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Vuk Brankovic

Yes that's what I wanted to say, your first revision was bed, it looked like Vuk Brankovic belonged to the house of Nemanjic, and I wanted to say that his family had a prominent rol in the Nemanjic Serbia ( as in Victorian England or Capetian France= shorter form for the England in the time of queen Victoria or France in the time of the Capets ). Thanks for adding articles I often forget about them, useless things:) Clanedstino

Josie Maran

A few months ago, various IPs were making disruptive edits, leading to a protection set by you, and they're back at it. I don't know if this warrants another period of protection?  Mbinebri  13:50, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Ah, that article, I see. Thanks for the notification. Unfortunately I will be without admin tools for a couple more days, so if you need some immediate intervention you'll have to contact some other admin, or the regular WP:RPP board. Sorry for the inconvenience. Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:19, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, the editor hasn't shown back up again, so immediate action isn't really necessary, but I'll let you know if it happens again. Maybe at that time you'll have your admin superpowers back!  Mbinebri  18:02, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Oh geez, the editor is back yet again, under yet another IP.  Mbinebri  04:08, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey FPR

I guess you rv this because some users deleted the source and yes changed the sentence too. A silvered bronze belt-plate with scene of combat between warriors and horsemen, from Selcë e Poshtme, Albania 3rd century BC taken in the museum of Tirana--Taulant23 (talk) 23:27, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

What copyright issues? Plz see if you can give me a straight answer.I was thinking of asking other admins.Thank you.--Taulant23 (talk) 23:41, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Question

I have one question. One of this templates of this user is acceptable to the wiki policies, or not? The template insulting one country and its language. See: {{userbox|lightblue|lightgrey|] -2|Корисникот го зборува бугарскиот диjалект на П.J.Р.М '''/ This user is able to contribute with an Intermediate level of Bulgarian of ].''' }}. Danke im Voraus --Raso mk (talk) 19:08, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Once upon a while

Regarding mentions of Aegean Macedonia before the 1940s you had provided these sources . These were good directions and I have searched these dates again; however nothing indicates a mention prior to that decade. In fact, the article of one article 'you' date 1937, was written after 1948. Perhaps I am missing something? Politis (talk) 17:34, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, strange, some of those links do indeed seem to be mis-dated. Honestly, I have no idea how that could happen and I don't have the time to repeat the whole searching procedure right now; I thought I'd identified the sources quite carefully back at the time. Sorry for the mistake. However, at least one of the three links in that short list does still seem to work out and point to something from 1920, does it not? And in a sense, a single counterexample would still be sufficient to disprove the thesis that the term was only invented around 1945, wouldn't it? Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:17, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I agree. Politis (talk) 17:18, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Jacob van Deventer (cartographer)

Hello! Your submission of Jacob van Deventer (cartographer) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! cmadler (talk) 15:43, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

• I've made a minor change to the hook and approved it, but you may want to double-check it anyway. Thanks, cmadler (talk) 15:43, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Thanks for reviewing, the change is fine with me. Fut.Perf. ☼ 16:45, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Bonaparte...

...is at it again , 2. Khoi and Bogdan are currently indisposed. You're the only expert left... --Illythr (talk) 19:21, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Heh. One week to go until I have my admin bit back. Sorry I can't be of immediate help right now, but I'll be delighted to do a Bonnie block right first thing when I'm back. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:35, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Huh? Did enwiki contract the "Let's desysop a random admin for a month" disease from ruwiki while I was away? --Illythr (talk) 01:24, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Needing a block? I got out of that case with my bit still intact; I could drop a train on any banned user what needs it. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 01:43, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Me too; I looked at Transnistria briefly but I couldn't make heads or tails of what was happening. I try to stay farther south; even Thessaly is too far into problematic territory for me, let alone Macedonia. --Akhilleus (talk) 01:50, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Are we talking about User:Ghimpu Moldova 1? --Akhilleus (talk) 01:52, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Problem is, these three guys (Future Perfect, user:Khoikhoi, user:Bogdangiusca) know the stuff about Bonny (and B-wannabes) first hand and are generally able to get the lot on sight. Other, gentler admins tend to suggest Standard Procedure, something Bonny has learned to evade after so many years of almost constant practice. Seeing as how I may be judged as being in a perpetual POV conflict with the guy ("You like the taste of brains; We don't like zombies"), I usually ask them to do the tagging and bagging, especially when it's not painfully obvious. Then again, this and this is trademark Bonny (the "all Russians hate Romanians" line and the silly insults), plus the username fits the pattern well. Guess its your call...

@Akhilleus: Yup, him and yup, that article used to be a major battleground. Things have calmed down, but that one (?) guy is relentless. Fortunately, nobody is interested in a new war in those articles anymore. --Illythr (talk) 02:06, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

The insults are enough for me to block--this is obviously not someone who's here to build a quality encyclopedia. And from what I know of Bonaparte he matches. So he's blocked.

P.S. What does "Ghimpu Moldova" mean? (Ok, I know what Moldova is, but the "Ghimpu" part is something I don't know.) --Akhilleus (talk) 02:12, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Hope Future Perfect won't be upset with the steal. :-)

It's a somewhat random Moldova-themed combination for a throwaway user account - Mihai Ghimpu is the newly elected President of Parliament of Moldova.

Good to know. Soon you'll have a fully armed and operational Fut. Perf., so dealing w/Bonaparte should be easier... --Akhilleus (talk) 02:36, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

PS on "Macedonia": Consider joining the club! ;-) --Illythr (talk) 02:17, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh no. The part of me that responds to concepts like duty and honor tells me that I should do some Balkans-related Arbitration Enforcement sometime, but the pragmatic side of me says no! I guess you missed Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Macedonia_2? It was sort of a nightmare, and I wasn't even a named party. Thing is, it seems to have led to less Macedonia-related edit warring, so that's a net benefit to Misplaced Pages. --Akhilleus (talk) 02:36, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Nono, the eMM club - Moldova is somewhat away from the Balkans in general and Macedonia (whichever one of them) in particular, but since they both start with an M...

As for the RfArb, I seem to be one of the few Misplaced Pages editors who haven't got a clue about the whole thing (outside the eM confusion thing). Seems to be yet another Plague outbreak, amirite? --Illythr (talk) 03:31, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Wow, I guess I just illustrated the central rule of the club--eveything that starts with "M" is the same. I'm already a member and I didn't know it! --Akhilleus (talk) 03:34, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Calling an edit stupid, is not a personal attack

I don't appreciate your arrogant abuse of authority and intend to report it.
As an administrator, you should know better than to confuse calling and edit stupid and editor stupid.
You had no business posting that warning on my talkpage, you were just trying to make youself feel better.
Now as to your bullshit post-reverts, I'm going to board with all this for it.
GabrielVelasquez (talk) 12:01, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

1. The Illyrians page 236 by John Wilkes