User talk:Sulmues

Awards stuff

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I have looked at your contributions and you have made many edits recently therefore you deserve the Tireless Contributor Barsntar. Well done and keep up the good work. Regards IJA (talk) 23:18, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

		The Content Creativity Barnstar
		On your contribution, creating tons of articles of quality in wikipedia. Because an encyclopedia needs real contributors with scientific knowledge. Keep up the excellent work!--74.59.88.57 (talk) 01:22, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diplomacy
		You deserve this barnstar because you got the patience I don't.74.59.88.57 (talk) 03:42, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Is this multilingualism for real?

Hi. I noticed on your userpage that you claim to have level-5 professional ability in a lot of languages in addition to native shqip. Is that for real? I mean, how is that possible? Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 06:11, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

It is possible. I have a degree in phylology and linguistics and I have started learning foreign languages since I was 5. And I can show you some people who know more than 30 languages. Or I can mention to you that Fan Noli, the biggest Albanian translator, founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church and former Prime Minister of Albania was perfectly fluent in 13 foreign languages. It is normal to encounter polyglots from small countries such as Albania: you'll find the same thing with some people from Georgia, Denmark, or the Netherlands. As a matter of fact, even Skanderbeg was known to be fluent in 6 languages, so that ain't that strange for Albanians, :-). sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 11:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Labove

Are you sure that Labove e Zappes is officially cald just Labove? What about Labova e Kryqit near Libochovo?Alexikoua (talk) 21:46, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

100% sure. I know the area pretty well. Labova=Labova e Zhapes=Labova e Madhe (=Big Labova), whereas Labova e Kryqit is a smaller village, not very far. The pretty church that you can see at the pic ([1]), is at the Labova e Kryqit. sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 21:49, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Again :)

Hi Sulmues, thanks again for your help. Your efforts are greatly appreciated and I won't forget how you stood up for me.

It may surprise you to know, but I actually view this sanction as a positive development. It gives me the excuse to step away from editing to focus my time on conducting a thorough investigation into the issues you and I brought forward in the WP discussions. My goal is to file an official request with the Arbitration Committee in the medium-term future to review the disparities currently present in country article ledes. If you are interested, you and I can work on coming up with a proposal. I believe there would be a substantial number of editors willing to help out with this task as many people share our concerns. Would you be interested in such a venture? --Monshuai (talk) 04:28, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't know if it helped. I still disagree with your topic ban as I think it's unjust. There are a lot of editors who do edit-warring 10 times more than you and get away with it. The only thing you might have been accused of is your insistence in the talk pages. This is very unusual to require a topic ban and too harsh. While I overall respect Sandstein in this decision, I think he hasted too much, but he might want to reconsider in the future. I would gently request that you hold on for some days and prepare very well to start a project of revamping the ARBCOM. I strongly feel you will have my support there. sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 14:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Task force

Congratulations for your insistence. I gave up in September because I suffered for some time as you can see from contributions. However, it would have been better to ask for other people's support. Is there any other Albanian left in wiki besides you?Aigest (talk) 12:13, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I started to heavily contribute in December because I realized there was nobody left and other people were messing up all the Albanian articles. It has been an incredible experience, but lots is left to be done. This message of yours in my talk page is the only support I have gotten from Albanian contributors in good standing so far and I warmly thank you for it. sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 13:55, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Vasil Papakristo & Viktor Eftimiu

Since Bobostice belongs to Drenove [[2]] municipality, he fits perfectly there. Vasileios is mentioned in Libohova since Labova e Kryqit belongs to this municipality. What do you thing?Alexikoua (talk) 16:45, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I think that that's fine because we don't have a Boboshtice article yet. In addition you'll find many more famous people from Labova e Kryqit in the future, so for now we can keep Vasili in Libohova, until we have a Labova e Kryqit article and then we move him to Labova e Kryqit. Btw, I want your apologies in the thread above, so that we can properly start to collaborate. sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 16:48, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I really appreciate your recent constructive initiatives.Alexikoua (talk) 22:10, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I'll take that as an apology, if you allow. A new greco-albanian friendship is born. Let's not ruin it! sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 22:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Hmmm...

Watching what I'm doing much? Ioeth (talk contribs twinkle friendly) 02:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Gotta guide properly everyone who wants to report me. --sulmues (talk) 20:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Pashalik of Yanina

Please do not continue reverting back and forth; rather, discuss this civilly on the talk page of that article. Thank you.  f o x  (formerly garden) 12:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Believe me I am trying. But I will never accept that for the History of Albania only Greek authors are used and US authors such as Chekrezi and UK authors such as James Pettifer be not used. --sulmues (talk) 13:45, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Beqir Balluku

I made some minor corrections you might want to check [3]--ObserverFromAbove (talk) 21:18, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Good edits, thanks! --sulmues (talk) 20:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Athens

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Athens. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Megistias (talk) 20:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Actually I believe that was a constructive edit. In Athens there are around 200K Albanian and Arvanite minorities, so it has to be called by the name of all the natives. --sulmues (talk) 20:07, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Your edit to Athens was a violation of WP:POINT, because you are mad about Erseka. Don't do it again. Athenean (talk) 20:08, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Actually it has nothing to do with Erseka, so you are failing to follow wp:good faith. Next time I'll reference a little better Athens' enormous community of Albanians so that it appears properly why I am stating the name of the city in Albanian. --sulmues (talk) 20:10, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Good faith? Yeah, right [4]! You fool no one. Athenean (talk) 20:14, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

We dont do things like that, if that was the case many cities in the USA would have multilingual names or double names, mostly in Spanish. But they dont. And there is nothing native about Albanians in Athens....they are immigrants like the various populations in the USA.Megistias (talk) 20:13, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Actually, in Athens the quartier Plaka is Albanian. --sulmues (talk) 22:52, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Sali Butka

I'm trying to expand the article on Sali Butka and I was wondering if you have any additional sources. So if you do please help its expansion.--ObserverFromAbove (talk) 22:20, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I think we're fine. No more sources are needed and I liked your edits. --sulmues (talk) 23:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

I moved Aoos to Vjosë, since Vjosa is the predominantly used name in English. What do you think?--ObserverFromAbove (talk) 20:58, 2 March 2010 (UTC)