent to articles on Spanish autonomous communities... who could refute that? Another user deleted that entry, prioritizing uniformity to pertinency...

If you find this issue "pointless", why did you delete my "pointless" change? Sure you don't think this is pointless for any reason.

Regards

Lquiroga 01:42, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello: the "standard criterion" that supports your change (a reference mentioned in the "Intro" section must not appear in "see also" section) is not met by other references in that same page (references that Asterion didn't delete, you guys don't act based on the same principles). Other prominent pages like the "United States" article don't meet this principle (please, take a look at it).

Please let me know which is the Wikipedia standard on this point, if there is any, to solve this issue.

Regards

Lquiroga 10:39, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Candaroğulları

Thank for comments. You are right. Contents of these two articles(with some small differences) app. the same. I put "Merge" tag. Regards Mustafa Akalp^TC 09:32, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Rebecca Cummings

You have previously edited the Rebbecca Cummings article. The article has been put up for deletion. I would like your unbiased input on the article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rebecca Cummings. Along with the discussion on the deletion page you can find information and discussions on this at Talk:Rebecca Cummings.

She may not be the most notable person on Wikipedia but she fits the notability criteria from the Wikipedia guideline Wikipedia:Notability (pornographic actors). Her notability is listed in her article and restated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rebecca Cummings.

Thanks for your input!--HeartThrobs 21:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Ingria

Can you explain me why other users repeatedly delete my links to other language wiki, but you tell me about blocking policy?!!--Ottorahn 22:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Persian people

See the corresponding talk page. What's your opinion about the last proposal? Jahangard 02:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Could you please take a look again (also see the article and its recent history)? It seems that nobody cares about the inconsistencies of the article. Jahangard 07:04, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Maps

You around? I think I have a solution to the edit wars on the maps...

Use the current version I uploaded, the dispute seems to be grey area not the actual location, so by removing the grey, all involved are happy. I am sure I can get David on board with this too.--MCMLXXI 02:54, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay great, glad we can agree, I'll let David know on WikiDE, I'll go ahead and change AZN and GEO too., as for me I am just a friendly wikignome ;) I use differnt names on each Wiki, spend most of my time in Commons and Simple English Wiki--MCMLXXI 03:05, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey Khoi, got a question for you. How come you uploaded both this and this? As near as I can tell, they're exactly the same thing. --InShaneee 17:12, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

That's kind of bad practice; 'duplicate' is actually a Speedy Deletion criteria. Mind getting rid of one? --InShaneee 04:35, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Armenia strawpoll

NB This poll has now closed, it being Friday 10th November and about 10.30am where I live. The numbers are as follows:

• Support 6 (although User:Hamparzoum's existence has been disputed by User:Tekleni.
• Neutral 1.
• Oppose 10.

As such, no mandate has appeared for making the requested changes to the article. As previously advertised, Caligvla and I are taking a break from this dispute for a week. After this, the case may be taken to the mediation cabal, although I hope to avoid this eventuality. Walton monarchist89 10:40, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Azadeh Moaveni again

Hi KhoiKhoi. Azadeh Moaveni's page was vandalized again. This time by a user using a similar name as yours. He was blocked too. I would suggest that we put this site under a semi-protection. What do you think about it? Shabdiz 13:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

OK, I agree. You are right, compared to some other pages and what I read here and there, this seems to be minor. Thanks.Shabdiz 15:32, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Editing protected pages

While I agree with your recent edit removing "Romanians" from the List of unrecognized countries, you might want to look at this: Wikipedia:Protection_policy#Editing_protected_pages. In essence, by editing substance in a protected article you are forcing your point of view on the majority of editors who can't edit protected pages, which generally should not be done. _└ ^OzLawyer / _talk ^┐ 18:54, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, don't be sorry—I've been tempted to do it myself. Well, I've been tempted to revert to the version I like and then protect, which is even worse. =) _└ ^OzLawyer / _talk ^┐ 19:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Tekleni 3RR violation on TRNC.

He is getting quite annoying. --A.Garnet 19:29, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Tekleni and sockpuppets

Man, that's at least three sockpuppets in a row he clearly knows we know are him. This is awfully ridiculous. _└ ^OzLawyer / _talk ^┐ 20:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Assyrian people article

...in no way can you be considered a neutral party in this dispute. You're just looking for a reason to start something with me.23:17, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Archiving

All i see is a mess! I am really not following the chronology of events! I can't follow the mess re to the archiving process!!! -- Szvest 23:29, 10 November 2006 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up ®}

The solution to that is what i did (not just being bold but Archive 5 is soooo short!). I hope it is ok now. -- Szvest 23:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

You can restart discussions. You can copy and paste them. There are a lot of ways but is it acceptable to witness an edit warring about stupid stuff? -- Szvest 23:45, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Back to my first comment then...So what was the reason of archiving a short discussion? -- Szvest 23:54, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I've just transfered the thread of this discussion to Sangorious's talk. Let's see and sort this out. -- Szvest 23:59, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Defense of Van & Van Resistance

The edit history was messed up somehow. Please give me a sec while I fix it—thanks! :-) Khoikhoi 00:15, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'm done now. Please let me know if I made any mistakes. Ciao, Khoikhoi 00:26, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Could you add the protection until the problem with user:houtom's points (deletions) will be solved.--OttomanReference 00:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

same link from Yoruba article; in Akan languages

Hi Khoikhoi,

Same link from Yoruba article; in Akan languages. Lather, rinse, repeat. --Ling.Nut 03:38, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Outerlimits

Hello my friend. This user is vandalizing two articles: LGBT rights in Iran and Human rights in Islamic Republic of Iran through "sneaky vandalism" and ignoring other peoples edits (such as one valid point raised by Gbambino). These articles are already not neutral, but the first one is the worst in terms of intentionally defaming and degrading Iran and Iranian peoples and Iranian civilization. It is a million miles away from neutral. Please do what you can to restore some sanity here. Khaili mamnoon. Khorshid 11:10, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

In fact, it is Khorshid who appears to be reverting without discussion. If there is "sneaky vandalism", it's not me who's doing it. - Outerlimits 11:53, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Aromanians

Hello Khoikhoi, first let me say thank you for supporting me in getting the sysop status. I am sorry that I wasn't able to give the list of problems in the Aromanians article, but I promise to do this till the end of the week. I was not able to do this sooner because of some health problems, but now everything's better. Thank you very much for everythign again, Dumitrachi T. Fundu Eeamoscopolecrushuva 12:30, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for the extra feathers on my wings! Thank you so much, Khoikhoi, for your support in my RfA, which passed on November 11, 2006, with a final tally of 82/0/2. I am humbled by the kind support of so many fellow Wikipedians, and I vow to continue to work and improve with the help of these new tools. Should you have any request, do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Húsönd 20:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Protected page: Iranian Azerbaijan

Hi Thanks for the welcome message. I was wondering if adminstarators can apply a POV by protecting an article on a given time. For instance, as regards "Iranian Azerbaijan" article, the arian theory about the origins of Azeris is being protected while there are other theories as well. I don't care about the racial origins but I don't like to see a POV being protected.

Its not POV. The only POV thing about it was the external links that were added under the name "South Azerbaijan" which is fictitious and an invention of the 1930's/40's of the Soviets.Khosrow II 01:12, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

User:71.162.66.250

You are very welcome. All the best, Gwernol 01:19, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. IrishGuy ^talk 01:29, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Oops

I have done it again. Please revert that illicit edit immediately, for the better of wikipedia. 87.78.158.236 02:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, where are you? Hurry up, wikipedia is taking damage from my horrible, horrible trolling! 87.78.149.79 02:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Kondovan

Please keep your eye on it in case they try to reinsert the Azerbaijan geo stub into the article. I dont know why they insist on having another countries geo stub in an article about a place in Iran. Thanks. By the way, you post some very interesting things on your User page.Khosrow II 03:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I was actually referring to Karcha, not Faouvan (which seems to be a good editor). Karcha is really being a nuisance, now he is trying to change the Rumi article, and look at the Turkish langauge page, I changed to English so that it would make more sense (before it seemed like it was saying that Greece, Bulgaria, etc... all spoke Turkish) and he reverted me... Also, o, I wasnt being sarcastic about your user page. You must do a lot of reading, where do you come across all these poems?Khosrow II 04:07, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

User talk:Borat98

I had Borat98's contribution list opened in a tab, ready to refresh in anticipation of his next vandalism...but it never came. Took me a minute to figure out why. Quick service on the block! -- Jim Douglas ^(talk) _(contribs) 05:43, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

You're abusing your privelages.

I didn't insult him. I meant that exaclty as it was worded. That was very similar to his edits. It removed Assyrian and replaced it with Aramaean. You can check his previous edits yourself. I'm going to pass this on to another admin if you continue.סרגון יוחנא 08:30, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes

Hi Khoi. Can you please have a look at the pages of User:Óðinn and User:Dimts? Their userboxes contain attacks on a living person, Mikheil Saakashvili, and violates Wiki policy on WP:USER and WP:LIVING, IMHO. I asked one of these users to express his political sympathies and antipathies without offending the President of Georgia but he refused to follow my advice. Despite politics, and the tension that is on at the moment, I think provocative and divisive actions such as those should be avoided. Thanks, Kober 09:58, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Tallarmenian tale site

Dear Khoikhoi. Can you please tell me why you think this site is racist. Can you give some examples that you find disturbing. Not for arguement I wish to learn so that maybe I can want the web master. thanksneurobio 22:58, 12 November 2006 (UTC)