User talk:Hoshie/Archive

Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice work on MSNBC. Cheers! --maveric149

Mr. President

Hey, i noticed u've edited some us govt pages. Maybe u can answer this: why when I listen to the senate do the senators address "mr president" sometimes. i dont think this is the president of the country, who is it?

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Parliaments

Re: a list of members for the first sessions of the parliaments - I'm not sure a whole list is necessary, maybe just a mention of the numbers of MSPs each party had at the start, so we can get an idea on how things are changing. -- Evercat 20:11 May 8, 2003 (UTC)

Question on NRSV copyright

Isn't the NRSV incompatible with Wikipedia's GFDL? Where did you get the "permission" listed on your user page? You ought to use King James or something uncopyrighted. Geoffrey 21:55, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)

As to the Authorized Version, that would be a good idea. However, the AV is under copyright in the UK. The SAERV of 1901 would a better choice. The AV is copyrighted? Who did that!? :-) This SAERV (Standard American English Revised Version, maybe? My ISP won't connect to much except Wikipedia right now) may work, because 1901 should mean public domain in US, but...isn't there a Net Bible translation that's open content? --Geoffrey 03:15, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Simple English

Hi Joshua. It would be great if you could help out at the Simple English Wikipedia. I've been trying to convince people lately they should come! Simple is still fairly new and under-developed, so I don't know if I can give you any definite answers.

The question about jargon is a good one. One solution is that we should allow dictionary definitions in the encyclopedia (something that is often frowned on here at English). That way, you could explain what the jargon word meant in a separate article rather than cluttering up a page.

With regard to your second question, Simple English is not equivalent to Basic English. We are not trying to limit the number of words we use, although this has been suggested - it does not seem realistic. Basically, we are just trying to simplify things as much as possible without having any strict rules on how that should be done. Let me know if you have any more questions. You can reply here or at Simple.

Angela 09:34, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi Hoshie, I replied at Simple. Angela 06:16, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Backups

Hi Hoshie. Thank you for the "I rock" comment!! I can't seem to find a way of backing up the Simple Wikipedia. Others are available from Wikipedia:Database download, but that page doesn't contain working links to the Wikipedias that were, until a couple of days ago, running on the old server. The http://download.wikipedia.org/ page doesn't offer any solution either. I would suggest you ask at the Wikipedia:Village pump or e-mail the tech mailing list (intlwiki-l@Wikipedia.org). I expect that once Simple gets the new software, the backup files will be available in the same way that the other languages are now. If you just want to back up individual articles of course, you can just click filesave as. However, this would back up the HTML as opposed to the Wikitext. It might be best to click edit first, and then copy and paste the text into a text editor. I wouldn't worry though as backups are obviously made somewhere considering things are now back up after the old server crash. Angela 03:33, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)

Change of plan... Jay is requesting backups of the Interlingua Wikipedia on the mailing list, which Brion says he can do, so I have asked him whether it's possible to get one for the Simple English too. See m:User:Brion VIBBER/Todo list. Angela 07:20, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)

Update... There is now a tarball here. See http://download.wikipedia.org and Wikipedia:Database download for instructions. They won't be in a form that you can actually read without the Wikipedia software though, so if you wanted something you can work on without needing to download any other software, you might still want to go with the above method of saving individual pages. I don't know if you know anything about tarballs, but if not, you might find [1] and [2] helpful. Angela 08:22, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)

Mozilla sidebar tab

Hi, you won't be able to upload it to Wikipedia yourself as JavaScript is not allowed for security reasons, but a developer could make it available from download.wikipedia.org. Is it available online anywhere already? The best person to speak to would probably be Tim Starling. --Angela. 03:11, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the catch

You're right about the edit on Gavin Newsom...thanks! Scooter 08:32, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

That "very good edit" wasn't mine

Thanks for the compliment, but that wasn't my edit. I just made a minuscule change in wording, from "These comments have used by some question the GNT based on the assumption that Bratcher's viewpoints made into the Translation" to "These comments have used by some to question the GNT based on the assumption that the translation might reflect Bratcher's viewpoints." I think you wanted to compliment Agendum.

Letter

I think it's definately worth a try. But keep in mind Eloquence said something similar (but to a lesser degree) at User_talk:Eloquence#Ban_me and Chris responded, "I could care less of your political beliefs." The main problem with Chris is that he is overly emotional and focuses on people, not issues, such as calling Anthony DiPierro a troll rather than defending how exactly his images are not copyvio. I, and others, posted more than once on his talk page informing him about our NPOV policy, but he just doesn't seem to get it. Possibly, he has not even bothered to RTFM, as evidenced by his edit summary "* Taking out NPOV" at [3]. User:Jwrosenzweig seems to have had some email contact with him and left him "friendly suggestions" in the past, such as [4]. You may want to email him about this. Cheers, Jiang 01:36, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I agree, it's a fair try. I attempted something similar at one point, offering to edit items with him (I have a list of articles on my user page that I'd like to work on in the near future), but I don't believe it was read. If you wish to mention that my offer still stands, it may help, but I'm afraid that as a non-Democrat, any words I say may be too incendiary. I agree with User:Jiang, in that Chris is refusing to focus on anything outside of his personal, subjective view (though in his defense, Anthony DiPierro is a troll). A shame, really, because he seems a fair writer. Scooter 05:21, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

iBook

I noticed you'd made the switch on the pictures, thanks for doing that, that was a pretty scatterbrained mistake on my part.

As far as the naming, I can't really claim to be an expert on it. I'd be tempted to call them all "iBooks" and then subdivide by processor speed (or screen size if there are any differences there). I've been more or less out of the specialty for three or four years so I'm not really as up on the new hardware as on the older stuff. - Hephaestos 15:03, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Unprotection

Bill Clinton is unprotected now. Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is a good place to ask for this if I'm not around. Angela. 18:02, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)

Good point. Anyway, if it wasn't for unprotection requests originally, it is now. I just added a note at the top to say it's for both. It makes sense that they both go no the one page I think. Angela. 18:53, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)

Moving Welsh Assembly

Yes, I've no objection to moving it to National Assembly for Wales, it's how it's referred to in the first paragraph after all! Arwel 23:36, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I had to do a bit of shifting around of the National Assembly articles, as when you renamed it you lost the edit history. The way to do it is to delete the article which you want to rename it to, then "move this page" which will keep the edit history and automatically create the redirects. -- Arwel 11:08, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Regions

Yes, the European constituencies are the regions of England. Morwen - Talk 12:18, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Not sure if you're watching my user page, but I responded to you there. Jdavidb 18:37, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Infoboxes - MSPs/AMs/MLAs/MEPs?

No objections to adding MSPs/AMs. MLAs have already been done. As Morwen says, the European constituencies in England are the regions, which are already indicated in the council pages, so it would be more sensible to add the MEPs to the 9 region pages rather than the 388 local authorities. --Keith Edkins 10:57, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The Apprentice 2

Hi, Hoshie. As a fan of The Apprentice, I want to make sure you see my Anti-Apprentice Conspiracy comment on Talk:The Apprentice 2. Please vote. Thanks. [[User:Nricardo|--Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<<]] 06:06, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:U.S. Southern Wikipedians' notice board

Hey! I've created this new notice board specifically for articles related to people from the U.S. South. If you are interested in contributing, leave a message on the page and add articles you feel need to be reviewed, contributed to, or started. Mike H 21:03, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

Robert McCartney's party label

See User talk:Timrollpickering for a full explanation. Dbiv 17:02, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The Apprentice 1 Episode Titles

Hmm. This is a bit of a conundrum, as the "Weekly Dossier" section on the NBC site agrees with our titles http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Apprentice/dossier/. Perhaps the dossiers and the episodes have different names. Perhaps we should note both. (I notice they haven't posted this season's dossiers). This site: http://epguides.com/Apprentice/ agrees with our season 2 titles and even lists some future episodes Nelson Ricardo 10:52, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

TLB -- Excellent

Fine additions to The Living Bible article. Thanks.

Rlquall 06:24, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

NC Council of State election returns

I've looked at so many sources that I've forgotten where I pulled the election returns from; I believe it was the NC Board of Elections website and I believe it was today; however, a recount is in progress, the returns may fluctuate, and I'm sure that the final numbers will be different from what they are now. Feel free to update them, of course. :) -- Seth Ilys 05:34, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Jesusland maps

Well, fine idea, but I didn't create the maps. I found them flitting about the 'Net, and wrote the article around them. There are some other variations out there as well. - Scooter 03:54, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I deleted one of your contributions -- here's why

Dear Hoshie,

You put a picture of a Qur'an translation in the Qur'an article. Since the article didn't have any pictures, I would normally have regarded this as a GOOD THING. However, I deleted the picture, for two reasons:

1) It didn't fit well. A trivial reason, I could have messed with the formatting. But ...

2) It was a full-cover view of the book, with the name and translator clearly visible. It seemed as if Wikipedia were endorsing this particular version.

It seems to me that it would have been much preferable to have a photo of a STACK of various English translations of the Koran. I could even make one, if I had a digital camera <g>

This is nothing against you, just against the picture chosen. You've done yoeman work in adding open-source pictures to Wikipedia.

Now if you could get us an open-sourced picture of one of the beautiful old Qur'ans, with calligraphy and elaborate colored and gilded decorations ... that would be spectacular!

Hope there are no hard feelings. Zora 06:55, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Republics

Need your help and/or advice. The British Wikipedian Republican Party sought fit to delete Wikinfo:Classical definition of republic from Wikipedia. There is a terrible brouhaha at Talk:Republic. They won't even allow an external link! SimonP really doesn't know what he is doing. They deleted the Classical definition of republic and created mixed government and politeia instead. The official title of mixed government is a Republic and the Romans translated "politiea" as Republic. And then to top it off the new article Classical republicanism doesn't refer to the Classical republics of Crete, Sparta, Solonic Athens, or Rome but to Machiavelli's ideology. How can that be when Venice in the 13th century instituted a mixed government and called herself a "Republic".

With Jwrosenwieg and Kim Bruning there was a tacit agreement a year ago to have republic be the modern meaning and a [Classical definition of republic] to describe the ancient republics of Hellas and Rome and their influence. To say the least the "Republic section" is all messed up. We need some clarification. I have new information but User:Snowspinner won't let me bring this back up for undelete. (I do grant that a little bit of the Classical definition is original but the rest is not.) I will not let Sparta be called anything but a republic! I will not let the British wikipedian modern republicans strip Sparta, (my heritage and roots) of her rightful name. She is a Classical republic and needs to be called such! At the least, where is the damage in having an external link?WHEELER 15:08, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Bible Society

I'm glad you like what I've written there so far. It needs some more work, and I see you've written or edited a number of articles on Bible translations; maybe you'd like to take a look at the to-do list I've just added to Talk:Bible Society. --Jim Henry | Talk 17:37, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar

Image:Ussher4004bc.jpg is kinda small. Do you have anything larger you could add? -- Sy / ^(talk)

I realize the image is a bit small. I'm not a phto type of guy, so if you got one better to add, feel free. - Hoshie/Crat 08:43, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't have anything better. Just wondering because I was confused by the image (it was too small for me to understand what it was a picture of -- I couldn't read the text). No problem. =) -- Sy / ^(talk) 02:12, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Flag Images

Good work on the flag images. BTW, I also work on flag images and I also live in Havelock, NC. (Man this is a small world). If you have any questions, just let me know. Zscout370 12:52, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"MP"

Hi. You added "MP" to the main party leaders (added 'MP/MLA/AM/MSP/MEP' if party leader is such') but at the moment they aren't MPs (in fact there are *no* MPs at the moment, although there are still MLAs/AMs/MSPs/MEPs), indeed it is contrary to law for anyone to use the title 'MP' at the moment in the UK. After May 6th they can ben added back (if, of course, they get re-elected!) --Vamp:Willow 14:19, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland

Sorry I took so long to reply - in my experience most ethnic minority people in NI regard the constitutional question as being little to do with them and very few vote, although pretty much all those in the country legitimately are registered (it's a bit easier here than in most of the USA). Propagandists on both sides will tell you otherwise. Of those who do vote, a fairly high proportion vote Alliance or for the other centrist parties, in my experience a lot of them are vaguely pro-Union but not in any ethnic sense. There has been a very big wave of migration from Eastern Europe in the past 2-3 years, and also a growing Protuguese community (in Dungannon largely) and African community (in Belfast) it's to early to say how their politics will develop, but I suspect like the Chinese and South Asian communities, towards apathy. Gerry Lynch 21:32, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Kenneth Taylor

Thanks for your kind acknowledgement of my work on Kenneth Taylor. It needs some polishing and perhaps some expansion. Some sources, external links, and list of Taylor's works would be a good start. Feel free, if you have the time. Logophile 03:52, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hebrew Text of the Old Testament

Thanks very much for your comment. The Old Testament, and Biblical Hebrew, are often neglected. I can e-mail you a reading list if you're interested. RachelBrown 22:05, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

U.S. Congressional Delegations from American Samoa

This article has been copied from your Sandbox, but not by you. I've reverted his deletion (he deleted it soon after) so that the article has some basis, but if you do not wish for the article to continue, or you want to work on it further before releasing it as a proper article, feel free to {{db}} it or something. -x42bn6 03:02, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Bruce Metzger

This article on you todo list is done. Someone had written a short POV stub, so wrote a real article for the spot. If you have anything more to contribute feel free. --Darkfred ^{Talk to me} 13:37, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Image deletion

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Listed under Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2005 September 17. Thunderbrand 23:44, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

WikiChristian

Hi there,

I notice that you are a Christian. Come and take a look at www.wikichiristian.org and consider contributing. It is still small and has very few users. I'm praying that God helps the site to grow and become a forum for Christians to write and read about all aspects of Christianity. It is not meant to be a copy of wikipedia. It is not meant to be purely an encyclopedia. For any given topic, it will hopefully contain a short summary of the topic followed by links to many sub-articles - some containing simple facts; some sharing experiences; some explaining a particular viewpoint and so on.

Take for example the article on grace. It has various "Definition and explanation" articles explaining the meaning of grace. It has a few "Articles / opinions" about grace. It has links for "Quotes' about grace and links to "Songs about grace". The site is also meant to be a resource site containing information about Christian texts, literature, art, music, radio, television and internet.

Take a look at the example article on the song Shout to the Lord. It has links to information about the song, lyrics and chords to the song and links for comments or opinions to be expressed about the song.

The site also intends to explain the history of important events in Christianity. Take a look at The Reformation section. This has links for "Overview" articles, "Opinion" articles, "Quotes" and "Travel" stories.

The site intends to be a reference about major (and minor) figures in the Bible, the early church and today. Take a look at John Stott. It contains "Overview" and "Opinion" articles. It contains texts of "Talks" given by John Stott and links to "Books" by John Stott.

In summary, I suppose, that my hope is that WikiChristian becomes a major reference point for Christians and non-Christians to go to find about any issue related to Christianity. I don't believe that this should be carbon-copy of wikipedia. It should resemble it in some ways, but in other ways, it should be quite different in structure and evolution. I realize that there are different views about different topics - and accordingly, there should always be the opportunity for a person to write his personal view under the "Opinion and articles" section of any given page.

I would love you to take a look at wikichristian and contribute. If you don't wish to contribute, would you consider visiting it's world wide directory of churches we are setting up and entering your church into the database. The point of the database is to state the location of a church with the service times and add a brief description of the church. You can take a look for example at: Church Directory -> Australia -> South Australia -> Adelaide -> St Matthew's Anglican Church

If you don't wish to contribute to WikiChristian, you could consider one of the other wikis related to Christianity that have been set up by other people. These include: Theopedia, Compass or OrthoxWiki.

Thanks

Graham Grove

Image Tagging Image:Jhhj.jpg

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Ah I didnt quite see it, I've moved the notice to his page (not active since august, i doubt it will stay) so thankyee. Agnte 11:32, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

ASV

Thanks! I'm glad somebody is working on this. Jdavidb (talk • contribs) 22:36, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Confederate Flags

I'll see what I can do about the other Confederate flags when I get a chance. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 10:55, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

King James Version of the Bible

Ref copyright - I too had been told that Northern Ireland was not covered - another site I saw suggested that the commonwealth may have been covered in the past.

I note that the first section of the article refers to the United Kingdom and the section about copyright mentions Ireland. Should we change this?--PeterR 23:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

BOIT

Thanks for your comments! BTW, I was wondering whether the current classification of BIOT in Africa is correct? I thought it would be more likely to be in Asia? Astrotrain 09:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Compact of Free Association

My point was, and it remains so, that even if those states are truly dependant of US money (something that can only be ascerted by legal representatives of the states receiving the money, and never by some interview of the state, in this case the US, that is giving the money), the line is poorly written because it implies a superiority that is unfitting for an encyclopedia.LtDoc 01:36, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Georgia flag SVG

Please stop substituting the PNG of the Georgia flag to the SVG. The color in the SVG is not accurate of the flag at all. Until that is fixed, the PNG will do just fine. Thanks! --BWD ^(talk) 03:43, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

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Image:Green Ensign.svg

Kudos on making this image, excellent quality! NTK 08:23, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Declaration of interest

I've responded to your Talk:Good_News_Translation#Declaration_of_Interest.

Wikipedia Cat Lovers' Committee

Hoshie/Archive, I can see from your userboxes that you love cats.

Would you be interested in joining the Wikipedia Cat Lovers' Committee?

If you want to join, you can add yourself to the members list and contact the committee founder, me, GeorgeMoney on my talk page.

Thank You. --GeorgeMoney^{Talk  Contribs} 22:30, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

==Hung Parliament==

Thanks for your comments on Hung parliament, I have moved them from the talk page to the main page (with a little editing). Captainj 22:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

48 star flag

Hmm... the arrangement which is shown here was proclaimed the official arrangement in October 1912. There may have been some flags produced in a different pattern, but such arrangements were never official. Before 1912, many of the flag patterns shown on the US Flag page are merely the most common variants, as there was no official specification. It would be great eventually to have svg copies of every star-pattern variant ever made (there are several hundred I'm sure), but it's not something I have time to do in the forseeable future, and I'm not sure it's necessary for the Wikipedia article. --jacobolus (t) 00:49, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Holy See and Montenegro

I agree with your edit. I made the original edit that added the Holy See to the list of countries recognizing Montenegro, but didn't know the 3-digit code for it. Thanks--Canadian Bobby 17:28, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

A Few Small Repairs

Thank you for the message. It was just one of my few small repairs, but it's nice to know it helped. I really appreciate it. :) Looking at your list of favourite artists, it looks like we definitely do share a taste in music in some areas. I have some albums by Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Imbruglia, and Hootie & the Blowfish that I enjoy. --Kjoonlee 06:57, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Signature

There's now an SVG version of the State flag: Image:Flag of North Carolina.svg; your signature is the only main location of the PNG one now (I think...) 68.39.174.238 15:05, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanx. If you see any other uses of it, especially in templates, then I missed that and it should have the SVG version added in. Thanx again. 68.39.174.238 23:00, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Images in your signature

Hi, I was wondering if you could be so kind as to remove any images from your signature. Having images in your signature puts an unnecessary additional load on the wikipedia servers. Also please see WP:SIG for more specific information and guidelines. Thanks -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 11:56, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Lejeune High School

There is now an article about Lejeune High School. Could you please look at it and make any improvements that seem appropriate? TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 07:05, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

of

Hmmm... The main reference which I have is from Serbian and it is linguistic. The correct name in Serbian is "Državna Zajednica SrbijA i CrnA GorA" (president of S&M, Serbian version), where nominative case is used for both members of the State Union. For example, UK in Serbian is "Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo VelikE BritanijE i SevernE IrskE" (Official paper of S&M), where genitive case is used. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 08:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

However, here are other references which supports my claim: IAEA paper, PDF, UNESCO, Government of Montenegro, UN mission in Serbia, Federal Anti-Corruption Agency, An Interwiew of Javier Solana on EU site, etc.. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 08:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

The problem with the name is that it is not usual to use nominative case in Serbian in such phrases (genitive is more often) and people used genitive form in Serbian, too. Also, it is a small semanthic difference: with nominative it was "one state which is union", with genitive there were "union of two states". So, people didn't use correctly even form in Serbian. And English translations were bad, too, even in governmental institutions. (The most similar/often construction is UK and inside of the name it uses genitive.) --millosh (talk (sr:)) 08:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

So I think that inside of the article should stay something like "State Union Serbia and Montenegro (State Union of Serbia and Montenegro was also used)". --millosh (talk (sr:)) 08:02, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Gibraltar

The 'Neutral Ground' shown on maps remains an area of dispute, although in practice it no longer exists as shown. To the North of the frontier is Spain and to the south Gibraltar.

Its origin was as a DMZ to prevent Spanish military incursions and basically it represented a distance from the rock where anything was likely to be blown away by cannon mounted within the rock itself, which delivered a present from General schrapnel upon the heads of the attacking hordes.

When peace prevailed, the British built an airfield on our half and the Spanish a football stadium on theirs. Now they complain they want to use our airport, but oppose Gibraltar joining UEFA so we can't use their football pitch.

Read its history here

--Gibnews 07:56, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

FIPS

Why did you remove Phillippines from the List of FIPS country codes? Did someone nuke it out of existence?Frelke 06:00, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Doh! Obviously a simple explanation. Should have checked the remaining list. Frelke 13:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

World Factbook

Hi,

First of all, great work on the world factbook article, it really needed a cleanup. However, I see that you removed the part about electoral regimes being described in a "purely technical fashion". Maybe this is just a pet peeve of mine, but it really annoys me that Canada is painted as a dictatorship, and I think this is an important fact. Did you remove it for lack of sources, or just because you didn't like the text? Maybe I can try to rewrite it in a different tone.

Thanks,

UnHoly 15:29, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi,

I think that there is good idea to keep somekind external links section (least for link to official version of world factbook) so i restored it. --Zache 17:02, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Lesotho flag

Yup, I am glad we got on the BBC (and even more honored they used my image). I feel like a rockstar now. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 08:14, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Hi Hoshie,

(switch to Template:Infobox Former Country)

Thanks for this amendment; I hadn't realiz/sed such a template existed. Looking at it, however, I wonder if the "President", "Prime Minister", etc entries ought to be "[Last/Final] president", "[Last/Final] prime minister", etc...?  Apologies in advance if I'm missing something; it's just a thought in passing. Regards, David Kernow (talk) 17:24, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Generally, it is not necessary to specify if it is the first or last President, Prime Minister, etc. If only a few people held a certain position, all can be filled in. But if there were a lot, the first and last should only be given. If there was only one person who ever held the position, then giving dates is not necessary.
This template is under constant development, and so I would like to draw your attention to the new extended set of instructions that I have just placed here. Thanks. - 52 Pickup 09:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Breakup of Yugoslavia.gif

The color red on that map is incorrect and unfair - keeping red associated with Serbia makes it look like the other elements were seceding from it, whereas that is not the case, SFRY dissolved and its legal successors were equally FRY, SI, HR, BA, MK. --Joy [shallot] 00:31, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

That's better. Thanks. --Joy [shallot] 23:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Mortal Error

Great cleanup, much better now, thanks for correcting many of my sins both of ommission and commission. Andrewa 08:35, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

RSV article

I've done a fair bit of (relatively superficial) restructuring and re-editing of this article, which I hope has improved it. There's still a fair way to go to meet current FA standards, but it'd be a shame if we couldn't get this one back to its FA status, so I'll help if I can. Let me know if there's anything I can do or if you want to bounce any ideas. Metamagician3000 01:35, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page. I wrote there in response:

Great! I think that one thing it needs is some general (sourced) observation about how popular the RSV is now, as the article implies in the opening sentence that it is not so popular as it once was, and is to some extent of historical interest. If so, some very concise reference in the lead to its current level of popularity would be good, with maybe something slightly less concise in the body of the article (including a brief mention of newer edition(s)). What do you think? Metamagician3000 10:08, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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Tynwald Day is up for FARC. Are you able to fix it? Tony 07:31, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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Have you considered it? --PaxEquilibrium 15:24, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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It has happened! http://www.iso.org/iso/newsletter_vi-1.pdf Can you update all the necessary articles? —Nightstallion 14:56, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! —Nightstallion 20:39, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Gladly -- I'll be on the lookout for the new IANA codes, too, but I suppose you'll find them before me. ;) —Nightstallion 10:08, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

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Dear Hoshie,

Could you please help me? I see you created the map Image:Yugo template.png. An editor of Hungarian Wikipedia told me he needs a map similar to this, but one that doesn't include Slovenia, Macedonia and Kosovo, but includes only Croatia, Serbia (without Kosovo), Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina; and without the inner borders between the countries. I'm not really an expert at map making. Could you please make this map for us or do you know anyone here who could?

kind regards,

– Alensha ^talk 18:27, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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Hi! I am strongly against the Kosovo independence but still, will you create a new version of with 2008 and Kosovo with new color? Best, Lubos --Lumidek (talk) 20:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

• Wow, now it seems to be updated. Thanks, very nice and kind of sad, as most decays. --Lumidek (talk) 18:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

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C10.3.4.1.1.4. If the Service member symbolized is killed or dies while serving, from causes other than dishonorable, the star representing that individual shall have superimposed thereon a gold star of smaller size so that the blue forms a border. When the flag is suspended, as against a wall, the gold star shall be to the right of, or above, the blue star (Figure C10.F1.).

My source for that is http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/text/p134833m.txt. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 04:30, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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Can I interest you in correcting Peter Keisler's succession box, and creating one for Paul Clement? See Dismissal_of_U.S._attorneys_controversy_timeline#September_2007, and its sources. -- Yellowdesk (talk) 12:29, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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Hi, replied on my talk page. (in cause you aren't watching it.) :) Psu256 (talk) 21:23, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

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One Hit Wonders positions

Yes, no problem. I put in the italics to note artists with hits on other charts (UK Singles Chart, Billboard genre charts like Modern Rock Tracks) and the footnotes to denote that the artist is a guest on a track they are a one hit wonder for (or if a non-one hit wonder guests on the track). I can certainly help with this. Since Billboard.com only goes up to 1986 or 1987 (they said 20 years, but they haven't removed any data from 1987 from what i've seen), I use Allmusic to verify the positions (in the "Charts and Awards" section of the artist pages. They sometimes use "Pop Singles" instead of "Billboard Hot 100", these are the same thing). Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 13:15, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

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You're welcome, although they're not very comprehensive pages. Therequiembellishere (talk) 04:37, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

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I have a copy of the eighth edition which has listings of Top 40 releases up to 2003. Doc Strange^MailboxLogbook 13:35, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi! Thanks for adding the Whitburn 2004 references to the new artists. I discovered them through searching through past revisions of the List of 1990s one-hit wonders in the United States. Now I've discovered Google Books, so now I can find the references to new artists I add.

I'd like to know your idea if I should add Luke and the Fugees (they both meet the criteria), yet I have some problems whether I should include them or not (see the bottom of the Talk:List of 1990s one-hit wonders in the United States). I know you've been working on some articles lately, so I understand if you're busy and don't have the time. Thanks! Holiday56 (talk) 10:39, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I've finally got the eighth edition of The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. Holiday56 (talk) 02:29, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

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Ichthus: January 2012

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January 2012

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Hi Hoshie, I responded on my talk page. — mark ✎ 12:47, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

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