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Seriously, dude. Do you really wander around Wikipedia all day just to find something some kid in Michigan wrote so you can delete it? Sieben is co-owner of an extremely successful skate company, his artwork is sold in some form in just about every skate and bike shop in the country, and he's been featured in many art and skate magazines, not to mention the magazines he writes and distributes himself. How is he not notable? Someone will want to know about him! I wrote the article because i did! Honestly, you think something is unknown because you don't know about it? You think you know everything that's worth knowing? People like you make this site a lot less fun than it could be. --kphaneuf December 2006
No offence, maybe you should check Notability article yourself. It clearly states 'Failing to satisfy the notability guidelines is not a criterion for speedy deletion.', so you should of consulted me before deletion or started an adf not just delete it without any note. He has won many awards and toured the entire Australian Countryside in his epic tour in 2004, also he is played on the radio here constantly, especially by ABC's Triple J. However I understand your concern, and will take it into consideration, if I decide to create the article again, but I will probably do this far into the future as time is of the esscence. By the way, please accept my apology and correct me, if the line I quoted dosn't apply to this article situation. --Smallcucumber 12:04, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Dear Renate: have begun copyediting this. Hope to finish by tonight. I already have one question: the first paragraph states that "the empire reached ALMOST to the Black Sea", but the map definitely shows the Black Sea within the territory. Including Kiev.
Novickas 13:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
Aciu for the award. I promise that I intend to continue to expanding articles in the future and I wouldn’t be derailed from this patch very easily. Thanks again M.K. 09:17, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Dear Renata. I sincerly hope your message on conflict resolution and deletion of your user page don't mean you are quiting this project. The informal mediation which I tried was just the begining of a proper WP:DR. I have seen tougher issues dealth with, and although I may not see 100% eye to eye with it, please, don't leave us. We need editors like you to stay and be the voice of sanity to the rest of us.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 04:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
September 12/18 are truly said days for Wikipedia. :-( Take a break, and recall the advice you once gave me: breathe and relax, and above all, remember your special training ;-) I hope you do come back. (Sorry for not noticing earlier.) Lupo 08:16, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Just noticed that Renata's edits do not appear on my watchlist anymore:( That sounds like a big loss to all of Wikipedia. I hope you'll rethink your position after some time, although cannot say, that I didn't have similar thoughts about leaving more than once.--Lokyz 12:35, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm sad too. You welcomed me to Wikipedia! (And I just assumed then that you were an admin.) I understand the feeling of "enough is enough", though. Perhaps after a break you'll come back. I'll be thinking about you. --Fang Aili talk 15:24, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
This is truly surprise to me that Renata is leaving. If this is due to personal life, well, we all facing setbacks and gains in our personal life and actually this is a beauty of life – it keeps as strong and prepares for future challenges. Actually this is human nature and destiny, sometimes we can not avoid or change our destiny, but we can meet it with dignity, with risen head and with the clear mind – yes it is hard, but I wouldn’t give up and will go, I will go on!!!!
If it’s due to wikipedia developments, everything is possible and could be solved any problem, sooner or later. If this is a case – take a short break, but don’t leave us! You simply can’t do this!
And remember, Renata, when you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on…
By signing below editors from all the Wikipedia asking you, Renata, to stay:
For God's sake don't be so melodramatic - petitions, sighs, obituaries. C'mon. She's an adult, she knows what she's doing. And, boy, that Airing of Grievances by Renata was great. I could only dream, that some will follow her example one day and will let the grievances out in one go, instead of dragging their egotistic traumas for ages from one Talk-page to another. If she decides to quit this S/M scene, that's great. Go girl, there is more to life than Wiki. Run like a hell and never look back. But she will be back in one form, or another - as admin, or anonymous just browsing passerby, it does not matter. See ya Renata. Encyclopaedia Editing Dude 16:18, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Dear petitioners. Please save your pleas. Renata will be back. Sometimes Wikibreaks are needed. Let her have hers. She will come back rested and determined to save Lithuanian history from the foreign nationalist revisionism :). No irony here. Who else? Cheers all! --Irpen 06:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Loosing Renata for this project actually does matter, but I respect any decision, she choses to make. Renata, you have done a lot of good things here, do now, what serves you best. Best regards, --Gf1961 19:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Regardless if you decide to return or not, I want you to know that your contributions have been appreciated, Renata. I personally have found your .ogg recordings quite useful in learning the pronunciation of Lithuanian. Olessi 20:34, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
A few words from you would be so welcome. Just let us know you're OK. Novickas 22:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Reneta. I saw your post on the RB and figured I'd take a whack at it. I just wanted to make sure everything you said on there is up to date, as I think that post has been up there for a while. Anyway, I am thinking about doing either Politics- , Foreign relations- , or Flag- of Lithuania. I havn't decided yet. Also, why is User:Creidieki's name also on the post? Thanks for the opportunity. → JARED (t) 13:18, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Glad to see you back, Renata. Take as much time as you need. Cheers, Olessi 01:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
So am I. Take. --Gf1961 02:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could tell me the source of the data you used to create the district maps. I would appreciate it. Respond at my talk page. Peter O. (Talk) 07:00, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Renata. The site was this , which has usually been very reliable for such information. I was concerned when Šviesa did not show up on the List of cities in lithuania page but assumed it may have been a village or hamlet.
If you know of no such place I will remove it. From the same site, you may also be able to tell me whether Klaipėdoje should be Klaipėda, if it is a seperate settlement, or even annother error. Thanks Caledonian Place 01:16, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I've added two paragraphs of prose to the list as requested; please let me know what you think. --Spangineeres (háblame) 22:21, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I think I've addressed your concerns as best I can. Various changes, citations, etc. Let me know if there's anything further you wish to comment on. Tuf-Kat 01:50, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I think that this is nor true. In the last century the 90% of the years have had changes. And in the past there was lots and lots of more changes. There is no other side in Wikipedia able to have a map for each year as has been requested. The political geography is changing each year. Excuse my English level. Sobirà 18:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I see absolutly impossible to put in a single page all the changes of all the hundreds and hundreds of German, Greek, Italian or Arabic sovereign states. Sobirà 18:31, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
If there are statics years, redirections exists. It's absolutly impossible to have an idea of what exactly exists in a year with only a list of what appear and disappear. Sobirà 18:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you please complete the afd nom of List of sovereign states in 1990? No rationale for deletion was given so far. Tizio, Caio, Sempronio 16:55, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've answered your objection on the FLC above, and would like to get further input from you. :) – Elisson • T • C • 17:14, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Na siandien tai nervai neislaike :) Turgaus pasikoliojimai turi tokia ypatybe, kad ramiai pro juos praeiti gan sunku. Ziuresim, kuom cia pasibaigs. Encyclopaedia Editing Dude 16:40, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Labas - as you see, I haven't really let go! I was involved in editing Giedrus Subacius' book about The Jungle. The section about the Title Metaphor - needs some work, but I think it's worth keeping.
Hope you don't mind if I chat a little here. While thinking over the issues involved in being a Wikipedian, some incidents came to mind. At the scientific institution where I work we have, at times over the years, hired Eastern European, Central European, and Russian analysts - they brought diverse viewpoints; they had publications to their credit; their English was pretty good. Then, during meetings, they would disagree with their co-workers by saying: "No. This is not how it works. Not at all. We need to do it this way." Awkward silence.
Fast-forward ten years. Now the same people present their viewpoints at meetings in this way: "There are, embedded within this analysis, a number of assumptions about economic growth in x, y and z sectors; there are also assumptions regarding the useful life of hydroelectric powerplants; how difficult would it be to incorporate these assumptions into a series of variables?" Thoughtful expressions; nods; scribbling on notepads.
That's a big difference. It's evolution. Now we can have a discussion. Flora Lewis wrote a book ("Europe") in the 1980s about the European intellectual style - it was, and clearly still is, extremely confrontational. Opinions must be presented very strongly; to do otherwise would imply weakness.
Wikipedia is clearly another manifestation of this kind of evolution. And Wikipedia-addiction is the same addiction as a parent has to his or her child: faith in its future. Let's fast-forward ten years from now: you'll be one of those rare people, like Adamkus, who has both feet solidly planted on either side of the Atlantic. You have a bright future. Consult any gypsy you meet in Manhattan for verification and see if they don't agree!Novickas 18:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Renata, I'm working on the geography stubs. Where did the location maps in the city pages come from? It would be nice to have similar location maps for the other places. Novickas 11:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Novickas 14:25, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
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for a timely e-mail long ago (I frequently remember the "special training" :-), for a very nice barnstar, and generally for being around. Thank you! Lupo 14:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC) |
Thank you very much for your support in my RfA. Unfortunately consensus was not reached, and the nomination was not successful. However, I do appreciate your comments, am still in support of the Wikipedia project, and will continue to contribute without interruption. Thanks again! --Elonka 19:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Removed, and thanks for the tips on best link format. That will teach me to play with the controversial gallery tag! --Steve 03:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Labas, gal galetum pakonsultuoti User:Nercury copyrighto klausimais. Reiketu ideti i Wiki koki nors Saukos paveiksla, bet bijau kad su autorinem teisem cia gana sudetinga butu. As manau, kad paprasciausia butu ideti knygos virseli, tam jau yra tag'as. Encyclopaedia Editing Dude 04:37, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Long time no see. Thanks for grammar correction, I am horrible with all those a and the... Glad you are still around and involved in some many different things. Renata 03:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
But what if section "Hell in fine arts" is created? It's valid illustration then. Or not?Encyclopaedia Editing Dude 19:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I worked my ass off to create an article on the Legislative Palace and you just deleted it . Wesborland 22:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Why does my article require cleanup? Will it be deleted? I hope not as I spent hours working on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gerbocs (talk • contribs)
Thank you for information. I am sure it will be useful, as I am completely new here. Still, practice makes perfect, isn't it?
It was me, sorry: --timmulis 15:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Renata, what is going on when you are editing a page in Wikipedia, and cannot save or even preview it - an arrow with north and south points appears? Once or twice I've had "editing conflict" messages appear but not in this case...
Also, for your amusement, a bulletin from the University of Chicago - they are playing a game in the lounges every day that goes like this: someone shouts out one word, say "marshmallow", and someone shouts out another one, say "Milton Friedman" - then you must go from one site to the other in as short a time as possible using only Wikipedia links (people are sitting in there with their laptops) Glory is the only reward. When someone shouts they got there, people gather around and watch the sequence of links. Well, maybe you already knew about this, but I didn't. Cool huh? Sincerely, Novickas 21:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm just wondering why you deleted the "List of Famous Redheads."
Question - Žirmūnai - occasionally it says "Attention: this page is 38 kilobytes long" or something like that - is there a quick and easy way to determine character count in WIkipedia? Novickas 20:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I just wanted to that you for producing the assessment page for the Lithuania wikiproject. I just had to copy some of the text for wikiproject beekeeping (my new one ;)). I expect the text will evolve over time, but just wanted to let you know - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Martinp23 00:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
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For your hard work and dedication to improving Wikipedia, I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this Original Barnstar. Good job! Sharkface217 20:51, 4 November 2006 (UTC) |
You've award quite a few barnstars in your time (almost as many as me, which is saying something ^_~), and you have gone quite a while without being formally recognized. Cheers. Sharkface217 20:51, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Probably you will be interested in this: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Halibutt M.K. 23:32, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
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why did you delete this article?
it took me a while to put that article up and you just ripped it down without even giving me a chance to copy the information down so that i could possibly put up an edited version.
why was it deleted?
my article: Wireless Audio Gesture
based off product by http://www.xpresense.com/
Dfritter4 03:13, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Renata, when you get a chance, could you look at National symbols of lithuania ? It's new and under construction - was hoping you could tell me if I'm missing anything of importance, and if you have any organizational notions? Novickas 02:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
So..I fixed it up quite a bit. Only remaining problem is finding image of the 6-sided cross. Hope you like it. Novickas 15:03, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
1 second? No, 120,000 seconds, and still counting. Gene Nygaard 03:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Renata - I know you're taking a Wikibreak, but when you have a chance, could you see if you can access the following link:
I haven't been able to access it (or anything on vilnius.lt) for a month or so. M.K. suggested that I try it with an updated version of Internet Explorer, but I don't want to do that since IE gives me more trouble than I think it's worth. I use Netscape and Firefox and get the same error message on both: "The connection has timed out". M.K. and others don't have a problem. Just to get a reality check on the issue. Sincerely, Novickas 21:14, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I hate to be a bother, but how does one use the citation tages to cite encyclopedias? I'm not entirely clear on this. I'm trying to work in your suggestions - some with more effect than others: I've not yet hit on a good way to remove the self-referentiality of the Women Opera Composers section without venturing dangerously into seeming POV, or understating their importance. Still, I fixed the minor problems (Explaining Peri wrote both Daphne and Euridice, moving the notes on construction to the reference section - does that seem a reasonable fix to you? - and so on.) If you can help me figure out the citation tags for the Encyclopædia articles- and I am sorry to be a bother - I'll and we others should be able to fix the rest. Adam Cuerden talk 08:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I've replied to your comment on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Saskatchewan general elections. Tompw 15:35, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Renata3 -- you were kind enough to take the time to respond to the Featured List nomination for List of fictional books. It failed to make the cut pretty resoundingly, so it's been subbed for a peer review. Any detailed comments or suggestions you'd care to offer would be welcome at it's peer review section, particularly a little more explanation of your comment about it needing more references. Thanks! --Bookgrrl 19:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Your campaign for censorship got a strong head start. I dont blame you, as it's the guy below who is adding fuel to the fire. Friends? :) Think twice when you give weight to what may be insinuations. Truthseeker 85.5 20:41, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm afraid in this specific case, I wasn't able to get the citation tags to work. See here, where I had cited up the second batch of references: The co-author section had to be hacked as it didn't manage it in the case where there is only one co-author cleanly, and the books with only editors broke the template in ugly ways. I think the citation templates, sadly, need a bit more work, although I was able to use them without problems in W. S. Gilbert.
That aside, do you think your other problems have been dealt with? If the lead isn't long enough, do you have any suggestions to what it should include but doesn't? Adam Cuerden talk 00:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I think all your bojections have been seen to at its FLC. Do you have any other issues?
†he Bread 09:20, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for informing me of the image copyright issue...Unfortunately I, well, do not have any idea how to add any of that, as I'm entirely and completely unfamiliar with how to use Wikipedia in any advanced sense, I have found both where I got the image from, which is in fact a pornographic site that I chose for it's non-graphic yet real life depiction, and this - http://www.videosz.com/legal.php?pg=usc2257 Which I found at the bottom of said site, I'm not entirely sure what to do from here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Revrant (talk • contribs) 06:57, 8 December 2006 (UTC).
Sorry about that . . . I asked another admin about that yesterday, and I thought he said yes you do, though I see I've misinterpreted his answer. Sorry again. -WarthogDemon 04:50, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Does Flag of Lithuania count? User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 02:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Renata, would you object, if I cleaned this and other Lithuanian airports from the misspellings and miltary slang (??) denominations ? Best regards. --Gf1961 11:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Nearly back, but need to finish my mock exams first (they finish on Tuesday) :D
In fact, my Geography exam is in an hour, so I should revise some more
And I was going to ask about sport in Vilnius but I see there is already a section for it in the sandbox. Also - maybe something about entertainment? Theatres and clubs and things like that? Andrius 12:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Renata! Haven't spoken to you in a while; hope you are doing fine.
The reason I am contacting you is the fact that I am thinking about soon nominating one of the lists of mine for WP:FL. Having done some homework on what is generally asked of the candidate lists, I noticed you popping here and there periodically requesting people use {{cite web}} to format references. I have nothing against cite web (except that I've never used it before), so I would like to use it in my list as well. Problem is, just look at the references used. I am not sure how to fit two language data bits for each template field; plus, the OKATO reference uses a template (because without it I would have to manually change several dozen reference instances every time an amendment comes out). Your advice on how to best handle this situation would thus be very much appreciated. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:56, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes I had particular situation in mind - when same web is used in several different locations do you always have to post the same syntax as described in cite web. Maybe there are some shorten syntax ? M.K. 23:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Renata! I have (hopefully) addressed most of your concerns about that list; could you, please, take a fresh look at it? I formatted all web references using cite web, except the one with OKATO, which I left untouched. The reason is that I can't really figure out how to fit this reference into the cite web format. Not only the wikilink is lost when cite web is used, but I am also unable to use the parameter from inside cite web, and, since OKATO is several hundred pages long, pointing readers to the right section is quite important.
My other concern is that cite web italicized Cyrillic text—something that's against style guidelines. I can't think of a way to fix that besides substituting the template and editing italics out manually, which would probably defeat the purpose of using cite web in the first place.
Finally, I have reviewed a few other featured lists similar to this one to get ideas for a longer lead. It seems, however, that they all contain information on the number of subdivisions, but in case of this list these numbers are available via the infobox, which, I think, summarizes the stats more efficiently than plain text would. Please let me know if this is sufficient for you.
Any other feedback or concerns you might still have will also be greatly appreciated. Happy New Year!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Renata, can you restore Demetrius I Starszy article name? It was renamed to Demetrius I Starszij by RobotF with no justification. Orionus 11:44, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Did I say it comes with a warranty? :) Sure, I added it - for what it's worth :) Merry XMAS! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 01:24, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks — I knew it wasn't quite right. You don't expect a stupid American to understand inflections, do you?
So, Linksmų šv. Kalėdų to you, too! Sca 14:08, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
I've created User:Kyle_the_bot on en: and you've blocked him ?! Can you unblocked him please ? This is a bot account (and he is already on fr: fr:User:Kyle_the_bot and one of the best bot, see editcount). You can trust me (and my bot) i'm an sysop too (on fr: fr:User:Kyle_the_hacker), plz unblock 21:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
I presume the criteria should have been patent nonsense and possibly unnoteworthy. This may have been my six or seventh speedydelete request - I am not by nature a deletionist - so I want to get it right when I do call for the axe. Thanks for your comments. LessHeard vanU 22:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Thank for your message on my talk page. Since a few month already I am contributing on the french wiki where (amongst other topics) I try to improve the pages related to Lithuania (user fr:Jmnil). My link to LT is my wife who comes from Kaunas (ok my daughter too but she is also 50% french). If you need any help or french stuff related to LT, or if you need pictures from LT don't hesitate. Linksmų Švenčių (I am leaving now to spend new year's eve in Kaunas) Jmnil 15:00, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
It seems, that wikipedia has become too small for your ambitions. It's a very weird etno region, I have to admin, but ... :-> Best regards, --Gf1961 15:26, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Renata, I am one of many folks assisting in the resolution of ISBN cataloging errors. This has been an ongoing project for a long time now in preparation of the transition to 13 digit ISBN's. A special bot was developed with routines embedded that would ensure that the move to 13 digit ISBN's would be seamless. (Well, at least that was the plan). Sadly, the powers to be who run the ISBN process decided to renumber ALL books in existence. This have created a real mess, in my humble opinion. Be that what it may, our little bot has been going through the entire Wiki system measuring isbn's for various degrees of error ie; too long, too short, etc. Them folks like myself *attempt* to research the books in question and attempt to resolve the errors. Please use shortcut Cat:invalid and read the effort to date. We have over 2000 errors to look at. Please take heart, you are the first person who has questioned my efforts and flag notes that have identified isbn's that are in error. Rich Farmbrough, is the team leader and the gent who created the bot for this effort. I have a number of research locations to use to find correct ISBN's. In some cases, my tools fail me and I then leave a flag note for others who are involved in this effort to continue the search. In your case, I was unable to locate either the author or the book. If you have the book in question and the isbn that you used is so cited then we need to pass this information over to Rich. There may well be a perfectly good reason for why this happened. I had this happen with 6 books that were over 25 years in publish. Rich will better understand what has happened. I hope this clears this up somewhat.Ekotkie 18:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks again
I don't know - try asking at WP:PWNB; my gut feeling is 'merge'.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 19:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I just thought you should know that I nominated With Love and With Love (song) for deletion because neither of them were referenced and the single release was not confirmed at that time, but quite recently it has been announced; that assertion was referenced in the article, so it may not have qualified as a "substantially identical copy". Anyway, after you deleted it the last time, somebody created another article on the same subject under the same title, and no disrespect to the creator but it's lacking the reference, infobox, categories etc. that the now-deleted version had. So I was wondering if you could undelete the edit history (either some or all of it) so that the cleaner version can be reverted to? Thanks. Extraordinary Machine 00:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
An image you uploaded, Image:Somaliland COA.gif, was tagged with the {{coatofarms}} copyright tag. This tag was deleted because it does not actually specify the copyright status of the image. The image may need a more accurate copyright tag, or it may need to be deleted. If the image portrays a seal or emblem, it should be tagged as {{seal}}. If you have any questions, ask them at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. -- 13:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Did you get the pic I emailed to you 12/29? Care to guess the location? Sca 15:23, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, when you have a minute, maybe you'd take a look at the question left by Beaumont at Talk:Krajowcy ? I don't know what to answer. Happy New Year to you ! --Lysytalk 15:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
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