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About Myself

My TalkPage

My RfA

Thanks for your support at my request for adminship, which passed today with 42/0/0!

I would like to thank Wizardman for nominating me, [[User:Darwinek|Darwinek]] and everyone else for their support and comments. I'll continue with contributing to the encyclopedia's content (hopefully writing an FA here and there :) and will help out with admin-related tasks which you just entrusted me with. If you need any help, don't hesitate to ask!

Thanks again, —dima /talk/ 01:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My Rfa

I wish to thank you for being supportive of my effort to regain my adminship. Though it was not successful, your support was still very much appreciated. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you!--MONGO 06:23, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Page Move

Thanks for moving the page to Giuseppe Fioravanzo. I never knew that that was his Italian name. Now I do :) - Milk's Favorite Cookie 22:06, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oskar Zawisza

Witam! Napisał artykuł o pewnej postaci ze Śląska Cieszyńskiego. Mam pewien problem - Zawisza był przez pewien czas wikarym w Niemieckiej Lutyni, tylko nie mogłem znaleźć odpowiedniego hasła na en wiki. Czy Niemiecka Lutynia to dzisiejsza Lucina?

Z góry dzięki za odpowiedź i ewentualne poprawki w haśle.

Pozdrawiam Sir Mmt (talk) 18:51, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Europa infoboxes TfD

F.Y.I:

There's a few more settlement TfDs over at WP:TfD

—MJCdetroit ^(yak) 14:37, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Śląsk Cieszyński - ciąg dalszy

Witam! Na en wiki planuję od czasu do czasu zajmować się Śląskiem Cieszyńskim, głównie biografiami. Byłbym wdzięczny, jakbyś je sprawdzał, głównie pod względem języka i stylu. Właśnie kończę pisać hasło Józef Balcar. Pozdrawiam Sir Mmt (talk) 23:01, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Eva Bosakova

Darwinek:

Thank you so much for adding the diacritical marks to Eva Bosáková. I would have done it myself, but being a rather green Wikipedian, I didn't know how. Thank you also for your redirect of my redirect. LOL. I am learning, though.

I notice that you have also created some articles about Mississippi and the Civil Rights movement. THAT IS SO COOL. Even though I live in Toronto, I am originally from Mississippi, and I can definitely appreciate your work.

Keep up the great work and thank you so much.

Miloluvr (talk) 16:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stefania Bojda

Witam! Czy można zdjąć już szablony z tego hasła? Pozdrawiam Sir Mmt (talk) 11:56, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

This you will like http://xkcd.com/285/ :) ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 15:02, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Congradulations on creating so many articles. By the way, I think the bar is orange. Basketball 110 :) 02:02, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lemuel A. Penn

On 21 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lemuel A. Penn, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Elkman ^(Elkspeak) 21:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...

Hello there. Thanks for updating the Indonesian volcano articles. They really need a bit of work since the departure of User:Indon the Great. Hope to see you around more. regards --Merbabu (talk) 10:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hiram Wesley Evans DYK

On 22 February, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hiram Wesley Evans, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 12:06, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting templates

Hi, Darwinek! Since you are on a roll formatting the templates (thanks for doing that, by the way!), could you also format {{Geo-Alexander}} when you get a chance? Thanks!

Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here is another one for you: {{Districts of Volgograd Oblast}}.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:42, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you for defending my user page. :) Jacek Kendysz 21:59, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Czech Statistical Office

Thanks for your kind words. Just started the article you requested, although it's still quite skimpy. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 16:31, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ol Doinyo Lengai Eruption Edits

According to the information I have the current eruption started in September of 2007 and has not stopped since, therefore to be accurate the entry should read 2007 (Ongoing) or something similar. I based my latest change on the entry for [Jabal al-Tair Island|Jabal Al-Tair], we need to discuss this. Graham1973 (talk) 00:30, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Got your message thanks for clearing that up with me. I've added a reference link the archive on Beltons website which has all the Jan-November 2007 news covering the start of the eruption. The current archive runs December - February. Graham1973 (talk) 00:52, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RMs

Thanks! Almost've missed them :)—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 14:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Articles you have created

That is an impressive and diverse list of articles you have created. I know I have linked to at least a couple of them in the past. If the list gets unmanageable you might want to consider using a format like I used on this page. Keep up the good work! --House of Scandal (talk) 17:47, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RfA - Toddst1

Hi, Darwinek, thanks for supporting my RfA, which passed with 42 supports, 0 opposes, and 0 neutrals. I'm pleased that the Wikipedia community has trusted me with the mop. Of course, special thanks goes to my nominator, Kakofonous. Cheers! Toddst1 (talk) 15:19, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support!

Hello, and thanks for your support in my recent RFA! The final result was 61/0/3, so I've been issued the mop! I'm extremely grateful for your confidence in me and will strive to live up to it. Thanks again! —Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 07:28, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings

Long time no speak - possibly i even had my earlier user name - your edits flow past me on my watchlists - please excuse any rude or impolite edit summaries as I check back on those arts on my watch list - trust all is well - and thanks for your cleanup of oz mountains - cheers Satu Suro 11:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

yeah sorry about that (my edit summary comment) - hey youre doin a great job - thanks again - Satu Suro 11:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for changes!

Hey there. Thanks for the changes to McFaulds Lake page, I couldn't figure out how to capitalize it for the life of me. As for the image, it is a screen shot from Google Earth, and I haven't a clue on how to go about the licence and author information that is being requested for the image. As you may be able to tell, this was my first page :)

Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bernieha (talk • contribs) 19:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ship articles

Hi Darwinek. I notice you've been fixing a few dabs lately on ship articles I've worked on. That's great, thanks!

I wonder though if I could prevail upon you not to remove the carriage return between the references and the ship template at the bottom of the page? If a line of whitespace is not left, the template ends up very close to the text above, which makes it look cluttered. I deliberately put that line of whitespace there to prevent that from happening. Thanks, Gatoclass (talk) 16:59, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I guess we are eventually going to have a huge ship database here at Wikipedia, but it's daunting to look at all the articles which haven't been done yet - in the US Navy alone!

Thanks again for your understanding, Gatoclass (talk) 17:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your support

Oh snap, the DEA is an admin

:)

As today is the official day of Polish–Hungarian friendship, I just wanted to wish you a beautiful day :) (and Happy Easter, too!) – Alensha ^talk 17:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copyediting

I am always ready to do what I can for my WikiProject pals. What would you like me to do? --Milkbreath (talk) 15:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

KKK

Thanks for your offer of articles from JSTOR on this. I need to decided how much effort I want to exert on it, as so much of it goes back and forth. The article is way overloaded with too many sensational details, rather than providing deeper material on how the Klan came to be, in both iterations.--Parkwells (talk) 18:23, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FAR nomination

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Prague Spring

Hello. I'd be interested to see your input at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Prague Spring - as I said in my own comment, there's still some work to be done, but it's not a bad start. Biruitorul (talk) 18:58, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have replied. The Dominator (talk) 21:28, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal

Hi Darwinek, as an important West Slavic editor, I'd like to hear you're opinion on this proposal, your opinion is especially valued as you represent two different nations here. The Dominator (talk) 00:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Municipalities/communes of the CZE

Hi Darwinek! Long time no see. I saw your recent creations of former municipalities of the Czech Republic. I thought we ought to set up a category for them, like Category:Former municipalities of Norway. After all, many former municipalities today constitute parts of a city, such as Fluntern. But I noticed there were no category for municipalities, or communes (I don't know what to call them), of the Czech Republic. Only districts and regions. Shouldn't such a category exist? Punkmorten (talk) 19:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Romanian electoral reform

I happened to see the message on Dahn's page - I hope neither of you minds if I try to give a quick answer. Last November, there was a referendum to do just that - change from a proportional system (common in much of Europe) to a French-style two-round majoritarian system. It got 81% support but failed because turnout was just 26%. In March, the Parliament approved a one-round majoritarian system (not identical to Britain's, though) and, assuming legal challenges are met, will be used in the November elections. Most parties, the president and most of the people are behind the idea because parliamentarians, as they are named on closed party lists, aren't directly accountable to the electorate, and there's a desire for more transparency - one vote for one MP (actually two, since the parliament is bicameral). A desire to avoid fragmentation might also be a factor but Romania has just 5-6 significant parties, which isn't that many. Biruitorul (talk) 04:35, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanking Biru, I would like to add some other info which Darwinek might fight helpful. Unfortunately, the reform is so new that there does not appear to be any academic survey for it, in case you need a bibliography of some sort. But I was able to find a CEEOL doc in English, where the dispute leading up to the vote and the alternatives proposed are being discussed.

I was unsure about what the mixed plurality/majority we adopted exactly means (I had lost track of the debate), but I found some more details about the peculiarities of the system in place in a newspaper article by sociologist Marius Kivu ("Ce a rămas din legea votului uninominal", in România Liberă, March 8, 2008). He explains that Romanian counties are going to be divided into 10 colleges each, "three persons running for each of them from parties A, B and C. After voting, in the first college the candidate for party A receives over half of the votes, and in the second the candiadate for party C receives over half of the votes. In the other eight colleges, no candidate receives half of the votes. Presuming that all three parties surpass the national-level electoral threshold, these two candidates [A and C] are declared elected, receiving each a mandate." And: "In phase two, that of redistribution, all county-level votes for the candidates of each party are taken into account. Let's say party A received 40% of the vote, party B, 30%, and party C, 30%. Thus, party A has a right to four mandates out of ten, from which it has already received one. For all the other three mandates, the candidates are those nine party candidates who have received less than half of the college votes. They are ordered after the percentage of votes they received, and the three who have highest scores become deputies. In the same manner are distributed all three mandates to which party B is entitled and the two mandates left for party C (which had the right to three mandates, but had already received one, in the second college). The number of mandates received by the parties through this voting system will not differ significantly from the number of mandates it would have received in the old proportional [and] list-based system." Kivu notes that the resulting hybrid system was not the one proposed by supporters of plurality, and that it maintains much of the old system - the only differences, he argues, have to do with the fact that people may no longer be propelled into office solely by their party's will to have them elected (in the past, parties used to place their favorites on top positions on a list, which usually meant that they were elected no matter who they were). The article was form a time when the law hadn't been adopted, and Kivu announces that there is more to say about the "traps" of such a system.

I don't know how much of this will be useful to you; if you want me to look into the follow-up to this, I'll do my best to locate it and translate the relevant parts. I also found some stuff on the grounds for the law being contested by two small parliamentary parties, just in case you need this sort of detail.

Oh, and sorry for the delay: I had logged off just moments before you wrote on my talk page. Hope this helps, and best of luck on that paper. Dahn (talk) 14:09, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Any time. Dahn (talk) 16:37, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So, how did it go? Dahn (talk) 02:29, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! I'm glad to have helped. Dahn (talk) 18:29, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New naming convention

A new naming convention for places in Slovakia is being discussed at User_talk:Elonka/Hungarian-Slovakian_experiment#Proposed_naming_convention. Your input will be greatly appreciated. Since these new rules might be later regarded as a precedent by non-involved editors (remember the Danzig/Gdansk case?), I think you will find this ongoing discussion and a poll interesting. Tankred (talk) 02:56, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might like to know that there's a poll going on about modifications to the Hungarian-Slovak naming convention proposed earlier. Voting is open until 11 May 20:06. Markussep ^Talk 14:31, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Translation

Hi. Would you be able to translate Makedonsko Devojče into Czech? I'd like to create an interwiki for it. Balkan Fever 04:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

t(h)anks for tweaking

Thanks for tweaking Memorial to the victims of Communism (Prague) and correcting the Czech text. Much appreciated. Tjones4 (talk) 16:42, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Czech Republic districts by region templates

Thanks for correcting the "body" parameter in these templates. The {{navbox}} code has recently be revamped and the "body" parameter removed, but I hadn't realized this and updated the AWB settings I was using. They are updated now, though. Sardanaphalus (talk) 15:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New Project

Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight (talk) 06:10, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Award

Thanks for this award I was not expecting! Be sure I appreciate this attention. Keep up the good work too!--Latouffedisco (talk) 16:14, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Euro squads

Hi, I am wanted to get some opinions from people here and here. Libro0 (talk) 20:38, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oria (river)

Hi Darwinek, I saw you changed the title, less appropriate I think, what convention is it?, I tried to revert it but it doesn't change. The name is just Oria; in case there is a conflict (there may be, I can't remember) there are the brackets for disambiguation and at any rate "river" can't have a first capital letter, it's just part of the description, not of the proper name. Iñaki LL (talk) 20:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh God, it's really ugly..., in capital letters? (!!) OK, since it's the convention, don't going to argue about it. By the way, thanks for your mention of the article, sometimes a bit boring gathering so many data, but that's Wikipedia. Regards Iñaki LL (talk) 14:44, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Ivanhoe.jpg listed for deletion

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Thanks

Thanks for adding the category on Bouck's Falls. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sgt. bender (talk • contribs) 23:22, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for admin

Hello! Your nomination is flattering and tempting, but at this moment I have to decline, mostly because I'll be moving from the USA to Japan to take a new job during the summer, so I don't think I'm ready to take on this new responsibility for now. I'll let you know if I've changed my mind in a few months once I've settled down. Thanks for your consideration! Chanheigeorge (talk) 14:07, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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+== Nomination for admin ==
+Hello! Your nomination is flattering and tempting, but at this moment I have to decline, mostly because I'll be moving from the USA to Japan to take a new job during the summer, so I don't think I'm ready to take on this new responsibility for now. I'll let you know if I've changed my mind in a few months once I've settled down. Thanks for your consideration! [[User:Chanheigeorge|Chanheigeorge]] ([[User talk:Chanheigeorge|talk]]) 14:07, 18 May 2008 (UTC)