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Your recent edits to country articles

May you please explain your reasoning in replacing up-to-date data with out-dated data for all these countries, as well as removing verifiability references from these articles? I see no sense in it and would like to see your reasoning before committing to reverting all these edits. _└  / _talk  13:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Please check your facts before levelling such accusations in future. I have replaced the old HDI figures with the most up-to-date data, contained in the Human Development Report released only two days ago by the UNDP. See for yourself here if any of the data I have entered is incorrect. Finally, please note that the report, while released on 9 November 2006, was compiled on the basis of 2004 data.--Kékrōps 13:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Easy tiger! All I did was ask for clarifications - had I assumed bad faith I would not have bothered to ask why you did it! I saw a 2005 figure change into a 2004 figure and only raised a concern. You did not provide a reference link for verification so you cannot blame me for my concerns. Btw, please provide me with a reference link so I can include it in the Malta article. Thanks. _└  / _talk  14:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Claiming that I replaced "up-to-date data with out-dated data" is a rather serious accusation on Misplaced Pages. The "2005" figure was in fact the 2003 figure contained in last year's report; it is an easy mistake to make, but you'll find that almost every other country had 2003 as the date of the old data. I simply corrected that error while updating to the newly-released figures for 2004. In any case, including a reference link to the very large UNDP file in every country infobox is entirely unnecessary as the reader can simply obtain the material from the external links section of the relevant article, namely Human Development Index, which the infobox does link to. No other country infobox contains a separate external link to the UNDP site, and I see no reason why Malta should be an exception.--Kékrōps 17:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Please accept my apologies for the aggressive wording, which was a mistake on my part. As I said, I was decieved by the erraneous figure on tha Malta page, and it was not my intention to assume bad faith. While I partly agree with your argument for not including a reference to the articles, I think that in the spirit of WP:VERIFY an extra reference does no harm. Malta was refused FA status because of its lack of verifiability, and while one missing reference does no difference in this aspect, I still think that it is a plus to verifiability and shall add a link to the HDI article in the references section. Again, my apologies. _└  / _talk  22:16, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

In that case, for the sake of consistency, could you go through and add the same link to every country infobox, not just Malta's?--Kékrōps 01:53, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

K. _└  / _talk  09:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Snake huh?

Poisonous too? What's with the name? And why did you choose to highlight that Ψ in your sig, while Poseidon's trident lost to Athena's lance? The latter would certainly be more compatible with your awkward shape, you "face with a tail"... NikoSilver 22:49, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

But a big Ψ is always better than a small one, don't you find? ;)·ΚέκρωΨ· 01:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Same would apply to a big K, I presume. Micro-K/Ψ guys would argue that it's not the size of the waves, but the motion of the ocean..." I say size does matter! NikoSilver 12:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

You're incorrigible. What's your animal, by the way? ·ΚέκρωΨ· 12:32, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, that would be pig, but don't advertise that please. :-) On the western astrology, my zodiac is Leo; same is my horoscope?/(Ωροσκόπος I mean), I've been told. Those planets conspired for my birth! In any case, I believe in actions rather than profecies, and I find that these practices aim to comfort (and exploit) the weak. I prefer reading the cartoon sections... PS. Model '78, aren't we? I am '71. NikoSilver 13:16, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Nice, that makes us mortal enemies according to the Chinese. I won't tell you my age because I don't want people here telling me I should act it, like they do in real life. Ωροσκόπος is ascendant or rising sign in English - confusing, I know. Don't misinterpret the nature of astrology; all it does is tell you what you're predisposed to - it says nothing about what you will choose to do with that information in the real world. It is a free will universe after all and you're quite right in saying that actions will always matter over anything else. ·ΚέκρωΨ· 13:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I see you corrected it by removing that hyphen. Maybe you should better add a "y" in the end, for obvious connotations. My opinion on astrology starts with a "Π" and is synonymous to their plural. NikoSilver 22:33, 23 November 2006 (UTC)