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Lectonar (talk) 08:41, 14 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Email

Hello, please note that although you are free to use the Wikipedia "Email user" option to contact me, I strongly prefer communicating with other users via our respective user talk pages, and only respond via email if you are contacting me with a private matter. I do not consider your issue with the Northern Cyprus article to be a private matter.

Now that that's out of the way, in response to the comments in your email, I did look at the edit request you placed on Talk:Northern Cyprus and responded there. It looks like the consensus was that your proposed wording gave undue weight to the subject of your edit request. One user did indicate that s/he is somewhat familiar with the situation you described and was open to adding the proposed subject matter if it was trimmed to an appropriate size. You might want to touch base with that user. If you have a specific question regarding anything I or any of the other users who responded to your edit request said on that talk page, please ask there. Thanks! —KuyaBriBri^Talk 00:17, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Your Reply

Hello. KuyaBriBri, this is very helpful, thank you, and hopefully I am now communicating with you through the correct Methods. I too thought my addition to the page would be too long, and I would be happy to make it far shorter and to the point, giving the public readers a chance to understand the point without getting bogged down.

However, I am at a loss as to how I contact the "user". I shall try to look at the page notes, and talk pages, to see if I can identify this person, and contact her through the talk page.

If you can help me further with this, I would appreciate, although in the meantime I will try to research further as to who the user is.

Kind regards, and thank you again.

ToZero ToZero (talk) 17:50, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Every user that responded to your request at Talk:Northern Cyprus has a "signature" at the end of their comment. Click on the "Talk" link in that user's signature to be navigated to that user's user talk page. There should be a "+" or "new section" link at the top of that page (which one it is will depend on your browser and user settings). Click that link to leave that user a message. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 19:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Category:North Cyprus Country Page

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Northern Cyprus: Construction boom and subsequent collapse (2003-2006)

Thanks for the note on my talk page. My take on this issue is that the amount of detail you propose for what is really a small part of events in this area is WP:UNDUE, which is to say it gives excessive weight to the issues involved. Add this to the idea that most people reading it will think you have an axe to grind in a controversial area, whether you actually have or not. They will see a lot ot intricate work involved in attracting a load of potential criticism for very little reward in a controversial area with a history of trouble. If you have not succeeded in garnering help in three months, this should tell you something, although I'm afraid it may not be what you want to hear. Britmax (talk) 13:11, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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You should try to address each reason for denial every time you re-submit... or you could just put the ignore the AFC process, publish it anyway and see if it survives. either way, good luck!

Ryan shell (talk) 01:05, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

re:Kulaksiz Court Cases - North Cyprus

Hello again. I've taken a look at your AFC and it seems to be in ok shape. Have you re-submitted it for evaluation after you added references to each line? If you haven't, try that. If you have done that, you might consider creatign the article on your own to see if it sinks or floats as is. either way, good luck.Ryan shell (talk) 20:45, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 23:24, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kulaksiz Court Cases - North Cyprus Page

Dear Excirial,

Thank you for your recent review of my short article on North Cyprus Page.

May I say that I am pleased that an editor/reviewer has left slightly more telling clues than before. Thank you for your comment.

In reply to your comment, I would have written more about situation, and given more background, but unfortunately, I was knocked back for not having provided evidence/sources to substantiate my version of events.

Therefore, I put together a small number of articles and videos and other sources, and took a sentence from each of them and quoted it in the article, in such a way as to start the article in some form. However, it has obviously not worked as it has this time been knocked back for reading like a news article.

It would be a shame for me to give up, considering, it is a compelling story which affects 3000 lives directly in a serious (life threatening way) and if you include their families and children (mainly back in the UK)the events are having a secondary affect on them.

Please, could you simply drop, one, or mabye 2 more subtle, clues, hints, indications, for me to continue improving the article.

Kind regards,

ToZero62.197.212.212 (talk) 11:43, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there ToZero,

Reading the article once over i cannot help but notice that the "The Kulaksiz Court Cases" page seems to be written a writing style that is similar to a newspaper; The article is specifically focused on a single event without having to much background context. Additionally, a large share of the article is dedicated to quoting people's responses to the case itself. Encyclopedic article's tend to differ in their format - Have a look at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting article for example. The article starts with a short lead (summary) of the subject, followed by background information and a neutral description of the event it describes.

Having stated that, i feel the article would have difficulty passing the "Wikipedia is not a newspaper" criteria. The court cases as they stand are an extension of a large problem caused Greece's debt right now. There have been multiple media reports regarding this case, but the coverage seems to be very limited to a specific time period. It is quite likely that several newspapers jumped on the case, and will never report on them again. In that case the event would have little lasting notability, which would in turn means it wouldn't pass the mentioned criteria for inclusion. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 22:45, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File permission problem with File:Akfinans Manager Ertu Kader, breaking and entering an occupied Kulaksiz Home.jpg

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Kulaksiz Court Cases - North Cyprus Page

Dear Excirial,

Thank you for your recent review of my short article on North Cyprus Page.

May I say that I am pleased that an editor/reviewer has left slightly more telling clues than before. Thank you for your comment.

In reply to your comment, I would have written more about situation, and given more background, but unfortunately, I was knocked back for not having provided evidence/sources to substantiate my version of events.

Therefore, I put together a small number of articles and videos and other sources, and took a sentence from each of them and quoted it in the article, in such a way as to start the article in some form. However, it has obviously not worked as it has this time been knocked back for reading like a news article.

It would be a shame for me to give up, considering, it is a compelling story which affects 3000 lives directly in a serious (life threatening way) and if you include their families and children (mainly back in the UK)the events are having a secondary affect on them.

Please, could you simply drop, one, or mabye 2 more subtle, clues, hints, indications, for me to continue improving the article.

Kind regards,

ToZero62.197.212.212 (talk) 11:43, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there ToZero,

Reading the article once over i cannot help but notice that the "The Kulaksiz Court Cases" page seems to be written a writing style that is similar to a newspaper; The article is specifically focused on a single event without having to much background context. Additionally, a large share of the article is dedicated to quoting people's responses to the case itself. Encyclopedic article's tend to differ in their format - Have a look at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting article for example. The article starts with a short lead (summary) of the subject, followed by background information and a neutral description of the event it describes.

Having stated that, i feel the article would have difficulty passing the "Wikipedia is not a newspaper" criteria. The court cases as they stand are an extension of a large problem caused Greece's debt right now. There have been multiple media reports regarding this case, but the coverage seems to be very limited to a specific time period. It is quite likely that several newspapers jumped on the case, and will never report on them again. In that case the event would have little lasting notability, which would in turn means it wouldn't pass the mentioned criteria for inclusion. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 22:45, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Excirial,

You are right about it reading like a newspaper, born out of an inability to put any form of background without it being rejected on the grounds of insufficient evidence or insufficient sources. I'm sure I can do something about this.

However, where I have to disagree with you is on your observation that this has been of notability, for a specific period of time. This is not substantiated by the evidence as a variety of newspapers both in the north and the south and mainland turkey have covered the story continuously between early 2010, and today. In fact, the Kulaksiz Case took time to become established in the minds of the Turkish Cypriot community, until the public auction, when the president himself turned up. (on this point, I have literally in my possession, a number of letters sent back and forth to various parties regarding Kulaksiz, by founding President Rauf Denktas - can I use these to highlight the cases) and slowly but surely, as many other cases emerged on the island, it became apparant to the newspapers, public, and government that Kulaksiz case had become a metaphor for the abuses taking place towards elderly expats who had attempted to retire there.

The kulaksiz has grown definitely, linearly, but more probably exponentially in notariety since Asil Nadir himself ordered his newspaper Kibris, to run front news on it before the auction.

Lastly, although it has taken a long time, the Turkish Cypriot community, has slowly woken up to the realisation that there unbelievable transformation in wealth came about it as a result of over 1 billion in investment, and that slowly, as result of blackmail across builders, lawyers, government (yes government are withholding transfer of deeds until expats pay for their builders/landowners taxes who now refuse to pay them), landowners, and banks. Each one of the aforementioned has blackmailed an entire community of foreign home buyers, expats and visitors alike. Kulaksiz is without a doubt the worse case as the fraud is so apparant, and clear, with evidence of Fraud being available for anyone to see.

Kulaksiz is now a nationally recognised name, and the community are aware that a turn around in the Kulaksiz case, will represent a landmark in the turn around of injustice towards their visitors, which will in turn represent the start of the long road to economic recovery. Whilst everyone is aware that less foreigners including UK citizens can afford to buy abroad in the current climate, many understand that the economic disaster would have taken place anyway as a result of the abuses, simply on a milder scale.

All of this is totally true, all of it I can back up time an time again. The newspapers have written more about the case as it goes along, I have primary evidence of the fraud, and a number of letters between officials regarding the case.

What I suspect is that it is of no interest to anyone who doesn't live in North Cyprus. However, if I went to any single one of the many country pages, and read what was notable and recent in that country it would be news to me. Therefore, I still hold that this case is of immense notability in North Cyprus, linked metaphorically to the economic armageddon there, and should be discussed in the article, or at least in a seperate article.

I just can't find any editor who thinks it's notable, simply because they haven't personally heard of it.

ToZero (talk) 13:15, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just a very quick note that i haven't forgotten this one. Problem right now is that t don't have the time to dive into the subject matter and write a decent reply - and i don't want to settle for some half-decent response either. (I hope to have time during the weekend though). Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:17, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, seems this one has been waiting for a decent reply quite a bit longer than by best "estimated time to response" calculated, not even mentioning my preferred "within a few days" response time. Either way, time to write something actually related to the page in question.

I read the entire article, checked each of the supplied references and did a search for more myself but even after doing so i am still fairly pessimistic as to the notability of the event. My own search mainly seems to yield a mountain of links from the "northcyprusfreepress.com", while yielding little to no links created by other news sources. In fact, if i do a search specifically excluding "northcyprusfreepress.com" i almost immediately land in the "Forum and blogs" area, which tends to be a dead-end as far as reliable sourcing goes.

Now, if i analyze the added sourcing:

http://northcyprusfreepress.com/law/breaking-news-brs-calls-for-kulaksiz-5-support/ - This source seems to be call for action to support the people in the court cases, which is far from neutral wording. As far as neutral and reliable sourcing goes this is not the best possible example to base an article on.
http://www.kkg2011.com/index.php?cID=52 - Same issue as the last source really. The websites home page explicitly identifies itself as a rights group intended to aid property owners. Even i discount the possible conflict of interest in this source the group itself seems to be a very minor join effort, which would pass the size and "importance" requirement for a reliable source.
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=229f30d9a4dcbec2&id=229F30D9A4DCBEC2!514 - Only details the electricity usage of the buildings, and barely covers the case at all. This is - at most - some slightly related information in tabloid format (This sort of coverage often surrounds events - a war starts, you receive top level coverage, but after a while the coverage seems to change to eyewitness reports and interviews simply because there is nothing new to report.)
The three remaining sources are somewhat more decent since they actually cover the case and offer some background information..

Even so fear the subject would have a hard time meeting the inclusion criteria for events. If we look at the notability policy for events it would only meet 1 criteria: Duration of coverage. There is no lasting effect that i could trace (If this court case were to be the basis of some landmark ruling things would be quite different); the geographic scope is limited to a very specific area (Norther Cyprus); the depth of coverage seems limited to "regular" news articles at most and the diversity of sources seems to be quite limited at 1 or 2 local newspapers.

Now, can the article subject be notable for inclusion? To be honest, i fear it won't meet the criteria no matter what changes are made simply due to the event being minor at best (Based on what i could find that is). Of course i can be wrong and i have been wrong in the past, but in those cases editors often came around with multiple sources that cannot be easily traced online without a specific search (Scientific journals, magazines, print-only newspaper article's and the like). Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 19:05, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I have not reverted my contribution has been repeatedly reverted. I have given the reasons on the Talk page and supplied evidence. I have not reverted one time. Please remove this warning As you have given it on the grounds that I have either reverted or I’m done. I repeat I have not undergone anything and I haven’t reverted anything. ToZero (talk) 13:16, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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