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Thanks for the cleaup job on 2006 Mecca hostel collapse! --Irishpunktom\^talk 15:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help there,

I hereby grant you the Exceptional Newcomer Award. Are you a English major/professor? εγκυκλοπαίδεια* 04:26, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 24% for major edits and 19% for minor edits. (Based on the last 106 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 15:00, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You added the North American English category to the Belizean Kriol language. In case you have not noticed, Kriol is not a dialect of English, but a separate creole language, most of whose words (and a few other features) are derived from English. Are you sure you want to add it to that category? Jorge Stolfi 04:45, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I merged the history from Zury Ríos Montt into Zury Ríos Sosa. As the Sosa article is currently a redirect to the Montt one, you can move the article between the two without problem by using the move tab. Please contact me if I did anything wrong, and also feel free to request future history merges either using WP:SPLICE as you did here, tagging the target with {{db-histmerge}} or contacting me directly. Thanks! AmiDaniel (talk) 03:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

		The Minor Barnstar
		I, Jersey Devil award you with this minor barnstar for your minor contributions by adding correct accents to Spanish names which many Wikipedians, including myself, often overlook. Keep up the good work :). Jersey Devil 22:12, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

a couple of times. LIFE is odd that way Carptrash 05:54, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi B.U. Are you really a unicyclist? Thank you for taking the time to help me with the time stamp and links info. That was very kind of you. I am getting quite fed up with that Frank guy. I have one more question, someone or thing from wiki is asking me about that formal wedding picture of Jerry Weller and Zury Rios Montt with both their parents. I do not even remember how I was able to upload it to the wiki site. I have the picture downloaded on my laptop and onto my flicker photo page. I found it by doing a google image search. I found no copyright or other identifying names on the picture. It seems to have run in several Guatemalan or other Spanish newspapers. How do I tag this photo? There is a message on my talk page that says it will be deleted if I don't tag it? Although it seems it's been uploaded and on the site for much longer than 7 days. Thank you again for the help, and for any further help you might be. Kankakee VoiceKankakee Voice 06:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello; I noticed you have recently contributed to the current events portal and thought you would be interested in looking at a proposal for redesigning the page. If you can, please take a look at a redesign proposal I created and provide some feedback on its talk page. So far, very little feedback has been received, and so the additional input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. joturner 23:08, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bolivian Unicyclist, thank you for joining us and expressing your opinion in the Herrera talk page. Your help has been very important in clearifing certain points about the award. It has been an honor to have come across you. Tony the Marine 01:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like Tony beat me to it, but just wanted to say thank you for being civil and helpful on the Herrera talk page. 01:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your discussion on Silvestre Herrera's article talk page. The information and discussion you've provided is very good. I do wonder whether the medal had highest precedence during the WWII-era. Is the link you provided a new 2006 (or 2003) law? — ERcheck (talk) 01:48, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks for the update. I'll check Sgt Herrera's page. Is there any way to access the 1955 law? — ERcheck (talk) 17:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'll have to leave it to you (and others) to read the law. Depending on the year that Herrera got the Mexican award, he might fall under the 1926 law. (Can you get that as well?) — ERcheck (talk) 18:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for fixing the problems with the article El Universal (Caracas). Could you please take a look at the corresponding article in the Spanish Wikipedia at es:El Universal (Venezuela) to see whether any changes are necessary there as well? Thanks. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 23:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there. Thank you for the links that you have added in Ping-Pong virus. I have, however, removed some of the links from the dates that you added in the reference section. This is because, generally, links should only be made if they are contextually relevant. These date links corresponded with the time I went out and found those reference links, so they had no real relevance to the encyclopedic content. Anyway, I felt you might want to know that. See you! —msikma <user_talk:msikma> 08:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

you may be interested in Venezuelan-Israeli relations and United States-Venezuelan relations. The latter is in a very poor and largely neglected state. Respectfully, Republitarian 14:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to say, nice work with your recent edits on EPAC tropical cyclones. They might be small, but they're useful in fixing the small errors. Thanks. Hurricanehink (talk) 18:26, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You have got to be kidding me, Hink. What's the use of creating Zihuatanejo, Guerrero as a redirect to Zihuatanejo and then changing the links to the latter to the former when it's a redirect? It's USELESS. – Chacor 00:57, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, I probably should have checked the links. I just assumed that the former links were redirects that Bolivian changed. Hurricanehink (talk) 02:26, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Settled now, anyway. – Chacor 02:33, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there. I'm coming to you because I see it was you who added the section about Brazil on Wikipedia:Naming conventions (settlements). Do you think you could take a moment and fix Salvador, Brazil, move the article to a more standard location? As far as I can see, it's the only Brazilian city currently in breach of that naming convention, but magic admin powers are needed to move it. And, from what I read on your user page, you're probably better qualified than me to decide whether it should be at Salvador de Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, or wherever. I'll be watching the article and solemnly promiss to fix all the redirects. Thanks, Bolivian Unicyclist 18:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I've also already fixed all the redirects (there weren't many of them). It should come as no surprise it's the only one with a name not matching that convention; I wrote that convention as a codification of current practice, so most article names would already be following it even before it was written. --cesarb 21:47, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What I don't understand is why it's a counter-example for moving Augusta, Georgia to Augusta being non-controversial. --Usgnus 22:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that explains it. Thanks. --Usgnus 04:20, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hola Bolivian Unicyclist, He puesto una nota en Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias#City_names_and_disambiguation_dabs respecto a la situación actual con respecto a los nombres de ciudades o pueblos y las páginas de disambiguation. Cordiales saludos, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 07:33, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bolivian Unyciclist,

I placed a note on the WP:CSD project noticeboard, regarding the current situation of city and town names and their disambiguation dabs. Best regards, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 07:43, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Me parece una broma de mal gusto que Guadalajara no vaya a Guadalajara, Jalisco. Si quiere nominarlo a WP:RQM, lo apoyaría sin pensarlo. Un cordial saludo, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 20:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tiene muchísima razón. Respecto a las páginas de disambig, yo también comparto esa idea generalmente. Por ejemplo, Lincoln podría perfectamente desembocar en Abraham Lincoln pero el hecho de que da a una página dab le da mayor valor enciclopédico (el lector tiene la oportunidad de aumentar su conocimiento, por ejemplo enterándose del origen etimológico del término). Respecto a Valencia, casi prefiero que se quede como un dab. Mi única preocupación es que llamar a Valencia (city), porque Valencia, Valencia no suena muy bien y si se elige el nombre de la región en vez del de la provincia (Valencia, Land of Valencia o Valencia, Valencian Community o Valencia, Valencian Country), es casi como abrir la Caja de Pandora porque siempre habrá alguien disgustado. Saludos, E Asterion ^{u talking to me?} 22:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your great work on Malmesbury, Western Cape!

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Thanks for your excellent contributions to the Miguel Ángel de Quevedo article! Keep it up! - Eric 05:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding this [1] - In the case of unincorporated areas (such as Silver Spring), I always include the county/parish. I will revert the specific change to Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. WhisperToMe 01:29, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VP2/Bugs#Warning_given_to_wrong_person - It's a very very isolated bug with VandalProof 2. Please accept my apologies. AA Milne 22:48, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In english we say the month first the date November 5, 2006 not 5 November 2006. Go learn english then comment on wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by The 13th 4postle (talk • contribs) 17 November 2006.

Well, that was obviously an ignorant comment; not only the tone, but also because the European convention -- and note that the English are part of Europe -- is to write the date as 5 November 2006. --Todeswalzer|Talk 04:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

HI. I noticed your comments on the DRC election page. I would like to propose a change to the current naming convention for elections. The current convention is:

Use the format "Demonym type election, date", for example "Canadian federal election, 1867"... (WP:NAME#Elections}

I propose this is changed to allow two alternatives, as follows:

Use either this form: political division type election, date, or this form: political division election of date. For example, Canadian federal election, 1867 or Canadian federal election of 1867. Where an article has been created using one form, do not move the article to the other form.

This new option would make linking more natural and make the article names more encyclopedic.

Please comment on this proposal at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions#New elections proposal

Thanks AndrewRT(Talk) 23:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

O.K., so maybe you don't believe in Santa, but I still want to wish you and your loved ones a "Happy Holidays" and all of the happiness in the world and the best new year ever. Your friend, Tony the Marine 23:55, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello - I'm contacting you because of your involvement with using English instead of foreign terms in articles. A few are trying to "Anglicise" French terms in Wiki articles according to current guidelines but there is some resistance (eg/: "Région => Region"; "Département => Departement"). Your input would be appreciated here. Thankyou. --Bob 16:23, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Very good job on the wording of the Prodi section...good looking on knowing the difference between resigning and tendering a resignation although im sure they both result in the same thing wether the president "approves" it or not. I did not like the way you worded the Quebec section. We dont need to know about the providences of canada when we refer to leaders. I wrote it in the same style as "Vice President of the U.S. Dick Cheney" or "U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair." hope you like it but anyway good editing. WikiTony 06:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the rule: * Do not list the ordinary deaths of prominent persons here. That's what Recent deaths is for. Exceptions to this rule are made for persons of extreme prominence, such as Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, or the Queen Mother.

the blurb:

Prime Minister of Chad Pascal Yoadimnadji dies of a brain hemorrhage following a heart attack

is this an "ordinary death?" brain hemorrhage and heart attack? i dont really care if this is included in the current events but i dont think it is unacceptable. notice also that all the "prominent people" listed are white and we are talking about the PM of an african country (im not accusing you of anything)...Think about it... WikiTony 22:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some editors at the Glock 19 and Walther P22 articles don't want the Virginia Tech massacre mentioned there. If you'd care to contribute to this discussion about this on on the Talk pages, I'd appreciate it. MiFeinberg 19:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Do you speak spanish? I have tried in the past to expand the Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica article, but all of the info is in spanish. -Ravedave 21:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the edits! Are you an alum? —Jillwohl 21:08, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message. I will go back and tag all the articles I moved via copy/paste. My apologies about this. Thanks. --Lanternix 18:43, 22 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello - I apologize, I thought the red links were broken. Sorry Raggz 01:24, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Always love your ces; I had added the Spanish name because someone questioned the translation on the talk page of The Carmona Decree, and since I translated it myself, wasn't all that sure. It was in the vein of full disclosure; whatever you think — any opinions on the translation? [2] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:58, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No concern: I'm going to be traveling and probably won't be able to followup. I just wanted to make sure you knew why I had added the Spanish name, in case it becomes an issue. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ce = copyedit. I just posted a big problem to the talk page at The Carmona Decree. I should have realized this sooner <grrrr ... > SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:22, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be checking in from a slow, hotel dialup connection. Keep up the good work, and thanks for the translation — CLEARLY far superior than what I had. Ok, now I Must Go Pack :-)

My hotel connection is far worse than usual; between all the unsourced additions and editorializing, I can barely keep up, as it takes an eternity to load a page. I think the BLP violations have been removed at least. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:16, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your updates on my favorite paper. Its cancellation was one of the reasons I left Mexico. Czolgolz 22:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

hello ... thanks for taking the time to consider the subject article. As the original author, I considered whether the proper name of this article should be "Joe Acanfora" or "Gay Teachers Battle to Teach - The Case of Joe Acanfora", and decided on the latter. Since the article cover only a 3 year period and narrow scope of the life of Joe Acanfora, it seemed more appropriate and descriptive to entitle it with the "case" reference and the "gay teachers" reference. If it were on Joe Acanfora alone, it would cover 50 more years of his life and many other topics. What do you think? I am a first-time contributor so not sure if or how to change the title back???? --Ja3ja3 13:03, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Ja3ja3 15:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]