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Just letting you know, you recently blocked Pewlosels (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log) indef for being a "WP:AN/I troll". I had a quick browse at his/her contribs, and couldn't see much trolling, however I maybe didn't know the complete context of his/her posts, hence I'm coming to you. He/she is requesting an unblock, and I thought that you should have a look at his/her reasoning, and maybe give him/her an explanation as to why he/she's blocked, as he/she clearly doesn't understand at the moment. Cheers, Daniel.Bryant 03:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Do you think you could come by and help resolve the conflict I'm having with another editor? Thanks. ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 05:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Could you revert the move done by Tobias Conradi from Adal to Adal Sultanate? A quick google search shows that the Norse figure is meant for less than 1000 google hits, while the Ethiopian one gets 20-40,000 google hits; Adal Ramones isn't referred to simply by his first name. We should talk about it on the talk page first, but I'm pretty certain that there's no reason to move the Adal page instead of just having an Adal (disambiguation) page. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 02:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't think this really applies to the Ethiopian pages you added them to. The 5 years the Italians were in Ethiopia are universally recognized as an occupation and not as a colony, so I am going to remove those categories (unfortunately leaving them uncategorized, but we can add WWII categories) and change the link from Amhara (colony) to Amhara (occupied province). — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 01:39, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
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You were talking about a meetup when Wales would be in Portland. Any date yet? - Jmabel | Talk 06:38, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
So is he planning to talk with Wikipedia people at all? Because I frankly have no interest in getting involved in Wikia Campaigns, I have plenty I'm already doing. - Jmabel | Talk 17:35, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
I removed your reference to Cicero conquering Cyprus, I'm not sure where you got this information from since it wasn't annexed for about another 30 years (and then by Cato). Also, in 75 Cicero was a quaestor, so why would he be given a command to conquer Cyprus (which would require him to have imperium) when he was ineligible.
60.224.193.180 11:57, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey Llywrch. I'm from Eugene. But my dad grew up in North Dakota and my mom was raised in Idaho and rural Lane County by people with Nebraska and Missouri roots. I've been accused of having a mid-western drawl, which is apparently what NW dialect is similar to (lots of Missourians out here). I think it is also partly from being raised by kids of farmers and partly an affectation developed from my like of old-time music and hanging around southerners. And of course being from Eugene I'm also adept at hippie-speak, and I say "Awesome" way too much. :) I had no idea that the way I learned to pronounce vowel sounds was anything other than "normal" until recently. My folks were known to use the word Davenport. They are bit older than many of the parents of the folks my age, so I picked up all kinds of folksy words from them. I also had a landlord, of Scandinavian extraction I believe, who called it a "Daveno". BTW, I worked a couple seasons as a wildland firefighter, and those logging types still call their boots "corks." BTW, I'm rather nostalgic about moderate Republicans myself... Katr67 18:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
P.S. In the interests of staying on topic, it looks like some of the info from the links I posted on my userpage could be added to the Pacific Northwest English article. I don't know about Phonology, but putting some of that into layperson's terms might be a good addition, especially the bits about creaky voice, and the dropped "-ed". Note also I made myself a "PNW English-speaker" userbox. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to append that or the pirate-speak one to my Babelbox. Cheers! Katr67 18:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Through your diligent and tireless efforts in creating articles for every woreda in Ethiopia, you have filled an important hole in wikipedia's coverage of Africa. Articles like that are what sets this project apart from similar encyclopediae. I therefore award you your second Afrika award. You have deserved this barnstar through and through. Aecis I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive. 22:40, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I'll second that Barnstar. It's just the kind of thing that makes Wikipedia so great. Great work. | Mr. Darcy talk 03:27, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Just for your information, Professor Jurgen von Beckerath is one of the most respect Egyptologists in the world. In terms of scholarship, he is the German equivalent to Kenneth Kitchen. You can most assuredly rely on his work. When a major new discovery is made, scholars often ask him for his opinion on the find. Please note here John & Deborah Darnell's official statement about von Beckerath's analysis of their discovery of a new Year 11 Sothic date at Gebel Tjauti in the Egyptian Desert. They write
Beckerath has been writing for decades now and ranks--in my opinion--as one of the best and most informative Egyptologist as Kitchen. He definitely is no 'Rohlist': a term which would be an insult to him. His ideas are definitely in the mainstream of Egyptology. If you scroll to the very bottom of this web site, you will find that even Encyclopaedia Brittanica--Wikipedia's rival--has relied on his scholarship from the 1960's onwards. The problem here is that since he writes and publishes in German--for the most part--only the professional Egyptolologist in North America has access to his work. Hence, I have attempted to rectify this situation a little on Wikipedia so that the ordinary reader can see the quality and thrust of his work. With kind Regards. Leoboudv 04:28, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Dear llywrch, I apologise if I startled you. You understand my concern correctly on von Beckerath--he cannot be regarded as a crackpot. If you saw KA Kitchen's review of J. von Beckerath's 'Chronologie des Pharaonischen Agypten' book in JEA 85 (1999), pp.245-248, you will quickly see that while Beckerath and Kitchen have some minor academic differences concerning David Aston's--in my view certainly correct--argument in JEA 75(1989) pp.139-153 that Takelot II was not a member of the 22nd Dynasty but was rather a king of the 23rd Theban Dynasty of Egypt, they are of one mind on most basic issues. Beckerath endorses Aston's proposal as does Aidan Dodson in "A new King Shoshenq confirmed?" GM 137(1993), p.58, and Karl Jansen-Winkeln in "Historische Probleme Der 3. Zwischenzeit," JEA 81(1995) pp.129-49 among other scholars. I also know that Frederic Payraudeau, who has published in JEA and in BIFAO 105 also accepts without reservation Aston's new Chronology which places Shoshenq III as the direct successor of Osorkon II, rather than Takelot II as Kitchen thinks. But, there is no vast chasm of differences between Kitchen & Beckerath.
However, I completely emphatise with your take on Rohl. Unlike Velikovsky or Ahmed Osman, Rohl is a trained scholar who has argued that Egyptian Chronology must be shifted by hundreds of years; one cannot merely dismiss his ideas as nonsense because he gives many footnotes for his intricate views. His journal JACF, is now defunct--but his ideas live on on the net! The basic flaw in Rohl's chronology is that he relies too much on the Serapeum stelas to construct his version of TIPE history but ignores the fact that parts of the Serapeum have not been explored due to the threat of collapse and aflling debris. these areas may contain stelas from the 'missing' 21st Dynasty kings. Also, we have attestations of the 21st Dynasty kings in Upper Egypt such as Siamun, Amenemope and Psusennes II--even one mentioning Smendes who is poorly known here despite his 25 year reign. Just because they didn't build many--or any--monuments in Upper Egypt doesn't mean they didn't exist. Egyptian Chronology is basically solid within a 10 to 12 year time range from the reign of Ramesses II in 1279-1213 BC onwards until 664 BC; not the hundreds of years difference which Rohl posits. Leoboudv 20:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
As an Aside, if you wish to assess the quality of Beckerath' scholarship in English, I have an article by him. It is "The Date of the End of the Old Kingdom in Egypt"in JNES 21 (1962), pp.140-147. As Far as I know, it's points have stood up to 'the test of time' pretty well; Kim Ryholt praises its scholarship for the most part in his ZAS 127 (2000) pp.87-100 paper titled "The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris." It is one of the few articles by Beckerath in English. He almost always writes in German. Regards, Leoboudv 01:21, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing this out, Llywrch. You're doing a fantastic job with all of these articles; I hadn't even noticed (been overwhelmed with non-WikiLife). But I don't have a strong opinion on the proposal, I'm afraid. The people doing the articles (you!) should decide. (One thing we need to keep in mind, I think, is how much the political divisions in Ethiopia are still in a state of flux and could change in minor (or even major) ways in the near future. But woredas are less likely to change, I guess.) — MikeG (talk) 14:22, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Dear Llywrch, I need a small favour. Could you please do a disambigulation page on Wikipedia's Amenemope for king Amenemopet (really Amenemope) of the 21st Dynasty. In reality, there are 2 important Ancient Egyptians called Amenemope--the literary figure cited here on Wikipedia's dictionary as well as king Amenemope, the son of Psusennes I. see here I have deliberately and erroneously transcribed the latter as king Amenemopet on Wikipedia because I can't do a disambigulation page on Wikipedia's Amenemope to distinguish one from the other. King Amenemope's tomb was discovered intact in 1940 and he should be cited under his correct name, I think. Here is a picture of his funerary mask: [http://touregypt.net/featurestories/picture12232002.htm]
As an Aside, I made an addition (under both my account and my 24.87 anonymous acct) to Von Beckerath. I cited one clear example where Kitchen adopted a proposal by Beckerath. This concerns the identity of the Year 49 king in Pap. Brooklyn 16.205--it belongs to Psusennes I, not Shoshenq III as Kitchen once assumed in his 1986 and 1972 editions of his TIPE book. But please try to do something on Amenemope--they are 2 distinct people. I'm not technically proficient at doing a disambigulation page here. Thank You. Leoboudv 23:00, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Dear llywrch, Thanks a lot for your help and the fair warning. Personally, I think it won't come to this because both Amenemopes are very well known both in Egyptian literature and on the Internet. A search on google turns up references to both characters. It helps when one is a famous writer while the other is an actual king whose tomb treasures at Tanis were found intact. By the Way, did you see king Amenemope's face mask and sarcophagus. While one may question the style of his sarcophagus vs the face mask the workmanship is of high quality for a king of the Third Intermediate Period; this implies the 21st Dynasty Pharaohs still enjoyed access to Egypt's best funerary experts. Regards Leoboudv 21:45, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
So have you guys come up with a permanent solution for my most favorite user on WP, Panarjedde? Once again, numerous 3RR blocks, further disruptions to WP, same behavior keeps continuing... --Palffy 21:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
In response to your post on User talk:Stifle's talk board, I don't think that he should be cut any slack. In fact, the matter should have been closed when he admitted to socking, breaking WP laws, and breaking WP laws by using socks, just to get his POV across. User:Cowman109 cut him A LOT of slack by not blocking his account, imo. Imo, that was his chance to reform, if he was ever going to get one (I don't believe Cowman109 did the right thing, because I KNOW he will continue acting the way he did and he has not proven me wrong since..). Perhaps he's not outright socking and breaking laws, but he's getting into arguments with posters everyday, getting into edit wars, OUTRIGHT REFUSING TO LISTEN TO OTHERS, in a sense, he has learned NOTHING from his blocks or run ins. Stop giving this guy slack, he has LOST EVERY CHANCE HE'S BEEN GIVEN and he has NEVER used these experience to go like, 'hmm, perhaps I'm not the pope. Perhaps if there are other users who think something should be done differently, I should give in or work out something without offending them or getting into an edit war.' or anything REMOTELY that. My recent run-in with him only goes to prove it--not only should he not be stalking my posts, but he perhaps he should have some respect for me (and yes by respect, not the crap-responses he posted against me). Obviously, this user is devoid of that.
I believe that I'm still the innocent party. I spoke up resonably against an edit of his and his immediate response was to argue rudely with me, and at at that point I reminded him that he really shouldn't be arguing with me, and he went off on his stubborn ways, etc etc. You're more than welcome to bring this up before the ArbCom. I will be more than glad to present my case and evidence as I have in the CheckUser case. I play fair and square, I can prove a person's character and intent by their own actions, not by 'my good faith'. But I also expect justice, which has been sorely lacking by the admins handling this user. --Palffy 23:20, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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Hey Llywrch, I was still thinking it over. I would like to go, but I have a few obstacles: I don't drive, I don't have a place to stay, and I'm unemployed and pretty stingy with what little income I do have from working temp services. So at this point I'm thinking it's a great opportunity but maybe not the best time for me. Owen 06:22, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the heads up about the automated test. It's fixed now, and I've left a note on the test's talk page. Merphant 06:56, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thanks to RDH for the heads' up on Panarjedde. -- llywrch 23:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
An African military history task force is being created. Perhaps you are interested in joining. Wandalstouring 18:50, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey Llywrch, I'm trying to add refs to the Prester John article. You added in a comment from Richard Pankhurst about Remedius Prutky, what book is that from? It doesn't seem to be listed in the refs, at least at the moment. Thanks!--Cúchullain t/c 22:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
So how'd the meetup go? Is there a write-up? Sorry I couldn't be there. - Jmabel | Talk 16:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I am here because I need a suggestion about how to deal with a "rogue" user.
User:Kingjeff wants to put a referenced text in Australia national football (soccer) team: this one.
Since there have been updates to the matter, I added them too , but he seems not to like this fact, and keeps removing my contribution.
On the article talkpage, other people (including me, three, against Jeff alone) support removing the matter completely, as it is of little meaning, but Jeff does not like this settlement too, so he still pushes his POV.
He is acting so blindly that he is removing other edits I made, including clearly neutral corrections of links .
Is there a way to deal with him? And in particular, is there a way to deal with him quickly?
Best regards, Panarjedde 17:30, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I've run across this problem several times now, and as an administrator and as one fairly familiar with Egyptolgical stuff, I was wondering if you could tell me how to go about preventing somthing. From time to time, as has just recently happened, a few afrocentrists show up on important pages and often start making a stink. At the moment, everything's fine, however in the past and invariably in the future someone has and someone will come around and raise cain about somthing like this, and when I bring up "no original reaserch" "soapbox" and "reliable source" requirements, they totally ignore them and insist that the sole criterion for a reliable source and an npov source is any source which agrees with their premise (though obviously not with those words.) On any other topic, this would be trollish behavior, but somehow they get away with it. If, for instance, this guy in Akhenaten gets belligerant, what do I do? Thanatosimii 22:28, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been poking around here in the first intermeidate period to try to straigten it out. Granted, even the experts can't straigten the period out, but I'd like to actually get it looking and working a little better. It seems like you're the one that added the king list to this page. I can see that it's a version of the Abydos king list, but I'm wondering if you know where it came from. I've got another version of the list, with significantly different names. If I could get a hieroglyphic copy, I could figure out which one is right, but I can't seem to find one, so I'd like to know if your source is more reliable than mine. However,I realize you wrote it over a year ago, so if you don't remember, I'll just keep doing research to try to straigten this all out. Thanatosimii 23:38, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Could you have a look at Council of Five Hundred#Athens? I'm always suspicious of the accuracy of content that reads like it was written at a 12-year-old level. I'm guessing that this is something you would have at least a clue about; if not, can you suggest someone who would? I want to split the article in two with a disambiguation (one about France, one about Athens) but I don't want to do that until the content of both is at least an OK stub. - Jmabel | Talk 07:41, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Llywrch. So as not to criticize you behind your back: I just mentioned your name on User talk:Donnachadelong. Bishonen | talk 23:57, 19 November 2006 (UTC).
You're right, I reverted you too hastily. On further reflection, I'd say it is indeed fringe and only tangential to the subject, so we should probably delete it after all. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 19:32, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey! It's been a while since I've communicated with you (and had free time to contribute actual substance and references). Can you explain the 1225 date you added to the Kibra Nagast? I see the date for Abuna Giyorgis II matches that of the List of Abunas of Ethiopia article, but it doesn't match the life of Ya'ibika Igzi, who was a contemporary (and slight predecessor) of Amde Seyon. Here is the colophon from Budge's translation:
It's clearly contradictory if they are talking about the same Abba Giyorgis as the Abuna and the same Ya`ibika Igzi, governor of Inderta (a district of Tigray near Aksum). Note that there's doubt as to the existence of an Arabic (or Coptic) vorlage, but that Nibura 'id Yishaq may have simply been a compiler of older documents, as some of the Kibra Nagast material seems to be datable to the late antique period (particularly the last chapter dealing with Kaleb and the inheritance of the throne by his sons, see the work of Gianfrancesco Lusini). — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 23:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
I wrote a rather long paper on this topic (moreso on the province Habesh) last year that could be used to start this article, but it's going to need a lot of copy-editing. I'll continue to be busy for the next week and a half (and even some after that), so I'd appreciate it if you could copy-edit my paper into a neutral Wikipedia article on the subject. I have included the text below my signature here, just hidden by Wikipedia syntax. When page numbers are cited without an author name, it simply means that the author hasn't changed (a bibliography is at the end). — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 07:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
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Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#The_return_of_User:Panairjdde.2FUser:Kwame_Nkrumah_etc. if you wish to comment. Jayjg (talk) 02:47, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
I checked your blog. Best of luck on your health. - Jmabel | Talk 18:22, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
yeah dude! you rock!!!!!! go!!!! good job in this wiki stuff!!! i love you man!!! im your biggest fan!!!! yeah!!!! w00t!!!! YEAH MAN GO DUDE I CANT PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME BUT YOU ROCK!!!!
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Can you help resolve a conflict at Mohammed Al Amoudi? — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 21:12, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
I found a great resource for local Ethiopian history here. There are over 140 pdfs for places throughout Ethiopia, A-Z (each PDF has a number of placenames and is tens of pages long, total 2,800 pages, over 30k entries). There's a lot of good historical data, both recent and medieval (not sure about ancient yet, as I haven't looked through it that much) with sources (including page numbers, but unfortunately abridged, though the full source citation can be found without too much difficulty (pdf)) that could help beef up some of those woreda and city articles (as well as provide a basis for the creation of new ones). — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 23:23, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
By the way, I've created a website for Ethiopian and Eritrean history at forums.habeshahistory.com. I'm in the process of adding some articles and debates from other sites that I've participated at to get discussion started (and articles posted). — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 04:35, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. See my comments on my user page on the question of the supposed Silt'e Zone. Maybe you can help? — MikeG (talk) 04:49, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
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I have an E-mail by which I can be contacted, and have sent you a message as you asked. Took me a while to set it up, but I think it ought to work. Thanatosimii 01:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Re: Ethiopian stuff, i have not got it where i would like to get it due to lack of info.--HalaTruth(ሀላካሕ) 21:06, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
The best existing proposal I can, in my own limited way, think of for the previously discussed "appreciation week" can now be found at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week#Wikipedia Week. Any comments or responses would be more than welcome. Badbilltucker 15:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I have created some stubs about volcanoes in Ethiopia. You can find 'em at Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board/New articles. I am letting you know cause you are expert in Ethiopia-related stuff. Cheers! - Darwinek 21:44, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
A mpa of the Battle of Chalons has been created by User:Dryzen.(User_talk:Wandalstouring#Chalons) What's your opinion? Wandalstouring 19:37, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
On bohica, there does seem to be a website (see here), but google only gives 9 hits when I search for "Bohica Associates Corporation" excluding "Wikipedia" and "answers." Removing "corporation" gets more hits, but they mainly seem to be from Wikipedia, so the article probably wouldn't meet WP:NN anyway. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 17:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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Dear Llywrch, You once did created a disambigulation page on Amenemope due to the fact that there was a name clash between two people with the same name. May I ask if you could do this for the founder of the Egyptian 5th Dynasty. The same name clash occurs here between a computer program with this name and pharaoh Snefru who is listed as Sneferu on Wikipedia. I checked "Snefru" on google and notice that a ratio of 4:1 appears for this king rather than the computer program Snefru that is listed solely on Wikipedia's Snefru page. Sneferu is actually a rarer and more uncommon spelling of the pharaoh's name. Is it possible that you could rectify this situation and give Pharaoh Sneferu his usual place at Snefru--ie: so that both the computer program Snefru and pharaoh Snefru are listed under this name? As an Aside, if you are wondering, I have done a fair bit of contributions regarding pharaoh Amenhotep III, his wife Tiye and this pharaoh's father-in-law Yuya under my personal name s well as under my anonymous 24.87.XX log number. So, I have a real interest in improving Wikipedia's quality. Thank You Leoboudv 23:37, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
Dear Llywrch, Thank You for the changes on Snefru--it was what I was hoping to discover. Most people know Snefru as king Snefru--the king who built 2 or 3 massive Egyptian pyramids--rather than a computer hash program. I knew there was a problem when I googled Snefru and found no wikipedia mention of it until I saw it was spely Sneferu here. Regards, Leoboudv 22:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm glad that caught someone's attention; it really is a mystery. Even if Google was trying to be annoying, you'd think something like it would show up for other emporers and equivalent articles, but no... my current theory is that it's actually a Wikipedia issue and not a Google one, and that this information was somehow put for Wikipedia's "self-description" by either a misguided or deliberately vandalizing editor... but since nothing on the page indicates what, in any, sort of tag this is, we're just left to shrug our shoulders until someone shows up who knows about the techy stuff...---Lenoxus 01:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
why did you block me? Guard Pigeon Guard Pigeon 14:12, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Do you think you could upload an image of this beautiful shrine onto the Wikipedia web page for Senusret I? It is a great photo of this king's Karnak shrine. Here is the Wikipedia Commons image: Leoboudv 11:18, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Dear Llywrch, Thank you for your help on uploading the photo and the link for uploading pictures. Just a brief comment: if you had stated that the picture of Senusret I's chapel should be 100 rather than 2000 pixels, what would have happened? Would the picture have been fuzzier or would it have taken up more space in the web page on Senusret I? Thank You Leoboudv 10:11, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for copy-editing my stuff - I know it needs it. However, I feel a little uneasy when you consistently call the place of a wereda administration a capital. Even for a zonal administration it sounds a bit pompous. I would agree to call a regional administrative center a capital, but for lower levels I am looking for a better term, which explains my wordiness in some of the entries. -- Landroving Linguist 12:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Couple of questions on my talk page about this. Thanks! --Doug talk 20:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC) Yes, that is the edit! Thanks, I will follow up on these great leads. That was exactly what I was looking for. If I need additional, I'll get back to you later. This will keep me busy for awhile. --Doug talk 21:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi Llywrch, I actually already have plans for that weekend, but thanks for the notice. I'm afraid I don't really have the time or money for conferences anymore, unless they are medieval ones, and even then I can't get to all the interesting ones! Adam Bishop 08:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for the extra question on my RfA; I've answered it, and I hope that helps you (or others) make their decision. Cheers, riana_dzasta 23:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
He's probably right. There's an area in N. Ethiopia very close to the border w/ Eritrea called Gulo-Makeda (or Goulo-Makèda in the French spelling). If this is referring to that area, then Gulomahda is incorrect. Is Gulomahda the CSA spelling, and do you have a copy of the original Ge'ez? I'm pretty sure the regions are one in the same, however, as these articles refer to a certain "Gulo Mekeda" (and Gulo Mekheda, the k becomes "kh" in Tigrinya when in certain vowel environments) woreda. I would move it to "Gulo-Makeda" ("Makeda" is the most common spelling for the Queen of Sheba, even if it's not the most faithful transliteration). — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 21:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you were adding more African leaders to the state leaders pages, and I had a question about your placementof the Adal Sultanate. You put it independently of Ethiopia, although for the times you added it, it was under Ethiopian control. I think it would be more appropriate to put it as a bullet under Ethiopia, along with other vassal kingdom-provinces. For periods prior to the 14th century, however, it would be an independent bullet. I say this because I noticed that the French domains are listed under France rather than as states in their own right. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 03:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Also, I found a source with exact dates for the Solomonic restoration (10 Nehase) and Yekuno Amlak's death (16 Sene) (stated by Zara Yaqob), but I'm not sure as to the exact dates in AD. You wouldn't happen to know a convertor that can do dates that far back, do you? — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 01:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello Llywrch, I have answered your question on My RFA. I hope this will assist you and others to come to a decision.--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 23:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Llwrch, I just wanted to thank you for your input on my RfA, which was successful with a final tally of 61/0/2. I know you had some concerns about my possibilities for burnout or that I wasn't interested enough in improving Wikipedia's content. It is my hope that my conduct as an administrator will assuage your concerns. If you have any comments about my use of the tools I would be glad to hear from you on my talk page. Thanks again for your comments. Heimstern Läufer 09:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
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Regarding your request about the phrase "the conflict dwindled to small-scale crossborder raiding" on the Battle of Gallabat article: it comes from Churchill' book The river war. This book is mainly about Sudan, and I'm not sure how accurate it is about Ethiopia. So if you have a reliable source that contradicts this, feel free to change the article.Raoulduke47 11:22, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Llywrch, thanks for checking out blog.valuewiki.com. My ad hoc research prompted another Wikipedian, User:C mon, to conduct a more exhaustive political survey of 200 randomly selected Wikipedians. With his permission, I've posted C mon's findings on my blog.
C mon may expand his survey to include a wider sample. But so far, I think the results are pretty interesting.
By the way, I enjoy Original-Research! Jonathan Stokes 01:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Great info, and very interesting. It seems that you are quoting directly from Futuh al-Habashah, which is fine in some places, but a few of the additions seem to err on the side of OR, IMHO. Specifically, these two sentences may cross the line:
The claim that because the Futuh praises the Imam thoroughly and therefore wouldn't have criticized the fleeing Somali warriors if he were Somali seems to be interpreting the primary sources much too far. I also feel the judgement that the fact that he retired among the Somali may indicates that he's Somali involves too much inference from the data; depending on the specific wording on the sentence, it could imply that he's not Somali (having to withdraw into a foreign population) or Somali (reverting back to his roots). Do you know of any secondary sources that analyze the primary data? Along the same vein, I think you should look into the discussion at Talk:Tigrinya language and Talk:Semitic languages regarding the number of Tigrinya speakers. There's a user called Itayb whom I believe is being a bit of a jobsworth regarding the type of sources that can be used and what constitutes OR. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 03:19, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Llywrch, Could you please create a disambigulation page for Neferirkare. The current version on Wikipedia only mentions a fairly obscure 8th dynasty Egyptian king whereas most scholars view Neferirkare as Neferirkare Kakai, the well known third ruler of the powerful Fifth dynasty of Egypt. I wanted to type the following information below in a disambigulation page but was unable to change the current Neferirkare web page setting after several tries:
The name Neferirkare refers to 2 Egyptian Old Kingdom pharaohs:
If you could do this, it will lessen any confusion among Wikipedia users about king 'Neferirkare.' I've given up, I'm afraid. Thank You. Leoboudv 11:24, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
No, I didn't catch the cloning. I'm glad you did. Oh well, it still looked good — but now I know why. :-) Thanks. Realkyhick 21:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
The article is now a GA. Have your comments from the review been addressed? I would like to discuss if the article fullfills A-class now.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 18:30, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I like David Rohl, I have all of his books and truly appreciate (and mildly support) his theories. Still, as a Wikipedian, I think the anti-Rohl site should remain, no matter how mean it is or how much the people at the Yahoo Groups hate it (both of which I am members of, by the way). The YahooGroups do provide muchinformation on Rohl and his theories and are easy to join and should remain, I think, because Rohl's personal website is currently still kaput. Sorry for the use of "wantonly," but I've had some other pages I've done alot of work on hatcheted (and links removed) after many months of stability.
TuckerResearch 19:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear Llywrch, I monitored the WikiMedia discussion late Friday and saw the comment that Touregypt has apparently been removed from the blacklist. Is this true or will a certain Betacom.. revert this decision? Secondly, if TE is now off the list, if say Thomas Shaw(thanatosimi), Captmondo, Alensha, myself or you gradually start adding previous deleted links to touregypt, will this be deemed as 'spamming' since a small group of people is doing this. I added some of the links which Kyra removed from TE linked sites and was accused of being a spammer. This is what scares me from adding any of the deleted touregypt sites at present.
I'm a little confused on the situation. Personally, my position on TE is that most of the articles on Ancient Egypt's monuments, ancient cities, pharaohs and gods should be retained if they are the main resources on this topic and if this is the compromise needed to keep TE on Wikipedia but many of the rest is of debatable value. I unwisely tried to reverse a TE linked article's deletion from Kushari in a fit of anger but it was certainly an error of judgment on my part: there must be other useful sites on this Egyptian cuisine. Secondly, the TE article on Koshary/Kushari contained images of the food but did not include any reference, which is not one expects on Wikipedia. Regards, Fabian from Greater Vancouver, site of the future 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Leoboudv 06:50, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I concur with your comments and will use TE sites if they have particularly useful info. Some of the TE sites on Unas are priceless and the web links which Kira W. attempted to replace them with are of far inferior quality and barely refer to this king in any meaningful matter. They hardly bring this king's reign to life. Witness I am concerned though with Beestra's comments that their limit for watching spam or URL additions is less than 7 additions per 17 minutes. I supposse one wld have to confine any reverssals of TE linked sites to 3 or 4 pages a day spread out over time. Anyhow, I will henceforth add only TE sites which have references. I wonder though what reason one can give--will it be "TE now removed from blacklist, this URL gives verifiable book sources" or something like that to avoid triggering another charge of spamming. Sigh, what a conundrum. Fabian from Canada Leoboudv 19:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Dear llyrwrch, Looks like someone put TE on the spam list again. I got the same spam filter message again when trying to restore a great TE article on Sheshonq II. I had been slowly but regularly adding links to some TE articles and I gave precise reasons for their additions as Beestra once recommended. Most of my Ancient Egypt URL contributions were by TE but others were from different web sites such as crystalinks and xoomer.alice.it. Maybe someone though I was a spammer here but I gave precise reasons for my additions on both my accts here which you can access and I had carefully examined past TE articles looking specifically for either book references, certain distinctive features in the TE articles which weren't available elsewhere on the web like architectural sketches of pyramids, tombs or the comprehensive text of the [Edwin Smith papyrus] and dismissing especially short ones. I did about 24 or 25 TE additions/restorations in total over the past week. Oh well I suppose if Wikipedia doesn't like TE, Citizendium might! Maybe someone didn't like my final TE linked story on Osiris which was subsequently deleted. Anyway life goes on. If you are angry with me, I fully apologise. Regards, Fabian Leoboudv 08:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Llywrch, I just tried to post some information on Ramesses IV's career before he became king and got a spam filter message saying it detected a blacklisted hyperlink with the ://touregypt.net extension. Here is the information and reference I was trying to add with the http link removed: 'Henceforth, Ramesses IV was responsible for appointing important Egyptian officials; in Year 27 of his father's reign, for instance, he was credited with appointing a certain Amenemopet to the important position of the High Priest of Mut at Karnak.[://touregypt.net/featurestories/ramessesiv.htm]'
This can't be an error: this message has flashed for 2 days now and blocks all ://touregypt.net sites. However, the TE linked article I did on Ramesses III prior to this message is still there. Unless Wikipedia is doing this to block any April fools pranks, TE seems to have blocked. Any idea what is going on here? Have you tried linking a TE site yourself? Leoboudv 20:50, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank You Llywrch, Hope this works After the fight over TE, I feel I am walking on egg shells here! By the way, have you checked out Citizendium? Looks like L. Sanger decided not to copy and then edit every single Wikipedia articles--which was their original plan--and instead start from scratch since it is currently pretty bare. Sanger compared the task of purging Wikipedia articles as akin to the cleaning of the 'Augean stables' so to speak. I wish them the best of luck personally though I will remain loyal to Wikipedia. My main complaint with Wikipedia--which I know Mr Wales shares-is that there are way too many trolls and vandals editing Wikipedia articles. I wish there was a 3 or 4 strikes rule and you're out banned from editing. Cheers Leoboudv 22:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Jimmy Wales will be speaking at Reed College in Portland, OR this Monday, April 2, at 7 pm in the Vollum lecture hall. The lecture is titled "Wikia Search and the Future of the Internet". The event is open to the public, and it would be great to see you there. Please forward this message to anyone you know who may be interested. :-) Dmcdevit·t 08:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry about that, I removed touregypt.com, not .net. It is fixed now. I am going to remove from the whitelist. :) Thanks for pointing that out. Cheers! —— Eagle101 Need help? 22:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
The Baeda Maryam article says 1709, but the Brancaleon one says 1704. Since you were the source of both of these numbers, could you check and find out which is the correct one (I assume they came from the same source—Budge—and you simply made a typo on one). — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 23:45, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
As described on Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Panairjdde (3rd). May be moot point, since he hasn't edited since July, but I still thought you should be informed, in case you want to contest the block. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 15:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, List of atonal pieces, has been listed by me for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of atonal pieces. Thank you. S.dedalus 00:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
In the past some Wikimembers have stated that they intend to 'copyedit' an article on Wikipedia in the future. Is this the process of nominating a Wikipedia article to a Wikipedia board to have it scrutinised for its list of sources, before it possibly becomes a future featured article? If it is, I am strongly thinking of nominating the article on Amenhotep III which features numerous footnoted sources including ancient texts from the Amarna letters to be copyedited. I did most of the work here collating data over the past year. Its much better than the longer one on Akhenaten which tends to attract many kooks and is full of unverifiable claims. In contrast, most of the info on Amenhotep iii is clear, concise, mainstream and non-controversial except perhaps for the question of a coregency between him and Akhenaten. The only improvement I can think of is I wish there was more information and images on this king's many building projects in Egypt. I could only add a photo of his temple of Amun at Karnak here; that was the only photo I could find on Wikicommons. What do you think--is this premature or a bad idea? Leoboudv 10:46, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for telling me the definition of a copy edit Llywrch. Regards, Leoboudv 22:36, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I feel this image was deleted recently (not sure when) incorrectly. It's a 16th century portrait, which I believe I uploaded as being in the public domain due to its age, and I should have indicated its source (www.addistribune.com, I can get the specific page if you wish, which should have been what was up there). Could you restore it and tell me what's wrong with the license so that I can fix it? Thanks. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 06:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
You may want to weigh in at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 April 15#List of songs containing covert references to real musicians, since you were involved in a previous discussion of this article. - Jmabel | Talk 05:42, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
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