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Ellis Paul

Yannis, I see that you do quite a bit of bio assessment/reviewing. I'd like to make a personal request regarding the Ellis Paul article. I'm a little disconcerted that the comments left by the first person to rate the article don't seem to substantiate a B-rating....but I'm new at this. Would really appreciate your feedback if possible. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. Kmzundel 17:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback! Kmzundel 18:41, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Have incorporated many of your suggestions. Please take another look and let me know if I'm on the right track. Not done by any means, but making progress (I think!). Kmzundel 02:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Billy Campbell

Thanks for the feedback. You recommend renaming the article "Dr. Billy Campbell" to "Billy Campbell (doctor)" and I fully agree with you, however I do not know how to do that - please advise Eulogy4Afriend 02:33, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations

For the El Greco FA! Good job! Baristarim 08:32, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Don Quixote

Thanks for the note. I would be happy to clean up the article. It has been on my list of top priorities a long time (so you can see how important those are ;) ). Do you read Spanish? You could have a quick look at the wiki.es article. It is not perfect (although I believe it has been featured), but I think it offers up a good way of approaching the material thematically as well as providing a good organisational structure. As for the book, I prefer to pick up a chapter here and there and read it in that fashion. Since it is a picaresque novel, it permits this treatment. Also, I am not that familiar with the wider scholarship surrounding Quixote.

One aspect of the article is the legacy of DQ. We have the novel to contend with as well as the role and image of DQ and Sancho Panza and for that matter Dulcinea in a wider cultural context. I liked the way you dealt with these diverse aspects in the El Greco article - an auspicious sign for a solid and comprehensive treatment of DQ. If you wish to take this article forward, I suggest we aim to go FA, although it will likely take several months of work. At any event, I'm game and happy that you would like to make a stab at it. Eusebeus 14:33, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry for not having read your initial message more closely where you answered my query about langauge. My Spanish is good, as is my French and German, so I am happy to provide what is needed from those languages. A revision to the lead is a fine idea, but let's also thrash out a structure that we are happy with as a means of focusing our thinking. Happy New Year to you as well from Canada! Eusebeus 15:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I have posted a comment here. Eusebeus 00:00, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Yannis. That closely follows my own thinking as well. I think its importance in the genesis of modern Spanish language and literature probably deserves its own section as well. The clutter at the end of the article should be lumped into a section on the Cultural Legacy of Don Quixote and then subdivided as necessary for Opera, Film, etc etc etc. The plot breakdown should probably include (or maybe limited to in any detail) the more noteworthy episodes, such as the Windmills, Sheep, Riverboat, etc.... I am happy that you are embracing this project. Eusebeus 20:43, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

J. P. Morgan Peer review

Hello there. I have noticed that you have peer reviewed several articles at Misplaced Pages before. I am asking if you could find some time to peer review J. P. Morgan for me, and leave comments at Misplaced Pages:Peer_review/J. P. Morgan. Many thanks! — Wackymacs 22:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Peer Review of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

Hi Yannis. I have gone through all of your comments - they were really helpful - and made changes to the article, fixing, expanding and restructuring it. If you have a moment, I'd appreciate you taking another look. I'd like to see if the article would qualify for a higher rating. What would it take to get this to FA? Thanks - Cimm 00:49, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Yannis - I really appreciate you taking a second look and providing so many more valueable comments. I think the article is ready for the next step. I'm trying to determine what the best procedural path is in getting it closer to FA status. If you have any advice on how to proceed, it would be much appreciated! Thank you again for all your help! Cimm 00:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you Yannis, for the kind welcome message, as well as your advise on seeking further feedback on the article! I plan to explore possibilities for improving the family section, and then proceed with a general peer-review. I will invite the users that you recommended to review and copy-edit the article, and after receiving everybody's feedback I will once again evaluate the most appropriate next steps towards FA. I'll keep you posted on the progress. Thank you again for your invaluable contributions and assistance! Cimm 19:19, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Yannis - just wanted to give you a heads up that I have started a new general peer review for Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. I invited the users tat you recommended, and they are working their magic - great comments comming back. Feel free to take a look ad add your two cents when you have a moment. Thanks again for your help! Cimm 02:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

FAC

Can you please tell me how to withdraw a FAC candidacy. Thanks Kyriakos 05:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm thinking about it. The FAC's nom has gone down the drain some I'm going to work on the comments. Kyriakos 21:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

WPHOG

I just read your suggestion at the talk page of WPHOG and I think that a MIlitary history of Greece would be a great idea. And I was also wondering if it would include the Military history of Greece from the Minoan/Mycenenean age all the way to modern history or from archaic and classical to modern. Kyriakos 22:59, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Charles Edward Magoon

Thanks for rating my article on Mr. Magoon as "A". I would really appreciate any feedback that you could provide on it possibly being a FA candidate in the future. I know it still needs work to reach that point, but you might have advice that would help me get there. JRP 23:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Roman-Spartan War

Hi Yanni, I withdrew the Roman-SPartan War from FAC and I put it on Peer Review at WPMILHIST. So if you have the time and don't mind could you please go and leave some suggestions becuase they always seem to be of good value and worth while. Thanks in advance and also I forgotto congratulate you on El Greco becoming a FA. It's great that you took the article of the greatest Greek painter to FA level. Kyriakos 05:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: A-Class - Biography project

The most straightforward approach would probably be to start a discussion on the project's main talk page; it's usually fairly easy to come to some sort of rough consensus on a sensible proposal (although their may be some back-and-forth debate on specific points, such as the duration of the reviews and so forth). Once people are in agreement, you can start actually implementing changes; the first creation of such a process should be quite active, as you'll have the opportunity to run your existing A-Class articles through it. I would suggest doing everything slowly, though; the last thing you want is to create the impression that the program is being pushed over objections.

Aside from that is another point: running such a review process requires a fair amount of administrative work—posting notices and reminders, helping people set up nominations, closing and archiving reviews, etc. In WPMILHIST, this is handled by the coordinators (mostly by myself, really); but WPBIO doesn't have such a group (and Plange, who was working as the de-facto coordinator, seems to be inactive now), so you might want to consider the issue of who will keep the process running before you start it off. Kirill Lokshin 15:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Peer review:Roman-Spartan War

I went over your suggestions and I think I fixed them =. What do you think? Kyriakos 09:57, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Yannismarou! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. froth 19:17, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Thank you for your support in my my RfA, which passed with a tally of 117/0/1. I hope that my conduct as an admin lives up to the somewhat flattering confidence the community has shown in me. I hope that my janitorial efforts here on Misplaced Pages don't stop me from getting on with the job of contributing directly to the encyclopedia. Please don't hesitate to leave a message on my talk page should you need anything or to discuss something with me.--Nilfanion (talk) 22:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

El Greco

He was not greek.he was venetian italoian.greeks calling him el grecko becuase he spoke some greek.i speak english and im not english.please remove his fake ancestry and remove him from Greeks page

This looks like a well-researched claim and reasonable request, please arrange to have that information removed from quoted sources too. Arf. Yomangani 11:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Of course! This is going to be one of my first priorities.--Yannismarou 17:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Fred Roberts

Thanks fo the assessment. I was hoping for a higher rating of course, mainyl because its about as omplete as it's going to get, I've exhausted almost every source. I'll improve on it though. Btw, have you given thought to possibly being an admin?--Wizardman 02:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Armia Krajowa

Thank you for your comments, I believe I have addressed most of them. If you have time, could you look at the recent dispute on the article's talk page and offer some comments on that issue? I am afraid as long as there are only two opposed voices we are rather deadlocked.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  03:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Roman-Spartan War

Can you pase tell me what you think of the article and what needs to be done for it to get to FA. Thanks. Kyriakos 06:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Re:AK

Thank you for your note left on my talk. Could you point me out there is information was placed if it was not deleted:

While Armia Krajowa`s commanders continued to accuse Lithuanians of collaborating with Germans, Krajowa itself did not hesitate to collaborate with Nazis. On 1944 AK leadership agreed not to attack Germans and to help them fight Soviet partisans. From other side Germans also did not allow Lithuanian Security Police to arrest known commanders of AK and often released arrested AK soldiers from prison or denounced persecution, supplied weapons, ammunition and etc. AK cooperation with Germans intensified, when Lithuanian authorities denounced possibility to established Lithuanian SS group.

From 1943 AK especially targeted Lithuanian elementary schools and already in 1943 successfully paralyzed activity of schools. During these years many Lithuanian teachers there brutally tortured or killed. On the same year AK commanders openly threaten to continue use of terror against Lithuanians."???

Or maybe this is too don't think that Piotrus deletes information from the article. and that your opinion on intervening in article which has {{inuse}} tag . Best regards, M.K. 09:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank for message again, it was quick:) Quick remark about deletion, yesterday or more exactly today I writing this article in ~2.30 at night, and I did not manage to finish with referencing properly, but I left the note no summary - but this not prevented Piotrus from removing it. While you noted that - I am not going to decide what info should leave and what should stay. but Piotrus used one-sided methods of removal info without any discusion which of them should stay or which should go into different article; despite my suggestion to do so in first place before splinting it long time ago- . But Piotrus failed to cooperate back then.M.K. 10:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your assistance. I will finish with referencing part and then we all could discuss which parts should go to other article. And only after proper discussions we should take actions moving/deleting info. M.K. 10:24, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello once more, could you contact Piotrus and explain situation, because he is continues his disruptive behavior M.K. 15:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Please see comments about unreliable sources on talk. This sections need to be shortened, not expanded, adding controversial POVed information supposed by a fringe non-English publication is not improving this GA (nor would it any article). Nobody on the talk is supporting M.K.'s edits - this is a clear sign of POV-pushing against consensus.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  16:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello again, could you comment a bit much more here? Thnaks, M.K. 22:02, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Έυχαριστώ πολύ

Hi. I was wondering why the decision was taken and how the star is supposed to get there (I though it has to make it to main page or something - btw, how does one get it there?). I still don't know how to get the star in the right-hand corner of the article (and if I should do it myself). Thanks for the encouragements and the kind words. Dahn 22:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. It looks like I missed my chance to decorate it, but I have others in the oven (granted, they still need lots of work). Dahn 21:07, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Hm... As I see it, it looks like all your plans and dreams are more substantial than my projects... They're impressive. (Btw, upon witnessing what some of your articles had in common, I have to say: watch out or reading that much turn you into a madman;) ). Dahn 21:20, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Heelp with "Byzantine-Seljuk wars"

Hello. I have been trying in vain to ask someone to do a campaign box for "Byzantine-Seljuk wars" involving the following battles:

Caesarea Manzikert Nicaea (1077) Antioch (1084) Nicaea (1096) Myriokephalon (1176)

But no one has come to the rescue. Could you please do one? I don't knwo how to make one. If you could do so, I would be very grateful. Thanks. Tourskin 12:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)