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Confederation page

Hi-

You put the Confederation article under protection about 3 weeks ago, and it has been protected ever since because of an arguement over an issue not central to the article at all, namely whether or not the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a confederation. Would you consider de-protecting the page? It's not that I am particularly deeply concerned about this article, but it certainly could use major revisions, and I'm worried that it appears the article was locked down and and just "forgetten," since apparently nothing has been done on either your part or the part of the people that had the arguement originally to resolve the conflict. Thanks.

changes to Australia

hi nixie, I followed up on your comments at talk:Australia#Recent changes. clarkk 12:39, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

sorry to pester you about this but this edit appears to introduce some lossage that should be in economy of Australia. clarkk 15:09, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

I fixed it. I suspect all the "sub"-articles, geography of..., economy of... could do with an overhaul and porting of any new text (especially any added or improved text) and any new references added that have been added in the Australia article. clarkk 15:34, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Yep, I saw your reword. Thanks for that. I think it has a good chance of achieving Feature Status. The Politics section is the only one I would still like to do anything to. If I have enough time, I might attempt to change it a bit - it just strikes me as less comprehensive than that of other countries. Thanks again for your efforts.--Cyberjunkie 07:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

I agree that a transport section would be un-necessary. As for cuisine, I'll have a look around. I agree that the Culture section would be the place for it to. Actually, I know Clarkk has been involved with the Cuisine of Australia article, so maybe he might have some ideas.--Cyberjunkie 07:34, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

I saw Clarkk's response. Looking back over the history of Cusine of Australia is see that the edits were really only copy-editing and formatting - oops! I just remember seeing his name on a few cuisine pages. I'll try to formalate a short paragraph detailing Australia's cuisine moving from Anglo-Saxon to Modern Australian (fusion cuisine) and a few unique foodstuffs (vegemite, tim-tams, Anzac Biscuits, Pavlova (sorry NZ!)), if time permits. That's what I think such a paragraph could include anyway.--Cyberjunkie 08:08, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

If you have the picture from Tannin, go ahead and put it up for FAC. The section, as it is, is fine - I would still like to work on the politics section in the future, but I haven't enough time to make substantial edits at the moment (for the next month, at least). --Cyberjunkie 06:46, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rokia Traoré

The article Rokia Traoré was not a speedy deletion candidate the first time it was deleted and probably should not have been deleted again. It was listed on WP:VFU and was undeleted. —Ben Brockert (42) 01:51, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

It's no trouble, really. The undeletion policy requires me to leave these notices when I undelete something. —Ben Brockert (42) 02:15, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

The undeletion process WP:VFU is just for a few cases, like when a non-admin notices in the log that an article was deleted and they don't think it should have. Most stuff that gets deleted stays deleted. If an article's author wants their page undeleted, they are supposed to go through VfU. —Ben Brockert (42) 02:25, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Rovoam

Hey. I set a short term rangeblock for Rovoam. I've been doing so for the past couple of nights. I really haven't come up to speed on him other than to see that he just gets on from a lot of IPs and keeps vandalizing. If you have more history with him, do you think that perhaps it would be advantageous to get the foundation involved to go to his ISP, etc. ? CryptoDerk 06:26, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Confederation - PLC

Hi, The proposal of DeirYassin is logical. We should include Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth because it was confederation. Thank you. Zivinbudas 06:26, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Delete Willy on Wheels?

Actually it is unfortunately not possible to delete Willy on Wheels himself, but I am considering putting his entry on WP:VIP up for deletion since I think it gives him precisely the attention he desires. I almost never ask for second opinions before making a VfD nomination, but I am making an exception now because I don't want to wind up having a VfD entry wind up as yet another trophy in WoW's collection. I have put a proposed VfD entry on my userpage (Sjakkalle/WoWVFD). I'm asking you since you are currently logged in and since you have also reverted WoW on that page. Sjakkalle 06:38, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your response, I have added WiC to the list. At your suggestion, I'll bring it to WP:AN first, and put the entry up on VfD later if needed. Sjakkalle 07:03, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

I see that the VfD was an utter failure, even attracting more attention to WoW and WiC. Great pity. And the vandals themselves have already voted keep three times on the page. At least "trophies for vandal hunters" is perhaps a silver lining. Sjakkalle 07:46, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Prospal

The proposal is acceptable. But i guess in some days Zivinbudas will starting a new edit-war on an other article.. :)--Witkacy 07:42, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

FAC

Australia

I've been going through the article looking for spelling and minor errors. I see you are doing the same in much the same order (i.e top to bottom) and we are running into conflicts. I might give you free rein for a while - you'll probably find and fix all the rest anyway! Pete 02:13, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Zivinbudas

I've now officially requested an Arbitration against Zivinbudas. As one of the people who were involved in previous attempts at compromise with him, you might be interested in the case. Also, feel free to list yourself as one of the parties involved here. Halibutt 04:05, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

User:Jumbo Snails

Just to clarify, Jumbo Snails is (I think) a regular contributor's new account. I assume you reverted a revert of his because of the username, so I thought i'd alert you. Hedley 00:13, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Skyring RfA

Having participated (sparsely) in this matter I'd like to offer my further help in resolving it. I see the evidence page is empty. Perhaps there's an aspect of the matter that I could research and present? I see the matter being an editor who refuses to recognize a consensus and who is using Misplaced Pages as a soapbox. Anyway, if there's some way I can help without duplicating effort let me know. Thanks for moving this forward. Cheers, -Willmcw 19:34, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Great, it sounds like you've got it under control. What a way to spend a weekend. Cheers, -Willmcw 23:10, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

If you check Skyring's user contributions you'll see that before Government of Australia he was working on the Governor General of Australia, etc. In fact, this one issue has been the focus of his entire editing career here. Cheers, -Willmcw 06:02, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Problems with Petaholmes' Evidence

I'm quite happy to defend my own statements and edits, but you don't think it's going a little far to attack me for edits that I clearly didn't make?

For instance, you say "Skyring claims that Australia was made a kingdom following federation. Reverted by Lacrimosus, see Talk:Canada for the reasons why this is original research." but shows that User:Gbambino made the claim that Australia is a kingdom. My contribution - my one and only edit to the article occurs with the next edit at where I correctly note that the Australian Constitution was an act of British rather than English law, as it was passed by the British Parliament, England having ceased to exist as an independent country some hundreds of years previously. User:Lacrimosus didn't revert my edit - he altered Gbambino's contribution.

Your mistake, and one you make several times, possibly out of incompetence rather than malice, is that you aren't linking to my edits, but to the edit following mine. Just because I was the last person to touch a page doesn't mean that I wrote every word of that version. In the case of Australian Republicanism my total contribution amounts to four letters, yet you are happy to attack me for a whole paragraph I didn't write!

Be fair, please! Pete 11:42, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Speedy

But Google would (at best — and I'm not convinced that Google is the last word on this) have told me that it might be non-notable, which isn't one of the criteria for speedying. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:37, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, to be honest, it might have suggested that (it didn't, in fact, but I only performed a search on the name, without any fancy options), but for a speedy deletion the evidence has to be incontrovertible — otherwise a VfD is the right way to go. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:13, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Did you know?

Sergei Korolev

Thank you for running your spell checker on the Sergei Korolev page. However I noticed that in a couple of locations it actually introduced errors instead of correcting them. (For example, it changed "man" to "an".) Is this an automated tool that could be fine tuned a little more? :) — RJH 17:08, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Per the manual typos, no problem then. Thanks for the fixes. :) — RJH 22:17, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

DNA

FYI, you protected DNA before the latest vandalism could be reverted, please check the history you'll see that the article is essentially doubled. Thanks! Tufflaw 22:54, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Kennan

Good work finding those mistakes. But some of your changes included changing American English spellings to British English. These should be changed back, in order to keep the (American English) spellings consistent throughout the article. 172 00:49, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I've probably made that mistake myself. Not having a standardized dialect of English on WP can be a bit frustrating at times. 172 01:04, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Women

I think this is a really good idea - Misplaced Pages's coverage in quite a few of the areas you mentioned isn't particularly strong. If you want to set one up, just create the page - you might want to use some of the existing successful WikiProjects (Cryptography and Melbourne are two of the better examples that come to mind) as templates.

When I started my last WikiProject, I went through the histories of a bunch of affected articles, and messaged all those that had made useful contributions and were still active. That could be useful to drag some people in, although this project will be a lot broader. In terms of broader advertising, you might want to put it on Village Pump and Misplaced Pages:Goings-on, and maybe email User:Michael Snow about getting it in the Signpost - that should drag a few more people in.

I've always found that having an active to-do list really helps in getting work done; a lot of people don't really know where to start otherwise. Otherwise, I'm not sure what I can add, but I'm happy to help with getting this going if you need any. Ambi 03:51, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Did you decide not to do anything about this? I'd really like to get it going if you're still interested. Ambi 06:57, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Looking good so far. Might be nice to have a few more categories to work on if you can think of any; else it might be time to move it live. Ambi 06:24, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of images

"Exists on commons" is not a valid criterion for speedy deleting images. As images cannot be undeleted, please be more careful in the future. Your deletion of Image:Birth of Venus.jpg is being contested on Misplaced Pages:Votes for undeletion, and it makes me very unhappy to have to tell the person that A) it shouldn't have been deleted and B) we can't really get it back. -- Cyrius|✎ 04:11, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

FAC

Please see Thanks. JBurnham 10:05, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Law Enforcement in Australia

Hello Petaholmes. I am new to Misplaced Pages but not to my subject of Law. I understand this "User talk" is means to communicate to you. Why reverse my additions to this subject? Have I transgressed some boundary, protocol or group? --202.72.148.102 09:27, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sheriffs & Bailiffs

'Nixie wrote' "I have never heard of Sheriffs and bailiffs existing in the Eastern States."

There is some slight variation in the terminology however Sheriffs and bailiffs do exist in all the "States" however I cannot say that one exists in the ACT (a consitutional creature of Federal Parliament) The oldest continuous Sheriff in Australia is IN NSW. --202.72.148.102 10:53, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The ACT has a Sheriff. The attendants in ACT courts are called "Sheriff's Officers". They perform court-related tasks not requiring a policeman, such as serving documents in civil matters. Check this link. Pete 16:55, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

deletion

User:SimonP is up to his old tricks over templates and categories. He has now proposed deleting Template:Crowns on the template for deletion page. Going by his past antics on Category:Westminster System and Template:Commonwealth Realms he's trying to delete a template that pulls all the articles on the topic together, then he'll start subcategorising all the articles and we'll end up with a complicated, user-unfriendly mess of a category. Your opinions and observations would be welcome. FearÉIREANNFile:Ireland flag large.png\ 21:15, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)