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I create a lot of pages that are pasted from public domain US government sources, including state department pages and library of congress country studies. Country-studies.us is a mirror of public domain Library of Congress information. This pasting of public domain material is acceptable and encouraged. Please see User:Mangostar/Country studies if you want to help fill out Wikipedia's coverage of developing countries with articles pre-written by researchers in the field!

Contents 1 1080 FAC 2 St. Vrains County, Jefferson Territory 3 AfD for "De Pietro" 4 DYK 5 WP:FLAG in EB article 6 Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (biologist) 7 Redirect of Indian attidudes toward Americans 8 DYK 9 Re: OK-NAB 10 Image problems? 11 Unused images 12 Your recent edits 13 FAR notifications 14 Image:Grizzly_SierraMag_July2005.jpg 15 Invitation to join WikiProject Plants 16 An image proposed for deletion 17 Images 18 US relations / POV tag 19 Help with US relations 20 == Agriculture in Chad == 21 Women in Ethiopia 22 fishing article 23 Gender roles in Afghanistan 24 Women in Bangladesh 25 Women in North Korea 26 Women in South Korea 27 Women in Turkey 28 Speedy deletion of Gender roles in Algeria 29 Grand central station FPC 30 Assassination of Benazir Bhutto FAC 31 Photos 32 Style tribe 33 under contruction tag 34 2006 China-Kenya oil agreement 35 Barnstar 36 DYK 37 Agriculture in Madagascar 38 Education in Azerbaijan 39 Education in Bahrain 40 Education in Mongolia 41 Speedy deletion of Education in Mongolia 42 Speedy deletion of Education in Laos 43 Education in Madagascar 44 Women in Uganda 45 Compliment on changes to literacy and related pages 46 CfD nomination of Category:Human trafficking 47 Encyclopedic topics in obscure countries 48 Revised documentation for photo of The Shakespeare Center 49 About the photos you've questioned 50 On "Baby Boy" 51 Jacques-Édouard Alexis 52 Ambiguity (law) 53 Easter parade photos 54 Hey, thanks! 55 Conclusion: Image placeholders centralized discussion 56 School project move 57 New Project 58 Re: reversions at friendship article 59 Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand 60 Wat Chon Thara Singhe 61 Clearing your doubts 61.1 Restore my deleted part 62 Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sinestro Corps War 63 Theory of camouflage merge 64 years 65 Changes at 619 in Ireland 66 Re:bot tagging error 67 Uploading photos 68 Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/619 in Ireland 69 thanks! 70 Protection tags on templates 71 Redirects 72 Congratulations. 73 Refinement 74 got some work for you :) 75 warmest regards

[edit] 1080 FAC

Are you the Harvard copyeditor?--CM (talk) 00:12, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

My bad dude I stuck this on your userpage. Sorry.--CM (talk) 01:31, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] St. Vrains County, Jefferson Territory

Please see the Territory of Jefferson and Colorado counties. --Buaidh (talk) 18:19, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

We still have no external reference though... Mangostar (talk) 18:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD for "De Pietro"

Hello Mangostar. I noted that you nominated "De Pietro" for deletion. I think you should tell it to the creator of the article. I cannot say whether this article is a hoax or not. If there is no reference, the article should be deleted. Regards, Masterpiece2000 12:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

On 2 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Trk receptor, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 13:46, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:FLAG in EB article

Hi there. Which part of this guideline were you referring to? I can't see anything that discourages the use of flags in infoboxes. Tim Vickers 00:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (biologist)

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[edit] Redirect of Indian attidudes toward Americans

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[edit] DYK

On 8 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Andre J., which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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On 10 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Rikbaktsa, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 16:16, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: OK-NAB

PD-Self doesn't need a source, please do not re-add tag you wrongly placed there. Happy editing. ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 21:19, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

It's a screenshot of a map with painted direction of crash site. ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 09:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image problems?

What is the difference between the {{tl:PD-self}} and {{tl:GFDL-self}} licensing? One explicity states "GNU', but they both essaentially say the same thing. I created the picture and release it. Thanks. wbfergus ^Talk 13:27, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I have quite a few pictures on here (around 20-30), and I'd hate to have to go back and add a different if one was superceded by a newer one. I could really care less if anybody wants to cite me as the author or not. I guess some people need that extra attention, but I'm old enough now that I don't really care. wbfergus ^Talk 13:37, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unused images

Please stop tagging public domain images as speedy under the claim that they are only used in speedy pages. This claim only works if, once the page is speedied, that the image is covered by the CSD because it's unused. There is one a speedy criteria which refers to unused images, but only to images which don't have a free license. An image which is in the public domain doesn't become speedy-deletable just because it's unused. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:16, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

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[edit] FAR notifications

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[edit] Image:Grizzly_SierraMag_July2005.jpg

I've removed the non-free image from its article. It can be deleted immediately. I'm the uploader. Thanks for your work. User:Pedant (talk) 18:54, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to join WikiProject Plants

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[edit] An image proposed for deletion

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[edit] Images

I don't think any image on Wikipedia would "significantly harm the reader's ability to understand the article". You're blowing it grossly out of proportion. The image is there in order to identify two people; and, regardless of the importance of the event it documents, it is relevant to the article. In no way does it violate fair use. The picture helps the reader understand who the article's subject was on tour with and what he looked like at the time. It does nothing but enhance the quality of this article. NSR77 ^T_C 03:43, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] US relations / POV tag

Per this conversation, can I ask why you are creating pages and immediately flagging them with POV tags? Pages on bilateral relations are indeed often helpful, but why create them out of material that you don't think is neutral? - Revolving Bugbear 21:19, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help with US relations

Hey, i'd be willing to help wikilink the articles you're creating. I just wanted to let you know it'd do it to avoid an edit conflict after a good amount of work. If you're interested, of course. Grsz11 (talk) 04:58, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

That would be fabulous! I don't intend to do any wikilinking myself for some time (as it is this is pretty tedious but at least it's fun to make a bunch of pretty articles), though I may go back to may a change or two here and there (adding see alsos, etc). Hopefully we won't be getting any ECs but if we do all my edits should be small and easy to incorporate for you. Mangostar (talk) 05:00, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like a plan. I'll do it when I'm free. Grsz11 (talk) 05:06, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] == Agriculture in Chad ==

Yes, my bad for not noticing the assertation at the bottom of the page. But please note for future:

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[edit] Women in Ethiopia

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[edit] fishing article

Hi. Thanks for your work on this article. I haven't had a chance to review all the edits, but the article needed work. I might suggest that you do major editing in a word processing program or on your sandbox page rather than make a dozen changes to the "live" page just because it makes it easier to see what happened that way. Also, sometimes some folks hide vandalism in multiple edits, so when I see that many edits I start looking at the history to see if there is some reason.Bob98133 (talk) 21:32, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I prefer to make multiple edits (and I prefer that others do as well, within reason). That lets others look at my edit summaries for each change and see where content is coming from and where it is going, as well as why I made the changes I did. Feel free to make whatever changes to my version as you'd like. Mangostar (talk) 21:34, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gender roles in Afghanistan

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[edit] Women in Bangladesh

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[edit] Women in North Korea

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[edit] Women in South Korea

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[edit] Women in Turkey

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Gender roles in Algeria

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[edit] Grand central station FPC

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I uploaded an edit that attempts to address the issues you raised with the photograph. It was a bit of a struggle to correct the distortion at all. I guess I feel like it would be hard for a better picture to be taken given where the building is. Anyway, a second look would be appreciated. Thanks -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 07:30, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assassination of Benazir Bhutto FAC

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[edit] Photos

Hi. I saw the Markoff photo change, went to its Flickr link, found a couple images, and met you back at Hoffman. So sorry, and pretty funny in a way. I promise to stop but wanted to congratulate you on finding these images. They are high quality and your crops are excellent. -Susanlesch (talk) 03:53, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Style tribe

I'm not going on number of hits, I'm going on relevancy. See this Google search for example; out of those 10 pages, 3 sources at most use the term (most notable being NY times and the List), the rest being blogs or shopping magazines. I'd be happy to undelete if you think you can develop at least a higher-class stub from that. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 17:41, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I know all of that; please don't assume I've got a case of the itchy delete finger. :) I was just concerned, as blogs tend to give rise to many terms which may gain usage in other blogs. That's why terms that originate from blogs need quite a bit more mainstream recognition before being considered notable, given the freeform nature of the "blogosphere". I'll undelete, in any case. Cheers, Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 17:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] under contruction tag

I agree with your recent removal of the under contruction tag from Royal Ballet School; but your note (... this should be used on an hourly basis) is a little bit hasty. The tag's own text reads, ... If this article has not been edited in several days please remove this template...., which was the case with Royal Ballet School. Robert Greer (talk) 20:10, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 China-Kenya oil agreement

Hi. I've tagged 2006 China-Kenya oil agreement for speedy deletion as a copyvio. I know you're just splitting off the text from the main article. It looks like User:Patch77 took the material from here. -- Whpq (talk) 18:08, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good, I was suspicious myself and googled one phrase and didn't see anything... Thanks for being more thorough! :) Mangostar (talk) 18:18, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Geography Barnstar
		For resuscitating the article "Economy of Kenya", your efforts are greatly appreciated. Sunshard (talk) 07:38, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] DYK

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[edit] Agriculture in Madagascar

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[edit] Education in Madagascar

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[edit] Women in Uganda

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[edit] Compliment on changes to literacy and related pages

Hi, Mangostar. You've made some terrific changes to several articles related to reading and literacy. Thank you!

When you have nothing better to do, please take a look at all of the articles in the Reading navigation template. They could use an objective eye.

Best, Rosmoran (talk) 19:24, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CfD nomination of Category:Human trafficking

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[edit] Encyclopedic topics in obscure countries

HI I very much appreciate your work in creating these important missing articlres but do you think you could spend a minute or two cleaning one or two of them up. Creating a whole succession of articles intentionally with a wikify or clean up tag on them is lazy, particularly when they are copied public domain articles. This leaves a lot of other work for other editors later. Don't get me wrong your're doing excellent getting these off to a start but it would make things easier if you could wikify a few of them first ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 11:46, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Revised documentation for photo of The Shakespeare Center

I have uploaded a new, slightly larger, file of The Shakespeare Center, which you questioned. This is a photo which I created, and wish to share in the public domain.Weimar03 (talk) 21:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] About the photos you've questioned

Dear Mangostar: you have questioned a dozen or more photos on a Wiki site I developed (and for which I was given a "The Exceptional Newcomer Award For your work on the article Riverside Shakespeare Company. utcursch | talk 14:52, 4 December 2007 (UTC); the photos I have placed on the RSC site are ones that I myself took; posters that I made, all as graphics designer for this company. But I need your help: I don't know how to change the credit line on an existing photo, only how to load a new replacement photo. Can you explain this to me, to save me an inordinate amount of time on a Wiki site upon which I have spent countless hours of work? I would appreciate this. Weimar03 (talk) 02:54, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

As posted on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2008 April 15:

If editors in good standing upload images as {{GFDL-self}}, we normally take it on trust that they are acting properly, unless there is evidence to the contrary (e.g. a history of uploading images improperly). It is out of order to suddenly jump to deletion, without any dialogue with the uploading editor, in order to give the editor a chance to resolve the situation satisfactorily. This image should definitely not be deleted until that has been done. This applies to the other images below similarly nominated.[1]

Ty 13:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear Mangostar, in your last email, you asked to have the theatre company email Wiki, but the Riverside Shakespeare Company (unfortunately!!) was disolved ten or more years ago, after 20 years of existance. I will, however, add the information that you requested, which will, hopefully, suffice. It's all for the sake of documenting this organization, which has no website, and therefore Wikipedia will be the first (and only legit) complete documentation of what the RSC of NYC did in its first decade when I worked there. Weimar03 (talk) 16:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, to anwser your questions: "Were you an employee of the theater when you created these images?" Yes, I was. and "Also, please add a note to any non-poster photos saying whether you took them or not." Yes, I did. And I own the negatives, etc. etc. Thanks, again, for your assistance on clarifying all of this. Weimar03 (talk) 19:16, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Ps., I have, per your suggestion, added wording to the RSC/NYC site about the end of the last years of the company. Weimar03 (talk) 19:27, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Weimar03 (talk) 19:27, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

I've begun to add information about photos & posters on the RSC site. Let me know if you think it suffices.

Dear M, respectfully, what you wrote in your last email is not true. I took the pictures for the RSC, made the posters, with my own funds, not the company's. At the time I was not compensated for any of this. I now own the negatives, the artwork. The company never copyrighted any of this. Weimar03 (talk) 00:14, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Let me add, to clarify the above statement, that McMullan owns the posters he designs for Lincoln Center Theatre, which pays him fee for their use. But they are his. Carol Rossigg and Martha Swope have a copywright on the photos they shoot for a theatre, which has a right to reproduce them but does not in fact own them. Such was the case with the posters I made, and the pictures I took for the RSC of NYC. When a theatre dissolves, the copywright does not belong to anyone, but the artists and photographers who worked there. If a set desginer designs a set for a theatre, its for that one use of the design for that particular show, and the copywright for that set design belongs to the designer, not the theatre; it cannot be used again by anyone but him or her. Etc. etc. Weimar03 (talk) 00:27, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, I'll do my best. Could not come a worse time: swamped for the next week in my present job. If you can petition the judge for a stay of execution, it would help. I and others spent quite a bit of time developing that site. Hate to see dozens of posters, flyers, etc. deleted. Hanks' rep contacted us with a compliment on the site. We corrected a lot of misinformation about his work at the RSC of NYC that's out on the web. What Wiki now has is the facts about his only NY work. Ah well...

Weimar03 (talk) 02:26, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear Mangostar: After our various conversations (thank you, by the way) I have gone through the Wiki sites I have contributed material to and pulled, temporarily I hope, any material that contains graphic/photographic stuff that any others in the company have contributed to. As the prime photographer for the theatre company (yes, as a volunteer) during its first ten years, and, at this point, the primary contributor of material to these sites, I want the final material on the site to stay there, and that all the documenation is in place. I'll do my best to take care that it is. I'll get back to you on this. Weimar03 (talk) 10:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, I have gone through the site and carefully added wording which I believe addresses the issues and clarifies the status of the photos and the graphics that you questioned. I have referenced all of these to Weimar03 should there be any future question. All the best, Weimar03 (talk) 13:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

And thank you for your dilligence. I understand the why and the wherefore a bit better now. I think we're all working towards the same end: to make Wikipedia a better, ever more credible source of information. All the best, and let me know if there's more I can do. Weimar03 (talk) 15:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

And, while you're at it, check out a site I overhauled, about an important New York theatre: The Winter Garden Theatre (1850); hope you like it. Weimar03 (talk) 22:03, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, just wanted to know if I should be concerned about the notices on the photos of the site that you looked at, and if you'd had a chance to look at what I placed there to clarify the sources, etc. Just let me know if there's more that I need to do. Cheers! Weimar03 (talk) 11:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, thanks for removing the deletion box from the photos on Riverside Shakespeare. I notice that they're still on several posters on that site. Let me know if there's more I should do. Cheers! Weimar03 (talk) 21:40, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear M, Someone, not sure who, has also posted a "considered for deletion" on all or most of the posters I designed with photos I took, all on the Riverside site. I've documented these, just as I did the photos for which you removed the deletion boxes (again, thanks). Should I worry about these posters being removed, and never appearing on the Wiki site? Thanks for your help on this..Weimar03 (talk) 01:04, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Weimar03 (talk) 03:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] On "Baby Boy"

Hi Mangostar. Thanks for backing me up with your knowledge on legal matters. I was very dependent on news information. BTW, as much as possible, I would like to be consistent with ref tags, like {{Cite web}}, and dont know what type of template would Im going to use with the sources you add. Could you fix it for me? Thank you very much. --Efe (talk) 03:48, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I will not change them. If you have more prose concerns about the article, please reflect them in the FAC page. Thank you. --Efe (talk) 03:58, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jacques-Édouard Alexis

I just noticed how Jacques-Édouard Alexis article was expanded and improved by you, thanks for the good work. -Kain Nihil (talk) 04:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ambiguity (law)

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[edit] Easter parade photos

Mango: Thanks for finding these pictures. It would be wonderful to find some of the Easter parade in its heyday. I have given up on WP images because of the hateful ways of those who like to take them down, but I'd possibly do some work to find a free image or two for this article. Do you have any suggestions on where to look for such things? Lou Sander (talk) 16:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Great stuff! I'm concerned about some idiot taking the photos down and complaining that there's not sufficient evidence that they are free images. Do you have advice on this? Lou Sander (talk) 19:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hey, thanks!

Thanks for your contribution! It's edits like this that really help out. Tan | 39 21:43, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

If this is sarcasm, I doubly stand by my edit--edit warring about incrementing the gmail counter means someone is taking things way too seriously. Mangostar (talk) 21:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Conclusion: Image placeholders centralized discussion

Hi. I'm sending this to you because you participated in the Centralized discussion on image placeholders that ended on 23 April.

That discussion must produce a conclusion.

We originally asked "Should the addition of this box [example right] be allowed? Does the placeholder system and graphic image need to be improved to satisfy policies and guidelines for inclusion? Is it appropriate to some kinds of biographies, but not to others?" (See introduction).

Conclusions to centralized discussions are either marked as 'policy', 'guideline', 'endorsed', 'rejected', 'no consensus', or 'no change' etc. We should now decide for this discussion.

Please read and approve or disapprove the section here: Conclusion --Kleinzach (talk) 11:20, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] School project move

Hi. I noticed that you moved the information on economic impacts from red-light district to prostitution in the Netherlands. I agree with the move, but just to let you know you left some references (not formatted) behind. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Project

Myself and several other editors have been compiling a list of very active editors who would likely be available to help new editors in the event they have questions or concerns. As the list grew and the table became more detailed, it was determined that the best way to complete the table was to ask each potential candidate to fill in their own information, if they so desire. This list is sorted geographically in order to provide a better estimate as to whether the listed editor is likely to be active.

If you consider yourself a very active Wikipedian who is willing to help newcomers, please either complete your information in the table or add your entry. If you do not want to be on the list, either remove your name or just disregard this message and your entry will be removed within 48 hours. The table can be found at User:Useight/Highly Active, as it has yet to have been moved into the Wikipedia namespace. Thank you for your help. Useight (talk) 05:59, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: reversions at friendship article

I'm sorry sir for my ignorance. I didn't mean to discriminate IP users, but sometimes mistakes are bound to happen. This happened while I was patrolling for recent edits. I'll be more careful in my actions next time. Sorry again. On my part I've removed the warnings which I left and replaced with a welcome note. Thanks for notifying and have a good day.  S3000  ☎ 17:47, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand

Wondering why you haven't joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Thailand? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 09:25, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

With Cambodia User:Paxse and I looked for weeks to find some free images. I think a flickr agreement was made and somebody made contact with one of the those blogs and there isn't a problem. Most of them we found on a US aid site including the current image we have of the prime minister ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Thats great work you;ve done on Ratanakiri. I see you created Image:Ratanakiri districts.jpg. I was trying to obtain some district maps for many months, is it possible you could create district maps for the other provinces? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:14, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

What we need to do is add a commune and village table to all of the districts like I have done to Battambang District etc. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 10:33, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Well given that finding a decent amount of free images for Cambodia is a very difficult task particularly as the OTRS people in the commons take months to respond if you think removing these images helps wikipedia thats your problem. But as they aren't OTRS ticketed people will inevitably doubt them. In regards to Cambodian district maps anyhting is far better ythan we have at present (e.g nothing). ANy work you could also do on developing some of the district and other provincial articles would be gratefully appreciated ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:24, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wat Chon Thara Singhe

I put a speedy on it as it read like a travel guide and the text appears in a lot of travel guides. As you split it off from an existing article, do you know what the provenance of the text is? I don't want to delete material that should legitimately belong. Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 12:28, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

The text was a copyvio text dump from May 3 from http://www.thai-tour.com/eng/narathiwat/attractions.html, not by Mangostar, but by another user. Accordingly, I have deleted the spliced article, and reverted the article it was spliced from to the version before the violating text was added.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:57, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Clearing your doubts

To prove that user:borndistinction is the representative of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, check the link for the endorsement letter by TAT [2]. TAT has sent an email to the wikimedia also.

To prove that the content for the Narathiwat Province from the external website is copyright of TAT, check the link [3], they've added the phrase "Courtesy of www.Tourismthailand.org"

Moreover, the content are also under the process of being uploaded on to the TAT's website as it hasn't been uploaded yet because the site is under improvement process. --Borndistinction (talk) 06:44, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Restore my deleted part

Please ask someone to restore my deleted content as i've provided all the proof and cleared all the doubts.--Borndistinction (talk) 02:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sinestro Corps War

Hi there! Just thought you'd like to know that the plot section has been significantly trimmed down as per the requests of many editors, yourself included. Your input on the FAC would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! --Hemlock Martinis (talk) 01:49, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Theory of camouflage merge

I've removed the merger tag temporarily, since it's already been proposed that the existing camouflage article move to cryptic coloration. Once that's resolved, then a merger proposal can be done, but right now it's too confusing... scot (talk) 12:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] years

Generally, it might be a good idea not to redirect or to afd additional articles until the test case at AfD, for 619 in Ireland, is dealt with by consensus. And even so, at present it seems to deal only with cases where there is no actual event in that year. It would be good to do a single test case for where there is one event in a year. And let it finish the undoubted Deletion Review if there is one before doing more. Doing a whole batch without prior consensus is not really the best way to do it--as the episodes and characters mess has shown. Go slow, and its more likely to last without drama. DGG (talk) 04:21, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Changes at 619 in Ireland

(from Sarah777 page) Please do not call obviously good-faith edits "vandalism"--it's insulting. Also, do not remove AFD tags from articles before the AFD discussion is complete. As an established editor, you should know as much. Mangostar (talk) 03:40, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Please don't delete 20 separate articles without any discussion. That is vandalism. Sarah777 (talk) 00:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

The entire content was preserved in the merge. Give me a break. Mangostar (talk) 00:18, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Merge? You deleted 20 articles (possibly more, I can't track everything). "Timeline" v "years in" has been debated in the past. Who appointed you as God? (I ask this with civility, of course). Sarah777 (talk) 00:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

They were all redirected and combined, I have no idea what you are talking about. Look through all the facts listed on the 7th century in Ireland page - every single thing from the year pages was kept in the bigger artilce. Mangostar (talk) 00:30, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

I have no knowledge of any past discussions, but the AFD has a clear consensus (so far at least) that these early entries should be merged. Mangostar (talk) 00:31, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

What AfD are you referring to? Sarah777 (talk) 00:46, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

The one you keep removing! :) 619 in Ireland. Mangostar (talk) 00:47, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

You've removed it again??? I should not have smiled. You CANNOT REMOVE AFD TAGS. Read the tag! Mangostar (talk) 00:49, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:bot tagging error

Cheers.. Not much i can do about that - Its listed under the Category:Brazilian people, which im tagging for WPBrazil and WP BIO, as generally, they should be right. Probably just a handful of false positives such as this

—Reedy 15:03, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Uploading photos

Thanks for your explicit advice on using the highest possible resolution. The three low-res photos that I uploaded yesterday were indeed "resized" from hi-res originals as a kind of a trial. The upload went much faster, but I am not sure about the quality for other users. I will follow your advice in the future and will replace the three low-res pix with hi-res originals if I can figure out how to do this (always a problem for novices...). Thanks again. --Zlerman (talk) 02:10, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/619 in Ireland

Hi. In that AfD, you asked to be notified as soon as it closed, in order to proceed with merging the generic year articles. That solution would now seem to have consensus.  Sandstein  22:32, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

No. The deletion of 619 had consensus. Nothing else. Sarah777 (talk) 22:35, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Please do not do this again. There was a clear consensus that the articles should be merged. Mangostar (talk) 22:36, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] thanks!

Hi Mangostar - thanks for the bilateral ties image for Indo-Bhutanese relations - I truly admire your work. Just so you know, I'm adding more work your way with Sino-Bangladeshi relations, Pakistan-Bangladeshi relations, Indo-Burmese relations, Indo-Iraqi relations and Indo-Sri Lankan relations. Again, thanks! Vishnava _talk 18:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Mangostar - there is a problem with this map - it cuts out all of Northeast India from the colored map of India. I do think this is a significant problem which I request you to rectify. Regards, Vishnava _talk 05:06, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks ! Vishnava _talk 05:10, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah :) in fact they are my principal sources for almost all I've done; I've extracted juicy bits adding history and political perspectives to foreign relations, so its an all-round resource really. Thanks - you do some wonderful work, btw. I hope to learn to make maps like you, a very useful skill. Thanks, Vishnava _talk 05:22, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Protection tags on templates

Hey Mangostar. I saw you adding noinclude to a template that I protected recently. I didn't realize that adding a tag would cause it to be echoed onto the articles that include the template. Oops! What do you think about leaving off the semi-protection tag completely, for templates? What do people normally do? I assume that lots of templates must be protected anyway. EdJohnston (talk) 04:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects

I don't think one large article is better 2-3 smaller ones. The smaller articles encourage people to contribute and all wiki readers to see that their isn't one type of religion in Zimbabwe (or any other country), that it differs as much as the Western countries most wiki readers come from. I agree that they have not been managed correctly, but that is not a good reason to simply merge them. Let us manage them better!--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 14:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations.

On 02 June 2008, Ratanakiri Province was passed as Good article, which you created or substantially expanded. If you can improve it further, please do.

--gppande «talk» 08:48, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Refinement

User:Fritzpoll/Refinement - take a look and comment on its talk page, please Fritzpoll (talk) 11:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] got some work for you :)

Hi Mangostar - just wanna let you know that a fresh bunch of articles could use your excellent map-making skills: India-Republic of China relations, Pakistan-Turkey relations, Sino-Burmese relations, Sino-Bhutanese relations, Indo-Afghan relations, Sino-Nepalese relations, Nepal-Pakistan relations and Sino-Nepalese relations. Please have a look when its convenient, Vishnava _talk 01:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

One more thing - is it possible to make a map just like the bilaterals, save it colors India and the Southeast Asia region for the India's "Look East" Policy article? Vishnava _talk 01:47, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] warmest regards

		The Surreal Barnstar
		For your prolific work on creating maps, DYKs, writing a GA and for helping me without hesitation Vishnava talk 13:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Had a hard time picking what barnstar would suit - at least 4 would apply, so I just picked the "Surreal." Vishnava _talk 13:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)