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Talk:Salon.com

Change of position
I believe, from what I've gathered, that Salon no longer is writing "from a politically progressive or left-wing perspective" as the article says, but rather a right to far-right perspective. Not only is there the previous section about antisemitism to back that up, but also its endorsment by the alt-right (proof). I strongly encourage further research to be made in this direction, specifically how and why it changed its political stance. 7dare (talk) 22:07, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:OR. Saturnalia0 (talk) 00:31, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * This position is not factual, Salon.com just today called the Republican Party a "Terrorist Organization". Is Salon.com considered a reliable source? 66.68.178.180 (talk) 02:19, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * There is no consensus about the reliability of Salon per WP:Perennial sources Dronebogus (talk) 02:43, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Infobox: website or newspaper
There's an RfC on whether a news website should use Infobox website or Infobox newspaper: Talk:The Times of Israel. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 14:02, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Curious what the original URL was
It wasn't salon.com until well into 1999:

February 21, 1999 - Hairstylists

April 23, 1999 - Newsmagazine

Immigrant laborer (talk) 03:03, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

 * salonmag.com - Immigrant laborer (talk) 13:10, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 10 June 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 (talk) 20:42, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Salon (website) → Salon.com – The last discussion of this article’s title was in 2012 (link), over whether to move the article from "Salon.com" to "Salon (website)", and it closed as "not moved" (though maybe "no consensus" would have been more accurate). However, the article was then moved to "Salon (website)" after the admin that closed the RM appears to have changed their mind and moved the article to "Salon (website)", the current title. Aside from this, my rationale for proposing a move back to Salon.com is as follows: For these reasons, I believe the article should be moved back to "Salon.com". — python coder (talk | contribs) 20:17, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
 * While just "Salon" is probably the most common title, WP:NATURAL disambiguation is preferred to parenthetical disambiguation (as is currently used). For reference, the policy text describing natural disambiguation is: "Using an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title." The policy text clarifies that natural is preferred to parenthetical disambiguation: "In a similar vein, hand fan is preferable to fan (implement)."
 * "Salon.com" is still commonly used even on the website itself: the HTML element of [//salon.com Salon's homepage is: "Salon.com | News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food"]. Same goes for articles — example: “Joe Manchin's "highly suspicious" reversal on voting bill follows donation from corporate lobby | Salon.com”.
 * In addition, the name of the company that publishes the website is Salon.com, LLC.

 * Courtesy ping to proposer and closer of previous RM:, . The user who initially made the WP:BOLD move referenced in the first RM is indef blocked. — python coder (talk | contribs) 20:18, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

 * Support: Seems logical, they clearly use the ".com" in their branding and naming conventions. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 20:39, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

 * Support: I second the motion (so to speak). -- M.boli (talk) 22:33, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support per nom. Makes sense. Egsan Bacon (talk) 03:07, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:NATURAL.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 04:24, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Passed away
There are quite a few people listed as staff on this page who passed away in the last 5 years. Spoonpassport (talk) 04:24, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Sources? And the page isn't protected so you can update this yourself. — Bilorv ( talk ) 10:47, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

I can't update it because of a conflict, but the information on current staff can be easily found by looking at the site's masthead. Particularly troubling is none of the current staff or management of color are mentioned anywhere in this article at all. Spoonpassport (talk) 15:49, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

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Alexandra Dahlström

Lena Marina Alexandra Dahlström (born 12 February 1984) is a Swedish actress and film director.

Career
Dahlström gained international attention in 1998, after starring as "Elin" in the film Show Me Love. For this, she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress, together with Rebecka Liljeberg. Despite receiving numerous offers to act in other films, she declined, stating that she wanted to concentrate on finishing school.

When once asked when she was younger what she wanted to be when she grew up, Dahlström stated: "Serial killer, or rockstar".

In 2002, Dahlström acted as assistant director and Russian translator, alongside Show Me Love director Lukas Moodysson, with his film Lilya 4-ever.

In 2007 Dahlström had a small role in the Dutch soap opera Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden on RTL 4. She played a Swedish exchange student named Skylar Nilsson. On 18 April 2008 she returned to this role for a short period.

Personal life
Dahlström was born in Gävle, Sweden, and grew up in Stockholm. Her mother, Irina Borisovna, is Russian, and her father is Swedish. She speaks Swedish, Russian, German, French, English, and Italian.

She lived alone in Stockholm after graduating high school. She continued to act in theatre. After a several-year break, Dahlström again starred in the film Fröken Sverige (Miss Sweden), for which she received favorable reviews.

During the autumn of 2004 she was the DJ for the biggest late night talk show in Sweden, called 'Late Night with Luuk', which she had been originally interviewed on in May 1998 with Rebecka Liljeberg for her acting in Show Me Love. On her debut as DJ for the show, the guests were R.E.M. and British actor Paul Bettany.

After completing her studies, she lived in Rome, Italy, before moving back to Stockholm and is again pursuing a serious acting career. Dahlström is currently in a relationship with Jakob Wiklander. They have a daughter together, Florens.

Filmography

 * Sanning eller konsekvens (1997)
 * St. Mikael (series) (1998)
 * Show Me Love (1998)
 * Kranes konditori (theatre play) (1999)
 * In Bed with Santa, aka Tomten är far till alla barnen (1999)
 * En vacker värld (theatre play) (2001)
 * La Carpe (short film) (2001)
 * Miss Sweden (2004)
 * Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden (TV series in the Netherlands) (2007, 2008)
 * Astro: An Urban Fable in a Magical Rio De Janeiro (2012)
 * Blondie (2012)
 * Broken Hill Blues (2013)
 * Psychosis in Stockholm (2020)

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Ejler Bille

Ejler Bille (6 March 1910 – 1 May 2004) was a Danish artist.

Biography
Ejler Bille was born in Odder, Denmark. He was the son of Torben Holger Bille and Anna Kirstine Lysabild Jensen. Bille graduated from Birkerød State School in 1930, and then studied at the arts and craft school (Kunsthåndværkerskolen) in Copenhagen with Bizzie Høyer 1930–1932 and the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 1933. In 1931, he made his debut at the Artists' Autumn Exhibition (Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling).

Bille joined Linien in 1934, Corner in 1940 and CoBrA in 1949. He had concentrated on small sculptures, but moved into painting after joining CoBrA. In 1969 he was a guest professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Art.

Awards

 * 1960: Eckersberg Medal
 * 1969: Thorvaldsen Medal
 * 1987: Prince Eugen Medal
 * 2001: Amalienborg Prize

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Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Stanton Macdonald-Wright (July 8, 1890 – August 22, 1973), was a modern American artist. He was a co-founder of Synchromism, an early abstract, color-based mode of painting, which was the first American avant-garde art movement to receive international attention.

Early life
Stanton Macdonald-Wright was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1890. His first name, Stanton, was chosen to honor the women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; he later hyphenated his last name after repeatedly being asked if he were related to the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He spent his adolescence in Santa Monica, California, where his father ran a seaside hotel. An amateur artist as well as a businessman, Macdonald-Wright's father encouraged his artistic development from a young age and secured him private painting lessons. Stanton's older brother, Willard Huntington Wright, was a writer and critic who gained international fame in the 1920s by writing the Philo Vance detective novels under the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine.

Synchromism: Europe and New York
Married at the age of seventeen, Macdonald-Wright moved to Paris with his wife to immerse himself in European art and to study at the Sorbonne, the Académie Julian, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Colarossi. He and fellow student Morgan Russell studied with Canadian painter Percyval Tudor-Hart between 1911 and 1913. They were deeply influenced by their teacher's color theory, which connected the qualities of color to those of music, as well as by the works of Delacroix, the Impressionists, Cézanne, and Matisse that placed a great emphasis on juxtapositions and reverberations of color. During these years Macdonald-Wright and Russell developed Synchromism (meaning "with color"), seeking to free their art form from a literal description of the world and believing that painting was a practice akin to music that should be divorced from representational associations. Macdonald-Wright collaborated with Russell in painting abstract "synchromies" and staged Synchromist exhibitions in Munich in June 1913, in Paris in October 1913, and in New York in March 1914. These established Synchromism as an influence in modern art well into the 1920s, though followers of other abstract artists (principally, the Orphists Robert and Sonia Delaunay) were later to claim that the Synchromists had merely borrowed the principles of color abstraction from Orphism, a point vehemently disputed by Macdonald-Wright and Russell. While in Europe, Macdonald-Wright met Matisse, Rodin, and Gertrude and Leo Stein, and Thomas Hart Benton, who called Stanton "the most gifted all-around fellow I ever knew". He and Russell returned to the United States hopeful of acclaim and financial success and were eager to promote their cause.

In 1915, Stanton's brother, by that time a respected editor and critic in the New York literary world, published one of the first and most comprehensive surveys of advanced art to appear in the United States. Secretly co-authored by Stanton, Modern Painting: Its Tendency and Meaning reviews the major art movements of the previous century from Manet to Cubism, praises the work of Cézanne (still largely unknown in the United States), and predicts a time, soon to come, when an abstract art of pure color will supplant realism. Synchromism itself, the subject of a lengthy, adulatory chapter, is presented as that desired end-point, the culmination of the modernist struggle, surpassing the work of "lesser Moderns" like Kandinsky and the Futurists; at no time does the author acknowledge his own brother as one of the two originators of that school of art.

About his work in this period, Macdonald-Wright commented, "I strive to divest my art of all anecdote and illustration and to purify it to the point where the emotions of the spectator will be wholly aesthetic, as when listening to good music....I cast aside as nugatory all natural representation in my art. However, I still adhered to the fundamental laws of compsiition (placements and displacements of mass, as in the human body in movement) and created my pictures by means of color-form, which, by its organization in three dimensions, resulted in rhythm."

Not long after returning to New York, Macdonald-Wright separated from Russell but both continued to work in the Synchromist style, or with Synchromist color effects, though Macdonald-Wright's painting came to include more vestiges of representational imagery. They held another Synchromist exhibition in New York in 1916 and received significant promotion and critical support from Willard. In 1916, Willard and Stanton were key organizers of the prestigious "Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters" in New York. Macdonald-Wright exhibited his work at Alfred Stieglitz's famed 291 gallery in New York in 1917. Yet the sales and the renown that he had hoped for did not materialize, and his financial situation grew desperate.

California and later life
Acknowledging that he would never be able to secure a living in New York, Macdonald-Wright moved to Los Angeles in 1918. In 1920, with Stieglitz's support, he organized the first exhibition of modern art in Los Angeles, "The Exhibition of American Modernists" at the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art, showing his own large-scale abstract synchromies as well as works by John Marin, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley. In 1922, he became the head of the Los Angeles Art Students League. He also became involved in local theater, serving as the director of the Santa Monica Theater Guild as well as writing and directing plays, designing sets, and acting himself.

Macdonald-Wright was a significant presence and a charismatic personality in the Los Angeles art scene for the next several decades. He was the director of the Southern California division of the Works Project Administration Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1943, and personally completed several major civic art projects, including the murals in Santa Monica City Hall. After World War II, Macdonald-Wright became interested in Japanese art and culture, which led to the renewal of synchromist elements in his work. He taught art for many years at UCLA and also kept studios in Kyoto and Florence.

By the early 1950s, Macdonald-Wright's work had fallen into relative obscurity. A renewed interest in American modernism led to his gradual rediscovery and new scholarly attention, and he was given retrospectives at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1956, at the Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. in 1967, and at the Art Galleries of UCLA in 1970. "Synchromism and American Color Abstraction: 1910–1925," a 1978–1979 six-museum traveling exhibition originating at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was a watershed event in a revival of interest in Synchromism. In 2001–2002, a major Stanton Macdonald-Wright retrospective was shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, curated by the Synchromist scholar and Macdonald-Wright biographer Will South.

Married three times, Macdonald-Wright died in Pacific Palisades, California in 1973, at the age of eighty-three. His paintings are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery, among other museums.

Principal Sources

 * Hoopes, Donelson F. Stanton Macdonald-Wright: Paintings, 1903–1973.  Los Angeles: Arco Center for Visual Art, 1979.
 * Kushner, Marilyn. Morgan Russell.  New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990.
 * Levin, Gail. Synchromism and American Color Abstraction, 1910–1925.  New York: George Braziller, 1978.
 * Loughery, John. Alias S.S. Van Dine. New York: Scribners, 1992.
 * South, Will. Color, Myth, and Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism.  Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2001.  ISBN 0-88259-985-2.
 * Synchromism: Morgan Russell and Stanton Macdonald-Wright. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1999.
 * Wright, Willard Huntington Wright. Modern Painting: Its Tendency and Meaning. New York: John Lane, 1915.

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Faye Kellerman

 Faye Marder Kellerman (born July 31, 1952 ) is an American writer of mystery novels, in particular the "Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus" series, as well as three nonseries books, The Quality of Mercy, Moon Music, and Straight into Darkness.

Early life
Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended UCLA, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics in 1974. Four years later, she received her doctorate of dental surgery, but she has never practiced dentistry and was a housewife before publishing her first novel. In a 1997 essay, she says she cannot pinpoint the metamorphosis from dentist to writer of detective fiction, but several factors that steered her toward mystery writing were: "a desire for justice, a suspicious nature, an overactive imagination, and of course, a penchant for the bizarre."

Personal life
Kellerman is a practicing Orthodox Jew, as are her husband and son, novelists Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman, respectively. Her writing frequently deals with Jewish themes and characters, incorporating them into the framework of the traditional mystery. The Peter Decker books, for example, center on a police detective raised as a Southern Baptist, who returns to his Jewish roots after falling in love with Rina Lazarus, an Orthodox Jew, while investigating a rape that took place near a yeshiva.

The Kellermans are the only married couple ever to appear on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously (for two different books). They have four children. Their youngest child, Aliza Kellerman, co-wrote Prism (2009), a young adult novel, with her mother.

Plagiarism lawsuit
In 1999 Kellerman sued the writers of the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love, whom she claimed stole the plotline from her 1989 novel The Quality of Mercy, in which Shakespeare romances a Jewish woman who dresses as a man, and attempts to solve a murder. Miramax Films spokesman Andrew Stengel derided the claim, filed in the US District Court six days before the 1999 Academy Awards, as "absurd", and argued that the timing "suggests a publicity stunt". An out-of-court settlement was reached.

The Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series

 * 1) The Ritual Bath (1986) (Winner of the 1987 Macavity award for Best First Novel, nominated for the 1987 Anthony Award in the same category)
 * 2) Sacred and Profane (1987)
 * 3) Milk and Honey (1990)
 * 4) Day of Atonement (1991)
 * 5) False Prophet (1992)
 * 6) Grievous Sin (1993)
 * 7) Sanctuary (1994)
 * 8) Justice (1995)
 * 9) Prayers for the Dead (1996)
 * 10) Serpent's Tooth (1997)
 * 11) Jupiter's Bones (1999)
 * 12) Stalker (2000)
 * 13) The Forgotten (2001)
 * 14) Stone Kiss (2002)
 * 15) Street Dreams (2003)
 * 16) The Burnt House (2007)
 * 17) The Mercedes Coffin aka Cold Case (2008)
 * 18) Blindman's Bluff (2009)
 * 19) Hangman (2010)
 * 20) Gun Games (2011) aka Blood Games (2012)
 * 21) The Beast aka Predator (2013)
 * 22) Murder 101 (2014)
 * 23) The Theory of Death (2015)
 * 24) Bone Box (2017)
 * 25) Walking Shadows (2018)
 * 26) The Lost Boys (2021)
 * 27) The Hunt (2022)

Other novels

 * The Quality of Mercy (1989)
 * Moon Music (1998)
 * Double Homicide (2004) – written with Jonathan Kellerman
 * Straight Into Darkness (2005)
 * The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights (2006)
 * Capital Crimes (2006) – written with Jonathan Kellerman
 * Prism (2009) – written with Aliza Kellerman
 * Killing Season (2017)

(Source: Bookreporter.com – Author Bibliography – Faye Kellerman Bibliography)

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User talk:Guaka

Hello, Guaka. Welcome to Wikipedia.

A few tips for you to start going. (I'll send more if I see that I can help you :-)

 * Check out Welcome, newcomers + the links in there.
 * Sign your stuff on talk pages with ~ It will convert to your username + the time.
 * If puzzled, put a question on Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my talk page if it's a very general question.
 * Have fun.

-- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 17:11 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions. I'm having serious trouble locating fr + nl for List of company registers, since I speak only very little french and no dutch at all. If you could google into this, it'd be great. List of company registers is very important for Consumerium --Juxo 12:47 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hello Guaka, I too am Dutch and I just happen to see your contribution on VPRO. I think you should refrase some sentences to make it a bit more clear for non-Dutch people. If you don't mind I'll do it for you. And, on your personal page: maybe you want to change 'disprove' into 'disapprove' ? For the rest -  vooral doorgaan  Groet, Harm 21:06 5 Jul 2003 (UTC) Toira 16:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello Guaka, I'm afraid that my programming skills may not yet be sufficient to even attempt to extract data from Wikipedia's SQL files with Python. My programming experience consists entirely of one C programming class, and although I am trying to teach myself some stuff over the summer, I have never seen an SQL file or a Python program at work. However, keeping that in mind, I will do what I can :-) --Nelson 16:12 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Why did you redirect structural information theory to a page with every word in the title capitalized? Wikipedia article titles are not capitalized without reason. A lot of us keep moving such articles by newbies to pages with appropriately non-capitalized words. In the text of the article, "structural information theory" was not written in capital letters. Michael Hardy 16:51, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)

 * Well, I know. But how can I easily change the title of a page? Also, I started writing it non-capitalized, and then I realized that the capitalization is not really necessary. Guaka 18:02, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Guaka, thanks for adding the Wiki links into my user page, but it wasn't necessary! I know how to link to wiki articles but i left out the links because I want people to view my page (and read it all), not click off to a page about a band or a movie. No harm done :-) but if I'd wanted links I would've put them there!! Regards, --Richard Corbin 22:13, Aug 25, 2003 (UTC)

Hello. I notice you've linked several articles to filter. But filter is a disambiguation page. I've changed some of those links so that they go to electronic filter. Michael Hardy 18:55, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi - I noticed your edit on the anti-semitism page. Since I was the one who added the bit you asked about, I thought I'd contact you about it. Looking back on what I wrote, I think I probably put too much emphasis on it, but my main source was a statement by Abraham Foxman, the director of the Anti-Defamation League: "These findings undoubtedly create the climate in which anti-Semitism flourishes and in which governments rationalize it." I was putting particular emphasis on the last part, taking this to mean that governments are merely trying to disguise/rationalize anti-semitism (presumably with arguments that it's merely political opposition to Israel). In retrospect, however, the case looks a lot weaker than I thought it was, so I have no objection to the removal of the statement (as someone has already done). (The source of the League's statements is "http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASInt_13/4390_13.htm", just in case you'd like to read the whole thing... again, I think I overemphasised a minor part.) Thanks. - Vardion 12:35, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Why I reverted
Read User talk:210.72.12.71 for why I reverted. It was done in a hurry (because the Anon made like 50 bad changes to zh: or something), hence the accident. It has nothing to do with the interlinks being the uppers or downers. They're both ugly. --Menchi (Talk)ü| â

New pages...
Most users abandon their new pages after creating them; usually it's necessary to jump right in to correct egregious formatting errors, POV, or copyright violations, and I'm pretty bold about doing that when I'm watching Special:Newpages. Sorry if I stepped on your toes... feel free to keep what's good in my edits and ditch the rest. This is a wiki, after all :) -- Seth Ilys 02:09, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * Maybe you should be a bit more patient, like say 10 minutes or so ;) Guaka 13:10, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the translation of Consumerium into nl. I hear consumers in nl. are quite conscientious so it's good to spread the word about this project to Dutch people. --Juxho 18:28, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Learning project
Hello Guaka, since you are multilingual I thought you might be interested in this project I started for learning, up to now mainly vocabulary. It is described and discussed on my user page, if you are interested please let me know there. Get-back-world-respect 14:45, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi Guaka, since moved pages seem to be dropping off watchlists now, I thought I should let you know that the recyclopedia talk page has moved to Talk:Recyclopedia/Delete. I've added some links to the latest available version of the article there before it was deleted. Angela. 20:44, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons
Hello, you pledged support for the Wikimedia Commons project a while ago. You suggested you could code, along with User:Guaka and User:Eloquence. It seems, to me, to be the time to get this project off the ground and formulate a final roadplan - and start the coding for this project. Are you still interested? --[[User:OldakQuill|Oldak Quill]] 19:42, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Sesame Street
Sesame Street is up as a possible featured article. Would you mind putting your ideas in to the discussion, as you've worked on the article? See Featured_article_candidates. -- user:zanimum

Wikinews vote
In case you haven't noticed, there is a vote going on about whether we should launch the Wikinews project under Wikinews/Vote.--Eloquence*

Wikinews demo up and running
Hi!

I'm writing to let you know that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees has approved the first stage of the Wikinews project. There's now a fully operational English demo site at demo.wikinews.org. This will be used for experimenting with various review models and basic policies before the site is launched officially in about a week. demo.wikinews.org will become the English version later. You voted for the Wikinews project, so I'm asking for your participation now. Everything is open, nothing is final. What Wikinews will and can be depends in large part on you. There already is a global Wikinews mailing list for discussing the project. If you are interested at all, please subscribe -- coordination is of key importance. There's also an IRC channel #wikinews on irc.freenode.net. Realtime discussion can help to polish up articles. If you're looking for something to do, check out the articles in development and articles in review. Or start a new story in the Wikinews workspace, or ignore the proposed review system - it's up to you. I hope you'll join us soon in this exciting experiment.--Eloquence* 01:59, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Open Government Information Awareness
Could you please update the Open Government Information Awareness article that you started? The project appears to now be defunct, and the article consists of nothing but a quote from the old website. You could add a link to the archive of the site, but I don't know if it is worth keeping an article on the project now that it is "no longer maintained". ~leif ☺ HELO 06:09, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Unverified image
Thanks for uploading the image I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 02:27, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:Mel-Hz-plot.png

N'Ko
Hi, thanks for your comment on my Talk. Good work on Bambara language — it still needs a lot of work, but so do virtually all Mande languages. I'm sort of working geographically close to them with my work on the Senufo languages (Mali/Burkina Faso/Côte d'Ivoire), so I might dig into Mande soon. It's an extremely interesting phylum.

I gather that you're Dutch — well, I'm Dutch too, as you probably can see from my username :). Je bent dus Bambara aan het leren? Groet,  — mark ✎ 21:00, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Hoi. Ik had eigenlijk niet eens echt goed gekeken naar je username. Had ik dat gedaan, dan had ik misschien gedacht dat je uit Zuid-Afrika komt. Bambara is wel leuk. Totaal anders dan de IE taaltjes die ik tot nu spreek (m.u.v. het verwaarloosbare beetje Japans). Zit je toevallig in de buurt van Bamako? :) Oh, en nog proficiat met je administrateurschap. Ben het zelf op de Limburgse en de Bambara Wikipedia. Maar dat heeft natuurlijk niet zo'n prestige als deze bijna (of juist nu intussen al meer dan :) 500.000 pagina's tellende gigant. ;) Kanbe! G-u-a-k-@ 20:50, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hoi! Dingemanse is een Zeeuwse naam, ik kom dan ook uit Zeeland. Nee, ik zit helaas niet in de buurt van Bamako al hoop ik er zeker nog wel eens te komen. Ik spreek ook geen Bambara; wel Ewe en Swahili, omdat ik Afrikaanse Taalkunde studeer. Bedankt voor de felicitatie, ik hoop een goede admin te zijn! Groet,  — mark ✎ 23:41, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

edit at PXE
hi!

Thx for some corrections at the pxe-article, but why did you take the general description of pxe out of the TOC?

Nirkus

 * You mean why I removed the ==About== header? :) Well, it is normal for an encyclopedic article to give an introduction. So the header is a bit redundant. After the intro comes the more detailed stuff, of which the TOC is an overview. I hope this make sense. :) Also, vielen Dank für alles was du am Artikel verbessert has! Vielleicht kannst du noch ein paar Links nach Bootfloppys oder so hinzufügen. Tschüss, G-u-a-k-@ 02:14, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Hehe! I'm done with this. :P The next project is to write a libpxe & a pxe daemon with C++ for linux/unix.. *learning :> Btw: Sprichst ja auch deutsch! *g  Nirkus

 * Viel Spass dann! C++ ist nicht meine favorite Sprache... Ich spreche lieber Deutsch ;) G-u-a-k-@ 13:27, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Issues about school articles
In November 2003, there was a VfD debate over Sunset High School (Portland). The debate was archived under Talk:Sunset High School (Portland). What to do with the article is still being contested and has been recently re-nominated for VfD at Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland).

I am writing to you because you have participated in such debates before. There still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. Kingturtle 02:42, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry, don't feel like joining the discussion right now... G-u-a-k-@ 12:03, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mr.Aka
Thanx you have been very helpfull. and I realize that what you siad was right. Thanx

PMC
Sorry to delete your addition, but there was no article and no explanation. It's generally best to write the article before adding links to other articles. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 14:12, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you so much!
Bedankt, Kasper, voor op Commons. Trilobite wees me erop en het steekt me echt een hart onder de riem om dit te zien — een welkome afwisseling van de wereld van de Engelse Wikipedia waar vechten tegen systemic bias soms lijkt op vechten tegen de bierkaai. Geweldig! Hartelijk dank nogmaals! — mark ✎ 07:23, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dag Guak, Dank U
For the large amount of work you have put in, I particularly appreciate the Knoppix article: Thanks.Alf 11:42, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

N'ko (strange comments on Unicode)
Moved to Talk:N'Ko

Guaka,

Could you please explain the meaning of these comments since it seems you wrote them ?

" In 2004 a proposition presented by the Irish delegation was approved by the working group (WG2). The Technical Unicode committees was blocked by Canada, declaring that the Kamasere accents and three old characters, "Old Ja", "Cha" and "Ra" should be removed — a decision considered political by the other WG members. "

You may email me at patrick.andries<à>xcential.com. I'm one of the Canadian members and I'm astounded by the comments hereabove...
 * Patrick, you shouldn't be astounded. The discussions on the Unicode-Afrique list have gone far and wide. When I was in Mali, I was interviewed for television, and one of the questions they asked me was about "the Canadian problem". The N'Ko community is bitterly opposed with Canada's opposition to the encoding of N'Ko, and rejects the technical suggestions Canada has made, in favour of the encoding as it stands. As you have been told a number of times. Evertype 06:58, 2005 Jun 24 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:N'Ko

eerste nl.wikimedia.org ontmoeting
ik zou iedereen graag willen uitnodigen te overwegen of zij een rol willen en/of kunnen spelen in de oprichting van een nederlandse wikimedia-organisatie. een eerste ontmoeting wordt momenteel georganiseerd, zie daarvoor hier, op de nl.wikimedia.org wiki. er zijn nog vele stappen te nemen, en meer wikianen nodig, om e.e.a. op verantwoorde wijze verder te ontwikkelen. Radiant_ >|< 10:50, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Bambara project
I got in touch with a friend who could help you translate those passages and is interested in the Wiktionary project generally; he's former Peace Corps and spent much of his service compiling Bambara language resources. If you'd like, you can e-mail me I'll put you in touch with each other that way (he's not a wikipedian... yet...). Thanks! --Dvyost 6 July 2005 13:16 (UTC)

Wikinews
Hi Guaka,

So what do you think of the current wikinews effort? I remember you were excited about it this time last year. Have you become a member? Would you be willing to write a little about how you perceive it, after your recent travels and its growth? Cheers, +sj  +  8 July 2005 18:52 (UTC)

Bambara in IPA
Hi Guaka,

You'd posted a question on the IPA talk page.

A couple thoughts: For an orthography, of course, you only want to mark one tone (or perhaps not mark tone at all, though I expect that would be rather confusing with Bambara). In a phonetic transcription, I personally would only want to do what you have (transcribing only low tones) if I were making a theoretical claim that the low tone is phonologically marked, that a default syllable has high tone, and that a low tone is something more than the default. However, if I felt that both high and low tones were equal, in a symmetrical system, then I would want to transcribe them both explicitly.

Combining tone marks and nasalization is a pain in the ass. One possibility is to use the ogonek (ą, ę, etc.) for nasalization, which gets the nasalization diacritic out of the way of the tone diacritics, but you'll notice that it isn't supported for . (Actually, it is supported by Unicode, but not by many fonts.) (The ogonek was supported in older versions of the IPA, and is still reasonably common, mostly for just this reason.)

Regardless of what you do, however, most people will not have fonts installed that will display both tone and nasalization on a single vowel. I don't know of any good solution to this. Your solution of adding a tilde for nasalization after the vowel is probably as good or better than any. But good luck trying to combine tone diacritics with /ɛ, ɔ/ reliably!

By the way, is nasalization phonemically contrastive in Bambara after nasal consonants? If not, then you don't need to indicate it, since you're giving a phonemic trascription, and that will take care of a huge fraction of the phonetic nasalization. Also, if /ɛ, e/ and /ɔ, o/ aren't distinguished after nasal consonants (as is the case for the Gbe languages, for example), then you can transcribe them  and avoid many of the problems with the tone marks.

Not sure if this answers your question. ?? --kwami 10:32, 2005 July 14 (UTC)

Wikimania
Guaka, great meeting you at Wikimania. Thanks again for submitting to the video interview. Hope to be able to show you something slick soon. Fuzheado | Talk 19:12, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Sonology
Someone's put a warning on your image at Image:Bea5.jpg which you might want to look at. Evercat 12:46, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Pronoms/prénoms
Merci beaucoup pour cette réponse, mais il semblerait que nous nous sommes mal compris. Je cherche des prénom (c-à-d des nom propres), pas des pronoms. Il se trouve que je travaille à une histoire que j'ai situé à Bamako (pour des raisons trop complexes pour les expliquer ici). Faute de sources sur les prénoms (alors que je n'en manque pas vraiment pour le snoms de familles), J'ai dû me rabattre pour les personnages bambara (le troisième étant une fillette peule) sur des noms de sonorité appropriée, mais provenant, si mes sources sont exactes, du Yoruba.

C'est pourquoi j'apprécierais tout renseignement sur les prénoms en Bambara. Circeus 20:39, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah, d'accord. :) C'est pas grave pour le Wiktionnaire, maintenant les prenoms bambaras sont tres completes. Mais, j'ai juste commence a ajouter quelques prenoms, voir fr:wikt:Catégorie:Prénoms bambaras... Guaka 07:46, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Visual Basic Classic Wikibook
I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 09:47, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Quorn in Germany
HI. I wonder if you'd care to comment in the matter of Talk:Quorn Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 16:40, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey
Greetings from a fellow HC'er :) - FrancisTyers 14:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeaaah! Hi! :) Guaka 14:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Hospitality Club article

 * moved to Talk:Hospitality Club Guaka 18:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Sony MSX 1
I just uploaded a pic of my old Sony MSX HitBit 10 P, in case you're interested. It's high-res. Abaraibar 11:13, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Hallo Guaka, Raiden Budokai is een wado karategroep Mathijs

VWN en WCN
Beste allemaal Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org. Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 13:50, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Time travel
Kasper, I know you're a talented guy, but I never knew you had time travel in your bag of tricks. "This is me in Berlin, end of summer, 2006"? Fantastic! Cormaggio @ 11:05, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Hey Cormac! Time travel is easy. Combine alcohol, lack of sleep and writing... And a lot of practice ;) Guaka 16:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, I'm impressed. Travelling through time as well as space :-) Where are you now, by the way? Cormaggio @ 18:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

 * In Arequipa, Peru! :) Guaka 17:15, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Uf, altitude! Homeplace of Mario Vargas Llosa! Interesting!
 * /me misses Latin American travelling... Cormaggio @ 00:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

~

Hello for hitchhikers guide
Hi Guaka, its Lobster for hitchhikers guide wiki. I thought I would say hello over here as well.

Jackliddle 13:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi! I was just looking for more hitchhikers over here, they're probably likely to be interested in the project as well :) Guaka 15:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Maybe someone created a userbox for hitchhikers? :) Guaka 15:28, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Hitchhiker's
Hey man, thanks for the tip off. I really appreciate it. -Hoekenheef 19:54, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Hitchhiking
Thanks for the link, I had absolutely no idea such a great project is going on. I have quite a h-h past and roughly half of the states I have on my user page I visited that way. I'll take a look and see if I could help.  // Halibutt 15:53, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I do not agree with this statement: ""Many current-day hitchhikers combine hitchhiking with hospitality exchange networks for many of the same reasons (cheap; social political reasons; meeting people)."" This MAY possibly apply to SOME countries in Western Europe, but certainly NOT to most if not all countries in Central Europe, all countries in the East of Europe and most if not all countries in Asia. In Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia) the share of hitchhikers in hospitality exchange networks is close to 0%. A high share of people who hitchhike there do not even have access to PC and web. The statement is too much of a generalization. Frank Verhart, 11 dec 06

 * Sorry, you're right, so feel free to change it, it's a wiki :) Guaka 09:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Open Source Architecture for Africa
Hej Guaka, maybe this is of interest for you: http://www.osafa.org. We're just at the very beginning and could need your help, in case you like the idea! Cheers, Helge, --80.109.61.51 22:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

'mania couch space
Hi Guaka, I expect it would be fine to crash on my couch during Wikimania. Let me confirm with my roommates. What was your email address again? I was not able to decipher from your post. Also, what would your dates of arrival and departure be? I hope to meet you in August. Tobacman 18:10, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Senegal Fast Food
Hi, I was wondering if you could help me. I see you speak a bit of Bambara, and I was wondering if you knew the song "Senegal Fast Food" by Amadou & Mariam. If you do, do you know if the second chorus (after the "quelle heures est il en paradis?" bit) is in Bambara, and if so (this would be too good to be true) what the words are in either English or the original language? If you can't help, don't worry! Thanks Abbyemery 17:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah. It's Bambara. I don't recall the song perfectly. Is it something like "a be she faga"? That would be about cars killing animals and people... Cars are bad. Guaka 17:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

CouchSurfing wiki?
Hi Guaka, fellow CouchSurfer,

Your interests are very interesting.

I don't know if you saw the couchSurfing forum topic philosophy behind CS- changing the world?? In this posting I suggested a wiki as a possible way of continuing the discussion.

As you're into wikipedia and also couchsurfing, and considering your interests, I thought you might possibly be interested in making a comment there. Cheers. --Singkong2005 (t - c - WPID) 10:34, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi! I'll be at the CouchSurfing collective next week and will bring up this topic :) I guess you already found the Hospitality Exchange wiki on which I did some work as well. Guaka 19:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The CouchSurfing Wiki is up and running. I also set up a CouchSurfing Guide, fetching information from Wikitravel and the Hitchhiking Wiki. Guaka 07:06, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Kabyle wiki
I don't know exactly the the procedure of how to create it, but there are many people who are willing to participate, since they don't speak english they had no idea about this project so they've created one of their own! , Also there are many websites written in Kabyle language such as : http://www.imyura.net/ and http://www.tamazight.fr/, could you please help us create it? Toira 16:16, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

I forgot, there are two pages :
 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Requests_for_new_languages/Kabyle
 * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Native_speaker_support

Where should we add our usernames? Toira 16:17, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Maraba Coffee
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Trio Mocoto
Please see: WP:BAND bogdan 19:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Right. You need to write more than a one-sentence article, and you need to explain, in the article, why the band meets the requirements of WP:MUSIC. NawlinWiki 19:59, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I've temporarily moved the article to User:Guaka/Trio Mocoto. Please work on it there. Again, the article has to assert why the band is notable. It's not enough to say "they're a samba band", or to link to the AllMusic description. If you want to have the article so badly, you should be willing to write a description of the band, and why they are important, yourself. NawlinWiki 20:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I still think that if someone wants to remove an article so badly, and actually removes it, should at least inform the person who started it. Guaka 20:48, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Bands
Criteria for speedy deletion, Articles #7: An article about a real person, group of people, band, or club that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject. And I delete several band articles a day, I have no idea which particular one you're on about. -- Steel 20:00, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Maybe you should also inform the people who started the articles? Makes things clearer. Guaka 20:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Band vanity articles are, in fact, speedy deletion candidates. These were clogging the deletion discussions like you wouldn't believe and every one of them got blown out anyway.  It was changed to a speedy criterion to speed things up.  We delete these things wholesale on a daily basis.  As far as contacting the folks who start them, the instructions on the edit page talk about notability and vanity.  Trouble is, these same folks don't read the instructions.  :) - Lucky 6.9 22:41, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Not to mention that informing the creator every time an administrator speedies an article would greatly increase the time it would take to get through a CAT:CSD backlog. -- Steel 22:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Just a copy/paste on the user's talk page is too much effort? Guaka 19:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

vandalism on ff@wiki
Hi Guaka,

there was some vandalism on ff@wiki where you are sysop. I reverted the vandalism by the user and reverted his page moves, too. Unfortunately, it was not possible to move every page back because he sometimes edite the redirecting pages. But you can now simply go through ff:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and follow the eventual instruction on the pages I have proposed to be deleted, just like "delete, then move AAAAAAAAAAA to here" (and delete the obsolete redirecting pages). It should be ok then. Greetings, Pill- 10:00, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for that! I'm checking it more regularly now. Guaka 09:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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Kabyle Wikipedia
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Trust network on wikipedia
Everything is explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Phauly/Trust and I'm sure you are very interested in this ;) --phauly 15:40, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Awesome! Guaka 18:34, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

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Shout-outs
Huzzah for Guaka! Gbickford (talk) 17:05, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

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AFD
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WTFD?
I wonder if my talk page is merely going to be filled with AFD notices at some point. :/ Guaka (talk) 21:43, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Request for help, please
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Proposed deletion of an article you created in 2005
Hi there. You might want to take a look at this. Amsaim (talk) 00:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks. Guaka (talk) 01:09, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of List of ecovillages
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Saving the List of ecovillages
Guaka - Although we've never crossed paths before on WP, I was disappointed to see your Deletionism sucks comment on the List of ecovillages deletion debate. If you are as your comment suggests, an inclusionist, then you should fight for the life of this article, not deride those who prefer to delete it. IMHO, the WP:NOTDIR arguments being made are invalid and I will eventually weigh-in along those lines. You should weigh-in with your position and rationale as well. But, in the interim, if you are sincerely interested in saving this article, I suggest the following:
 * 1) Expand and source the lead-in. Ecovillages are notable, so a list of them should be notable as well.  Make the inclusion criteria bullet proof. Find and use 3rd party sources whereever practical.
 * 2) Instead of linking entries to external websites which give the appearance of a directory, provide multiple in-line citations that support the entry in the context of the inclusion criteria. Wikilink only those that have WP articles.
 * 3) Expand the descriptions for each entry to further enhance the understanding of the entry in the context of the inclusion criteria.
 * 4) Finally, if possible, add a few images along the right side to brighten up the page and give the reader a glimspe of what an ecovillage is all about.

I've captured some of these ideas in an essay Creating a Better List which might help you make some of these improvements. I understand this is a bit of work, but that's what inclusionists do, they work hard to improve articles and make WP a better encyclopedia. Good Luck.--Mike Cline (talk) 17:18, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the heads up.
 * You might have noticed that all the recent additions to my talk page are about how people feel like removing stuff I started or wrote a couple of years ago. I've lost my interest in contributing to Wikipedia because of the petty and annoying rules and dealing with politics.
 * Maybe this is the consequence of having contributed a lot before many these rules started popping up. But it doesn't make it less frustrating.  I took the occasion to just copy it to an inclusionist wiki and write down how I feel about deletionism. Guaka (talk) 14:31, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

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French article translation
Can you help me translate fr:Prince Punuari'i Teri'itapunui Pomare and fr:Prince Teri'itua Tuavira Joinville Pomare?--KAVEBEAR (talk) 08:19, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Re:Dutch-to-English

 * [#Dutch-to-English Re:Dutch-to-English]

I would be grateful if you could check quality of google translation (my understanding - National Bank of Belgium agreed to distribute images of the banknotes it has issued using the same rules as euro banknotes) - please reply on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:BEL-500f-rev.jpg Bulwersator (talk) 06:48, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

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Just to let you know
I happened to see this Talk:Alexa_Internet, and thought you may be interested since you started Alexa Toolbar XOttawahitech (talk) 12:54, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Improving translation support
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German translation
Hello. I was on Wikipedia:Translators available and notice that you were on the list for German to English translators and wondered if you could translate content from de:Ludwig Gaston von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha to Prince Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha?--The Emperor's New Spy (talk) 20:48, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
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Bambara Wikipedia AfD
I was just looking around for sources to bring up at the Bambara Wikipedia AfD discussion and saw your name pop up several times. I don't know if it would be considered a COI issue, but if you're aware of other articles, etc. you may want to bring them up there. Thanks --—  Rhododendrites talk  |  18:03, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

 * Thanks.
 * Never makes me happy to see deletionism at work but it's reassuring to see that my Deletionpedia script is working well enough ;) Guaka (talk) 18:13, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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es:Wikiproyecto:Wikimedia en langues régionales de España
I invite to participate. And create table for wikipedia of Hispanoamérica.--Kaiyr (talk) 12:13, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

User:Guaka/ebola
Thanks for contacting me, Guaka. Which Wikipedia articles do you think should be translated (to start with): just Ebola virus and Ebola virus disease? --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 13:08, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

 * Good question, don't have an answer for it at this point, I updated the article with it. Guaka (talk) 13:12, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

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Can you check the Basic income article ?
Hi, can you check Basic income? I have made some major changes there. Excluded much of the separate nation stories and also condensed the texts about basic income pilots. Instead there are two new articles on that. Also look at "Advocates and opponents". --Mats33 (talk) 19:26, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

Can someone make a Bambara version of 2015 Bamako hotel attack?
Hi, Casper! Do you know if someone can make a Bambara version of 2015 Bamako hotel attack? WhisperToMe (talk) 21:07, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Are you an inclusionist?
Are you the same Guaka who started Deletionpedia? If so, would you say that you are an inclusionist, as the philosophy of inclusionism seems allied with the philosophy behind Deletionpedia. Vorbee (talk) 17:26, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

 * Yes. Yes.
 * I also lost interested in Wikipedia a long time ago. Guaka (talk) 14:25, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Wikiasari listed at Redirects for discussion
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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Ebola translation task force
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Mail
Hi. You have some more mail. — Jeff G. ツ 13:34, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

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CouchSurfing /This is despite promises made in ...
"This is despite promises made in 2012[1] that hosting and surfing will always remain free." The part I do find problematic is that you take a quote from 2012 and make yourself an argument what they said then is different than what they do now. I understand the argument and I am not saying there is no point. What I do say though is that WP does not allow you to make that argument. WP:original Research is very explicit : we as editors do not commit a "interpretation" as an edit. What we can do is provide a source that makes the argument and even then we do not present it as a fact. I am not trying to force a POV here just wanted to explain the reason for my edit. I am also not particular interested in a conflict over a few words ... Thank you. Best Christoph --ChristopheT (talk) 15:21, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Posts
Hi again. You have some posts on DP. — Jeff G. ツ 14:27, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
 * However, I can't get to them due to timeout at the host per CloudFlare.  — Jeff G. ツ 14:49, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
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Nomination of International Institute for Communication and Development for deletion
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Hi, I need a native translation of a sentence, into Dutch:

 * 1) The sentence is: "Welcome to the first stage, of the fourth international program of MAL's method, the internatinal training course of MAL, 2021"
 * 2) By "program" I mean, like in: "governmental program", or "educational program", and the like.
 * 3) By "stage" I mean: phase/part/step (Actually the "program" consists of a few stages).
 * 4) I know to use GoogleTranslate, but I need a native translation.
 * 5) Additionally, I would like to know how to pronounce the whole translated sentence (including "2021"), so please add also the transcription in IPA (or in Latin letters, as close to the original pronunciation as possible - if you are not familiar with IPA. Please mark also the stress, e.g. by adding an apostrophe before the stressed syllable (or by typing the stressed vowel in a capital letter).

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Nomination of FictionBook for deletion
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Talk:Margaret Beckett

The future
What does she do now the shuffle of Brown has taken place?

 * In 2006, just before the reshuffle that saw her become Foreign Secretary, it had been suggested that Beckett was prepared to retire from the government. Present rumours suggest however, that Beckett might become a Baroness in the House of Lords, and there have even been suggestions in the 'Westminster village' that she might become Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council in the future.

I can't find any sources to corroborate this text. A quick squizz at WP articles for other senior Cabinet figures reveals no comparable sections, so I'm inclined to delete this section as it is entirely speculative (the best I could find was a one-line mention in a 1999 BBC article suggesting that she might be moved from Leader of the Commons). Any thoughts?Peeper 19:28, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. Totally speculative and unsourced. Delete until it can be coroberated. WjBscribe 19:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Language skills and thrust of the article
I'm perfectly happy for mention of Beckett's language skills or otherwise to be included in this article, and I certainly am no fan of the lady. But I do think that there is something unencyclopaedic about this edit and would welcome some comments so that consensus can be reached. I'm not interested in a row, I just want to make sure this article holds up well. At the very least, I contend that this sentence as it stands needs citation. If it is really part of the debate, then that's fine - but we must be able to show this. I don't believe there is any comparable comment about any of her three immediate predecessors, none of whom had any Arabic, Chinese or Russian. Thoughts please? Peeper 21:58, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes you are certainly correct about that particular edit. First, the editor should put it, if anywhere, in the criticism section at the bottom. Second, it should have to be (a) fleshed out with an explicit explanation of its relevance, ect and (b) backed up by a reference.

However, apart from that, I think the thrust of the article is perfectly all right. It just needs a bit more work! Avaya1 22:31, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

37 defectors from Labour over Lebanon War issue?
Why is the defection of 37 Labour Party members to the Lib Dem party of enough importance to merit a mention? Is that about 0.001% of her constituency? Who cares? Adam Holland 17:53, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

No it's not; do you really think that there are 3.7 million constituents in Derby South? Given that the total Labour Party membership is now less than 200,000, this figure is more likely to resemble some 10% of local party members. If the Labour Party is not concerned at this, its attitude speaks volumes about its current situation and prospects. RolandR 15:43, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Post Blair Years
Given Beckett's new position, created new 'Post Blair Years' section to article to tidy it up a bit. AlbertSimon (talk) 21:22, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

'Acting leader'
"As of 2008, she is the only female to have led the Labour Party, albeit in what was technically an acting role"

But the opposite is true, isn't it? As I recall, at the time she was repeatedly referred to as 'acting leader', but it was pointed out that under the party's constitution she actually held the full position of leader, and in theory would have been perfectly entitled to carry on in that role until the annual leadership elecion (in all other circumstances a formality) was held at the party conference. Sofia9 (talk) 01:40, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

New Years Honours
As per the referenced BBC News Online article, I have edited the article to be inclusive of M. Beckett's New Years Honour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grantmitch1 (talk • contribs) 00:27, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Her looks
Carrying-over from the Archive, I feel I must defend her from accusations of ugliness. It is true that many commentators mentioned that it was (probably) not her looks that first got her noticed. But she very sensibly retained the pre-feminist style in her makeover, which has always marked her out from the 'wimmin' of the party. Valetude (talk) 00:00, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * What on earth is the point of responding here, now, in a new section of the page, to an utterly irrelevant and abusive comment made by a single editor ten years ago and long since archived and forgotten??!!  Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:15, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

Lestor's attack
''She... supported left-winger Tony Benn in the 1981 Labour deputy leadership election narrowly won by Denis Healey. She was the subject of a vociferous attack from Joan Lestor at the conference.''
 * What was she being attacked about? Valetude (talk) 15:21, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

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Republicanism
I removed Category:British republicans from this article. Whilst the reference here does suggest some republican sympathies, she also stated that she was happy with the Queen. It doesn't explicitly state that she is a republican. -- TrottieTrue (talk) 16:14, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

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