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Welcome to my talk page. Feel absolutely free to leave me a message. I will reply on your talk page (everyone likes that yellow bar). :) Peace.

Copyedit

Your English is lot better than my Polish. Cheers, Yomangani 17:56, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi; nobody is on AIM, so may I ask a favor? May you click on this link: WebCT and see if anything loads? Thanks. — Deckiller 09:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Good, it's not just me :) Looks like the entire thing is down. I wonder if that means....no readings? I'll have time to check later this morning before class, but it'll be annoying to be unprepared. Thanks again. — Deckiller 09:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Dominican Republic

Im not an expert here but looking into the available sources I can't find a single one about the creation of a Neiba province in the Dominican Republic. I also can not find a source about the delegates added here and here . So I will have a look at this users edits, revert if I find unsourced and unverifiable information and ask him to give sources for further such edits. If he keeps on editing in this way the intervention of an administrator may be necessary. I would appriciate if we could work together to solve this problem. Thank you--VirtualDelight 18:49, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Didnt see on your userpage that you are an admin here yourself. As the administrative intervention allready is done let my now, if necessary, how I can help out cleaning up this users contributions, which at first glance are quite a mess, without getting in the way of your cleanup. Thanks--VirtualDelight 20:00, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I see, great work, could'nt have done it so fast. I'll take the articles on my watchlist. Thank's.--VirtualDelight 20:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your nice message. I've come to this articles reverting some odd vandalism, but as I have now downloaded the report on the census 2002 with 2664 pages I think I will use this rich source to slowly update the information in related articles. As the next census will be in some years, I guess there is plenty of time to do so. Happy editing! VirtualDelight 19:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Block

Hi Darwinek, I noticed you blocked yourself, which made me laugh. What a unique form self-abasement! Appleseed (Talk) 02:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Mosty u Jabl.

Zdravim, Mosty prapor maji (viz. ), jenom ted na tom obrazku nejsou videt ty bocni bile pruhy, protoze splyvaji s pozadim. Chtel jsem to zmenit, ale zatim jsem neprisel na to, jak se na wiki meni obrazky. Tady je upravena verze toho praporu: Jinak po naszymu umjym :) - Didzej 12:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Global Volcanism Program

Hi, What is the exact scope of the phrase mentioned on the GVP website: "The volcano and eruption data are freely available"?. Your comment left on an anonymous user's talk page, have created doubts in my mind. Thanks in advance, Jespinos 23:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Why have you not uploaded El Valle Photo to Commons?. I will wait until that you upload more photos and then I will see how I can help. Jespinos 04:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Meeting you after Christmas! Though I thank you for reverting the troll's message

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Infoboxes

Hi there. I've finally gotten around to starting up Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Infoboxes. The project page itself is still pretty bare, but at least we now have a central discussion point for this sort of work. Please join! - 52 Pickup 13:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 31 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gustaw Morcinek, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomangani 09:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Fryštát, was selected for DYK!

On February 1, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Fryštát, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 15:23, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Nice work, but a question: what's the ethnic breakdown? I assume there are some Poles, as you link to the article on Czech Poles and it's in Zaolzie, but it's not made explicit. I see here that there are over 5,000 Poles in Karviná, but I wonder if data for Fryštát alone are available. Biruitorul 22:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Proposed Guideline for Misplaced Pages

Hola, you might be interested in participating in this discussion to consent on a new proposed Misplaced Pages guideline for diacritics which basically says the following:

• Diacritics should only be used in an article's title, if it can be shown that the word is routinely used in that way, with diacritics, in common usage. This means in reliable English sources, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, or articles in major English-language newspapers.

• If the word is routinely listed in reliable English sources without diacritics, then the Misplaced Pages article should follow that method for the article title, though the diacritics version should be given in the initial paragraph of the article as suggested in Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (use English).

• If it is not clear what "common usage" is, then the general Misplaced Pages guideline is to avoid use of diacritics in article titles.

It's at Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (standard letters with diacritics). Adiós, Rosa 23:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Czesc :) I agree...I'm a bit worried it might get approved as decisions on the Misplaced Pages are reached by concensus. I don't fully understand why do these native English speakers react so negatively to the use of foreign terms, that attitude is so outdated. I remember that the Spanish language in the past used a lot of Hispanized terms like Guillermo Shakespeare and Benito Espinosa, but that was in my parents' time and now that attitude is completely re-evaluated and native terms are favored whenever possible.

BTW, were you able to notice that someone in the discussion page of that proposal even made a motion for Polish votes to be "discounted"? lolRosa 02:01, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to say thank you again. My thanks is sincere for you always catching the vandalism the the Langston Hughes article. The mind of vandals I will never understand. Again, a sincere and appreciative thank you.17:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC) :-)

piesn

Lyrics

nie jestem poeta, jak chcesz to bierz pozdrawiam Tymek 03:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

piwo

tak sie sklada ze obecnie mieszkam w Chicago, ale mysle ze sie to zmieni i powroce do ojczyzny mysle wiec ze tego piwa sie napijemy kiedy nadejdzie czas

widzialem ze pisales o miescie Frysztak w latach 1938-1939 byl on siedziba polskiego powiatu frysztackiego, wchodzacego w sklad wojewodztwa slaskiego - popatrz na Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship, tam masz obszar i ludnosc tego powiatu. Pozostala czesc Zaolzia - poludniowa i centralna, polaczona zostala z powiatem cieszynskim. Pozdro Tymek 18:03, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Blocked IP address

You recently blocked 146.171.254.66 , this being a shared IP address. Although I share use this IP address, I thank you for your actions as I am against the rampant vandalism that is appearing on wikipedia. The inconvenience to me in the short term is minimal to the damage a User can do. Keep up the good work Maggott2000 03:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Co nowego?

Zrobiłech se fajrant, isto na amyn, od wikipedii.Konto nie kasujym, bo eszcze kiejsik mogym co naszkrobać. Za to fórt czytóm wiki :) Teraz móm sesje :S Bywej, D_T_G (PL) 09:33, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Ot, ciekawostka

pl:Borówkowa. -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  23:14, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Delayed re

Thank you; highly interesting. I come back here and find your page plastered with song lyrics! Anyway, I'll let you pick one (or none, or more) of my latest articles for DYK: 1, 2, 3. Let me also make a small request of you: I've turned this into this; I know Slovak isn't Czech, but since I don't know of any Slovaks here, would you kindly look over my attempt at translating it into English? Thanks for your help. Biruitorul 06:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, I went through and made a few changes (and I put in for one DYK - we'll see, though they usually make it). I also made a couple of templates: this one should be fairly straightforward, but this one might need a review. In fact I think it would be helpful if we could get this list to replace this one, which is not nearly as helpful. (Also this is a nice template - note that we are lacking in articles on Czechoslovak constitutions; sk.wiki has short ones on the 1920 and 1948 ones.) So if you feel like translating some of this material, or know someone who can, that would be nice; I can fix the grammar.

Let me offer one guess as to why Czech Poles still identify as Czechs in this day of (often EU-imposed) minority-friendly legislation and atmosphere. Perhaps people like to be in the majority. In a country where ~95% of people are Czech, and <1% are Polish, it's always nicer to belong to the much bigger group and really feel like an insider. And Poles can do that because they're not too different from Czechs. In fact let me offer a couple of analogies from Romania. First there are the Roma/Gypsies, who are officially 2.5% but unofficially around 15%, meaning that many have declared as Romanian, even though in appearance quite a few are quite distinct from Romanians (given that they originate in India). Second there are the Aromanians, who, although distinct, often find themselves more at ease within the Romanian group. For instance Gigi Becali, an Aromanian, is a strong Romanian nationalist (as is, for that matter, Varujan Vosganian, an Armenian), while other Aromanians have contributed in their own way to the building of the Romanian nation (people like Emanoil Gojdu or Andrei Şaguna). This situation might be akin to that of the Moravians (or the Montenegrins - my guess is that we'll see many of the 30% who declared as Serbs in 2003 go back to declaring as Montenegrin at the next census). On the other hand, minorities that do have a better chance of resisting assimilation are those that are compact, fairly numerous, quite different from the majority, and have a history of hostility to them. A good example would be the Hungarians of Romania and of Slovakia. Biruitorul 06:54, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On February 6, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Třinec Iron and Steel Works, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Keep up the great work Darwinek! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I second that. I notcied the Solomon Island is also part yours two on the front page congrats. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 10:52, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Costa Rica

In response to your question, Yes, my pictures can be used in Misplaced Pages under free license --Zerokarma 17:10, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

And yes it is a Polish last name, the family name was actually much longer at one time but was shortened around WW2 shortly before they moved to Canada. --Zerokarma 17:24, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

You are my HERO. You have affirmed my confidence here on Wiki. Thank you so much. I tried to get protection of the page but was denied even after explaining the level of vandalism. :-)TonyCrew 19:08, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks

For the revert :) .--Dakota 23:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Algeria Wikiproject

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Algeria -- Szvest - 18:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Zaolzie

Witam Dam Ci znac jak tylko znajde czas o tym Zaolziu Tymek 21:32, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Algeria

Welcome, Darwinek, to the WikiProject Algeria! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Algeria-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template {{WikiProject Algeria}}. A few features that you might find helpful: The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you. Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to watchlist it. We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful. Algerian Wikipedians' notice board You can help! Vous pouvez aider! Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Article requests Assess : Category:Unassessed Algeria articles, Category:Unknown-importance Algeria articles Cleanup : Cleanup listing Copyedit : Category:Algeria articles needing attention Expand : Algeria at the 2004 Pan Arab Games, Ahmed Zabana Stadium, Algerian Sahara, Algerians in the United Kingdom, Algiers, Culture of Algeria, Economy of Algeria, Education in Algeria, Geography of Algeria, Naâma Province, Wahran, Sonelgaz Infobox : Category:Algeria articles without infoboxes Maintain : Category:Algeria portal Photo : Category:Misplaced Pages requested photographs in Algeria Stubs : Category:Algeria stubs Verify : Unreferenced BLPs Other : French Collaboration Project If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project! -- Szvest - 15:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank You, Darwinek for your Support! Thank you for your support in my RfA, which closed at 111 / 1 / 2. I am humbled and rather shocked to see such kind comments and for it to reach WP:100. Please feel free to leave a note if I have made a mistake or if you need anything, I will start out slow and tackle the harder work once I get accustomed to the tools. Thank you once more, I simply cannot express in words my gratitude.

...fly on littlewing. ~ Arjun 19:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Silesian Evangelical Church of A. C.

Hallo. I have deleted sentence "Also all bishops were Polish to date." which is incorrect. Bishop Volný and bishop Piętak are both Czechs.Qasinka 07:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Darwinku,

myślę, że rozprawy na temat narodowości ludzi, którzy zamieszkują Zaolzie, mogą trwać w nieskonczoność, a nigdy nie dotrzemy do przekonywującej konkluzji. Po prostu niepasujemy do schematów. Jak stwierdza Kevin Hannan, nie rzadko jest na Śląsku Cieszyńskim spotykana diglosia (w przeszłości nawet triglosia) - kiedy jednostka posługuje się równie dobrze dwoma językami i nie jest w stanie określić, który jest pierwszy (macierzysty) i który jest drugi.

Co do obou biskupów (Volnego i Piętaka), kierowałem się przy ocenie ich narodowości ich samokreśleniem; etnicznie ich nie badałem ;-) O ile wiem, oby dwaja biskupowie uczęszczali do szkół czeskich, i kiedy słyszałem ich kazania bądź przmówienia, wydaje mi się, że łatwiej im jest posługiwać się jązykiem czeskim aniżeli polskim (a najłatwiej jest im mówić po naszymu ;-)

Jeżeli chodzi o większość Polaków w ŚKEWA - to myślę, że jeżeli chodzi o osoby, które są świadome swojej polskości, to te osoby na pewno stanowią mniejszość. Zapytaj n. p. tylko parę urzędów parafialnych, ile dzieci pobiera naukę konfirmacyjną po polsku i ile po czesku. Albo odwiedź dowolną godzinę biblijną i przypatrz się, ile ludzi ma polską a ile czską Biblię.

Przytoczony przez Ciebie przykład Czeskiego Cieszyna nie może według mojej opinii służyć do scharakteryzowania sytuacji w całym ŚKEWA. Czeski Cieszyn to raczej ewenement, i zbór Na Niwach jedną z ostatnich wysp, gdzie zdecydowana większość narodowo uświadomionych Polaków isnieje.

--Qasinka 12:29, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

O planie spotkania mi pisał już kiedyś DTG. Wtedy mi to nie pasowało. Ale do przyszłości z przyjemnością wezmę udział na jakimś spotkaniu "tustela" wikipedystów. À propos, dziękuję za ocenę mojej polszyzny, nie jest jednak ona owocem kształcenia w szkołach polskich; jestem autodydaktą. --Qasinka 20:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

EU Images

You might be interested in this conversation, and this one at commons regarding EU images. Also, what constitutes as fair use regarding living people. Take a particular interest in counterexample number 8. Also, just because one cannot find a free example, it doesn't mean that a free replacement cannot be found, especially if the person is still living. Happy editing! --Bob 07:46, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Hi!

Hi Darwinek!

Thank you for your e-mail; I appreciate. I will try to get used to the making of that encyclopaedia that we are both developing, along with others.

I must admit I am astonished to spot a Polish interessed in Africa.

But that's very nice, anyway.

Thanks again.

Bye. Cambers 18:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC).

hard work

Obviously you must have been doing something right if someone felt a need to vandalise your userpage - apologies about stupid reverted message - possibly difficult to get meaning... cheers! SatuSuro 09:05, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah i think dakota and slim are two v good admins - and I hold them both in high respect - but i never thought to have their user pages on watch myself...SatuSuro 09:11, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK (12 Feb)

On 12 February, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jablunkov, 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.

Laïka 17:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

possibly broken link on your userpage

Hi,
The last link on your userpage: http://www.websn.com/Pride/all.htm may be broken. It points my browser to the following URL: http://mirasearch.com Itayb 23:49, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Rail/koleje/vlaky

Witam tutaj Tymek 05:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

W Rozkladzie jazdy PKP lato 1939 (Polish Railroads Schedule Summer 1939) sa zdjecia ciekawych polskich miejscowosci - Krakow, Lwow, Poznan, Warszawa, Wilno, Zakopane, Krynica, Gdynia. Wsrod nich jest tez, co ciekawe, fotka zatytulowana "Slask - huty w Trzyncu" ("Silesia - Trzyniec ironworks").

A pisze to dlatego, ze mysle jak znajde czas stworzyc maly artykul zatytulowany np. "Railroads in Polish-controlled Zaolzie". Co o tym sadzisz? Czy to ma sens?

Tylko kiedy znajde na to czas - bo akurat czas jest u mnie bardzo deficytowy. pozdrawiam tradycyjnym czeskim "Ostre sledovane vlaky"

Jezeli uwazasz ze to zly pomysl to nie ma problemu. Ty jestes stamtad, lepiej to czujesz pozdr Tymek 13:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Images

Hi Darwinek, could you please delete the images 1, 2, and 3. They're duplicates; some were replaced by other users (instead of being overwritten) and others are just plain duplicates. Thanks in advance. :) - Anas 17:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

This, this, this, this and this (all orphaned, some are noncommercial) too please. :) Sorry for disturbing you. - Anas 17:29, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Darwinek, I appreciate your time. :) - Anas 11:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Grand Bahama Island Photo

That photo is posted with North pointing towards the bottom of the page.

You might want to flip it 180 degrees so that it shows a more conventional orientation of North towards the TOP of the page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.71.95.134 (talk) 17:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC).

email

Never got your email. Guettarda 18:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Czechoslovak x Czechoslovakian

The only variety of the adjective I met before I started editing Misplaced Pages was "Czechoslovak". Here I met "Czechoslovakian", too, but noticed that some editors were removing the -ian ending (see eg. the history of "Czechoslovakian koruna". In the article on Czechoslovakia I read this note, but now I have noticed that it is not there anymore.

Therefore I looked the word up in several dictionaries. Anglicko-český a česko-anglický slovník by Ivan Poldauf et al, SPN Praha 1990, uses only the version "Czechoslovak" in the English-Czech part, while the Czech-English part says "Czechoslovak(ian)". Velký česko-anglický slovník by Josef Fronek (from Glasgow University), LEDA Praha 2000, lists both versions, the one without ending on the first place. Velký anglicko-český slovník by Karel Hais and Břetislav Hodek lists both versions too ("Czechoslovak" is first, but here it is just due to the alphabetical order). Cambridge International Dictionary of English, 1996, lists just "Czechoslovakian".

Google seems to prefer "Czechoslovak" slightly (1,950,000 hits) in comparison with "Czechoslovakian" (1,370,000 hits). If it searches just Misplaced Pages, it gives 1,300 hits for "Czechoslovak" and 1,320 hits for "Czechoslovakian".

So, it seems that both versions are correct (unlike e.g. my summary here) and used. However, because google gives slightly more hits with the non-ending version, and because there is a clear connection with Slovakia and its adjective Slovak, I would prefer to write "Czechoslovak". Jan.Kamenicek 17:06, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Darwinek, just to let you know that I have made your two speedy noms part of a full nomination along with all the other '-ian' categories at Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 February 21#People from Czechoslovakia. Thanks, mattbr 19:25, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Towns

Hey, that's an idea! :) If you want to start working on it, I'll join later. Will definitely help to bring it to FL status if it comes to it!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 21:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I understand. But since we aren't in any kind of hurry, I don't think it's a problem. When you have free time for this, let me know, I'll sure help out.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 22:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcome

Hi, Darwinek, and welcome to WikiProject Africa! We are a growing community of Misplaced Pages editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles relevant to Africa. Here are some points that may be helpful: Our main aim is to help improve Africa-related articles, so if people ask for help with an article, please try your hardest to help them if you are able. Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it. The project has several ongoing and developing activities, such as article quality assessment, which you are welcome to participate. If you have another language besides English, please consider adding yourself to our translation section, to help us improve our foreign Africa topics. You may also be interested in joining one of the descendant projects related to a specific African country. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We hope you enjoy working on this project.

— Emiellaiendiay 23:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Kiarostami featured article candidate

Hi. Abbas Kiarostami has now had a a lot of work and is now virtually complete - please read it throughand review it and leave your decision. Cheers. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 14:42, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I have now added the final details to his early life in the first section and found a highly appropriate image of Kiarostami's place of study. The new info is very relevant and has been referenced. Its just about complete. Thanks Ernst Stavro Blofeld 15:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Films February Newsletter

The February 2007 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Cbrown1023 talk 22:35, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Entrusted with the Bucket!

Thank you for supporting me in my RfA. Thanks for your vote, I've received an overwhelming 96% support and successfully took a copy of bucket-and-mop from the main office!

School graduation exam and HKCEE are both pressing in, so I might become inactive for a while. But soon after that, I look forward to working with you! --Deryck C. 03:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Geobox for Regions

Chapter One

Actually, that's the next one I was planning to create. I've already posted an info about its development on the Geobox main page and started creating it but … it seems most fields would be the same ones as in the Geobox Town so I might as well just tweak that one to be usable for regions too. Probably the only missing field is subdivisons (+ their type and number). Any idea what other fields should be there?

I suppose you've noticed the towns I added for the Pilsen Region, I have no particular interest in that region it was just the one I chose for trying out the new Geobox as it not only missed any sort of Infoboxes but mostly the articles themselves (rather than overriding articles for a region with more existing Infoboxes).

A sorry, že raději píšu anglicky ale na anglické Wikipedii mi to přijde slušnější, obzvláště při tom, co tu někteří naši soukmenovci vyvádějí (třeba: Talk:Karlovy Vary). – Caroig 22:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, Geobox Region is up and running. It has more or less similar fields as Geobox Town with one new feature: folding subdivison section. It is still rather beta so please use it rather for testing purposes on limited number of pages.

As of your ideas:

• Color settings - I'm against. Technically, it's very easy to implement but why? One of the Geobox series aims is to be consistent. One feature (set of features) should have one color, brown: mountains, ranges and potentianally other, blue: rivers etc. It is something that has been largely discussed over and over again on many Misplaced Pages pages (esp. with navigation boxes). As of the color I chose, it's not the final one, I usually use similar hue of color that appears in the location map and a color that would be easily distinguishible from other Geoboxes (I tried perhaps 50 colors). I guess this way, especially with the Czech "Small Districts" one doesn't need special page for the small district but you can simply put a second (Geobox Region) template into an article on the town/city (see Nýřany).
• As of ISO codes, I don't think there needs to be a dedicated field, there are now four generic code fields which could easily used. I guess the template should have specific fields only for features which can likely be used for most regions, ISO codes are set for the highest level of national regions only. The same applies for licence codes etc.
• Polititians in senate etc., again, is that something to be used in most templates or rather a handfull? There are four free fields that can be used for that purpose.
• Economic figures. Definitely. I haven't thought of that so this version doesn't have them but once I identify those that are applicable for a large number of template I'll put them in.

Before creating any template I usually checked other existing ones to see which fields are commonly used and those where the ones I included in the templates. Hope you find Geobox Region useful and please tell me about any bugs it contains I'm sure they'll be many. – Caroig 17:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Chapter Two

I neither like nor dislike the current color, it was just one which was way different from other Geoboxes. The greenish you suggest is too similar to geobox Protected Area. (I kinda like the corresponding color in maps and geobox header, but that's not a priority.)

I see you've already edited the misleading data in Legend, thanks. As you might have guessed I just copied the legend from Geobox Town, added new fields and forgot to change those talking about towns.

Map first, if I didn't screw up something, there should be a switch map_first which will get the map being displayed first, this is a feature present in other Geoboxes so should be here too.

Chapter Three

I didn't express myself clearly with the map_first switch, sorry for that. It acts only as a switch, if it is present in the template and any value is assigned to it (might be just 1, yes, true or anything) the map assigned to map is used. See Midtjylland/Sandbox. It would help me if you discover any bug or encouter any other problem to create a "sandboxed" version of that page so that I could sort the roblem out more quickly.

As of those colors, it is still my intention to have them color distinguished (as are e.g. the Taxoboxes). There seem to be a trend on Misplaced Pages in which it seems it is more a sandbox for editors rather than being a compendium for readers. So many pages now start with sometimes more maintance tag which discourage the reader from reading the article at all. The coherent style of Geoboxes should help the reader orientate. They always find the country where the subject lies in the same place etc. See e.g. Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, the different colors in Geoboxes help you to quickly find out what sort of information each Geobox contains. I'd like the colors to differatiate between various topics. I'm not very happy with the current salmonish color but I haven't come upon any better. FYI: I added a temporary field called simply color, you can added to any gegion template and try various colors, but it's definitelly not going to be in the final version.

BTW, the template wouldn't accept the special map from Granma Province but I'm looking for a way how to make it possible as it would solve another issue I see. – Caroig 20:25, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Chapter Four

So you've noticed. The HTML + CSS code for that map is kinda buggy, I tried to sort it out, anyway, it needs to be pretty large to be of any use and thus it would make the Geobox too wide. A few notes on the use of Geoboxes:

• There are dedicated fields for notes (be them references or whatever) for most fields whose name's simply field_note. I'm personally opposed to this style of rererences generally, I prefer those for Harvard style as they enable citing references in a separate section at the end of the article to having them scattered all across the article body.
• There are additional _round fields which enable to define the rounding precision for unit conversions (it looks somewhat better when both units have the same decimal precision)
• There's also the category field which should be used for the region type … it helps the reader tell apart what the actual name of the region is and what the region category name is.
• U can put the region subdivions to the Geobox too.

Apart from the _note issue, take these as recommendations only, it would be better if the Geoboxes are used in a consistent way. – Caroig 23:23, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Chapter five - Suggestion

Hi there. If I understand correctly you would like a second folding section, like the one where the Little Districts are listed in e.g. Moravian-Sielsian Region? Well, technically it wouldn't be a problem, I'm just not sure whether this wouldn't be too much. Do the subdivions in Poland exist paralelly or are they just subdivisons within subdivisons? Put you direct me at an article/articles where these Polish subdivisons are explained/described? If you don't mind, I'll look into it tomorrow, I'm terribly tired today.

I've made a few changes to the Geobox in Moravian-Silesian Region, I replaced hejtman with hetman which is the English version of the title, we might write a paragraph in the hetman article about this title and then link the word in the Geobox to it. Having just the Czech version, a reader might not understand what the field is about at all. I also moved the party to a dedicated field. And delinked the name, but there - I don't like those red links, but that's just my humble opinion so feel free to link it again if you consider it more appropriate. – Caroig 20:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

So I've tried this: there's a municipality_type and municipality_count field as well as a extra city_count field, many statistics indeed indicate how many munipalities and cities/town there are in each region, so it was a good idea. I think there's no need to have second folding field, the code for this is extremely lengthy given the very limited capabilities of the template engine.

As of the Czech Districts and Little Districts, from an administrative point of view the regions are divided into the Little Districts only. Besides, most of the old Districts don't have a wiki article at all and if there's one it's mostly just a list of municipalities. I guess there's not much to write about the districts anyway, just some statistical data and a list of munipalities which can as well be attached as a Geobox Region to the appropriate town. This way I've covered most Little Districts in the Pilsen Region (I'm going to finish the rest soon). – Caroig 14:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Award

Hello Darwinek! Thank you very much for your award. As I haven't got much time at hand right now its going a bit slow, but I hope to be able to do some more groundwork on this articles as I find more and more good sources to do so. Thanks again!--VirtualDelight 15:07, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Kamennogorsk

That one is good enough for a "rough translation". The name cannot be translated exactly anyway. I actually question the usefulness of this translation more than its accuracy :) Unfortunately, since my toponymyc dictionary does not have an entry on Kammenogorsk, I can only replace this with my own speculation as to what the name means exactly (the "-gorsk" part can mean either "mountains" or "city/town"), but that wouldn't be much of an improvement.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:48, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

No :) The names, however, don't always refer to large mountains. Sometimes it's just hills that residents perceive large enough to be called "mountains". Also, many of the names were artificial; assigned with no rhyme or reason.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Please sign my autograph page

Please sign my autograph page. A•N•N•Afoxlover PLEASE SIGN, ANYONE!!! 03:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Rudolf Vytlacil

Hi, Why did you move Rudolf Vytlacil to Rudolf Vytlačil? He was born Vytlacil in Schwechat (not Vienna!) and played for Phönix Schwechat, Slovan Vienna, Rapid Vienna, Favoritner Sport-Club and of course for the ÖFB. Fell free to read his biography (Kurt Castka, 1967). He lived a long team in Czechoslovakia so he had his Czechoslovakian passport, but I think its better to use his Austrian name, because he was born, raised, learned how to play football and lived a long time of his life there. Peterwuttke 11:37, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

So would it be okay to move the page back to his real (birth) name? Overall he was Austrian with a Czechoslovakian passport, in the 1920s and 1930s, when he played football in Schwechat, Favoriten and Hütteldorf there was no Austria-Hungary so I dot see any connection to the Deutschböhmen, who can of course be considered as Austrians und Czechoslovakians, but I think they also should be named with their birth name (Ehrenfried Patzel not Čestmír Patzel) Peterwuttke 12:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Melanesia

The guy who first proposed the project seems to be gone. I took the initiative to activate the project above in his absence, as I personally guess you all have enough members to give it a go. Good luck. John Carter 18:14, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

CHICOTW

	Chicago Collaboration of the Week
Last week you helped edit the Chicago COTW, but did not vote. Thank you for your help! Your input in future selections would also be appreciated. This week Union Stock Yards has been chosen. Please help improve it towards the quality level of a Misplaced Pages featured article. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see an open tasks list.
	Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Chicago

TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 18:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Geobox Region

Hello, yeah, the template can be considered released. I've changed the color to a lighter and less saturated one which I'm quite happy with but if you manage to find a better one, we can cahnge it. The color field is still there, but just for experimenting.

I saw your edits on those Denamrk region, let me just point out two things:

• all figures should be in raw format, i.e. without commas (in population it doesn't do any harm but in are it would cause errors, the figures are used for calculations, nonetheless, they are nicely formatted on output)
• when setting map/symbol width, do not put in px, just the value

(I never do that myself, but it real might help here to read the documentation to Geoboxes, there's quite a lot of extras there.)

The problems with how the template was displayed in IE7 have been solved (unless someone installs some furter fixes to the CSS Misplaced Pages engine send to IE7).

As of the Geobox Page. That is an experiment. There will be a link below the box enabling easy editing. The thing is, the geobox template might be pretty long and therefore you need to scroll down a lot of text before you can edit the article. It gets particularly long if there are two Geoboxes on the page. See e.g. Bor (Tachov District) - this way, there doen't need to be a separate article to every Little District. But taht's really an experiment, that's why I'm testing it on such an low profile article.

I really appreciate any ideas, suggestions, bug reports. They only help to get the Geoboxes better. Quite a lot of their features are other user's suggestions. The latest might be a second field for a map, see here: West Chester, Pennsylvania. I would especially appreciate if you correct any imprecisions or unclear statemnts in the documentation as it's written from the point of view of someone who knows every deatil of the Geoboxes. Like the isuue with the map_first switch. – Caroig 21:12, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

What exactly do you mean? It shows OK here. Which browser are you using? You can mail me a screenshot, my e-mail address should be in my profile.

As I was saying, it's an experiment. Erasing fields which are not used might be a possiblity too, but it should be used with caution. I would still like these Geoboxes be as user friendly as possibly, if an absolute novice sees there's a field for say district they will know how to use it without any explanation. People keep asking me for more fields for countries when they see only two, for a possibility to set rounding ... just because they don't see those fields in blank templates. If you look e.g. here: Hindu Kush – all fields which are not used are erased and I'm afraid not many users will know there are much more fields they can use. Hence the bold sentences at the end of the main (red) Geobox frame. – Caroig 21:56, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I was finding it bothering to scroll down the page myself, that's why I added that function, not difficult coding. I might try it out on some pages and see the reaction, but it's not important neither is it very standard. I just saw those transluded pages being used elsewhere on Misplaced Pages, I find it pretty useful for the Geobox doc pages. On the other side, it gets displayed when printing the page so it amy not be agodd idea at all. – Caroig 22:41, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Darwinek. Just saw you doing an edit during watching RC, and stopped to say a big helloooo ... --Bhadani 13:25, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for responding, and I am fine. --Bhadani 13:31, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Sure Darwinek. I enjoy editing and adding value to the Project, and I shall be able to give more time very soon. BTW, recently, we had a nice event (WikiCamp in India) in Chennai (India) where Jimmy spent whole day with more than 300 persons interested in wikis. We had a great time. I hope that in some event in future somewhere in the world, I shall be able to meet you in person :) --Bhadani 13:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Yipsi Moreno on DYK for 11 March 2007

On 11 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Yipsi Moreno, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thank you for your contribution! — ERcheck (talk) 14:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Soviet Union/USSR World Cup squad templates

I think either name is fine. Chanheigeorge 21:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Cities and towns in the Soviet Union

Hmm, I'm not really sure. On one hand, if its contents are kept strictly to other categories and not individual entries, it may be fine to leave it. On the other hand, considering that its only subcat now is Category:Hero Cities of the Soviet Union, and that it itself is a subcategory of Category:Settlements in Russia (??!!), it is already double and improperly categorized. I'd say CfD it, and if any good reasons to leave it exist, they will surely surface during the CfD.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:12, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

I voted to delete the cat. As for the soccer teams, when you put it like that, it makes sense to rename the templates. However, not being a fan of soccer at all, I'd rather leave this to discussion by editors who are more qualified than me :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:46, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Cinema work for deletion

HI Darwinek. As you know I have put an awful lot of work into wikipedia -recently I have created cinema industry templates to improve connection between film articles and have received much support and even a barnstar for my work.They attempt to make the articles more accesible and create a greater understanding of the cinema. However I regretfully inform you that a spiteful user has put them all up for deletion with not the slightly intention of discussing it nicely or to come to some sort of agreement. Maybe the American template might clutter articles but many many others agree the templates look great at the bottom of film pages. Not an ounce of respect. I swear if this work is totally disregarded and deleted because of a few users who know little about film I am leaving wikipedia for good. Please see Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 March 13 I am very diappointed that after putting the American template up for deletion he went ahead and messed with the others. What is your view? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ 12:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ 12:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

OK that fine. I personally think articles such as List of Japanese Anime charcters and all their templates etc Pokemon etc is a joke but that doesn't make me want to disregard the efforts of those who are interested in them and find them useful. I know that many people find them useful. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ 13:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Antsiranana Bay

Hi Darwinek, I'm a little disheartened to see your responses to Sapient Vesta on this talk page. I feel I should remind you of the policies at WP:NPA, WP:CIVIL, WP:AGF, and WP:BITE. Relax, and happy editing. Robotman 21:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. I would hope you'd do the same for me. Cheers. Robotman 21:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

USSR national team

Hello. I don't really have strong preference towards "USSR" or "Soviet Union" variant, anyway a little more consistence would be nice. Conscious 19:52, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Silesia

Cześć. Chciałem poinformować, że jakiś czas temu został uruchomiony Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Silesia. Serdecznie zapraszam. LUCPOL 00:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Actors and Filmakers

Hey see my proposals at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Council/Proposals and the main WP Film and Biography talk page. Know anybody who is interested? Actors and all film people articles need a body on wikipedia to upkeep them asthey need more focus -it would be a part of Biogrpahy and Film. You would possibly not be interested personally, but if you know anybody please let them know and whether you think it is a good progession for the project or not. THanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ 14:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

World Heritage template

Hi! I created a template for World Heritage Sites: {{Infobox World Heritage Site}}. Since many of the protected areas are also recognized as World Heritage Sites, I thought that it will be appropriate to forward this template here, and hopefully, for the community to help improve the template. Someone mentioned that the footnotes are unclear (i.e. why the need to emphasize "official" there). It's because the official name (or the name as inscribed on the List) is different from what we usually know. And the Region also has footnote to tackle specifically the classification of those regions which may fall ambiguously between two continents (e.g. those in Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, etc.). In addition, I think that the info provided in the template is much like a jargon for most readers since it box is more of use for internal references in the World Heritage program. I hope that the community will help improve the template and make it more relevant to the readers of wikipedia in general. Thanks. Joey80 13:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

ANI

Pozor, vyplnili na tebe stiznost . ≈Tulkolahten≈ 13:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

co blbnes, jeste te desysopnou a co pak :( ≈Tulkolahten≈ 17:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

RVV

Yeah, that was my fault and I meant to go back and re-revert myself last night. I reverted initially because it looked like a blanking. Sorry about that. --Sue Anne 16:36, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

no personal attack

read carrefully Misplaced Pages:No personal attacks and stop personal attack. --Mt7 09:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Reports of admin abuse

Hi, there's a rather troubling report about possibly abusive admin behaviour by you on WP:ANI#Admin abuse by user:Darwinek against user:mt7. Could you please comment?

I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that you were in breach of 3RR two days ago and have been continuing that revert war until today, which means you are still liable to be blocked if you continue, admin or no admin. I'd strongly caution you to cease revert-warring on this and all related articles. Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I came to make sure you'd been notified of the same ANI thread. Looking forward to your response there. Newyorkbrad 11:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I have suggested that you apologize to Mt7 and on the admin's noticeboard and that you take a voluntary 24 hour break for your own 3RR violation. Thatcher131 12:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry Darwinek, but after your refusal to concede any mistake, I've filed an RfC, please comment here: Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Darwinek 2. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Jane swift.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Jane swift.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self-no-disclaimers}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Misplaced Pages:Fair use, use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Misplaced Pages:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

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Request for Arbitration

I'm sorry, but I feel your response to the RFC and your further comments on the talk page demonstrate that you lack the judgement needed to be an administrator, at least regarding topics related to Czech nationalism and ethnicity. I have filed a request for arbitration; you may wish to comment there. Thatcher131 20:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

1. This is the original text from the poet's house in Gnojnik. Lyrics well-known and spread among people somewhat differ.