User talk:Aldux/Archive 12

Pomaks

Hi, why was my adition to the article removed? We know that the army of the Caliphate reached to Thesaloniki and there were Muslim presence on the Balkans even before the arrival of the Ottomans, though not very significant. I had provided a reference. I don't understand why was my contribution rejected??? --Soft needed (talk) 09:32, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

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Turkish people

Hello! I was wondering what would it be "more" corect to have on the Turkish people article, in the table on the right side of the screan(distribution) :

1) Turkish Republic of Northen Cyprus and Cyprus

2) Cyprus(north) and Cyprsu(south)(the one I modified but was reverted)

3) Both be merged into Cyprus AdrianCo (talk) 17:35, 20 January 2008 (UTC)AdrianCo

Well Help! AdrianCo (talk) 16:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)AdrianCo

Military history WikiProject coordinator election

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Email for you

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Working Group login

Hi Aldux, just letting you know I've sent an email (via the English Wikipedia email function) to you with details about your Working Group wiki login details. Be sure to change your password once you log in, for security reasons! If there's any problems with the login (passwords, username not working, or anything), fire me an email and I'll try and sort them out for you. Cheers, Daniel (talk) 04:02, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Daniel, done. I confirm that "User:Aldux" on the WG wiki is me and I have sole control of the account.--Aldux (talk) 15:28, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Chad

Hi there, yes maybe we should avoid recentism, but perhaps a new article should be created on the Chad 2008 fighting or something like that ? Please advise, I think the info I had inserted was very relevant and part of history too.--Songhonite (talk) 10:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

HI

Hi Aldux. I am again being attacked by Elonka and some of her supporters at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Franco-Mongol alliance/Workshop. Could you kindly give your opinion? Thank you. PHG (talk) 17:15, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Afrikapaprika

You're the one that fought Afrika paprika? Hes back as User:Zenanarh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SpotterPlopper (talk • contribs) 15:58, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Poor Arika, whoever it was (must be some kind of rare octopussy when so desperately ghost hunted), before he became me, since Hes back as me, according to this ProperFlopper, whoever it is... maybe it's me again. SplutterSomething are you me too?

Aldux, can we introduce a new template - "Template:Afrika paprika" - for such cases? I'm accused for the 3rd time to be this guy. It would make much easier for Droppers to accuse me next time. Zenanarh (talk) 00:25, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Milhist coordinators election has started

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Vote Request

Hi Aldux, I saw your comment in talk saint cyril and wanted to ask if you could vote on the subject of merging the three poor articles into one that can be tidied up, this would also make it easier to contain drive-by edits. Thanks for your reply.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Saint_Cyril#MERGE

Xenovatis (talk) 13:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Pomaks

What's wrong with the source that I provided? This is an originally published book and more over the author points out sources as well. Plus it is known for certain that the Caliphate had contacts with the Balkans and that it even reached Thessaloníki in the 8th century. What reference do you want - a Harvard text book or a CIA published document? Why everything about Pomaks that comes from Muslim authors is considered a lie or not reliable and everything that comes from Bulgarian and Greek authors is directly considered a truth? You want proofs - here is one: the mosque Sultan Bayazid in the village of Kochan was built in the 8th century and it is inscripted in ancient stone on the mosque. If you are suspicios about it go and check it yourselv. Actually I posted the image on Wikipedia, but it was deleted. I don't know what's wrong with you here - you simply deny to even think about Muslims on the Balkans before the Ottomans asif we are talking about Muslims on Mars. If you don't accept it at least don't deprive the people of the information that it is possible that Muslims lived in the Balkans before the Turks. Even when research is available. Nobody here says that all Pomaks converted to Islam at that time and actualy I noted that maybe no Pomaks converted to Islam at that time. Whe must provide all possible theories and all facts and the users have to draw their conclusions by themselves. This is the idea of Wikipedia. If it is possible that some Pomaks might have been Muslims before the Turks, we have to have it on the Wikipedia, especially when we have a source, citing other sources. I really don't understand what is wrong with you. --Soft needed (talk) 19:02, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

It's simply not good enough for wikipedia, that's it, for WP:RS. Also, for such extraordinary claims, you need to pass WP:REDFLAG. Consider also WP:FRINGE. Read these links, please.--Aldux (talk) 20:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually in that article there is too much stuff that is not good enough for Wikipedia and is even unsourced at all. --Soft needed (talk) 08:45, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

boycotts map

Hi, I have added the countries you have mentioned, and also took the opportunity to remake it using a better map that was available. Is this correct now? --Astrokey44 02:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for finding the information. Cheers --Astrokey44 12:23, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

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My RfA

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		Thank you muchly for your support in my recent request for adminship, which was successfully closed on 76%, finishing at 73 supports, 23 opposes and 1 neutral. The supports were wonderful, and I will keep in mind the points made in the useful opposes and try to suppress the Larry David in me! Now I'm off to issue some cool down blocks, just to get my money's worth! Kidding btw. All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 11:41, 5 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) ♠♥♦♣ 01:16, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Category edits

Glad I gave you something to do in your spare time. You would have just used it to play video games ;) (Taivo (talk) 17:37, 18 March 2008 (UTC))

Future projects

Thank you, and thank you for the RfA support! Tombalbaye sounds quite intriguing and would make for a great project. All in due time... Best, Biruitorul (talk) 02:21, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

African pope

I have revised the article extensively since you voted in the AFD, and invite you to reconsider. --Dhartung | Talk 09:14, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Use of Template:Sep entry

It seems to me that date of consultation is only relevant if information from the SEP article has been used in the article. It is optional in the template and should be omitted in the case of an external link to the SEP article. For that matter, I can't imagine any circumstance in which it would make sense to add today's date to an existing SEP link, because, obviously, if it was used in actually researching and writing an article, that would have been on a different date. Surely the template only allows for the date because of the desirability of dating online material when cited as a source consulted. "A tidying editor found the link not to be dead & made a formatting change on X date" is neither useful information that should be in the text of the encyclopedia nor what the result of these edits implies. Wareh (talk) 01:20, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Wareh (talk) 15:51, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Yo, template creator here. Wareh is correct in thinking the date is only to be used when citing the SEP and not when linking to it at the foot of the article. You are labouring under a misconception regarding the function of the date parameter, however; it is not the date of consultation but the date the entry was written/last updated. This information can be gleaned from the top of SEP entries. It is important to include this when adding references to articles on rapidly developing fields in contemporary philosophical scholarship so as not to mislead the reader. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about or suggestions for improvement of the template. Regards, Skomorokh 21:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

As I said to Wareh, I had actually came to suspect that this was the case. For this I've dropped the date parameter in the last articles I've controlled, and removed it from the ones to which I had already added it.--Aldux (talk) 22:06, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Franciscus Patricius

Franciscus Patricius was born in Cherso (today Cres, Croatia), then the territory of the Republic of Venice. His family was of noble (patrician) origin from Kingdom of Bosnia, his family was forced to flee from crumbling Bosnian kingdom after the Ottoman invasion. Venetian government in 1563 refers to the Patricius family as Croats. -this is from the article. What's the problem? What are the most sources according to you? Maybe the most of Italian sources? Isn't this Italian appropriation of Dalmatian coast and people gone a little bit too far? Do you know that we, the natives of Dalmatia percieve it as extreme Italian nationalism? Or I should use another term? Zenanarh (talk) 14:10, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Sigh. It seems that reasoning with you is just a loss of time, as it only brings wanton accusations of nationalism. I'll awnser the only way a wikipedian should: with the best source available, that is the entry to the philosopher in the ten volumes Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, written not by an Italian but by Earline Jennifer Ashworth, a British scholar. I didn't want to start another Balkan dispute, but you left me no choice.--Aldux (talk) 20:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Your football level comment about footballer and philosophist is very nice. As the matter of fact it's brilliant. See you in the article talk page soon. Zenanarh (talk) 08:21, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Philosopher, not philosophist. I'll be always happy to speak about bettering an article, especially a philosophy-related one: but please avoid transforming it in an Italia-Croatia match, as ethnicity questions are always of rare futility, especially when it comes to philosophy.--Aldux (talk) 13:45, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Philosopher, right. I hope to see Italia-Croatia match in Austria. Ethnicity is ethnicity, philosophy is philosophy. What you're afraid of? That all Italian philosophers come from Croatia? Don't make such irrelevant relations. :) Why don't you simply examine what is written on this philosopher's funeral monument placed in the church St. Onofrio in Rome, so we can avoid any discussion from the beginning? Zenanarh (talk) 21:25, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, that match would be quite a nice one to see ;-) As for the grave, unfortunately, doing so would be a form of OR, as we can't make research ourselves (Obviously if a RS quotes his funeral inscription, there wouldn't be anything bad repeating it; but really, what this article needs in a desperate way, is a minimally decent presentation of Patrizi/Patricius/Petric/Petrisevic's philosophy. As for to the ethnicity, it's just that I find it desperately marginal; afterall, the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the other great reference after the Routledge, doesn't even feel any need to go in such an issue, and it's the same for the best encyclopedia online, the Stanford.--Aldux (talk) 21:51, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Actually you don't find it desperately marginal; afterall; otherwise we wouldn't have this discussion at all. I agree, in a philosopher's life, his work is of the best importance. Whatever, his ethnicity is just a data about him, but still it's data. The same as his birthplace, grave location or important dates in his life. Sources mentioned by you are simply out of date, obviously based on notes from Italian historiography (I'll rather avoid discussion about its relevance concerning this subject) or unsecure after recent occassions. The point is that Italians officially acknowledged his appurtenance to Croatian scientific and cultural corpus after scientific campaign of HAZU (Croatian Academy of Science and Arts). You said you'll be always happy to speak about bettering an article, but you act contrary. Like erasing data from the article. Don't be a little indoctrinated thief hidden behind humanistic slogans, try to be a humanist, a guy we're discussing of was the one. Zenanarh (talk) 23:27, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

That's enough: we've got a series of policies here and one of these is WP:CIV, that you have violated shamelessly. If you can't be polite, then keep quiet: I certainly won't loose my time awnsering rudeness. And unsourced assertions are not data, just crap, especially if you can't find reliable third-party sources to back it up.--Aldux (talk) 01:34, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Libya

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WP:RSUE

You may be interested in this proposal to revise the text for articles using non-English sources. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 04:20, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

The traditional rfa thank you message

		Thank you for the support!
		Aldux, it is my honor to report that thanks in part to your support my third request for adminship passed (80/18/2). I appreciate the trust you and the WP community have in me, and I will endeovour to put my newly acquired mop and bucket to work for the community as a whole. Yours sincerly and respectfuly, TomStar81 (Talk) 03:07, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Allegations of apartheid deletion notification

Some time ago, you participated in a deletion discussion concerning Allegations of Chinese apartheid. I thought you might like to know that the parent article, Allegations of apartheid, was recently nominated for deletion. Given that many of the issues that have been raised are essentially the same as those on the article on which you commented earlier, you may have a view on whether Allegations of apartheid should be kept or deleted. If you wish to contribute to the discussion, please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of apartheid (fifth nomination). -- ChrisO (talk) 18:01, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Afrika paprika

I am of strong convictions that User:Raguseo is Afrika paprika, here are his contributions. I must say that I am a little shocked that I hadn't noticed this before.

This user has his edits completely and in every single way:

a) over 75% of the articles he edits/edited were edited by him, or one of his sockpuppets

b) his style of writing is identical

c) undoubtedly the most important one, he obviously knows me very well and has the very same tenacity to, for no apparent reason, harass me by personally created single-purpose accounts with the sole desire to bug me (Hambla, luckily though, it was indef blocked after checkuser). --PaxEquilibrium (talk) 22:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Pax, I'm happy to hear from you, but I'm sorry to tell you that I'm going to turn your request :-( I'm really sorry, but I'm utterly fed up with Balkan disputes; also, for similar reasons (I've grown up tired up of disputes) I rarely take up anymore admin duties. But I can at least tell you to whom, in my opinion, you should ask: try User:Future Perfect at Sunrise, probably the most active admin in the area, and possibly also the ablest, and did a great work in detecting User:Deucalionite's sock. Also you could consider asking User:Akhilleus, another user who is good in detecting socks and suspicious editing patterns. Sorry again, and ciao.--Aldux (talk) 22:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Aldux, I am sorry to bother you again, but see this. I am in desperate need of an advice, any advice. What are remaining possible options to be taken against AP? --PaxEquilibrium (talk) 19:06, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Khoikhoi has already taken a good decision by semi-protecting your talk page; if he passes to vandalising your user page, tell me I'll semi-protect that too. There's not really much advice I can give you, sadly: i----s like Afrika paprika simply don't know when to give up, so I'm afraid he'll continue: but when you see him around, just tell it to an admin, who'll provide to block him. Also keep an eye on his favourite articles: if he tries to edit them through anon IPs, the article can be semi-protected with the specific anti-sock template. I know it's not much, but there's really little else to do. If it gets really bad, I'm ready to help, but keep in mind I'm not a very regular editor.--Aldux (talk) 20:42, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Félix Houphouët-Boigny

Thanks! I just wanted to let you know that I didn't translate the "Canton administrator and union leader" section. I only recently took up translation with Biruitorul after Editorofthewiki hadn't edited the page in over two months. All three of us are now working on translation. It'd be great if you could join or even proofread. :) Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 19:32, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Aargh, I've been framed! I should have kept quiet... Oh well, too late. Ok, I'll give a try and join the team in translating the article; but I better tell you that my English is pretty bad, so you'll need to control my spelling.

Also, some of the sources in the French article seem sort of poor to me, such as the webpages Histoire de la Ligue Ivoirienne des droits de l'homme, Qui est Francis Wodié, Côte-d’Ivoire. Géographie humaine. In Quid, Histoire de la famille Boigny (dead link), and a few others. While they were good ok for a French FA, I'm not sure the same can be said concerning an English FA. Oh, and PS, I love your motto "make articles, not wikidrama" ;-))) Not very followed, unfortunately.. Oh well, ciao!--Aldux (talk) 20:32, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I too noticed the problems with sourcing. I plan to look for alternative sources once the translation process is complete. I hope we can get mostly English sources, but that seems unlikely since Houphouët-Boigny is primarily written about by French-speaking writers. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 21:17, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

There's nothing really so bad in using French sources: for Francophone Africa French scholarship is very often is very often the best. Only, some of those webpages seem a bit weak, and Gbagbo is a bit controversial. I've got some stuff on Ivory Coast, it may be of some use.--Aldux (talk) 21:40, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Alright, I'll start removing Gbagbo and replacing it with other reliable sources and I'll look into Mundt's work. We're now in the proofreading stage, so it'd be great if you could copyedit the article. Thanks, Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 00:00, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments. Why don't you help by using that source, since you have it at your disposal. I personally like using Gbagbo (some of the time), since the article writes pretty favorably of the man. On of these day's I'm going to the library! --I'm an Editorofthewiki^{[citation needed]} 00:09, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Is "Segal, p. 282" the same as http://books.google.com/books?ei=MtiJSKayAZOaigH84tynDQ&client=firefox-a&id=rZEMAAAAIAAJ&dq=Segal+Houphouet-Boigny&q=Houphouet-Boigny&pgis=1#search? Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 13:45, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, only my edition is 1963 and the publisher is Penguin.--Aldux (talk) 13:52, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Alright, is it the second item in this list? Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 14:04, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Almost certainly, and without doubt the 3rd, the one with "reprinted with revisions".--Aldux (talk) 14:10, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, if you have some free time, would you mind copyediting FHB? It's currently on hold at WP:GAN. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 00:14, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Nikshid, sorry for disappearing but my computer crashed at the end of July and I've obtained another one only now (in Italy the country literally closes down, so finding a shop open is a desperate effort). I'm a terrible copyeditor not being native, but I'll pass through the article and try to give a help. Also, if you ever need help for Francophone Africa politics, don't be afraid to ask.--Aldux (talk) 01:00, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. I'm glad you're back editing again; I thought you had left. By the way, the name's Nishkid. ;-) Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 01:08, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

ZoguShqiptar700

Hey Aldux, long time no talk! Remember ZoguShqiptar700/Shqiponjë? I think he might be back on Gjirokastër and Vlorë. What do you think? Khoikhoi 22:03, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

There is quite suspicious activity, and there seem to be multiple accounts created from the same person, but I'm not fully sure. I've controlled the respective edits, and the English of these accounts seems better (Zogu's English was horrific); but it must be said that a lot of time has passed, and he may have learned some English in the meanwhile. Also, Zogu claimed to be from Korce, while one of the accounts of probably the same person has claimed to be from Vlore; and Vlore, while heavily vandalized now was, I think, left alone by Zogu. Just my 2 cents.--Aldux (talk) 22:41, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, you're right. Regardless, could you keep an eye on the articles? I don't check my watchlist as often as I did in the old days. Khoikhoi 00:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

To be honest, I've left the Balkans, as it was too stressing and I don't have all that much time anymore; could you ask it to somebody more constantly active in the area; for example you could ask User:Future Perfect at Sunrise, who is still hyperactive and does a lot of janitorial work.--Aldux (talk) 12:09, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Have fun with Chad-related articles. ;-) Khoikhoi 19:48, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

RfA Thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA, wich was successful with 73 support, 6 oppose, and 5 neutral. I'll try to be as clear as I can in my communication and to clear some of the admin backlog on images. If there is anything I can help you with, don't hesitate to ask me on my talk page! Cheers, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:08, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Kind request

Hi Aldux. How are you? It's some time since we had our last chat! I want a favor from you: Could you have a look here, and provide your perspective. This story has annoyed me a lot. Cheers!--Yannismarou (talk) 18:52, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

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Hi

Hi! Please note that I have filed a request for appeal here. Comments welcome! Best regards PHG (talk) 16:16, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

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Request for opinion

Hi, I and my fellow editors are facing a deadlock on a issue of removing/toning down few lines on 'Allegations of Human Rights violation against the Indian Army' under 'criticism of the operation' section in Operation Blue Star article, concerns include WP:NPOV, WP:SOAP & WP:V, the summary of dispute can be found at [1]. I would request you to kindly go through the article and please let us know your views/opinion at the talk page of the article so that npov, balance and undue weight concerns may be looked into and a consensual solution may be found. Thanks LegalEagle (talk) 06:11, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

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The above-linked Arbitration case has been closed and the final decision published.

PHG's mentorship and sourcing arrangement is both revised and extended; the full list of new conditions are available by clicking this link. Furthermore, the original topic ban on editing articles related to medieval or ancient history has been rescinded. PHG is prohibited from editing articles relating to the Mongol Empire, the Crusades, intersections between Crusader states and the Mongol Empire, and Hellenistic India—all broadly defined. This topic ban will last for a period of one year. He is permitted to make suggestions on talk pages, provided that he interacts with other editors in a civil fashion.

Any particular article may be added or removed from PHG's editing restriction at the discretion of his mentor; publicly logged to prevent confusion of the restriction's coverage. The mentor is encouraged to be responsive to feedback from editors in making and reconsidering such actions. Furthermore, the Committee noted that PHG has complied with the Committee's restrictions over the past ten months, and that PHG is encouraged to continue contributing to Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. PHG should be permitted and encouraged by other editors to write well-sourced suggestions on talkpages, to contribute free-content images to Wikimedia Commons, and to build trust with the community.

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User talk:Pygmalion

Can you have a look at the unblock request here? Stifle (talk) 15:12, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Timeline

Hey Aldux, it's good to see someone new helping out with the Timeline of the Presidency of Barack Obama! For future reference I'd point you towards the article's talk page — we had an AfD back in January that brought up some legitimate concerns about becoming a daily-directory and obvious size issues if we included every action of every member of the administration, so you'll see we've made a few attempts at laying out the general level of selectivity and brevity for inclusion in the timeline (basically a focus on Obama, to a lesser extent Biden, and then just major events concerning administration members ie. cabinet nominations, international conferences, etc). Joshdboz (talk) 15:09, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Hoshdboz. The danger you point to is serious: but then, this is the administration of the major economic and military power in the world, and as such it's pretty active, especially in its first months. Many decisions of the greatest importance take place through the secretaries' orders, so it's not always so easy to limit yourself to what the President explicitely does.Ciao, --Aldux (talk) 18:36, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

wp:HSITES

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FLC nominations and reviews

Hi, Aldux. You may not be aware, but the new Featured list criteria was implemented Sunday 5 April, 00:56 (UTC) following two weeks of discussion at Wikipedia talk:Featured list criteria#New criterion discussion.

I've gone through the nominations and have noticed you have !voted Support, Oppose or Neutral at the following nominations:

1. Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of places of worship in Crawley/archive1 (List of places of worship in Crawley)

Please could you take the time to revisit the articles and candidate pages, and check them against the new Featured list criteria, and confirm/revise your !vote; any !vote made against the old criteria that is not confirmed against the new criteria will be ignored when the nomination is closed.

Finally, please accept my apologies for the brusqueness of this message; the same wording is being sent to everyone who has outstanding reviews, with only the names of lists being changed. Regards, Matthewedwards :  Chat  05:22, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

The WikiProject Greece April 2009 newsletter

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Help desk reply

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Was this issue resolved? I think I have made some progress in using calibrated maps on Geoboxes (and could help explain if that were useful), but have not been able to get a locator dot to appear. Perhaps the answer to your question will help me. Regards. --papageno (talk) 00:17, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

List of Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset

You were right about the number at List of Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset. I've added the other 2 - perhaps you'd be kind enough to take another look?— Rod ^talk 10:13, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Scheduled Monuments

In response to the question you asked here, I don't think there is an easy way of searching for them. If there is, I wasted a lot of time while writing list of Scheduled Monuments in Greater Manchester. I think User:Peter I. Vardy encountered similar problems when writing Scheduled Monuments in Cheshire (pre-1066), Scheduled Monuments in Cheshire (post-1539), and Scheduled Monuments in Cheshire (1066–1539), three gargantuan lists. If you have questions, I'd recommend asking him as I'll be editing infrequently for a while. I know and contacted the local council for help. What I did for the Greater Manchester list was to look at the list maintained by each local authority (although not all of them are available online), and used pastscape as a backup. Pastscape is run by English Heritage (who decide what is a SM and what isn't) and has 400,000 entries because it doesn't just include SMs but other historic sites and find spots (more information here). If you're seeking information on Scheduled Monuments, I'd suggest asking your local archaeology unit, which will probably be attached to a university. I must admit, I am quite envious of the Scottish system which has them all listed. Happy editing, Nev1 (talk) 23:49, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for taking your time to awnser. And I was afraid the awnser would be sort of like this, that is that there is no online database like there is for the listed buildings. As for asking my local archeology unit... I'm afraid they wouldn't be of much help, as I live currently in Italy ;-) Anyway, as it's relatively easier to do I'm going to try making Grade I lists for Suffolk and Norfolk, and possibly other East region counties. Thanks again, and ciao. Aldux (talk) 00:00, 10 May 2009 (UTC)