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+ Peruvian presidential election, 2011

Women's Olympics Tennis

There are two US women's doubles teams in the semi-finals. At least one of them HAS to win a medal, bringing the medal count for US to at least 3. This is a simple concept.

Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics edit

Hi, Lihaas. I do not mean to be a nuisance or annoyance, and do forgive me if I am of offense. However, I wanted to let you know I reverted this edit because I don't think you read the deleted paragraph through; only approximately half of that paragraph actually involves a summary of what Jamaica is and can be considered redundant to the actual Jamaica article. When I wrote the paragraph, my intent was to provide an introduction towards what each country is. I've attempted to standardize this across other articles of this kind, including this one, this one, and this one; I am aware that the characteristics that make understanding the context of each country useful are not readily known to the general public, although known information obviously varies with each situation. Additionally, I know how easy it is for readers to become distracted when they are missing aspects of background information that makes each article helpful and understandable. I would like to minimize the number of readers who become distracted early because they are missing useful information. Let me know if you still object to my action, and we can discuss it further. --Starstriker7 09:22, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

I think I understand what you mean in that the information would be redundant if the Jamaica at the Summer Olympics article was ever expanded. It would be effective to "see also" the national Olympic pages of the country (it is already linked inside the infobox at the upper-right hand side, but it isn't very obvious). However, to remove the information still would not address my concern that the Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics article would be less complete. --Starstriker7 22:28, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

The edit in question also condenses the information so it acts as a quick summary. As I said before, I feel that removing the information may make the article less complete. A quick summary as such, while not directly related to the article's content, also makes it simpler for readers. If they need specifics on how the country did at other Games, then they can go to other pages. The example I will use is the Belarus at the Olympics article, which I did not help to write, that expands on how each Byelorussian team did at each of its Games (except for the 2012 games, which have not yet been added). It additionally lists a summary of Belarus' participation as a constituent under the Soviet banner. If Belarus at the 2008 Summer Olympics were expanded to include the background section, you are right in that it would not be inherently necessary. However, it would give readers easier access to the information. They would not have to navigate off the page in order to look for context.

In other words, I agree that the edited information is not inherently necessary on the Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics article. However, I still do feel that it is more expedient for readers to have this information on that page. The Jamaica at the Olympics article, when expanded, will go into this background information in much greater detail. --Starstriker7 23:53, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

I have been thinking, and I am inclined to believe that you are right. I was looking back on other possibilities, and I think the background section can be filled with information about that specific delegation's preparations. However, the issue is that not only every place pays great attention to their specific delegation, that languages do serve as a barrier in translations (especially for countries like Mongolia or Laos), and that past Olympics will be difficult to study. Geez, though; that is a lot of fixing to do. I will have to tackle the ones I have already done, but with time.

I would be glad to help with updating the 2012 Olympic nations articles. I apologize for the late reply, so hopefully I haven't fallen to far behind. --Starstriker7 06:06, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Hm. It looks like User:Courcelles has already taken care of everything. For his (or her) work, there isn't quite anything left to fix. -Starstriker7 06:10, 15 August 2012 (UTC) (reworded 06:16, 15 August 2012 (UTC))

{{notable}} tag at Refusal to serve in the Israeli military

Hi Lihaas, just wanted to leave you a courtesy notice that I'm removing your {{notable}} at Refusal to serve in the Israeli military. Your internal note suggested you were tagging it because you didn't think it was a good title. I agree that it's a bit awkward, but the tag doesn't strike me as an appropriate way of dealing with the issue based on the template's usage notes. Perhaps a requested move is in order. "Non-service in the Israeli military," perhaps? But unless you think the article wouldn't pass AfD or something, I don't think it's the right tag for such a well-sourced article. Thanks, BDD (talk) 02:04, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

why you keep removing the electoral votes for the presidential election 2012 india

DO you know how the system works~?.Individual mps\mlas are not counted.Only the electoral votes are counted.IF you see all the previous results,only electoral votes are present. manchurian candidate 14:30, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Modern pentathlon

Hey, i was doing that from here. The time i think it better suited or? Kante4 (talk) 17:45, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Ok, agree with you. You can do that. Also for the men's part it has to be done. ;)

Watching football now, later on i can do that. Kante4 (talk) 18:05, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

Why you spam?

hello,

why you spammed the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony article with silly cn tags? The source is the performance; if you are curious then you have to watch it yourself. Also, Al Jazeera has even a video, so you can watch it there. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 11:36, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

This is silly. You added cn tags after simple statements that can be verified by watching the actual video, which I assume you never did. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 14:20, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Read my response. Regards.--Kürbis (✔) 19:23, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

2016 articles

Please stop putting useless tables with redlinks to articles that will not (and can not) be created until early 2016. These pages look like a joke with empty tables. At this point, in mid-2012, they should be simple stubs, perhaps with comments about changes to the program or comments about the venue under construction. The alternative would be to nominate them for deletion, which has happened in the past when editors get over-zealous about new article creation years in advance (WP:CRYSTAL). Thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:53, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

What is the purpose the 2016 calendar when the event schedule has not been announced? For the next few years, it will just be an empty table with only row headers for the sports. The list of sports appears immediately above where you want to place that big table, so the links to the sport articles are redundant. And what is the purpose of a "Participants" section that lists only Brazil? Again, there is no value of having that section in the article for the next few years as most if not all entries would have zero sources. It's a classic example of WP:CRYSTAL. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 04:50, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

2012 indian presidential election

Why you keep deleting the results.I beg you to see the previous results.The electoral votes are given in a breakup format.Individual mps votes dont count.I am adding the electoral results manchurian candidate 07:17, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

2011 Egyptian Revolution

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Sam and Diane

Why did you remove this passage as dubious notability? --George Ho (talk) 05:05, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Which policy or guideline applies to removing such thing, even with 'lack of notability' that you claim? --George Ho (talk) 05:28, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Notability discusses only writing about a topic. You're confusing it with WP:trivia, am I right? --George Ho (talk) 05:49, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Getting Wikimedians to the Olympic Games

Hi. I am part of an effort to get Wikimedians access to the 2016 Summer Olympics as accredited reporters and photographers. Part of this effort includes covering the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Two Wikimedians have credentials to attend these games as reporters through Wikimedia Australia. As English Misplaced Pages does not allow original reporting, this is largely through Wikinews with a project page found at Wikinews:Paralympic Games. If you are interested in helping to get Wikimedians to the next Summer Olympics,I'd encourage you to assist with Wikinews efforts, and also to work on all language 2012 Summer Paralympic Misplaced Pages articles before, during and after the Games to demonstrate a track record of success. Thank you. --LauraHale (talk) 04:36, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

If you can comment back again on my talk page. :) Anyway, Wikinews categorically allows for original reporting. I've done a fair amount of it. Wikinews interviews Great Britain men's national wheelchair basketball player Joni Pollock is an example of one story I wrote that featured original reporting. China women's national wheelchair basketball team tops Japan for third place at Rollers & Gliders World Challenge is another. Intellectual disability is back in the Paralympics for the first time since I think 2000, so some of the World Games for people with intellectual disabilities will be there. (Special Olympics would be possible but it would still require getting past the notability hurdle.) Television coverage will be limited but there should be plenty of print for some things. http://abc.net.au is the Australian broadcaster and they do a pretty good job. Getting something for the two missing events would be fantastic. Leveraging the Paralympics for the Olympics in this case will ultimately come down to the Wikinews part. (To a degree, in an Australian context, the Misplaced Pages part is done. We got articles we needed created about the Australian Paralympians. We took a good crack at getting some of the classification articles created and worked on. We have pictures of almost all the Australian Paralympians, pictures of the Japanese men, Japanese women, Australian men, Australian women, Chinese women and Chinese men, and German women national wheelchair basketball teams in advance. Thus, some pictures of athletes to illustrate for articles if they get mentioned. This helps on a national level, as Olympic coverage will be contingent on getting a national committee to recognise WMF or a chapter as a media organisation. It is doable, but they need track record of success.) babbling. But yay! :D Paralympic help. :D --LauraHale (talk) 07:15, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

RE: Rio Games

Hi Lihaas! I'm sorry, but I didn't quite understand what you said. Could you explain? Best regards; Felipe Menegaz 07:40, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

There is no much information about the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee currently available. I can recall from some press release that the official name of the organizing committee is just Rio 2016, not ROCOG. I'll take a look at this article in another time... Cheers; Felipe Menegaz 08:43, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

That file was already deleted. It just features the previous logo of the bid during the Applicant phase, without the Olympic Rings. Felipe Menegaz 15:51, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

The Final Frontier (Mad About You)

Forgetting something? --George Ho (talk) 16:09, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

File:Frasier Crane Diane Chambers.jpg

Perhaps you might take a look at this image again, rewrite your posts at WP:FFD, or something? --George Ho (talk) 20:02, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Senkaku Islands dispute

Would you mind dropping by the talk page to explain the article-level tag you added? I don't mind it, but without an explanation, it'll be hard to correct the underlying problem and remove it. Khazar2 (talk) 18:30, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

{{Somali elections}}

In response to this, just to let you know, these templates do not include indirect elections. See {{German elections}}, {{French elections}}, {{Turkish elections}} as examples. Number 57 21:14, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

It was agreed years ago (mid 2000s) from what I recall. You are probably thinking of the templates dedicated to non-public elections (e.g. {{Pakistani presidential elections}}, {{Indian presidential elections}}, {{Israeli presidential elections}}), as as far as I know, there are none that have non-public elections. Number 57 21:22, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Moving Burma to Myanmar - ongoing poll

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Zenawi

Re this edit Prime Minister and President are proper nouns in this context so should be capitalised. And re this edit, it's not only the western media that describe him as a strongman, unless the India, Saudi Arabia, Libya and several other countries whose media are reporting him to be such are western now? And re this edit, the expression neé is only used when women have changed their surname due to marriage. You should have just written "born"). Number 57 21:40, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

I've changed the article to reflect these points. Number 57 22:04, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Arsenal

See Arsenal league positions 1947-2012.png. Cheers Crookesmoor (talk) 12:35, 23 August 2012 (UTC) I've updated the file as requested Crookesmoor (talk) 13:51, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Somali election

It's a bit of a mess - I can't seem to work out what the dispute actually is. Number 57 14:01, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

= March 8 block

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Badruddin Haqqani

Just to let you know, I undid your revision in regards to the above gentleman.

First of all it is a BBC story and it is confirmed- just not by Pakistani or United States sources.

A couple of key points in the article-

"A key commander in the Pakistan-based militant Haqqani network has been killed in a US drone strike, according to a family member and local sources."

"Tribesmen in North Waziristan and sources in the local administration told the BBC he is now dead and buried."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19378474

Please feel free to contact me about any other concerns. Thanks again for patronizing WikiProject Death.Sunnydoo (talk) 03:46, 26 August 2012 (UTC)