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Will you help me?

Hello, I'm a new wikipedian from Texas, and I've just translated the article on the Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil from the Portuguese page, using my knowledge of Spanish and a dictionary, and adding a single fact I knew.. It says on your page that you know Portuguese. Could you check over my translation and see if anything contradicts the Portuguese version? You can leave my a message on my talk page. And another thing: how did you learn all those languages!? Kennethmyers 16:47, 29 June 2006 (UTC

Portuguese/English Translation

Thank you very much for responding! Yes, the source of the English translation was the Portuguese article, but I also added a fact which I am sure of (which is that the bishop who was re-accepted into the Roman Catholic Church had a wife and children). Also, I ommited some information about the previous attempts to create a national Brazilian church, because I thought they were a little non sequitur, and probably belong in another article. I would be extremely thankful if you could point out where I was innacurate, and either change it yourself, or tell me to. Thank you! Kennethmyers 22:13, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank You!

Hi! Thank you so much for looking at the article. I used the word "National" in the title because that's how I had heard the name. It looks like someone has fixed that too, now. If I can ever help you with anything, please let me know! Kennethmyers 05:26, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Gyrodynes

Hi, I'm OrangUtanUK who has done some stuff on the Gyrodynes page. I'm sorry, ut I was doing a chuky big change today and I think it's conflicted with some things you put in. I hope i've identified the main changes and merged them into my update, but perhaps it would be a good idea if you had a look and checked that you like my contribution.

best wishes; OrangUtanUK 17:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 22:42, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

D with a stroke edit.

Nah, mate. I wasn't referring to your edit in that summary - your edit was good. I was talking about Ptcamn's revert, which undid a capitalization, and alphabetical orders, when they could have just re-added Bosnian instead of reverting. Sorry about the confusion. - King Ivan 07:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Bellows

Heya, Beeblebrox! I just hammered on the Bellows page for a while - is this what you had in mind for cleanup? Cbdorsett 07:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reply. I have a little request: can you help out with the translation from Slovenian to English on Slovenian parliamentary election, 2004? The only thing remaining is "Nepovezanih poslancev" and "Nepovezani poslanec", which I'm guessing are the plural and singular of something like "unaligned candidates" or "independent deputies". Thanks. Cbdorsett 05:02, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for helping out there. I cleaned up a little bit, and I changed "Deputy group" to "delegation," which is the correct English term for a group of members of an elected body, who are all in the same party. In the US Congress, there is a Democratic delegation, a Republican delegation, and so on. I don't know about British usage - it could be quite different. Cbdorsett 04:07, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Translation of Interlingua

Hi Biblbroks,

Thanks for welcoming me! I’ve known several people from the Balkan region at various times. It’s an interesting region, and I think the Balkan languages are fun as well. I wonder if you could do me a favor. The Wiktionary has an article on Interlingua with several translations, but one Balkan language, Croatian, isn’t yet included. I gather that you speak this language natively. Could you add the Croatian word for Interlingua? That would be great! The article is located here. By the way, the English Misplaced Pages article on Interlingua is here.

Thank you, 66.68.174.245 (not my real name :)

Citation about monument for Dragan Stojkovic

Hi Biblbroks, I have cited about a sentence on Dragan Stojkovic you have posted in August.(^^)v Hope you write about him in Srpski, and "Uncle Milé(Milé Servy)"in English.auto-translation about whom I am talking of<-- "lead star" is Red Star.So, "pop and lead star" is "Grandpa Mile and Red Star". about donation lots of Japanese fans raised for him. picture of him.

Is him somehow famous, I wonder?

See you around.--Orcano 20:29, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

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No need, tipo

I've been on a form of Wiki before. I do not need any tips on how to do this site. hrwiki is where I started off, as Balmung and Sanjuro; I do not need any help starting off on this site.

--FireMan

General relativity

If you want to see the lead shortened, then it would behoove you to either make a suggestion or tell me why you think that it is too long. Just slamming a tag on it is unacceptable IMO, especially when the lead is as long as it is because the article was chided for its being too short in the past.

The standards call for the lead to be between one and four paragraphs long. It is. --EMS | Talk 14:56, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank you...

... for your welcome! --Nice poa 07:51, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Removal of Ptolemy from timeline of scientific discoveries

I've made some comments on your removal of Ptolemy on the timeline's talk page. Rjm at sleepers 06:47, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

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Milena Lukich for Afd

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Meša Selimović

For me is surprise to tell this but user:Nikola Smolenski has been right. See this compromise version which has been destroyed by nationalistic SPA accounts:"Mehmedalija "Meša" Selimović (Cyrillic: Мехмедалија "Меша" Селимовић) (26 April 1910 - 11 July 1982) was a Yugoslavian writer, one of the greatest 20th century novelists of Bosnian and Serbian literature."--Rjecina (talk) 15:26, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

June 2008

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
If you vandalize Misplaced Pages again, as you did to User:Luna Santin, you will be blocked from editing. Gwernol 01:19, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Gwernol 01:25, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki block logs

Block logs on June 18, 2008 for Biblbroks:

If someone understands what is happening with this user... On FR, he seems to claim for "help" (?)
Hégésippe | ±Θ± 03:35, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

I'm not quite gone, actually. But thank you. :) Best, Durova 07:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Copy-and-paste page moves

Hello, Biblbroks. Concerning your contribution, International relations regarding Kosovo, a page move cannot be done by simply copying and pasting the contents of a page into a new location, as such a process does not transfer the page's edit history and therefore violates the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). As a violation of the page move process, International relations regarding Kosovo needs to be temporarily deleted under the speedy deletion criteria so that the page you intended to move may be properly moved in a way that will preserve its edit history. International relations regarding Kosovo has been tagged for deletion, and may have been deleted by the time you see this message. If not, please refrain from editing either the page you intended to move or International relations regarding Kosovo until the latter has been deleted according to Misplaced Pages's speedy criterion G6 (non-controversial housekeeping).

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Disruptive behaviour

Biblbroks, I have placed a note on the Administrators' Noticeboard because of your disruptive behaviour. I know you are acting in good faith, but your recent actions have led me to this. Bazonka (talk) 07:54, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

I too believe that you are acting in good faith, but controversial edits such as moving or redirecting a page require a majority consensus. Your proposal was rejected by an overwhelming majority. There was a recent discussion about renaming the article and it led to renaming the article "International recognition of Kosovo". Here is the discussion, which had a consensus to rename the article. Also once/ if you have a consensus, you have to perform the rename via WP:RM. Please take this into consideration. Regards Ijanderson (talk) 14:41, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

You could argue that, but a lot of people will revert your edits without a consensus and say WP:DONTBEADICK Ijanderson (talk) 16:28, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Why are you not claiming that this article has a POV title: International recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia? Ijanderson (talk) 17:14, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Contrary to your belief, I wasn't being ironic. Bazonka (talk) 17:35, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Computer network proposal

The "Recognition" debate

Biblbroks, I have brought this discussion to your talk page because it is taking up waaay too much space on the Talk:International recognition of Kosovo page. And I apologise for spelling your name incorrectly before.
Let me explain the meaning of "flogging a dead horse". You completely misunderstood it. The "horse" refers to your argument which you are "flogging" (whipping) by trying to continue it. In other words, you are working very hard to make something work, but it is a waste of time because it is "dead" - it will never, ever work.
Now for answering some of your questions:

1. "Who can be authoritative enough to connect the context and the meaning in every given case?" I don't understand what you mean. Why do you need authority for this? There is no authority amongst Misplaced Pages editors - things are done by consensus. And the consensus (with the exception of you) is that the title adequately covers the context of the article.
2. "If it is about recognition of independence, why couldn't it be also about recognition of dependence?" I suppose that a country that doesn't recognise Kosovo as an independent state, by default "recognises" it as a province of Serbia. But this isn't really how it works diplomatically. Diplomatically, countries recognise other countries, not bits of countries. For example, all countries "recognise" that California is part of the USA, but no countries have an embassy to California because they don't diplomatically recognise California - their embassy (and official recognition) is with the USA. So the "recognition" in the title of this article obviously refers to recognition as an independent state, not as part of a larger state.
3. "There are many ways of recognitions. With how many should this article deal with?" My statement "...entities recognise in a variety of ways..." was a response to your argument that recognition is a process. I was pointing out that there is not just one process for recognition, but many. I do not understand why the "process" element of recongition is at all relevant.
4. It could be considered POV that the article's title assumes that we mean recognition of Kosovo as independent, not recognition as a Serbian province. I think there may a valid case for renaming the article to "International recognition of the Republic of Kosovo" to remove this ambiguity. Yes, I said that there may be some ambiguity in the title - but not in the word "recognition"! The potential ambiguity is in the meaning of "Kosovo" - do we here refer to the state or to the province? But as I have said in point 2 above, this change is not entirely necessary because it should be clear that we are referring to Kosovo as an independent state. Hence my comment about "pedantic semantics". Semantics are, as you say, important. But extreme pedantry is unnecessary - it could turn a useful article into something unreadable.
   

Biblbroks, please can you repond to this post here, on your talk page. That way the whole discussion will be easier to read. Bazonka (talk) 10:13, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

I will indulge you and answer on this page. A bit, though, because my opinion is that the debate should continue on the talk page for the matters of continuity, consistency and especially transparency. Therefore, I will transfer a part from it there, too. And apology accepted, but with a note of you being careful in the future - too much has had me disturbed (as personal attacks) in your words. Not to mention the hostility of some other contributors. The term hostility was used here instead of the terms personal attacks - as they do in England with euphemisms, don't they. Sincerely I'm not not taking you very neutral at the moment. Especially not objective. Maybe not even sincere.

As for the explanation of the phrase: there's no need for you to do that. I got your point. The very first time. Unfortunately you haven't got mine. I hope you get it now: don't take the role of some kind of authority whether consensus exists or could exist. Neither do describe my actions. I don't yours. And if I may be a bit sarcastic with you not to mind that too much and explain my figure of speech (if you haven't got it yet): a person is much more humanely AND/OR reasonably "metaphored" with a horse, than an issue could be personified with anything else, not even a horse.

The other issues I will answer on the talk page. All the best, --Biblbroks's talk 15:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages with links to disambiguation pages.

Please do not remove links from these pages that have not been fully repaired, as you did with Norwood. The page still has a direct link to the disambiguation page, Norwood Park, which means that it still shows up as a page needing repair to disambiguators. Intentional disambig links must be piped through a "Foo (disambiguation)" redirect, to remove the link from the reports of those needing repairs. Cheers! bd2412 T 20:31, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that is perfect. That way, when a disambiguator generates a list of pages needing repair, Northport will not show up on the list. Cheers again! bd2412 T 17:24, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Your edit to the "vandalised" template

Hi, just thought I'd mention that I saw you recent edit to this template, and I would suggest you take a look at Help:Magic_words#Conditional_expressions for the correct syntax of the #ifeq parser function: it was a good effort, but you didn't use the syntax correctly. I need to rush offline now, but I'll give you some help with the syntax later if you want it. Regards, GiftigerWunsch 19:22, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I rushed that message a bit. The correct syntax for the #ifeq parser function is {{#ifeq:x|y|result1|result2}}. If x is equal to y, the result is result1; otherwise, it's result2. You tried to add an extra pair of conditions I believe, but since the result is either x equals y or x is not equal to y, that doesn't work. Take a look at the syntax for "#switch" at Help:Magic_words#Conditional_expressions, this seems to be what you were trying to do. Hope that helps; happy editing. GiftigerWunsch 19:52, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Your edit to the "Srbosjek"

Well, as you've seen, my youtube reference is genuine contribution from German TV. Agricultural tool called "Sheaf knife" in English or "Gerber Messer" in German. While this tool might have been used for killing people, it definitively ISN'T "specially designed" for killing humans as first sentence says. Big effort is being done by certain Serbian extremist circles to increase number of victims (as if, for example, 70-100.000 really killed in Jasenovac concentration camp isn't hedious enough), mostly in order to justify crimes done by Serbian paramilitaries in 1990's.

Here is one more link: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.hr-online.de/website/fernsehen/sendungen/index.jsp%3Frubrik%3D22664%26key%3Dstandard_document_33193668%26lugal%3D1%26ibp%3D0&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1&usg=ALkJrhiyZmWTmWOdaN-grFgN2KzFkfNmew —Preceding unsigned comment added by MahnitiTapir (talk • contribs) 22:10, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Vandalised template

Glad I could be of help. Thanks for your note. GiftigerWunsch 12:55, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Leaving

Thanks for your concern. I am dedicated to making positive contributions to the project, and I like to think I am a patient person, but unfortunately the actions of other editors have made me lose my patience. I am glad I could have contributed to this project before this happened, and I am happy to have interacted with more pleasant editors, yourself included. GiftigerWunsch 13:09, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

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