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comparative polynesian phonetics chart[edit]

hey. can you check and comment on my reply to your inquiry on the Polynesian languages article's talk page? TShilo12 05:00, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Hi, I believe that there is in actuality one police force.--Tombombadil 01:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Gendarmerie + garde territoriale + royal police(s) Apokrif 18:31, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed you made some edits to the suicide article. I've created a sample layout in an effort to improve the page. I would appreciate your comments to my proposal. If you're too busy with other stuff, don't worry about it. :) Gflores Talk 21:31, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article title[edit]

Actually, we usually favour the common name. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). "When choosing a name for a page ask yourself: What word would the average user of the Wikipedia put into the search engine?" The average person would most definitely put in MI5. The other problem with using the official name is that Security Service points to a disambig page. Yes, you can add a qualifier as you did, but it makes it rather ugly (particularly using the full qualifier that you did - would UK not have been better?). -- Necrothesp 23:55, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Vandalism after "last warning"[edit]

If that happens, it's always best to report that to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. That's where administrators can take the appropriate actions to temporarily (or permanently) block or ban the user for vandalism. Thanks for the message; I reported him. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 19:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Larry Nevers[edit]

Hey there. Just here to help you with your recent disambiguation pages - it's best to have them follow the traditional disambig style. I've fixed up Larry Nevers to follow this; it would be helpful if any past and future disambig pages you make look/are formatted similarly. Have fun! (|-- UlTiMuS ( U | T | C [] M | E ) 18:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Careful[edit]

The whole point of Did Six Million Really Die? is that it is not a history book; it's "revisionism" - that is, lies. Adding it to the category of "Holocaust history books" is pointless and invalid. DS 15:44, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Template:SCOTUSCase[edit]

The template is widely used and has remained pretty constant for awhile. If you feel that there should be more wikification, I'd suggest taking it up on WP:SCOTUS and seeing what other people think. I don't particularly care either way whether or not more linking is included, however, if it's done, the linking should be systematic and consistent. Cheers. --MZMcBride 22:16, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vanuatu Scouting[edit]

Can you help render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Bislama? Thanks! Chris 06:00, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]


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Max Mosley[edit]

Hi. See response at my talk page. Cheers. 4u1e (talk) 07:01, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

re: Tamil Script[edit]

Hi Apokrif. I've fixed the punctuation error you had pointed out. Thanks. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 13:07, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Talk Page ... Talk:Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants#Information about unreported and unpublished cases

According to PATRICK S. RYAN, Revisiting the United States Application of Punitive Damages: Separating Myth from Reality: "The case is not reported or published, which means that under United States law it cannot be considered as valid precedent for any legal purpose. Westlaw has a simple one-page "unpublished" version available as part of its database service. Lexis-Nexis has no record of the case. Regarding the appeal, there is nothing, either in published, unpublished, or any other unofficial or official form." Is it possible, to get reliable data on a case, to request a copy (perhaps by e-mail) of the judgment form the court, instead of relying on commercial services? How do Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw get their data? Apokrif 22:43, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Remember that this was simply a case that was tried at the trial court level. It was never appealed. Thus, it makes perfect sense that Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis do not have this case in their databases of appeals. (Actually, I think that both sides did indeed file an appeal, but the parties ultimately settled the case before actually arguing said appeal.) Since this was only a trial level court case, there would be no published decision to report. One might, perhaps, get trial court transcripts (at a very hefty cost) ... but there would be no "published" or "reported" decision per se at the trial court level. As far as your question about Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis: they certainly focus on publishing reported / published opinions that are generated at the appeals level. The decisions in these appeals are available to the general public ... and, thus, are easily available for Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis to access. As far as trial level court cases ... only for a pretty significant or important trial case (such as this one) would Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis decide to include the case in their databases. Precisely for the reason you mention. Such trial level cases have no precedential value whatsoever. Thus, they essentially have no real "legal" value at all (to attorneys, or courts, or parties to litigation). Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis will only include a small number of these types of cases (those conducted only at the trial level, and not taken to the appeal level) simply for the general public interest that they generate ... and, perhaps, for academic purposes also. I hope this answers your questions. Thanks. (Joseph A. Spadaro, 6 September 2009)

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Recruiting french speaking members[edit]

Hello, I noticed your contribution to the MK article and am grateful for it but I noticed on your page that it says you are fluent in French. I'm asking that you could please translate or at least find something of interest in this video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x52xat_making-of-mortal-kombat_shortfilms It's the making of the first MK film (however the language is in french) and I would like to use this to add more to the film's development section the article. Sincerely Subzerosmokerain (talk) 23:05, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Madryga[edit]

I saw you tagged this article as a possible copyright violation of Applied Cryptography. I see that the three design principles not fulfilled by DES are copied verbatim (I'm not sure if those are copied verbatim from W.E. Madryga to begin with or not), but I'm not seeing any other copy/paste or even close paraphrase from the book. Can you elaborate on what part(s) looked like the copyright violation to you? VernoWhitney (talk) 17:08, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply. I did sit down with Applied Cryptography second edition when I looked over it. I'll look through the first edition later today but if that doesn't turn up anything I'm going to tentatively mark it as clean. If something else comes to mind, please let me know. Help with spotting copyright issues is always appreciated! VernoWhitney (talk) 17:40, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Phosphate mining in Nauru[edit]

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State court[edit]

Hi, now that State court is a disambig, please remember to help WP:FIXDABLINKS. This tool makes the job a lot easier. Thanks, --JaGatalk 17:51, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've done some of them, but there are still a lot of links to fix. Your help would still be appreciated, since your edits created the need for cleanup. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:35, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Sanitätswesen move[edit]

I noticed that you moved this article to Sanitätswesen (German concentration and extermination camps). Modern-day Germany has no such camps. I find the title a bit unwieldly anyway, but shouldn't that read "Nazi" instead of "German"? I mean, not all Germans are Nazis, but writing something like "German concentration camp" makes it sound like it could be an ongoing, rather than a historical thing. Thanks. Marrante (talk) 17:00, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A shorter title might be to make the parens read "(Nazi Germany)" instead of the much longer "concentration and extermination camps". Doesn't "Nazi Germany" sort of cover it? Marrante (talk) 17:02, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I see the German WP uses "Sanitätswesen (KZ)" on their disambiguation page, with "(in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern)" as an explanation. We don't have the same ease of use with "KZ" but I'll work it out. Thanks for telling me your intent with the move. Marrante (talk) 18:42, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bletchley Park?[edit]

Hi. You seem rather insistent on including Bletchley Park in Category:Cryptographic attacks, which is inappropriate. Bletchley Park is as much a crypto attack as is the NSA or CIA. Examples of the articles included in the category:

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  • Clock drift

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TRW move to TRW Inc.[edit]

Hi Apokrif. Could you please clarify why you made this move? It caused more than 300 articles to point to a disambiguation page. I have looked at most of those articles in the past and I can't remember any that should point to anything other than the moved article. Best Regards, Overjive (talk) 04:29, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, you guys are addressing these links quickly. Let me know if I can help! Overjive (talk) 11:15, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Administrative category titles[edit]

Hello,

I recently came across Category:Wikipedia:Public domain, which you created, and wanted to let you know that the titles of administrative categories, although they are prefixed with the word "Wikipedia", do not need a second colon. Hence, I have nominated that category for speedy renaming to Category:Wikipedia public domain. For details, see Wikipedia:Category names#Special conventions.

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Albanian help needed[edit]

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Sorry but I have only basic skills in Albanian. Apokrif (talk) 09:45, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Fields Medal page[edit]

Hello there,I'm that user who's been the victim of editing the Fields Medal page(i.e.I got blocked with charge of Vandalism.).I've got three question:1)When the current protected status of that page ends,Does the page current contents remain in place or they are replaced with the old version? 2)I've prepared a new and somehow comprehensive table about Fields medalists.I posted this table on the discussion section of the Fields Medal page,and I request for comments about this(If You come there and see my that table I will be really glad,and don't forget to put your comment about it down there!;-)),but so far,just one person did so.Is it normal? 3)Should I submit a request for edit to replace the new table with current one?Or should I wait for reaching a consensus?Thank You. Rezameyqani (talk) 07:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)Rezameyqani (talk) 08:30, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You created quite a mess but never responded. The article should have stayed at Motion (legal) because the vast majority of jurisdictions use terms like application or request instead. --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:55, 25 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Repeated vandalism and edit warring.[edit]

Stop icon You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia. Jeppiz (talk) 19:53, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please be more careful?[edit]

In November of 2013 you redirected Penny Lane (Guantanamo) to Guantanamo Bay detention camp#Facilities. In my opinion, this redirection was highly problematic, because the article on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp should be devoted solely to the secretive MILITARY camp. Like Camp Strawberry Fields, Camp Penny Lane was an even more secretive CIA camp.

In my opinion, this redirection was problematic because the "facilities" section does not say anything about Camp Penny Lane.

May I suggest that if you ever come across a red-link and consider redirecting it to some larger topic, you pause, and give this more thought than you did here? How much effort should a quality control volunteer perform before they add a {{prod}} tag? Policy-compliant contributors comply with WP:BEFORE, and do a web search on a topic, before they suggest deletion, to make sure they are not suggesting deleting our coverage of a strongly notable topic simply because the current article was weak.

Your change of the red-link to a blue-link is confusing to other contributors. In my opinion, Camp Penny Lane is an important enough topic to merit a standalone article. When the wikilink for that topic is blue, it looks like that article has already been written. A red-link, on the other hand, is a strong reminder that the article hasn't been written yet.

I suggest that it would have been better for the wikipedia, if you weren't going to write the artilce yourself, for you to have left it as a red-link.

I am also very concerned by a trend I find ill-advised of redirecting to subsections within larger articles. In my opinion, if a topic is worthy of a wikilink, it is almost certainly worthy of an article on its own. In my opinion, the reasons why wikilinking to subsections within larger articles is a mistake, include:

  1. Proper articles have a lede sentence, lede paragraph -- something not appropriate for a section within an article;
  2. Only full articles can be placed on our watchlists;
  3. The "what links here" button only works on full articles.
    Contrast this with the situation for those poor souls who write web pages on the plain old world-wide-web. They have no idea how many other web-pages link to their page. So they can only guess at how many external web-links they will break, if they change the name of the url of a page.
  4. Redirection is not full supported when the target of the wikilink is a subsection heading within a larger article. We have hard-working robots which quietly work in the background to make sure redirects always work. When someone changes the name of an article, the hard-working robots that look for double redirects find all the redirects that point to the old name, and change them to point to the new name.

    Contributors feel they are free to change section headings, correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, or change them to bring them up to date with what the section is about, when that has been changed. And if one contributor changes a section heading that someone else has made part of a hybrid wikilink to a section heading within another article, then that wikilink breaks. When contributors follow the practice you followed here they make fragile wikilinks that silently break, are hard to fix, and hard to detect that they have failed.

I am going to repeat the opinion that if a topic is important enough that it merits a wikilink it is almost certainly important enough to merit its own standalone article. Geo Swan (talk) 07:39, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Apokrif, I reverted you (I won't do so again, however ). You're whitewashing the Scientology article. Bottom line, it's not a new religious movement, it's a cult, made up by L. Wrong Hubbard on a bet he had with another Science Fiction writer. Read the Penthouse interview with his son - he states this outright, and remember, his son has every reason in the world to keep his mouth shut, after all, he stood to gain a lot of money , and possible power and prestige within the cult of Scientology, therefore he'd have no reason to have given the candid interview that he gave. You don't say on this page or your French page if you're a scientologist yourself, and I don't think I can ask you or speculate on it, so I won't do so, but at the very least you seem to have a conflict of Interest based on your editing, you may want to edit elsewhere for the time being. KoshVorlon 17:24, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"it's not a new religious movement, it's a cult" We are not interested in you points of view.
"you seem to have a conflict of Interest based on your editing" No. Apokrif (talk) 17:27, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Uh, it's not my point of view, it's actually the point of view of the late L.Ron Hubbard JR, he stated as much in his Penthouse interview, and you answered my second question by showing my your contribs. Remember, it's not how much you contribute, but how you edit certain article that shows COI or POV, I'll reiterate, I can't and won't accuse you of having one directly, but your whitewash of $cientology sure looks like it. KoshVorlon 19:31, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It looks like you don't distinguish between expressing a wikipedian's point of view in the article space (which is forbidden by policy) and stating the point of view of notable people (here, various French public authorities who wrote about cults), which is not. Note that I don't necessarily agree whith all the people I cite in WP articles (I often don't). Regarding your edits on my talk page, I suggest you read Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a forum. Apokrif (talk) 14:04, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, what are these categories you're setting up? This doesn't appear to be how we generally do categories. Perhaps "Gender identity policies and essays" is a better category title?--v/r - TP 21:32, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Of course subcategories (e.g. for policies or essays) can be created, but if we only had a category named "policies and essays", it could not be used for other topics, like templates for user pages. Apokrif (talk) 11:36, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Heck, doesn't really matter what it's called, but the double colon (:) is tripping me. We don't usually create categories like "Category:Wikipedia:Something". Unless you've seen it elsewhere, but I haven't. I've seen "Category:Wikipedia something", though.--v/r - TP 17:48, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure what the consensus is on en.wikipedia.org (I don't really really mind if this category or other Wikipedia: categories I've created are renamed), however the use of this prefix is consistent whith the naming of articles: the Wikipedia: prefix clearly indicates that these are meta-pages, not encyclopedia articles about Wikipedia. Apokrif (talk) 18:12, 19 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I have no opinion on whether a separate category is needed, but the second colon should not be there—except for proper nouns, titles shuld contain only one colon to identify the namespace (Category: in this case). See Wikipedia:Category names#Special conventions: "Categories used for Wikipedia administration are prefixed with the word 'Wikipedia' (no colon) if this is needed to prevent confusion with content categories." Therefore, I have renamed this category to Category:Wikipedia gender. -- Black Falcon (talk) 02:35, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Komalah[edit]

Hello. Please could you help us to fix the mis-directed links arising from retargeting Komalah? Most of the links are clearly about a political party, but it's not obvious to the layman whether they're intended for the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan or Komalah (CPI). Thanks, Certes (talk) 15:24, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Certes: IMHO as "komalah" is very similar to "komala", it's safer to view it as a spelling variant of komala and to keep komalah redirected to Komala rather than Komalah (CPI), in case editors mix up both spellings and erroneously write komalah somewhere when they actually mean komala. Apokrif (talk) 22:51, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that sounds very sensible. The problem was that several articles linked to the disambiguation page via Komalah and it wasn't clear whether to change them to Komalah (CPI) or some other meaning, but someone has sorted them out in the last couple of days. Certes (talk) 23:48, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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