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NPOV

Please do not remove factual text from articles. If the wording appears to be biased but is nonetheless factual, please instead reword it to a more neutral phrasing. More info at Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Lack_of_neutrality_as_an_excuse_to_delete and Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Rewording_a_potentially_biased_statement. Thank you. --Pascal666 04:12, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

I saw a commercial on TV the other day where Donald Trump made a comment along the lines of "my hair is recognized the world over". I got curious what that meant, the article on him said nothing about his hair. Finally found on other websites that he had a comb over described with different synonyms for horrendous. I agree the sentence needs to be changed, but I would like to keep a link to comb over somewhere on Donald Trump, as that is the information I was looking for and did not find. I can't comment on the other paragraph. --Pascal666 04:27, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Perfect. Thank you. --Pascal666 18:55, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Jedisan/Edisan/Yedisan, Talk:Bugeac Post, Ottoman Bessarabia Merge

All sounds reasonable. In all of the cases that are a matter of naming, my main concern is that all the reasonable redirects are there and all the names are mentioned in the article. I don't really care where the article resides.

The Province of Bessarabia and Ottoman Bessarabia might as well be merged, they do seem to cover the same topic (both badly). Ottoman Bessarabia currently reads more like a dispute than an article. We might as well sort out the mess in one place rather than two. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:55, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Regarding naming, I have a slight inclination toward Yedisan. I have usually read about this rarely-mentioned region in German (Jedisan), but in English it would be pronounced Yedisan. Edisan brings up the most Google hits, but none of them seem relevant to the region here. Olessi 17:24, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

I have added Names & History subheaders to the article and copyedited some of it. I tried to rephrase the mentioning of "Nogai Tartary" and "West Nogai"; please correct it if I misinterpreted your meaning. Olessi 20:17, 14 December 2005 (UTC1)

Vote on moves

Hello LuiKhuntek! I would like to remind you to vote on moves that you have proposed, like Bugeac and Podilia. Even though you proposed the moves, that doesn't mean that administrators will automatically count you as a support vote. It is better to add your name to the support section to be sure. Have a good day! Olessi 18:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Huge kab like 103.138.11.13 (talk) 17:50, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Removed sarcastic incivility

I am by now so tired of being assumed to be a chuavinist anti-foreign langauge Westerner every time I try to argue for less use of needlees foreign syllabaries and alphabets that I've had enough. I've removed your undue and uncivil sarcasm at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions#No hangul, please, and I'm urging you to restate your arguments in a reasoned and enlightened fashion instead of trying to engage in pure squabbling.

Peter ^Isotalo 11:02, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Middle & Near East data

Happy New Year! As I remember we never exchanged the data on Arabian monarchies from 'Almanach de Bruxelles' I mentioned when discussing the Aden protectorates, here they are (239kb). As it were private copies, I had made some minor changes and additional notes (even some in my native Dutch), but no changes to worry about; I'm not sure whether I also deleted some genealogical parts, unfortunately. Apparently some Word features suffer from the transfer to this medium, but that's only the presentation.

Please copy them to your PC and then IMMEDIATELY remove them from this talk page, since they may not be fit for Internet access as such. Hopefully they help you to make some more contributions in 2006.

requested move opinion

Why are you opposing the move from Nuovo Cinema Paradiso to Nuovo cinema Paradiso? WhiteNight ^{T | @ | C} 08:59, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

my bad

Oh, sorry about that. I guess I was mistaken. --Khoikhoi 23:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Politics of Venezuela

I have withdrawn this move request. I think that both Gov't and Politic pages should remain the same until the information on these pages is more developed and warrants a page split.

On a different note, you may wish to participate in this more interesting debate. - Spaceriqui 22:06, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Members ALTAF JACK STYLES (talk) 08:25, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

No original research on Polesie

I meant that Polesie is the well established name in English usage and inventing a new name is not appropriate for wp. I'll rephrase. --_Lysy^talk 08:42, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

List of German concentration camps

Hi, I just wanted to leave you a note that the rules of the vote at Talk:List of German concentration camps have slightly changed since you've voted there and it's likely that you might want to reconsider your vote. --_Lysy^talk 20:32, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire

Sounds great, please proceed! My original list I believe was based upon Colin Imber's "The Ottoman Empire", but I haven't kept tabs on the article and thus I cannot answer for the current version. As long as no information is lost, I believe reorganizing the article would be a really good thing. /The Phoenix 09:54, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Subdivisions of the Ottoman Empire

I greatly appreciate your courtesy, and certainly would like us to make good use of those data you mention. (As I still believe there is a point in having a single 'master list' that would for example allow readers to look up the Ottoman provinces without knowing where they are, from which links should in time be provided to appropriate historical sections for each, possibly with a mini-history in telegram style (at least aquisition, status changes such as gubernatorial style, loss, mergers) I strongly feel we'ld probably do best to provide both this geographically organized list -I would then also go further to accomodate orientation by modern states and regions- and next a few 'freezes' in time as you intend, which I for one would certainly appreciate- thus we cater for various uses: browing or oversight. As I have a long watchlist and often try to use data both in a pivotal page as our case and various other ones (such as cases of units, titles...) I suspect my work on the 'master list' (any ideas for an actual section name?) will progress slowly, so I suggest you don't wait for it to create a section for case oversights, but I think our combined efforts should result in an exciting page in due time).

As I reread your message, I realize I wrote the above (now in parenthesis) as if you just meant lists, but the word chart may well stand for something far more elaborate and structured, while I'm not sure how that would look- so I wonder if it would be possible to see a sample, I may well have to reconsider the above first reaction altogether.

As I tried to save the above, an edit conflict alerted me The Phoenix just gave his okay. Indeed, as long as no data get lost we should be able to figure it out. It seems like we're on to a good thing!

P.S. May I, be the way, remind you of my request to remove the data under number five on this page, which contain the (formerly free) Almanach de Bruxelles data we talked about while editing Aden Protectorate, after copying them if f any use? I'm realy not comfortable with keeping them openly on a Wikipedia-page Fastifex 10:38, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I also highly encourage revising the info at Subdivisions. I can try to expand upon it with information from Magocsi. Olessi 18:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Ottoman provinces

I have expressed opposition to your proposed long names for the Ottoman provinces. I dislike long names, and ones that don't fit into running text. I detest most efforts at imposing uniformity on WP, which is inconsistent. If you must force uniformity, I would prefer (of the two choices), moving Basra Province, Ottoman Empire into Basra Province, with a dab header to the Iraqi Governorate (and so on); Basra province might be better. (And what's wrong with vilayet, which seems to have been the contemporary usage in English?) Septentrionalis 21:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

re Bergen-Belsen rename

Are you going to vote on your Talk:Bergen-Belsen rename request? LuiKhuntek 15:49, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, LuiKhuntek. I thought it was likely to go against Wikipedia policy to vote for your own Requested Move, but is this not so? (Seems odd if not!)  Best wishes, David Kernow 20:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if it's against policy or not...

Intriguing. I realise I've always assumed it would be. But I've just left a vote there and at least one other user (Lysy) hasn't been taken aback! David Kernow 20:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Please do other wikipedians a favour and start using edit summaries. Thanks, Ghirla | talk 09:46, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Belgrade Pashaluk

Actually, I was wrong about this. I thought that Sanjak of Smederevo was an earlier province that existed there before the Austrian administration (1718-1739), and that Pashaluk of Belgrade was a new province that was formed after 1739. However, I looked at some sources, so the Pashaluk of Belgrade was in fact alternative name of the Sanjak of Smederevo, but used more often in the Serbian historiography. Also, I found that the administrative seat was moved from Smederevo to Belgrade in 1521. Can you tell me to which time period refer this part of the article (which you wrote there): "Belgrade had been the center of the region under Austrian rule but was neglected under the Ottomans and Smederevo (Semendire) was the administrative center. Nevertheless, Belgrade eventually became the seat of a pasha with the title of vizier and the Sanjak began to be referred to as the Pashaluk of Belgrade, although it was still called the Sanjak of Smederevo in official documents." Does it refer to 1521 perhaps or to some other year? As for the Eyalet of Temeşvar, I think that current shorter name is better. We do not need too long names for the articles. PANONIAN (talk) 01:25, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

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Timişoara Province, Ottoman Empire

Could you please vote again here if you want:

• Talk:Timişoara Province, Ottoman Empire

PANONIAN (talk) 01:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

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Crimean Tatars invasion into Russia in 1571

I think you may be interested in checking this new article. I placed a {NPOV} tag there. --Ghirla | talk 13:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

German Wikipedians' noticeboard

Hello LuiKhuntek! As you are a contributor who has frequently worked on central and eastern European topics, you might be interested in the recently-created noticeboard for articles concerning German-related topics. Feel free to participate with the project if you are interested! Olessi 01:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Mount Baekdu

Thank you for the heads-up on voting procedures on moving pages. This is actually my first time moving pages via administrator's aid, and I didn't know the procedure quite well. Deiaemeth 22:22, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Please vote on move request

You should vote on your proposed move at Talk:Baitou Mountain. Nominations are not always counted as a vote. LuiKhuntek 22:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I didn't propose that page for moving. --Fibonacci 00:46, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Your tag appeared along with another at the nomination here: Wikipedia:Requested_moves#13_February_2006. Wasn't sure who owned it... LuiKhuntek 03:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me. I have now removed my signature from that nomination. --Fibonacci 03:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

non-Arab Middle East Christians

I think you should have a look at the doings of some anti-Arab Christian activists who designed a totally inaccurate and propagandist Syriacs box, mentioning Maronites and Melkites as ethnically "Syriacs", thus non-Arabs, which I proposed for deletion here. There are non-Arab Christians in the region, be they Armenians or Assyrians, but these fanatics include Arabized Christians in their anti-Arab dreams. Pylambert 23:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Gorizia and Gradisca

I checked the translations and everything seems to be correct. About Gradiščanska, I have to admit I don't recall ever hearing about the region around Gradisca being reffered to as Gradiščanska in Slovenian, but then again I don't recall hearing it at all. However I did check the Enciklopedija Slovenije, and it is mentioned a couple of times, so I'm guessing the name is correct. edolen1 16:27, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Gorizia and Gradisca

Thanks for creating the article, I'm from a village that belonged to that county and it was on my to do list. I've expanded a little bit about culture, I hadn0t so much time so I think there are quite a few errors, anyway I plan to expand it more if I'll have some spare time--Klenje 13:13, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

China Rivers

Saw your work on China rivers. Thanks for the clean-up. One thing you deleted that I have a question about is the little explanation of the different parts of Changjiang. Should'nt there be something to explain that Yangzte, Changjiang, and Jinsha are different eyt the same? Just my opinion.Mike 19:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

• The river question... haven't noticed any discussion about the format. I just started addding to the majority format at the time... which was for many the entire Chinese name including he, shui, or jiang River. Of course that doesn't make much sense. I'm cool with how you changed it. No use being redundant... again and again.Mike 13:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Not sure whether we should go with the Chinese name with the Chinese word for river included, or with just the name and then river in English.Mike 01:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
    • I aggree... river name then "River". Do you think that since it's a list of rivers in China we should use the Chinese name and the international norm name too?Mike 01:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

University of South Carolina

Hi, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind lending your opinion to a content dispute that I am currently involved in on University of South Carolina. As you may know, USC has a strong rivalry with Clemson University. I feel that the athletics section of the article should discuss this rivalry, and I feel that this discussion should include a reference to the overall record between the two schools in various major sports. Other editors have disagreed, and feel that the record should not be mentioned. As it happens, Clemson leads in two of the discussed sports and USC leads in the third. I would appreciate it if you would consider lending your opinion on this issue on Talk:University of South Carolina. Thanks! Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 00:41, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Kingdom of Cochin

Thanks for the clarification! -- thunderboltz^{a.k.a.Deepu_Joseph |TALK} 05:08, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Arlington County, Virginia

Hey Ajax, I wanted to let you know that I have nominated Arlington County, Virginia as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week. The article is in need of much help and with a little group effort, it could be brought to Featured Article status! I brought this to your attention as I have seen you have contributed to the article in the recent past. Please cast your vote with your signature at the US Collaboration of the Week page under Arlington County, Virginia. --Caponer 01:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Virginia Highways

Hey, we're up and running at Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia Highways. --MPD01605 01:29, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

english version

There is a move request under discussion at Talk:House of Karadjordjević Henq 09:42, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Arabic

Hello Ajax. Ive noticed by your edits to the Gibraltar page that you can transliterate arabic using the proper letters (with the dots under the T ect...)When you have the time, could you have a look at the article Arabic influence on the Spanish language and maybe give me a hand with the transliteration? Thanks alot.

Guzman.

Thanks alot for the list Ajax!

Thank you

Thank you for notifying me about the voting. Adam78 19:08, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

thank you!!!

Thank you AjaxSmack for informing me about the Names of European cities in different languages deletion proposal.--Pjetër Bogdani III 13:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Cyrillic spellings in Ukraine

Could you please see my question at Talk:Budjak#Cyrillic? Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 18:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 02:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

State Great Khural move

Hi -- I rerequested to move of "State Great Khural" to "State Great Hural" that you opposed -- just thought I should let you know in case you want to vote again. Joriki 10:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Georgia Move

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 04:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

move request Talk:John II Casimir of Poland

Final state highway naming conventions debate

AjaxSmack, your participation is welcome in the Wikipedia:State route naming conventions poll. Please give your input as to the process by 23:59 UTC on August 8.

Regards, Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:58, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Images

"Current part"

What is this [1], Ajax? "Currently"? Were you not careful when you were writing this into the article, or you have had bad intentions?
I hope you weren't careful enough. Kubura 23:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

箍

Are you sure 箍 = 塊 in Taiwanese? I think 箍 means something else. [2] --Chochopk 05:23, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Currency name

Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style, currency unit should use local form, e.g. Chinese wen, not Chinese cash. If you have any concern, please discuss at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numismatics. --Chochopk 07:52, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

I understand your point. But this is rather an old topic. I think the style guide implies transliterating into Latin alphabets if the local language is not. If you still have concern, please go to the numismatic discuss page. --Chochopk 08:20, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Kuali = Guali

Hello :) I noticed that in this edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khwarezm&diff=32488817&oldid=32341386 you changed Kuali to Guali. Could you put in the authentic original Chinese characters for this transliteration and a source on the same article please? Many thanks.

You are a god!

FFX County routebox

I did what I could. I turned it into one box, instead of five small boxes. Here's what you need to do though: find a way to make a separation (such as a blank space or black line) between the various 'end' and 'beginning' sections, so that it doesn't look so overwhelming. The shields need to be changed, too, but I can work on this if you'll take care of cleaning up the article in general. --MPD01605 (T / C) 06:42, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Egerland

Thanks for creating the article! I'll try to add some info from the German wiki in the future. Olessi 05:18, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Names of the counties

You have my answer here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Križevci_(former_county) The move of the names was discussed and the reasons are explained there. PANONIAN (talk) 18:27, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Nizwa

In Arabic, "jama'" means "mosque" or "the place where people gather". It most likely refers to the Old Central Mosque not the city itself, as older natives simply call it "the jama'" or "the mosque" (according to the Wikipedia entry). However, there's no mention for this in the link you showed me. That article mentioned some of the famous mosques in Nizwa like "the famous jama' of Nizwa" and "jama' sa'al". If you'd like me to translate that article, drop me a line. ~MK (talk) 05:00, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

WP:NC(GN)

I apologize for spamming your talk page, but since you had contributed in the past to the WP:NC(GN) proposal, which is currently ready for a wider consultation, I thought you might want to give it another look now and, hopefully, suggest some final improvements. Thanks. --Lysy^talk 22:56, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Aden protectorate

I fully intend to see restored the minimal details you deleted on individual states. A list of Arabic names without any details makes about as much sence as a laundy list in Martian (except to those who already know). Fastifex 23:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

List of unincorporated towns in Virginia

Just curious, but where did you find references regarding the unincorporated towns? I live in the Hampton Roads/Tidewater area (Chesapeake for the last two years), and I cannot find any references to these being unincorporated towns. All real estate deeds, maps, etc etc ad infinitum refer to the city proper (Chesapeake vice Great Bridge, Virginia Beach vice Kempsville). Locals refer to the area by community name, owing back to the days prior to city incorporation, but that is for historical reference and community pride vice any legal entity. Even the wikipedia entry for Great Bridge lists it as a community. I wanted to touch base with you first before I remove those entries.

Supersquid 23:40, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

By definition, unincorporated towns are not legal entities. None of the other towns on the list are legal entities either. You are correct that they are communities and as Wikipedia notes, a town is a "a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands." It's just that the word community is extremely vague ("a group of people who interact and share certain things as a group") and the word town narrows the scope of the list to populated places that are not in the incorporated places lists at List of towns in Virginia and List of cities in Virginia. - AjaxSmack 23:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Ehhh that seems like a really slippery slope... if it isn't a city or incorporated town, then it's an unincorporated town, is what I take from that. Heh, then that list is woefully incomplete, because it leaves out places like Pungo, Blackwater, Uniontown, Back Bay, North Landing, Centerville... and these are just the places around where I live :-)

But I disagree that they're towns. They may have been (I know Pungo was) but in 1963 the entire county of Princess Anne was consolidated as the Independent City of Virginia Beach. In fact, if you read further down on the definition of town, in Virginia it states

In Virginia, a town is an incorporated municipality similar to a city (though with a smaller required minimum population), but while cities are by Virginia law independent of counties, towns are contained within a county.

By that definition, since Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Suffolk, Newport News, Hampton, and Portsmouth are all independent cities with no corresponding county, the communities in the list are not unincorporated and therefore shouldn't be on the list.

Supersquid 00:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

The passage you cite above refers to incorporated towns, i.e. those on the List of towns in Virginia. You're right that the list is woefully incomplete. That's why there's a Template:Virginia-stub tag at the bottom. The solution is to add Pungo, Blackwater, Whaleyville, etc. to the list. Otherwise, by your reasoning, the entire list should be deleted because none of the places on it are incorporated. (If you're worried about the list becoming too long, note the dearth of editing activity since its creation. If it does become a problem, the line "list of important population centers" is a green light to cull.) - AjaxSmack 00:40, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I dunno... I say that Yorktown is a perfect example to what I feel truly merits definition of an unincorporated town. Small population, no independent municipal government (ie no mayor, no city police) in a specific county (in this case, York County). Whaleyville has actually been incorporated into the Independent City of Suffolk, which does have it's own police force, it's own mayor, etc etc. Check out Census-designated place.

I'm not worried overly about the length of the list... and it's hard to determine what is considered admissible in a "list of important population centers." I figured if we went with the definition of actual Census Designated Places (aka unincorporated towns) then we keep the list accurate. Let's move this to the article's discussion page (where it should be... don't mean to clutter your user talk page lol), and maybe we can get some other user's inputs on this and make it worthy of Wikipedia.

Supersquid 01:05, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Beled Ingris

I think it means Land of the English. Beled (بلد) means country or land. But I'm not so sure about the meaning of Ingris. Some people, especially in Arabia, (informally) call the English people Ingris instead of Inglis (إنجليز). But I searched this on Google and didn't find much results. ~MK (talk) 13:35, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Pigs

I think "de-piped pig link" was one of my better edit summaries. Ben-w 22:20, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Appreciate

Appreciate your advising me that Skåneland, once again, is up for renaming discusson. Somewhere in the history we've lost the last debate, but I've resurrected some of the material. Skål - Williamborg (Bill) 05:20, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Virginia highways

I'm changing it to the State Route style in accordance with WP:USSH. --NE2 23:44, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Passing

The plan (if the move vote passes, as it looks like it will) is to split the 'Passing' section from Pass to become the disambig page for 'Passing'. That covers 'Overtaking'. --AliceJMarkham 23:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, the plan changed ever so slightly. I ended up reverting the split of 'Passing' from Pass and redirecting 'Passing' to 'Pass'. A couple of us got very enthusiastic about cleaning up the rather cluttered 'Pass' page. Much tidier all round if you ask me. :) --AliceJMarkham 07:59, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Al-Ahsa

Hi. Most of the those maps are not very old. They show Al-Ahsa as an Imara (principality) before the unification of Saudi Arabia. Al-Ahsa and most of the current main regions of Saudi Arabia were seperate in the past (19th and early 20th centuries). However, if you look at this older map [3], you'll notice the (yellow) region I was talking about.

"Bahrain up until 1521 comprised the bigger region of Ahsa, Qatif (both are now the eastern province of Saudi Arabia) as well as Awal (now Bahrain Islands). The region stretched from what is now Kuwait to Oman. This was Iqlim Al-Bahrain (Province of Bahrain). In 1521, the Portuguese separated Awal (now Bahrain) from the rest and since then the name of Bahrain specifically referred to today’s Bahrain." from [4].

"In early Islamic history, the name Bahrain applied loosely to the area embracing the oases of Hasa and Qatif on the eastern coast of Arabia as well as to the archipelago lying just a few miles offshore. Later the name came to be restricted to the islands." from [5] (also read more of that article and you'll find out how Al-Ahsa became a part of Saudi Arabia).

"In 287/900, the Qarmatians acquired control of Hajar, the seat of the Abbasid governor. The Abbasid caliph Mutadid (d. 289/902) sent an army of 2000 men against them, but were defeated. In 290/903, Hajar was finally subdued after a long siege laid by Abu Sa'id. He established his headquarters at al-Ahsa (or al-Lahsa), which became the capital of the Jannabid rule of the Qarmatians of Bahrain in 314/926." from [6].

See also: [7]. —MK (talk) 15:39, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I totally agree with you, but I think that using two different spellings (for Al-Ahsa/Hasa) isn't correct. However, both of them are acceptable transliterations, and both of them are used (in the past and at the moment). There's only one way to write the word in Arabic (الأحساء), but the pronunciation varies from a dialect to another. In formal Arabic, it's pronounced Al-Ahsa'. However, people there (in Al-Ahsa) call it El-Hasa. So I think it's better that Wikipedia sticks with one of them.

Al-Ahsa is the plural of Hessi (حسي), which means the rocky ground that is covered by a sandy layer, which stores rainwater. It was called Al-Ahsa because it had many of those grounds. Previously, it was called Hajr wal-Bahrain (هجر والبحرين), and then Ahsa' bani Sa'ad (أحساء بني سعد). Between 500 B.C. and 300 A.D., the principality of Al-Jarha (إمارة الجرهاء) existed on its lands. This was taken from [8].

As a side note, I'd like to tell you that I visited Al-Ahsa more than once last year. I noticed that InterContinental, which was probably the best hotel there, called their branch Al-Ahsa in English (see [9]). But still, many other sources call it Al-Hasa or whatever else. For example, Google translates it to Hassa, which is also an acceptable transliteration. If you search for it using Google, you'll find a variety of transliterations (google:الأحساء).

To sum up, I don't think that using two different spellings for this region here is an accurate thing. This happens to almost all Arabic names, even the most famous ones. The reason is that usually there's no one official/general way to write Arabic words in English. Personally, I think that Al-Ahsa is the closest spelling to the formal Arabic pronunciation, but I don't consider other spellings wrong. Are you sure of that Al-Hasa/Al-Ahsa refered to two different regions in English? Because I believe that's incorrect. —MK (talk) 13:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Move Lombard language

Hello, I noticed you warned Lorenzino about a new proposal of moving Lombard (lnguistics) page back to its natural title of Lombard language. Many thanks! Anyway, since this vote is still open, I kindly ask you oppose to the original move of Lombard language to Lombard (lnguistics). Sorry for not watching enough. Please, let's keep in touch. Bests, --10caart 11:19, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Request

Hey, would you mind checking out the Partium article to see if it's neutral now? It's gone through a lot of changes since you last edited it. Thanks, Khoikhoi 05:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Move request at First Republic of Czechoslovakia

I totally forgot to vote. Thanks for pointing it out. - TheMightyQuill 05:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

A number of things

(1) Have you noticed your talk page is a virginia stub? (2) Re any changing or shifting issues in the Indonesia project - it potentially sets a precedent for the whole WP Indonesia project - so please take this opportunity to look at the project as a whole - or place a comment on the Talk page of the project ratrher than an isloated article. Best wishes SatuSuro 11:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Please see the comments on the two (that we have found so far) regarding the change proposals, thanks SatuSuro 12:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Sources for districts

• You can find the districts of Kenya here: [10]
• Here are the zones of the Somali region of Ethiopia:[11]
• Here are the districts (woredas) of the Somali region of Ethiopia: [12]
• More Ethiopia maps here [13]
• Here are the regions of Somalia: [14]
• Here are the districts of Somalia: [15]

Thanks

Thanks a lot for the headsup. I'll do what's necessary.Cameron Nedland 04:03, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar

Hi! Please join us! Chris 07:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Using English

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 page. Thankyou. --Bob 16:05, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Labour Party (Netherlands) move proposal

Hey AjaxSmack,

You moved a proposal to move because you said you opposed, yet you didn't leave a comment as to why. Mind elobarating more on the issue?

cheers JackSparrow Ninja 02:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

RM

After five days with no discussion, this RM could use a simple endorsement. Gene Nygaard 06:14, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

RM

The page "Palatinate of the Rhine" has been moved to "Palatinate (region)". Navou ^banter / _{review me} 23:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

The page "Barbarism (grammar)" has been moved to "Barbarism (linguistics)". Navou ^banter / _{review me} 23:10, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Please check for redirects if you get a chance. Best regards, Navou ^banter / _{review me} 23:16, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

WP:RM request for graupel

Done, but I think there are some double (and triple) redirects left that I don't have time to chase down; please fix when you get a chance. Thanks. Opabinia regalis 23:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Trentino-Alto Adige

I noticed that Markusseup, John k, you and me are in favour of changing the name into Trentino-Alto Adige. Do we need to start another survey? --Checco 09:49, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki removal

Hmm... I don't think it's a bug. Maybe, there was an interwiki conflict? Now, I disabled interwiki removal function in bot. Thans for reporting a bug. - VasilievVV 06:11, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Mongolian barbecue

On 10 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mongolian barbecue, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

I love Mongolian barbecue and I had no idea about this, but it totally makes sense because I remember it being really popular in Taiwan among my cousins. --howcheng {chat} 18:51, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

AjaxSmack, very unfortunately, Mongolian Barbecue was not invented in Taiwan and it's a Japanese cuisine, "Jingisukan" (transliteration of Genghis Khan) invented around 1920s This name appears in a cookbook by 1926 with a first specialty restaurant by 1936. There is already the article on this in Japanese wikipedia [16] and thus I'm going to propose that either this article be moved to Jingisukan or completely rewritten from scratch. Also, the claim that Mongolian soldiers used their shield to cook meat is a fanciful tale invented after dish became popular. Shields that Mongolian troops had used were usually wood and covered with animal skins and thus impossible. --Revth 05:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Dokdo RM poll

Hey, could you participate in a new poll for Dokdo? The candidates include Liancourt Rocks, Takeshima, and the new Takeshima/Dokdo variations suggested by user:Macgruder. I'm informing you because you voted on the last poll. Thanks. (Wikimachine 18:56, 21 May 2007 (UTC))

A discussion at the ANI involving you

Hi AjaxSmack. There is ongoing discussion at the ANI where your name appeared. It is due to your restoration of a merge tag here. As per the ANI discussion, could you please try to leave a comment at the article page whenever you tag or restore {merge}. Thanks on advance. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 20:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Weinstrasse

I don't have anything to add on the discussion about what to call the one that runs through SUEW and DUEW, but I did notice you'd taken time to restructure and thereby to render the existing article more coherent. Needed doing. Thank you. Charles01 05:53, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Turkish district

Hey Ajax - the district(s) I mentioned were for Bozcaada - which now redirects to Bozcaada (district), and Gökçeada - which now redirects to Gökçeada (district). They originally kept going to Tenedos and Imbros, because there were users insisting upon such usage for those that are known under the Turkish (and proper) name - not the historical name(s). It is a 'happy' split, and one I can see the same for the whole "Province of Bolzano-Bozen" and "South Tyrol" conflict. Rarelibra 21:10, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Notability of Lithia water

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Creation of Yugoslavia

Can you please find version of text which speak about Banat, Bačka and Baranja so that this is not misleading and PANONIAN stop to play revert games. You are having census data on discussion page. For your information I having many revert wars with PANONIAN like users from Hungary and Romania because of his misleading articles in which he want to show how Vojvodina has always been Serbian land. I will not give you examples of this others discussions and revert wars it is better for you to stay out :)) --Rjecina 01:22, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I do not see this article like place nationalistic wars. I see 1 nationalistic user which is fighting against others user in his wish to sell his version of truth. With this cultural, polite policy we only support future conflict and new Hitlers which are creating new history to explain future wars. There is only one real history all others can ease become dangerous myths which we must fight. --Rjecina 14:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Slovácko

Hello. Sorry, now I see it is also used in English. It just seems quite weird for us, people of the Czech Republic, as the term "Moravské Slovensko", Czech equivalent of Moravian Slovakia, is not used in the country. In the Czech Republic, only Slovácko form is commonly used. - Darwinek 11:03, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

UAE disambigs

Hi Ajax. I will try to look through the various articles over the next week or so. To be honest, except for superficial edits, I've avoided the UAE. (Both odd and understable, I'd suggest.) I do agree with the broad principal that city and emirate should have their own articles. But it's been a couple of years since I've actually looked them. Marskell 19:42, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Page Move

Hello AjaxSmack, could you help us move South Tyrol to Province of Bolzano-Bozen as found through our discussions? It requires an admin to move the page because of Province of Bolzano-Bozen existing already. Icsunonove 21:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

History pages

Hi AjaxSmack, thanks for setting up the discussion. I've put in my $0.02. I more and more like this idea of moving the history content to Tirol. Then having the History of pages redirecting to there, but still have South Tyrol and Alto Adige redirect to Province of BZ (and likewise Trentino to Province of TN). Icsunonove 03:24, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I provided input at the discussion. Also, as I said there, I put top page links to Tyrol (disambiguation) to prevent any potential confusion. Also, I restructured the disamblig page for improved clarity on what are present-day political units and what are historical regions, so you may want to take a look at that. —AldeBaer 11:17, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Val Passiria

Yes I know... the same old, boring conflict Italian vs German name, but I think in this case i have the Naming Conventions on my side. Maybe you're interested, Mai-Sachme 16:04, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Please Help

Hi AjaxSmack, please, please help key an eye on Province of Bolzano-Bozen. We had a great group of editors finally move this page to the multilingual provincial name, as cited in Brittanica (!!). Gryffindor is now having a hissy fit and saying this is the work of some "Italian" sham vote. [17] Gryffindor is going back and reverting edits in mass [18]. I've personally had enough of Gryffindor's abuses on Wikipedia. Please give advice on how we can have him investigated for the Administrative abuses he has been guilty of since 2005. Icsunonove 05:08, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, changes in British India as yet unwarranted

Hi AjaxSmack, Sorry, I was busy, but that discussion that took place, I'm afraid, doesn't warrant any changes yet. I'm afraid the level of the discussion was poor, with most people not clear on the history. Such a change, as I suggest on the talk page, requires an RfC in History, Politics, and the India pages. Also you can't have British Indian Empire beginning in 1858. I think at this point, the best thing is to revert to the last stable version, and please consider replying to my suggestions on the talk page of British Raj. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 16:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Third Opinion request

The third opinion request for User talk:Stemonitis has been removed from WP:3o. Third opinion isn't really appropriate in this case since it seems you're basically trying to dispute the outcome of an admin's decision in closing an WP:RM discussion. Also, the discussion is still continuing with other editors on the article's talk page, which violates the 3o guideline of "two editors only." I'd suggest if you still want to bring other editor(s) into the discussion that you consider using WP:RFC/HIST or something like that. Otherwise, see if you reach another consensus with the continuing discussion at Talk:British Raj. --Darkwind (talk) 17:53, 28 August 2007 (UTC1)

You're Invited!

Hello! I thought you may be interested in joining WikiProject Dravidian civilizations. We work on creating, expanding and making general changes to Dravidian related articles. If you would be interested in joining feel free to visit the Participants Page! Thank You.

Wiki Raja 22:46, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Province of Bolzano-Bozen (BZ)

If you could please put in your opinion at the talk page, as a certain user has returned. Icsunonove 00:46, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Cheongsam

Alex, I would very much like to merge/improve the articles, but there's been a change in my work situation and I haven't got as much time available for this sort of thing as I used to...:)

It will also be tricky as the two articles need a major reworking to put them into some kind of shape.

Bathrobe 06:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Alex, for a long time I couldn't figure out what should be done to merge the articles on cheongsam and qipao without making major changes. I've finally figured it out. I don't think they need to be merged. I think it's fine to have separate articles. All that is needed is a change in naming.

At cheongsam, I've changed all occurrences of 'cheongsam' to changshan. That's the standard Chinese name for this male item of clothing. It was totally wrong to write the article using the Cantonese and English name 'cheongsam' which, as I pointed out ad nauseum, is different in meaning from the standard Chinese name changshan. With this change, and a few changes in the text, suddenly the article makes sense!

All that's needed now is for the article to be moved to Changshan. I realise that this is introducing yet another foreign word into English Wikipedia, but it seems the lesser evil than totally warping the meaning of 'cheongsam'.

I'm also thinking about moving qipao to the space left by 'cheongsam', but I'm not sure if this is necessary. The qipao article is highly annoying the way it switches between cheongsam and qipao from section to section, from sentence to sentence. I'm sure that Chinese speakers have a hand in this, but I also suspect that 'qipao' is also catching on in English as the new way of referring to the cheongsam.

Bathrobe (talk) 11:44, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: RM consensus

Hi AS;

I've already replied to it. I think it needs to be addressed as well. Charles 08:41, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Requested move for slayer article

Since you participated in related discussion, you might be interested in this.

Happy editing! --Qsaw ^(talk) 19:57, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Jazirat at-Tair

Yemen's Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation refers to the island as Jabal al-Tair Island. [19] It's also the most common use of the term across the internet. Of course, I'm just going on what I've been able to find, so I could be wrong. —Viriditas | Talk 05:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Template:Jimmy Buffett

When I created the Navbox music template, it had the groups across the top, so it looked very similar to what it did before I converted it. TigerK 69 has since been along and edited the Navbox music template so that the groups are now down the left. It may be best just to revert it back to before my edit if you would prefer it in the format it was in before. There's also a discussion about it all at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Musicians#Navboxes which you could comment on if you want saying that the groups look better across the top rather than down the side.

Halifax

I've attempted to make a first draft of a new Halifax, Nova Scotia article, in my userspace here. It's in a very rough-and-ready form, and needs a lot of tidying, sorting, and being made consistent, as well as a proper opening, before it's ready. But it should give an idea as to what I believe that article should contain. Your thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks, --RFBailey 17:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the support at the move proposal for the Amritsar Massacre, however it appears one oppose, one 'I don't care' and several supports isn't consensus. Narson (talk) 01:39, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Hisarlik

I may have replied testily; if so, I regret it. What would you consider evidence? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 05:35, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Category restoration

Sorry about removing the categories. I didn't know it is acceptable and it caused problems with automatic tagging of album articles with my bot. Seems that I have to find another workaround. Regards, Jogers (talk) 12:50, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

No worries, you didn't sound harsh at all. I use Jogersbot to add {{album}} tag to talk pages of articles about albums which haven't been tagged yet. I make a list of pages categorized as albums, convert them to talk namespace and automatically add the tags using Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser. The problem is that redirects generally shouldn't be tagged and the bot also automatically remove album tags from redirect's talk pages from time to time. Having redirects categorized as albums causes the bot to continuously add and remove the tag in the same page. Jogers (talk) 18:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Globalize tags at oil price

Hi, you've come upon an issue that is in the middle of being addressed. Could you give your view at the talk page on what could be done to make the article more globally applicable. What my impression of the hurdles to this are:

1. Oil is traded world wide in dollars... no way around that one.
2. The absolute purchasing power (see also here) of various currencies makes a direct comparison of exchange rates difficult for non-economists (OK, it's not easy for economists either)

Any suggestions?

Also, is there something you would add to or change about this section (note that there is more discussion of the European situation at the head of the Effects section)? Thanks, NJGW (talk) 07:07, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Tara Wilson move

Thanks for taking care of this for me. I'll be creating the page for the actress soonish. Alan (talk) 17:50, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Non-free images in discography and list articles

Please carefully read Wikipedia:Non-free content, and stop re-adding nonfree images in list articles such as discographies. There have been frequent conversations on this topic and consensus has held that such uses are not allowed. If you feel that policy or interpretation should change, you are welcome to join in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content, but please do not continue to edit disruptively to violate the current policy. Thanks. (ESkog)^(Talk) 18:17, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Brunei ringgit to dollar move

Just wanted to say thanks for the support of the move. --Novelty (talk) 01:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Unrelated to the above, but I've changed my conditional support to a support. --Novelty (talk) 04:16, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Kings of Cilicia

Considering your involvement at Talk:Levon V of Armenia#Requested move, can I get you to look at User:Srnec/Kings of Cilicia and tell me what you think of these proposed moves before I do them? It is designed to remove all inconsistency and ambiguity and favours English forms for non-Armenian names and whatever Armenian anglicisation is most popular in English texts for Armenian names. I am very open to changing "Thoros" to "Toros" or "Hetoum" to "Hethum" based on evidence of superior usage. Srnec (talk) 21:19, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Complete Opera Bloke (Kobbe)

Hi Aj, I was a bit out of the loop last week and too slow to get there with the article split, but the result seems good. Thanks for letting me know and asking, anyway! Best wishes, Sedgefoot (talk) 22:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Knock it off

I specifically deleted my comments because I felt they were non-contributory to the discussion, in an attempt to calm things down. You had no business UNdeleting them. Do not re-instate my comments. Just drop it already. --Hammersoft (talk) 04:07, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Template:Country data Zululand flag

Hi! I honestly have no idea about what needs to be done regarding flags, I just mass-protected them all because of the risk of vandalism. Could you please point your query to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Flag Template? east.718 at 02:51, February 22, 2008

Sorry, but I remain loathe to mess with things I have no knowledge about. I apologize for sending you around in circles, but as a last-ditch effort, could you run it by Andrwsc, who is active and is the most knowledgeable person regarding flags I'm aware of? Thanks. east.718 at 20:08, March 4, 2008

Mongolian tögrög

I have started a discussion at Mongolian tögrög about the proper name for the currency. The new criteria at the Numismatics project don't provide a clearcut answer. Numismatic catalogues, on Dove1950's own admission, use "tugrik" or "tughrik". But the Bank of Mongolia website uses "togrog". Google favours "Mongolian tugrik" over "Mongolian tögrög" by about 2,000:1, but Google results aren't among the criteria. I wonder if you have any insight on this?

(User:Latebird seems open to such a move if we can find recent data showing that "tugrik" is more common than "tögrög". His stance here is much less conservative (i.e. more receptive to new names) than it is at Ulaanbaatar, where even recent data on the growing popularity of Ulaanbaatar is not enough to convince him that Ulan Bator should be moved to Ulaanbaatar.)

Bathrobe (talk) 04:19, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Irkutsk

AjaxSmack, I noticed your comment at Ulaanbaatar:

None of this is controversial but it doesn't really matter anyway. Nice was never a part of Italy but the Italian name is listed prominently. Ditto with Nancy, Listing a foreign language name does not denote a territorial claim or signify any type of chauvinism, it's just part of the knowledge that makes up an encyclopedia.

In fact, I have tried listing the Mongolian name of Irkutsk, Эрхүү, at that article but ran into opposition from an American-Russian editor. I eventually backed down and deleted the name from the head of the article (and was unable to find a place in the article where it could be mentioned naturally), but I still feel as you do about the possiblility of listing foreign names -- listing them doesn't signify a territorial claim or chauvinism, just part of the knowledge that makes up an encyclopedia. Since Irkutsk was originally founded in Mongolian-speaking territory and is named after a river (the Irkut or Эрхүү) that ran in such territory, I can't see the harm in adding the name. At any rate, I wondered what you might think about a case like this.

Bathrobe (talk) 06:01, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for adding that. I think it's definitely better having the Buryat name there. I was able to confirm that Эрхүү was the Buryat name of the river, but had no information on the name of the city.

Bathrobe (talk) 07:26, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Qinghai Lake

Dear AjaxSmack! In your last edit you erased Mongolian and Tibetan names explanation from article text. In your commentary you are declaring these names as foreign. It would be not any news for you that Tibetans are native population for the region and the same with Mongolians. So why you call them foreigners?. You know, I guess, that the most part of Tibetans and Mongolians live in China and Qinghai Lake region is one of the territories historically populated with these nations. In simple words, they are native. But I can note that Mongolian name with using Cyrillic (not traditional Mongol alphabet) is not correct - only this sentence (Cyrillic) is possible clame foreign. Bogomolov.PL (talk) 06:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

belated re:Kings of Cilicia

Good for moving Smpad to Sempad. Sounds/looks better that way. If you wish to move Hetoums, I'd prefer Hethum, but I won't be bothered if they stay where they're at or go to Het'um. It's a small matter of preference (though one user got mad at me over it once and we got into a brief edit war/arguing match). Srnec (talk) 06:54, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Operation Straw Poll

Hi, since you took part in the discussion about renaming this article, you may be interested in participating in a most evil poll to determine the public opinion on the naming issue. --Illythr (talk) 20:06, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Treaty of Jassy was written in three languages, Russian, Arabic (Turkish) and German since a copy was forwarded to Russia's ally, Austria. Catherine IInd also was much more conversant in German then Russian.--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 00:59, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

When you say "It's also the Polish, Dutch, and Swedish name for Iaşi but that doesn't mean it's not English.", are you referring to the post-1944 sources to the operation in these languages? In any case, I'm not sure how that helps to discern what the English name should be.--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 02:55, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Yassy-Kishinev Strategic Offensive Operation

Just so you don't think I am advocating this from sheer stubbornness, my position is that good article research should discriminate between good and bad original research, even when it is the source for the article. I don't think reference work editors should compromise on article quality in any way as a proof of our integrity expected by users--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 01:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Milord (song)

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well done

On 17 March, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship Program, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Kulun

Hi! I just reverted an esit that removed the old spelling, but could you add a source to the Ulaanbaatar article for the ROC still referring to the city as Kulun? I have changed it into perfect tense for now as this whole recognition stuff has become much less clear-cut since 2002(?), but a source (or something official that uses the name, a Chinese site should do) would be nice anyway. The more recent the better, of course. I would try this myself, but my chinese is very rudimentary. Yaan (talk) 18:45, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Qing dynasty empresses redux

Thanks for your notice. I support the move. There should be no hyphen or CamelCase according to the rules of pinyin. I have left my opinion at Wikipedia talk:History standards for China-related articles. --Neo-Jay (talk) 04:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

While I support no hyphen and no camelcase, I don't understand the naming of empresses. I think I will observe before making a decision. Thank you for bringing this up =) Hanfresco (talk) 04:51, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Chinese wén

You've made a right dog's breakfast of this page now, haven't you? I hope you're please with yourself. You know perfectly well that there was no concensus for this move and yet you ploughed on regardless, ensuring as you went that the move could not be easily reversed. By all means retain the split for now but please restore the agreed nomenclature.
Dove1950 (talk) 16:22, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:TsaiChin-HuiDaoWeilai-cover.jpg)

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"Bangalore "vs "Bengaluru", again

The article on Bangalore has yet again been moved to "Bengaluru". That move was done hastily and in disregard of the long-running controversy about it and past lack of consensus for it. (It has also been made irreversible by ordinary editors.)
If your opinion is still that the article belongs at "Bangalore", please say so on the article's talkpage. -- Lonewolf BC (talk) 16:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Administrative divisions of the Maldives

The "duplicates" are necessary because not all the administrative divisions correspond to the natural atoll or the section of it. This is the case in certain atolls, like Faadhippolhu, which corresponds to the Administrative division "Lhaviyani".

However, North Malé Atoll and South Malé Atoll, together with Kaashidhoo Island and Gaafaru, form the administrative division known as Kaafu Atoll, which is not equal to the plain Male' Atoll.

The same can be said for Haa Alifu, Baa, Alifu Alifu, and other Administrative divisions of the Maldives which include smaller atolls and separate off-lying islands. Mohonu (talk) 08:52, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Moldavian/Moldovan

Hello. There's currently a dispute over which is the correct adjectival form of Moldova. It seems to me (as I've noted) that "Moldovan" is correct for the post-1991 republic, with "Moldavian" applying to the mediaeval principality of Moldavia and the Moldavian SSR. However, as you can see at Talk:Moldovan-Ukrainian relations, the dispute shows no signs of slowing down, so I suppose I'm requesting a comment from you there, particularly as this affects a range of articles. Thank you for your consideration. Biruitorul ^Talk 06:01, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Just so you know, I consider you rather an expert on naming conventions, plus you can't be accused of bias either way. I'm not sure why it's such an issue either, but, you know, things you'd never expect to be controversial have a way of appearing so here at times. Biruitorul ^Talk 15:01, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Established practice to use ß when it is commonly used in English

"We have established practice to use ß when it is commonly used in English, or there is no common usage in English." That is generally my sentiment too. Is that codified somewhere? — AjaxSmack 05:38, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

See WP:UE in general and the section "No established usage" for no common usage in English. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk)

But see the talk page also for an effort to state this, and the converse practice of using ss where it is common usage in English. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:37, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Your proposal

Just in case you hadn't noticed, I moved your diacritics proposal to a separate page, WP:Usage of diacritics.--Kotniski (talk) 07:57, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

The Great Hunger: the "favourite hate" name poll

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need some help

AjaxSmack, I need some good advice from you. I’m new in English Wikipedia and hardly understand the rules and traditions of the Project. I really do not understand why user JPG-GR decided that the result of my proposal on the Livonian Order talk page should be called "no consensus". I bet he even didn’t read the discussion. 6 users (including myself) supported the move and only 3 opposed. There were even more opposers to move 3 Williams to Wilhelms, but these articles were moved. For a long time the page Livonian Order was a redirect to Livonian Brothers of the Sword, until in November 2007 Termer decided that this is a good name for an article about Teutonic Order in Livonia. I have shown that the name Livonian Order is ambiguous and even incorrect. I have shown that the correct name often appears in historical books on the subject. I have even shown that the same name is used in mediaeval documents up to the end of the Livonian branch in 1561. I just can’t believe that this all was for nothing. Maybe some of my phrases were grammatically incorrect or even funny, because I’m not native English speaker, but I don’t think that it is a good reason not to read my comments. I almost fall to pieces. AjaxSmack, do I have any way to appeal that decision? — Albert Krantz. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.81.133.163 (talk) 07:24, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

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Ottawa roads move request

Failed. Maybe you can get an administrator to move them. I really don't feel like taking this to "other proposals", especially for something that should be unanimous. --Pwnage8 (talk) 15:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much for what you've done. Much appreciated. --Pwnage8 (talk) 05:46, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Chinese cash

I would voice my support, but I wish to avoid anything directly involving WikiProject Numismatics. The "discussions" related to numismatic articles call up visions of angels dancing on the head of a pin. I personally feel that time would be better spent on article content rather than form. And speaking of content, the article, whether called wen or cash, is inaccurate and misleading. I wish you luck in what you are trying to accomplish, but I suspect you are facing an unending struggle when it comes to WikiProject Numismatics.Sivasova (talk) 23:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

I, too, don't care much about WikiProject Numismatics guidelines. I only became involved there because the previous version of guidelines directly conflicted with WP:CN and WP:UE. The root of my argument about Chinese cash rests on UE, CN, and WP:OR arguments which are supported by the newer numismatic guidelines. I encourage you to weigh in the debate no matter what your opinion and regardless of how you feel about the numismatic guidelines.

You say, "the article, whether called wen or cash, is inaccurate and misleading." Specifically what are you referring to? I have had some influence over the article content although the current version is User:Dove1950's iteration on the topic. Per your earlier comments on the talk page, the non-wén meanings of "cash" have been forked off into separate articles listed at Chinese cash. Though this may be overkill, there are many cash coins that were not cash (wén) denominated, some cash-denominated coins that were not struck copper cash, and then there's the weight measure called cash. This may be confusing but Wikipedia should reflect English usage which was and is to use "cash" for all three meanings. When this usage was established over a century ago, we didn't have Wikipedia talk pages to sort things out.

Also, I am interested to what unending struggle are you referring to vis-à-vis WikiProject Numismatics you are referring. — AjaxSmack 20:09, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I really do not wish to be drawn into any discussion involving WikiProject Numismatics, but you deserve some indication of why I said "inaccurate and misleading" in regard to the cash/wen articles.

Entry: Chinese cash

• Cash (Chinese coin)

(1) The traditional Chinese cash coin (round with square hole) was brozne or brass. Yes, I know bronze/brass coins are copper coins, but there is even a distinction in Chinese between "green" and "yellow" cash. The non-traditional "cash" common after 1880 were copper coins and were sometimes called coppers or copper cash in English (to distinguish them from traditional cash). In Chinese, the former were referred to as 制錢 zhìqián, the latter as 洋錢 yángqián.

• Chinese cash (currency)

(2) Should read (currency unit). "Wen" is a currency unit (denomination), something abstract, a word or counter that appears on currency, which is physical.
(3) "Wen" was often used on paper money. It very, very rarely appeared on cash coins before the late 19th century, when it came into regular use on the new copper cash coins.

• Cash (mass)

(4) The "and a currency equivalent to that weight in silver" could be dropped. It is misleading. English "cash" was never used in connection with silver currency.

Article: Chinese wén, Section: History

(5) The first paragraph does not explain the usage of "wen" and misleadingly implies that many currency units were employed.
(6) Second paragraph: "...usually 1000." The "number of coins in a string" as money of account was always 1000. The number of coins on a (physical) string was virtually never 1000.
(7) Second paragraph: "...equal in value to...." The copper:silver exchange rate was first fixed at 1000 cash = 1 tael in 1376 under the Ming and lasted but briefly. The official rate was again fixed at 1000 cash = 1 tael silver under the Qing in 1647. This was an ideal rate used for keeping government financial accounts. The actual market rate was different (the only time that a cash coin actually weighed 1/10 ounce with the market rate at 1000 per silver tael was probably in 1684-1702).

I am not saying that all of this data should appear in the article but I do think that an accurate and coherent simplified article cannot easily be written by someone who ignores such matters/distinctions. The Chinese coins article is excellent but stops in the 11th century. Chinese currency provides a brief (and again, in my opinion, a misleading and inaccurate) continuation. There is no article that provides a summary of Chinese monetary history.Sivasova (talk) 15:18, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

These all sound like important points and are consistent with what I've read. You will notice that I had modified the current move request to read "Chinese cash (currency unit)" as you prefer and asked for suggestions if there are other preferred titles. Please add to the debate if you wish. Also, would you consider editing and/or adding the information you presented above to the respective articles? — AjaxSmack 15:04, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

The article has now been moved. That may be the easy part. As it is, however, the body of the article is entirely written from the point of view of calling the currency wén. I think it needs a bit of rewriting to harmonise the title and the body.

Bathrobe (talk) 01:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Here is a previous incarnation from early this year written in "WP:UE POV": User talk:AjaxSmack/Sandbox/Chinese cash (currency). As far as the article as it stands now, the first picture should be axed since it doesn't deal specifically with the currency unit. (It's already at Cash (Chinese coin)). Some of the info in the history section was copied from Cash (Chinese coin) and is more relevant there since it deals with the type of coin and not the currency unit. I'll get to it when things cool down. I would like it if User:Sivasova would edit the article to address his/her concerns (listed above) as well. — AjaxSmack 01:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I am not competent enough to write on this subject. I do not know anything about the use of wén as a denomination before the 20th century. Someone with a knowledge of Chinese needs to consult original Chinese sources and clarify the usage of wén.

Was wén really introduced as a currency unit in 621? Zhou inscriptions had indicated a coin's value, but the Tang inscribed their cash coins with Kai Yuan Tong Bao.

For about 13 centuries there was virtually only one coin in China, the traditional cash. The name of this coin was qian and, evidently, the denomination was one wén. In any event, English used the same word, cash, for both Chinese words.

Compare this to the situation in England, where the only coin for over five centuries was the silver penny (also known, for a time at least, as an esterlin or sterling). And no denomination was inscribed on it. The English, however, also used foreign coins, so the accounting system was more complex, and English-minted gold and other silver coins were in common use by the 14th century.

The first (non-ephemeral) non-cash (and non-copper) coin to circulate in China was the Spanish dollar from the Mexico City mint. It began circulating in Canton. When? The late 18th century? Certainly the Spanish dollar (yuan) was circulating south of the Yangtze by the time the first Chinese dollar/yuan was minted in 1837. The regular minting of Chinese silver coin only began in 1890.

Someone needs to explain how and when the different Chinese currency and accounting units were used during the Imperial period. And that is something I cannot do. — Sivasova (talk) 04:37, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

British India

Your input would be appreciated at Talk:British Raj#What to do about British India. Xn4 (talk) 22:35, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Pacman_Jones#Requested_move_to_Adam_Jones_.28football.29_revisited

I would like to solicit feedback concerning moving this to Adam Jones (football). It makes sense to me, but is there consensus? Please opine in the section of the article talk page. Cheers, Dlohcierekim's sock (talk) 20:44, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

dab pages

Well... if I don't place a hatnote in place, people won't find things, so

1. place hatnote
2. request a dab page at AFC
3. remove hatnote and replace with a dabpage link
4. request a move at WP:RM

There's no way around placing a very large hatnote in place, so it can't be a WP:POINT. And I thought WikiPedia isn't a bureaucracy? I only requested a move for an article I was pretty sure wasn't supposed to be primary anyway. (I have done steps 1-3 for other aticles, without the WP:RM, when I don't think it's necessary) 70.51.8.75 (talk) 08:06, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

North China Daily News Building - Shanghai

Thanks for your earlier request. I have loaded the above mentioned image as requested. You might also notice that I have uploaded as many as possible images for the individual historic buildings on The Bund.Let me know if I can help further.Simonfieldhouse (talk) 21:49, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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Koroška

Vou have opposed the move of "Carinthia (Province)" to "Koroška" on language grounds and wish to retain the English name "Carinthia".
The problem is that the Slovene European-Union region of Koroska is no longer identical with the part of old Carinthia that was ceded to Yugoslavia in 1919. If you look at the link provided you will see that the area of the new statistical region which the Slovene government now calls "Koroška" is about twice as large and includes a sizeable portion of Lower Styria that had never been Carinthian, an area which the Slovenes themselves still consider Styrian (Štajerska). Štajerska itself, i.e. the Slovene-speaking "Lower Styria" portion of the Habsburg Duchy of Styria exists now now merely as an idea, because it has been split into statistical regions in which that ancient name does not appear any longer, whereas for completely obscure reasons the Slovenian government wishes to keep the name "Koroška" alive.
I am of the opinion that the local name of a foreign part for which there has never existed an English name could very well be accepted into English terminology. English usage has accepted new local names even for places and areas that used to have an English name. Where has "Rhodesia" gone or "Bohemia and Moravia"? What about Formosa and Ceylon? Don't you call these islands Taiwan and Sri Lanka now? I've even been told off for using on WP the century-old English spelling of "Hapsburg"! Marschner (talk) 15:11, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

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OK. Your logic makes as much sense as mine. Thanks for responding. Finetooth (talk) 17:53, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

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Glad we agree

"This is an encyclopedia for the general reader, not a work of taxonomy". I'm glad we agree. --Born2cycle (talk) 03:17, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Interstate 840

Just wanted to drop a note regarding your moving of categories to redirects, as you did with Interstate 840 (Tennessee). I've removed those Interstate categories, as 840 in particular is not part of the Interstate highway system...it was built entirely by the state of Tennessee to avoid the stricter Federal regulations regarding construction of such roads. Those categories really should have never been added to the main article in the first place! Seeing that you've recently performed a number of such category moves, you may want to go back and check out those other articles to see if any others should have such categories purged. Cheers! — Huntster (t • @ • c) 10:50, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

"Dj"

Sorry you had to hear the same thing three times on that talk page. That wasn't my intention when I wrote the first reply to your comment. Dekimasuよ! 03:49, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

• I intended to say something slightly different than Dekimasu at Talk:Marko Đoković; in any case, you have not replied. I have seen your note on Noerten/Northeim, and I trust that will converge. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 16:19, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Converge to consensus, as it seems to be doing.
  • I do not believe, any more than you, that dropping diacritics by itself makes something English; but there is significant evidence (all the sources to the article, for example) that Marko Djokovic is what English writers use, and Marko Đoković isn't. (If you see this repeated there, consider it laziness, and respond where most convenient.) Septentrionalis PMAnderson 17:45, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

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Move

I left you a reply at Talk:A World to Believe In. ^~Moon~月と日の出 ^~Sunrise~ 18:37, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Twilight zone

You added that there is a line backtracked into the song in March 2008. I've never heard of this and am surprised it has not been questioned. I couldn't find it on Youtube and Google did not show any good results for the line. Daniel Christensen (talk) 07:32, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Reply here. — AjaxSmack 20:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Abuse filter: False positives

The specific filter that was triggered by your edit has been disabled, not the entire abuse filter. Anyhow, are the restrictions still in place? --Conti|✉ 01:23, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Just found the tool to give users back the autoconfirmed status. Seems you still (or again) have yours, tho, so everything should be in order now. --Conti|✉ 01:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Inflation

A second unilateral move has been made here, this time to Inflation (financial). I'd like to request intervention to restore the status quo ante until the issue can be properly discussed. It is highly inappropriate for issues to be decided by unilateral action. JQ (talk) 21:18, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Alawi

I continue to prefer Alawi or Alawite as what English actually uses; sorry to have missed it. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:Seven

This deserved promotion. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:11, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

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Bria Valente

Nice work sourcing the Bria Valente article. I've been meaning to get to it but haven't had the time. Good to see WP isn't completely overrun by deletionists these days, although it seems that way at times. dissolve^talk 22:54, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Bern(e)

Hi there! I just withdrew my opposition at Talk:Berne#Requested move after checking the numerous UK sources that use "Bern". Since you opposed per my reasoning, I thought it migth be a good idea to let you know :) Jafeluv (talk) 12:28, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Input requested

Ajax, since that move was closed (and the move made), the decision has been questioned, and your opposition has been mentioned. If you could review the relevant discussions at Talk:Bern and User talk:Aervanath and throw in your current input, that would be helpful. Thanks. --Born2cycle (talk) 21:51, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Request move

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Ten-ton can of ravenous, man-eating worms

Ajax, "Fausto Veranzio" aside, I'm getting a headache just thinking about the amount of hellfire I'll be dealing with if this guy gets incentive. We're talking about a textbook Italian nationalist account trying to "italianize" Dalmatian/Croatian/Montenegrin articles. There are now maybe a dozen blocked accounts (off the top of my head [20][21][22][23] etc...) of the exact same type and each one caused an enormous mess before the community got the idea. This is standard-issue irredentist ultra-right-wing nonsense that's kept quiet for the last 18 months or so. Supporting this in any way is a mistake, a BIG one... --DIREKTOR ^(TALK) 20:06, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Are you pride sir of your behaviour? Using arguments ad personam, throwing discredit on a respectable user on another users talkpage just because you want to make your position prevail. How can you imagine AjaxSmack or other user can believe you anymore? --Theirrulez (talk) 20:36, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Gazi Husrevbegova džamija, Sarajevo

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2008 South Ossetia War title

I made a proposal before the move request, which I think represents a decent compromise on the main issues.--The Devil's Advocate (talk) 17:54, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Mafia - offer you can't refuse

You posted messages on both talk pages, saying discuss it on the other! Make yr mind up please. Johnbod (talk) 03:03, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Requested move of Punjab_(Pakistan)

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Fausto Veranzio move redux

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Requested move - Côte d'Ivoire --> Ivory Coast

Hi. Just thought you would like to know that I have reposted the request for moving Cote d'Ivoire to Ivory Coast, as I thought it was time for this to be discussed again, and that the last request was inappropriately closed with a "No Consensus"-decision. I also reposted your old argument for the move.TheFreeloader (talk) 03:10, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

China-Africa

Vote for consensus. There's a vote for consensus at Talk:Involvement of the People's Republic of China in Africa#Rename. I'm re-proposing a name: Economic relations between the People's Republic of China and Africa. I saw you preferred 'Economic relations between China and Africa'; there doesn't appear to be consensus for that version. Could you support this one? Ocaasi (talk) 04:39, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Rosmuc(k)

Hello, just thought I'd stop by to let you know I've responded to your comment on the Rossmuck talk page. aineolach (u · d · c) 21:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Commenting

Hello AjaxSmack,

I noticed these two edits of yours, [24], [25]. Just letting you know, that when you have a query or a comment, it is a rule of thumb to put a *'''Comment''' and then your statement, just like you would if you were supporting or opposing the proposal. For example:

• Support per nom.
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• Comment isn't the use of a comma with placenames an Americanism?

I hope you understand I truly appreciate your efforts at requested moves, and I just thought I'd let you know of this. Thanks, warrior4321 00:09, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Country subdivisions

Talk:Departments of Côte d'Ivoire - request withdrawn. Since you seem to have interest in organizing things, maybe you can have a look at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(geographic_names)#Country_subdivisions - would you support table inclusion? It would give the people an overview about how to name country subdivision articles. Currently there is no central overview. Schwyz (talk) 20:25, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

King County

Talk:King County (disambiguation) - I added a 4th one, namely King County, Queensland. TakakaCounty (talk) 10:05, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Coţofeni culture

Hi, AjaxSmack. Could I please ask you to take a second look at the discussion at Talk:Coţofeni culture? Not sure if it will sway your opinion, but hey, it might. - Biruitorul ^Talk 13:56, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

White Rabbit

Hello AjaxSmack. Could I ask you to take a look at the discussion at Talk:White Rabbit? 75.142.152.104 (talk) 03:39, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

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Homs/Hims Categories

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Bronx/The Bronx

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F A G G O T

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My requests at WP:RM

Hi there. I was wondering why you contested to my requests at RM, since you didn't leave one in the edit summary. I'd like to point you to WP:TITLE which says that shorter titles are preferred, and "only as precise as is necessary to identify the topic of the article unambiguously." Since there are no other places with those names, the titles I proposed are appropriate. ~DC ^{We Can Work It Out} 03:58, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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Legend-ary

Hey. I believe you've made a mistake in the last word in your reply at Talk:Legendary. You probably meant to use "legendary" there. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 04:16, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

American Civil Rights Movement

I have proposed moving the African-American Civil Rights Movement pages. You can join in the discussion at: Talk:African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–1968)#Proposed_Move Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 23:28, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

invite to discuss Kosovo geographic names

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Jadeite Cabbage

Hi, do you mind if I move your hook to go live on 26/27th? The GLAM WIKI conference could do with being highlighed by a non US/UK hook? Victuallers (talk) 18:06, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Jadeite Cabbage

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Diacritics

Hello - I agree that if Walesa should be moved, then Milosevic would be a good candidate for renaming as well. I'm not trying to single out Walesa - his was just the first article where I noticed this issue. This is also not a crusade against diacritics or "foreign-sounding things". There are many articles where I think WP:DIACRITICS means the diacritics should remain. You mentioned the hundreds of Polish politician articles. I would imagine that the vast majority of those pages would keep the diacritics, because they're either written that way in English-language sources, or there isn't sufficient info to determine a common English-language version.

And I understand your concern with the piecemeal approach and the inconsistency it breeds as articles are changed one by one. My concern with the mass renaming proposal is that while there are many clear candidates for renaming, there are bound to be many borderline cases, and I'm afraid of getting bogged down in a massive Wikipedia debate fest that accomplishes nothing tangible, which is why I'm trying an incremental approach. If you have any suggestions for an alternative approach, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Dohn joe (talk) 23:39, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello again. Interesting how these diacritical move requests are proceeding, no? Anyhow, I was just trying to get a better feel for some people's positions, and so I thought I'd ask you this: I was browsing the requested move page, and saw that you wrote in the Talk:Tarahumara#Move.3F discussion that English usage is more important than Spanish or local usage. I was wondering how that squared with your opposition to "Lech Walesa" for example. I'm genuinely interested - not trying to posture or change your mind. Just trying to see where people are coming from. Thanks. Dohn joe (talk) 18:18, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

I am a strong proponent of a strict interpretation of WP:UE. In numerous cases including primarily geographical names (e.g., my favorite, Côte d'Ivoire and others such as the current RM at Talk:Marseille) but others too (e.g., cheongsam, not qipao; Chinese cash (currency), not Chinese wen). I even have proposed moving people to non-diacritic names if the subjects themselves didn't use them (e.g., Ahmet Ertegun). However, as I noted before, I oppose removing diacritics from names of people notable in areas where such diacritics are used. While many newspaper style manuals prohibit most or all diacritics, Wikipedia does not. More importantly, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a newspaper, and its usage should reflect that of similar higher calibre sources, e.g. other encyclopedias or books on the subject. Finally, unlike obscuring quality of the pedantic usage of truly different foreign-language terms, diacritics, in my estimation, have zero negative effect on a reader's ability to comprehend the subject. — AjaxSmack 04:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

I think Côte d'Ivoire is everyone's favorite. As for Walesa, isn't he notable outside of Poland? To me, the situation is analogous to placenames. If there's no general English-language usage of a placename, then using the local name is fine; likewise, if there's no general English-language usage of a person's name, then Wikipedia should probably use the local version. But Walesa has an established English version of his name - and it appears in reputable encyclopedias and books. And what about the argument that Walesa himself seems to use "Walesa" when presenting himself in English? Anyhow, I think it's an interesting issue - thanks for your thoughts. Dohn joe (talk) 19:27, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Civil Rights Movement

Hi, in my comment at Talk:African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)#Requested_move I've informally suggested Civil Rights Movement (United States, 1955–1968) (etc.) as an alternative. What do you think of that? (replying there, if you choose to reply, would be preferable to me - thanks). --Born2cycle (talk) 18:00, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

kingdom of sardinia RM

Thanks a lot, I'll try to be more clear..[[26]] By --Shardan (talk) 16:19, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Xiaochi

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DYK for Xiaochi

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White Rabbit (disambiguation) requested move

• White Rabbit (disambiguation) → White rabbit —AjaxSmack? Macr86 (talk) 02:51, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

  AjaxSmack, AjaxSmack, my name is Macr86. Macr86 (talk) 02:54, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

  AjaxSmack, I can't move White Rabbit (disambiguation) to White rabbit. Now, I need your help to get move back to the article White rabbit. Macr86 (talk) 02:56, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

New Grove online

For Chopin's Polish songs, you kindly added the ref "Oxford Music", Kornel Michałowski and Jim Samson. Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek as equivalent to Jim Samson. Now I found a similar entry for Alfred Dürr, A Dürr, now an External link. I could imagine that it is also equivalent to a New Grove entry. How could I ref that? (I will watch here.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

The cite is:

• Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Konrad Küster. "Dürr, Alfred". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Retrieved 8 January 2011.

— AjaxSmack 21:25, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! Dürr in prep, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:35, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of General average/New version for deletion

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Thanks

Thank you for adding the pages to Republic of China – South Africa relations. I meant to do it but forgot. Thanks again!--TM 13:41, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry that I didn't reply; I was out of town and without Internet access for several days. Thanks for the note and for the work! Nyttend (talk) 02:40, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live

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Primary topic textbook case

At Talk:Washington (U.S. state)#Requested move you wrote: This seems to be a textbook case of no primary topic (as explained at WP:PRIMARYTOPIC). - I guess that would be textbook case number 2: Talk:Chihuahua#Requested move - Chihuahua (state)? What can be done, is there any proof of primary topic required, or is it pure voting? TopoChecker (talk) 00:15, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Volusia County Road 4011

I thought you may be interested in AfD. SEE: County Road 4011 (Volusia County, Florida), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/County Road 4011 (Volusia County, Florida). Gamweb (talk) 17:21, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Jack Towers

I was doing some minor editing on this, and noticed that the date of death in the intro and infobox don't match. Could you take a look at this and see which is correct? AlexiusHoratius 17:34, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

The incorrect date may have derived from a New York Times obit of Towers that originally listed the date as 28 Dec but has since been corrected. — AjaxSmack 22:41, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Shirlington Circle

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DYK for Jack Towers

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Proposed deletion of Uttering

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Irish version of names

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What does a king do? ANy information? Thank you.

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Re:DAB links

I wasn't assuming anything...it was a simple mistake. It happens. thanks for the catch--User:Woohookitty ^{Disamming fool!} 02:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Christian Zeal and Activity

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DYK for American Standard (John Adams)

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Nomination of Uttering for deletion

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Name Change - Changbai Mountains

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"Get over it"

Get over it, we have POLICIES (god damn it) that enforce the standard that China is NOT the state. --HXL's Roundtable and Record 05:04, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic

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Talk:Guandong province

I closed that move request as no consensus. Feel free to do the merges you suggested if those are right since there were no objections.

Also you may want to consider auto archiving your talk page to manage the length. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:09, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Move BRICS to BRIC?

• See Talk:BRICS#Continued discussion. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:01, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Candy bar

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Dire warning

Don't force me to clean up after you like this again. You should know better than that. —Xiaoyu: 聊天 (T) 和 贡献 (C) 23:09, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Ref

Hi

I just looked up that Vandalia ref and noticed that the Google book search gives it as on page 41. If I am right I wanted to mention it as I can see it might get you into more upset if the other person spots it. Chaosdruid (talk) 13:52, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

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DYK nomination of Perpetual Diet of Regensburg

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Ordos

What about "Ordos (city)" or, even better, "Ordos (prefecture level city)"? The comment by the only other commentor on the talk page so faruser:Tapered gives (IMHO) yet another example of how misleading the current title is. Regards, Yaan (talk) 11:31, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Perpetual Diet of Regensburg

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Republic of China

Just wondering, do you think of the ROC then and now as separate distinct political states or are they the same continuous states? Liu Tao (talk) 14:10, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

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Chinese names of American personalities

Hello. I put back your leed paragraph for Matt Fong. You were right and User:HkCaGu was wrong. I have been having the same problem with him at Talk:Michael_Woo#Chinese_and_middle_names, and the next two sections after that one. Also the source he used for Matt Fong's full name is not Reliable. I hope you can take a look at what has been going on at Mike Woo and keep your eye on it. Thank you so much. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 07:15, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Motte and bailey page move

The move cropped up on my watchlist and I found the reason, specifically "precision - article is about a type of castle, not only mottes and baileys", is a bit puzzling. Could you elaborate on that? Nev1 (talk) 19:15, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Chinese cobra

Hey, I made a request to move Naja atra to Chinese cobra per WP:COMMONNAME. This species is known by the vernacular name "Chinese cobra" worldwide, not just in English, but in almost any language you can think of. I would really appreciate your support at Wikipedia:Requested moves and it is listed under date January 9, 2012. Thanks. Bastian (talk ★ contribs) 20:30, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Indigenous_inhabitant#Requested_move

You seemed to be the only one making sense in that discussion, and your pointed questions stood unanswered, so I also initially opposed. However, I've since changed my mind. You might too. Check it out if you haven't already. --Born2cycle (talk) 18:49, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

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South Tibet/ Arunachal Pradesh / Arunachal Pradesh dispute / South Tibet dispute

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Sammy Who?

The second infobox is pretty distracting and I am for it to remove it from the article. Or you convince me it is a notable cover. Regards.♫GoP♫_T^C_N 12:24, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Zombie articles

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Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons

Invitation to diacritics guideline discussion at WT:BLP

Hi, you were one of 100 Users who has commented on a living person Requested Move featuring diacritics (e.g. the é in Beyoncé) in the last 30 days. Following closure of Talk:Stephane Huet RM, a tightening of BLP guidelines is proposed. Your contribution is invited to WT:BLP to discuss drafting a proposal for tightening BLP accuracy guidelines for names. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:04, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Feel free to duplicate this invite on the pages of others who have commented, for or against. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:10, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

I do appreciate your help to get this to actually 'stick' this time, in some MOS somewhere. Thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:22, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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Removal of accuracy line from WP:AT

Hi you might wish to note this, restored after deleted 7 days. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:14, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for 3-6-3 Rule

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Requested move of Côte d'Ivoire

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Kahlil Gibran

Hello AjaxSmack, and hearty apologies for my error in the discussion earlier, now rectified! Zarcadia (talk) 21:18, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Move to "Street dog" as per WP:COMMONNAME

Terribly sorry, but if you would please add the word "support" bracketed by six apostrophes if your comment on the move from Urban free-ranging dog to Street dog was meant to support the move. I think a reader of your words would understand it to be intended as your support for the move, but it's not 0 clear with typing Support at the beginning. Chrisrus (talk) 03:01, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Oilgate

Hi, thanks for speaking up in the BLP RMs; re Oilgate, what are you proposing moving the South African scandal to? In ictu oculi (talk) 06:24, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi, you missed one of the three Vietnamese RMs Bánh bò. :) btw have you noticed that there's been an upsurge in the selective use of full Vietnamese spelling - not necessarily of people/towns but of other Vietnamese words and phrases - both in English sources and print media. Since Thanh Nien Weekly was renamed Vietweek the web and print edition are using full spelling for native words.

Aside from that, can I ask if you yourself know any Vietnamese / have any interest in editing Vietnam articles? I'm just curious. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:41, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Vietnamese)#RfC_on_spelling]]

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DYK for Jacobiasca formosana

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Your technical move request

Hello AjaxSmack. Please see Talk:Bat lau dung laai#Alternative move to Cantonese transcription. You should probably discuss this move with Deryck Chan if you think this was a bad idea on his part. If you disagree, the best plan is to ask Deryck what options for appealing his decision he can suggest. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 02:34, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

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Halligen

You probably should note that among Kauffner's other actions/moves/redirects since the stall of the Sockpuppet investigation was to add Halligen to User:Kauffner/RM incubator, in all set of actions that is a fairly clear indicator that he believes he has got away with the IP puppeting on all the RMs, and intends to resume business as normal. I will add Halligen to my watchlist though I doubt he'll use an IP to hide a previous RM again.
On a more positive note, it seems that there's a reasonably firm consensus to restore the damage done to WP:VN articles. Zaldax has suggested that it's time to start editing Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Vietnamese) to remove the anti-Vietnamese titles/text content. Will you be part of rewriting this? In ictu oculi (talk) 09:16, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Chu Ke-liang

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DYK for Chu Ke-liang

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Hi there

Ni hao. How do you do that clever stuff whereby you get Amazon page view chunks to show in RMs. Is it possible to do so with a CD cover like this or would that be copyright even for illustrative use? ..and btw, speaking of whom, just have a look at Jimbo (temporarily) on Talk:Đặng Hữu Phúc! In ictu oculi (talk) 05:30, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

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Hi

Welcome back. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:35, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

RM at Talk:Crimean Karaites

Hi AjaxSmack, I'm trying to assess consensus at the Crimean Karaites RM. Consensus appears to be leaning towards a move. I noticed your opposition was based on the originally proposed destination, and I was wondering if you feel the same way about the RM as it now stands. --BDD (talk) 19:01, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi

Just noticed that two RMs you took part in in 2010 were moved counter result/your vote in Feb 2012 and locked. Don't recognise other editors as still being active. Do you want to be informed of specifics or at this point is ignorance bliss? Otherwise hope you are well. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 23:55, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Okay, in that case then they are Talk:Chữ Nôm and Talk:Hán tự, but actually 2007, and I personally don't have any energy for yet another RM for a RM result to be restored. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:15, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I'd forgotten about above till recent undiscussed moves. This reminds me that you have longer history than myself in participating in RMs on this subject. In recent db-G6 counter RM results the new redirect WP:VIETCON is being cited. Do you recall that "guideline" ever actually being adopted as a guideline or passing any consensus before have a guideline box added to it? I cannot see anything in the history to suggest so, even though it is moot anyway following the 23 majority on that recent RfC. Can you recall? In ictu oculi (talk) 04:11, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

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I'm just curious about the rationale for deleting File:Vijayanagara flag.png. (I've never seen the file but it was linked from a Wikipedia article I edited.) The discussion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Vijayanagara flag.png is quite cryptic with only three words of total argument on either side. Reply at en:User talk:AjaxSmack if you could. Thanks. AjaxSmack (talk) 02:20, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

I looks like it was an error. Since it is in use in several places, the reason given for deletion, "unencyclopedic", was not valid. I have restored it. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 10:59, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Yield sign Straw Poll

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3x RMs not enough

FYI. Same old towns at Talk:Cần Thơ being undiscussed-moved and db-G6-moved yet again. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:09, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for catching Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nộm. If you're wondering why I supported Haiphong in the above new RM, it seems clear it is an exonym. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:25, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Season's tidings!

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Happy New Year, belated

Hi there, had a happy new year period I hope? You remember the Talk:Hán tự RM above? I've been improving the article, and the subject of the article is chữ nho, "Confucian script" (as per the majority of English sources, even Lonely Planet), but in Vietnamese texts chữ Hán "Chinese script is more common and chữ Nho is often capitalized, perhaps to distinguish from wikt:nho grape, though technically it shouldn't be. I also note that vi:chữ Hán covers more in vi.wp, including Japanese, which we obviously don't count relevant in the en.wp article. In such a case what do you think the better title is? chữ Hán, chữ nho or chữ Nho? Incidentally, and more importantly, any copy edits you might wish to make would be most welcome. I've expanded quite a bit and added sources and new image, but could do with a polish. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:05, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

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Spelling: Theatre District, New York

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I meant that Michael Jackson published Ben in 1972 (the same year in which he has published Got to be There). -- SJ (talk) 01:56, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

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Following the closure of a recent RfC you participated in, I have started an RfC on the separate but related issue of commas after Jr. and Sr.. Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) § RfC: Guidance on commas after Jr. and Sr. and feel free to comment there. Thanks! —sroc 💬 06:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Oriya_language#Requested_move_17_June_2015

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I recently started a move request. --George Ho (talk) 05:45, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll

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Stonefire89 (talk · contribs) is a bit too enthusiastic with the hiking trails edits as you have already seen. Can you check the reverts of my edits that Stonefire89 has done? 203.173.186.163 (talk) 10:37, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Since I am "a bit too enthusiastic", am I supposed to just give it all up then?

I do not believe information should just be deleted which is what 203.173.186.163 (talk · contribs) keeps doing. If it needs to be put in the right spot then do it but you shouldn't just delete information.

I will not keep working on anything that will just end up deleted. You seem pretty bent on doing just that, 203.173.186.163 (talk · contribs).

Stonefire89 (talk) 13:16, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Your are setting up the fallacy of false dilemma in two of your statements. Give up if you want but the other option is to follow what the highly complex demands of the Wikipedia community demand. You cannot do what you want to do. You have to do what the community as a whole want to do.

And I am not deleting everything you do. I am deleting mistakes and info the does not fir in with Wikipedia. 203.173.186.163 (talk) 05:56, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

This really doesn't matter. I'm done. It's not worth putting anything on this site. It's not worth my time or effort to deal with you, 203.173.186.163 (talk · contribs).

AjaxSmack, again, this is my resignation.

Stonefire89 (talk) 21:04, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

You say "This really doesn't matter." I don't know what you are referring to specifically but if you are referring to the need to fit in with the rest of the community then you should not be here. On the other hand, if you make valuable contributions that fit in with Wikipedia then there is a lifetime of work for you to do here. 203.173.186.163 (talk) 19:55, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

I was referring to the fact that I give up. I will not be adding anything to site ever again.

Stonefire89 (talk) 21:02, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Your vote

Your vote here Talk:Hyderabadi biriyani#Requested move 23 August 2015 is likely to be misread as you vote "support move", which is to Hyderabadi Biryani, with a capital B. You might want to strike that and clarify "Keep at Hyderabadi biriyani, oppose merge", as I understand your vote is for that. You weren't the only one to be confused by the nomination: it's to move it to the capitalised form. Ogress _smash! 02:25, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Comments are requested at Photographs of Alan Kurdi

Hi, It looks like Keep votes are needed to prevent an article from being deleted - Photographs of Alan Kurdi. I guess one can call the voting an advisory voting, since a closing administrator will decide on the merits of arguments and guidelines, more so than the voting, if an article will be kept.
Please consider voting, re-voting, or giving a comment in the deletion discussion for Photographs of Alan Kurdi. There does not seem to be a guideline that says that one can not have one article about the Photographs of Alan Kurdi - a set of photographs that has gathered notable reactions - and another article about the boy who is pictured lifeless in the photos, or the events leading to his death.
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• Talk:Master Control Facility (ISRO)#Requested move 26 April 2016
• Talk:Sirsa, Haryana#Requested move 26 April 2016
• Talk:South Western Air Command (India)#Requested move 26 April 2016
• Talk:Southern Air Command (India)#Requested move 26 April 2016

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Talk:Jean Lapierre

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Re: MR, RR and anti-Korean chauvinism

Posting this here rather than the RM because I don't think I'll convince you (and I don't intend to -- may a thousand flowers bloom and all that jazz), I'd rather wait for other opinions than pushing the RM into TLDR territory, and I'd also like to discuss some slightly off-topic stuff with you.

Thing is, with WP:PINYIN all the best modern sources in English either use pinyin or provide a detailed and defensive argument why they don't (most of what I have seen from Columbia University Press, and from scholarly sources in general, falls into this latter category). With Korean romanization, though, we have the opposite situation -- the vast majority of English-language reliable sources (at least for pre-modern topics) use McCune-Reischauer or provide a detailed and defensive argument why they don't, and we have texts that aren't specifically about Korean studies (and therefore not concerned with off-topic modern ROK government romanization guidelines), like the Encyclopedia of Buddhism, not even discussing romanization of Korean in terms of MR and RR, and simply calling MR "the standard [convention] for transcription into English".

Also, why are you an anti-Korean chauvinist? Were you tongue-in-cheek quoting Korean nationalists who call you that because you don't think Chinese traditional dress was actually invented by Koreans, or some such?

There was an RFC that I advertised on WT:KOREA to change the guideline from saying "for pre-division topics, use RR" to "for pre-division topics, use MR", and the only one to oppose was an ROK nationalist POV-pusher who agreed with you that RR is better, so I was assuming that that was why a lot of our nationalist, unsourced, junk articles use RR. If anti-Korean chauvinists also prefer RR, then I might have to reconsider my position on this. Do you only prefer RR because all the articles already use RR, or is there a separate reason for it? I ask because the last place you and I interacted was here, where you (appear to have) agreed with me, and in that situation I was taking a pro-internal consistency and pro-status quo position similar to the one you took on the Baekje RM, but preserving the status quo internal consistency is not always a good thing where here, unlike two years ago, the status quo is at variance with the majority of English-language reliable sources. A year before that you definitely agreed with me and were explicit about having a pro-status quo and pro-internal consistancy stance.

Anyway, no harm no foul. I might post some more RMs in a similar area where the ngrams etc. are even more pro-MR than with Paekche, but I'll wait to see what happens first.

Cheers!

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 01:33, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Any idea how I can deal with Pldx1?

The guy's been on my tail for weeks now, and every single comment he makes is an inane non-sequitur. Your opposition to the Paekche RM at least made logical sense, but Pldx1 apparently thinks that the RFC template having been automatically removed after a month is "a snow close", and I still can't figure out what "snow" means, as apparently he thinks it favors the minority view. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:32, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

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Notification of RFC for Korean MOS in regard to romanization

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MLK Jr.

In your "oppose" you note that "WP:JR does not prohibit comma usage if sources consistently use it." OK, perhaps I was negligent in not presenting explicit evidence of the extensive style variations around MLK Jr's name and related place and topic names, but such evidence is discussed extensively in the RFC, the MOS talk page about, and in the MLK-related precedents that I linked, so I figured anyone who cared already knew about all that or would see it easily by following what I linked. At your suggestion, I went ahead and added a bit on the style of the MLK Jr Memorial in sources (book hits), as well as some books on MLK Jr himself and MLK Sr, too. If you'd like to see more evidence posted, let me know. Thanks. Dicklyon (talk) 14:38, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

North Korea geography question

Hi. Do you know the name of the small island directly east of Kimchaek? It's located at 40.647 N, 129.548 E. I know it's old English name but I don't know what it's called now. ST1849 (talk) 01:52, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

​What's the old English name? —  AjaxSmack  02:42, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Nineteenth century American whalers simply called it "White Rock". Yeah, they tend not to be the most creative lot when it comes to naming stuff (e.g. calling an island in the Sea of Okhotsk with the profile of a surfacing bowhead "Bowhead Island"). ST1849 (talk) 03:07, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

According to page 43 of this source from Google Books, it is called Al Som (Nan Do). —  AjaxSmack  00:46, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll create a stub for it when I have time. ST1849 (talk) 00:57, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

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Compound adjective (hyphenation)

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Talk:Chan Chi-chuen#Requested move 28 November 2016

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Saraiki move request

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Requested move: Using "El Chapo"

Hi, I wanted to reach out to you regarding a title change discussion in Joaquín Guzmán's talk page. You were involved in a previous change there in 2015. I'd love to read your input. Thank you! ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 15:33, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

Voting system move

Thanks for participating in the RM for Voting system->voting method. It occurs to me that the relevant wikiprojects should probably be notified; this is a relatively central page. As the RM originator, I don't want to risk WP:CANVASS, so I'm asking you: could you post a neutral notice of this RM on wikiprojects you think are relevant? (I've made the same request of User:BrownHairedGirl, who !voted on the other side of the issue; so if she (they?) beats you to the punch, that's fine.) Homunq (࿓) 12:43, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

At Amakuru's suggestion, I did it myself. So no need, thanks. Homunq (࿓) 14:39, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

​I would add that posting notices to Wikiprojects is not canvassing. Even posting notices to other previous participants is fine as long as you post to all of said participants. —  AjaxSmack  14:55, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

You commented on this debate already, and your voice would be welcome again. Homunq (࿓) 00:51, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Mid-Atlantic accent

Your post on the talk page on the aforementioned article is uncivil. If such another comment is made, you will be reported for incivility.LakeKayak (talk) 15:07, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) LakeKayak, I'm struggling to see what you find "uncivil" there. An opinion doesn't become uncivil just because you disagree with it. – Uanfala (talk) 21:35, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

@Uanfala: I think how it was said was a little rude more than what his opinion is.LakeKayak (talk) 22:53, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

​I made two comments on that page so I'm not sure which you are referring to. —  AjaxSmack  07:20, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

This one:

No, the term "Mid-Atlantic accent" has one well-established meaning. "Mid-Atlantic American English" is a creation of the Atlas of North American English and the article's only source is that work. The Mid-Atlantic accent article, on the other hand, presents a well-known topic with numerous citations, the overwhelming majority of which use the term "Mid-Atlantic". Comparing the relative weight of the two topics, there is no problem with the current situation with a hatnote header.

LakeKayak (talk) 13:07, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

RE:(Secondly, "Mid-Atlantic dialect" almost always refers to the blend of American and British English Pronunciation as seen in these Google Books results.) I looked at the example list on Google books which you have provided. And on that list, I found another source that used "Mid-Atlantic dialect" to mean a Philadelphia/Baltimore accent. [27] pg. 432. Therefore, regardless of how "Mid-Atlantic accent" is used, it seems that "Mid-Atlantic dialect" is used to mean a Philadelphia/Baltimore dialect.LakeKayak (talk) 17:33, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

What evidence is there that the hatnote hasn't worked? And what do you propose to do with the "Mid-Atlantic accent" title?

Note: that as the discussion has been closed. I'll answer your question directly here. The evidence that the hatnote hasn't worked is here:

Comment. Surely Transatlantic is more ambiguous than Mid-Atlantic? Transatlantic means "concerning countries on both sides of the Atlantic" or "relating to or situated on the other side of the Atlantic" whereas the Mid-Atlantic states is a defined area (as I write this I was expecting Mid-Atlantic states to be WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for Mid-Atlantic. The phrase Mid-Atlantic pertains more to the US than Transatlantic). Zarcadia (talk) 18:51, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Comment. @Zarcadia: This page is about a blend of American and British English, hence the ambiguity where Mid-Atlantic can mean two things: this accent and Mid-Atlantic American English. This accent does relate to both sides of the Atlantic, by blending the features of American and British English. Therefore, the accent does fit the definition of the word transatlantic which you have provided.LakeKayak (talk) 20:38, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but what do you mean by "this accent and Mid-Atlantic American English", I'm not sure what the difference is? Zarcadia (talk) 21:48, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Zarcadia, we're on the talk page not of Mid-Atlantic American English, but of Mid-Atlantic accent. I reckon your question would get easily answered if you have glance at the article. – Uanfala (talk) 22:09, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Someone thought they were on the talk page for Mid-Atlantic American English while they were on the talk page for Mid-Atlantic accent.

As for what I intended to do with the title Mid-Atlantic accent, I intended to link the title to the page Mid-Atlantic accent (disambiguation).LakeKayak (talk) 15:25, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Discussion invite

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​That's the reason for the gaps: to make clear to screenreaders that it's not a list. —  AjaxSmack  23:41, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Interesting interpretation, but I don't think it fits with what the guidelines say. The example in WP:LISTGAPS is a Talk page discussion, and there is no mention there that Talk page discussions should have blank lines between the bullet items. Also, there is WP:INDENTGAP, which says "This is used, for example, to indicate replies in a threaded discussion on Talk pages. ... Blank lines should not be placed between indented lines of text, ..." —BarrelProof (talk) 23:52, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

​The example at WP:LISTGAPS is two comments within a single thread. Of course I agree those should not be separated. —  AjaxSmack  03:18, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

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Requested move you might be interested in

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There is a requested move discussion on Talk:Free City of Kraków that I thought you might be interested in.

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Cracow Uprising

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Since you participated in the recent WP:RM on the Free City of Cracow, I thought you might be interested in this requested move. (Talk:Kraków uprising) Genealogizer (talk) 22:43, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

RM that may interest you

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There's a discussion on Talk:Pavel Ignatieff that I thought you might be interested in.

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Cracow złoty

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Since you participated in the Free City of Cracow RM, I want to let you know about an RM on Talk:Kraków złoty.

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Ryukyuan native names

Hi, I noticed that you added references for the Ryukyuan names of cities in Okinawa Prefecture. While I appreciate this, I don't agree with the other additions you made. The Japanese and Ryukyuan names use the same Chinese characters; there is no need for katakana. Also, the Okinawan name for Kitanakagusuku does not use the pronunciation "kita" (Japanese) for north (北) but rather "nishi".[28] Similarly, the Okinawan name for Yomitan is "Yuntanja".[29] I will make changes to those articles. ミーラー強斗武 (StG88ぬ会話) 23:24, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

​The names I entered are from the source cited. I'll be happy to send you a scan of the pages cited if you'd like (one is below for as long as it lasts). Please do not change the names based on WP:OR; either delete the citation, change the citation or delete the entire Okinawan language name. —  AjaxSmack  01:44, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

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Interesting

Thanks for the heads up - my theory is for the maturity of an online encyclopedia such as this one that has projects and subject areas as ship rather than maritime such a change is a necessity JarrahTree 23:55, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

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RfC that you might be interested it

Hi AjaxSmack,

There is an RfC on Talk:Iran that you might be interested in.

Thanks,

Genealogizer (talk) 04:46, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Request for Arbitration Special:Permalink/787497450#Cross-Strait conflict: PRC and ROC Closed

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New move request for New York

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Move review for Usher (musician)

I have asked for a Move review of Usher (musician). Because you were involved in the discussion you might want to participate in the move review. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 16:43, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

Move review for Damn (Kendrick Lamar album)

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Free City of Cracow

Hi AjaxSmack, Given your vote in the RM on Talk:Free City of Cracow, I thought you might be interested in the discussion going on there now. Genealogizer (talk) 16:17, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for ignoring this canvassing at least. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:34, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

You'll have seen by the ping from admin Favonian at SPI it was a sock. Does that sound any warning bells? In ictu oculi (talk) 09:41, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Menorca

The RM has now closed a second time, again inevitably in line with modern British/Irish usage. Do you intend to initiate a second Move Review? In ictu oculi (talk) 16:53, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Disamb page

Hello.
As per discussion at Talk:Red Dragon (2002_film)#Requested move 8 September 2017, I moved the pages accordingly. But I couldnt figure what to do with Red Dragon (film). Your guidance will be much appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance, —usernamekiran(talk) 19:29, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Pages moved.

"Prigorodny District, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania" and "Blagoveshchensky District, Republic of Bashkortostan" have been moved to Prigorodny District, North Ossetia-Alania and Blagoveshchensky District, Bashkortostan, respectively, as proposed. Since this was your proposal, please see to any requisite post-move cleanup of templates and other incoming links. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:36, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Talk:Native Americans#Requested move 18 September 2017

What are your further thoughts on this? (Respond at linked page). I've posted some dictionary entry links you might want to take a look at. The Transhumanist 17:32, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Move review

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Chishmy

Hey AjaxSmack, I have reopened the RM discussion at Talk:Chishmy (urban-type settlement), Chishminsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan to address the contested move, hopefully to solicit opinions from more participants. Regards, Alex Shih^Talk 06:04, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

​Thanks. —  AjaxSmack  06:21, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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MOS:SINGLE

Single quotes are used for linguistic glosses: Spanish: casa 'house'. This has been a standard in formal publication for something like a century and a half, and MOS has long recognized it. If you've habitually been changing this to double quotes as you did here here, please stop, and just as importantly also go undo your incorrect "corrections" in other articles.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  03:48, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

​Sorry, MOS:SINGLE is new to that section of the MOS since my last visit. I had assumed American-style logical quotes reigned supreme at Wikipedia. However, in the Isle of Man case, don't glosses normally appear immediately after the word they are translating without additional context? If a text reads ...ashwekh, which is Gouldakh for 'antelope',..., is that still a gloss? —  AjaxSmack  04:10, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

As a linguist (among other things) by training, I would say "yes, it's still a gloss". It's just a longer version of one. The exact position is irrelevant, it's just that in actual linguistics journal articles and books that position and non-explanatory format tends to be the most common, especially in tabular material (e.g. word lists); the format is conventionalized in professional linguistics material. The semantics aren't somehow transformed just by moving stuff around in more encyclopedic prose. It's more important that we be consistent in the usage. The last thing we need is people editwarring between, e.g. Spanish: casa 'house' vs. Spanish: casa "house"; or 'House' in Spanish is casa vs "House" in Spanish is casa; or Terms for 'house' in Western Indo-European languages are not always cognates: Spanish casa, Irish tí, German haus versus Terms for "house" in Western Indo-European languages are not always cognates: Spanish casa, Irish tí, German haus – plus examples in all those cases using italics for house, plus people using no markup at all around the word, as house. We need to use a consistent format, or we'll be lighting our productive editing time on fire, arguing article by article over tedious style trivia. ;-)  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  04:41, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Two of my diffs in the last hour or two [30][31] illustrate how the constructions can vary, even in the same section, and probably indicate why the consistency is desired. If we didn't have it, then any time someone rewrote a list item or sentence that had etymological information in it, to use not quite the same wording as before, then a style change would be required; but virtually no one would make it (and if they tried, would often do it incorrectly), so we'd end up with random chaos.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  10:01, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello

Currently there is confrontation with a poster named Mr.Kebab going on in this discussion here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:General_American#John_Samuel_Kenyon He is showing no neutrality and favoritism in his postings. I would like for you to please step in when possible. Thank you. Usernamebradly (talk) 13:28, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Sure. Come and see how this guy makes up accusations towards Wolfdog and continuously assumes his bad faith. Mr KEBAB (talk) 13:44, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Userbox theft?

Hey there Ajax! I just saw your userbox about overestimating foreign language ability and I liked it so much I want to ask your permission to reuse it on my own page. Do you mind? --Cerebellum (talk) 16:18, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

​Please feel free to. —  AjaxSmack  18:38, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! --Cerebellum (talk) 19:22, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Our old friend, the 'Okina

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Lufei Kui

Hi, I noticed that you changed Lufei Kui to Lubi Kui. This is incorrect. First, Lufei Kui and his family, never used Lubi. I am his grandson, and I talked to his two daughters and they all want us to change it back to Lufei. Second, I asked in a Lufei family social network, no one uses Lùbì, and no one heard of anyone use Lubi. Third, Lufei family has many prominent people in history but there is no record of anyone used that pronunciation. Please change it back to Lufei Kui. Daqingzhao (talk) 20:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

​Someone already moved it. However, according to Wikipedia practice, you need to have some reliable second-hand sources to support the pronunciation. It seems that "Lufei" is a little more common in English sources but what about the 百度百科 entry, this catalog entry, and this posting? —  AjaxSmack  01:11, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

I added Zhejiang Tongxiang Lufei Kui Library as a source. There are other discussions. http://m.blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_502595370102vkj9.html#page=2, and this, http://www.sohu.com/a/190137622_713186. Also today, in China, there are only people with last name Fei, and no one has last name Bi. Cihai is a credible source. How Lufei Kui himself and his family members pronounce the name should take precedence.

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Possible help on an old edit

Hi AjaxSmack, this is a blast from the past, but I wondered if you could shed any light on which article from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica was used in this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kyakhta&type=revision&diff=22444540&oldid=18952254 . You added a few paragraphs of text and the {{1911}} template. I couldn't find which article was used. Thanks. DivermanAU (talk) 01:12, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

​I assume it was s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Kiakhta. —  AjaxSmack  01:55, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Merge discussion at Talk:Mandarin orange

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DYK for Burgabo

On 16 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Burgabo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the UN Security Council has banned exports of charcoal from the Somali port town of Burgabo? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Burgabo. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Burgabo), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Since you asked...

The essay with more advice is WP:BADGER. Stop bludgeoning. VQuakr (talk) 03:23, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

moe. (band) page

Have you not read the rules regarding WP:NCCAPS. It clearly states the instance where you should use the proper lowercase notation. The example it gives is deadmau5. Could you please revise your opposition due to Wikipedia having a case where that notation is correct by its own rules?

Thanks. 208.44.170.115 (talk) 16:17, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

​Sorry, I don't see the passage to which you refer. Also, please keep this discussion in the article's RM discussion section. —  AjaxSmack  16:27, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I pasted the wrong link. Here is the right spot: WP:Manual_of_Style/Trademarks#Indicating_stylizations, with the reference of deadmau5. 208.44.170.115 (talk) 16:45, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

I'm just asking that you take a look at the pre-established rules when referring to artists like moe.. The band's name is only referenced to as "moe." in anything and everything about them. The rule that governs deadmau5, k.d. lang, and other artists, does apply here. Look at this before finalizing your opinion, please. Thanks. 208.44.170.115 (talk) 20:35, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

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AWB request

Hi, if you've got a moment would you be able to change all the links here so they go here instead? Cheers, Anarchyte (work | talk) 11:07, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

OK! TWICEHIBA (talk) 13:54, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

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Done

Hey,

Just letting you know, I've dealt with the eight move reverts you requested. They're now all back at their original titles.

Many thanks,

SITH (talk) 21:47, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Southern marsupial mole

A user moved northern marsupial mole without discussion (another user objected in an edit summary and I've reverted it). This user also requested the move of southern marsupial mole as uncontroversial, but it was rejected and is now an RM. S/he also opend an RM for marsupial mole. I was wondering if you could bundle the an RM for the northern species into that of the southern one? Or is it too late? I think the genus could be kept separate. Srnec (talk) 00:21, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

​I suppose a multimove (southern marsupial mole northern marsupial mole) could be opened in place of the current RM, but that would make the discussion up till now a little confusing/misleading. Maybe your comment there re the issue will suffice for now. —  AjaxSmack  04:54, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Sinhala vs Sinhalese

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Requested move: Chairman → Chair (officer)

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Any input would be appreciated. Fyunck(click) (talk) 03:49, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Requested move: Ainu language → Hokkaido Ainu language

Hello. I answered your concern about Ainu language direction. Do you still oppose? Please write in Talk:Ainu language if you have opinions.--ABCEdit (talk) 18:53, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

I suppose this new edit by ABCEdit is close to "remerge instead", which we both favored to some degree, but it surely didn't reflect the outcome of the talk page discussion. I haven't been very active lately and I don't know how well I will be able to keep monitoring the situation, but maybe you can help evaluate whether the redirection is warranted, or disruptive. Best, Dekimasuよ! 09:29, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

​I feel the page blanking is a disruptive end run around a failed RM, but I'm not sure the procedure of appeal. Reverting has not worked. —  AjaxSmack  01:39, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

Requested move

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Khalil Gibran

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Deleting geographical place names

Hello- I would like to suggest that you never, ever delete what you see as obsolete geographical place name spellings ever again, on the basis of any policy. If you want to add Hanyu Pinyin-derived spellings or put what you see as obsolete spellings into parentheses, that's 100% fine. That's great. That's really useful information. But if you outright delete the historical spellings, then when people search for the place names under those spellings, they won't be able to find what they are looking for. This basically robs the location of its history. ([32]) That's my two cents. Thanks for your time. Geographyinitiative (talk) 05:30, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Here's an example of how I try to leave room for history while using Hanyu Pinyin-derived forms: Fenghua DistrictGeographyinitiative (talk) 08:32, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

The spelling Lungshan Temple (Taipei) is based on the website name 'http://www.lungshan.org.tw/index.html' and the five sources in the lead section. I'm sorry to be aggressive or firm like this, but I think you should know what I'm thinking here. Thanks for your time. Geographyinitiative (talk) 06:10, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

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Very interesting hypotheticals here and exactly the sort of imaginative thinking we need IMO. I would have just thanked you for the edit but the software doesn't allow me to thank you for creation of a page, only updating it. Andrewa (talk) 02:41, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

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Peter Tosh

Hi Ajax I just added a sentence to the Peter Tosh page because an album was missing. Released 1971 and produced by Leslie Kong, who died a week after the release. It was after that they got Lee Perry to be the producer. The paragraph is jumbled up. My sentence should probably go in before any mention of Lee Perry. Barratt joining the band should be before that. Paragraph is also very long. Best wishes Johnny Johnnyr92 (talk) 11:12, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Peter Tosh

Hi Ajax I could rearrange a few sentences as already mentioned if you prefer that to you doing it. I just messaged you because were listed as the last edit. Johnny Johnnyr92 (talk) 12:08, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

​Do what you'd like. I'm not going to do any more edits to it. Try to source any additions you can. —  AjaxSmack  15:35, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

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Hi! I made a partial overhaul of User:AjaxSmack/Disambiguation page traffic test, but then noticed this page was in your userspace, so I probably shouldn't have made such major changes. What do you think? The essay has been cited a few dozen times, so I'm wondering if it may not be time to move it to WP. – Uanfala (talk) 22:38, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

​Thanks for your interest. Do what you'd like -- edit and/or move to WP. —  AjaxSmack  01:23, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

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Hi AjaxSmack! This discussion you started has been archived, but the merge tags remain. Could you follow up as needed or remove the tags? (Courtesy pinging @SMcCandlish, who added the tags) Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 01:40, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

 Done I've performed the mergers and removed the tags. I don't think anyone ever does MoS mergers but me. LOL.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 

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​I'm curious what specific BLP violation you're referring to here. I've never edited the article in question (that I can remember) and I merely made two comments on the talkpage in response to others' comments. I'm not aware of reference requirements for talkpages. Thanks. —  AjaxSmack  04:22, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

Talk pages are subject to WP:BLP too and your talk page comment was above and beyond. – Muboshgu (talk) 04:25, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

I understand that talk pages are subject to WP:BLP, but I don't recall saying anything that hadn't been stated previously except to argue that the issue in question probably doesn't warrant coverage in the article. Anyway, I'm fine with my comment being deleted as I don't have a strong interest in the topic. Thanks. —  AjaxSmack  04:36, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

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Just so there is no understanding, my remarks weren't directed at you, who I thought made a reasonable argument against the proposal. I don't have a problem with an editor speaking their minds. WCM_email 17:12, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

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Well, thanks to you for providing that hook. —  AjaxSmack  23:10, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Mon script

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​Thanks. It should be "British America" (i.e. pre–1783), not "British North America". I have corrected the link on the "Colonials" page. I said the term "Americans" is ambiguous in the Battle of Oriskany because everyone fighting in the battle was "American", the Rebels, the Oneidas, the Loyalists and Iroquois, with no British soldiers present. —  AjaxSmack  21:57, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

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​Of course the text in question was "a match for prose"; it was a direct quotation presented as such, between inverted commas and with the source given. (I suppose a WP:LONGQUOTE argument could be made, but that doesn't warrant deletion of the edit.) If you could have been bothered to read the source I cited, you could have also seen that the fanpage you cited me for violating is itself in copyright violation as it copies the same text I cited, but with no attribution. Here is an image of the source. —  AjaxSmack  23:20, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

I have restored the part that was a quotation. Sorry for the mistake. Not all was a quotation though, so some of your addition remains deleted. — Diannaa (talk) 23:53, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

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This is something that has weighed on my mind for quite some time and I'm glad that you raised it with your good faith edits to Xinxiu bencao. If you actually looked at the sources cited in the article, it is clear that Chinese titles are capitalised sentence-style, rather than headline-style for English-language works. That is to say only the first letter of the first word should be capitalised... This is the academic convention and WP:PINYIN absolutely does not contradict what I've just said. This should be clarified elsewhere and as you pointed out Category:Chinese medical texts (and many others!) is flush with bad titling (but I haven't the inclination to edit them right now). Cheers, KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 13:52, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

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Appreciate the elaboration, but I'm not buying it. I hardly find that a lone editor's spiel should be taken as gospel truth, and neither should the status quo be seen as unchangeable. It's very simple to me: it's simply incongruous to insist on using our own "house style" when the very sources cited don't render the titles that way! (Ironically, Llywelyn's random example of "Honglou Meng/meng" backfires, as a quick Google search shows that scholars worth their ilk refer to it as "Honglou meng". Same goes for virtually any other major Chinese work, with exceptions like the I Ching. There is some admission of simply wanting to avoid the hassle and confusion of changing the status quo, in that they recognise that they don't actually better than some hypothetical "powerful citation" but somehow titling Chinese works sentence-style "appears" to be "wrong".) I will also note that Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization)#Works and compositions explicitly gives us this latitude: "Capitalization in foreign-language titles varies, even over time within the same language. Retain the style of the original for modern works. For historical works, follow the dominant usage in modern, English-language, reliable sources." KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 20:56, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

@Kingoflettuce: Nah. You don't have to buy it. You do need to buy one of the authoritative sources on pinyin (or find a free copy online) and share your findings if you want other people to buy what you're selling. You can't default to a "dominant usage" that doesn't actually exist, since transcriptions of titles is all over the place among the Chinese themselves (who consider romanized titles a learning aid to the actual character titles) and the scholars who write about Chinese from within the traditions of their own languages' capitalization rules. You also can't just talk about it in random people's talk pages. You need to take it MOSCHINA.

Otherwise you end up with exactly what I was talking about: You thinking you're right and creating needless makework as people edit war all over the place and you eventually ending up with administrative sanctions since you're the one not following the MOSCHINA style guide. You may be perfectly right that there's an established convention now to create ugly and confusing European-style sentence case forms of Chinese titles within English. Go prove it and get it added to the style guide. — LlywelynII 00:58, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

This obviously isn't binding but these guys—including a Taiwan district court judge—were trying to improve legal citations from Chinese sources with copious reference to the available style guides and use standard title case (with correct PRC pinyin treatment of e.g. de) consistently. It really is worth looking for actual sourcing like that since for each "I hit Google", I can give you, "yeah, well, I went to Google Scholar and, well, they're just inconsistent." — LlywelynII 01:12, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

​​I am copy and pasting this discussion here as a more appropriate location and to elicit wider input. —  AjaxSmack  01:23, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

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Hi, can I suggest you a little edit on the "Alligator" article? (I'm asking to you since it's a protected page) 79.17.93.63 (talk) 10:33, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Did you have anything in particular in mind? —  AjaxSmack  14:28, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I think that in the introduction it should be written "reptile" instead of "reptile" 79.17.93.63 (talk) 18:23, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Oh, why the hell not. You can also make requests on the article's talk page or create a Wikipedia account. —  AjaxSmack  19:07, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

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There is no need to restore resolved discussions to the talk page. Unless you want to dispute that "I Drink Wine" is the third single from the album or challenge the GA review, unarchiving neither of the discussions makes sense. A 14-month old discussion is in no way recent.--NØ 18:52, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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Hello! I saw your question here and wanted to point out that the cited source states that the farm was "about 1,100 acres", rather than simply one thousand. But your question is still good for the general case, so I thought I'd bring this up here rather than there. Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 02:13, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

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