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Please do not edit archived pages. If you want to react to a statement made in an archived discussion, please make a new header on THIS page. Baristarim 20:51, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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I can have have that task done fairly quickly. I just need the cats that need tagged and the template that your project uses. :) Betacommand 05:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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Teşekkür

Osmanlıca vikisine verdiğiniz destekten dolayı çok teşekkür ederim. Siberyaca wikide hakkında ise:

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Çalışmalarınızda başarılar dilerim. İyi akşamlar --Tarih 21:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Turkey

No problem its added to my watch list now :) Nareklm 23:19, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy New year! Nareklm 09:59, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Revert

Baris, I will accept your revert on the title of the section, but not on its content. I realize that this isn't about the history of Turkey, but the earlier version of this section seemed to be more slanted towards the Turkish POV (that Armenian Genocide was a civil war and that there were deaths on both sides and that Armenia was actively at war with Azerbaijan during the Karabakh conflict). I was very even handed in my approach to writing this mentioning both the Armenian and Turkish positions. I also did not create the Pakistan section (I don't know who did), so you can remove it. -- Clevelander 23:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, why not place Russia in a section seperate from the South Caucasus? I realize that you think that the South Caucasus may not be as important to Turkey as Russia, but I believe that they are crucial enough to garner their own section. -- Clevelander 23:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Ok I will delete the Turkish version of events, they shouldn't be in there either. Nagorno-Karabakh could be mentioned I suppose. However it shouldn't be a whole list of events either.. I didn't write that section, so I don't know who did either.. Baristarim 00:00, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
No, both sides should be represented and the relations between both nations should be discussed as they are in my version. -- Clevelander 00:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I also began developing the Central Asian section. Hope this helps! Sincerely, Clevelander 00:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Why did you just send me the above message again? -- Clevelander 00:06, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I was copypasting, I didn't realize that you had put a message. Baristarim 00:08, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I think that the Genocide should be mentioned. That's the focal point of Armenian-Turkish relations. If we don't mention that, then what's the point of mentioning Turkey's relations with Armenia or the South Caucasus at all? -- Clevelander 00:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I made a comprised, less historical version. What do you think? -- Clevelander 00:15, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Excellent! See? Turks and Armenians can work together! :) -- Clevelander 00:21, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
No problem! -- Clevelander 00:22, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Reply

Yes I am aware of what the tags are used for, and you shouldn't be removing a "POV check" tag when an editor has nominated an article to be checked for its neutrality, what you're doing is both disruptive and rude. --Mardavich 06:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

You don't know what the tag is used for I am afraid, and calling me disruptive and rude for pointing it out is extremely unfair. Did you read this Misplaced Pages:POV check? I don't think you have. The policy says "The POV check template, {POV-check}, may be added to an article which you feel may need to be edited to comply with Misplaced Pages's neutral point of view policy. Add the template at the top of the article, and then explain your reasons on the talk page of the article that needs checking (not the talk pages of the template or this article)."

Don't worry, I am extremely well aware of how Misplaced Pages works, and I couldn't see anything in the talk page. There needs to be a detailed explanation of the disagreements, otherwise such placement of template is what is disruptive. I hope that you will agree with this? That template as is was used for harrassment of the article instead of some legitimate encyclopedic behavior. Tags without explanations, or talk pages without discussions are grounds for the immediate removal of such tags. Please keep that in mind. Baristarim 06:41, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I have every right request an article to be checked for neutrality, you're in no position to remove my tag. --Mardavich 06:47, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
?? Of course you can nominate it, but you have to explain your reasons in a detailed way in the talk page. Read applicable Wiki policies, instead of calling me rude or disruptive. Cut down on the incivility. If the person making the nomination doesn't explain his reasons in the talk page, the tag will be taken down per Wiki policy as pointed out above, is that clear enough? Instead of apologizing and admitting that I actually knew the policy and you didn't, and as such, you falsely accused me of being disruptive and rude, when in fact it was people who were putting it in without any notes on the talk page were disruptive, you left an even nastier note on my talk page! Thanks. Baristarim 06:52, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Listen, I am afraid you are in violation of WP:AGF by claiming that the tag was used for "harassment" of the article. That's a bad faith assumption on your part, and you're acting very rudely too. I have explained the reason for the tag, go back and revert yourself immediately. --Mardavich 06:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Updated DYK query On 18 December, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article religion in Turkey, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomangani 01:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

  • Thanks for your "barnstar".
  • Sensitive articles under my watch.

Regards. Must 06:15, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Religion in Turkey

I added the article to my watchlist. I have an exam today and won't be around for most of the time, but I'll do my best. Atilim Gunes Baydin 12:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Menderes

I don't like Adnan Menderes but when I read the article about him, I thought that it isn't satisfactory so I decided to improve it. I divided the article into 6 sub-secions and I added two new images. If you know some interesting or extra data about Menderes, please share them so we can further improve the article. Saygılarımla, Deliogul 14:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

You can send messages to dilhan@ku.edu.tr. Deliogul 15:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Turkish Statistical Institute

Hi, I am aware that the name they are using is a bit awkward. But I believe that it's not up to us to discuss what the appropriate English title of the institute ought to be. If the institute calls itself the "Turkish Statistical Institute", we can only report that exactly as it is. Atilim Gunes Baydin 17:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

But, at the same time, I was expecting that they won't be consistent with the English name they are using, like the case with many government offices in Turkey. You see, here they use the better sounding name of State Institute of Statistics. But I think we should go with the usage in their main publication, the statistics yearbook (here is the pdf, both in English and Turkish) which uses "Turkish Statistical Institute". I don't think the English site is very comprehensive though. Regards, Atilim Gunes Baydin 17:56, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
As a note, the reason I started looking there was to find some figures on the religion of Turkish citizens, to help you provide some reference for the Religion in Turkey article. Honestly, it's ridiculous that there are statistics of the five most common names in Turkey, according to regions, gender, etc. (here, and the page design is quite funny, check this out!), but none to be found on crucial issues like the religion and languages spoken. Atilim Gunes Baydin 18:03, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

French Law

Hi there

I have begun to act on cutting out the fat in the France article whilst adding in necessary sections (if one follows other country FA's). I noted on your user page that you are a lawyer and live in France, I therefore presume that you know something about French law. As the article French Law is rather poor, I was wondering if you could write a short summary on this topic in the France#Law subsection. Thanks. --Bob 18:30, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Pan-Turkist POV

The Germanic Europe article is quite something different than the POV of List of Turkic states. The Germanic Europe article is only naming the Germanic-speaking countries of Europe, and does not lay claims on countless historical governments.

It ios NOT a "Germanic World" article trying to push for nationalistic POV, like "USA, Australia, Europeans are all Germanics and united in their Germanic identity".

The List of Turkic states is a total POV article.

Why don't you just create an article "List of Turkic countries" and only sum up the present Turkic states, WITHOUT the usual Pan-Turkist POV about "all civilization comes from Turks" BS?! It would also be good to mention the large numbers of Non-Turkic minorities in those countries, because unlike European nations, Asian states are a conglomeration of different ethnicities (just for the case that you do not know it: this multi-ethnic character is also the reason why the USA cannot be considered a "Germanic nation"!)

Tājik 20:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I will just repeat what I said before.. "These are your words: there are no articles called List of Germanic states (containing Germany, USA, UK, etc) or a List of Slavic states (containing Russia, Bulgaria, etc) either ... " I am not going to take seriously the arguments of someone who was insulting others by calling them pan-turkist on the premise that there were no "list of slavic states (containing Russia, Bulgaria) etc." The utter proval of the falsity of your god-like affirmations stops me from lending any type of credibility to any of your arguments any more, nor can I assume good faith. There is a list of states that group Bulgaria and Russia, and your god-like affirmations have been proven to be utterly false. You might at least apologize for your propagation of un-truths, it is called disruption. Europe is also a mix of ethnicities, what r u talking about? Basques, Slavs, Nordmen, Latins, Hellenes, Celts etc. The level of non-academic character of your arguments is so low that do not even try to take others to take your arguments seriously. Slavic Europe clearly mentions "Austria-Hungary", "Imperial Russia", "Mongol invasion", "Ottoman invasion", "Holy Roman Empire".. Do not ever expect me to take you seriously. The good faith assumption, and so-called knowledgability of the subject matter is out of the window, and that utterly. That article is not pushing for all of them to be "united in their Turkic identity". I can assume the same thing about Iranian peoples, Arab world, Slavic Europe etc in that case. How about looking at the issue with greater good faith? Do not reply to me unless you are ready to accept that you were "utterly wrong" when you affirmed "there are no articles that group Russia/Bulgaria" etc. End of story. Baristarim 20:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
It was not me who nominated the articles for deletion, but certainly do support its deletion. There may not be a "Turkic conspiracy", but there certainly is a very ill-minded Turkish ultra-nationalism that has infiltrated many Wikipedias, most of all the German and English Wikipedias ... the Turkish Misplaced Pages is a joke and does not have any reliability.
What you call a "history section" is in reality pseudo-history - it's the manifestation of odd Pan-Turkist theories that should have no place in a serious encyclopaedia.
I have nothing against a List of Turkic states article that is NEUTRAL and is limitted to modern Turkic states. But the current article is POV. It wants to present historical kingdoms and dynasties as "Turkic" although these peoples were either not Turks, or they did not have any Turkic identity. There is already an article Turkic peoples (which also containst certain POV sections), there is no need to create another article.
You can say whatever you want, but you cannot convince me, because POV stays POV.
After more than a year of constant fights with nationalistic Turkish Wikipedians and their POV, I do not expect any good faith from them ... there are only a very few neutral and open-minded Turkish Wikipedians who are not biased with the usual Pan-Turkist propaganda of the post-Atatürk era.
Tājik 20:49, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Pfff... Baristarim 20:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
a) do not abuse the 1RR ...
b) do not put too much information into the short list: it's totally enough to give short infos (example: origianlly Turkic descent; Turkic identity is disputed<source>) Readers can simply go to respective articles for more info
Tājik 22:00, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Of course you will ... I guess this is part of your good-will conversation ... Tājik 22:01, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Well, read my posts about good faith. In any case, I warned you twice before this got out off hand. I am not trying to dangle 1RR over your head, trust me. If that were the case, I would have simply reverted all your edits, and would have reported you in your second revert. Even after all this, I am trying to be fair. So don't assume please.. Baristarim 22:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Could you please explain it to this A. Garnet that he should not remove authoritative sources?! Tājik 00:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Here are more scholarly sources:
  • "Persian in service of the state: the role of Persophone historical writing in the development of an Ottoman imperial aesthetic," Studies on Persianate Societies 2, 2004, pp. 145-163.
  • "Historiography. xi. Persian Historiography in the Ottoman Empire", Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 12, fasc. 4, 2004: 403-411.
  • S. Nur Yildiz, "Persian in the service of the Sultan", Istanbul Bilgi University - Early Ottoman History ()
  • F. Walter, "Music of the Ottoman court", Chap. 7 The Departure of Turkey from the "Persianate" Musical Sphere
I would not call that a "minority opinion"!
Tājik 01:07, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

urgent help

are you here? Must 20:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

checkmail in next 3 min.Must 20:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok.doneMust 20:56, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Let's keep that for the records shall we?--   Avg    03:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
  • List of Turkic states and empires needs attention. By providing references from iranica and other biased sources, the list is turning out to be a totally disputed one. We should provide sources for each entry, i know this is ridiculous for a list, but no way. Better to find references available from the internet first. I'll try to dig the sources from the metu library tomorrow. Cheers! E104421 21:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
    Xiongnu is definitely Turkic. I added the references. Especially, see this. The previous reference to "Vovin, Alexander. "Did the Xiongnu speak a Yeniseian language?". Central Asiatic Journal 44/1 (2000), pp. 87-104." was probably taken from the wiki-article, i guess, this was just a dispute trial. I'll do the rest tomorrow. Cheers. E104421 22:47, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
    The so-called new research dated 2000. The genetics study was published Am J Hum Genet. 2003 August; 73(2): 247–260. The Vovin reference is just a minor one. I think, it is irrelevant. The one who put the reference there probably did not read the article but just took it from the wiki-article. Regards. E104421 22:53, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
    Baris, In the Xiongnu article the argument is as follows: It is unknown what the language of the Xiongnu was. It may have been Turkic based on their geographic location and their alleged connection to the Huns (see below), although a Yeniseian language has recently been suggested.(ref. A. Vovin). This does not prove that they are not Turkic. There is a French abstract here Regards. E104421 23:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

attack

Special:Contributions/58.147.4.20 and User:Clevelander are makind attacks to some articles.

regards. Must 23:36, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

How am I making attacks to articles? (BTW, I'm writing this from work and I can't log on to Misplaced Pages) -- Clevelander 12:42, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Solomos Solomou

It's fine for me the way it is now, thank you for being cooperative. I have an issue with Mustafa Akalp (with his let's say guilty past) sending emails for help in order to get away with the 3rv rule--   Avg    04:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

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Coat of Arms of Turkey

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POV?

Hi there, I modified the introduction of the TRNC article into: "The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) (Template:Lang-tr) is a de facto state in northern Cyprus. The United Nations recognises the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus over the whole island; however, the republic's writ does not extend to the self-declared TRNC, which is recognised only by Ankara."

I think it reads better and it is a near verbatum quote from the Guardian newspaper's backstory to North Cyprus. In the past I had also been responsible for introducing the term 'de facto state'. Someone thinks it my latest edit is POV, they probably do not uderstand the meaning of POV. See what you make of it. Politis 15:04, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

not a political region!

The problem I was faced was regarding the use of the terminology; "Western Armenia" as a geographical term has been used by Armenians, even today. I'm in favor of keeping the term and specifying that it was a "historical subregion in Eurasia". Anything beyond geological use should be moved to relevant articles, and keep them as see also. "Wilsonian Armenia" has its own article, and it is not western Armenia, so it does not belong there. The "language of Armenians" in the article is also another "type" of problem. The Ottoman Empire does not exist so the "Western Armenia", knowledge in the article regarding language should be treated with the terminology "Armenians in Turkey", "Armenians in Armenia" . I think the only paragraph that should stay is the first one. If you approach this way, I thing I can support it.--OttomanReference 16:10, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Your starting to get on my nerves now.

What the hell is your damn problem? I am starting you get pissed off by your un-reasonable deletions of the template. When that template was put in that articel it was you that attacked by deleting it without any good reasons and stating "There is only one state Armenia... ones before it were not called "Armenia". That is the most annoying and ignorant thing to say, before saying go research and you'll see that Armenians had their contry and many different capitals through out many years, before Turks migrated to Anatolia and took over everything by killing and distroying what was build for many years. Is it that offensive to you to see Armenian template on those articles? Well than thats too bad for you, you should get used to it because those cities in Eastern Tureky was build and belonged to Armenians and it was taken away by force and that past should not be forgotten that other people besides Turks lived in those cities and it used to be their capitals. ROOB323 21:16, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

NAMBLA fandom

So what do you think about NAMBLA, the pedophile group? Baristarim 04:39, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

And, btw, in the "English" language, having sex with an underage person is pedophilia, are you honestly trying to defend that it is not so??? How can it be a "slur"?! The new lows of the politically correct saga. Well, there are all sorts of people on the Net I suppose.. Baristarim 04:44, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I think that they are a bunch of idiots. I also do not think much of people who see pedophilia everywhere. Haiduc 04:45, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, maybe. However pretending that taking advantage of the naivité of a human being because of his age, in a way that will be detrimental to his development as a balanced human being in society, is not pedophilia, and that on the basis of some animal urges (misplaced desires) that have not been rooted out by evolution is also not something to be thought highly of, right? :)Baristarim 05:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I am really not interested in this kind of simplistic polemic. I do not trust it. There are two kinds of sexual pedophiles, as far as I can see. One group tries to defend the sexual use of underage children, to justify their own sexual urges. The other group, suffering from the ravages of religious indoctrination on top of their craving for children, become "antipedophiles," see pedophilia everywhere and attack it ruthlessly, in order to cope with their own unresolved desires. Both types should be kept as far away from children as possible, they are selfish, maniacal and dangerous. Haiduc 05:12, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
You are right I suppose :) Baristarim 05:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Despicable

I don't know what you may or may not think. But I have a history in Misplaced Pages and I do not allow you to call my actions "despicable", especially when there is nothing despicable. If other Geek users decided to comment on this page this is not my problem. I have the right to comment on any page I want, and in any way I want, especially when I do not offend others; something you did in the most insulting way. I do no allow you to question my actions and of slandering me. Your unfortunate comments make me re-consider what I said about the board, and make me re-consider even the purpose of my presence in this board. Sorry!--Yannismarou 09:34, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it is despicable. If you cannot see that, I cannot understand the point of the reply you left to Mitsos in the WPHOG talk page! When I said "out of nowhere", I meant to this AfD, out of nowhere. I know very well that all the contributors to that AfD have been in Misplaced Pages for a long time. Did you actually read my post? Don't you find it interesting that ten Greek editors showed up to the AfD of an article that was only created two days ago? How did these people know about this? There is no logical explanation! Am I wrong? What would you feel if you were in my place? Please imagine that for a second! I had noticed that the debate has picked up steam in the PGG article, then Dirak creates this page, it is AfDed, and suddenly ten Greek editors show up! Just thinking with your head and not with your heart, you must surely see the bizarreness of the situation. How is that a show of good faith? All those people had signed up for the coop board, and this? I respect people's opinions, however people also have a right to wonder what is going when suddenly ten Greek editors jump into an AfD not even about Greece, for an article created by a Greek editor on a topic bizarrely resembling an article that they had been edit-warring recently. Whether you agree with me or not, I have also been in contact with other admins about this, and they all agree. Is that also a coincidence? You know, I was really glad when I had read your reply to Mitsos... It really felt good that there would be such people out there who thought like that. But when you said that "at first I had some reservations, but I realized that they were sincere", imagine what it is like for Turkish editors. I am sincere. But where does all this charade fit into this? YHowever, if we cannot see eye to eye on this, there is not much I can say. Other administrators also feel the same way, so what am I supposed to think? Baristarim 09:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
In Solomou article I also added a , concerning the assertion that he is a national hero. Now, concerning the deletion proposal, I made concrete proposals right now. Would you like to comment on them? I think it would be more useful, instead of writing long texts.--Yannismarou 10:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Well, I was not referring to anyone in particular. If you are talking about good faith, see this. If I were not sincere, I would have simply edit-warred over that article instead of actually devoting time to fix it. I cannot change your opinions, but if a simiar thing had happenned with Turkish editors, ie if a Turkish had created a Albanian genocide article, then ten Turkish editors who had signed up to the coop board jumped in (some who had not even edited since November 11 , then I am sure that you would have felt the same way. Especially, if the article in question was created per WP:POINT because of a dispute in another turco-greek page. Of course you have the right to browse any page you want in Wiki, but it might be nice if you explained how you actually learned of this AfD. There is clearly a problem with good-faith here, and that is a cornerstone of that board's foundations. Did you read FPAS' comments? If you cannot see the violation of good-faith policy of the board in this whole charade, and worse, violation of Misplaced Pages policies on WP:POINT and disruption in this, how can I explain to other Turkish users that they can come in good faith to the coop board and raise issues in a civilized environement? I really would like to know what you would have felt if the situation was inversed between Greeks and Turks. What is it that makes you doubt the validity of the coop board? Have any Turkish coop board members created an Albanian genocide article, emailed each other and all showed up in the space of ten hours to vote keep? Are you honestly telling me that there isn't anything fishy? How did all those users learn of this so quickly? Personally, I was contacted by a non-Turk over this after ten Greek editors suddenly showed up and voted keep. This user emailed me because I was at the coop board and also because he thought that there was something "extremely fishy" going on (his words). Who is at fault here?Baristarim 09:51, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Pff, ok I will try to be constructive and drop the heat. So let's see what can be done.. Baristarim 10:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Dear Baristarim, as a card-carrying honorary member of the "GREEK WIKIPEDIAN NATIONALIST JUNTA", I strongly object to your exposing our despicable methods in this way. Ahhh, I meant to say, well, ... ;-) Let's say, I half agree with you, these block-like AfD votes are not very nice. But please cool down a bit and be careful with accusatory language like that. Point is, the Greek contributors form a fairly close-knit community, people tend to be aware of what others are doing, just by following each other's talkpages and contribution histories. So you may sometimes get these apparent effects of block voting behaviour even without any organised votestacking necessarily going on. In the present case, I can tell you on my honour that I, at least, did not receive any votestacking requests, and I was nevertheless aware of the existence of the AfD from early on, so others may have been as well. - Don't know if that satisfies you, but anyway, I'll bring the topic on at the Junta's next executive board meeting, which is hopefully going to take place some time during my Christmas vacations :-) Want to join us in Athens? Fut.Perf. 10:23, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I am equally disugsted by their behaviour. Some of them who voted keep are ones i took for serious editors (politis, yannismarou), but when i see them tow the nationalist line like that i lose all faith in their intentions. I expected that much from Nikos, Dirak, probably Hectorian and Aristov will show up soon also - but not from seemingly reasonable editors. Its like all standards of common sense and decency are thrown out the window when it comes to backing other Greek editors, or supporting articles which "get one over" on Turkey or Turkish editors. The whole thing is reduced to a bloody joke. --A.Garnet 14:04, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

What's cooler than being cool? Ice cold!

Seriously mate, I'd go and take a walk in the park ASAP. I know these guys are gaming the system, but you're not going to change their opinion, and if you carry on like this Turkey is going to spend a few days without being improved, if you see what I mean. Thanks. yandman 14:52, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Really, Baris, I don't know why you are reopening this now. You made your point about votestacking this morning, it was discussed and duly noted (and will, I'm sure, be taken into account by the closing admins), then you seemed to have closed the issue - why now repeat it with even more venom ()? I mean, making such a rant once is understandable, reiterating it over and over again borders on disruptive attacks.
Another thing is what we do now formally with the AfD, now that the article has been merged and moved. That was certainly done as a good faith attempt at finding a widely acceptable solution, but of course it messes up the AfD process. Some delete voters seem to be contented with that outcome, but I take it you would still prefer deletion? Fut.Perf. 15:22, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Indignation? Give us a break

I fail to understand your 'indignation'. This is about communication and you seem to shy away from responding to suggestions even when they enhance Turkish articles. As for suggesting in the 'Kurdish genocide' talk page that this was a racist attack against Turks... well, that is about as contrived as some of the more fancifull comments in Misplaced Pages. Come on, I know you can do better than that. User:PolitisPolitis 15:08, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Friendly advice

Despite our hot debate I still regard you as a valuable member of the Misplaced Pages community. That is why I'll give you a friendly advice: Avoid to use your maternal language in dialogues with your native Wikipedians (as you did with Dr. Gonzo in the notorious deletion page); especially when you discuss hotly debated issues. You may put yourself in serious trouble, without even realizing it and without having done something wrong.--Yannismarou 15:14, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I was talking to Ozgur, not to Doktor, how can I be talking to someone who posted his note after I have? :) Ozgur is not part of the TR "gang", so it is pretty safe to assume that we were not scheming! Ozgur also speaks Turkish, and I also speak French sometimes, so it is not a big deal if those languages are used from time to time. If I was insulting an editor etc, I am sure Ozgur would have warned me in English in his reply. It wouldn't have changed anything about the AfD in any case. Baristarim 17:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
I accuse you of nothing nor do I ask you to apologize. I'm sure you did nothing wrong. I just inform you that discussions in native language are, in general, not appreciated (sometimes other users are suspicious towards them and regard them with scepticism), and it would be nice if you could avoid them (so that you are not treated with suspicion). If you allow me, I would also like to tell you (without wanting to becoma paternalist) another thing: when you express your opinion, bold and capital letters do not help. On the other hand, they often achieve the opposite effect: most users dislike this kind of emphasis.--Yannismarou 17:08, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Yasar Kemal

Hello Baris, since you said "Yasar Kemal has said many times that he is Kurdish, he was never ever been prosecuted, in any case." would you like to change his ethnicity in his article; Yasar Kemal. To add, Turkey "guya" doesn't legally persecute people who say they are ethnically Kurdish but let's face it, it's still socially not right to say it and media plays a big role here but things are getting better as the average mentality of people change to accept. Ozgur Gerilla 15:52, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Kurt sanatcilarin tanimlama olayini simdilik es geciyorum cunku canimizi sikan sorunlar var (sonra ayrintili tartisiriz, gerekirse). Oncelikle, kusura bakma, bende gec gordum AfD'yi yoksa mesaj birakirdim, ben orda fikirlerimi yazdim ve sizde oyle yaptiniz; bu makaleyi orda olmasini istiyorsak daha cok arastirma ve referans eklememiz gerekiyor, haklisiniz, ama benim dusundugum suydu; birakin makale kalsin arastiralim; yetersiz ise bir ayin icinde yine burda silmeye karar veririz ama ben bu halindende memnunum. Yanlis anlasmalar oldu, sizin Yunan kullanicilarindan suphelendiginiz olay ve bu yuzden tedirginliginizi cok iyi anliyorum, arkadasim, ve ben hic bir zaman sizin emeklerinizi ve taraftarsizliginizi rencide edecek birsey demedim; cunku sizin gercekden burda emekleriniz var ve benim buna saygim var, umarim boyle kalir ama sinirlerin arti bugun umarim bir daha oLmak cunku gercekden keyif kaybi. Kalas lafini geri aliyorum ama Doktor Gonzo gercekden Kurtlere hakaret etti AfD de ve bu yuzden bu hatasini anlamasini istiyorum. Bundan baska, lutfen keyfini kacirma sen degerli bir kullanicisin, benim bazen sert karsi ciktigimiza bakma; ben fikir alis verisini severim. Bazi kullanicilarin istedigi seni pusuya dusurmek bunu farkettim lutfen bunlara aldanma sen fikirlerini paylas WP kurallara uyarak. Lutfen bukadarda pesimist olma bu olanlara karsi ve umarim AfD nin sonucundan memnun kalmissindir. Tesekurler, yakinda daha fazla makalelerde calisma dilegi ile. Ozgur Gerilla 17:41, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you (or should I say, Teşekkür ederim) for the barnstar! :) Rarelibra 15:59, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

There's a new article on Byzantine Greeks (formerly only a sub-section of Greeks), so it doesn't link back to Byzantine Empire. I've been overseeing much of Turkish POV as long as it doesn't belittle other ethnies. In any case it's not very wise from you to start debates on well sourced material that you're obviously not very familiar with. If you still want to get it out of your system I'll meet you where you started it. I've already replied to some of your queries, only the ones that weren't clear provocations of course. Miskin 18:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Concerning this edit , see what I told you above. If your edit summary reflects your convictions then I should go through the entire Ottoman Empire article and change all mentions of "Ottoman Turks" to "Ottoman Empire". I might as well copy paste your edit-summary on each edit. Please change it back, I've had enough trolling from Mustapha already, I would have expected more reason from your part but it appears it's stronger than you. I'm only trying to provide links for a new article, and thanks to your and mustapha's prejudice it becomes an Odyssey. Miskin 19:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
"...then I should go through the entire Ottoman Empire article and change all mentions of "Ottoman Turks" to "Ottoman Empire"." Isn't this called black mailing?--Doktor Gonzo 14:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
No, it's called "double-standard check". I wasn't planning to do it. Miskin 20:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

My first edit wasn't referring to your edit in Turkey but in the Talk page of Cretan Turks. Just for the record, the bulk of the Byzantine army in Manzikert was mainly composed of Armenian and Latin missionaries, this is possibly one of the reasons that the battle was lost. On the other hand ethnic Turks and Turkish-speakers had always been a minority in the Ottoman army, but this has nothing to do with assigning their victories to the Ottoman Turks now does it? Anyway I don't care where the link goes, you can put it elsewhere if that's your problem. All I want to do is to link this article around, that is all. Catch you later. Miskin 19:08, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm a busy person too but I don't use that as an excuse in my disputes. You have to learn to respect other people's cultures if you want them to respect your own. You also have to look at yourself before you judge others (Clapton, 63). This lawyer provokation strategy doesn't work in wikipedia, and it definitely doesn't work on me. Miskin 00:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Anyway let's continue the discussion under more civilised and prejudice-free circumstances. I'm tired of the stereotyped Greco-Turkish disputes, they're getting too banal. Miskin 20:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

And I should ask from you to excuse the overtones I might have used, delivering offence was not an objective. I thought you were trying to provoke and I replied with provokations. I don't enjoy arguing with reasonable people for no real cause. Miskin 02:28, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Küsmüyüz, problem nedir. Must 19:28, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

ok

Contribution'larıma bak. incidents. selam.

Turkey GA

Hey, thanks should go to you! I just wanted to see the referencing work complete, and no one wanted to take care of the antiquity section it seemed, and I'm a bit inclined to these antiquity issues. I wish I had helped you better during your efforts. I don't know if it's noticed, but I'm trying to take care of the images used on the page and now I'm making a high resolution free-licensed (and good looking I hope) map of the Ottoman Empire. I will upload that later today. Talking about the GA issue, I actually regret that you nominated the Ataturk article so soon. It's unfortunate that neither me nor you seem to have enough time to work on providing references on time. I feel obliged to do the cleanup on the Ataturk article since I wrote about half of the text there. Bonne journée! Atilim Gunes Baydin 11:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Baris, sorry that in the midst of all this arguing i forgot to congratulate you for your efforts and the very encouraging remakrs given by the reviwer. Well done once again, and hopefully we can make it FA sometime soon. Thanks, --A.Garnet 16:53, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Subsections

I agree with you on subsections. If editors want subsections, they can creat new articles (so long as they are not POV motivated). The most difficult subsections to re-integrate into the main text seem to be those related to Jewish affairs. I am also quite happy that we had a good debate on the recent Kurdish related article, which, in my opinion, was removed based on the strongest arguments (yours). Politis

An improved time table

I would like to get your input to improve the Template:Casualties of the PKK conflict. Hope it looks good..OttomanReference 14:50, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

3RR

You just violated Wp:3RR on Kars.--Eupator 21:03, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Only an idiot can confuse something that existed centuries before the UN with a modern UN member, lets give more credit to casual Wiki readers. Not a convincing argument.--Eupator 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Hey why did you ommit the nomadic part? lol Someone surely can say "Armenian savages" but they would be a laughing stock if they already aren't.--Eupator 21:13, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

GDP per capita

People use PPP as the standard measure of a country's standard of living, not nomimal GDP per capita. which explains why there is GDP PPP per capita on the country infobox and not GDP nominal per capita. I dont know to use the citations so i used the square brackets. Will try to find the proper format for the citation now.

Thank you! The life expectancy given in the aricle is also outdated. According to the 2006 CIA factbook, male LE is 70.18, female LE is 75.18 and overall LE is 72.62 . Could you change that also ?

Reply

Hi Baris. I did not have much time to edit lately, for i am quite busy in real life. that's why most of my recent contributions are reverts or minor corrections. However, i had been following the discussions, the fDs, etc. so, when i found the time, i voted for those i had already made up my mind, after reading the arguments, as always... No reason to "oppose Turkish POV" at all costs for me; i have always been editting and voting according to what seems right to me. Regards Hectorian 15:22, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Greater Iran

Hi Baristarim. Although I still believe that the article Greater Iran should be renamed to Iranian Cultural Continent, I want to show you a small article I found in the net. It's about Richard Nelson Frye's 2005 book/autobiography called Greater Iran. It's a bit long, but I still want to post it here. You can delete it once you've read it. Cheers. Tājik 01:23, 23 December 2006 (UTC)


Richard N. Frye's Greater Iran is a mixture of autobiography and memoirs of Harvard University's retired Aga Khan Professor of Iranian. After 60 years of researching and writing history books about Iran, from ancient to recent history, Professor Frye has written an outstanding story of his personal experiences living and researching in the region. To Professor Frye, his 60 years of travel in the region was an odyssey. The real life hardships and the risks of the odyssey will be more fascinating to many readers than the fictional Indiana Jones movies.

From 1971 to 1972, I studied Persian (Farsi) at Harvard University. Professor Frye came to my home for my wife Badri's Persian dinners and for discussions about Iran. During his five years of service as director of the Asia Institute of Pahlavi University (now the University of Shiraz), I had the opportunity to join him once for dinner in his Qajar-period home.

Persian author and poet Ali Akbar Dehkhuda called Professor Frye Irandoost (lover of Iran). There are probably few Iranians who can rival Professor Frye's passion for a glorious Persian culture (Persian poetry, music, art, and architecture) over a 3,000-year period.

The title of the book refers to the entire region where Iranian languages were and are spoken. Professor Frye worked also in Afghanistan and in Tajikistan. Greater Iran includes also the Caucasus and Central Asian regions.

Total immersion into research of a culture over a 3,000-year period requires an immense commitment. In addition to living in a region during current times, a researcher cannot analyze original documents without mastering the languages of a region over such a long period of time. For Iran, this means an intense study at least of Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi (Middle Persian), and of Sogdian.

Fake antiquities are a big business in the Middle East. Professor Frye included pictures of pages from a fake manuscript and stories of his encounters with producers and sellers of fake antiquities.

Spies and political struggles are no strangers to the Middle East. Professor Frye included stories of his meetings with political leaders, such as Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, and with spies. Major consequences of American intervention in Iran in 1953 remain to this day.

Such an intense passion for a career can come with a huge personal price. Professor Frye included details of his divorce and of re-marriage.

Professor Frye's legacy includes also the students who went on to become ambassadors, professors, and others who are passionate about Iran. Sir Roger Stevens' The Land of the Great Sophy is an example of the depth of appreciation for Iran of a British ambassador. The American Foreign Service could benefit from the examples of Professor Frye and of Sir Roger Stevens by requiring foreign service officers to remain in and to master the language and culture of a single country or region.

America fought a long war in Vietnam but has an American embassy in Vietnam today. America did not fight a war in Iran but has no American embassy in Iran (or in several other countries) today. After September 11, 2001, some Americans believe that CIA stands for Central Ignorance Agency, not Central Intelligence Agency. Many members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, have chosen instead to accept political contributions and misinformation from the Rajavi cult (also known as the MEK or MKO, a Marxist terrorist organization responsible for murdering American military officers, Rockwell International employees, and many innocent persons in the Middle East). America's war on terrorism needs to begin at home by declaring war on ignorance and corruption in America.

In 1932, a single book changed the life of Professor Frye. While a high school student in Danville, Illinois, Richard N. Frye saw in the bookstore's window Harold Lamb's Tamerlane, the Earth Shaker. Hopefully, Professor Frye's Greater Iran will inspire many young readers to understand deeply and explain another culture. Perhaps, then, future voters and political leaders will be able to reject the ignorant views of those who call for wars against anyone they do not understand.

So great is his love for Iran that on a recent trip to Iran, Professor Frye met with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to request permission someday "... to be interred in the mausoleum of the late Arthur Upham Pope on the banks of the Zayendeh River in Isfahan ...." (page 322)


Professor Paul Sheldon Foote

California State University, Fullerton

pfoote@fullerton.edu

Geography of Turkey

Selam Barış arkadaş. Ne var, ne yok? :-) Happy Holidays. I have replied to your comment on the talk page, hopefully we can come to a compromise. Ciao, Khoikhoi 00:29, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

IMO, "List of Turks" is too ambiguous - is the page about list of ethnic Turks, Turkish citizens, or Turkic peoples? I don't really care about Fuzûlî, but I see what you're saying. Also, having a list of all Turkic peoples would be way too long. I agree that the page needs to be structured - perhaps by occupation. See the List of Armenian-Iranians article I created for a good example. BTW, why are you always up so late? :-) Get some sleep! Khoikhoi 01:48, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Ah, I see. That is weird! Khoikhoi 04:24, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Cok Tesekkur ederim

Misplaced Pages ya alismaya calisan yeni biri olarak ilac gibi geldi mesajin. Cok tesekkur ederim. inan 2 gundur icim kan agliyor, yuzlerce yere mesaj attim, sadece tartisiyoruz Vikipedi dekilerle. Nuh dediler Peygamber demediler. inat ettiler. Ellerine ne gecti bir bilsem. Turk Edebiyati sayfasi hala bombos. Turkiye sayfasina baktim, ekleyebilecegim birsey var mi diye, mukemmel bir sayfa, dusunsene onu bir yoneticinin attigini pat diye.. O kadar emek vermissin icin acimaz mi ? Bir mesaj at bir sor, tek istedigim buydu. tr.wikipedia.org a girersen bir ara, yonetici sikayetlerine bakiver. illa diyorlar Kultur bakanliginin sitesinden aldin onu. Onu dis baglanti olarak ayrica verdim ben sayfada. Ama ordan birsey kopyalamadim diyorum. Yok da yok.. Bircok kisi ugramiyor artik oraya benim gibi.

Su an burada ufak bir sorunum var. Kocaeli ile izmit ayni diye geciyordu sayfada. Ben onlari ayirdim. Yonetici arkadasimiz benden izmit'in ilce, Kocaeli'nin de il olduguna dair "kanit" istiyor anladığım kadarıyla. cite your sources, izmit kocaelinin bir ilcesi. il tablolarinda da oyle geciyor. Districts of Kocaeli.. ben ayrica nasil kanıtlayabilirim bunu. link falan mı vermem lazım sayfada ? ben dogma buyume izmit'liyim.

KhoiKhoi, herşeyi gayet iyibiliyor.Sizden kanıt falan da istediği yok. Siz İzmit'e yanlışlıkla Kocaelinin merkez Province'si demişsiniz. Şimdi düzeldi.Barış ta Kocaeli Province olarak taşıdı.No problem. Mailinizi kontrol edin.Selam.Must 04:59, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Burdaki calisma sistemine ise hayran kaldim. istedigim sadece buydu. Bir mesaj at. sor. Bir daha sor.. inanmadin mi. Kanit iste.. Bu kadar basit .. Sakin Vikipedi ye girme. Cildirirsin benim gibi. Hala inanamiyorum 2 gundur olanlara.. --Onder K. 04:55, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry...

Barış, Yeni yılın şimdiden kutlu olsun. Sana ve bir çok türk kullanıcıya atamadım..Kullandığım resim "Fair use" imiş. silindi.Yenisini hazırlıyorum. Bu arada gelen cevaplardan ilginç;

  • Sen Ateist değilmisin, niye bu mesajı atıyorsun?
  • Sen müslüman değilmisin, niye bu mesajı atıyorsun?

Bu kullanıcılar,şu anlaşılıyorki, bulundukları kültür dışında başka kültürlerle hiç temasa girmemişler, başka biri kültürden biri ile hiç bir ilişkileri olmamış.Biraz daha hoşgörülü davranılmayı hakediyorlar diye düşünüyorum. Yılbaşında nerede olacaksın? Ben muhtemelen,işlerimi toplayabilirsem, perşembeden sonra yazlığa (Çeşme-Karaburun arası)gitmeyi planlıyorum.1 hafta kadar kalacağım.Hem biraz yapılacak işler var, hemde biraz dalarım diye planlıyorum. İstanbulda balığa hasret kaldım. Selam. Must 05:37, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Great Fire of Smyrna

Must 05:48, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Koy icin sablon sayfa

Ben bu sayfalarda kayboldum. Misplaced Pages da kullanilan sablon bir Koy ariyorum. Karnesi sagda, sayfa icinde cografyasi, tarihi, ozellikleri gibi basliklari olan. Yada hazir bir sablon. nerede bulabilirim . Musait oldugunda link verirsen cok sevinirim. Saygilar --Onder K. 05:52, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Şanzelize

Hocam ne işin var şanzelizede, monmartır da. Gel sana kendi zıpkınladığım balıklardan ikram edeyim.Yanında Denizli-Gömce'den Çalkarası(Kırmızı ama balıkla bile iyi gidiyor). İyi tatiller. Must 06:34, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Fuzuli

If you want to leave in Fuzuli, that's alright with me. I just wanted the list to be accurate, Fuzuli was an Azeri, and as an Azeri I can assure you that the differences between Azeris and Ottoman Turks was well defined by the time Fuzuli, these ethnic definitions were already formed by the time of the break-up of the Seljuks in the 14th century. --Mardavich 11:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Mutlu Yıllar


Onlar da Yeniyıl tatili ister


Must 15:26, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

about Turkestan

all the contents which I hand written ,you can find in the article History of Xinjiang.Please be cool and try to respect all the voices from different people.--Ksyrie 23:05, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

? I am cool :) The thing is additions have to be sourced, that's all. Hand-written is not important, they have to be referenced. When did I say something about not "respecting different people" etc? Take it easy man :) Cheers! Baristarim 23:08, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
I beg you taking a few minutes reading History of Xinjiangplease.--Ksyrie 23:09, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
I am sure that they are there, however I will try to look at that article some time later. Nothing is stopping you from transposing the references from that article, if they are there. That's all I am trying to say... Baristarim 23:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes,we are just too easy to believe what we have been told when we were young children.But you know,there are numbers of records from different parts of world,some time what we feel ridiculous may be seen as fact somewhere.I just put forwards what I know about it--Ksyrie 23:14, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Okkaayyy.. Hmmm.. Am I missing something here? Are you trying to imply that I am some sort of brainwashed high-school student? :) Tsk tsk. lol. However, that is still not important: You cannot simply include what you know about it. Misplaced Pages is not an exposé of people's beliefs. If you are going to write something, then bring in the references that support it. See WP:OR. Si t'as des autres questions, laisse-moi une note. En revanche, n'oublie pas qu'il faut éviter de tout simplement écrire ce qu'on "know about it". + ne me laisse pas des notes avec des suggestions subtiles comme si je suis un produit d'une machine de lavage-à-cervaux. La plus grande faute, c'est de considerer les autres comme n'ayant pas de la capacité intellectuelle pr comprendre le monde + d'assumer que les gens qu'on viens de rencontrer sont, par nature, inferieur à nous-meme, intellectuellement. Baristarim 23:26, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
just go to History of Xinjiang,I found some links,I will try to find more.--Ksyrie 23:29, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
I removed your link. I don't think you understand how Misplaced Pages works. "References" means scholarly sources, not some random travel website. I strongly suggest you to familiarize yourself with how references are interpreted in Misplaced Pages + how references should be scholarly sources, rather than some commercial websites. Any inclusion of unreferenced content should be deleted. Please do not add random web-links. Again, I advise you to peruse through certain Featured Articles to see how references should be used and interpreted. Cheers! Baristarim 23:35, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
lol,I want to say it is not a commercial link.It's the website of Xinhua News Agency.Maybe you just want the reference you want to see.--Ksyrie 23:42, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
I know exactly well that it was Xinhua, and I also know what Xinhua is. Chinese governmental websites cannot be considered as "scholary sources". Ha ha. Maybe you should cut down on assuming that you are smarter than others. I look and see what exactly is there: a Chinese governmental website. Again, bring in historical scholarly sources: if that is hard to understand, you might want to consider (re)-reading the guidelines of Misplaced Pages and check other FA history articles. Xinhua News Agency is definitely not an authoritative source on history, let alone for modern day politics. Est-ce vraiment si difficile à comprendre mon gars? Baristarim 23:49, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Xinhua? You must be really joking my fellow. Xinhua is an integral part of the Chinese governmental structure: there is absolutely no way that its posts can be considered as reliable, let alone authoritative. Baristarim 23:55, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Do not contact me again by saying things like "maybe you want the reference that you want to see", d'accord? D'abord apprennes comment parler aux gens, après apprennes comment marche Misplaced Pages, puis apprennes aussi que Xinhua n'est que de la merde. References vaut dire: ".edu", ou thèses academiques ou encyclopedies etc. Si t'arrives pas à comprendre ça, c'est toi qui a beaucoup des choses à apprendre sur la vie et le monde, pas les autres. Xinhua n'est pas une "reference", point final. Je t'ai dit gentillement de trouver des sources. Misplaced Pages n'est pas une forum, mieux comprendre ça mon gars. Baristarim 00:04, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
What a fabulous sophistry,just see the two external link in Turkestan,this on and this .Maybe you should check yourself before asking for others.Do you consider them as scholarly sources?--Ksyrie 00:06, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I had enough of this nor do I have time for it. I have not contributed at all to that article, so I don't know about those links. However, you are confused about the difference between "external links" and "references" I really got no time to explain you the basics of wikipedia or of the English language. External links are not references, they are simply web-links that are somewhat relevant to the article. Do you really know how Misplaced Pages works? Please read its policies. References are cited in a different fashion. "Links" can include anything as long as they are relevant to the subject, but they are not used as "references". As I said, Xinhua is not a scholarly reference on history. point final. I strongly advise you to peruse other Featured Articles on history to get an idea about the correct construction of a Wiki history article. Cheers Baristarim 00:16, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
So I found it legitimate to add this links hereHistory of Xinjiang and here Turkestan?I am sure you are more experienced in wiki.Of course I will try to find the true "references" as you suggest.--Ksyrie 00:24, 26 December 2006 (UTC)


Great Smyrna Fire

stop Do not do any more reverts on Great Fire of Smyrna article, otherwise you will be breaking the three-revert rule. -John Kritivic

Happy new year then

İyidir! Çok çalışıyorsun bakıyorum:) Through your participation, there are sharper articles with the Turkish POV taken. :) Cretanforever 11:01, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Emre Belözoğlu

I have no idea why you actually reverted this page, thus undoing some of my editing that brought it into line with the Misplaced Pages Manual of Style, but your stated reason makes no sense. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

That's OK — and sorry if I was sharper than I needed to be. We do, though, only demand that there be a citable source. Unless there's reasojn to doubt a spource, we can't also demand that the source be given a citable source, etc. If what was claimed went against other sources, or seemed inherently unlikely, then we'd have grounds for questioning it, but it's not clear to me that that's the case here. Do you have reason for thinking that the material is inaccurate? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

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Tatil,Template

Ankaraya gidip geldim. Dernek genel kurul hazırlığı yapıyorum.Yarın öğleden sonra tatile başlıyorum. Templateye, talk page'ine ve Khoi'nin talk page'ine bak. Selam. Must 08:30, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

==Please Use Edit Summaries==

When editing an article on Misplaced Pages there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

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The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. Must 20:06, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

AmiVandal

Valla ben yapmadım.O yaptı.User:AmiDaniel/VandalProofMust 20:11, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Circumflex

According to the circumflex article:

Turkish. Until recently, the modern (Latin-based) Turkish alphabet introduced in the time of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk used the circumflex accent to indicate when a vowel was to be pronounced in a way more native (usually by stretching it out somewhat) to Persian and Arabic. Words featuring such an accent, such as kâtib "scribe", ilâhî "divine", or Kâmile (a woman's name) are generally loanwords distinguishable from true Turkish words, and were represented easily in the Arabic script used in the Ottoman Turkish language.

And from Turkish alphabet:

Optional circumflex accents can be used with "â", "î" and "û" to disambiguate words with different meanings but otherwise the same spelling (for example, while "kar" means "snow", "kâr" means "profit"), or to indicate palatalization of a preceding consonant, or long vowels in loanwords, particularly from Arabic. These are seen as variants of "a", "i", and "u" and are becoming quite rare in modern usage.

That being said, do you think it was correct to move İstiklal Avenue to İstiklâl Avenue, and Hakkari to Hakkâri? You'll notice that the articles from the Turkish Misplaced Pages don't use this type of accent mark, unless it's for historical figures such as Hasan Âli Yücel. What do you think? (knowing that you're busy with the Turkey article, you don't have to reply right away) Cheers, Khoikhoi 00:56, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

BTW, would you be able to help me out with a question at Talk:Kuştul Monastery? Thanks, Khoikhoi 05:49, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Kurban bayramınız mübarek, yeni yılınız kutlu olsun

görüşmek üzere, iyi yıllar --Doktor Gonzo 14:24, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

People's Republic of China

Hi, Baristarim - I removed your addition to Misplaced Pages:Featured articles with citation problems; please review the criterion used in developing that list (less than ten or twenty inline citations). It seems that what you may want is to submit China to WP:FAR instead. Sandy (Talk) 14:44, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Baristarim, perhaps you can satisfy my curiosity, because this is making me crazy - you just responded to my post at SandyDancer (talk · contribs). I am not SandyDancer - how did you confuse me with him/her, and why are people thinking I'm that person? As I've read allegations of sock puppetry elsewhere on pages I follow, it is really bugging me, so I'm hoping your response will enlighten me as to how and why people are confusing us, when I've never crossed paths with him/her. TIA, Sandy (Talk) 01:41, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
ah, ha - I've followed up more on SandyDancer, and see where you've crossed paths with him/her. Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_comment/Mitsos. Well, that's not me - I'm changing my sig so that hopefully people won't continue to confuse us. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:53, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
It's no problem, Bastarim - you're not the first one to mix us up. Happy New Year! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:34, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hi, Baristarim. When you make a new edit, could you please provide an edit summary. It is really helpful in order to follow the changes an editor makes, without having necessarily to check "history". Thanks!--Yannismarou 21:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Barinstarim, You are right! It is my ommission (I'm still against merger by the way!). But I cannot treat everything in such a little time. I am writing this article all day (instead of checking El Greco and starting the rewriting of regionalism as I planned to). Give me some credit and some time (if this article survives the current poll)! I cannot do anything in a half day. Happy new year! My best wishes! And goodnight (I think 15 hours writing is enough for one day!)!--Yannismarou 21:35, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Turkey

Just a heads up you have 3 reverts one more violates the rule i suppose, but i know vandalism doesn't count. Nareklm 09:34, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Hey Baris, yeah the paragraph is alright but as I said to Jayzel the issue is important to mention in the article because it has soured relations between Turkey and many countries, the latest to be France and Argentina. It may also be a roadblock between acceptance of Turkey in the EU as once proposed. It has certainly affected Turkish and Armenian relations as we all know. If you check my links, it may also damage US-Turkish relations and Turkey is doing all it can to stop an Armenian bill from being considered in Congress. It doesn't need to be in detail as that detail belongs to another article but a mention is necessary I find. What do you think? And I know what you mean about an edit war right now lol...disaster...Yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun :D (is that correct? lol) Fedayee 19:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I suggested to Fedayee that as it is part of history my paragraph should remain as is. However, that does not stop you from adding an additional paragraph referencing the present day situation in the FR section. İyi akşamlar! --Jayzel 19:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
You got my support! Just make sure it is a little formatted and elaborated eventually, Thanks Fedayee 07:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Photoshop

Hi Baristarim, even I'm on vacation and I made a promise for not spending time on Misplaced Pages for a while, I felt like checking my messages today. Congratulations with the FA nomination and everything. You've really made an exemplary effort on that article and I believe it will get the FA status eventually. I can say I'm fairly good with imaging tools and I will be happy to help you with such stuff. Do you have anything in mind for the barnstar (which you will be the first to receive, it seems), or shall I also try to come up with a design? Also, is this urgent or can it wait until a few weeks later? Happy new year! Atilim Gunes Baydin 19:49, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Zile

It would be great if Zile article had received a rating on the project's quality scale. Can you check it out?Ugur Olgun 19:57, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

It was added there after the comments at FAC.

Look, I have a bias; I want to tell the "truth". If there is a person/s or group/s that planned and develop the methods to exterminate an ethnic group, I would be the first person to vocalize it. Orhan Pamuk is a good writer, Turkey article is featured article; but do they need a crown to gain that position? What is the cost of this crown? Armenian Genocide did not extended in wikipedia to the Republic of Turkey, except its foreign relations, where it rightfully belongs. Why move it under Republic of Turkey's history? Are you going to claim Enver Pasha, Talat Pasha was the founder of this republic? Mustafa Kemal broke his political link with these personalities as early as 1914. In his famous 1915 report to sultan on denouncing the war and its policy makers he put PM and War minister on the target. No one says it but republic was build on the ashes which these people left. Armenians not the only sufferers in this deal. Why Ataturk's reforms included secularism? I'm not against talking about this issue. The place and content of it is wrong.--OttomanReference 03:56, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Barış!

İyi Barış! Aferin! Turkey article will not include the exodus from the Balkans, Tatars, Circassians but it will include Armenian foreign policy tools (an outdated one, in my opinion). So be it! Türkiye'nin dış ilişkilerinde de en üst sıradalar zaten sayende. Allah akıl fikir versin (pardon, kocaman harflerle yazdığın gibi atesit olduğunu unutmuştum:) Cretanforever 09:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Allah yolunu açık etsin! Il n'est pas facile d'essayer de menager le chevre et le chou a meme temps. Cretanforever 10:09, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Barış, Türkiye makalesini FA yapmak için taviz veriyosun anladığım kadarıyla, yapma bunu, politik oyunlara geliyosun. Ayrıca cretan, lütfen aramızda saygı çerçevesinde tartışalım, yakışmıyor sana.--Doktor Gonzo 08:56, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Please, do not legitimize fake discussions by taking part in them. You will see that, in time, they will drown in their own fuss, and maybe come back in the form of real articles at last, where I will have the opportunity to read stuff I won't like, but many others will have to go through the same experience, just to see if they will be able to put up with it. Take part only if the discussion is real!!! I think in terms of developing a few articles here, and nothing else. I, too, keep an eye on a number of articles, thank you, but not the eyes of a censurer, I don't own any article. Eğer Rabbi Albert Jean Amateau'nun yeminli beyanının direct linkini Armenian Genocide sayfasına dahil etmeyi wikipedia'nın göztü yiyorsa, o zaman Armenian Genocide'ın bahsinin de Turkey sayfasında (şu anda olduğu gibi) yeri var. Rumlar ve Ermenilerin yapabileceği hiçbirşey beni korkutmuyor, ama Türklerin yapabilecekleri korkutuyor. Bunu demek istedim. Cretanforever 17:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

FAC Turkey

Yes, I'll post specific comments when I get the time, some time this week. Yes, it's encouraging, but I mostly like to point out what people do right to make sure they keep doing it right, and so that others see what I think is done right--ultimately FAs are a value judgment of the editors who bother to read them. I'm very concerned about the low readability of some Misplaced Pages articles. I almost didn't bother reading the Turkey article, but decided to when someone commented about the stability in face of prior edit wars. I am also very pleased that, for once with a country article, a group of editors attempted to do the overall picture of the country with the article, rather than propagandize a sanitary picture of the country to the world. I'll get back to the Turkey page with specific comments as soon as I can, but I do want to see what comes of the comments about Armenia and the Kurds from others--I thought Cyprus was already covered okay within the confines of the article. KP Botany 18:52, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

One of the problems is that people want to read the article about Turkey and have it be the current political situation of Turkey, that isn't its purpose. It simply has to cover the major conflicts as they relate to Turkey today, and in proportion to the entire history of the region that is now called Turkey. Still, you could consume 100KB on just Iran and Turkey and leave the reader without a sense of what is going on. I think, with a few omissions that don't actually cloud the value of the article as a whole, as I stated before, that your group really put together a solid article, so just evaluate each criticism and use it as appropriate. It's a tough group of editors at FAC today--this will improve the overall quality of Misplaced Pages in the long run. Cheers, KP Botany 19:47, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Ah, so you tried to be responsible to the audience in the first place. Thanks. KP Botany 20:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much, a happy new year to you too. Miskin 20:24, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Format

No problem. :-) BTW, your userpage currently says that you're a native speaker of Turkish, English, and French. Are you sure you didn't mean near native, or "professional level"? I could be incorrect of course (you obviously know the most about yourself than I do!), but I know that Turkish is your native language, and I assume you learned English growing up (and when you lived in the States), and then French when you moved to France. Khoikhoi 00:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Nochiya articles

I agree that they're unreferenced, but I think it would be a better idea if you try talking to A2raya07 and ask if he has reliable sources for some of the articles. This is a lot better than edit warring over tags... Khoikhoi 05:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Human rights of Kurdish people in Turkey

Barış,

(did I get that right?)

I will leave my comments on the talk page alone for a bit, and see what sorts of other comments they get.

I do want to say, though, that I am not anti-Turk, nor will my editing be anti-Turk. I may be a bit more frank than you are comfortable with, but I believe I stay within bounds. For example, you saw that I asked for the references to genocide to be removed, and asked for timelines for each section, so that, for example, improvements (uneven, but improvements) in the right, for example, to use Kurdish, have improved.

(btw, Ozal never said he was partly Kurd, though it is usually assumed that he was)

Anyway, I have only been editing a short while. If you look through my contributions I think you will find that I do not edit with an anti-Turk POV. If anything, I pay special attention to the POV of those too weak to speak for themselves (either because historically they no longer exist or inhabit that part of the world, or through technology/wealth they are poorly represented on Misplaced Pages.) So, when people are denied their own language, I do pay extra attention, whether that be in the southeast, or, as I found 18 months ago in Chania, Crete, when a store owner and his daughter spoke broken greek and english to me, then Turkish (!) to each other, and so I answered in Turkish. They were embarassed and ashamed and insisted we only speak English. That people are too afraid to speak their own language, or are banned from it, that is horrible, wherever it happens.

(I still don't know if they were Anatolian Christians or Turks who never left Crete. Most people just tell me I must have been mistaken. It's easier for them to pretend.)

Anyway, I've rambled on too long. I am glad to be editing with you. Jd2718 06:14, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Turkey's Nomination

I'm sorry, I just saw your mail. I was busy because of a discussion about the Saddam's trial (I can't believe how I could waste such a huge time on such an issue :)). I supported the nomination and gave my reasons why I did so. I hope, Turkey's article will become even better. Saygılarımla, Deliogul 14:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)



Mutlu yıllar

Happy New Year! E104421 13:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Ardahan

Please stop removing the link to Armeniapedia in the Ardahan article. It contains valuable information not contained on the wikipedia page and there is no policy in Misplaced Pages restricting external links to government sites! If you persist I will report your vandalism. Thank you. --RaffiKojian 01:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for proving my suspicion with your "unreliable site" comment. You may now report me! :-) --RaffiKojian 17:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Whatever might be the content dispute, this is not appropriate. And please focus on content, not people . Please do not post messages to my talk page until you can be constructive or civil. Thank you. Baristarim 19:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your kind remarks on El Greco. I'm most certain that within the next 2-3 days Raul will also promote Turkey to featured status.--Yannismarou 12:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Info was not "merged", but deleted

There was no "merging" of info as you falsely claim. The info mentioned in th FR section is exactly as it was earlier. You deleted an entire paragraph of specific info (including use of the word "genocide") that was a compromise to gain you additional votes in FAC. Removing this paragraph this late in time in the FAC is deceptive and not working in good faith. Perhaps I would think differently had you sent a notice to those of us involved in the discussion. However, you didn't. As I result, I no longer support this article. FA rules clearly state an article must be stable and not subject to edit wars. This article fails to meet that criteria. Sorry. --Jayzel 20:41, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I reverted to the original version , and later reverted myself to User:Kilhan's version with a note that I would take a look at it again very soon. I had been leaving constant notes on the talk page. In any case, all I want to say is that other users can keep an eye on the article as well. That's not bad faith. I am sorry that you feel that way however. I merged the contents here , much earlier. Working to address the concerns on the FAC is excluded from the stability criteria. Otherwise how can the edits be done? Vandal attacks are also excluded, there is not much I can do if someone decides to attack the page with four sockpuppets right on New Year's Eve.Baristarim 20:48, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Well, okay, but when I looked up the history I saw you were the most recent person to remove the paragraph and was surprised to say the least. I'll take back my comment you are acting in bad faith, but I think I will remain neutral on whether this should become an FA. I have a bad feeling it will remain a target for edit wars well into the future. Regards, --Jayzel 21:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your comment on my talk page. Sorry I have not been around much to help with the vandalism. Keep up the good work, too bad about the vandal right in the middle of FA review. I'll try to keep an eye out as well. --Free smyrnan 21:18, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

MUTLU YILLAR

Thanks for your message, I'll try to keep an eye on it. Oh and happy new years. --Mardavich 04:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

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Germany FAC

Hi, Baristarim, I know you are busy with the Turkey FAC among other things, but could you please just take a glance at Germany and see if the concerns you mentioned on the German FAC page where addressed. TSO1D 16:04, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

merhaba.o kadar ulkeyi nasil gezdin ya? email adresni nasil alabilirim? Bilal

Yukarida soldan "e-mail this user"a bas.. Baristarim 00:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Turkey FAC

It was a great job; I believe you reach to the end of your efforts. Is there anything left besides the stability? I recognize that no one adds to the content. It may be help full 4u to argue that content have reached to its maturity. Emphasize that vandalism is part of the reality. Judges had to make a distinction (maturity-vandalism) on this article. --OttomanReference 06:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun

Hi Baris, Happy New Year. The FAC for Turkey seems to be going very well. Thanks for the Barn Star, i will reply in kind:

The Barnstar of National Merit
For consistent and tireless efforts in improving Turkish related articles as well as your exceptional work on Turkey --A.Garnet 15:33, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Happy new year

Hi, Baris (may I call you Baris?). I try hard to keep away from Misplaced Pages until I get rid of this mountain of home assignments I need to complete before mid-January (sorry that this coincided with the time you need help most, for fencing off these sockpuppets). But occasionally I find myself doing minor edits here and there. I have a concern which I think I should share with you before long: The language you are using when you get angry with vandal anons and the like (I mean the Turkish, including swear words, in your edit summaries), is very, very disturbing for me. It doesn't bother me at all to see such edit summaries in attacks of anons whose only purpose is without doubt to disturb things. But, to see these coming from an established editor makes me feel awfully disturbed. Today's happening was the second. Please keep cool and remember that it won't serve any purpose except making the party you're dealing with happy, or more fierce. Happy new year! Atilim Gunes Baydin 01:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

İlk defa size Türkçe yazıyorum. Öneri / uyarımı anlayışla karşıladığınıza çok sevindim. Bu kadar abuk insanla oldukça iyi başediyorsunuz ve sinirlenmeniz normal. Fark ettiyseniz ufak bir de harita sorunu ortaya çıktı. Anladığım kadarıyla Commons'daki Avrupa ülkelerinin konum haritalarını yapan kişi, Türkiye'yi Avrupa'ya referansla gösteren bir harita kullanıldığında bütün ülkenin Avrupa kıtasında olduğu iddia edilip yanlış bilgilendirme yapılıyormuş gibi hissediyormuş. Yeni hazırladığı haritalarda da lejandı sağ altta çok güzel ayarlanmış bir yere denk getirerek hem Kafkas ülkelerinin hem de Türkiye'nin transkontinental durumundan kurtulmaya çalıştığı bence çok açık. Avrupa ülkeleri için yeni yaptığı haritaların arkaplanını da kendisi hazırladığı ve boş durumda Commons'a yüklemediği için yeni güzel bir harita üretmekte güçlük çekiyorum. Bu kullandığı haritayı oturup eliyle çizmediği açık. Arayıp kaynağını bulup, Avrupa ülkeleri için kullanılanlarla görüntü olarak uyumlu ve Türkiye'nin üzeri kapatılmamış güzel bir harita yapmaya çalışıyorum. Her durumda şimdiki "Turkey in Africa" haritası gerçekten çok komik. Sanıyorum oylamadaki Afrika ilişkileri olayı burada da baş gösterdi. Burada İngilizce dışında yazışılmasını onaylamadığım halde ben bu kadar uzun Türkçe yazı neden yazdım açıkçası bilmiyorum. İyi geceler sayın Barış :) Atilim Gunes Baydin 02:16, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Turkish literature and changing standards ...

Hey, it was my pleasure to help out in the little way that I did with Turkey. As for changing standards and Turkish literature, it seems to me that the article won't be affected insofar as the major thing being discussed is inline citations, which the article already has (22 of them, to be exact—if someone comes along and deems that number not sufficient for some reason, it would be no great chore to add more). But thanks for the heads-up; I'll keep my eye on it (actually, I watch that page like a hawk anyhow; now I guess I'll just watch it like a hungry hawk).

By the way, you're doing excellent work, both on Turkey and everything else. Keep it up, and rest assured that your work is appreciated. Cheers. —Saposcat 05:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

This is for your excellent work...

I wanted you to see the articles under the wikiTurkey; I think this can not be achieved without your efforts... I really appriciate what you have been doing. Thanks!--OttomanReference 08:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


Turkey articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total
FA 1 4 4 4 13
FL 1 4 5
A 4 1 5
GA 1 8 39 76 10 134
B 20 69 245 257 82 673
C 28 82 371 854 323 1,658
Start 9 109 2,067 4,956 1 2,114 9,256
Stub 10 489 20,629 6,939 28,067
List 1 15 310 380 34 386 1,126
Category 13,331 2 13,333
Disambig 592 592
File 189 189
Portal 18 18
Project 16 16
Redirect 1 16 67 387 821 1,292
Template 740 740
NA 10 10
Other 74 74
Assessed 62 313 3,596 27,548 15,826 2 9,854 57,201
Unassessed 16 1,181 1,197
Total 62 313 3,596 27,564 15,826 2 11,035 58,398
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 223,607 Ω = 5.62


Hagia Sophia and Sinan

Hello Baris and happy new year:). About the issue we got involved in the article about Hagia Sophia. I think that it is quite important to mention that Sinan was born as Christian. Maybe his restoration works were made only cause the then Sultan asked him to, but the fact that he had been raised up as Christian could mean that he had emotional bond with that religion, without meaning that he was not a Muslim. Btw, some of the sultans whose mothers were Christians, were more friendly towards their Christian subjects than others. Sinan may not had been Greek (he may as well had been of Armenian descent), however, in his early years he was Greek Orthodox (according to most sources, including Britannica), and the issues of nationality and nation-state did not have the same evolution for all ethnic groups (the Byzantine Empire ended its history as a Greek nation-state, almost by the modern meaning of the term and in countries like Japan, Scotland or or Portugal, nationality had been already formed when Sinan was born). Perhaps it is cause of Sinan's past and special interest for Greek Orthodoxy that his only work on Greek soil, Osman Shah Mosque, has remained standing, restored and in perfect condition (including its minaret), and has not been demolised like others. Regards Hectorian 09:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Why are you trying to put Sinan's ethnic and religious orientation in the spotlight?--Doktor Gonzo 14:42, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Galatasaray players

Yes, they are real. I believe they have played for Galatasaray recently, which is why they added them. CanbekEsen 19:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Kurdish flag

Would you please join the discussion in Talk:Kurdistan? Thanks a lot.Sangak 20:05, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Baristarim, would you please review my additions to ], I tried to add contents and references. Thank you, Barefact 00:31, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Please help

Baristarim, could you please review ], I tried to add contents and references. Thank you, Barefact 00:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Media

Please do not blindly add media files in articles, they can mess up the article structure. It was not appropriate for Turkey, for example. Rather try to add them under see alsos, references or external links. Thanks.. Baristarim 06:46, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

You must be the blind one. :) for the media files were not added in the article. As you exactly said, it was added under the subgroup of "media" (newly formed) like the other subsections you listed. Media is a recognized subsection and used as such in other articles like references, links etc. You may want to consider stopping your territorial reversals, if you can. (excluding your rough language that may be a clue for hostile work environment):)) DADASHIM 06:56, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

In fact, no.. Turkey article is currently in the process of WP:FAC to become a Featured Article, and if you ever take a look at other FA articles like Canada and Australia, you won't see a "Media" sub-section :) That article's structure was formatted per FA criteria. What rough language? Cheers! Baristarim 07:00, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The use of Media subsection is not inclusive or exclusive of country related articles. It can be part of any article. See John F Kennedy article where there was a preexisting media subsection with a video fragment of inaguration where others can add pertinent media files. Turkey article is no exception and video - music -speech files can be added as needed. DADASHIM 07:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I need a written wikipedia reference indicating presence of media files precluding featured article status (in any article category) and or the use of media files is unprofessional. I am very curious. Also, you may be sadly mistaken and may be passing up on an improvement that would bring extra points in your article (unless you have convincing written wiki guidelines suggesting not to use media subsections) DADASHIM 07:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


stop Please be careful about not breaking the three revert rule. if you read the guidelines, it clearly indicates that the reversals should come from three different people against one contributor. In your case, you keep obsessively reverting three times, not three independent users/contributors, and since you are not the contributor, you are actually violating the common courtesy rules , if not any other formal guidelines.

Uh, no.. It means three reverts, not three people.. :)) Baristarim 07:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok my dear. lets count the reversals shall we?

  • Daddy - Contributes, Barister - Reverses (first reversal)
  • Daddy - Recontributes (1st reversal), Barister reverses again (second reversal)
  • Daddy - Restores again (2nd reversal), Barister again(third reversal)
  • Daddy - starts thinking whats going on, Barister comes and gives a warning to the contributor for the 3rd reversal that Dadddy hasnt done.
  • Daddy wonders further and tries to explain that reversals should come from more than one person for the contributor to blame.
Warnings are given before breaking WP:3RR. That's standard procedure. I reverted only twice, have a closer look... By the way, be careful with civility as well.. Thanks.. Baristarim 08:02,

Exactly. Not very civil to warn the contributor when it is you who is just about the revert the third time, not him? Right? OH no, cant be right. (We are out of sync, so lets stop :)) DADASHIM 08:09, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

)) BTW thanks for the transfer of the links to US relations and linking to Ataturk with punctuations. I appreciate it.

DADASHIM 08:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

No problems :) Baristarim 08:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Project page!

I tried to improve the project page. It was not very user friendly and it needed to have a better organization to promote cooperation... What do you think? It is far far away from these goals. --OttomanReference 06:58, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

It? Is he talking about the frog in his pocket? Can he come and give me a hand with the baggage?

Türkiye Portalı

Merhaba geçenlerde Türkiye Portalını seçkin portallara aday gösterdim Misplaced Pages:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Turkey. Fakat bir Vikiproje Türkiye üyesi dışında kimse oy kullanmadı. Gelen karşıt oylarla kabul edilmemiş oldu. Lütfen oyunuzu kullanın.--Absar 12:21, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Sağol Barışcım, Mevlevi'lerin yeni resminide ekledim. Daha renkli duruyor. Onu beğendin mi? Zaparojdik 15:08, 06 January 2007 (UTC)

Turkey

The temperatures have hyphens, but should have en dashes or minus signs (−).

You need to get someone else to copy-edit the whole article. Fresh eyes are required. I could go through the whole text identifying the same density of problems. Try the League of Copyeditors. Tony 13:13, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

It's not that bad? Well, I pointed out a high density of problems in just a few windows of text. I don't edit FACs myself, I just critique. It's not "compelling, even brilliant" as required by Criterion 1a. The only way is to find someone else with fresh eyes to go through it—at least an hour's intesive work to iron out all of the bumps. Why not try the League of Copyeditors? They're good. Tony 15:00, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


Nationalities

That category is for Turkish people, Greek or whatever is via being citizen of Turkey. That's how they are categorized. For example Arnold Schwarzeneger is not included in Austrian actors rather than american ones. they all belong just to People by descent, turkish, greek or whatever. Just to tell you there was a similar case with yours one year ago. A person put the Greek Cypriots under the category of Greek people and after warnings he was blocked. He was said that this is a category for Greek citizens. What I am telling you is general accepted KRBN 22:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Please read my note above again. If your reasoning is correct, then there is no reason they should be included under "Cypriot etc" either, they are not citizens of the Republic of Cyprus, right? That's all. In any case, you are erasing a lot of important and relevant information, even interwikis. In fact, it is so much that even the VandalBot reverted you. Please be careful with 3RR as well. Please see WP:BIO as well. Thanks. Baristarim 20:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Even if I was accepting you r argument (however 99% of turkish cypriots have cypriot citizenship and they are requesting for that even Denktas' grandsons) that they are just citizens of KKTC, they are considered Cypriots, since they are from the island of Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots in wikipedia had never problem of that, even the supporters of the so called "KKTC". The Bot reverted me because I forgot to sign not because agrees with you. KRBN 22:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I don't have a problem with them being under "Cypriot X". And do not politicize this issue as if you are trying to get one over someone :) I don't give a rat's ass about Denktash's grandsons. I have three passports, so what? The so-called "KKTC"? :) Well, it looks like I am not the one politicizing this issue. Nevertheless, the problem is you are deleting a lot of information that needs to be there. No, the VandalBot reverted you because you also deleted interwikis, alumni cats etc. Please read WP:BIO if you have not done so yet, do not erase information that needs to be there. You erased a whole birthdate and place information from one of the biographies. Baristarim 20:48, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The bot sent me a message that I have to sign. I have not deleted irrelevant categories. I already explained you why they must not be included. This is something common. There are a lot of Cypriots abroad but they do not belong to category:Cypriot people but to people of cypriot descent. That happens to every article, not only cypriots. In the first time I spoke you, I already explained you the reasons that must not be included. KRBN 22:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

You didn't explain this , however. Not only you removed info that needs to be there per WP:BIO, you even removed the interwiki to Turkish Misplaced Pages!! If I wasn't assuming good faith, I would be suspecting some serious POV pushing there. Then you accuse me of being a vandal, give me a break man... Baristarim 21:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Nor this , where you removed METU alumni category, or this where you even removed the Living people category, along with his birthdate and birthplace, that also is required to be there per Misplaced Pages policies. As I said, if I wasn't assuming good faith, I would be suspecting some serious sneaky POV pushing. Please do not make such disruptive edits in the future. Thanks. Baristarim 21:05, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Well I didn't observed that I deleted it. Sorry. I just reverted it and I didn't observe that someone put the correct year of birth. This is no problem and we don't disagree. The problem and difference between us is that hte article must bot be under turkish x rather than turkish cypriots and cypriot x. If you want to create a category, called Turkish Cypriot X, no problem for me. KRBN 23:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

No, it's ok, I have no problem with "Cypriot X" category. :) I hear your reasoning and as long as you are only going to modify the categories, then it's fine with me. In any case, I don't have much time to devote to this unfortunately. Cheers! Baristarim 21:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Categorization of Turkish Cypriots

Greetings Baristarim

I've not had the time to properly check what is going on here, but I do have some experience with the category system, so please allow me to stick very closely to that. In my experience, KRBN will be correct in saying that the category tree is based on nations, not ethnicity. To use my own nation as an example: Category:Danish people is a child of Category:Denmark, it is not the other way around. The following is a bad example, but it is the best I can think of at such short notice: If I were to tag an article about a member of the Danish minority in Germany, say one of the ethnic Danish local politicians in Schleswig-Holstein, I would consider this person to be represented by Category:German people and - if we were talking about a politician - I would classify him under Category:German politicians. If it was relevant that the person also had strong contacts with Denmark, I would use both a profession category based on the nation the person is a citizen of (Category:German politicians) plus an ethnic category, but only if this was very relevant. Since, in this case, a "Danish Germans" category does not exist, I would look for a category under Category:Schleswig-Holstein. If we were talking about a Russian living (or born) in Latvia, I would use the relavant Latvian categories, but perhaps add the a "Russian-Latvian" category if such a category exists.

I know that Cyprus is a troubled island. The dispute does not only hurt everybody living there, but also both Greece and Turkey. I have not checked the Cypriot material lately, but last time I checked, the Cypriot-Greek material generally did not use the Greek category tree but the Cypriot tree, for the reason described above. You'll naturally already know the category called Category:Turkish Cypriots. Would it be possible to tag e.g. an article about a Turkish Cypriot scientist as Category:Cypriot scientists and Category:Turkish Cypriots at the same time, perhaps using something of the form "... is a Turkish Cypriot scientist ..." in the introduction? Naturally, if either Category:Greek Cypriots or Category:Turkish Cypriots is a child or parent of the any such category, the same should also apply for the other group. So far, Misplaced Pages practice has generally been to consider Cyprus one unit, but this argument seems to have been based on geography, not politics.

I am normally very strongly against ethnic categories in the first place, but if you and others find my first suggestion impossible, perhaps categories of the form Category:Turkish Cypriot writers might be a workable solution. However, AFAIK, such a system has never been attempted in cases such as this, and I still prefer the first system since Misplaced Pages generally considers the island a unit. I would find it non-standard to simply group Turkish Cypriots into the Category:Turkish people categories, and I would recommend some type of solution either in the form of a Cypriot category tree encompassing all Cypriots, or alternatively adding sub-branches to the Turkish Cypriot tree.

The argument about additional information being erased: Interwiki links, places of birth / death, alumini information etc. is all very relevant and must be included. I don't see a problem with an introduction saying that "Mr. ... is a Turkish Cypriot writer ...".

In my personal experience, I have found User:Khoikhoi both interested and fair when it comes to material such as this. The same with User:Nightstallion who is also very interested in international material. I would recommend that both of you start by avoiding further edits to the categories tonight and post messages to both of them asking for further input or suggestions. Both will also be able to give good ideas on how to procede in case of gridlock. These are just my thoughts. Please see them in good faith since this is my intention. Regards. Valentinian 21:51, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

:) I know what you are thinking, but that wasn't it.. See my latest post to his talk page . It is a normal misunderstanding when it is one of those "darn Greek-Turkish things", I know :) But if you take a close look, you will see that my primary concern was his reverts that included even the deletion of the interwikis to Turkish Misplaced Pages as well as alumni categories, birthdates and birthplaces, living people cats etc. I know what you are saying about the cat system, no problems there. I was also confused since there were many different edits taking place while the professed issue was about the "Turkish X" cats. However, he explained to me that he was reverting to much earlier versions of those articles, and that's why they were being deleted. Take a closer look :) Baristarim 22:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your involvement anyhow.. We finally worked something out. Cheers! Baristarim 22:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I noticed it shortly after I'd sent my message. I am glad to hear and see this, and I'm glad that you don't have a problem with the category system. I am one of those editors trying to keep both this and the stub system in one piece, and lots of non-standard categorization is bad for both of those systems. Anyway, happy editing to both of you. Valentinian 22:08, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

TRNC-stub

Hi - your recent stub type creation - TRNC-stub, haas been speeedily deleted as a re-creation of previously deleted material. Cyprus-stub is used for all of the island off Cyprus, irrespective of whether it falls in the TRNC or the Greek-controlled area (or the British bases, for that matter). The Category:Cyprus stubs is not yet at a size when it would be suitable to split it, and even if it were, there is a long-standing precedent that only widely accepted international states and substates should get separate stub types. Also please note that all new stub types should be proposed at WP:WSS/P several days prior to creation, in order for discussion to take place on their potential use and problems. Grutness...wha? 22:50, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

You wrote: Ok, but there is no stub to regroup all TRNC related stubs together... I am sorry, but this is about the TRNC as a political entity, whether it is recognized or not. There is no political undertone. Cyprus stub utilizes the flag of its opposing state, so there is not much logic to use it for topics concerning TRNC like "politics of TRNC". The problem is, Cyprus-stub is not a geographical stub, it uses the Republic of Cyprus flag, which means that it is a political stub, right? If it used the geographical map of Cyprus, then there wouldn't be a problem. However, I didn't know about the proposing procedure. But there is still a problem with utilizing the Cyprus stub. So, what is the solution?

Well firstly the stub is meant to use a map - someone vandalously edited the flag in (I've put the map back). And no, it is not a political stub, it is forr any general, non-geographic articles relatd to Cyprus geographical items get Cyprus-geo-stub). As to TRNC as a political entity, I understand your point, but, as I said, given the size of the Cyprus stubs category, it shouldn't be difficult to find stubs relating to the TRNC in there. And though I personally have no problems with the existence off the TRNC, the problem is with editors in general. Because they are used on large numbers of articles, edit was on templates can cause considerable problems for Misplaced Pages's servers. Stub templates aree pparticularly susceptible to this, and also often take a great deal of effort to fix if there are problems, due to their associated category links. Any region which is of only partially recoggnised status runs into problems with its stub type. So as to minimise these probleems, disputed territories and territories without wide international recognition don't get separate templates. The problem is not so much that of any individual territory, but more one of precedent. If TRNC gets a stub type, it will be only a few days before a Transnistria one is suggested. If that is approved, then Chechnya and Somaliland are suggested. And with each small step the likelihood off a tenmplate edit was becomes greater. I realise the cut-off point of "wide international recognition" is fairly arbitrary, but at least it sets a reasonable level above which there is little likelihood of problems occurring (even then, ther aree a few problems, but maainly very minor ones). Grutness...wha? 23:16, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for understanding what we're trying to do :) I've added a note in the Category:Cyprus stubs to clarify things a little for editors, and with any luck I should be able to get the template protected to stop the flag appearing on it. Grutness...wha? 23:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The Working Man's Barnstar

The Working Man's Barnstar

The Working Man's Barnstar
You award it for your endlessly contributions. Tebrikler! - zaparojdik 22:52, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Turkish diaspora

I'm sorry, but what is this agressiveness for? "John Whatever" from Kansas, would understand maybe easier than me the difference between "Turkish" and "Turkic", simply 'cause I am not a native english speaker. In case u are interested, the equivelent of "Turkic peoples" in Greek is "Τουρκικοί λαοί", instead of "Τούρκοι", which is used to refer to the people of Turkey. Hectorian 00:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I know, i returned in wikipedia, after Xmas, rather stressed as well... I guess i need "vacation from vacations"... LOL. Anyway, Khoikhoi's footnote is enlightening enough for the readers, and something that i wouldn't think of doing... well, I am not an admin, nor have great expectations to be one:). as for Sinan, i would not add anything to the article about the Adrianople mosque, cause it would be totally irrelevant+suspicious. but i do believe that it is interesting info in Hagia Sophia. Ciao Hectorian 00:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I tried to keep the reference you provided since it makes it clear that the word "Turk" can be taken to mean Turkic peoples as well. And since the article is about Turks living outside Turkey, I really belive it should include that piece of information, as this is meant to be an encyclopedia after all. Atilim Gunes Baydin 01:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I had a great time, thanks! i had to look "haphazard" in an online English-Greek dictionary... sometimes, i still learn new english words... LOL:). I am also quite busy with studying lately, but i use my PC for that, so, i can make short breaks and log in wikipedia. I suppose u also had holidays, and was not working too hard these days. Hectorian 23:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

FAC Turkey

What is your estimate for the FAC Turkey? How much more work it needs? --OttomanReference 04:20, 7 January 2007 (UTC) What do you think, can we put a link to dnail, from that sentence? I would also like to see a links from that sentence to Tehcir Law and April 24 circular?

Indo-Iranian speaking nations and regions

Have you seen this template that user Anupam is putting in the Turkey, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan articles? it includes Turkey, Uzbekistan and Azerbajian under 'Iranian' speaking, in the template, I think something should be done about it, all those nations are known to use a Turkic language, and it is accepted worldwide. Thanks!

Merhaba..

Hi.. About the recent changes in the demographics section of Turkey article, I understand your concerns and certainly respect your past efforts and I will make no further changes as of now. I only felt the need to expand another users contribution in the first place anyway, so I'm OK with staying put :) Take care --Xasf 23:34, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Motto

I take my comment back. Ne Mutlu Türküm Diyene sounds nationalistic and when translated it can even be manipulated to be racist. The one about the peace should stay. Kolay gelsin Caglarkoca 01:24, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Answer

I am answering you here.

Baristarim, you have created many articles which I disagree with its content, Neurobio has created none such articles and is answered with such a harsh fashion by me, so it could certainly not be his position. The madhouse comment is just the point of the iceberg. Are we reading the same things? I think so, this guy after I announced leaving Misplaced Pages had left a message to Cool_Cat to come back, who was still on probation and adviced not to touch the article(he was even for a time forbidden to touch the article). This same guy has spammed with Thoth the talkpage over and over again. This same guy bringing back what has been addressed over and over again. This same guy has openly called this article trash and requested a "Jihad" on it. Those are just few examples. Not to say his personal association with the author of tallarmeniantale. I will always refuse to work with this guy, and past one administrator who defend him, it would not be long for any editors to see that he is not a well intentioned person. What hurts most in all this, is that the same administrator who gave me a barnsar for my contribution on this article is also the only one who is defending this guy. If you want to contribute to the article, I will appreciate that, but there is no question that I will respect a racist idiot who calls my douzens of hours of contributions trash, and who had build a personality specifically to attack my credibility here on Misplaced Pages. This guy own an apology for all the crap he did, and has yet to stop with his prejudicial comments. Fad (ix) 02:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Request for Feedback

Hello, I am trying to improve the article Hamparsum Limonciyan. I made a request for feedback Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_feedback. Any pointers you might have as to what the article needs would be appreciated. --Free smyrnan 08:51, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Cease and desist—stop your missorting

Please stop moving articles such as Usak Airport if you cannot add the proper sort keys so that the articles are indexed properly in categories. Go back and fix that one and any others you have messed up the same way. And go back and fix the double redirect you left at Usak Airport, too. And cite reliable sources for your moves. Gene Nygaard 16:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

? I am sorry, am I missing something here? "Articles I messed up"? If you had taken a closer look, you would have seen that I spent time fixing the links in the article, the ones to the city and category were not working because someone used a very weird character. The city's name is Uşak, any more questions??? And I fix hundreds of redirects all the time, as well as many spelling errors, so it is normal that I can forget one or two things. If you were so interested in the article, why were the city name and the category name showing up as red links? And you can also try to see WP:AGF; if I had ever seen another user make a spelling correction move and that it left a double redirect, I would have fixed it myself. It would have taken less time for you than writing to me in any case :)) "Cease and desist"?? :))))) What's going on, am I under arrest? And what sort keys are you talking about? I actually fixed the links in that article, and I really have a hard time following your weird sort key argument , is something "missorted" there? In any case, the next time I forget double-redirects just leave me a msg "hey, you forgot a double redirect(s) here, can you fix them? Thanks", instead of a tirade about how I messed something up etc etc :)) Cheers!Baristarim 22:40, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I fixed the misindexing of Uşak for you, which resulted in the article being missorted in its categories, by adding the appropriate sort key. Now go fix the rest. Gene Nygaard 22:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Listen, you better stop treating others as if they were some vandals like you did here . There is no source that says that the city's name comes from "lovers". Any unsourced information can be deleted. And there is no such thing as "alternative transliteration". I will fix that as well. "revert deliberate missorting" has absolutely no meaning, I know how sorting works. There was no reason for you to blindly revert like you did here . Had you taken a closer look, you would have noticed that I hadn't touched the first letter, which is the only important letter for sorting. I am very careful with my work, but as I said I also forget certain things. There is no reason to modify anything except the first letter. I reverted you at Inonu, and it still shows up correctly in its categories, take a look if you like. Please do not do any more such modifications.. It seems like I will have to revert some of your other blind reverts. Please take a look at your own work before you order others to fix I don't know what.Baristarim 23:13, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
No, the first letter is most definitely not the only one important for sorting. All the letters—in fact, all characters, of whatever sort including spaces and apostrophes and hyphens and whatever—are sorted (we sometimes use that to get some articles to the top of the category listing). So go fix them. Gene Nygaard 23:32, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
And you stop doing blind reverts, inserting unsourced and dubious information as to how a city's name comes from "lovers" and adding senseless fact tags. If there were any missortings, I will fix them in due time. Baristarim 23:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Football AID 7 Jan - 14 Jan

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Respect: Ataturk NOT Atatürk

You have broken links thinking doing an innocent change. Please respect the English Character Setç It doesnit include ü!!! Onganer 20:31, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

What links are you talking about? I tried to fix them as much as I can. The article's name is Atatürk, and the spell check also fixes Sao Paulo to São Paulo. And it does include "ü", take a look here at Düsseldorf. See A Coruña, Côte-d'Or et al. You are confusing the Latin alphabet diacritics with other alphabets. Misplaced Pages is in English language and the Latin alphabet. Because it is possible to write English in the Arabic alphabet, aynen Turklerin Cumhuriyet'ten once Arap alfabesi kullandigi gibi. However, if I have broken any links, just let me know and I will fix them. I had tried to my best to fix them when I was fixing the spellings. Cheers! Baristarim 22:14, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Only links that I have fixed are the ones that have a redirect. Click on Kadikoy and tell me where it leads you :) Baristarim 22:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Denial page

I don't mind your version, it's just that if you read that sentence out of context it sounds like Turkey and Armenia have disagreements regarding the genocide thesis, that implies that Turkey accepts a genocide but disagrees about certain aspects with Armenia, which is obviously not so...-- Ευπάτωρ 00:57, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Terrorism categories

If you had actually looked at the Terrorism in Kazakhstan page you would have seen that these organizations are banned in these countries as terrorist organizations. As for the "words to avoid" - tough. There are tons of these categories and numerous Terrorism in country pages. Do not remove the categories again. KazakhPol 02:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Are you new to Misplaced Pages? Is this your first time editing? Do you have any idea what WP:3RR is? KazakhPol 02:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
You need to review WP:3RR, WP:CIVIL, and WP:OWN. No one "owns" Misplaced Pages pages. I can remove any comments I please from my talkpage for any reason. If you do not understand how userpages work then read Misplaced Pages:User page. KazakhPol 02:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Ethnicities

Hi Baris, following this;

Nationality (In the normal case this will mean the country of which the person is a citizen or national, or was a citizen when the person became notable. Ethnicity should generally not be emphasized in the opening unless it is relevant to the subject's notability.)

the first part of this sequence of propositions proves you right BUT please take a closer look at this "unless it is relevant to the subject's notability". Now, Yilmaz Guney and people like him in Turkey have all got exceptions in this case for their ethnicity to be included boldly because relevant to the subject's notability; he's criticism of Turkey, the laws that have restricted him to make his films in Kurdish. I urge you to watch his documentary, From Adana to Paris, and see what he has to say about his ethnicity. These are important names for both Kurdish people and Turkey, it is the Kurdish culture contributing to modern Turkey. Same principle applies to other Kurd artists. Ozgur Gerilla 02:19, 9 January 2007 (UTC)