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	Thanks very much for getting me some excellent photos, which will improve Vale Royal Abbey no end! —— SerialNumber 54129 09:37, 23 April 2019 (UTC) reply

Thanks! Bazonka ( talk) 18:37, 23 April 2019 (UTC) reply

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Hey, Bazonka! I'm trying to find sources mentioning the Goat tower at Cholmondeley Castle Gardens. Specifically when it was built, as if it were built before 1981 it would be the second known such structure in the world. I know it was built by 1999, when the current marquess had every building on the estate photographed. I tried to connect to the Malpas library, but there's no contact info there for a reference question, contact info just takes me to contact for the council. Can you help, or do you have any suggestions?

I've no idea I'm afraid - never even heard of it. I might take a trip to the castle to have a look, but I'm probably not going to be able to do this until next year. Bazonka ( talk) 21:48, 21 November 2019 (UTC) reply

The article Moon-beast has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fictional race that fails WP:NFICTION, WP:GNG and WP:PLOT. BEFORE does not show any analysis, only in-universe style summaries.

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Thanks for letting me know about this proposed deletion of an article on which I made a minor edit 7 years ago! Needless to say I have no memory of doing so, and no strong opinion about the article. I'll have a think about it though. Bazonka ( talk) 18:19, 5 December 2019 (UTC) reply

may the bazonkas and the bazonka of this world indeed be well bazonka'd and indeed bazonka for many times yet... have a good one ! (twas at the convergence of the two oceans that some days ago - that some say do not actually meet at that point, a quandary indeed) Indian and Southern... cheers after all this time !! JarrahTree 10:08, 1 January 2020 (UTC) reply

And a happy new year to you too! Bazonka ( talk) 14:59, 1 January 2020 (UTC) reply

Dear, I hope and trust you will not take my reversal amiss. As I tried to explain, in the original English language, one really can have "licence" to do something or to copy a product; one is then "licensed". As I recently learned, there is a perfect parallel with the verb "to advise", indicating an act that yields "advice". Since the Airspeed company was British, I thought it appropriate to stick to the "English" style of the English language. All the best from the old world, Jan olieslagers ( talk) 22:43, 24 January 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi Jan, what you've said above is quite correct, but the edit you made doesn't match this. The verb spelling (in all varieties of English) is license, therefore other tenses and conjugations of this verb (including licensing) also use the S spelling. "Licencing" is always wrong, whatever version of English you're using (except in some archaic texts). See MOS:S. Bazonka ( talk) 10:19, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply

I think you will be right. Apologies for the confusion, and thanks for polite conversation! Jan olieslagers ( talk) 10:39, 25 January 2020 (UTC) reply

The circles or latitude are not perpendicular to the meridians. They are only perpendicular on the Mercator projection. On this projection the angles are untrue for area, especially at the high latitudes. On a polar projection the meridian is a normal to the curve (of the small circle). The scalar product is 0 only to the Equator because the angle between the meridian ray and the equatorial ray is = 0 degrés. When the scalar product = 0, the tangents are therefore perpendicular. If the angle between the ray of small circle and the meridian ray is = 45 degrés, the scalar product is 0,5, therefore they not perpendicular. Remember : on the earth, only the great circles can be perpendicular to other great circles. In spherical geometry only the geodesics are used : a great circle is a geodesic, not the circle of latitude. Google Earth has a tool ascertainly what I do say. Carlassimo -- Carlassimo ( talk) 12:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC) reply

This is not a question of map projections; we are talking about the surface of the Earth. Every circle of latitude is parallel to the equator, and since the meridians are perpendicular to the equator, they are also perpendicular to these other parallel circles - it doesn't matter that they're not great circles. See [1] [2] Bazonka ( talk) 20:48, 15 April 2020 (UTC) reply

They are stupid ! A curve is not a alignment of vertical points. We live on a ellipsoid, not on a cylinder. The perpendicular of the horizontal is the vertical. The small circles are horizontal. If each meridian (a infinity) intersect the small circles vertically, the line North Pole-Equator is a vertical straight line. It is mathematic ! In reality, the line Noth Pole-Equator is a curve, therefore the circles of latitude are not perpendicular except the Equator because scalar product=0. -- Carlassimo ( talk) 12:43, 18 April 2020 (UTC) reply

You are over-thinking this! For each intersection between a meridian and a parallel, at an infinitessimally small level, the curvature is irrelevant, and they are all perpendicular. Bazonka ( talk) 13:46, 18 April 2020 (UTC) reply

( talk page stalker)@ Carlassimo: This is one of those features that is very hard to visualise, primarily because we are used to looking at maps of the earth's surface. It is important to remember that it is impossible to draw a two dimensional map of a three dimensional planet without distorting the features. Thus on most map projections, the lines of longitude will not cross the lines of latitude at right angles (i.e. perpendicular) except at the equator. Instead you need to look at a globe. On a globe, which is a spherical representation of the earth, the lines of longitude do cross the lines of latitude at right angles, for all non polar latitudes, even though both lines are actually curved. This remains true even if the sphere is distorted into an oblate spheroid which is an approximation to the real shape of the earth. - RFenergy ( talk) 13:24, 7 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Because the Columbia Graphophone Company was a British company, it is a British article which uses British spellings so the word is spelled 'licenced.' Steelbeard1 ( talk) 00:52, 1 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Oh here we go again... The verb spelling uses S in all varieties of English. See MOS:S Bazonka ( talk) 15:27, 2 August 2020 (UTC) reply

( talk page stalker) Type all four of licence, license, licensing and licencing into your browser. The latter of those will get highlighted in red. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 10:05, 28 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi Bazonka, I see you did an edit to /info/en/?search=Thomas_Demery. I need to add verified detail, the request is on behalf of TD. I cannot do the edit myself, as it is important we comply with Wikipedia guidelines. Can you assist? TORBJÖRN-T5 ( talk) 19:25, 27 August 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi Torbjörn, I think the best approach would be for you to make an edit request at Talk:Thomas Demery as per WP:ER, and then I'll review it. I'm not promising to make the changes - that depends on what they are and how confident I feel about it, but I'll certainly take a look. Note that my edit to Thomas Demery was just a typo fix - I have no specific interest in him. Bazonka ( talk) 19:48, 27 August 2020 (UTC) reply

The article Arkitex has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)#Products_and_services requirement. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar. Given the near total lack of references (outside fan page), there is no content to merge and anyway there is no valid merge/redirect target I see. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you.

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Greetings,

It seems you have previously edited article Black sea or some article which is linked/ connected to Black sea article.

• Requesting your visit to Talk:Black Sea#Some article restructuring and overhaul

• Also please do have a look at Talk:Black Sea#Coastal cities, requesting help; and help expand Black Sea#Coastal and port cities on Black Sea coast and trade.

• And also requesting to visit Draft:Avret Esir Pazarları, an article is about Ottoman times female slavery with a special focus on the state of non-elite common women slavery in those times; and help expand the same if you find yourself interested in the topic.

Thanks and warm regards

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Since you are knowledgeable about the subject (and assuming there's no conflict of interest), why don't you have a go at starting the article yourself? I would be happy to check it for you, but I'm afraid I don't have the time or knowledge to do it myself. Bazonka ( talk) 08:46, 2 September 2021 (UTC) reply

LTA sockpuppet; see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/علي_أبو_عمر OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 14:06, 2 September 2021 (UTC) reply

@ Ohnoitsjamie: I've been emailed by User:TSK 1920 in response to my reply to User:TİHA 2019 above, asking me to continue writing the article. Must be another sockpuppet. Bazonka ( talk) 07:15, 3 September 2021 (UTC) reply

@ TSK 1920 and TİHA 2019: I didn't say that I was going to write the article for you, and I'm certainly not going to do so now I've seen that there are sockpuppet investigations. Bazonka ( talk) 07:40, 3 September 2021 (UTC) reply

Thank you! Blocked. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 13:40, 3 September 2021 (UTC) reply

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Please refrain from editing articles to remove valid English spelling of words to replace them with Americanisms. This is not constructive and is not advancing the objective of writing an encyclopaedia - especially in cases where you have made no other valid nor useful contribution to the article. 66.102.87.40 ( talk) 07:47, 24 December 2021 (UTC) reply

Ah, here we go again. Perhaps before lecturing me, you should have looked in a dictionary. In British English the verb spelling uses an S. See MOS:S if you need further clarification. Cheers Bazonka ( talk) 08:03, 24 December 2021 (UTC) reply

It is so weird - different planets?

East_Indian_Archipelago

Maritime_Southeast_Asia

Australasian_Mediterranean_Sea - every day?

it seems like a decade of a weird collection, enough to be buried in an obscure filing cabinet in a basement in Liverpool in a closed down rope factory... JarrahTree 14:20, 3 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Trust you return in the fullness of time... JarrahTree 10:38, 15 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Hello! I'm still here... not doing a huge amount of Wikipedia editing at the moment, but I've not gone anywhere. Hope you're doing OK! Bazonka ( talk) 17:53, 15 May 2022 (UTC) reply

fine thanks - the sport of the original question above still lingers like a ripe lot of seaweed somewhere or other - whether there is any need to get the fishing net into a knot about, or just leave it to rot on by itself... JarrahTree 09:50, 24 May 2022 (UTC) reply

Template:Prime meridian has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Izno ( talk) 21:45, 28 June 2022 (UTC) reply

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Pork markets and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 9#Pork markets until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. — Bagumba ( talk) 16:08, 9 September 2022 (UTC) reply

Please read WP:DERRY. 81.104.125.24 ( talk) 10:45, 6 December 2022 (UTC) reply

There is a new requested move discussion in progress for the Charles III article. Since you participated in the previous discussion, I thought you might like to know about this one. Cheers. Rreagan007 ( talk) 06:48, 24 July 2023 (UTC) reply

I don't understand why at the very least you would revert 84th parallel north and 85th parallel north. These is absolutely nothing there except for the Arctic Ocean and maybe the edge of the polar ice cap. Per WP:RASTONISH and WP:R#DELETE (these are guidelines) the target page of redirects needs to have some mention of them in it. If a reader is browsing/researching x parallels and is redirected to a page that has no mention of them, then it is a pain to have to navigate back to the articles about the parallels. - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 16:15, 26 July 2023 (UTC) reply

@ Knowledgekid87: We have three options:

• Keep the 84th and 85th articles. I agree that they're not very exciting parallels, but the articles aren't totally devoid of information.
• Redirect them to Arctic Ocean. I doubt anyone would be surprised or confused by this, and if they're researching parallels and they end up here, it's not exactly a hardship to get back to where they were previously.
• Redirect them somewhere else. I didn't think that the section that had been added to the 83rd parallel article was helpful. Surely it's better to go to an article about what's actually at the parallel than to go to an article about somewhere else on the planet. And I can't think of anywhere else that a redirect could usefully point.

My preference is to keep at least the 84th parallel article. I'm not so bothered about the 85th, which I think should redirect to the Ocean. Bazonka ( talk) 18:57, 26 July 2023 (UTC) reply

Since you recently participated in the Charles III requested move discussion, I thought you might like to know that there are two other discussions currently going on about other British monarch article titles here and here. Cheers. Rreagan007 ( talk) 22:26, 30 July 2023 (UTC) reply

Hello there! Interested in having a chat with fellow Wikipedians? There's a meetup in Leeds on Saturday 4th May 2024, at the Tiled Hall Café at Leeds Central Library.

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