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AD/CE

Is there a reason you changed AD to CE in Palestine? I'm sure theres a MOS rule somewhere about this. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 11:49, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Going through my contributions page again huh? WP:ERA would be the policy. It's simply a matter of preference. I prefer secular era style, unless it's a Christian topic of course. Nightw 12:00, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

What a terrible accusation! Hmmm, not sure it should've been changed, Palestine seems very ADBCy, but no matter. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 12:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Doesn't that depend on one's religious affiliation? Palestine is Muslim, isn't it? Nightw 12:26, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, from what I know it's Muslim! Palestine is interesting though as it is considered a holy area by all three monotheistic religions. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 12:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

ITN for Southern Sudanese independence referendum, 2011

On 9 January 2011, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Southern Sudanese independence referendum, 2011, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page.

since you added it to FE Modest Genius 22:26, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Request for image

Hey Night, I can certainly make a cropped image of Somalia + Somaliland for you. However, wouldn't it be against policy to upload a photo of a copyrighted map? Maybe it could qualify under WP:FAIRUSE? (I don't know much about wikipedia's image upload policies). TDL (talk) 04:40, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

I did a bit of research and point 4 of Misplaced Pages:NFC#UUI seems to apply to our situation:

Unacceptable use

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4. A map, scanned or traced from an atlas, to illustrate the region depicted. Use may be appropriate if the map itself is a proper subject for commentary in the article: for example, a controversial map of a disputed territory, if the controversy is discussed in the article.

So, provided you indend to discuss the "controversial" aspect of the image in the article it should qualify under fair use. However, fair use images are forbidden from commons (Commons:Commons:Fair_use) so I'd have to upload it to the local wiki. TDL (talk) 04:50, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh, I see. I was under the impression that any photograph taken of anything could be uploaded into the public domain by the author as his/her "own work". I guess that is not the case. If you can still upload it to Misplaced Pages, that'd be very helpful. I do intend to use it as an example of the differences in definition of "East Africa", and why Somaliland may or may not be included. So much legal crap. Thanks for doing this! Nightw 05:04, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Take a look at this: . The lamination on the map makes it pretty tough to get a good photo of the map without glare. Especially since I'm just using an old point-and-shoot. The Horn of Africa region looks pretty good, but in the south it gets pretty fuzzy. If you prefer, I could just crop out the HoA, but if you're going to use it in the East Africa article it would be nice to have the whole region. TDL (talk) 06:00, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

We don't really need the surrounding areas, which is where the glare is. The only areas that we really need are the countries in dark green on this map. It's not a big deal, (all I really want is Somalia), but yeah I'd agree that it's probably more relevant if we have the whole region. Nightw 10:37, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Now that you bring it up, if you could do me another crop with just the Horn of Africa that'd be a big help as well. We've got similar POV issues on that article also. As long as it's not much trouble... Nightw 10:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

FYI, I finally got around to uploading the images you asked for: Image:East Africa.png, Image:Horn of Africa.png. I'd suggest taking a look at the fair use rational I provided, and tweak them as needed to reflect how you use the files in the articles. If you use them on any article other than the ones I specified, you'll have to create a new fair use rational for each article. Also, it might be a good idea to add them to your watchlist, since the image police around here tend to delete first and ask questions later! TDL (talk) 04:06, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Drmbon

Thanks for you input at Naming_conventions. I've added your argument in Talk:Drmbon (just changed google.com.au to google.com) and would appreciate very much if you confirm it there. Thanks. -- Ashot  19:01, 12 January 2011 (UTC)