Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 05:38, 21 March 2008

Welcome

Hello, Maracana, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• The five pillars of Misplaced Pages
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• Tutorial
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Misplaced Pages:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.

If you are interested in Ukraine-related themes, you may want to check out the Ukraine Portal, particularly the Portal:Ukraine/New article announcements and Portal:Ukraine/Ukraine-related Misplaced Pages notice board. The New article announcements board is probably the most important and the most attended one. Please don't forget to announce there the new articles you create. Adding both boards to your watchlist is probably a good idea.

Finally, in case you are interested, similar boards exist at Russia portal as many editors contribute to topics related to both countries. The respective boards there are: Portal:Russia/New article announcements and Portal:Russia/Russia-related Misplaced Pages notice board. Of course there are also many other portals at Misplaced Pages or you may just get right into editing.

Again, welcome!--Riurik 18:50, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Flags

Please stop unnecessarily adding flagicons to infoboxes. It's considered overuse. Thank you. - Dudesleeper · Talk 12:18, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

You have added a flag to Cesc Fàbregas claiming consensus. Would you please show where? As you can see in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive_12#Flags_in_infoboxes and Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Football/Players it is quite the opposite. -- Alexf 23:56, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

There is no consensus on addition of flags to boxes. Please stop reverting others edits or you will be blocked under WP:3RR. Qwghlm (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

As you can see on the talk page of Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Players there is a "one flag only" subcategory in which it is discussed. It is common sense that pictures - and thereby flags - are more memorable than text for a lot of people. Therefore, a single flag next to the birthplace is acceptable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maracana (talk • contribs) 00:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

You are taking things out of context. You are quoting a comment/question I made in July 2007 where I was shown I was in error and flags do not belong in infoboxes for places of birth/death and nationality. Also you cannot call one question and answer "consensus". See Misplaced Pages:FLAGS#Not_for_use_in_locations_of_birth_and_death. -- Alexf 01:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

See WP:FLAGS It specifically states that flags for place of birth are not acceptable. It also states may other reasons why flags are not acceptable in infoboxes.++Arx Fortis (talk) 21:30, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I didn't say anything about Benjani....I made my comment under this topic. I removed a flag from an article here. You added it back here, so I removed it again per WP:FLAGS. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 15:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Benjani

Rhodesia did not exist in 1978, as such Benjani cannot have been born there. Pbradbury (talk) 22:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

My appologies you are correct Pbradbury (talk) 22:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

USSR

Hey, buddy, you need to stop change stuff around to USSR. I understand that there are people who love USSR, but that was country without nationality. All of the republics in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics were a unique political entity, at least officially. Therefore stop changing things around especially when did not start the page. best regards Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 04:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm quoting following specifically for you. Initially established as a union of four Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR grew to contain 15 constituent or "union republics" by 1956: Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Uzbek SSR. (From annexation of the Estonian SSR on August 6, 1940 up to the reorganisation of the Karelo-Finnish SSR into the Karelian ASSR on July 16, 1956, the count of "union republics" was 16.) Please, refer to this link for more information. best regards Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 04:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, please stop edit warring. There are valid reasons to keep the countries of birth to the USSR, there are reasons to keep them as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc. There is no valid reasons to have an edit war here. Please start a discussion on a talking page somewhere and advertise it so everybody could participate. Or just drop the edit war and do something non-controversial instead. If you will continue the mass changes without reaching some sort of consensus first I will block you. I will revert all the changes of the birthcountries to the stable versions Alex Bakharev (talk) 05:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)