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Hey. Just noticed the seat allocations for the European Parliament election 2009 at the article...Have these allocations been officially confirmed or are the quoted figures predictions?
Hey cheers for the reply. Yeah it took me about two or three more page clicks to find the page you quote and the source. I should check before I ask next time =). Cheers again doktorbwordsdeeds12:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Just wondering if you have a favorite source for deciding what the adjectival form should be. I'm finding conflicting information. List of adjectival forms of place names seems to focus on what to call the people and language, which is not necessarily the word we want (like Malagasy/Madagascan). CIA World Factbook, if I remember from the last time I looked, is a bit inconsistent, and also prefers Malagasy. I generally check a dictionary, but they don't always agree either. Merriam Webster worked great for Malagasy/Madagascan. For Uzbek, it also lists only language and people, but it doesn't have Uzbekistani, or list anything else for a general adjectival form. Turkmen seems to be an appropriate move. I haven't checked others. We (and by that I mean someone other than me :) should put together a list with sources for future reference. And whatever we end up with, there are all the older currencies to correct (like Tajikistani somoni, for one). Ingrid16:31, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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I have a couple of quibbles about the above. The Burundian Senate elections aren't really elections. I knew the country has a Senate, but it is not elected by the people, but rather candidates are nominated by local councils in a similar way to the Dutch First Chamber. I'm not sure if it should be included on the template, as it's not really a "national" election, which was my criteria for inclusion.
As for the Kenyan elections, I see you modified all the presidential and parliamentary elections to both point at general elections. I was hoping that as there is only one article so far, it could be split into parliamentary and presidential as is the case for virtually every other article. I don't think because the election is on the same day it should be on the same page.
We've got elections for many indirect elections (Italian presidential election, 2006 and the presidential Elections in Turkey for instance), and should strive to have articles on all notable indirect elections in the future, as well; they should also be included in the template, then, of course.
As regards the Kenyan elections: It's pretty much standard to have a single article on elections which take place at the same time, check a lot of South American election articles, for instance. I'd prefer to keep it the way it currently is, i.e. keep them separate if they've been separate up to now, keep them as one "general election" article if that's the way it's been done. —Nightstallion(?)23:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Long time no talk...
Hey, long time no talk. Those maps you request some ehhh... few months back, I actually did them, but I happened to be really busy back then. So, I was wondering what do you think of the accession of Romania and Bulgaria? I guess most "western" Europeans would say that nothing good can come from it... lol :) (Then again you can exploit countries). Anyways, the main reason I am writing you is to ask you what you had in mind for the article Flag of RS. RS is a delicate topic for "true" Bosnians, so I keep my eye out for those articles. I would like to especially thank you for returning the constitutional court ruling, since someone deleted it. Thanks, Vseferović05:09, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the map updates, no matter when they happened. :) I'm always primarily happy when the European Union grows, though I'm wary due to two points:
I'm not sure whether there shouldn't have been *SUBSTANTIAL* institutional reform some time before the fifth enlargement round, or at least before the second phase of the fifth enlargement round. No matter, though, we'll simply have to agree on something now which gets rid of the unanimity principle in most matters.
I'm not quite sure Bulgaria and Romania are really entirely ready; still, they'll be observed rather closely for another few years, anyway, and they'll likely develop faster within the European Union than outside it.
Regarding the flags... Well, I really don't know. Do you happen to know someone in Bosnia who could find out, or maybe there is some institution we could e-mail and ask about the issue? —Nightstallion(?)09:31, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Luxembourgian elections
I just reverted your recent change to the template, and thought I'd explain why here (as well as the talk page). There were two referenda held on 28 September 1919: one on the monarchy (they voted to keep it) and one on whether Luxembourg should enter economic union with France or Belgium (they voted for France; the government ignored them and went for Belgium). Hence, as I understand the naming convention, the article name for the 1919 referenda should be 'Luxembourgian referendum, 1919'. It's silly (there should be separate articles, just as there are for legislative, presidential, European, or local elections held on the same day), but that's the way it is. Bastin 15:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Oh, okay. Sorry, my mistake; thanks for correcting it! :) I think the convention is quite good, though: If there were two separate questions on the same day which are not really connected and can not be sensibly named, just called it "Luxembourgian referendum, 1919"; if there were two different referenda in the same year, but on different dates, make separate articles. Keep up the good work, BTW! :) —Nightstallion(?)15:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi! It's actually unlikely that early elections will occur in Romania, at least in 2007. Although the current (Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu) government does not have a majority in parliament, it is likely to have the support of the Social Democratic Party (Romania) when it comes to a motion of no-confidence, since the Social-Democrats, the largest opposition party, prefer the Liberals over a possible Democrat-Liberal Democrat (PLD) coalition (which scores highest in opinion polls). Early elections would also be painful for the Social Democrats, since they currently poll at around 20% (but have 30%+ seats in parliament). The Conservatives are also very unlikely to vote for the sacking of a predominantly-Liberal government (considering that they left the government because of the Democrats; also, they would poll less than 2% in early elections, and would thus not make it into parliament).
In this case, the only parties likely to vote against the government in parliament would be the Democrats (ironically), the Liberal-Democrat faction and perhaps the Greater Romania Party. In fact, a newspaper recently conducted a survey of political parties' opinions regarding early elections, and the only ones who said they wanted early elections were the Liberal-Democrats (i.e. the PLD). In my opinion, the major concern is loss of seats: opinion polls show that a Democrat-PLD coalition would be very popular, and hence early elections would lead to losses for most of the other parties. So, I believe the Tăriceanu government may last until the end of 2008, when elections are due. I also find it unlikely that the president (Traian Băsescu) will sack the government, despite rocky relations with Tăriceanu and even though Băsescu used to be a member of the Democratic Party and tends to support the Liberal-Democrats (PLD). Ronline✉01:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Elections map
Because I'm going through the templates quite quickly at the moment (not many elections to note in Africa!) I couldn't be bothered with the map - I'd have to keep updating it all the time! Slowly moving up the continent though - just done Cameroon and the Central African Republic. Also, are gubernatorial elections really necessary on the DR Congo template - aren't they regional/local? Number 5712:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that's it exactly. Frankly, I am not quite sure how to handle it. The Constitution has indeed not yet been updated, yet it is a fact that both Evenkia and Taymyria are no longer federal subjects (there was a constitutional law to that effect, which, however ironic it is, introduced no changes into the Constitution itself). So, if we are to reference the Constitution alone, then the number should stay at 88 for now. Or, we can write an elaborate footnote explaining why the number in the article is two less than the number in the Constitution.
As for the Evenkia and Taymyria Federation Council members, they will continue to serve until December 31, 2007, which is also when the transitional period expires.
They told me you are interested about nationality issues. I have a big problem with user:Saguamundi. Not only he puts the Turkish Cypriots under category:Turkish people but he also put their politicians under Asian politicians, claiming that it's because they have descent from Asia !!!! I have every day to revert his lot edits about Turkish Cypriots. Since he doesn't understand, can you talk him a bit and making a report for him? KRBN15:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Democratic Party and Freedom Party
They are only futurible proposals and it is not sure that they will be effectively launched, so, as you can understand, it is difficult to write an article about something that does not exists yet. Anyway, when I will have some time and, above all, when the formation of the two parties will become more likely (I strongly endorse the idea, 'cos a less fragmented Italian politics is a dream...), I would defenitely start articles on PD and PdL respectively. --Checco16:52, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There is little about those proposed parties on the Internet. About the Freedom Party, Silvio Berlusconi wrote a book called Towards the Freedom Party (see review) and on January 27 there will be a conference in Rome (title: The Freedom Party - The EPP's house, see poster).
About the Democratic Party, it is to say that it will be the continuation of the Olive Tree federation, or, better, the transformation of the Olive Tree from a federation of parties to a single party. Anyway there are a lot of problems about it, because many conservative members of DL and left-wingers within the DS strongly oppose the merge of their parties together. The party is doomed to be the continuations of the Historic Compromise, critics say, and indeed it is likely that it will come to light without the partecipation of most former-Socialists, now split between SDI, DL, DS (but their leader, Valdo Spini, is an opposer of the DS-DL merge), and FI. In general DS members and former-Socialists dislike the clericalism of many DL members, 60-70% of whom are former Christian Democrats.
Anyway, I found very balanced the articles you started on the subject, but, as of today, there is little more we can write about it. --Checco17:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The info was not correct: it is true that in April DL and DS will decide at their party congresses whether to merge in the Democratic Party, but this merge will occur only in 2009, and it is possible that the idea will be rejected by party members of at least DS and that, consequently, DL and DS will form only a federation. About PdL: nothing new, anyway there are rumors of Berlusconi, Fini and Bossi (leaders of FI, AN and LN) putting together the constitution of the so-called "Federation of Freedoms", thus not a party but only a federation of parties. --Checco23:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I live in Italy, and I read newspapers, watch news on TV and discuss about PdL and PD with my friends at the Faculty of Political Sciences almost every day. The thing I want you to know is that there is nothing certain about these two parties. It is from 2003 that politicians of the centre-right speak about the possibility of founding a PdL one day, and it is from 1996 that centre-left politicians speak about their PD. Yes, I can say that we are more closer to a PD and a PdL now than we were three years ago, but these are only hopeful prospects about the future. I understand your excitement for the subject, 'cos even I was so excited when Berlusconi said in 2005 "we will fight the next national election under the banner of a united party of the centre-right" (Prodi and Fassino said something similar in 2004), but politicians say that the "political times" are long, long, long (do you know George Harrison's song?). So we have to wait. The "Federation of Freedoms" is the first step in the road toward PdL, as the Olive Tree federation is the first step in the road to PD. Anyway, remember that if FI and AN will put theirs bags together and form a new party together, they'll reach at least the 40% of the votes, while UDC and LN are both around the 5% each: it would be a giant step! When those times will be mature, you'll find me here in Wikipedia writing about PdL and PD, but now, believe me, it is too early. Anyway I am very glad of discussing with you, so when you want to know something about Italian politics: I am here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Checco (talk • contribs) . Here is my signature. --Checco18:04, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you, but for now I think that what you wrote so far is enough. After April, things will be clearer, at least for the PD. --Checco18:05, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Dash or hyphen in page name
You reverted my move of War in Somalia (2006–present) from the mdash to the hyphen. I moved the page after a request from an anon (213.155.224.232) who complained at the Help Desk that the special character was causing problems on his system. You cited the naming conventions as a reason for your revert, but I can't find anything supporting the title with an mdash there (and nothing clearly supporting my move either). Could you explain further to me why you moved it back? --ais523 15:07, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Mh, I'm not sure exactly where it is written down, but I 'm fairly certain I recall the standard to be "–" for periods of time, as in current events articles spanning more than one year and such things... Certainly something that should be clarified once and for all, though, so if you do happen to find something which is absolutely clear, be sure to let me know. :) —Nightstallion(?)15:17, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You seem to be right: WP:MOSDASH has a few examples of en dashes in article titles. I'll go and change all the double-redirs back. --ais523 15:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
As the one who complained I looked it up for myself. At WP:MOSDASH is mentioned Now that Wikipedia uses UTF-8, these can be entered directly into the article markup. It doesn't say it should be used in article names. It doesn't make much sense to create article when its names can't be entered into the search window on the left side without ALT+0150. Certainly therefor is stated at the cited page: Hyphens and dashes are generally rather avoided in page names (e.g., year of birth and death are generally not used in a page name to disambiguate two people with the same name). (...)If hyphens and dashes are needed to write a page name correctly (e.g., Piano-Rag-Music, Jack-in-the-box, Nineteen Eighty-Four), prefer simple hyphens, and avoid hair spaces, even in the odd case of a range forming part of the title, e.g., History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991). There is certainly much work to do for some bots. Anyway, Greetings. --213.155.224.23220:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mh. I can see your concerns, but for stylistic reasons it *is* a valid point to use – and — in titles as well; we've always got redirects to such articles, anyway. —Nightstallion(?)06:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I don't understand ... I cited the official Manual of style, so *it's not* valid. BTW, I certainly found out the reason. When you save a HTML page, by default most browsers use the title tagged name of the page. Windows or even Windows NT however doesn't save the dashes as Unicode characters but as ASCII-150 (for the m-dash). When now loading the file into IE or Firefox the file name is considered an URL to the local HD, but within URLs only lower case characters are allowed. As a result opening it fails. I am not aware if the problem occurs in Latin-1 based languages as well, but at least in every localised Windows/NT version which primarly uses Latin-2 character sets. It's basically a kind of inconsistency between ASCII and ANSI. I experimentated a bit and it seems that the single quotes (left and right) - but not the abostroph - are causing the same problem. Therefore it's a serious problem. EN:WP isn't used by users sitting in the U.S. only. --213.155.224.23209:50, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry. There's no bothering or annoying. I'm glad that you like it. The new template will effectively deprecate {{EU coins menu}} and {{PreEuroCurrencies}}. Will need your help on TfD when the time comes. The question is, should we continue linking the new giant template with Template:PreEuroCurrencies on non-English wiki? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 13:41, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This article doesn't require what case it is in but should stay the way it was created out of respect of the creator of the article. If you change it, I'll change it back. --Gndawydiak22:21, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So I did some research and checked with some pretty credible sources as to what they print, in ENGLISH, for the name of this region (and province) in Italy.
Fodor's - a well recognized and respected name (and expert guide) has regional and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".
Michelin - also expert in travel guides - has regional and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bozen".
Rand McNally (name speaks for itself) has world, regional, and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".
Streetwise Map's regional, and local publications show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".
Dorling Kindersley or "DK" - by far, probably the best travel guides available - has regional and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".
Lonely Planet (the self-proclaimed largest independently-owned travel guide) regional, and local publications show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".
Hammond Map - a subsidiary of Langenscheidt Publishing Group (a privately-held German publishing company) - has regional and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".
As far as proof, I am quite sure that the above sources are credible enough, especially in the sense of geographical knowledge, expertise, and English-translation. Rarelibra03:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I am sick and tired of you doing this to me. I take this as a very disrescpectful to me and other users. I am going to report you for misuse of your powers because you aren't letting me edit my own article. When I get this done, I don't want you to edit any of my articles again and stay out of the San Francisco Mayoral Election 2007 article. I want only locals to edit it not foreign users that don't know whats going on and doesn't know how to use American English. This is a warning and listen to it. --Gndawydiak06:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Treaty
I have created a treaty that you may want to look at it. You can also contribute to it also but follow the instructions correctly. I am going to involve a third-party so they can make sure everything goes good. I want to get this behind us in a democratic way so I am ready to get this though. User:Gndawydiak/Treaty for Gndawydiak and Nightstallion --Gndawydiak23:50, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think you make this far too formal, there's no real harm done. I don't see a problem with unprotecting the page right now as I'm quite sure you've seen by now that all election articles follow the title format I moved the article too, and I want to apologise for not explaining this clearly enough before taking protective measures. —Nightstallion(?)13:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Nightstallion. Do you think you can also start a page for the provincial elections? Because they are the ones that allow for the subsequent Senate, and Governors. That would be really nice. Thanks!! Themalau19:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Considering you're interested in elections in Serbia, see this: Serbian parliamentary election, 2007 - according to BBC, it's the news of the year and all of the world's eyes are pointed towards Serbia. This election has gathered a bizarre amount of global interests. The preliminary results will be published in minutes' time (the turnout and the the diaspora results are already known). --PaxEquilibrium19:55, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps Senate elections should have their own template - I guess it could end up looking like those for countries who only have one level of elections (e.g. Swazi elections. Maybe they could also be included in the local elections template, as in several cases the Senates are elected by local assemblies. Number 5710:31, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but I don't know very much about San Marino: after all it has a smaller population than my nieghbourhood has. It will be fantastic if "Santo Osvaldo - Santa Croce / Padova South-East" would have its independent parties, but anyway... About the classification of Sanmarinese parties you can look at Parties and Elections in Europe. The only thing I can add to that information is that Sanmarinese for Freedom is a split from the late Socialist Party, before it merged in the Party of Socialists and Democrats. Sanmarinese Popolari are probably a christian-democratic party, while the New Socialist Party is definitely a social-democratic one, formed by those Socialists who didn't accept the merge with the former-Communists in the Party of Socialists and Democrats. --Checco00:05, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
A set of five criteria for B-Class status has been introduced; new parameters are available in {{WPMILHIST}} to keep track of articles' progress with regard to these criteria.
Thanks, but I created the article, so I ought to know about it. ;) Still, it's only a political mission and not a peacekeeping one, actually, so it doesn't need to be added. I should clarify that in the article. —Nightstallion(?)06:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I hope we can reach an agreement on this. You are trying to uphold a standard for article names on plebiscites. But thet standard can't dictate the subject of the plebiscite held in Norway in 1905. It was not a plebiscite on independence. As far as Norway was conserned it was already independent. It had a shared king and foreign service with Sweden, but it was not in any way ruled by Sweden. The plebiscite was on whether the union should be dissolved. In fact the voters were asked to vote yes or no on whether they agreed to the already occurred dissolution of the union as decided by Stortinget. So if you could see a way for the standard to be adapted I would be grateful. The use of the word independence is wrong and highly undesirable. Inge17:43, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You may be interested in User:Audacity/Userboxes/WSPQ, which is a replacement for the old Political Chart userbox. The new userbox takes the two variables (economic and personal freedom), calculates which political alignment they place you into (Statist, Libertarian, Liberal, Centrist, or Conservative), and links your userpage to the appropriate category.
My source is the link in the article, which in turn cites "Élecciones", which I assume is a bulletin on election dates. What do your sources state? Just correct the article to some other month if you've got better sources, I'm fine with that. —Nightstallion(?)16:41, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I know you cited a source, but is it a reliable source? I can't find any reference to an election date having been set at all, so I am very curious. Guettarda19:03, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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