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Again, welcome! -- Solipsist 13:01, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi Aeicis,

Following up on your comment on the Village Pump, as User:Chameleon says, it sounds like you are looking for User:Maximus Rex who has been around a while and generally seems to know what he's doing. You can check his list of contributions to see whether your IP turns up. I can see he put vandalism notices on 135.214.66.241 and 217.204.233.101 not so long ago. If you find your IP there and it still troubles you, you could ask him about it on his talk pages. -- Solipsist 12:23, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Sorry - I posted this to your main page and the discussion on Village pump has moved on, so it is probably not relevant anymore. -- Solipsist 12:57, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

A- I am very impressed and pleased by your very timely contributions to the Drug Cheat page. Thank you for all your hard work. ]

Categorising

Hi Aecis, I've noticed that categorized a couple of athletes as Drugs cheats in sport. They are already in Category:Drugs cheats in athletics which is a sub-category of drugs cheats in sports so do not need adding to that category as well..Scraggy4 20:22, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi Aecis
and I have noticed that you have been categorising Dutch cities. I applaud the effort, but IMO this category should be under Category:Geography of the Netherlands. It happens there already was the Category:Cities in the Netherlands there. How should we solve this? Pethan 17:16, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I think the best option would be to move the articles in Cities of the Netherlands to Dutch cities, since Dutch cities contains more articles than Cities of the Netherlands, which would make moving the articles easier. Cities of the Netherlands could then be deleted. I think Dutch topography is different from Dutch geography, and therefore deserving of a category of its own. Aecis 17:24, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I agree with moving the cities to your new category, but I really think that cities should be under the same subcategory of Category:Netherlands where provinces, municipalities, rivers etc. are to be found. So I would like to suggest to moving Category:Dutch cities to Category:Geography of the Netherlands. Could you agree? Pethan 17:59, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
To answer the point you raised about the difference between the disciplines: the wikipedia defines topography as a geography term Pethan 19:08, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Edit attribution

Hi Aecis. Your edits as 217.120.230.237 have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 09:32, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Categories

Chinese surnames appear before given names. The surname of Soong May-ling is Soong. Please take this into account when inserting categories. --Jiang 20:45, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Cephalic disorder

You said on WP:CU

I see that you removed

I would like to find out who doscovered Anencephaly and when. I need this information for a biology report. If you can post it, it will help a lot. Thanks!

from Misplaced Pages:Requested articles. I appreciate your concern, and i've responded to the comment, but i can't figure out what your plan is for responding to the requester.

My plan, based on that incomplete info, is a temporary pointer where you removed the request from Misplaced Pages:Requested articles (which is still out of place but pretty harmless) and a response to the request at Misplaced Pages talk:Reference desk#Anencephaly as if it had been aked there. And i added my comment to your entry from CU, which can be deleted after a couple of days. Check those places, and fix if i missed something that makes my plan unsuitable to the real situation.

You seem like a committed editor, and i'm glad to have you with us. --Jerzy(t) 01:50, 2004 Oct 20 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Misplaced Pages's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to ] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to ] all my contributions to any ], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Terms of the Zagwe dynasty

Hi Aecis, I just noticed your edits to Rulers and Heads of State of Ethiopia, & I have to ask you where you found these dates; I suspect the source may not be reliable, because they do not match the approximate flourit for the one ruler we have definite information on -- Lalibela, who was king circa 1210. (That snippet can be found at Pope John VI of Alexandria, which I drew from the work of Taddesse Tamrat.)

I originally removed all dates for this dynasty because they are still under fierce debate: even the Ethiopian sources contradict each other over how long the Zagwe dynasty ruled. However, scholarship is always continuing, & if you have a better source than I, I'm eager to learn & add the missing information. -- llywrch 19:28, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Don't fret about it; like you, I'd prefer to provide tangible dates whenever possible, & from my reading I've discovered that Ethiopian Chronology becomes particulary troublesome by this point -- & is very speculative before the Zagwe dynasty! My intent was constructively engage in a discussion & prevent both of us wasting our time reverting each other over this point.
Do you think a note explaining the lack of dates for these rulers would help avoid someone else in the future adding dates to this section? -- llywrch 16:44, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

LoPbN

The first and so far only entry of User talk:Jerzy/LoPbN#Individuals Later Invited into This Discussion is specifically addressed to you; any response by you would be most convenient if made somewhere on that subpage.

A discussion whose topic is

LoPbN

appears on User talk:Jerzy/LoPbN; the following points describe the discussion:

  • 9 msgs, 19:30, 1 thru 12:53, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • 4 participants (counting an article's talk page): Jerzy·t·c·*; Slambo·t·c·*; readership of Talk:List of people by name·*; Aecis·t·c·*.
  • general topic(s): Links to non-bio articles; lengthy description of bio's subject; purpose of LoPbN


List of rocks

I see that you and I have been constantly (literally multiple times per minute) reverting vandalism by an anon. I'll keep watching the page; can you go and report vandalism? Thanks. jglc | t | c 14:33, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

    • Sounds good. I've got my eye on the List. jglc | t | c 14:35, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

misunderstanding

the edit summary was for me putting a semi-colon in after Argy's sockpuppets before his entry - I know he's not a sockpuppet, and I was showing that he's not by seperate his name from Argy's sock-list. --Kiand 17:55, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

ChrisO blocked all the open proxies he had been using, as well as his DSL IP, I think - so no way in. Any open proxy you can find easily on the web is blocked, as is all of Tor, etc. --Kiand 21:40, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
You know, I may have been wrong - according to WP:AN/I, Gabrichidze is a publically accesible role account... so it probably was a sock after all.
Ah well, article deleted, title protected. Never mind. --Kiand 02:19, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

eerste nl.wikimedia.org ontmoeting

ik zou iedereen graag willen uitnodigen te overwegen of zij een rol willen en/of kunnen spelen in de oprichting van een nederlandse wikimedia-organisatie. een eerste ontmoeting wordt momenteel georganiseerd, zie daarvoor hier, op de nl.wikimedia.org wiki. er zijn nog vele stappen te nemen, en meer wikianen nodig, om e.e.a. op verantwoorde wijze verder te ontwikkelen. Radiant_>|< 10:49, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

FC Zwolle

Hi, sorry for the slow reply, my laptop died so I've not had much internet access lately.

The article's looking good, but one thing I've thought of is citing sources and having a some footnotes (for example, see Misplaced Pages:Footnote3) and a References section. I think that would make people more likely to vote in favour, as it seems to be a fairly common criticism of featured article candidates.

Have you had a look at the Denis Law article that I submitted for peer review (I think it's two up from FC Zwolle)? If you've got any ideas on how I could improve it (apart from getting some photos) they'd be much appreciated.

Cheers, CTOAGN 7 July 2005 22:12 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the suggestions for Denis Law. I've added the table, and will look up the records. If you're not fussed about submitting FC Zwolle as a featured article then I wouldn't worry too much about adding footnotes, but it might be good to have them for things like "ZAC was associated with the local high society, while Zwolsche Boys were associated with the working class. PEC was the club of the local middle class. There was a big rivalry between these three clubs, especially between Zwolsche Boys and PEC" as this sort of thing isn't easy to look up. Other than that it's looking great, and I'll try and get round to giving it another proof-reading, although I don't think it needs one. CTOAGN 9 July 2005 17:08 (UTC)
  • I've had another look at FC Zwolle now; hope I wasn't too brutal with it :-) It looks like a lot of changes but most of them were very small. The article's looking great.
I've set up some WikiProjects that you might be interested in :
If you're looking for another football article to work on, please have a look at them. I'm definitely not doing them all on my own :-) CTOAGN 12:57, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Yakubu

I have replied to your comment at Talk:Portsmouth_F.C.#Yakubu. Grunners 18:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

"Top three" in FC Zwolle article

My bad. I've changed it back now. CTOAGN 08:56, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Hey Aecis, you come up as a real Bitch. Have a nice day.

Internazionale

Just wondered why you changed the Inter entry? Internazionale are known NOWHERE as Inter Milan.

This is an inccorect assumption by many people; it is either Inter or Internazionale of Milano.

Regards, Mike1971inter.

Transparency

When saving the file (I use Paint Shop), I can select the area to make transparent. You can do the same in Photoshop, and most other software. BTW, I see how much fun you're having with User:82.156.71.55 on the Dutch pages... He just doesn't give up, does he? --DR31 (talk) 19:52, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Stop drinking soda

Thanks for the note--I've had a few run-ins with him in the past, so I know his MO. Keep editing, Meelar (talk) 02:05, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Maoririder's templates

Thanks for finding these. At least he sort of gets the idea that a stub need a specific stub template. ARRGH. Are you going to list these as newly discovered, or for deletion, or both, or do you wnat me to get them? DES 17:50, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Fußball-Bundesliga

Hi. We need articles written on Fußball-Bundesliga seasons from 1969/70 through 1975/76, in order to take them off the Misplaced Pages:Most wanted articles page! Since you've worked on similar pages, I thought you might want to take a crack at it. Cheers! -- BDAbramson 20:29, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Football

There's another WikiProject that you might be interested in at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Football. Please sign up if you're interested. CTOAGN 20:20, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Computer and video game stubs

I've responded to your comment on WP:WSS/P. Just thought I'd let you know I appreciate the personal message. :) Vriendelijke groeten, ADeveria 13:04, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Pepsi Americas

Why did you change it to a drink stub when it's a company? Thanks, Laura p.s. please let me know if I'm doing something wrong.

A lot of thanks for the welcome!

Hi, good morning! A lot of thanks for the welcome, you're very nice. If you want something, you can write in my discussion. The European 09:44, 30 August 2005 (UTC).

Sorry for my orthographic mistakes. Again thanks.

VFD for a systematized list of abbreviations

Based on your comment at Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_deletion#Template:GNumber, I thought you might be interested in contributing input to Misplaced Pages:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_all_single-letter-single-digit_combinations, where the page I mentioned creating in that TFD discussion is up for deletion ... and there is discussion of nominating all such pages for deletion. Courtland 04:01, 1 September 2005 (UTC)


Thx for the Translation (Eben Norton Horsford)

Sometimes it is a little confusing to edit articles in the german and english wiki ; ) Cheers, --Gego 04:53, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!

I just opened up my user page and found an extra barnstar there! Thank you! :) Grutness...wha? 01:18, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Intresting Ayyavazhi Family

Hai Aecis, there are intresting articles about Ayyavazhi, a new religion on both mythology and religiosity. Misplaced Pages is rich with this topic in English, but poor in other languages. Since french is a leading language in Misplaced Pages it is better to translate the contents on this AYYAVAZHI family to french. - Paul Raj

House of Angostura

Hi. Could you explain why you keep changing this from a {{corp-stub}} to a {{drink-stub}}. Thanks. Guettarda 12:15, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

So sorry

My apologies. That comment was intended for another user, I didn't realize there were two comments on that page. Sorry...

Oceania Struct Stub ??

Having just edited Barracks Arch, bit mystified why there is no Aust or Perth struct stub, oceania is a bit too large a category for my understanding... I am sure there is something at a more local level.vcxlor 15:23, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Thankyou, yes I have had communication with grutness already, and was just putting a message on his talk page as you sent yours. I have burdened him also with my fantasy of the whole wiki system crashing as someone tries to run a bot to actually put usa in the us location articles that do not have any identifier of country (being an oztralian, i find the us-centrism of wikipedia rather problematic) - i figure that there are at least 10, 000 items that need usa identifiers in them...  :) Thanks again vcxlor 15:42, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Racegun

Hey, thanks for that edit, I'm still getting the hang of the format the wikitonarians are looking for.The Invisable O 22:13, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

afd helper

I have built a script to speed up voting on AFDs and am looking for feedback. Please have a go! jnothman 06:47, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

List of country names in various languages under attack !!!

Dear Aecis,

The List of country names in various languages, List of European regions with alternative names, List of European cities with alternative names, List of European rivers with alternative names, and others, have come under attack by a certain Mikka, who, having just stumbled into all these lists, having found them of little use to himself, and having repeatedly ridiculed them and their users, has then promptly filed a petition to delete the lists in question.

Please cast your vote to keep these valuable, informative, and indeed fascinating lists at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/List of country names in various languages.

Thanks! Pasquale 17:19, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Jim Jiangbo

I've nominated Jim Jiangbo, an article you've just created, for deletion on AfD. I am not convinced of his notability, but I also don't think you would create hoaxes or nonsensical articles. Because of your contributions to Misplaced Pages, I am now taking the (for me) unusual step of informing you of the AfD and asking you for an explanation on who Jim Jiangbo is and why this article should be kept (because you created the article, I presume you think this article should be on Misplaced Pages and therefore should not be deleted). Aecis 22:57, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for noting this to me. -- user:zanimum


The Fight

Dear Aecis,

Thank you for your message. We thought it would be OK to remove the site from the copyright violations list because we made clear that we hold these rights. However we understand that our text advertises too much. We will upload a new text which is only informational but not advertising. Hope everything is fine then. Thanks! Repossession 12:07, 4 November 2005


The Fight

Dear Aecis,

We uploaded a new text that is not advertising the band. Please remove this site from the list with copyright violations. Thanks! Repossession 13:35, 4 November 2005

Swing Riots

Can you elaborate why this is article is considered a stub? Regards Oldfarm 21:17, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Sig

I see that your sig broke with the recent software changes. Same thing happened to me. You might want to go to your preferences page and make it something more like ] | ], with "Raw signatures" checked. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:25, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Chukotavia

Hi! You double-stubbed Chukotavia "because of the location". Could you clarify what you meant by that? Anadyr is definitely not located in Europe :)—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 14:51, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't realize that you classified at as Russian as opposed to just Chukotka's. This way it, of course, makes sense, although it's still funny to see it labeled as European.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 20:49, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining. I have no problem with it, it's just that it looked weird when I saw your edit. Hopefully you'll gather enough airlines soon enough to get the new cat started. Take care.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 21:18, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

sfd? {{Malta-stub}}

Category:Malta-related stubs I just created it, did I do something wrong? Surely whatever it is can just be fixed. Thanks Srl 22:26, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

right o.
  1. already did all of the null edits (you caught it early enough)
  2. I fixed or at least Talked to some of the still broken guidelines
  3. put links back and forth to the new spot.

thanks again! Srl 23:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

A question

Hi Aecis... when you get back from your break, I have a question for you to answer: Have you considered standing for admin? I'll nominate you if you're interested! Grutness...wha? 11:31, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

OK, I can understand that - but have a think about it. If you change your mind, let me know. Grutness...wha? 02:07, 13 December 2005 (UTC)