User talk:Kwekubo/Archive01

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This archive page covers approximately the dates between 14 May 2003 and 13 December 2005.

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Hello there Kwekubo, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. MB 15:46 14 May 2003 (UTC)

Hi. I checked the RTÉ website and with someone I know in the press office. Both confirmed there is no fada on the radio. Strictly speaking, the radio is spelt in english in the title, apparently a cock-up when Radio Éireann was being named. My source thought it probably should be Raidió. But not Radió. FearÉIREANN 19:28 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Ha, RTÉ spell the second word wrong too, as Telefís, not Teilifís. I guess that's the way they were taught Irish in Dublin 4!

Zoney 22:44, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hello. Now, there is only one Wiktionary thas has been set up. On http://wiktionary.org there are

words in English with translation in various languages
words in other languages tthan English with translation in English.

All defintions are in English. I have seen your question on metawikipedia. I hope this help you. -- Youssefsan 19:38 28 Jun 2003 (UTC) PS: ohayoo gozaimasu is only used early in the morning. You can use Konnichiwa. -- Youssefsan 19:41 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I was reffering to http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AWiktionary -- Youssefsan 20:54 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I appreciate your concern with translation and request you pay some attention to Simple English - some parity between Simple English and Esperanto versions would be good as a base for translations - agreeing on a common en:defining vocabulary of no more than 2000 words for both would be good. This would make Wikipedia a bit less Euro-imperialistic and less likely to extinct small languages that lack all those extra big words. ;'-)

Also, m:Wikimedia press release needs your attention, and some strategy for dealing with the non-English press. Also it tends to bring to light some issues (m:systemic bias, m:The ideal Wikipedia board, m:Wikipedia3 and m:Wikipedia4) that will have to be settled eventually, preferably, before there is a public commitment to any particular position that will bind a m:board that doesn't exist yet. Please help lead this process and refine the ways that m:Wikipedia Governance evolves into a more small-g m:governance. It seems multiple attempts to make Wikipedia more balanced across languages and views have failed, and, it would be good not to miss this chance.

Could you leave a link to your page here, please, so I can contact you? -- Kwekubo

Dankon for your comments at Europanto. It's like you took the words right out of my mouth. Hopefully, we'll soon have a stable, unprotected version of the article. Ĝis! :-) --cprompt 00:25, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Press release

Please see meta:Talk:Unua gazetara komuniko#The 500,000 milestone will be reached by Monday!. It might also be a good idea to move the eo version of the press release to eo. --mav 09:43, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Slight Irish logo error

Hi - I realised just too late that encyclopedia is a feminine noun in Irish, not masculine. As such, there is a slight spelling change - the subtitle "An ciclipéid saor" should read "An chiclipéid shaor". Would there be any way you could make a corrected version? And also, just out of interest, what font is it? --Kwekubo 20:58, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Yes, it is no problem to re-make the logo. Lots of logos have had to be remade for one reason or another. The font is called Hoefler Text. It is a font that comes free with Mac OS X. --Nohat 21:35, 2004 Feb 28 (UTC)

Re: the Simpsons

If you do feel the article you listed on cleanup needs cleaning, could you help us out a little by noting a few of the errors on that article's talk page? Maybe we can hash some things out there before fiddling with the article directly. Certainly many people will think that article doesn't need "cleaning" -- it's not woefully out of shape, it just needs some tightening up. Thanks, Jwrosenzweig 04:25, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Press Release

I see you contributed to the creation of the press release. Might you be willing to follow these steps, and send off the press release? -- user:zanimum

Press Release

I see you contributed to the creation of the press release. Might you be willing to follow these steps, and send off the press release? -- user:zanimum

Star Trek: The Sealand Dominion War

Thanks. I think it's frustrating when people go and remove information from an article that helps contribute to an NPOV. (Also, I'm glad you got the style of my talk page right off the bat. It throws some people off. :-) ) -Branddobbe 00:34, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)

Stephen Hawking and Dilbert

From what I can tell, unless Hawking got a new voice sythesizer, thats not him. His voice is much too high on Dilbert to be him... But, since I haven't seen it in a while, I wouldn't know. Will have to rely on the episodes credits

Bricfeasta Éireannach

Kwekubo, tá an leathanach Irish breakfast curtha ar Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. Cur do vóta ann le do thoil. Tá duine éigin ag iarraigh Irish breakfast a scrios agus ag rá go bhfuil English breakfast amháin ceadaithe. cad a dtuigeann tú faoi seo. Sasanach míbhéasach is doigh liom.

Zoney 22:44, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Gurbh maith agat as do vóta. D'iarraigh mé cheana an réiteach a bhí agat a dhéanamh le Traditional fry-up. D'athraigh an úsáideoir 'Jooler' ar ais é! Zoney 23:59, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Notice board

There is a new notice board set up for Irish Wikipedians at User:Ludraman/Irish Wikipedians notice board. Ludraman | Talk 09:02, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Vocabulary Project

Hi there, I saw that you are interested in different languages, so I thought you might be interested in a project I am starting with some guys from here, wiktionary and wikibooks. Esperanto contributions would be more than welcome. Please check my user page and let me know what you think about it. Get-back-world-respect 16:03, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

WikiSource language domains

I was going through archived material on WikiSource, and noticed that way back in December you protested the lack of separate language domains there:

wikisource:Talk:Main_Page#Language_domains

I recently set up the first separate domain for Hebrew, because the right-to-left absolutely couldn't work in the present environment. Nevertheless, I really think it is a tragedy that language domains are prevented from being set up there. I plan to open a discussion of the issue there in the near future. If and when I do, would you be willing to participate? Dovi 04:28, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

Wikisource language domains

Hi. I would be very pleased if you would return to WikiSource (at least briefly) and take part in the discussion of the proposal for separate language domains:

wikisource:Wikisource:Scriptorium/Language_domain_proposal Dovi 17:44, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)

Irish wikipedians' notice board

Hi there, I'm not sure if you know about it, or if anyone has previously mentioned it to you, but the notice board has been moved to Irish wikipedians' notice board and is quite active. Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Irish wikipedians' notice board. zoney ♣ talk 23:54, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

It is looking fairly positive that a GFDL 2.0 will be more CC-by-sa friendly, but I don't know that it will be compatible because these licenses are only compatible with themselves. I hope you know that I'm not trying to change Wikipedia's license. I am only trying to make Wikipedia content available under the GFDL and CC-by-sa to increase its reach. Even Jimbo has ok'ed my drive. – Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)}[[]] 14:42, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Irish Wikipedia

I left you a note on your Vicipéid talk page, but I don't think you noticed it. Basically, I'm trying to categorise the whole Irish Wikipedia, and in the process I make a few mistakes with cattegory titles every now and then (my Irish is improving, though... :). I would like to be able to clean these up myself, and because of this I am requesting sysop access on ga.wikipedia. Cheers, JOHN COLLISON [ L u d r a m an] 00:27, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Testing LanguageGA.php -

Okay, I set up a test site at Gaeltest.saewyc.net. However, in attempting to install using LanguageGA.php from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LanguageGa.php, there's a php error at line 201:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ')' in /hsphere/local/home/amgine/gaeltest.saewyc.net/languages/LanguageGa.php on line 201

I'd try to fix it for you, but as usual I'm way over-committed on time. (The installation will be left up for a while unless I hear from you. Plain vanilla.) - Amgine 04:48, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I moved it to your user space at User:Kwekubo/LanguageGa.php - Amgine 01:25, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Creatures

I remember you saying that you have an interest in Creatures. A Creatures Wiki has been set up... --Sgeo^TC 05:56, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

America's Army

About the allegations.

No, I'm not rememberme and I don't even know beonguard. I know rememberme from ICQ, which we both have. You cannot use more than one account with icq at the same time. But if there's any other way, just tell me. I'm not trying to deceive. And I'm so sick of being accused. If you do the test, we should make out a time when we're all online. And after the test, declare we're not the same on the page. I'm so tired of that, especially because Ele is the one trying to deceive with Sock puppeteer.

I wonder why you don't question Ele. After all he's been logged in under User:Ele9699, User:GACSean and in all likelihood User:BeOnGuard2. At the moment he's playing with his IP 24.170.145.97 to pretend support of his biased edits. After we do the test, make him do the test as well, please. Then we'll know the truth. What should I do about him by the way? He denies discussing and ignores my points. His edits are getting more and more poorly; they're biased, irrelevant, false, misleading and spamming. I won't participate in any other edit war, but I don't know what I should do. I can justify any of my edits, he can't.NightBeAsT 18:55, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Population Ireland

Fair enough you disagree, so you could have done the extra work and done the breakdown for the whole island if you wished and left the relevant, factually correct info alone till you had done it? The problem with the North is that, because these types of details are based on the census, they have historically been innacurate [1] because many in the North have not 'played the game', so to speak. Out of curiosity why did you think it was not relevant? The article mentions that Eire is another term for the Republic of Ireland, yes excluding Northern Ireland. The article also mentions that the Republic of Ireland can also be known as just Ireland, i.e. the title of the article. Should an encyclopedia leave out information, because you don't like the category? I am new to wiki but have input a fair bit in a month or so. Clearly you have been a member for longer and know the system better, however I thought it was pretty poor for you to decide on your own it wasn't relevant without a discussion. From what I have read so far, the common concensus is that factually correct information is good. In lieu of the whole breakdown for the island, I thought some information was better than none. Particularly when the CIA themselves do give a breakdown for Ireland, but do not breakdown the UK into its constituent parts. Your thoughts? Cheers SeanMack 17:22, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC) For what its worth the most recent breakdown for NI is here: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pop2001/NORTHERN_IRELAND.asp although it is a good few years older than the cia info.

Fair enough then, point taken - 'everyday is a school day' as they say. All the best!SeanMack 03:31, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Esperanto

Thanks for the Esperanto stuff. I had stopped learning for a while and never really got back to it, but I really should start doing it. I've plenty of time anyway, being only in second year [:-)] so I'll be getting back at it soon. Good luck with your leaving! Don't dare ditch study for the 'pedia... JOHN COLLISON (An Liúdr amán) 20:31, 6 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rod to God

Why did you remove "Rod to God" as a nickname for the spire? I have heard it said. Do a google seach on the phrase. It is used. So why remove it? --ClemMcGann 00:01, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

An Vicipéid

De bharr nach bhfuil an méid céanna ama agat bheith ar an Vicipéid tá gá duit beirt no triúr de riarthóiri nua a cheapadh chomh luath agus is féidir. Ta obair na Vicipéide ag dul ar aghaidh, ach ní mór dúinn fadhb na riarthóiri a phlé. Bhéinn thar a bheith buíoch duit ach cuairt a dhéanamh ar an ailt ga:Plé Vicipéide:Riarthóirí agus riarthóiri a cheapadh go hoifigiúil.--File Éireann 18:10, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I wonder if you would mind visiting ga:Plé Vicipéide:Riarthóirí as we need another administrator. dalta persuaded Angela to make him an admin but she withdrew this when she realised that he had by-passed you. However, I imagine he would make a good admin. Please hurry as the matter is now urgent--File Éireann 05:00, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Admins on Irish wikipedia

Could you please come and give your vision on m:Requests_for_permissions#Gaeilge_Wiki_Admin_problem I am interested in hearing the situation from all sides! Waerth 18:38, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sealand

Hi,I've noticed that you are having the same problem with User:NoPuzzleStranger as I (and many others) have experienced over the course of past two or three months (that's how old his account is).

Typically he'd come along and unilaterally change something controversial, even if there is enough popular support for it. He cannot be reasoned with and will refuse to listen even if several editors object to his changes. He'll continue ad infinitum until a vote on the issue held or he is subject to arbitrage.

Given his knowledge of "how to work the system" and the relative inexperience his new user account would suggest, I suspect that User:NoPuzzleStranger is either someone's puppet account or it's someone who has already fallen out of grace in the past and is attempting to continue his "quest". Jbetak 7 July 2005 05:12 (UTC)

Thanks for trying to fix things over at Sealand. Just so you're aware, there are accusations floating around - which in my opinion are pretty much self-evidently true - that NoPuzzleStranger is a sockpuppet of Gzornenplatz, who in turn is a sockpuppet of Wik. Wik was banned by the arbcom about a year ago for vandalism and abuse of Wikipedia community standards, and then Gzornenplatz was banned permanently by Jimbo Wales himself. NoPuzzleStranger has been screwing around with the micronation article too as part of some sort of grudge against me - so if you're interested you might want to think about putting that one on your watch list and help me keep a lid on things until he gets banned again. --Centauri 06:20, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone wants to put up a RFC (or an arbitration) against NoPuzzleStranger, I will support the RFC/arbitration. Samboy 20:48, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

kmccoy's RFA

Hey, Kwekubo,

kmccoy would like to thank you for your support on his RFA. :) kmccoy (talk) 05:02, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rory Gallagher

Why have changed Rory back to 'cork people' when he wasnt born in Cork.--Fenian Swine 01:16, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ok then to avoid confusion can we leave him as an Irish person and not a cork person.--Fenian Swine 22:34, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But he is not even from Cork.Why leave it as 'Cork People'.Change it to 'donegal People' which is far less confusing.--Fenian Swine 23:24, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that.so then you agree that he should be [category:Irish people] not Cork people.

Auld Bitch

No problem, here you go:

Tell me about the statues

Sir - I recently visited Sydney in Australia, where I was pleasantly surprised to find that the statue of Queen Victoria in the city centre was a gift from the people of Ireland, and that the old Queen had stood outside Leinster House for many years until 1947.

On researching the statue's history, I found myself fascinated by Dublin's other statues, especially their witty nicknames. One rumour I am trying to confirm is whether the statue now standing outside the Queen Victoria Building once had the marvellously Joycean nickname of 'The Auld Bitch'.

If any of your readers have memories stretching back to those days, I would be delighted to hear them.

Peter Mackay,

ACT, Australia

Demiurge 19:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Queen's University Belfast article

I've created an entry on Talk:Queen's University, Belfast re:the translation of the name. It seems to me that if we have one translation of the name then we should translate it to all other languages (which would clutter the page somewhat!)

User categorisation

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Ghana page as living in or being associated with Ghana. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Ghana for instructions. -- Gurch 15:31, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WP:ASK

Thanks for a useful edit. The page reads more concisely with it. BTW, a---, you seem older. ;-) --hydnjo talk 02:47, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

From here: a signifies the age category and a--- is for 15-19 years of age. That was the reason for my comment above. Is this not correct? ;-) --hydnjo talk 21:46, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So who did the Geek Code markup on your user page? --hydnjo talk 22:01, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Better fix it so we'll know who you really are. After you fix it copy/paste it here to decode (check) your markup. --hydnjo talk 22:15, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia UK

You have expressed an interest in Wikimedia UK. Just to let you know I've posted a draft Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association of the proposed "Wikimedia UK" charitable company on Wikimedia UK/Memorandum of Association and Wikimedia UK/Articles of Association. It is proposed that these will receive initial approval by interested parties at a meeting on 27 November. I will put together a brief agenda for the more formal aspects of that meeting soon. Memo and Arts of Association are a company's constitution, and need to be agreed before the company is formed (though they can be changed at a later date). Please feel free to comment on the relevant talk pages (I'd rather the proposed drafts are left unedited so that it is easy to see what is going on) - particularly if there is something there that you would disagree with at the meeting, details of which can be found on the Wikimedia UK page on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. Kind regards, jguk 19:06, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

AINM

Your being bold (in a good way) adding the variable to the Queen's and Ulster universities articles. I was going to but was afraid that someone would add in Ulster Scots. Djegan 21:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your comments would be welcome at Prime Minister. One user, without even bothering to go through the proper procedures, wants to rename the article Prime minister and keeps moving it to push that version!!! While there is an article for all uppercasing or all lowercasing, half-casing (which is all WP allows, as all lowercasing is not possible in article titles) would produce a semi-literate mess that would make WP a laughing stock. A student who writes the title that way in an essay earns an instant fail because it is seen as such a monumental clanger. With all the attacks WP is under right now, the last thing WP needs is to make it look as though it does not know how to write the title of the office of premier correctly. What next? Lord mayor? FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 23:33, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]