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Advance health care directive

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Advance health care directive, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. 70.128.123.174 (talk) 21:04, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Credo Reference

I'm sorry to report that there were not enough accounts available for you to have one. I have you on our list though and if more become available we will notify you promptly.

We're continually working to bring resources like Credo to Wikipedia editors, and this will very hopefully not be your last opportunity to sign up for one. If you haven't already, please check out WP:HighBeam and WP:Questia, where accounts are still available. Cheers, Ocaasi 19:14, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances

Thanks for starting this article, I've expanded it and nominated at DYK. Feel free to contribute more to it, particularly before it hits the main page! (And if you do so, feel free to add yourself to the DYK nom as a co-author). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 18:14, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great your expanding it! I have added a worldmap (underlining how many african countries signed....). I might be doing some editing on the side as well... L.tak (talk) 22:11, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Flags and Same-sex marriage legislation around the world

Could you give your opinion here? Ron 1987 (talk) 12:57, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Research

Hi! I am a Ph.D student at Northwestern University's School of Communication studying the structure of collaborations around Wikipedia's coverage of breaking news events [1] for my dissertation. You played a very prominent and important role in editing Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster articles following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. I would like to ask you some more questions about how you became involved in these articles and the work you did for my research. I am happy to talk on your discussion page here, via email, or another channel if you'd prefer. I look forward to hearing from you! Best, Madcoverboy (talk) 07:49, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He Brian, Interesting topic for a PhD! Yeah, I was quite a news'y on that topic (although not(/hardly) professionally knowledgeable obout the topic. I am ok with trying to answer questions here, although we might have to find an alternative when personal info is needed (I never edit the topics in the fields that I am working on, as they could out me). I am on holidays at the moment, and internet availability is... variable ;-) L.tak (talk) 00:55, 12 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well when you're back from vacation, I would love to find a time to chat via email\IRC\skype. Madcoverboy (talk) 02:25, 13 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Takeaway.com

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Thanks for the notification; replied on your talk page (claim of notification was a bit implicit: market leadership and turnover, which should do for the -low- bar of CSD A7 L.tak (talk) 09:56, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, L.tak. You have new messages at Dodger67's talk page.
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Thanks, I replied at the humanities helpdesk; I do think now Greenland and Faroe should be included (and have found a source). L.tak (talk) 19:37, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Eurasian Patent Convention

Thanks for pointing out that the Director General of WIPO is the depositary of the Eurasian Patent Convention (Article 28 EAPC). Indeed. However, in my opinion, that does not mean that the treaty is administered by WIPO, see http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ which appears to be an exhaustive list. By analogy, the German Government is supposed to register the European Patent Convention with the Secretariat of the United Nations (Article 178(3) EPC). That does not mean that Germany or the United Nations administers the EPC. In my opinion, "administering" means more, i.e. the day-to-day management ("To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity." [2]). Cheers, --Edcolins (talk) 21:27, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

that's a valid viewpoint (which I mostly share). I do think however it is also defendable that a depositary administers a treaty, in the sense that it keeps its most important logs (accessions) and decides about that. I would argue that category membership should not be taken limitatively but if possible also a bit broader, so that people can appreciate articles that in some way group together... L.tak (talk) 21:31, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. In view of Article 77 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties [3], it seems that the functions of a depositary indeed include some sorts of "administering" tasks. Since the Director General of WIPO is the depositary of the Eurasian Patent Convention, it is fair to say that the treaty is administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (unless the Director General of WIPO is outsourcing these tasks to some U.N. personals who are not themselves employees of the WIPO). Anyway, I was relying on the list put together by the WIPO itself: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ . If the WIPO itself does not consider that they are "administering" the Eurasian Patent Convention, I was assuming that we may just rely on this... Enough hair-splitting, I won't debate this minor issue any longer. For your information: I have also created Category:Treaties of which the Director General of WIPO is the depositary‎. Cheers, --Edcolins (talk) 21:07, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Camoka4

88.240.15.118 is a confirmed sock Puffin ^{Let's talk!} 12:51, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; that's clear indeed (and a bit said as well after first making threats to make us of multiple IPs...)... L.tak (talk) 16:02, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Edit war

Apparently you are not that well versed inthe ENglish language or site guidelines. Will submit a grievance today.--XLR8TION (talk) 20:04, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead... L.tak (talk) 20:05, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Talk:Same-sex union legislation#Article still has multiple, important issues

Hi, could you give your opinion? Ron 1987 (talk) 10:25, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]