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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. - Darwinek 19:45, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Instead of adding {{Arabic}}, why not add the Arabic title itself?

When an article has an interwiki link to ar:, chances are very high that the title of the Arabic article is the requested Arabic spelling of the original title. --tyomitch 15:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Reservation in India

Hi. I saw your query on Bhadani's talk page, and could not resist giving a go here. I hope you would not mind. :) The government's policies for reservation are highly controversial, given that the public in India is very very sensitive to public policies. Many of the people here (in India) believe that the hiking of seats and reservation for the OBCs (Other Backward Classes) is only a political ploy to attract votes, while the government insists that the OBCs are econimically backward and they need the government's help. There have been mass protests against this proposal by the government. There are anti-policy demonstrations all over the country (which have been widely covered by the media). I personally, believe that reservations will only reduce the quality of the students that are churned out of the system, because due to all this the students who do not deserve to be a part of an institution would get in without merit due to reservation through their castes. And also that, the creamy layer system has not been established by the government, that keeps economically good classes at bay from the OBC reservation. Hope you find this helpful! --Andy123 talk 12:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I too couldn't resist chipping in here :). Bhadaniji's talk page seems to be quite famous. If you are interested in knowing more about the group of students leading the demonstrations, you can visit their official site here. Feels good to know that people from around the world are trying to know more about this issue. - Aksi_great (talk) 18:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks!! Punkmorten 12:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Dakota ~ has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

Re:Reservation - India

Hi, I felt really nice to hear from you after so long. My response to your quesry is here: . Thanks and regards. --Bhadani 10:11, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

World Cup squads

Hi. Nice job on the flag updates. However I wanted to let you that it was my intention to do the squad pages not only as rosters but also as final rankings since the groups format is on the regular World Cup pages but the final rankings are not. The final rankings are a seldom seen curiosity I had hoped to provide as adouble to the lineups. Let me know what you think, since it was my intention to do all the squad lists from 1930-62. Libro0 00:07, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Blnguyen's RfA

Re:Question

You to me: Hello. Apart from being a Misplaced Pages administrator, I am also a university student of politology. I would like to ask you, cause you are Indian, what do you think about current anti-reservation debate. On which side do you stand? Thank you. :) - Darwinek 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Me to you: It is nice to hear from you after so so so long. I shall surely open up my mind on the matter - however, not in a public place, as the issue is really sensitive. In case, you send me an e-mail, I shall surely give an exhaustive reply. --Bhadani 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I am write now e-mailing you 11 pages of scanned materials from the magazine India Today. Kindly, inform me their "safe-arrival" in your mailbox on my user page. Thanks. Best. --Bhadani 13:53, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Mailed just a minute before. --Bhadani 14:00, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

pix

I saw the picture of Paul Bremer you uploaded.

Personally, I like to give the URL to the page that contains the pic, as well as the URL to the picture itself. I include the original caption on the image page too. I see it as a courtesy to the photographer, who may not have any rights, if they were a federal employee, taking the picture as part of their job. But, as a courtesy, we can still give them credit.

In addition sometimes a .mil or .gov site will liscense a picture from an external source, and we don't have a liscense to re-issue those under a free liscence. -- Geo Swan 22:33, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

yeah, i didn't do it at first either... -- Geo Swan 22:50, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for the trust that you had in me when you supported my Request for Adminship. The nomination ended successfully and I am actually overwhelmed by the support that I received. Thanks again! -- Kim van der Linde 06:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Mount Hermon

Hi Darwinek, I wasn't quite sure which parts of the Mount Hermon article you thought needed sourcing. I'd appreciate if you could take a few minutes to point out the appropriate passages. Cheers, Tewfik 05:27, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Tewfik 13:00, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Czech National Revival

Hello .. this is a request for help .. could you please look at the Czech National Revival and Josef Jungmann articles. I created them recently, and I would like someone to read them and maybe point out some grammar/spelling errors I might have left there. Thanx ackoz 16:06, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

German Translation

A while back, you requested translation of a German article dealing with a long-named reservoir in South America, and I'm telling you that I have pickedd it as the next article I will translate. I won;t get to actually doing it until tomorrow though. When I'm done, I'll post the link and you can tell me what you think. Happy to be of service, RyanGerbil10 (Drop on in!) 05:18, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Just letting you know, I've finished. The article is right here. Hope you find it to your liking! Happy to be of service, RyanGerbil10 (Drop on in!) 17:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Stub sorting

Hi old friend :) This sounds like a good proposal. Someone was counting the football stubs - User:Alai, I think. Either contact him or just propose it at WP:WSS/P, see what happens. Someone may bite :) Sadly my own Wiki-time is pretty stretched at the moment, otherwise I'd have a look myself. Grutness...wha? 06:44, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Thanks. It was nerve-wracking, but it was great. Now all we have to do is draw with England and beat Paraguay :) Guettarda 18:10, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, then we'll have to beat England ;) Guettarda 18:16, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

CrazyRussian's RfA

My RFA

Darwinek, thank you very much for your support in my recent Request for adminship, it passed with a final tally of (65/3/3) - which I find both amazing and humbling. I wish I had time to thank everyone personally, but I'm afraid all I can offer is this token of my gratitude. I hope to live up to your expectations/hopes. If at any stage you need to contact me, for help or a request or to point out a mistake in my conduct, please make sure to tell me on my talk page. --Fir0002 08:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Darwin

Dear Darwin, thanks so much for your support during my recent successful request for adminship. I really appreciate it. (Incidentally, my best friend's name in grade school was Darwin!) Let me know if you need any administrative support; just leave me a message on my talk page or send me an e-mail if it's urgent. Take care man -- Samir धर्म 05:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Since you wrote part of this voice, please check this out Talk:1938_FIFA_World_Cup#Win_or_die. I am not going to change it without a second opinion 'cause it's too easy to start edit wars on sensible subjects like politics and football... C Ya --Jollyroger 21:13, 15 June 2006 (UTC) (it:Utente:Jollyroger

Thank you for your Poland-related contributions

Hello Darwinek! Thank you for your contributions related to Poland. You may be interested in visiting Portal:Poland/Poland-related Misplaced Pages notice board, joining our discussions and sharing your creations with us.

--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 22:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Czech footy stub

OK, I've voted. --Runcorn 07:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Categories

I was wondering what category you would suggest for conservation-based NGOs - I just added Pointe-à-Pierre Wild Fowl Trust, and there's the Asa Wright Nature Centre - so there now are two of them. I'm not sure what most countries use - either then could go into a Conservation in Trinidad and Tobago cat, or they could go, together with the Scouting article into a "Civil Society"/Organisations cat (not sure if other countries use something of the sort). Any thoughts? (Sorry to see the result in the Ghana match. I'm quite conflicted - I like the Czech Republic and hoep they do well, but I'm always happy to see an African team do well. Hope you beat Italy convincingly - my wife says I have to support USA, so I am hoping for the Czech Republic and USA to get through, though I would be ok if Ghana got through instead of USA). Guettarda 14:59, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, and yes, she is American. Good luck against Italy. Hope your summer's going well. Guettarda 18:13, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to WP:LAKES

Hi Darwin. I just wanted to stop in and welcome you to my little pet project! I am more-or-less a novice with some of the advanced functions of the Misplaced Pages (as are most of the other participants of our project), so someone with your experience would be a huge asset to the project. I will likely have a limited internet-presence over the next 4 days, so if I don't respond to your comments or queries right away ... well, now you know :D. Anyway, it's 10 minutes to 4 am where I am, and my night-shift is almost over, therefore I am very tired and probably rambling somewhat incoherently haha. Take care, and again, welcome to the project. Em3rald 10:50, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• I think targetting some of the poorer countries is a good idea. Or at least non-english countries because they are very much neglected. One could make an interesting observation: Rich countries generally have more fresh-water lakes than poor countries. Also, I think the categorization scheme for lakes needs cleaning up, so if you are a whiz with figuring out categories, then you are certainly welcome to help with that. Otherwise, I figure just do whatever you like. Anyway, I really am getting tired. I better stop all my rambling until I get some sleep. Take care! Em3rald 11:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Thanks for your work on categorizing lakes! See, I knew I asked the right guy. The problem is some of the "instruction pages" for wikipedia are difficult to understand (or even find sometimes), so I was just trying to figure it all out as I go. But now you've set me straight :D thanks! As far as mountain lakes is concerned, I have thought about maybe changing it to Alpine lakes instead. This might help clarify it a little. Ultimately what I would like to see is somehow sorting Alpine lakes by region (country, state, etc). So people could look up maybe, Alpine lakes of Alberta or perhaps Alpine lakes of Chile.
  But yes, thanks very much for your assistance. I will figure this categorization thing out yet. Em3rald 20:20, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

To Success

Congratulations on the successful completion of examinations and closing the books for the summer.--Dakota ~ 15:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar Award

Thank you for the award! I really appreciate it! Patken4 21:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Oliver Reck

Thank you for contributing this stub! It is now announced at Portal:Germany/New article announcements and Portal:Germany. Feel free to add any other related articles you create. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 00:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Misplaced Pages:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Just like everyone likes the yellow bar

Just like everyone likes the yellow bar, these are nice also. You deserve this. You're such a humble administrator and you've contributed so much here. Take care and enjoy the summer -- Samir धर्म 08:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Czech footybio stub

I propose to create this now, as nobody has objected.--Runcorn 12:46, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

It's up and so far I've used it on 51 stubs. --Runcorn 20:33, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

I appreciate the kind words! Too bad about your side in the World Cup. At least you were able to give mine (USA) a drubbing! Elektrotek85 20:24, 26 June 2006 (UTC)elektrotek85

The American side was arrogant too. It should be fun to watch Ghana against the Brazilians tomorrow. Elektrotek85 22:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)elektrotek85

Football (soccer) related

Hi there! Just wanted to ask you to add your newly created football (soccer) related articles at the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Football/New articles board. thanks a lot, and good wiking! Mariano(t/c) 07:30, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

thanks for improving Reynald Pedros Abdelkweli 04:13, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Romsdal Peninsula

Appreciate your fixing Romsdal Peninsula. My English is perhaps not as good as it should be. Thanks - Williamborg 12:39, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Reservation, etc.

Hello Darwinek. I got your latest message. Your point is really very pertinent for the indians. I shall reply to you withing 2 to 3 days. --Bhadani 15:44, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

My reward

Thanks a lot, it took a while for me to complete my goal of having articles for all the stations. I'll probably now read through all of them and correct any errors and/or problems that might have slip through the cracks. I might also get information on stations on abandoned lines and try to add that to Misplaced Pages.

The Legendary Ranger 20:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Presidents of Panama

Hi, yeah, I certainly believe it should be deleted in favour of the standard succession box; maybe you could nominate it at WP:TFD? Regards, Ziggurat 20:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi again. I got bored, so I nominated it myself :) See the discussion at Misplaced Pages:Templates for deletion#Template:PanamaPresidents. All the best, Ziggurat 23:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

GSE

Hi, Darwinek! I did know about GSE (although I usually access it through Yandex, but thanks for keeping me in mind and dropping me a note. Just so you know, GSE's PD status is not without controversy, but it is still great for some fact-checking. If you want to find someone who would devote his/her time solely to translation, you might want to check the Russian Portal. I, unfortunately, have my hands full as it is, so I must decline. Sorry.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:23, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for History of Sicily, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. Davodd 00:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Quick work!

Hi Darwinek - just about to make the sci name redirect Pinus maximartinezii, and find you've already done it - thanks! MPF 17:26, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Flag question

Hello! I noticed that you corrected some of the formats for flag icons on some of the national football team pages. I was wondering if you knew where I could find a master list of historical flag tag names for the Flagicon template so that I don't have to resort to those rangly Image links in the future. Thanks! - RPIRED 00:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

My silence

My silence. Perhpas, I do not have any answer. --Bhadani 17:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

You are right perhaps. I will also try to reach conclusions. --Bhadani 17:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for Cleanup

Hey, thanks for going around after me and cleaning up my crummy World Cup goal scorer stubs! It's a help, and hopefully it'll help me make better ones in the future. \ Fnarf999 \ talk \ contribs \ 21:06, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

==KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK== James Janderson 10:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Commander links in Solomon Islands battles entry's infoboxes

I didn't mean to create work for you to have to go back and reenter the links in those battle articles. I'll try to leave those red links alone from now on. Cla68 14:28, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

WWII history has been one of my main hobbies since I was in elementary school. It's still just a hobby, my occupation has nothing whatsoever to do with history. But, Misplaced Pages gives me a place to do something useful with what I've learned in my hobby and to work with others to bring (hopefully) informative and illustrated articles about events and people in history to the Web for anyone to read and learn from, and to provide a list of sources from which they can go to learn more about the subject in greater detail if they desire. Perhaps you've found some of the same satisfaction through the many articles you've put a lot of time into? Cla68 01:31, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank You For Your Great Work on Tchicaya U Tam'si

A seriously underated author in need of the attention you are helping to bring. Pelegius 01:01, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!. I believe we should all compliment each other rather than criticise all the time!! James Janderson 10:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Yes I have a couple of weeks leave from work and often it is too hot too sit in the garden so it keeps me occupied. I may as well do something useful. I have noticed your millions of footie articles-great enthusiasm!! James Janderson 10:38, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi again. I received my BACHELOR OF SCIENCE in Geography from Cardff University last year but at present I am a training manager at Marks and Spencers in Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff. Next year I will start looking for a top job perhaps in environmental management as a full time career. James Janderson 12:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes the Conservative party in UK is under going modernization and development by David Cameron the new younger Tory leader. He is giving them a lease of new life. The popularity of Tony Blair Labour has obviously declined in recent years with the war in Iraq and his policies towards the Middle East and relationship with George W. Bush. James Janderson 12:42, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Teluk Yos Sudarso

Thanks for your improvement to this, the most obscure article I've posted to date. (I did it because a lot of WWII Navy ship articles mentioned Humboldt Bay, which some bot had changed to T.Y.S., and there were lots of red links.) I've learned that it is NOT easy to find facts about small, frequently-renamed Indonesian bays, especially when they weren't always in Indonesia. ;-)

I have about 20 African American students, most of them 2-3 years older than you. I'm sure they would like to know about a European guy who has an interest in African Americans. I'd welcome anything you would like to share about it. Lou Sander 20:42, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Darwinek -- Today I was cleaning out one of my bookshelves and I found a book that I no longer need. It's called "The Negro Almanac." It is from 1967, and I think it would interest anyone who likes African American history. If you leave your mailing address on my talk page, I will send it to you (it doesn't cost much to send books from the U.S.) Lou Sander 14:55, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I can send the book by surface mail, which will take 4-6 weeks. The cost of airmail is significantly more. Can you wait for the surface mail? (I think it will be worth the wait). Lou Sander 00:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Demonyms

Hi, yeah, I personally do think Category:Muscovites should be renamed to Category:People from Moscow. Many of the non-American categories in Category:People by city are inconsistent with each other (some use demonyms, some use "people from", some use "natives of"). So far, the American categories seem to be the only ones that users have proposed for renaming to a consistent non-demonym "People from foo" form. I think all the others should be renamed as well as all the city categories should use the same naming convention. --musicpvm 22:27, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Misza13's pile!

Thank you for contributing the impressive the pile of supports gathered on my RfA, which passed with a final tally of 0x0104/0x01/0x00. I'm happy that so many people have put faith in my abilities as an admin and promise to use the tools wisely and do my best not to let you down. If I ever may be of assistance, just leave a note on my talk page. Misza13, the rouge-on-demand admin wishes you happy editing! NOTE: This message has been encrypted with the sophisticated ROT-26 algorithm. Ability to decipher it indicates a properly functioning optical sensor array.

Re: FP Question

Hi Darwinek,
That's certainly a sensational view! Image quality is great apart from the banding in the sky, however I'm not too sure many people will like the top and bottom white border. It makes it look more artistic, but I'm not sure if a lot of people on FPC will appreciate that. Once cropped it may prove to be too low res compared to this. But, have a go! I personally think it reflects badly on the review process on FPC when people are nervouse to nominate something. And I don't want to bore you with a rant, but recently I've become distressed with the lack of community spirit on FPC. All that aside, I think it's definetly worth a try. Good luck! --Fir0002 09:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Something worse...

I have photos, http://alb.rosfcb.com/displayimage.php?album=121&pos=20 here, they have new kits from "KAPPA" and theese are the new ones. But I don't know if theese will be used on home matches so I will let it how it is and I'll update it later.

Hmm, they look strange as HOME kits. Yes I am from Czech rep. but I didn't know if I can write here in czech :)

Tak to je fajn. Odkud si že fandíš Baníčku? Jinak ty dresy sou divné no, radši bych viděl víc bílé barvy ("Dresy bílé jsou jak padlý sníh..." - to se bude tezko ted zpivat...)

Russian cities/towns

Hi, Darwinek! The answer is no, not really. All Russian cities/towns should have at least substubs written about them, so what you are doing is quite useful. It is also true that those substubs will all have to be expanded sooner or later. I am simply adding information that's readily available, as well as to maintain consistency with already existing stubs. So, don't worry about me being annoyed—I am not :) Thanks for your interest in this area!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Australian Lakes

Hi, noticed you changed a number of australian water bodies from their titles with qualifiers to stand alones, why? SatuSuro 01:18, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

my RfA

Lakes etc

See - Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Australian places - Lakes etc - for the conversation. If you need to explain anything, there's the place ! SatuSuro 22:43, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

So by the examples, for some editors the "simple" solutions dont solve some of the complex names issues ! :) Anyways thanks for your input to the bigger picture tslk page ! SatuSuro 06:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Russian language template

I honestly don't know. It seems kind of redundant, but perhaps there are uses I couldn't think of off the top of my head. You'd probably be better off asking about this at Portal:Russia/Russia-related Misplaced Pages notice board.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

czech

Hi I see you are still doing a good job this time on Czech places in your home country. Do you have any photographs of these places which you could use?. Because I have taken a few photos of local places which can be used to illustrate wikipedia. I think Czech already has many pictures though in the commons. Keep it up James Janderson 08:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi the madagascar one is not a spelling mistake it has two different ways of spelling it. I'll check on the lake. Thanks for your help James Janderson 20:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

hi yes thanks generally I do use the google search engine to research and check articles through yahoo although it was probably wise to check the more popular spelling. I'm doing ok though overall. James Janderson 20:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

An editor/vandal is impersonating Jimbo Wales and asking for user passwords

I need to report a user account that is asking for other editor's account passwords, saying that he is "Jimmy Wales." The user is: User:Banner Making Competiton and he left a message on my user discussion page asking for my password. I wasn't sure who to contact about this. Cla68 13:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Reported to helpdesk. Thank you. Cla68 13:47, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Austronesian Language Stubs

I see you just changed a bunch of stubs for East Papuan languages from {{lang-stub}} to {{au-lang-stub}}—Naasioi language, Kol language and some others. Are you aware that the are these languages are not Austronesian? (the Papuan languages are defined as 'the non-Austronesian indigenous languages of Melanesia'). --Ngio 04:10, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

(copied from User talk:Ngio) Hello. Oh, I'm sorry. Should they be reverted to "lang-stub" or is some other stub they fit in ? - Darwinek 10:58, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. There's no Papuan language stub, so unless you feel like creating one I think you should simply revert them back to lang-stub. Naasioi language, Ata language, Kuot language, Kol language, Sulka language, Taiap language are the ones that need doing. --Ngio 19:20, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Also Ndu languages, Kobon language, Porome language, Busa language, Yalë language, Yuri language, Ramu-Lower Sepik languages, Piawi languages, Left May languages, Amto-Musan languages. A Papuan stub cat might be nice. kwami 19:47, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Bitis gabonica

While I appreciate that you're willing to contribute to Bitis gabonica and other viperine articles, I found it necessary to remove your last edit as it had rendered that statement inaccurate. Specifically, you were editing information that I had gleaned directly from McDiarmid et al.'s 1999 publication "Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1", in which it does not mention that B. gabonica occurs in Ethiopia. If you know of a source that does mention Ethiopia as part of the range of this species, I would very much appreciate that you would add that to the article, but as a separate statement -- and please, please cite your reference! Personally, I have at least six books citing ranges for B. gabonica and none of them mention Ethiopia, so I'd be very interested to know who said that and whether it's just a report of a single specimen or not.

Regarding your edit to Bitis gabonica rhinoceros, in this case only the addition a few "Fauna of <country>" links, I'm suddenly not so sure we should be so confident in the case of Togo, despite the fact that it is currently stated as being part of the range in the article. Specifically, I just found a line in Spawls & Branch (1995) stating that Ghana and Togo are at the eastern limit of the range of this subspecies, and that they begin to intergrade here with B. g. gabonica (I'll add this information to the B. g. rhinoceros article). The distribution map supplied by Spawls & Branch indicates that the general range for B. gabonica does no include Togo (or Benin for that matter), but that there have been reports of specimens found in that area. These two countries (and at least eastern Ghana) are part of a larger region known as the Dahomey Gap; a relatively dry region that separates the rainforests of West Africa from those of Central Africa, as well as the two subspecies of B. gabonica. I think it would therefore be safer not to add the "Fauna of Togo" category to either of the B. gabonica articles. --Jwinius 23:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

(Replying to your message in User_talk:Jwinius#Bitis gabonica)

Did they say what happened to the poor fellow? Receiving a bite from any of the larger Bitis species while out in the bush can only be a horrible experience.

Sure, send me a screenshot of the animal -- perhaps I can identify it. That would be fun. It may turn out to be Bitis parviocula! However, even if I was convinced that it is B. gabonica, I would not add any statements to the B. gabonica article based on this (kind of) evidence: that would be assuming too much. It comes down to the old adage "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." In this case, that would entail a proper identification of the snake and a reasonable description of where and when it was found. That information would then have to be published, so that everyone can have access to the information and make up their own minds regarding the source. But, since we don't have that in this case, we'll just have to wait for somebody else to do it. In the mean time, it's safer for us to just stick to what has been published on the matter. --Jwinius 00:25, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

(Replying to your message in User_talk:Jwinius#Bitis gabonica)
Thanks for sharing the photographs, but that's definitely not B. gabonica. It's B. arietans, the common puff adder! Looks look a juvenile too. Even so, bites from specimens this size have been reported to be very painful. Here's a better photo of B. arietans: note the distinctive series of chevrons down its back and the light crossbar between the eyes over the top of the head: no other species in Africa are like that. --Jwinius 10:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

(Replying to your message in User_talk:Jwinius#Bitis gabonica)

Bothrops insularis? Not right now. I'm currently busy with the Viperinae and probably will be for some time to come. I still have a quite a few articles to create and many others that are still not much more than stubs. It takes a long time to research and write any of those articles properly.

As for whether I feel categorization of "Fauna of xy" is very useful, I'm afraid not. I see two problems. First, it's too general. Right now we may not have too many articles dealing with the fauna of Ghana, for instance, but what about in 10 years time? There could be thousands. Better to create categories that do not have the potential to become so large. I would suggest only creating categories that will never achieve such proportions, such as "Dangerous Snakes of Ghana". Such smaller categories could then be added to "Categories dealing with Ghana", for example.

Secondly, from the viewpoint of at least some species articles, country categories (of any kind) are not always practical either. Take B. arietans: a species that is extremely widespread, occurring in some 40 countries across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: would it really be practical to add all of those country categories to the article? If you did, it would become rather difficult for anyone to find what they were looking for in such a long list. In other words, the current system has its limits. Unless that's changed, a solution might be to create only a category for the "Venomous Snakes of Africa" instead. Hope this helps! --Jwinius 12:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Panorama photo question

Hi Darwinek!
Yeah, until I see the extent of the differences I won't be able to tell you what can be done with it. Upload the images to commons and I'll see what I can do. --Fir0002 22:09, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Here's the pano, stitched pretty well - the source photos were quite good. Image:Stitched darwinek pano raw.jpg, Image:Stitched darwinek pano edit.jpg, Image:Stitched darwinek pano edit02.jpg --Fir0002 10:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

No worries! Image:Stitched darwinek pano2 raw.JPG, Image:Stitched darwinek pano2 raw edit.JPG - enjoy! --Fir0002 09:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

slovan

je a bol vzdy slovensky, argument, ze to bol ceskoslovensky sa mi vobec nepaci, uz vtedy v patdesiatych rokoch to bol aj v prahe chapany ako slovensky celok, inac VELKE DIKY za tvoju robotu, SUPER!!!! --Mt7 00:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Ukraine Portal

Hi there! I see you commonly create Ukraine-related article. May I ask that you announce them at the Ukrainian Portal New article announcements board. Cheers, —dima 21:10, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

West Irian Jaya

Hi there. I was wondering about why you switched the Indonesian "Kepala Burung" for "Jazirah Doberai" in the West Irian Jaya article. What language is it??? DOes it also mean "bird's head"? And, is it more appropriate than the Indonesian?? Perhaps it would help if the language was stated (as it should have been with the Indonesian). Depending on your answer, and in the spirit of wikipedia, i may argue that the indonesian was more appropriate. ha ha. Thanks --Merbabu 04:27, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

August Esperanza Newsletter

A Czech journalist contacted me

See this email - I was contacted by a journalist from Respekt, and I get the feeling from the questions that when he says "Misplaced Pages" he means "English Misplaced Pages." I'd hope he knew about cs: as well! So someone suggested I ask you to read the questions and get in touch with him, for a local perspective. Hope you can help - David Gerard 15:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

It can't hurt to contact him - just say I suggested you could supply local information. Of course, now I don't know if you even write much on cs: :-) Even if cs: is locally considered awful, it can be considered, um, a land of opportunity! Yes! A new frontier to make into a good encyclopedia! Or something :-) Those of us doing en:-centred press get enough static from the French other language Wikipedians about the en:-centricity of the journalists in question. (As if we told them to ask those questions that way.) - David Gerard 23:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Adminship

Hi Darwinek! Thank you for your proposition that I run for adminship. I accept. —dima 04:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Commoms flowers

The water lily is Nymphaea alba . Have a nice vacation.--Dakota 05:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

guess who's back

Slim Shady? :) Guettarda 19:36, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Good to see you back. I'm still on a (ever more tenuous) wikibreak...which basically means I'm busy (second week on classes is done, so it's getting a bit more sane; on the other hand, the academic job-hunting season is just starting, so it's going to get a lot more crazy) and a lot less stressed (since I'm not on WP all day). Hope your vacation went well and things are good with you. Guettarda 19:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back. Have a nice holiday.Where did you go? Everyone's missed you! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

In case your wondering it is me James Anderson who has changed his wiki name Ernst Stavro Blofeld 11:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi mate alright? I reckon you needed a break! Yes Welsh is compulsory and is taught in all the school but I live in south-east Wales not very far from England so a very small minority speak it. I know a few words and phrases as others do but I consider myself English. However if you go up into Merthyr Tydfil , Powys and theBrecon Beacons and north Wales such as Clwyd and that they speak majority Welsh. I don't know about the strength of the Welsh football team!! To be honest I think we under achieve. SOme of the players in the past have been great e,g Ryan Giggs and mark Hughes but we don't really perform in relation to talent. Nice to talk, Ernst Stavro Blofeld 14:43, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Volcanoes

Hello. Please do not add Indonesian volcanoes to "Volcanoes of Indonesia" category. Those volcanoes are marked by subcategories of this cat so it is unnecessary to mark it in that way. - Darwinek 14:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Hmm - well, some were, some weren't. I want consistency, so i chose one way - inclusion. Alternatively, all the other volconoes there should be removed from that category? By the way, what do you think about the Category: Mountains of Indonesia? Ie, most (all?) Indonesian mountains are volcanoes. I guess i saw it as another bit of doubling up. Merbabu 14:45, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, in the spirit of list of Indonesian sub-categories, I thought of replacing CategoryVolcanoes of Indonesia with Category: Volcanoes of the Lesser Sunda Islands (for Nusa Tenggara volcnoes of course). I started with Ebulobo but I am not sure if it worked OK. Firstly, what do you think of the idea, and secondly, why doesn't it work on Ebulobo? Thanks Merbabu 14:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

PS, or do you think Volcanoes by island is better than by region??? I notice Flores and Java have heaps, but do we really need seperate categories for say Bali or Lombok? Merbabu 14:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to keep bothering you about this, but while we are on the topic of categories, when I have tried to create them according to Misplaced Pages instructions (ie, they are simple and suggest they are automatically created) i just get red links. Ie, I created Ecology of Indonesia and it was red for a few days, that one day it was a true link.

As for the specifics I thought it best if it was down by broad region - eg, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sundas, Maluku, Sulawesi. Could Flores be a sub-sub-category under Indonesia and Lesser Sunda? Merbabu 15:14, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Adminship

Hi Darwinek. Sorry that I didn't answer you until today, but I agree with you that I don't have many Misplaced Pages namespace edits and need to catch up on them. Thanks, —dima/s-ko/ 15:17, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Image id

Id of one of your images on commons. Check your talk there :)--Dakota 21:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Kuril Island

Hi. Wow I had no idea there were so many volcanoes in that area!!! Although thinking about it I think it lies on the Pacific plate boundary which explains so many!! Well done for covering the geography. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 10:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Pano no. 3

Hi Darwinek!
Here's the pano stitch: Image:Stitched darwinek pano3 raw.JPG, and the obligatory edit Image:Stitched darwinek pano3 raw edit.JPG:-)
That panorama you mentioned is a sensational view. Quality is a little low, but it is well worth a shot on FPC - I would support it!
Thanks again for asking me - and I honestly don't mind at all, feel free to bring any more panos you need stitching! --Fir0002 12:25, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Original script templates/categories

Hi Darwinek, I'm letting you know I've created a category to hold a number of clean-up tasks similar to {{Arabic}} for various languages, Category:Articles needing original script. So far I've made {{Cyrillic}} (which you requested), {{Chinese script}}, {{Greek}}, and {{Hebrew script}}. I'm letting you know since you seem to be the most frequent user of {{Cyrillic}} and you seem to create/clean up articles from all over the world. Rigadoun (talk) 17:43, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Said hi

Hello Darwinek. You welcomed me there. I answered u.

See you,

Ultrogothe 10:01, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

"Red" vs. "Beautiful"

You are right, in modern Russian "krasivoye" is used for "beautiful". "Krasnoye", however, not only means "red", it is also an archaic (and poetic) form for "beautiful".—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Featured picture promotion

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Thanks for the great nomination! howcheng {chat} 06:13, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

September Esperanza Newsletter

RfA thanks

Hey Darwinek, thank you for supporting my recent RfA. It finished with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. I really appreciate your support. Cheers, Sarah Ewart (Talk) 22:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

1966 FIFA World Cup squads

Hi. I noticed you reverted edits by SndrAndrss to 1966 FIFA World Cup squads. I was wondering if you'd like to leave any comments about this user on Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-09-24 SndrAndrss, especially if you've noticed his edits in the past. --StuartBrady (Talk) 15:19, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey what do you think of my new article William Garwood? Its allright isn't it for a start. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 16:19, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi no I used my own words. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 19:35, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

A newbee sends thanks

It's nice to be welcomed!

OWL | Talk 19:22, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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Syrian governorates

I already made the map for each Syrian governorate, but I made the maps before each governorate had its own article. As a result, many of the maps are on the page with the city with the same name as the governorate. I will work on moving them to the right page. LittleDan 15:42, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I looked at each governorate article (some of which are still shared with cities) and each page has a map. What map did you want me to make? LittleDan 15:46, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi lovely to see your name on the new page. I see you have been occupied with existing stuff. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 21:25, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

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Misplaced Pages:Babel

Could you consider using the language boxes so we can know what references you can verify or translate? Thank you; -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  14:40, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, tylko ze trudno troche je znalezc - moze dodalbys je do swojej glownej strony jako normalny szablon (tak jak ja zrobiłem na mojej, zerknij). Co do Ruskich - coz, jest tu kilku nacjonalistow i niestety nie udaje sie 'zakopac topora', i caly czas mamy taka niby Zimna Wojne (i nie tylko z nimi, niestety). Zerknij chocby do talku o Russian Enlightenment na portalu zeby zobaczyc co sie dzieje :( Tak na marginesie, to co widzisz na HoS to jeszcze nic, zerknij jak storpedowali Piłsudskiego :( -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  01:33, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Coz, zwykle wiekszosc waznych dyskusji czy glosow jest oglaszana na naszej tablicy ogloszen i dyskusju - zawsze warto ja miec na watchliscie. Dodatkowo informujemy siebie o roznych ciekawostkach przez talk page i GG.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  22:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)