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February 2008 collaboration

Again, we need more votes for our February collaboration. As of January 14, only 2 members have voted. Please do exercise your right to vote! White2020 (talk) 03:10, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Seal of Kuantan.jpg

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WikiProject Malaysia announcement

Hi there. I just want to announce that this month's collaboration will be ΦЏ Orang Asli ЏΦ. You are encouraged to participate in improving the quality of this article by however means you wish. I would suggest that our target by the end of the month would be for this article to achieve a Good Article status. Happy editing! kawaputra^torque 13:10, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

March 2008 collaboration

Hi there. We need more votes again for our March 2008 collaboration. As of February 11, only 5 members have voted. Please do exercise your right to vote! Thanks! :-) White2020 (talk) 13:20, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pramuka Garuda

Hi, can you please translate the phrase "Siaga tata" as it relates to boy scouts? I think it is some kind of cub, but the definitions in Wiktionary for "tata" seemed wrong. Leave me a message on my talk page, and I'll insert the translation where it's needed. Thanks. Cbdorsett (talk) 05:13, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fortune Global 500

Hi, I'm not sure who to contact for this, but I thought you'd interested since you're a member of the Economics WikiProject. There is an article called Fortune Global 500. This article is a copy and paste of the list of the 500 largest companies in the world by revenues published by Fortune magazine every year. Fortune magazine lists these companies by countries and cities. They list Shell as being a company from the Netherlands and not a dual company from Britain and the Netherlands (contrary to Unilever). One British Wikipedian doesn't like that and has changed the article, writting that Shell is a dual British/Dutch company, contrary to the source from Fortune magazine. I tried to explain that the article being simply a copy and paste of the Fortune Global 500 list, we have to respect their editorial choices, otherwise it's not the Global Fortune 500 list anymore, it becomes something else. Unfortunately I feel like I'm preaching in the desert, so to speak. If we start changing things from the list based on what we think is right or wrong, then why not also change EADS which Fortune magazine lists as a Dutch company (because it is legally incorporated in the Netherlands for tax reasons), whereas in fact EADS is a Franco-German company with top management in Paris and Munich? As you can see, this could lead to endless changes to the article. I thought on Wikipedia we had to write information that matches with the sources we use. It would be nice to hear from you on this point. Keizuko (talk) 17:11, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]