User talk:Kusma/Archive 19

2156:. Currently Carabinieri does the updates to the News and DYK sections (the DYK section is pretty good). I think for a smaller-scale portal (with not even a semi-sleeping WikiProject behind it) I would try to reduce the amount of content that needs updating, and focus more on giving a structured overview of the topic's Knowledge coverage. But on the whole, I found Portal work to be lonely and (in the end) boring, so I minimized my efforts for the Germany portal (I even shifted from monthly pictures to random selections). For the MFD, why don't you just delete it now and create it again later? Then you won't have to argue for more time, and there's really not so much worth saving on the old portal. Good luck with it anywya, and happy editing, 4109:

assessment process is a way that benefits them most. (I sort of stopped caring about assessments). It is quite enjoyable to try to find admin candidates (and very useful). As you have noticed, I'm a bit inactive these days. I probably won't become much more active unless I find some new topic that I'm excited to write about or some collaboration that I want to take part in. In any case, you certainly shouldn't let any kind of "project leadership" role that I might have played stop you from doing what you think is right -- I never wanted to be a "project leader" anyway. All the best,

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Chiropractic" hanging on their office walls. RRR erased links to various works of Haveys. Agreed that commercial links have no place on Wiki, but to removed valid references is ridiculous and puts this editors bias further into question. Honestly, does it not seem a bit vengeful to you?or just a super coidcidence that RRR takes great interest in all things "multi-level marketing" and science related,.......and Julia Havey?

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instance in which this part of the guideline could be invoked. Can you provide a single example in which it could be used? Because I can't. This is a phrase tacked on to the original wording to appease certain contributors. I understand their point that an exception should exist for the rarest of instances in which a free alternative might not exist, but the fact is that

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I have also changed a number of titles to English spelling. This seems to be in line with general Wiki policy about minimising the use of foreign words and also making articles accessible to non-experts (i.e. non German speakers). It is also the proposed convention for the project. That was my logic,

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I'm always happy to help if I can (but I currently only have the biography of Harpprecht and the book of Enzensberger that I can use to look up things for you, and some books about the time in Mainz). The Thomas-Berghof remark cites as a source JR Forster's report to the Royal Society (J. R. Forster,

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is mentioned twice in the list of the references. Maybe this should be only once? Another point is that the first one mentions "Introduction" while the second one "Preface" as the title of the article. Maybe this should be unified. The version of the book on books.google.com has "Preface" rather than

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I see that one of the Plasmodium species was deleted under a G7 request. This might have been an error. I am the main if not sole author of the page and I have not requested a deletion. There was nothing violating copyright on the page. I can say this safely as I wrote most/all of it. I's sure there

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Hi Kusma, I am interested in creating a page for the Morgan J. Freeman film “Just Like the Son”, which is currently protected from being created. You were the last person to comment on the discussion page on May 15, 2007. Could you possible assist me in un-protecting this page so it can be created?

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There is nothing negative, but there are issues. RRR removed calling her husband "Dr. Patrick Havey" because he said "Dr." is an ambiguous phrase. RRR doesn't think that Chiropractors deserve to be called doctors despite tens of thousands of graduates of various Chiropractic schools with "Doctor of

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to weed out the inactive ones. Today I started marking the admin to get an overview. Just wanted to run that by you just in case you object. So far I found a lot of flyby editors who sign up and disappear. OTOH there are a lot of editors who quietly work away in the background without showing their

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I have done a little research and discovered that a sister project, WikiProject Germany, proposes using the German spelling as their convention. However, 2 of my 3 Berlin guides, as well as the well-respected Michelin guide to Germany, turn "ß" to "ss" every time for clarity. Existing Wiki articles

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You are removing scientists (paleontologist / university professor pages) on wikipedia, the name of which is attached to fossils he described and to fossils thta where dedicated to him ... and you retain soccer players who nobody will remember in les than twenty years time ... what is that joke !

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exceptions currently exist (of which I am aware) and this part of the guideline cannot be currently used. I'll happily back you (and anyone else) up on this if you invoke it and try to remove an image because it is a non-free image and a free image exists. That is the whole point of this section.

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I'm sorry but I don't really know anything much about the Luftwaffe. Personally I don't think the article should have the German words all the time, but I don't know anything about the conventions used in English-language WW2 military history books. Good luck with your article, and happy editing,

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Hi Kusma, The page redirecting Moshe Koussevitzy to: Mosze Kusewicki has been deleted by you. Actually, this famous cantor spells his name almost always, on his records and anywhere else, e.g. Google, as Moshe Koussevitzky. Mosze Kusewicki in turn is a very rare alternative Polish spelling form.

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Another problem is regarding unit designations & names. I did contact Military History project Administrators. But there are different opinions on the way Unit names should be incorporated. Some opine that English equivalents should be used with German words in bracket. For example, Squadron

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no free alternative exists." You left out that all-important conjunction and the following phrase. In reality, I found a "free alternative" for every single FBS team, so this part of the guideline would only be used in the rarest of instances. Like I said before, I cannot even think of a single

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from B class to A class. This article is pertaining to a Luftwaffe geschwader (wing) in WWII. Today I discovered this article was not part of German military history task force, I did add the tag to make it part of. However I am having a really hard time trying to find an administrator that has

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I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not

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I think figuring out who is really active is quite useful; the "members list" is a bit useless otherwise. I think I've only ever used it to spam out the project newsletter. If you find out who actually does all of the assessment work, maybe it's worth talking to these people to reorganize our

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I am not trained in statistics, so I don't really understand the article (I think I got the general idea, though). I think there should be a little more examples for what type of situations one uses the model in, and explaining better what is assumed a priori about the data. I could probably

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a "Preface" and an "Introduction", and checking Google books carefully again, it seems like I really intended to cite both of them to explain two separate claims. I now own the beautiful edition of "Reise um die Welt" that includes many of Forster's own images (

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Ughm, I have another question concerning Forster. Maybe you can make a peek to one of the Forster's books you have and see where did the information come from on that Forsters discovered new species in theirs Russian expedition. I've seen the pointer to

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has been laid out to see where we currently stand with regards to building a consensus. For the sake of clarity, please indicate your support or opposition (or neutrality) to each section, but leave discussion to the end of each section.

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I must find out the year of publication of the "Myrsina", the greek fairy tale written by Georgios A Megas. I read that it was published in the year of 1970, but I don't know if it's right. Do you have this information? Can you help me?

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Funny, I had just recently cleared my watchlist of all SU-related pages, figuring him to have finally given up. Then just now I notice this comment on your talk page and check the history of the article in question, only to find him

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There are no free logos for most sports teams. There may be free logos for many college teams, but that's not something that should affect a general sports team guideline. I gave a pro sports example at the guideline discussion.

309:"Introduction", but the bibliography note for that mentions as the year of publication 2000 while the first reference to Thomas&Berghof 1999. I tend to unify that to what's there in books.google.com. What's your opinion? 4920: 1691: 1667: 4770:'s support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. 114:

Since your deletion, whoever looks for Moshe Koussevitzky under the universally known form, will not find him, nor will (s)he be redirected properly. This counterproductive deletion should be reconsidered.

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performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much.

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There is some major discussion about A-Class assessment going on at the moment getting me to think if if we should try and start to introduce this to WP:GER. Drop me a line when you are back editing.

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Removal of promotional material is necessary to keep an article neutral. Whether too much of it was removed I don't really know, but I don't see anything negative in the article at the moment.

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I won't stop you, but I think just blocking for increasingly longer times is enough. Nothing about the vandalism is interesting enough for me to pursue this. I usually just believe in

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Schools choose to identify themselves in many ways. One of those is using logos that are free. Since they are available, they should be used appropriately instead of non-free images.

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Hello, maybe this is difficult to answer for you as the story is quite old, but maybe you have a quick answer or a clear opinion. The Thomas & Berghof introductory article to

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understand it better by reading the Biometrika reference (which looks readable to me), but I have to prove some theorems about PDEs right now and can't really help you. Sorry...

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but please understand that personally I am a great fan of Germany and am also very happy with "ß", but the articles are for the general reader not for us specialists.

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And there was not much worth keeping, the article essentially just contained the info that "Madge Wildfire is a fictional character in the Heart of Midlothian".

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I humbly suggest to reconsider your vote again. The expansion of the "proof" page was an attempt to game the system. This expansion belongs to a general page

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vary in their approach. So the jury's out and I won't make any more "ß" moves until a fuller debate has been had. BTW I'm not into "lame wars"! ;) Gruß.

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faces at WT:GER. Some of whom might make excellent admin material. Basically I am trying to take stock and see where we can move from where we are now.

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I'm leading the 'rail transport in Germany' project and have been busy adding existing articles to the project and giving them an initial assessment.

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Rhode Island Red is again using Wiki to further his vendetta against Julia Havey for disagreeing with him on his Juice Plus wiki article.

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The category contained non-free images. These may only be displayed in articles where they have a valid rationale for use per the

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Hello! I have been tagging some articles for the WikiProject. If you want, do you mind rejoining the WikiProject?

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Dear Kusma, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2009 brings further success and happiness! ~

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Thank you a lot. This is just right enough for me. :-) Of course, I'll bring it back to the article soon.

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hasn't been sent in a while, to save space, I've condensed all seven issues that were not sent into

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I don't currently have much time to do anything about it. The Germany portal became Featured after

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Unfortunately I know nothing at all about that fairy tale; I only did a maintenance-type edit on

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Sounds great. I'll pop in every now and then, but won't volunteer for any serious heavy lifting.

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Well I won't let you of the hook - I will always need some sanity check. Keep your eye on

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It says "a copyrighted image may be used" in the season articles. That is unnecessary.

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especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read

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asked for deletion after mistakenly creating it here. You can see the full article at

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That simply isn't true either. Give me a team and I'll produce a free image for you.

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Why did you delete this page back in June 2007? I am trying to find out about him.

338:) but haven't really had much time to do Forster research recently :-( All the best, 332: 299: 4794: 3185:

If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list.

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How rude of me! I never replied. My apologies - thanks for the explanation. Cheers,

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I don't really know what you are talking about, but you were the sole author of

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Thanks again for your participation. I am currently concentrating my efforts on

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If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the

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someone should look into this to keep the article neutral, wouldn't you agree?

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for deletion and deleted it immediately. Why the haste? I contest deletion.

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Perhaps the repeated abuse should be reported to Big Pipe? What do you think?

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all right, thank you for the immediate answer :). best regards from leipzig --

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GFDL 1.3 released, will allow Wikimedia migration to Creative Commons license

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News and notes:Flagged Revisions and permissions proposals, hoax, milestones

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I don't have much time these days. Good to see that you're dealing with it.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Julia_Griggs_Havey&action=history

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So you say that for every team, a free image can be created? In that case,

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Knowledge in the news: Knowledge's future, WikiDashboard, and "wiki-snobs"

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Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content/RFC_on_use_of_sports_team_logos/Archive_1

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Apologies if you don't like RfA thankspam, this message was delivered by

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for nominating me, and I will try to take everyone's comments on board.

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which can't tell whether you want it or not. Feel free to remove it.

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Dispatches: Halloween Main Page contest generates new article content

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Dispatches: Historic election proves groundbreaking on the Main Page

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Please let us add the paleontologists' names we started editing.

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