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I create a lot of pages that are pasted from public domain US government sources, including state department pages and library of congress country studies. Country-studies.us is a mirror of public domain Library of Congress information. This pasting of public domain material is acceptable and encouraged. Please see User:Mangostar/Country studies if you want to help fill out Wikipedia's coverage of developing countries with articles pre-written by researchers in the field!

Are you the Harvard copyeditor?-- CM ( talk) 00:12, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

My bad dude I stuck this on your userpage. Sorry.-- CM ( talk) 01:31, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Please see the Territory of Jefferson and Colorado counties. -- Buaidh ( talk) 18:19, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

We still have no external reference though... Mangostar ( talk) 18:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello Mangostar. I noted that you nominated "De Pietro" for deletion. I think you should tell it to the creator of the article. I cannot say whether this article is a hoax or not. If there is no reference, the article should be deleted. Regards, Masterpiece2000 12:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

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-- ≈Tulkolahten≈ ^≈talk≈ 13:46, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. Which part of this guideline were you referring to? I can't see anything that discourages the use of flags in infoboxes. Tim Vickers 00:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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PD-Self doesn't need a source, please do not re-add tag you wrongly placed there. Happy editing. ≈Tulkolahten≈ ^≈talk≈ 21:19, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

It's a screenshot of a map with painted direction of crash site. ≈Tulkolahten≈ ^≈talk≈ 09:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

What is the difference between the {{tl:PD-self}} and {{tl:GFDL-self}} licensing? One explicity states "GNU', but they both essaentially say the same thing. I created the picture and release it. Thanks. wbfergus ^Talk 13:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I have quite a few pictures on here (around 20-30), and I'd hate to have to go back and add a different if one was superceded by a newer one. I could really care less if anybody wants to cite me as the author or not. I guess some people need that extra attention, but I'm old enough now that I don't really care. wbfergus ^Talk 13:37, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Please stop tagging public domain images as speedy under the claim that they are only used in speedy pages. This claim only works if, once the page is speedied, that the image is covered by the CSD because it's unused. There is one a speedy criteria which refers to unused images, but only to images which don't have a free license. An image which is in the public domain doesn't become speedy-deletable just because it's unused. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

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I've removed the non-free image from its article. It can be deleted immediately. I'm the uploader. Thanks for your work. User:Pedant ( talk) 18:54, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, when you propose an image for deletion, remember to check if the image is in use. If it is, add The image above is proposed for deletion. See images and media for deletion to help reach a consensus on what to do. to the caption(s) in the article it is in use in, as it says in rule #1 in Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion#Listing images and media for deletion. Bib ( talk) 19:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't think any image on Wikipedia would "significantly harm the reader's ability to understand the article". You're blowing it grossly out of proportion. The image is there in order to identify two people; and, regardless of the importance of the event it documents, it is relevant to the article. In no way does it violate fair use. The picture helps the reader understand who the article's subject was on tour with and what he looked like at the time. It does nothing but enhance the quality of this article. NSR77 ^T _C 03:43, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Per this conversation, can I ask why you are creating pages and immediately flagging them with POV tags? Pages on bilateral relations are indeed often helpful, but why create them out of material that you don't think is neutral? - Revolving Bugbear 21:19, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey, i'd be willing to help wikilink the articles you're creating. I just wanted to let you know it'd do it to avoid an edit conflict after a good amount of work. If you're interested, of course. Grsz11 ( talk) 04:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

That would be fabulous! I don't intend to do any wikilinking myself for some time (as it is this is pretty tedious but at least it's fun to make a bunch of pretty articles), though I may go back to may a change or two here and there (adding see alsos, etc). Hopefully we won't be getting any ECs but if we do all my edits should be small and easy to incorporate for you. Mangostar ( talk) 05:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like a plan. I'll do it when I'm free. Grsz11 ( talk) 05:06, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, my bad for not noticing the assertation at the bottom of the page. But please note for future:

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Hi. Thanks for your work on this article. I haven't had a chance to review all the edits, but the article needed work. I might suggest that you do major editing in a word processing program or on your sandbox page rather than make a dozen changes to the "live" page just because it makes it easier to see what happened that way. Also, sometimes some folks hide vandalism in multiple edits, so when I see that many edits I start looking at the history to see if there is some reason. Bob98133 ( talk) 21:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I prefer to make multiple edits (and I prefer that others do as well, within reason). That lets others look at my edit summaries for each change and see where content is coming from and where it is going, as well as why I made the changes I did. Feel free to make whatever changes to my version as you'd like. Mangostar ( talk) 21:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I uploaded an edit that attempts to address the issues you raised with the photograph. It was a bit of a struggle to correct the distortion at all. I guess I feel like it would be hard for a better picture to be taken given where the building is. Anyway, a second look would be appreciated. Thanks - Fcb981( talk: contribs) 07:30, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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Hi. I saw the Markoff photo change, went to its Flickr link, found a couple images, and met you back at Hoffman. So sorry, and pretty funny in a way. I promise to stop but wanted to congratulate you on finding these images. They are high quality and your crops are excellent. - Susanlesch ( talk) 03:53, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not going on number of hits, I'm going on relevancy. See this Google search for example; out of those 10 pages, 3 sources at most use the term (most notable being NY times and the List), the rest being blogs or shopping magazines. I'd be happy to undelete if you think you can develop at least a higher-class stub from that. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 17:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I know all of that; please don't assume I've got a case of the itchy delete finger. :) I was just concerned, as blogs tend to give rise to many terms which may gain usage in other blogs. That's why terms that originate from blogs need quite a bit more mainstream recognition before being considered notable, given the freeform nature of the "blogosphere". I'll undelete, in any case. Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 17:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree with your recent removal of the under contruction tag from Royal Ballet School; but your note (... this should be used on an hourly basis) is a little bit hasty. The tag's own text reads, ... If this article has not been edited in several days please remove this template...., which was the case with Royal Ballet School. Robert Greer ( talk) 20:10, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I've tagged 2006 China-Kenya oil agreement for speedy deletion as a copyvio. I know you're just splitting off the text from the main article. It looks like User:Patch77 took the material from here. -- Whpq ( talk) 18:08, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good, I was suspicious myself and googled one phrase and didn't see anything... Thanks for being more thorough! :) Mangostar ( talk) 18:18, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

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Hi, Mangostar. You've made some terrific changes to several articles related to reading and literacy. Thank you!

When you have nothing better to do, please take a look at all of the articles in the Reading navigation template. They could use an objective eye.

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I have nominated Category:Human trafficking ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Mattisse ( Talk) 00:32, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

HI I very much appreciate your work in creating these important missing articlres but do you think you could spend a minute or two cleaning one or two of them up. Creating a whole succession of articles intentionally with a wikify or clean up tag on them is lazy, particularly when they are copied public domain articles. This leaves a lot of other work for other editors later. Don't get me wrong your're doing excellent getting these off to a start but it would make things easier if you could wikify a few of them first ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:46, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I have uploaded a new, slightly larger, file of The Shakespeare Center, which you questioned. This is a photo which I created, and wish to share in the public domain. Weimar03 ( talk) 21:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear Mangostar: you have questioned a dozen or more photos on a Wiki site I developed (and for which I was given a "The Exceptional Newcomer Award For your work on the article Riverside Shakespeare Company. utcursch | talk 14:52, 4 December 2007 (UTC); the photos I have placed on the RSC site are ones that I myself took; posters that I made, all as graphics designer for this company. But I need your help: I don't know how to change the credit line on an existing photo, only how to load a new replacement photo. Can you explain this to me, to save me an inordinate amount of time on a Wiki site upon which I have spent countless hours of work? I would appreciate this. Weimar03 ( talk) 02:54, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

As posted on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2008 April 15:

If editors in good standing upload images as {{GFDL-self}}, we normally take it on trust that they are acting properly, unless there is evidence to the contrary (e.g. a history of uploading images improperly). It is out of order to suddenly jump to deletion, without any dialogue with the uploading editor, in order to give the editor a chance to resolve the situation satisfactorily. This image should definitely not be deleted until that has been done. This applies to the other images below similarly nominated. [1]

Ty 13:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear Mangostar, in your last email, you asked to have the theatre company email Wiki, but the Riverside Shakespeare Company (unfortunately!!) was disolved ten or more years ago, after 20 years of existance. I will, however, add the information that you requested, which will, hopefully, suffice. It's all for the sake of documenting this organization, which has no website, and therefore Wikipedia will be the first (and only legit) complete documentation of what the RSC of NYC did in its first decade when I worked there. Weimar03 ( talk) 16:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, to anwser your questions: "Were you an employee of the theater when you created these images?" Yes, I was. and "Also, please add a note to any non-poster photos saying whether you took them or not." Yes, I did. And I own the negatives, etc. etc. Thanks, again, for your assistance on clarifying all of this. Weimar03 ( talk) 19:16, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Ps., I have, per your suggestion, added wording to the RSC/NYC site about the end of the last years of the company. Weimar03 ( talk) 19:27, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Weimar03 ( talk) 19:27, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I've begun to add information about photos & posters on the RSC site. Let me know if you think it suffices.

Dear M, respectfully, what you wrote in your last email is not true. I took the pictures for the RSC, made the posters, with my own funds, not the company's. At the time I was not compensated for any of this. I now own the negatives, the artwork. The company never copyrighted any of this. Weimar03 ( talk) 00:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Let me add, to clarify the above statement, that McMullan owns the posters he designs for Lincoln Center Theatre, which pays him fee for their use. But they are his. Carol Rossigg and Martha Swope have a copywright on the photos they shoot for a theatre, which has a right to reproduce them but does not in fact own them. Such was the case with the posters I made, and the pictures I took for the RSC of NYC. When a theatre dissolves, the copywright does not belong to anyone, but the artists and photographers who worked there. If a set desginer designs a set for a theatre, its for that one use of the design for that particular show, and the copywright for that set design belongs to the designer, not the theatre; it cannot be used again by anyone but him or her. Etc. etc. Weimar03 ( talk) 00:27, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, I'll do my best. Could not come a worse time: swamped for the next week in my present job. If you can petition the judge for a stay of execution, it would help. I and others spent quite a bit of time developing that site. Hate to see dozens of posters, flyers, etc. deleted. Hanks' rep contacted us with a compliment on the site. We corrected a lot of misinformation about his work at the RSC of NYC that's out on the web. What Wiki now has is the facts about his only NY work. Ah well...

Weimar03 ( talk) 02:26, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear Mangostar: After our various conversations (thank you, by the way) I have gone through the Wiki sites I have contributed material to and pulled, temporarily I hope, any material that contains graphic/photographic stuff that any others in the company have contributed to. As the prime photographer for the theatre company (yes, as a volunteer) during its first ten years, and, at this point, the primary contributor of material to these sites, I want the final material on the site to stay there, and that all the documenation is in place. I'll do my best to take care that it is. I'll get back to you on this. Weimar03 ( talk) 10:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, I have gone through the site and carefully added wording which I believe addresses the issues and clarifies the status of the photos and the graphics that you questioned. I have referenced all of these to Weimar03 should there be any future question. All the best, Weimar03 ( talk) 13:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

And thank you for your dilligence. I understand the why and the wherefore a bit better now. I think we're all working towards the same end: to make Wikipedia a better, ever more credible source of information. All the best, and let me know if there's more I can do. Weimar03 ( talk) 15:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

And, while you're at it, check out a site I overhauled, about an important New York theatre: The Winter Garden Theatre (1850); hope you like it. Weimar03 ( talk) 22:03, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, just wanted to know if I should be concerned about the notices on the photos of the site that you looked at, and if you'd had a chance to look at what I placed there to clarify the sources, etc. Just let me know if there's more that I need to do. Cheers! Weimar03 ( talk) 11:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, thanks for removing the deletion box from the photos on Riverside Shakespeare. I notice that they're still on several posters on that site. Let me know if there's more I should do. Cheers! Weimar03 ( talk) 21:40, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, Someone, not sure who, has also posted a "considered for deletion" on all or most of the posters I designed with photos I took, all on the Riverside site. I've documented these, just as I did the photos for which you removed the deletion boxes (again, thanks). Should I worry about these posters being removed, and never appearing on the Wiki site? Thanks for your help on this.. Weimar03 ( talk) 01:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Weimar03 ( talk) 03:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear Mangostar: we corresponded last spring about the Riverside Shakespeare Company site, for which I'd addeda quite a few photos I myself had taken, and owned (still have the negatives, etc. etc.) Now a newcomer has taken interest in the site and is going through, taking out pictures that I thought I'd documented fairly well. You can see for yourself. I'm not exactly sure how to fend off this kind of stuff. You know, it gets to the point that one gets tired of developing a historical site, with documentation that I've gotten a zillion compliments for, including an Exceptional Newcomer Award, and an invitation to Alexandria last summer for the Wiki conference (couldn't go, I was in Berlin writing a book, etc., etc. ) I guess I should have recommended that the site be locked off to keep well-meaning folks from going through, as you had done (carefully, I must add), and deleting photos I'd inserted for historical documenation of importance.

Do you have any recommendation? Because, as you can see from the recent "history" of the site, the demolition of this site has begun, and I'm rather fatigued at trying to defend photos and posters that I created, and had "donated" to the universe through Wikipedia. By the way, my name is WeimarO3, but that wasn't registered. You could probably be respond through this, your own site. Thanks!

Hi Mangostar. Thanks for backing me up with your knowledge on legal matters. I was very dependent on news information. BTW, as much as possible, I would like to be consistent with ref tags, like {{ Cite web}}, and dont know what type of template would Im going to use with the sources you add. Could you fix it for me? Thank you very much. -- Efe ( talk) 03:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I will not change them. If you have more prose concerns about the article, please reflect them in the FAC page. Thank you. -- Efe ( talk) 03:58, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I just noticed how Jacques-Édouard Alexis article was expanded and improved by you, thanks for the good work. - Kain Nihil ( talk) 04:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

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Mango: Thanks for finding these pictures. It would be wonderful to find some of the Easter parade in its heyday. I have given up on WP images because of the hateful ways of those who like to take them down, but I'd possibly do some work to find a free image or two for this article. Do you have any suggestions on where to look for such things? Lou Sander ( talk) 16:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Great stuff! I'm concerned about some idiot taking the photos down and complaining that there's not sufficient evidence that they are free images. Do you have advice on this? Lou Sander ( talk) 19:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your contribution! It's edits like this that really help out. Tan | 39 21:43, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

If this is sarcasm, I doubly stand by my edit--edit warring about incrementing the gmail counter means someone is taking things way too seriously. Mangostar ( talk) 21:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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Hi. I noticed that you moved the information on economic impacts from red-light district to prostitution in the Netherlands. I agree with the move, but just to let you know you left some references (not formatted) behind. Cordless Larry ( talk) 15:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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I'm sorry sir for my ignorance. I didn't mean to discriminate IP users, but sometimes mistakes are bound to happen. This happened while I was patrolling for recent edits. I'll be more careful in my actions next time. Sorry again. On my part I've removed the warnings which I left and replaced with a welcome note. Thanks for notifying and have a good day.  S3000   ☎ 17:47, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Wondering why you haven't joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 09:25, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

With Cambodia User:Paxse and I looked for weeks to find some free images. I think a flickr agreement was made and somebody made contact with one of the those blogs and there isn't a problem. Most of them we found on a US aid site including the current image we have of the prime minister ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Thats great work you;ve done on Ratanakiri. I see you created Image:Ratanakiri districts.jpg. I was trying to obtain some district maps for many months, is it possible you could create district maps for the other provinces? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:14, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

What we need to do is add a commune and village table to all of the districts like I have done to Battambang District etc. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Well given that finding a decent amount of free images for Cambodia is a very difficult task particularly as the OTRS people in the commons take months to respond if you think removing these images helps wikipedia thats your problem. But as they aren't OTRS ticketed people will inevitably doubt them. In regards to Cambodian district maps anyhting is far better ythan we have at present (e.g nothing). ANy work you could also do on developing some of the district and other provincial articles would be gratefully appreciated ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:24, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I put a speedy on it as it read like a travel guide and the text appears in a lot of travel guides. As you split it off from an existing article, do you know what the provenance of the text is? I don't want to delete material that should legitimately belong. Regards. -- Whpq ( talk) 12:28, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

The text was a copyvio text dump from May 3 from http://www.thai-tour.com/eng/narathiwat/attractions.html, not by Mangostar, but by another user. Accordingly, I have deleted the spliced article, and reverted the article it was spliced from to the version before the violating text was added.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 12:57, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

To prove that user:borndistinction is the representative of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, check the link for the endorsement letter by TAT [2]. TAT has sent an email to the wikimedia also.

To prove that the content for the Narathiwat Province from the external website is copyright of TAT, check the link [3], they've added the phrase "Courtesy of www.Tourismthailand.org"

Moreover, the content are also under the process of being uploaded on to the TAT's website as it hasn't been uploaded yet because the site is under improvement process. -- Borndistinction ( talk) 06:44, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Restore my deleted part

Please ask someone to restore my deleted content as i've provided all the proof and cleared all the doubts.-- Borndistinction ( talk) 02:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi there! Just thought you'd like to know that the plot section has been significantly trimmed down as per the requests of many editors, yourself included. Your input on the FAC would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- Hemlock Martinis ( talk) 01:49, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the merger tag temporarily, since it's already been proposed that the existing camouflage article move to cryptic coloration. Once that's resolved, then a merger proposal can be done, but right now it's too confusing... scot ( talk) 12:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Generally, it might be a good idea not to redirect or to afd additional articles until the test case at AfD, for 619 in Ireland, is dealt with by consensus. And even so, at present it seems to deal only with cases where there is no actual event in that year. It would be good to do a single test case for where there is one event in a year. And let it finish the undoubted Deletion Review if there is one before doing more. Doing a whole batch without prior consensus is not really the best way to do it--as the episodes and characters mess has shown. Go slow, and its more likely to last without drama. DGG ( talk) 04:21, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

(from Sarah777 page) Please do not call obviously good-faith edits "vandalism"--it's insulting. Also, do not remove AFD tags from articles before the AFD discussion is complete. As an established editor, you should know as much. Mangostar ( talk) 03:40, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Please don't delete 20 separate articles without any discussion. That is vandalism. Sarah777 ( talk) 00:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

The entire content was preserved in the merge. Give me a break. Mangostar ( talk) 00:18, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Merge? You deleted 20 articles (possibly more, I can't track everything). "Timeline" v "years in" has been debated in the past. Who appointed you as God? (I ask this with civility, of course). Sarah777 ( talk) 00:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

They were all redirected and combined, I have no idea what you are talking about. Look through all the facts listed on the 7th century in Ireland page - every single thing from the year pages was kept in the bigger artilce. Mangostar ( talk) 00:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I have no knowledge of any past discussions, but the AFD has a clear consensus (so far at least) that these early entries should be merged. Mangostar ( talk) 00:31, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

What AfD are you referring to? Sarah777 ( talk) 00:46, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

The one you keep removing! :) 619 in Ireland. Mangostar ( talk) 00:47, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

You've removed it again??? I should not have smiled. You CANNOT REMOVE AFD TAGS. Read the tag! Mangostar ( talk) 00:49, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Cheers.. Not much i can do about that - Its listed under the Category:Brazilian people, which im tagging for WPBrazil and WP BIO, as generally, they should be right. Probably just a handful of false positives such as this

— Ree dy 15:03, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your explicit advice on using the highest possible resolution. The three low-res photos that I uploaded yesterday were indeed "resized" from hi-res originals as a kind of a trial. The upload went much faster, but I am not sure about the quality for other users. I will follow your advice in the future and will replace the three low-res pix with hi-res originals if I can figure out how to do this (always a problem for novices...). Thanks again. -- Zlerman ( talk) 02:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi. In that AfD, you asked to be notified as soon as it closed, in order to proceed with merging the generic year articles. That solution would now seem to have consensus.  Sandstein  22:32, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

No. The deletion of 619 had consensus. Nothing else. Sarah777 ( talk) 22:35, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Please do not do this again. There was a clear consensus that the articles should be merged. Mangostar ( talk) 22:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Mangostar - thanks for the bilateral ties image for Indo-Bhutanese relations - I truly admire your work. Just so you know, I'm adding more work your way with Sino-Bangladeshi relations, Pakistan-Bangladeshi relations, Indo-Burmese relations, Indo-Iraqi relations and Indo-Sri Lankan relations. Again, thanks! Vishnava _talk 18:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Mangostar - there is a problem with this map - it cuts out all of Northeast India from the colored map of India. I do think this is a significant problem which I request you to rectify. Regards, Vishnava _talk 05:06, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks ! Vishnava _talk 05:10, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah :) in fact they are my principal sources for almost all I've done; I've extracted juicy bits adding history and political perspectives to foreign relations, so its an all-round resource really. Thanks - you do some wonderful work, btw. I hope to learn to make maps like you, a very useful skill. Thanks, Vishnava _talk 05:22, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Hey Mangostar. I saw you adding noinclude to a template that I protected recently. I didn't realize that adding a tag would cause it to be echoed onto the articles that include the template. Oops! What do you think about leaving off the semi-protection tag completely, for templates? What do people normally do? I assume that lots of templates must be protected anyway. EdJohnston ( talk) 04:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't think one large article is better 2-3 smaller ones. The smaller articles encourage people to contribute and all wiki readers to see that their isn't one type of religion in Zimbabwe (or any other country), that it differs as much as the Western countries most wiki readers come from. I agree that they have not been managed correctly, but that is not a good reason to simply merge them. Let us manage them better!-- Thomas.macmillan ( talk) 14:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

On 02 June, 2008, Ratanakiri Province was passed as Good article, which you created or substantially expanded. If you can improve it further, please do.

-- gppande «talk» 08:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

User:Fritzpoll/Refinement - take a look and comment on its talk page, please Fritzpoll ( talk) 11:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Mangostar - just wanna let you know that a fresh bunch of articles could use your excellent map-making skills: India-Republic of China relations, Pakistan-Turkey relations, Sino-Burmese relations, Sino-Bhutanese relations, Indo-Afghan relations, Sino-Nepalese relations, Nepal-Pakistan relations and Sino-Nepalese relations. Please have a look when its convenient, Vishnava _talk 01:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

One more thing - is it possible to make a map just like the bilaterals, save it colors India and the Southeast Asia region for the India's "Look East" Policy article? Vishnava _talk 01:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

		The Surreal Barnstar
		For your prolific work on creating maps, DYKs, writing a GA and for helping me without hesitation Vishnava talk 13:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Had a hard time picking what barnstar would suit - at least 4 would apply, so I just picked the " Surreal." Vishnava _talk 13:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

How is that not public domain? It was issued in 1955; there is a fifty-year limit for postage stamps. It is now the year 2008. So what exactly is the problem?-- Pericles of Athens ^Talk 16:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh, my mistake. Fifty-years for photographs, and fifty-years after the death of an artwork's creator. Now I see why it is tagged.-- Pericles of Athens ^Talk 16:46, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Are you coming to that conclusion from where it says this:

The term of protection for the right of publication and the rights provided for in Article 10, paragraphs (5) to (17), of this Law in respect of a work where the copyright belongs to a legal entity or other organization or in respect of a work created in the course of employment where the legal entity or other organization enjoys the copyright (except the right of authorship), shall be fifty years, and expires on 31 December of the fiftieth year after the first Publication of such work, provided that any such work that has not been published within t1tty years after the completion of its creation shall no longer be protected under this Law

If so that might be applicable, but I'm not sure what type of tag should be used.-- Pericles of Athens ^Talk 17:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

According to Postage stamps and postal history of the People's Republic of China, it is the state that issues postage stamps, as they have since 1949.-- Pericles of Athens ^Talk 17:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

One should also remember that this is Communist China in 1955 we are talking about. I don't think individuals would have the copyright to any postage stamp created under a state organization. Therefore the 50 year limit should apply for this stamp.-- Pericles of Athens ^Talk 17:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Sincerest congradulations on your work on the above and the Irish timeline in general. It was work badly needed. Hope to see more of your work in time to come. Is mise, le meas, Fergananim ( talk) 00:14, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

But please be careful in moving to create dab pages; many articles of long standing have numerous links to them and moving them will create links to the dab page, breaking the utility of the links. Please check the what links here - if there are more than you'd care to fix, probably best to leave it be, and add a hatdab messages, for example see Badia. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 01:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

		The Tireless Cambodia Contributor Barnstar
		I Blofeld the Bald award this to Mangostar for his excellent work and dedication at developing poor articles on Cambodia to an excellent level in Ratanakiri Province in particular. Your contribution to Cambodia on wikipedia is so important as there are so few editors working on them. Now if we can get every province up to Ratankiri level I'll be smiling!. Welcome also to the new geobot project. Hopefully we can improve coverage and quality big time. Keep up the good work! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 14:37, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

For the Cambodian commune articles I was wondering if you could find a way of using Template:Location map Cambodia and having a location of the communes on a pin map? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:04, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Also could you fill in the missing communes in the Ratanakiri nav box. Cheers! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Did you get my message? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:16, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes I agree completely, but I thought some sort of location map in the country would help considerably. A commune locator map would be very useful. You;ve done a smashing job on those districts. I remember when I stubbed all of the districts because we didn't even have them!! and many of the provinces are still stubs. Unbelievable. It would be good to make several hundreds clones of ourselves! Anyway I see you've also done a terrific job in realising the Library Congress data that could be added to wikipedia. The text is public domain right? I;ve just created 1958 elections in Laos is this OK to do? If so I will be willing to work with you at helping transfer the text to wikipedia, There are some awfully important articles and case studies on general topics for most countries. Excellent job! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

An excellent idea. I seem to be suddenly meeting a number of people who share the same interests and ideas for developing wikipedia as me, this looks promising in regards to the new geobot project. I'll make it one of my priorities to use that library resource. Some of it may need updating and intergrating with other sources and may occassionally be written from an American view but a good start. If you could sort out those Cambodian districts and communes it would e one less country for me to worry about! Any new maps you could create would also be a major thing ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely. I just started Topography of Laos too. I have a strong feeling that members of the new bot project such as User:Editorofthewiki, User:AlbertHerring, User:John Carter, User:EJF etc would also be interested. I have a lot on my plate with the bot establishment and sorting out existing settlements on wiki, but this is also very important to the project and would be willing to work hard at it. If we can combine such sources with other info and rewrite them a little afterwards into full articles this would be another immesne development for wikipedia. Might I suggest you address it to these editors that text can be transferred to wikipedia on important subjects by country like this and we could see another important project running again. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:57, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

The main reason in proposing the bot was to try to cover each country equally. Initially it was intended for towns and villages but if we can use it to generate detailed content using such sources I don't see why it wouldn't become possible to actually build it into the new project. As we work on each country we could work at adding the missing written articles from the Library too. Defintaely bring it up in the geo bot proposal discussion. The ultimate goal of thr new project is to cover each country as resourcefully and as completely as possible and we should be open to anything which could enhance wikipedia so much. It might be possible to develop a log of public domain text in addition that could be bot generated in addition to the new stub geo articles. This would leave more time for us to edit the articles rathing than always focusing on starting them ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:13, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I guess, I'm jus trying to think of how we could tackle it. Even with the geo articles to be generated by the bot it will involve a lot of human development. Probably the text from the Library could be transferred manually but I would certainy encourage the formation of the group you suggested. See what they others think ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:35, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Mmm like Agriculture in Laos, Animism in Laos and Drug policy in Laos ? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:36, 11 June 2008 (UTC) Hmm nice job with all this! However, I think (and this is just my opinion) that the commune pages for Cambodia deserve articles, while the small villages may not. Thoughts? I'm an Editor of the wiki ^{citation needed} 19:39, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Those look like some of the best links I've seen yet, thanks. I wonder if they have basic data on each village. They seme so have something on the districts or subdistricts ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:44, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Would you please revisit the Polar bear FPC. Your opinion would open or close this in my mind with regards to future work on improvements. Thanks. -- Mbz1 ( talk) 03:04, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

For c/e refs in the Polish culture in WWII article; I am looking forward to seeing this part done :) Horizontal navboxes are a good idea, but templates are not my field of expertise.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:08, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi - I see you have recently created one or more new stub types. As it states at Wikipedia:Stub, at the top of most stub categories, and in many other places on Wikipedia, it is recommended that new stub types are proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. This is partly in order to check whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it is otherwise correctly formatted, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, and whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies, and partly so that those who regularly deal with stub articles know what stub types are likely to need re-sorting soon. Your new stub type is currently listed at WP:WSS/D - please feel free to make any comments there as to any rationale for this stub type. And please, in future, consider proposing new stub types first! Grutness... wha? 02:38, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi remember to use stub categories and to tag the articles for WikiProject Cambodia!! e.g {{WikiProject Cambodia|class=stub|importance=low}}!! Crikey you started a fair few politicians stubs yesterday! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:12, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I've been doing the same for Kenya recently. Thanks for the inspiration! I'm an Editor of the wiki ^{citation needed} 16:58, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Don't let my delinquency diminish your perception of my appreciation for your assistance. You may want to add the following somewhere:

-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 03:23, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi I've made an intital suggestion at the GEOBOT talk page in that it would be an excellent idea to generate a full lists of places in a tabled list. Once this is accomplished we can work through what articles could be started in their own right if there is enough info avilabale. I see it as a solid comprehensive base to build geo content on if we have a full world list organized like this. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography/Bot#Creating lists. Please offer your thoughts thanks ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:25, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:World Trade Organization (WTO). Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PatrickFlaherty ( talk • contribs) 21:39, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

-- was placed by me in error. I misread a crucial component of the article. - Vianello ( talk) 22:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

What is/was your reasoning for removing the articles Education in country name from category Category:Education by country. They were being added by Template:Education by country and have not been deleted by your edit to the template? Dbiel ^{( Talk)} 05:08, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Your edit was/is incomplete as the template remains in Category:Category suppression-supporting templates. I was tempted to revert your edit but felt like asking the question first. Dbiel ^{( Talk)} 05:14, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

I reverted you edit per your comments on my talk page and edited the project page to remove it from the category. Thank you for your replies Dbiel ^{( Talk)} 05:36, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

You have made a number of edits on articles dealing with Newfoundland and Labrador recently. While I agree with some of what you have done, I disagree with others and have acted accordingly. You created a new article Climate of Newfoundland and Labrador by going back to an old version of Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador and copying the entire Climate section into the new article. That old version of Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador was extremely poorly written, containing factual errors, poor grammar and some nonsense. It was written by someone who had no idea of what they were talking about and who simply (and very poorly) paraphrased some of the referenced materials. It was an embarrassment and I spent a long time re-writing the whole article. You have now re-introduced that back into Wikipedia. Please either delete that article, copy the newer Climate section (which would be pointless, IMHO) or be prepared rewrite the new article. Silverchemist ( talk) 05:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

If you are going to copy and paste huge amounts of text from government documents into Wikipedia like you have done with Agriculture in Chad and a number of other articles, could you please take the responsibility of wikifying said huge amounts of text? Wikipedia is not a dumping ground. It won't be Wikipedia if there isn't any wiki. There's also: * Agriculture in Ethiopia

• Agriculture in Ghana
• Agriculture in Madagascar
• Agriculture in Uganda

Thanks, Kingturtle ( talk) 05:34, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Many people are able to wikify articles. Not many know where good PD sources of information are. My time is better spent copying and pasting, and letting others (who likely wouldn't know where to copy and paste from) wikify the text. Mangostar ( talk) 07:27, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok. Can you at least include a {{wikify|date=July 2008}} tag each time you copy and paste? That will make it easier for others to find it. Thanks, Kingturtle ( talk) 04:38, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Do you want to take another look at the Michael Jackson article, I have replaced the vast majority of the Campbell sources. Might be enough to get a support out of you yet, wasn't fun, but probably worth it. — Realist² ( Speak) 18:21, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for improving the article even more, it is starting to look bloody ace now ;-) — Realist² ( Speak) 23:04, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi MangoStar, I resolved your concerns at the Jackson review some while back but I haven't heard anything from you. I was just wondering where you know stand and is there anything I can do to the article? Also thank you for voting KEEP on that Jackson sub article (the Jackson health and appearance one), if that ever were to be re-merged into the Jackson article it would have been unnecessarily bloated. — Realist² ( Speak) 19:18, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanx for the reply, I will carry on working my very very hardest. — Realist² ( Speak) 22:22, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

OK, you say "non-notable hybrid." My question is exactly who died and made you the god of dog hybrids and therefore the one who decides what is and what is not "notable hybrid"?

Perroenano: Again who exactly died and made you the god of portmanteau names of dog hybrids? Perroenano makes as much sense as Chigi or some of the others. Edit undone. WaxonWaxov ( talk) 03:22, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

You seem like a good person to ask. I was wondering if you know if congressional research reports are in the public domain? I think they are since they created by the government, but then again, this is congress we are talking about and having work there for awhile, they seem quite happy to excuse themselves from certain laws. Thanks.-- Patrick ( talk) 04:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Patrick ( talk) 04:31, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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