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MIT

This is completely off-topic but do you know about MIT OpenCourseWare? Basically, you can take MIT lectures without paying ridiculously high tuition at home. It's very nice. -- Taku 00:02, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Japan election chart

I moved the talks to the talkpage of the article and made a reply. Please pardon me for my late reply. -- Taku 23:31, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

ADSvote

Hi! I have noticed your semi-circular graphs around Wikipedia, and I wondered whether it is possible to get a copy of your ADSvote programme, to cover some regional elections. I would greatly appreciate it. --Earthquakeweather 16:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure! Just give me a day or two to find it (it's one of my eternal-beta projects) and I'll send it to you right away. If you want the source, it's LGPLed, so you can even use it in your own apps if you want. Habbit 17:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thank you, that would be fantastic. --Earthquakeweather 18:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey can you send this to me? Thanks! Matty1019@aol.com Matty

European Parliament

Hey there. Love the semicircular graphs, and just wondering if you could find time some time in the next while to knock the European Parliament one up to date. There's been a bit of shuffling of the groups since last autumn. On that note, I'd personally prefer to see the NI group bumped to the far right, considering the general tendency of its membership these days. Anyway, its not biggy, and thanks again for your work thus far. The Tom 04:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

I've updated the EP graph, but I'd like you to suggest a complete group distribution scheme Habbit 14:31, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks muchly. The EP itself sits in a L-R order, and while I haven't seen a floorplan in recent years, in one from the last term it was (from L-R) GUE-NGL, PES, Green-EFA, ELDR, EPP-ED, UEN, NI. EDD (todays ID) was in there somewhere, a small block at the outer edge of the centre between ELDR and the Greens is my hunch, but far from a strong one. The smaller groups are at the outer (upper) edges of the arc, so UEN, for instance, might in fact be completely surrounded by EPP-ED--I actually think that's the case at the moment.

I dug through a few academic papers that discussed how citizens placed parties on L-R spectrums when putting together the columns in Table of political parties in Europe by pancontinental organisation, and found that Greens and the EFA regionalists both clock out as further left and much further left, respectively, than mainline social democrats, and the parties that are in the NI pack today are overwhelmingly seen as far-right. Although some Christian Democrats in places like the Netherlands are apparently fond of describing themselves as in the centre between liberals on the right and socialists on the left, liberal=centrist seems to still largely hold up.

So with that in mind, my personal preference would be (L-R) GUE-NGL, PES, Green-EFA, ALDE, ID, EPP-ED, UEN, NI. There's no ironclad empiricism behind it, just a weighing of the placement of each group based on my sense of both of those above measures. The Tom 17:42, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I've posted the new grouping, but what do you think about this kind of images? I've just written a new graph renderer and I think they can be pretty self-descriptive (maybe more for rectangular parliaments than for the EP, which, as you said, is itself semicircular). Sorry for the legend going out of the image, it's a bug in my app I'll try to fix. Habbit 21:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

The European Parliament as of January 2007

Hey again, Habbit. Just wondering if I could get you to ADSVote up a European Parliament semicircle reflecting the group numbers when it reconvenes in two weeks or so. There'll be new Romanian and Bulgarian members, as well as a new far-right group, so things ought to move around a fair bit--numbers are here. As the formation of this new far-right group is basically going to mop up all the hard right sorts (Le Pen, Mussolini etc.) that are giving a political tilt to the NI group as of now, I'd suggest sticking in the far-right where the NI's are right now, and then wedging what's left of the NI's as close as possible to the exact centre, which I figure is going to numerically shake out as between ALDE and IND/DEM. Thanks so much. The Tom 08:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Aye, Tom's right. Would be great if you could do that! —Nightstallion (?) 12:43, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Like this one? Habbit 23:20, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Surely ID should be to the right of EDD-EP, and perhaps even to UEN. Especially since one of the largest components of ID is UKIP, which is quite far to the right, of, for example, the Conservative Party in the UK, which is on the right of the EDD-EP. BovineBeast 15:37, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

ADSVote (again)

Hi, I'm interested in obtaining a copy of your ADSVote program for some personal projects. Can you send it to me somehow (download link, e-mail, etc...)? Thanks in advance. JJE 19:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Um, why haven't you responded? JJE 19:14, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Xtremely sorry, I've been a bit absent from Wikipedia this week... About ADSVote: I can email it or put it into MegaUpload whenever you want, but since I received the first message concerning it, I've been doing quite a few changes in it, especially in areas related to its file format. As the app was only designed for my personal use, its data was saved with the .NET binary serialization formatter, which nearly tied it to a concrete version of the program (in fact, whenever I changed any class related to data, all files saved with prior versions would fail to load). I'm currently implementing an XML file format to work around this and allow users (that plural sounds well :P) to actually work with the program without worrying about what the hell developers do. Habbit 17:28, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. Please say when you've done the work on it! I'd be happy to use the old version for now though, if you're willing. JJE 18:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Any progress on this? JJE 18:18, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I'm nearly done with the damn xml format... I hope it'll be on the net in a week ^_^ Habbit 19:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, I think I'm done with ADSVote 1.1 beta 1... Just give me an email, or, if you don't want to, I'll upload it somewhere (I'm even considering SourceForge). Please, tell me anything that goes wrong and I'll do my best to fix it. Habbit 14:30, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'd prefer it if you'd upload it, but if you wish to email me my email is chaosman312@hotmail.com . Thanks! JJE 13:02, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I have a copy of this now and it is SUPERB. Well done! JJE 19:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, what can I say... Thank you! ^_^ Habbit 18:54, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

• Could you possibly send me a copy too? My address is halfthefts@googlemail.com. Thanks --Earthquakeweather 18:41, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, Gmail keeps returning me the mails to your address. Says "no such recipient". Habbit 10:54, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, that is weird, I thought for a minute that there might be a period missing or something, but no, the address is 'halfthefts@googlemail.com'. Could you send it to lunar-rose@hotmail.co.uk instead? Thank you --Earthquakeweather 17:57, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Sent. Have fun! Habbit 05:33, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

More ADSVotery

IMAO, the graphs are great. I don't know if there are other such applications, but I strongly suggest getting it out there, maybe SF, so it can be used and improved. A standardized legislative block image representation standard would be the greatest thing ever for WpA... 68.39.174.238 12:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, dammit... I have sooo many active projects. Ok, I'll post it ASAP, but I don't want ADSVote to suffer the same fate as HashSum, of which I am promising a new version since August 2005. I think I'm starting to look like Cervantes with the second part of La Galatea Habbit 16:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, whatever, but it's a cool program. You should hit the State legislatures with it ;). 68.39.174.238 23:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I hate to be the next person to bug you, but if its not much trouble I would love to get a copy of this program as well. Is it uploaded anywhere or would you send it via email? ~Rangeley (talk) 23:17, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

I have to jump on the bandwagon and ask if you wouldn't mind sharing this program with me. :D Byland 19:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Email me and I will sure share it. However you'll have to wait a bit, since I don't have a stable compiled version by now.Habbit 01:12, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey can you send this to me? Thanks! Matty1019@aol.com Matty

Could I have a copy please, patrick.mannion@gmail.com --Saint-Paddy 19:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

I'd like a copy, as well...I do a lot of work with legislative elections and always wonder how some articles have them so perfect... lockesdonkey@gmail.com Lockesdonkey 21:37, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, everyone, calm down... It's been quite long since I did anything related to this program. IIRC, I was doing an improved remake, so I'll try to put the remaining threads together and create a stable release. ETA: a week or more. Habbit 11:50, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

ADSVote + Spanish elections

Hey there -- saw ADSVote on the Spanish election page -- would love to use it for governments here in Oz

m.incerti@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au

Thanks! Australian Matt (talk) 01:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

ADS 2008

My e-mail is scottjgaspari1@sbcglobal.net and I would LOVE a copy of ADSVote! Looks phenominal! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scotters712 (talk • contribs) 14:50, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok, since I've answered to similar requests before, I've finally decided to create a SourceForge project for ADSVote and publish everything there, under free licenses. As there is no such thing as a "stable version" now (not even feature-complete, though it renders graphs, saves and loads election data), I will publish all the code through SVN for developers and a "development release" compiled binary (actually, a Java JAR file) for users. Everybody is free to comment and suggest, and even modify the program to the full content of their heart (I'd however, request fellow programmers to keep the saved data format compatible), but please don't stalk me about it. Thermodynamics already take too much time from me ¬¬.Habbit (talk) 01:04, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I cannot find it on SorceForge. I'm sorry to be a disturbance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scotters712 (talk • contribs) 01:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I've already requested the creation of the SF.net "project". However, it takes some time for it to be judged appropiate and accepted, and then some more for me to configure it and upload the files. I suppose you'll be able to download it by the weekend. Habbit (talk) 08:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok, done, first "development release" published. A lot of things are missing, but I'm facing three weeks of midterm exams right now. The "render graph" dialog box is topping my priority list, however. Feel free to send bug reports to SF.net or directly to my email (including a patch if you feel you can help). By the way, all discussion regarding ADSVote in this page might be archived soon so it does not becomes useless clutter. Habbit (talk) 01:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Prime Minister of Spain

I can see you have been introduced to User:Ivan Bogdanov. Philaweb T 19:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

"Introduced" seems to polite a word to describe someone that performs edits without leaving rationale of his huge changes and blanks his talk page when someone points it out. For now, the page has not been re-reverted, but the only thing I can think about if he does it again is MedCom. By the way, it's nice to have a comment which is _not_ about that f**** election program. Habbit (talk) 19:57, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Greetings Habbit - thanks for tidying up at this article. I added that The Economist reference specifically as an example of the use of the term "prime minister" rather than as a ref. for the election results, so if you don't object I'll move it back later. Meanwhile, things seem remarkably quiet on the "president of Spain" front :) Regards, --Technopat (talk) 17:02, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Nope, I don't mind at all, I just though it would fit better next to Mr. Zapatero's name since it describes the electoral victory of his party. However, it is also a good example of the "PM" title thingy, which gets me a bit upset sometimes: as the article states, when we refer to Mr. Brown we literally say "Prime Minister", so why doesn't the Anglophone world want to honor our titles?</rant> :D Habbit (talk) 19:31, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Greetings Habbit. Just in case you miss it on your travels, thought you might be interested in an interesting source I've just come across and posted at Talk:Prime Minister of Spain. I'll try to get round to including it as an inline citation later. Regards, --Technopat (talk) 17:47, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

ADS Vote

How do I use it? It is really confusing. 72.85.140.223 (talk) 13:44, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I have not written anything near to a manual yet, but I think the interface is pretty intuitive: set the general election parameters (including the seat apportionment to use) in the "totals" tab, then go to the "constituencies" tab and add data as needed (add a constituency, set the # of seats up and fill in the results), then return to the "totals" tab to see everything summed up. By the way, questions about ADSVote should be brought up in its SourceForge project page, maybe in "Public Forums->Help", or even by sending me an e-mail. Definitely not in my Wikipedia user page. Cheers! Habbit (talk) 14:32, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

What if an election allocates seats using a method that is not d'Hondt or Sainte-Lague? Also, wouldn't it be simpler if one could just input in the number of seats that allocated to each party/group only, without having to put in all that other info?--hello, i'm a member | talk to me! 06:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

To the first question: new proportional seat allocation methods can be added. The program is not designed to work with STV and such, tough, and I don't plan to include them in the near future because the size of changes to make would be enormous. To the second: what you want is not the full ADSVote, which is an election results analyzer/plotter, but just the plotter part. I have thought about creating a separate dialog inside the program with the interface you mention, but I don't really have a lot of time currently. Once again, this is not the place for discussing ADSVote. There are forums in its SourceForge project page. Habbit (talk) 10:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Zim Elections

Have you managed to get any further with the map at all? Mangwanani (talk) 16:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Not too far: I've been held by a lot of college assignments due for this month. Besides, I could not continue your work, because I could not devise a coherent structure: the way you did it, it won't be reusable at all (i.e. some constituencies are painted with squares hidden by other constituencies, etc.), so I started a new version with hand-drawn constituencies (as opposed to the Inkscape vectorisation approach). Last time I worked on it, I had some 3 and a half provinces done. Habbit (talk) 23:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Philippine elections

Could you make a map for the Philippine elections (legislative and parliamentary only) 03:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Of course. However, I've taken a look at the page for the last elections and they're a bit messed up, so I don't really know what should I put into the app. Thus, either you get a copy of ADSVote (thus raising the # of downloads on SourceForge ^^) or send me a "compiled" results table with the colors you want and the effective number of seats. Habbit (talk) 17:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Zimbabwe

Habbit, where exactly at the Zimbabwe Election Support Network website are the constituency maps? I can't find them.

Also, in relation to the above inquiry, Adam Carr's website has maps of the Philippines elections here [1] Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 14:50, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

WRT the Zimbabwe maps, you can find _some_ of them at Sokwanele. For the others, check the Graphic Lab archive for the Zimbabwe map discussion - the links are there. WRT the Philippines, I though the request was for a parliament graph, not constituencies map. Habbit (talk) 12:48, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Italian Senate

Can you make a map for the Italian Senate Rizalninoynapoleon (talk) 07:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean "a map for the Italian Senate"? A map of the per-constituency winner party? A parliament chart like the one available in Italian general election, 2008? Please be a bit more specific. Habbit (talk) 13:29, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Escudos

Gracias por tu mensaje en commons y la correccion de colores hecha en el escudo de San Martín, alguna vez se me escapan errorcillos como este. Sin embargo discrepo bastante de tu argumento para el retoque del creciente: esa línea es sencillamente un recurso gráfico para darle un poco más de solidez al dibujo y ayudar a que ocupe mas espacio, lo que llamamos horror vaccui(y esto sí que es una regla heraldica). No encontraras nunca en una descripcion que se indique como se tiene que dibujar una figura (si la encuentras, desconfia de quien la ha hecho), es como si me dices que la cola del leon del escudo de España es incorrecta por que lleva una linea mas o menos...Yo no hago nunca copias de modelos y al reves, creo que incluir pequeñas diferencias estilisticas ayuda a hacer entender que la heraldica es mas flexible de lo que se piensa: no es el arte del "logotipo" como si fuera el de una empresa, donde se especifica hasta el color de manera científica. En resumen, tampoco es incorrecta tu version, pero modificarla en base a lo que dices no me parece correcto y prefiero que se preserve el toque wiki. Sobre lo de las licencias, no entiendo bien lo que necesitas...en principio la que lleva es suficiente para usarla con cualquier fin. Saludos, --SanchoPanzaXXI (talk) 21:55, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Bueno, estamos todos para aprender los unos de los otros. Sobre lo de los colores heráldicos, no ha existido nunca tratadistas que describan con precision matemática los colores, y asi no hay ningun libro que diga el azul tenga que ser tal o cual RGB o Pantone. Esto no es el caso en algunas legislaciones que a golpe de decreto especifican que tal o cual color sea exactamente tal pantone, pero nuevamente, esto es un error: ya no se debe hablar de escudo heráldico sino de logotipo (y yo, no me decido al logotipo). A la hora de crear escudos, el problema del color debe abordarse desde una perspectiva mas amplia que cubra todos los colores, que permita distinguirlos y que sean agradables. Esto lo hemos resuelto en el taller tras varios estudios y por ello, los usados son los consensuados en el taller en la paleta heráldica. Los franceses de wiki usan otra paleta algo distinta ya que usan sombreados que nosotros hemos considerado que no se corresponden con la tradicion española. Tambien en la sueca usan otra paleta, que a mi gusto resulat demasiado "electrica" y artificial, pero ni la nuestra ni las suyas son paletas absolutas. No habria problema en usar un azul mas oscuro que porpones si fuera el caso, pero eso afectaría a todos los demas colores ¿has pensado en como seria el purpura entonces? Con ese tono oscuro, yo tengo dificultad para distinguirlos y casi se confunden con el acero. En resumen: yo no entraria en más modificaciones sobre "ese" archivo. Si quieres, puedes hacer otro a tu gusto, pero creo qu eya no tiene interes enciclopédico si se me permite, ya que este interes es el de primero informar y segundo, que sea de manera verificable, sistemática y coherente (por ello, los armoriales). Saludos, --SanchoPanzaXXI (talk) 17:32, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

List of Spanish monarchs

¡Hola!, me pongo en contacto contigo porque he visto tu nombre de usuario en el historial de List of Prime Ministers of Spain, a propósito de un sujeto que se dedica a toquetear las tablas del artículo sin discusión ni justificación alguna.

Para empezar, creo que los usuarios: 94.189.172.94 y Mahalios son el mismo: [2] y [3]

Además es muy curioso que Onlyonetime y 94.189.172.94 aparezcan haciendo en los mismos artículos haciendo ediciones muy contiguas y complementarias en el tiempo, como se ven en los historiales, pero con idénticas características, como en List of Ministers-President of Bavaria, donde también destroza las tablas: [4]

Recientemente, Onlyonetime ha redireccionado List of Spanish monarchs a List of heads of state of Spain, lo cual no es una barbaridad, pero lo ha hecho sin explicación alguna y sin pedir fusionar President of Spain a la página con nueva designación, pero no contento con esto, ha cogido la página de redirección List of Spanish monarchs y ha copiado en ella, el código de List of heads of state of Spain tal cual, duplicando el contenido e impidiendo así su reversión por un usuario normal, con lo que ya es patente el vandalismo del susodicho en la página.

Lo que te quería pedir es si podrías poner las peticiones y las justificaciones al checkuser y/o a los administradores para parar o paliar el claro vandalismo de este personaje de varios nombres; eso si es que controlas los vericuetos y casos específicos de la wiki inglesa, porque yo la verdad es que estoy pez en en trajineo de la esta wiki.

Atentamente. Trasamundo (talk) 17:53, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

hello

I have just noticed you have opposed me because of my Government i am working under cloak nobody can find me.it is really unfair to oppose someone because of his government --Mardetanha ^talk 18:44, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

I understand it is not just unfair, but extremely unfair to be rejected by circumstances outside your control. However, you have to recognize that, living under the government you live, there is a real, tangible possibility that you might be abducted and used by your government in order to gain access to the checkuser database (notice I'm directly excluding the possibility of you _giving_ them such data). In places like Cuba this might amount to time in jail, but in your country it might mean execution. While you could argue that the very same thing could happen in Western countries (like the Italian mafia and agencies like the CIA), the risk is orders of magnitude larger in your country. I trust any good Wikipedian would have had reserves granting such rights to a contributor from Francoist Spain, Vichy France and even the USA in the times of McCarthyism. At least I would have. Habbit (talk) 18:59, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

PD: let me stress this is not due to any kind of race/religion/whatever issues. However, and this is more one of my phyloshophical/etical idea than a Wikipedia principle, citizens under authoritarian governments need to understand that they are being literally disabled (curtailed, or maybe restrained) by their governments even if they are not actually being punished by them. Habbit (talk) 18:59, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for time and answers .though i your words are partially true.but making Wikipedia as an encyclopedia to political venue

is not acceptable i am long term wikipedian so for me it seems a bit unacceptable to oppose someone upon some theories .also we had steward from china for several years nothing happened .anyway thanks :-) --Mardetanha ^talk 19:05, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

I would have opposed such steward nomination if I had had the right to vote then. Now that I'm taking some time examining the list of candidates in this election, I notice there are two contenders from China. In keeping with the principles expressed here, I will oppose them too (and the one from Russia is really hinging razor-thin). Habbit (talk) 19:11, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Francist vs. Francoist

I will not press the matter further, but you may consider Francist, Francism and Francism_(disambiguation). Also, I don't dig pseudo-phonetical spellings like "frahnkeest'uh". Regards, Str1977 ^(talk) 09:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

You could consider Francoist and Francoism, which are older than their correlatives in your list, and also Francoist regime, Francoist repression and others. However, since Wikipedia is not a primary source, we may not use Wikipedia articles as a basis for dispute resolution in Wikipedia. My point, either you "dig" pseudo-phonetical spellings (forgive me for not being able to write IPA) or not, is that the word in question is a loan-word from Spanish, so it should be expected to sound _similar_ to the original word "franquista"/"franquismo", as it has not had been in the English language (or used often enough) to have evolved away from the original form. "Francism" does not sound similar under normal English pronunciation rules, while "Francoism" fits much better. In other words, 1.5 is an approximation to √2, but 1.41 is way closer with just one more "letter". Habbit: just shy, not antisocial - you can talk to me! 13:36, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I know that WP is not a source for WP (primary or otherwise). My point was merely that these words do exist. And I am afraid that "francist" without the "o" is a bit closer to "franquista" than "francoist" is once one gets around to pronouncing the "c" correctly. But that problem occurs in other words as well, take "ascetic", "sceptic" or "cyrillic". Str1977 ^(talk) 15:05, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, the only one of those three words that has a hard /k/ sound, sceptic, is also written skeptic in a good part of the anglophone world. If you will allow me my pseudo-phonetic spellings, "franquista" _is_ pronounced "frahnkeest'uh", while "francist" is pronunced like "franSeest" under normal rules. Furthermore, as I've seen another editor say in your talk page, the version with "o" seems to be orders of magnitude more widespread on historical literature (on which I'm no expert). Habbit: just shy, not antisocial - you can talk to me! 15:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Given the complexity of English pronunciation, there is no solid basis for the claim that "Francist" is pronounced with a central "s". Please, do not type the pseudo-phonetic spelling of "franquista" do me again. It is actually physically revolting, especially the "uh"-part.

Furthermore, that another editor says on my talk page, that "the version with "o" seems to be orders of magnitude more widespread on historical literature", is not actually true. He says nothing of the kind. Please, don't be inventive when relating facts. Str1977 ^(talk) 07:35, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to butt in on your talk page, but do I think the point needs clearing up. I must confess to being a little sceptical/sleptical of the use of the term Francist as I had never come across it before - which in itself is obviously no reason for rejecting it :), but apart from a disambiguation page set up last month, the only other uses here at Wikipedia are redirected to Spain under Franco). That said, "Francoist" is a pretty awkward term which I have never been able to use without wishing there were something else to use in its place, and I'm not sure of the nuances of "pro-Franco". If there are any non-Wikipedia sources out there, please post a link. As I pointed out on Str1977's ^(talk) page, neither my Oxford dictionary nor my Webster include the terms - which in itself is no, etc. :).

Regarding the pronunciation issue, "I don't dig" might possibly be a valid reason for not including an unreferenced item in an article, but "Sound-alike" transcriptions are perfectly acceptable in an edit summary, and even in an article, if accompanied by IPA. Very few readers of Wikipedia and/or dictionaries are familiar with IPA and Habbit's "pseudo-phoentics" are pretty good as a working pronunciation. Cheers! --Technopat (talk) 16:15, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Butting in uninvited once again, I'd just like to set the record straight: my original request for examples of the term Francist (which was and still is unknown to me) used the word "invariably" when applied to the use of the term Francoist.

Regarding the complexity of English pronunciation "rules", I would also add that the combination of "ci" as in Francist would invariably be pronounced "si" as in city, cinnamon and civility. There may be exceptions to the "rule", such as fascism, but they would probably only serve to confirm it :) Regards, --Technopat (talk) 11:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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Please read here. The policy in English wikipedia in contrast to es.wikipedia is that we don't use terrorist or extremist in an unqualified way. That means we don't say "x is a terrorist" we say "Z says that X is a terrorist" or "government Y condemned it as a "shameful terrorist attack" " and cite a source for that opinion, leaving readers to make up their own mind. Valenciano (talk) 17:38, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Request

Hello Habbit I was wondering if you would be able to create a parliament composition chart, such as you did with the Cortes Generales, for the National Assembly of Serbia? If you have time that is. All the information required is available here. Thank you in advance. Regards. (Buttons (talk) 01:05, 20 March 2010 (UTC))

Hello again Habbit, just wanted to drop by and say thanks on the great job you did! Very much appreciated. Regards. (Buttons (talk) 02:57, 23 March 2010 (UTC))

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Arch diagrams

Hi Habbit,

Inspired by ADSvote, I wrote a script to create similar diagrams as SVG. It's not nearly as sophisticated as ADSvote: it doesn't understand elections or coalitions - it just lays out dots of specified number and colours into an arch. You'll see that I distribute the dots more evenly across the arches, but very small parties get split up a bit if they're not at the end of the arch. Please take a look at User:Slashme#Parliament_diagram_tool and tell me what you think! --Slashme (talk) 08:56, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Good luck with the exams! Can one get the actual source code on the SourceForge site? I could only find the JAR. --Slashme (talk) 14:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: "What kind of "open source" project would it be if I didn't release it?" - LOL!! I guess I just didn't look closely enough. I'll check it out this week, thanks! --Slashme (talk) 08:50, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Iberia headquarters photo request

Would you mind photographing the Iberia headquarters?

They are at Calle Velázquez, 130, Madrid

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 06:58, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

File:National Assembly of Serbia.png

Hi! You created this file File:National Assembly of Serbia.png. It depicts the composition of the Parliament of Serbia. But it needs to be fixed. One PM has left the Serbian Radical Party recently, and he is now independent, so there are two independent PMs now and 56 from the Serbian Radical Party (link). Can You do it? Vanjagenije (talk) 08:35, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Results of Spanish parliamentary elections

Hello Habbit, I happened to come across a very nice graph from your hand picturing the results of the Spanish 2008 legislative elections (File:Spanish Congress of Deputies after 2008 election.png, you've also got it on your user page I believe, and indeed, it is a quite cool graph).

I was wondering if you could upload this graph (and File:Spanish Congress of Deputies before 2008 election.png aswell) to commons, so I can use them on the Dutch wikipedia. With the current licensing, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to upload it there myself, and anyhow, I should leave the honours to you I suppose. 88.0.86.203 (talk) 01:16, 29 July 2011 (UTC) (nl:Gebruiker:Netraam)