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Names of Istanbul

Hi, do you think the consensus on the requested move of Etymology of Istanbul to Names of Istanbul was clear enough for you to perform it now? I think it's time to go ahead with it but I'm too lazy to write it up on WP:RM... The target has an edit history, otherwise I'd do it boldly myself. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

John Hunyadi

Why does does my addition to the John Hunyadi page keep getting deleted? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shield2 (talk • contribs) 03:03, 24 October 2006.

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Your advice

hi Khoikhoi thanks a lot for your advice. You people on Wiki are really helpful to us wet behind the ears newcomers! Spinach charm 10:11, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

A very Californian RfA thanks from Luna Santin

Thanks for your support in my not-so-recent RfA, which succeeded with a final tally of (97/4/4)! I've never been able to accept compliments gracefully, and the heavy support from this outstanding community left me at a complete loss for words -- so, a very belated thank you for all of your kind words. I have done and will continue to do the utmost to serve the community in this new capacity, wherever it may take me, and to set an example others might wish to follow in. With a little luck and a lot of advice, this may be enough. Maybe someday the enwiki admins of the future will look back and say, "Yeah, that guy was an admin." Hopefully then they don't start talking about the explosive ArbComm case I got tied into and oh what a drama that was, but we'll see, won't we? Surely some of you have seen me in action by now; with that in mind, I openly invite and welcome any feedback here or here -- help me become the best editor and sysop I can be. Again, thank you. –Luna Santin

And congratulations on your own recent adminship, as well! :) Luna Santin 19:52, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

It's great to see you as an admin -- I hope I'll see you around often. I see that your off to a (prolific) start. Take care. Saravask 19:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Very busy (like everyone else here). As for the articles--keep your eyes peeled. I don't think I can return fully until December, but I'll still "pop by" infrequently until then. Good luck with the "joys" of adminship (which I'm sure you've discovered by now--(*gag*, *cough*)). Saravask 01:20, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Re Occupation of Izmir

Hi. I saw this. I have already withdrawn the AfD (right above your comment), and filed for a merge in the article talk. Since you're an admin, maybe you could close the AfD and remove the template from the article. Then, you can express your opinion about that merge in the mother article Talk:Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)#Proposed merge. Thanks. PS. Aside from the debate, do you like the way I styled that poll? Makes it evident which option prevails, and easy to follow up with the comments below, without special formatting techniques (e.g. '#::') needed to maintain automubering while commenting! •NikoSilver• 08:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Well...I'm not really used to AfD and I'm not entirely sure how to close it. Also, even though I could withdraw my vote, I'm still not comfortable with closing it as I've been too invovled in this article. Yeah, I liked the way you styled it. What's your opinion on the article? Do you think it should be renamed, deleted, or merged? I think the topic is notable enough to merit it's own article, personally. I would support a rename, however. Khoikhoi 18:26, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I understand, I've retracted that withdrawal anyway. My position is that any subject, if not elaborated to some extent, does not deserve being a separate article. I cannot assess if it could-would-should be worthy or not, I just see that it presently isn't. There are only 5 lines of unique content in Occupation of Izmir#Occupation and the rest is repetition of background and aftermath to justify existence! So, my opinion is merge and delete. Whoever wants to keep it alive, should work more on expanding it and less on debating. •NikoSilver• 19:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I guess I see what you're saying. You agree, however, that the subject istelf is notable—right? Khoikhoi 01:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

For the moment, I have no data to support notability. I would like to contribute in exploring ways of expanding it, but I am too busy these days. Other than that, Richard's proposal for "Greek capture of Smyrna and Turkish re-capture of Smyrna" (here) does not sound so bad (actually Hectorian had pointed it out too in his AfD comments). Provided there is content in the first place though... •NikoSilver• 09:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Edit wars

There are edit wars at Arabs of Khuzestan, Khaz'al Khan, and History of the name Azerbaijan. Anything you can do to help is good. Thanks! The Kurdish people article is also still a mess. Khorshid 17:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Also the anon on Arabs of Khuzestan and Khaz'al Khan is User:Ahwaz who has been banned several times. Khorshid 17:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I request a check IP to proove that I am not who this user is accusing me of. It is wrong to make such baseless accusations. The issue of Arabs of Khuzestan and Khaz'al Khan is interesting. On the Arabs of Khuzestan article, Korshid et al want to delete content because they claim the referenced author breaches verifiability. Yet on the Khaz'al Khan article, they want to retain a fairly strong statement accusing the man of murder and despotism, but without any referencing. The most interesting aspect of this is that the writer they object to and Khaz'al Khan are/were both Iranian Arabs. I would be interested in your advice on how to ensure consistency in editorial standards.--88.110.190.21 18:17, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Assyrian music

Hey their bro, can you please keep an eye on Assyrian music? This user 'alonzo' keeps trying to promote artists by adding all these links. Please stop him from editing that page. Chaldean 23:20, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for looking out on the Assyrian music page. I see its keeping you busy :D Chaldean 04:11, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Armenian Genocide

For the sake of limiting the vandalism, can you semi-protect?--MarshallBagramyan 23:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I understand about the activity in that vandals do not always automatically revert back but how much more must we keep up with reverting things like these [1] and these [2] by new/anon users?--MarshallBagramyan 23:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Arabs of Khuzestan

Please have a look. Some anonomous user's are tyring to use Bani Torof as a source, and he is very very unreliable. He is neither a historian nor an acadamian, he is an Iranian Arab writer and journalist. Bani Torof also claims that Arabs lived in Iran before the Aryans came, and that basically the Elamites were Arab. If this isnt historical revisionism and propaganda, then I dont know what is.Khosrow II 03:32, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes and please also look at Khaz'al Khan. There is a list of references there and it looks like the whole articles uses them but the anon keeps vandalizing and trying to censor the article to make the dictator look good. Please also archive this page, its too long. Thanks. Khorshid 03:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

You speak Persian? You surprise me everyday :)70.225.173.18 00:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Yea thats me. Sorry about that. So where'd you learn?Khosrow II 01:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Its a pretty easy language to learn. Ask me if you want to know any phrases or anything.Khosrow II 02:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Please accept my thanks for your support in my successful RfA, which I was gratified to learn passed without opposition on October 25, 2006. I am looking forward to serving as an administrator and hope that I prove worthy of your trust. With my best wishes, --MCB 06:52, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

thanks!

Thank you for your appreciation of my humble contribution to the project. Don Alessandro 15:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Bonny alert

Please check the log of new user names and this edit (as well as the previous ones on this page). --Ghirla ^-трёп- 15:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Snle?

Hi there, Do you know when we'll get an answer to our check-user request on Snle? It's been a while since we submitted it and it would be good to have this done before the weekend. Judging by his past behavior, he usually starts making a fuss on Saturday mornings...--Niohe 15:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

So far use azakhs did only useful things. He even deleted correctly the map from Han Chinese: it was self-drawn poor quality and erroneous (or, say, non-verifiasble, since it differed from claimed source in some nontrivial detail). Azakhs added a CIA detailed map in some other place, so "assuming good faith" I guess here he wanted to replace bad by good one, but forgot. I replaced myself. `'mikkanarxi 18:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Npa3 tag placed for user Mikkalai

Hi Khoikhoi,

I have placed an Npa3 tag at the user page [3], because, in addition to reverting and refusing to give any explanation, he threatens. It is very hard to contribute in a hostile environment.

I would like to add that I did and still have some disagrements with the user Irpen, who has also been reverting my edits. But with Irpen, I was able to work compromizes on about 50% of issues. Also Irpen has never used threats. So, although I disagree with some of Irpen's edits, and think they are biased, it is apparently possible to keep an "academic" dispute with him.

Cheers:Dc76 17:16, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, cheers from our common good friend. I am just waiting for more evidence. `'mikkanarxi 17:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Mikkalai has errased my npa3 tag without saying a word. I have discovered also that he has completely errased another page that I started: Northern Maramureş. This is the 5th case. I did revert this one, but not the other 4: Romanophobia, Budjak, Bolohoveni, and Battle of Vorskla. By all means, this is a personal attack. Why some users are civilized and talk, like Irpen (even when they have bised POV, it is still possible to talk with them)while others like Mikkalai are so agressive and intimidating? :Dc76 17:44, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Obviously this person does not know what he is translating from romanian text. His Northern Maramureş article is not about N.Maramures. `'mikkanarxi 18:19, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Who are you, are you Mikkalai or Khoikhoi? The text that was in Northern Maramureş is only the beggining of the article. Why does Mikkalai not wait for the whole article, and then constuctively copy-edit? I don't claim the article is 5-star, but that's why wikipedia exists. Help if you can! The problem however is not about the text. I have had disagreements with other people and was able to work out with every person.

• Mikkalai personally attacks me. This is my problem.:Dc76 18:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Khoikhoi, and thank you very mcuh for stepping in. In the recent history of my user talk page I found this comment by 203.160.1.52 :

Salut! Vei avea probleme cu Mikkalai din moment ce el crede ca tu esti User:Bonaparte, take care he will try to hount you and block you since he has a hatred towards romanians, that's why he was blocked for his anti-romanian attitudes..cheers :)

I will translate the parts in Romanian:

Hi! You will have problems with Mikkalai since he believes that you are User:Bonaparte...

I would like to state clearly that I am not user Bonaparte, and that I have never had an account on wikipedia before september 2006. I have editted other pages before, as I have told you, and they were signed by the system automatically with the 4 numbers. I needed an account when I wanted to upload a picture. I never engaged in any edit war.:Dc76 19:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Reverts

Isn't that a bit like an ad hominem vendetta? Why do we have articles for Koreans in China and Italian Americans but not Kazakhs in China? Your fervor (and the constant lack of edit summaries or use of "discussion") just doesn't ring true to me. Badagnani 05:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

For example, why would you change the Yi people wikilink on the CEG template to Yi, which is a dab page? That just doesn't make sense, unless you are letting your emotions get to you and editing too quickly, without thinking and careful consideration. Sorry to bring up these points, but I feel I have to, because now I have to go there and clean up when I shouldn't have to do that. Badagnani 05:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA that I have passed with 73/2/1.--Jusjih 10:00, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Greeks in Armenia

Hi. I noticed the article now. I also made some minor fixes. Hectorian 11:44, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

You might want to check...

...this. •NikoSilver• 12:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

On second thought, check WP:AN first and User:Tony Sidaway's talk (recently archived). •NikoSilver• 13:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

al-Farabi

An anon IP is vandalizing the al-Farabi page. Please have a look at it. Tājik 14:52, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Faridoun

I cannot find link to Persian king, Faridoun. May be it is spelled differently. Siddiqui 16:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. I was not very clear. I am wikifying Gakhars a Persian tribe that setlled in Pakistan long time ago. They claim to have setlled during the time of Persian emperor Faridoun. I have heard and and read this name in Urdu many times. It may be spelled differently in English by Iranians. Can you also please review related page Kayani it seems to have too much copy righted material.

Siddiqui 13:11, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Please check your e-mail. --Mardavich 18:11, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Vasile Luca

Hi. The info on his birthplace was found in his autobiography (see the references section). The search problems you encoutered were due to two different facts:

• there is an unusual problem with the â in Romanian spellings; even though it is generally considered proper to spell stuff with an â, many sources still use the old î (when diacritics are discarded - they shouldn't be, but they are -, this turns to i; also, while a google search for "Sincatolna" will also automatically yuield links to the diacritic version, the diacritic version will not yield links to the improper but widespread non-diacritic) - see Romanian alphabet for more details on why spelling in my language is still problematic;
• sources dealing with various topics in Romania are usually way less careful than they ought to be, and especially so when dealing with sbjects considered "irrelevant"; the link between Luca and his place of birth is not apparently as interesting as criticizing or outright cursing Luca (sites involved in the latter activities outnumber more neutral ones 2 to 1).

We have still not established a clear policy on what language Transylvanian names ought to be given in. If you think that, given his DOB, the Hungarian name is more appropriate, I suggest either "masking" the Romanian link ("Romanian name|Hungarian name" - since the article for the former is likely to appear before a Hun. redirect) or providing the Romanian name in parantheses after the Hun. name, and linking the former (as we did elsewhere). Your call, and thanks for taking an interest. Dahn 19:37, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

If the person spent most of his life in country A, and was born on the territory of the country A, 1) when that territory was under country B, or, 2) the territory does not longer belongs to A, but the person moved to country A, did not stay with the territory, then his place of birth is to be written in the language of country A, and a remark added about B.

For example, Emil Constantinescu was born in Tighina, Romania, which now is a city in Moldova

Another example, someone born in 1960 in Kiev was born in Ukarine, which at that time was in USSR

similar Chisinau, Moldova. You never say the person was born in USSR, but in Moldova, Ukraine, Estonia, etc

Iuliu Maniu was born in the county of Salaj in Romania, when that was part of Austria-Hungary. Even though Maniu was first an Austian-Hungarian politician, and then a Romanian one

They even write Herman Oberth was born in Sighisoara, Romania. Even though Sighisoara at that point was in Austria-Hungary, and Oberth has worked in Romania, Germany and USA.

In your case, the logical formulation is Vasile Luca was born in romanian name,which at the time of his birth was called hungarian hame,and was part of Austria-Hungary.:Dc76 20:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

See what I mean on Talk:Gdansk/Vote. Dahn 19:43, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Trudelstein

Inconclusive, sorry. Jayjg ^(talk) 20:07, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Weird edits to Qianlong

I just want to alert your attention to the fact that 108059 (talk · contribs) is editing the contents of several articles related to the Qing dynasty, changing a number of names to non-standard forms. See for instance this diff from Qianlong. I've tried to communicate with him/her about this, but he/she doesn't respond and I'm getting a bit fed up. Please advice.--Niohe 20:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

vote-spamming at Talk:Jogaila

Could you give an eye at what is happening at the RM vote at Talk:Jogaila? A new Russian-Polish war appears to have erupted, and, what's worse, blatant vote spamming, like that done by the Polish editor User:Truthseeker 85.5. Ciao, --Aldux 22:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I understand, don't worry. Anyways, there are already a couple of admins surveying the talk, so maybe my request was a bit rash.--Aldux 09:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Re:Artvin

Sure! -- Clevelander 23:15, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Bonny socks

Hi, Khoikhoi, three Bonnysocks you blocked for one week appeares to be open proxies:

• 202.75.7.187, 125.244.243.66 - see http://www.anonymitychecker.com/page1.html
• 201.37.98.40 - http://www.ahbl.org/tools/lookup.php?ip=201.37.98.40

You may consider to block them permanently or report to the project "Open Proxy" Alex Bakharev 00:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

THx

Thanks man for unblocking me i'll be ok. Cheers, Arthur 28 October 2006

WC

See [4] It is a strange user. Has not even existed for a week. But appears skilled in administrative procedures. Votes for adminships. Wants to mediate. Especially see the first two (just 2) days of the activity of this user [5]. New users are usually not so combative. - Pernambuco 06:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Reply

Hi Khoikoi, i would suggest rename and rewrite. The massacres seem notable and verifiable from the sources he has provided, but attributing it to a genocide seems like original research. Thanks, --A.Garnet 12:49, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Khoikoi, please check your e-mail. --Mardavich 00:55, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Bonaparte is appealing his community ban.

Please see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Appeal by Bonaparte. I am letting you know in case you wish to comment on this. Jesse Viviano 06:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

False. I'm sure 100% that is you coi that tries to impersonates Bonaparte. I don't care about that account. We are free to edit Wikipedia...

ok Mr. highschool Putnam, how many new articles have you made? or how many languages do you speak? you're waisting your time..get a new hobby..

take Mr. Bon as model for you, and stop using socks to attack him. it is you that you use socks. I know it.

March Days

Khoi,

Have you seen the March Days article? Without anyone's consent, User:Baku87 added POV information from sources such as Justin McCarthy and the Azerbaijani media then he reverted the article's name to "March Massacre," a name not used by any credible historian but only by the media of Azerbaijan. The name "March Days," however, has been used by several historians to describe these events. Although I reverted all of his recent edits to the article, I am unable revert the name so perhaps you could do that for me (since only admins have the ability to fix a situation like this). Also be sure to remove the redirect "March Massacre" after you've fixed the article's title and place the article on your watch list.

Thanks in advance! Kindest regards, Clevelander 12:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Did you get my note? -- Clevelander 20:21, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I was too quick to act. Sorry. -- Clevelander 00:12, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Alright, I've moved it back now. Could you please delete the redirect "March Massacre?" Afterwhich, I will start a discussion on the talk page about it. Regards, Clevelander 00:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Check out my argument on the "March Days" article. Would that work? -- Clevelander 00:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Baklava

Please take a look at the latest in Baklava/Talk:Baklava. Thanks, -s --Macrakis 17:11, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Azadeh Moaveni

Thanks very much for keeping an eye on my page. A friend alerted me to lots of sometimes odd activity on the page about me. The person using Amoaveni as his/her username is not me, and I consider the use of this username for editing this page misleading and problematic, especially given the vandalism that has been involved. I would appreciate it if this username could be blocked or returned to me. Thanks again for any help you might be able to offer. You can leave messages for me on Shabdiz's talk page. Shabdiz 18:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Ba Dorood-e Faravan. Thank you very much for the quick action. Appreciated. I will let her know and will also take a look at the other users who messed up her page. User Amoaveni specifically messed up with Azadeh's biography and the page of her book. Nowhere else. We may eventually need to protect the book page too. I will get back in touch with you if necessary. Shabdiz 07:29, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I have checked and all the following users have messed up Azadeh's page only, no other contribution: User:Ayatolla, User:AbanaQuilani, User:MustarraQuilani, User:SibaSiba. I assume it is all the same person using different usernames. The user User:Suckstobeyou seems to be OK. Thanks again. Shabdiz 07:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks. Shabdiz 09:06, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I thought you had blocked that one already. I have created requests for the others. Or should I create just one request for amoaveni and list all the others under that one request. I guess this is what I needed to do. Sorry. Shabdiz 09:20, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I corrected it already. Thanks for the help. Shabdiz 09:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

No, not at all. Many thanks. Shabdiz 09:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Feedback on Luca

Hi. I agree with your point on the spelling (although I do not know if the same criteria can be applied in every instance of pre-1918 mentions). Tell me if like the current form. Dahn 20:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Afghanistan

Hi Khoikhoi,

I think it's the best thing to protect the page for a while. User:NisarKand is flooding the page with nonsense, POV (claiming that all dynasties in history that lived in what is now "Afghanistan" are to be considered "Afghans", including the Ghaznavids or Seljuqs), Pashtun nationalism, and vandalism. He has several times deleted authoritative sources (i.e. the Encyclopaedia Iranica or the reliable Oxford University translation of the Baburnama).

I have reverted his most recent 20+ POV edits and vandalism: [6]. Please protect the page in this version. Thx.

Tājik 22:15, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Re infobox on Zile - thanks!

That explains why the information was turning up in all the wrong places. Thanks! Mattisse(talk) 00:26, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Transnistria

VoABot II

What did just happened on the article Transnistria? Is there a limit on the number of dayly edits for this article? I just thought to clear it a bit, so that William and Alex can concentrate their "war" on more "serious" stuff. :):):) They fight about names (which is ridiculous to me, because it is possible to state all used names, and end the issue) and don't see that their sentances are alternatively in the present and past, making it very funny article, and consequently unserious.:Dc76 00:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Can you please check

...that malakia here? •NikoSilver• 01:17, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

...and I think someone decided she misses us here. •NikoSilver• 01:20, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

OK

OK I won't make another edit to that article but why don't you alert Khosrow II as well? Is it because he's/she's a registered user? :). --24.211.184.243 04:37, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Can you...

...semi-protect Portal:Armenia/Armenia-related Wikipedia notice board. Someone (most likely User:Caligvla) is sockpuppeting there.--Tekleni 08:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh - I didn't you would respond that quickly :-) --Tekleni 08:30, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Of course. You may also want to reset Nixer's block.--Tekleni 08:45, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

If the IP can be traced to Moscow and is not an open proxy, then it is likely Nixer. Also, I really got to go now.--Tekleni 08:52, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

--- Saluton, Bogdan's house (Bogdan estas persona nomo), hungare Bogdánháza, germane Bogenhaus aux Bogeschdorf (bogesxdorf), la domo de Bogdan Stârc is a kind of bird with long beak. 12, 30 Okt. 2006 (UTC) Vikipediisto:Zetey

Another "can you?"

Hi, khoi khoi. I would be very happy if we could have your input / moderation to the discussion about the new Turkey location map started on Talk:Turkey. Please accept my congratulations with your adminship by the way. Atilim Gunes Baydin 15:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Ottoman Turkish is different from Turkish

Please don't restore the changes I did on Turkish. see: [[7]] is Historical —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.104.55.241 (talk • contribs) 16:20, 30 October 2006.

More from our intellectual peers

Check out this gem. Dahn 21:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

congratulations

Hi, Khoikhoi. I learned that you're adminship was approved. Congratulations, I had your e-mail, and appreciated too much. I already commented on the page about this but unfortunately lately. Cheers E104421 21:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Also Khoi, could you s-protect Malakas as well. An anon-pest has been engaging in promotion of his website there for the past few days.--Tekleni 22:19, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia for online losers

I am being accused of vandalizing Afghanistan's article....because the accusers are all jealous of me hahahahahahahaha. User:Tajik accuses me of vandalizing Afghanistan's article but in fact he or she is the one vandalizing the article. It wrote under the NAME section on Afghanistan's article that Afghanistan's first constitution was in 1964 and wants the world to believe this lie. Here is 1923 constitution of Afghanistan -------->link You know what?...since now I am convinced Wikipedia is all false information written by people who enjoys spreading false information to the world....I give up on editing Afghanistan's article. Afghanistan is ruled by the majority Pashtuns and the whole world is fully aware of this...so it doesn't matter what you write in the Wikipedia on Afghanistan. Wikipedia has nothing but low life losers who don't have nothing else in life but write false information...hahahahahahahaha. Shame on you all for writing false information. User:Tajik lies like an old Persian rug...nobody even bothers looking at it. User:Tajik is a racist Shia...I can easily tell by his actions...and so can everyone else. It refuses to acknowledge that Sunni population is about 90% while Shia is less than 10%. I came to make the article more proffesional and more easy to understand for people with reliable sources....but I am being prevented...so I just give up...it's not even worth doing it. I am now beginning to feel really ashamed of being someone from Afghanistan...because of people like User:Tajik. So go ahead write all the BULL you can write about Afghanistan...I give up on it...besides...not many people take Wikipedia serious and there is nothing interesting to write about Afghanistan. The fact remains that we Pashtuns rule the country with the help of Pakistan, which is equipped with 100s of nuclear bombs and very supportive of Pashtuns...hahahahahahaha NisarKand 09:32, 31 October 2006

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Orhei

Why you insist on keeping that reference at Orhei article? That reference is about the Hungarians in Moldova and it is not about the Hungarian at Orhei. And also it is a reference with a lot of mistakes about the presence of Hungarians in Moldova. For exemple it is incorrect to say that the Hungarians were subject to Hungarian kings. The historical documents say that they were subject (after 1360, of course) to the Moldavian princes (check the historical sources collectioan Documenta Romaniae Historica, series A, Moldova if you do not believe me). That is why I think that reference is not ok, beeing a partisan article (it is a propaganda problem between Romanians and Hungarians). Sorry for my English. Mihail ioniu 10:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I am the one who added the Orhei reference. The reason for that is that it provides a source for the etymology of the name of Orhei, although I agree that the site has some inadequacies. Nevertheless, I don't want to leave an unreferenced statement in, so if you can find support, please exchange that for the current ref. TSO1D 12:29, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Heathzhao

I think you can block Heathzhao for spamming, if there is any room for that. He/she has spammed before and has not been particularly communicative about it...Niohe 12:44, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Dear Khoikhoi! My amendments - at all POV, they are based on documents and the facts. POV - that was earlier because article it has been written by Azerbaijanians. Unless not POV - to write, what Susha is in " Nagorno-karabakh region of Azerbaijan "? It is the most obvious to any. Further - Armenians are presented as recent immigrants in Karabakh, and Azerbaijanians - as aboriginals though all is on the contrary, at least concerning Mountain Karabakh. Reflect, why the author of previous clause writes about nomads in Karabakh and nothing writes about farmers lived in the same place, ремесленникх, dealers? Because nomads were Azeri. The statement that in 1920 was not massacre, and "counterattack", will not be coordinated to any sources - compare that Russian write, at me is resulted. The statement, that Armenians, having attacked the first, have started to set fire to houses of Azerbaijanians - an impudent invention. I not the Armenian - can not trust me - but i am revolted with the bald lie and falsification. I apologize for bad English.Sfrandzi 16:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Snle again?

It seems that our friends is appealing his/her case now. Have a look at this:

Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#An_unfair_case

I think I will respond...--Niohe 19:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Romanian images

Unfortunately, the licensing info at commons:Image:IonAntonescu.jpg is not very helpful. Someone has pasted the Romanian version of publicity rights, which doesn't have anything to do with copyright. We'd need to know who took the photograph and when that person died in order to say that the photo is in the public domain. According to List of countries' copyright length, the author needs to be dead for seventy years (the EU standard, but no references at the list). It looks like photographs of twentieth century Romanians are going to be a challenge to get properly licensed. Jkelly 19:19, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Archiving User talk:Jkelly

Thank you for your suggestion! When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link at the top. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills. New contributors are always welcome. Jkelly 16:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I left {{sofixit}} above purely out of whimsy, but it is also true that I really don't mind people editing my userspace... anyway, I archived my talk page. Thanks for the reminder. Jkelly 18:34, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Your revert

Hi there. I think the SNLE sock puppet case is unfair. I've reported this case to the Administor Board and Jimbo Wale. Please stop deleting constructive comments or edits. User68732 21:19, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Is it ok for me to edit those controversies? People may share some similar opinions. User68732 21:28, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I see a lot of editors are bloked for editing controversial articles. It seems to me everyone will be considered a sock puppet who edit these contraversial articles. User68732 21:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, if the reason for you to decide whether SNLE has sockpuppeted is on a shared IP address. That will be wrong, because many of the accused editors don't share any similarities at all.User68732 21:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: "enthusiatic followers"

Would you be able to show me some examples? If it's an anon it's most likely Bonaparte, which would therefore give me the right to block him. Khoikhoi 06:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

No, they are the ones who engage in the lame edit wars on Talk on several Transnistria-related subjects (my specialty and area of expertise). They have taken to studying my contribs now. Anyway, I don't want them blocked. It is disruptive, of course, but if it gets too out of hand I think that the next step will just be an RfC or two. Hopefully it won't even come to that. - Mauco 06:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for offering. It gets tiresome to be reverted all the time, of course, but I don't think it is getting out of hand yet. I have found that the page protections have helped, but of course this is not what we should strive for here at all, since the principle is that we should be open and all should be able to edit. So I am reluctant to wish for them (and have never once requested one, myself ) - Mauco 06:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

How come Bitola doesn't have the Greek and Turkish names of the city in the head? Is it some sort of exception? Miskin 12:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

So how about adding a name section in Thessaloniki, Crete, Chios, Rhodes... and the literally countless of Greek articles which mention Turkish names right in the head? Unless of course, Bitola is some kind of exception to the rule, now is it? Miskin 15:40, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

How will two alternatives names (Greek and Turkish) make it crowded? Have you checked what's happening in Thessaloniki? I'm not falling for such an excuse. Aldux reverted me claiming "duplication of info", but in Thessaloniki too the Turkish name is well mentioned in the damn body of the article, yet no-one claimed a "duplication of information". I'm going to add those names back, and if other editors insist on removing them then I'll start removing foreign names from the heads of Greek articles too. I'm getting the impression that some certain ethnic groups get special treatement because people feel sorry for them or because they just bitch too much. I don't really care to examine the reasons, but it's a clear double-standard policy which I'm not going to tolerate. All I'm asking for is justice. Miskin 18:47, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

With such helpful attitude you'll make me regret supporting your adminship much sooner than expected. Miskin 18:54, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Dbachmann

I am sitting here with fire coming out of my ears. PLEASE put User:Dbachmann in check. Chaldean 14:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

E-mail

I don't think I got it; when did you send it? Or could you just re-send? Jayjg ^(talk) 14:55, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Ahvaz, Al-Khwarizmi

Just a second opinion, since you have been involved in this longer than me- how do we handle the Arab-persian edit war going on recently? Protecting the pages doesn't seem to help, as nobody is talking, and I know that if I unprotect they'll just keep on revert warring. Borisblue 21:24, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Again Afghanistan

LOL Take a look at this: [8] Tājik 21:42, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

BTW: could you do me a favour an correct a typing mistake in the article (the part about the language). It should be: "... the Persian language is the mother tongue of roughly 1/3 of Afghanistan's population ..." and not "... only 25% ...". It was a typing mistake, and it contradicts the numbers given in the same source (and in the article). Thx Tājik 00:06, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting vandalism from my user page. This guy is way out of line... I wonder why he/she doesn't take a break and then work on his/her cred on Wikipedia by writing some good article or sth...--Niohe 01:06, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Zhonghua Minzu

I've added a note on the question of Overseas Chinese at Talk:Zhonghua_minzu#Overseas_Chinese. Would appreciate it if you could have a look and maybe comment.

Bathrobe 03:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Proposed policy on death threats

Hey, Khoikhoi. Since you were a recipient of Cretanpride's lovely little email back in September, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new proposed policy under discussion at Wikipedia:Death threats. I've put in my two quadrantes, but I thought you'd like to know as well. See you around! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:00, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Yüksekova

Hi. There are two articles about Yüksekova (Yüksekova and Gawar) may I redirect Gawar to Yüksekova or should I use the merging procedures?.--Hattusili 08:44, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Armenia in Europe

I am a member of the AMA (Association of Members' Advocates) currently acting on behalf of User:Caligvla, who has named you as one of the participants in the dispute over whether Armenia is in Europe or Asia. Caligvla has listed a number of reference sources classifying Armenia as an Asian country. He claims that the only sources quoted by your side of the dispute are 1.) an obsecure Canadian website that places Armenia in Europe, and a BBC article that mistakenly places Armenia in Europe. Can you please respond to this and give your side of the argument (preferably on my userpage)? Under the AMA principle of audi alteram partem, you have the right to be heard. (NB Copies of this message have been placed on the talkpage of all those who Caligvla has named as participants in the dispute.) Walton monarchist89 09:24, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Assyrian people

most of my edits were straightforward cleanup of offtopic material and unsourced fanciful claims. There may of course be disputes about them, but such dispute must be firmly grounded in WP:CITE and WP:RS. dab (ᛏ) 11:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

re Karapinar

Hi Khoikhoi, sorry for the late reply - I've been quite busy the past few weeks. I dug up whatever I could about those Hungarians in Turkey and posted what I found out on Talk:Karapinar. Happy editing, KissL 11:44, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

Thank you for your support in my RfA, which passed with a final tally of (56/0/2). It was great to see so much kind support from such competent editors and administrators as commented on my RfA. I know I have much reading to do before I'll feel comfortable enough to use some of the more powerful admin tools, so I'll get right to it. Again, thanks; └ OzLawyer / talk ┐ 13:19, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your support for the future bel.wikipedia.org

Zeibeks

Dear Kars/Khoikhoi, Please check the article, especially mitological Bakhus(What is the correct spelling for that Anatolian plentiful/wine god). Roots of Zeybeks are not Thracian(there is no any evidence for that), Anatolian people.Especially,they comes from yörük and turkmen villages and some Greek villagers.They acted against unjustable applications of legal authorities.(Except some a few bandit group which they were themself-not other people-also zeybek).Very smilar history/action like as Robin Hood. Please check and correct my English also. Regards. Mustafa Akalp^TC 17:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

• There is no any source that origin is Thracian.There is self evidence regarding the geography, names etc.So to keep Tracian here without any source is not so logical. What about Bakhus, can you help?

Regards Mustafa Akalp^TC 20:21, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism of Al Andalus

New acts of vandalism in Chile. new violation 3RR. please to block, to AL ANDALUS. thanks Antarcticwik 18:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I am Atarcticwik not Chileuropide

Chileeuropide is an invention of Al Andalus, it investigates better, Al Andalus is to professional Vandal.- Antarcticwik 21:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)