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== Thanks ==
I just wanted to say thanks for removing Association for Managers in Students' Unions from the 'speedy deletion' category. Someone put it up for deletion within about five minutes of the article being created and I was a little disappointed.
==Thank you!==
For that barnstar! I hardly think that I am worthy of getting one, but suddenly I get two...this is embarrasing! :D --User:Huaiwei 17:40, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Singapore review ==
I'll have a look at it when I have a large block of time, but it may not be for a couple of weeks. I'm in the process of moving back to Singapore from the US, and with a lot of running about, plus dealing with wikiadmin stuff (and my main obssession the ''Doctor Who'' pages), that doesn't give me a whole lot of attention to spread around. But I'll take a look when I can. --User:Khaosworks 18:08, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
== Singapore ==
I'll sure have a look at it and give it a review in a day's time. Thanks for informing me. =user:Nichalp (User Talk:Nichalp)= 19:07, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
== Singapore review ==
As I have promised here's my review:
=Sections=
*Infobox = no probs
* Lead = no probs
* History = no probs
* Geography = would like to see the extreme temperatures (I think 19C & 38.9 are the extremes); would also like to know the average rainfall.
* Economy = industries that employ the most Singapore residents?
* Demographics = Breakup % by religion? Literacy? Life expectancy? Sex ratio?
* Culture = should be shortened
* Rankings = strongly feel that it should not be on this page
=References=
* Inline references are incorrect, please format it according to Wikipedia:footnote3 style
* All figures (any numbers; facts figures) should have this style of referencing to know where you have referenced it from. I've referenced all figures used on the Mumbai and India page; please see that the same is carried out here.
* No media section; newspapers, television and radio stations. I want this section.
* Shrink the size of the images
* Singapore follows British English style; Transportation is thus incorrect, transport is correct. Please correct this.
* The final image should be promoted up.
Regards, =user:Nichalp (User Talk:Nichalp)= 07:23, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
==Singapore review==
*"The legislative branch of government is the Parliament" is the only information about the parliament (parliament links to the general article on parliaments and not on Parliament of Singapore, which redirects to politics of Singapore). I'd like to know a few more things about the legislative branch. How powerful is it? Where does it meet, and how often? How many MPs? What parties are represented, and what are their relative representations? A nice graph related to this would help. Also, I'd suggest splitting off part of the "politics and government" section and creating a "human rights" section.
*Before I'd support I'd need to see seval new sections (besides the human rights one noted above):
**Military (branches, commanders, active/reserve strenghth, current hardware)
**Communications (what percent of people have computer/Internet access? Cable TV?)
**Education
**Flora and fauna (common species, endangered species, fish species—is fishing a big industry?)
**Foreign relations (needs to cover Malaysia, ROC, PRC, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, the U.S., and the UK)
**Media (Newspapers, TV, radio. Mention the ''The Straits Times'' and the government's control of the media)
*Demographics—not bad, but sources (in note format) and a nice pie graph or two would help.
*What is the situation of women in Singapore? There's a good bit on ethnic relations, but what about gender relations?
*Figures need to be provided in both metric and standard units.
*In some parts the language seems to be boosteristic.
*By the way, you have a great userpage!
**Warmest regards --User:NeutralityUser talk:Neutrality 14:01, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)
== Dean Hill Motors speedy delete ==
Hi Daniel, just following up with the speedy delete request. This page, in my opinion, is of great historical value to the residents of the upper valley region of New Hampshire and should not be subject to deletion. If there is any content in my post that you feel is inappropriate, I would invite you to please let me know, thanks.
Carl Levine
:Mr. Levine,
:I have a user page, you can leave the comment there although it really should be on the VfD page (follow the link in the template). It is not up for speedy deletion ... I wanted to give someone the chance to defend it.
:Although, I'm not impressed. The existing text doesn't make the case for great historical value. Please, once again, if you wish to have this debate do it under Votes for Deletion, where it's supposed to be.
:Oops, forgot this User:Daniel Case 20:52, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==Thanks for your support==
Thank you for voting on my RFA. Have some PI! I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of supporters (including several people that usually disagree with my opinion). I shall do my best with the proverbial mop. Yours, User:Radiant!User_talk:Radiant!>|<">meta:mergist 08:03, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
== Singapore review ==
Hi Mailer,
Before I start, I have to comment that you deserve a pat on the back for the effort you are putting in for the Singapore article - job well done! :)
With regards to the comments by Nichalp and Neutrality above, just want to add a few comments:
# Nichalp has given some excellent comments, very constructive and "actionable" (no suprise since he is actively involved in Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries).
# The point on inline references might not be entirely correct. Wikipedia:footnote3 is just one of the many options and it is noted in Wikipedia:Cite_sources that ''"it is far more important to have citations than to worry about whether a footnote or an author-year format is used"''.
# The point on having a section on media does not conform to guidelines set out in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countries. Yes, I agree that articles do not have to strictly follow the format given in Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countries. However, it is stated clearly in the Wikipedia:What is a featured_article that ''"a featured article should comply with the standards set in the style manual, as well as relevant WikiProjects"''. This will be a major sticky point during the FAC period; there will be some who insist on following the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countries, there will be others who insist on having a separate sections. This was the case in previous FACs and it will continue to be.
# Ditto point 3 for points on human rights, military, communications, education, flora & fauna and foreign relations by Neutrality.
I tend to favour following the guidelines laid out in Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries. It is, after all, a result of consensus among the community. In the event that objections are listed during the FAC period, at least this would be a strong and valid reason. Perhaps other FAs on countries might be useful references as well. In any case, the main Singapore article should just be a summary of the main articles listed (but I guess its hard to get people to edit the main articles; most just look at the main article and edit straight away).
Hope I didn't confuse you with my ramblings! Just thought that it would be easier for everyone if most of the main contributors have a common understanding of the goals/targets for the FAC. Cheers! User:Travisyoung 12:52, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Request for advice/mediation ==
Hi Mailer,
Some misunderstanding has arose between me and Huaiwei and I put it down to miscommunication between the two of us. I would like to request you to mediate so as to avoid any potential conflict with Huaiwei.
It started off from Template:Politics of Singapore, where "Government departments" was linked to Government of Singapore. I based my definition of "government" on this: ''"In British English, the word "Government" can also be used to refer only to the executive branch, in this context being a synonym for the word "administration" in American English (e.g. the Blair Government, the Bush Administration). In countries using the Westminster system the Government (or party in Government) will also useually control the legislature"'' (obtained from the article government). From what I understood of government (in the English/Singaporean context), it is synonymous with "cabinet". Therefore I took the liberty of re-directing Government of Singapore to Cabinet of Singapore.
This created some misunderstanding between me and Huaiwei, as shown in Talk:Government of Singapore and Talk:Departments of the Singapore Government. It seems to me the root of the problem was that both of us had a different understanding of the word "government". In any case, I think that "Government departments" in Template:Politics of Singapore should really just be talking about ministries, statutory boards and non-ministerial agencies such as the Elections Department and Singapore Department of Statistics, and not be directed to Government of Singapore, which I took to mean the cabinet of Singapore.
I appreciate your help in this matter. Many thanks in advance! User:Travisyoung 16:28, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Mailer,
I have mentioned the reasons for re-directing the article Government of Singapore to Cabinet of Singapore, and the subsequent creation of the new article Departments of the Singapore Government countless of times. However, it seems to me that some recalcitrant contributors have refused to look at how each event has led to another, resulting in this misunderstanding. I would like to re-iterate my point: I strongly believe this is a result of a small misunderstanding. I hope the following "timeline" in bullet form will help you in understanding what went wrong.
# From my edits in Politics of Singapore, I assumed that the definition of "government" was: ''"In British English, the word "Government" can also be used to refer only to the executive branch, in this context being a synonym for the word "administration" in American English (e.g. the Blair Government, the Bush Administration). In countries using the Westminster system the Government (or party in Government) will also usually control the legislature"'' (obtained from Wikipedia article Government).
# Natalinasmpf mentioned in Talk:Government of Singapore that the amount of information in Government of Singapore was small. I explained that there might be some misunderstanding.
# Vsion did an excellent revamp of Template:Politics of Singapore, which I believed, at that point in time, was modelled on Template:PoliticsUK (this was later clarified to be true in Talk:Departments of the Singapore Government by Vsion).
# In the template, "Government departments" was linked to Government of Singapore. From point 1 above, because I took the definition of "government" to be "cabinet" and "Government departments" was a sub-list under the item "Cabinet" in the template, I assumed that Vsion might have overlooked this link and meant for "Government departments" to link to an article somewhat similar to Departments of the United Kingdom Government.
# Hence, I created a new article Departments of the Singapore Government, and changed the link of "Government departments" in Template:Politics of Singapore to Departments of the Singapore Government.
# Consequently, because of point 1 above, I also re-directed Government of Singapore to Cabinet of Singapore.
I hope that this is clear enough that it was an honest mistake. I do not appreciate Huaiwei's accusing and condescending tones in all of his replies. One of the behaviour guidelines in Wikipedia is to assume good faith, which was not apparent in all of his replies to me on both Talk:Government of Singapore and Talk:Departments of the Singapore Government.
Vsion has provided a clarification on Talk:Departments of the Singapore Government. Huaiwei still does not seem to understand that this was an honest mistake and his last reply on Talk:Departments of the Singapore Government was accusatory and condescending in tone. Huaiwei and I had a somewhat similar miscommunication before, shown in User talk:Huaiwei#Republic of Singapore Navy naval bases. I don't know if it is because I am too difficult to understand, or if he is just being recalcitrant, but I hope that this matter is settled amicably. Hope this helps. User:Travisyoung 08:22, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Thanks ==
Hello, I just wanted to say thank you for helping me with my proposed deletion of :Image:Moon.gif. User:Y0u 20:12, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
== Help with :Image:Moon.gif ==
Hello, I am trying to restore the ifd tag to this image, however, I have reverted it twice and will not have an opportunity to restore it again until at least Sunday. Could you please help? Thank you. User:Y0u 01:10, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
== MTR disambiguation ==
Hi. I thought two dab lines in the header is ugly so I removed the first one and added the corporation entry in the dab page. I'm not sure if you mean the MTR Corporation would also be a popular target -- if so, would you agree that making that link in the third paragraph bold might look better? -- User:AlassiusUser_talk:Alassius 15:41, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Well, it's not like there was a debate is it? I do think duplicates without a good reason look unprofessional and should be avoided. Would you object if I remove the narrower entry again? -- User:AlassiusUser_talk:Alassius 17:42, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== Thanks for the welcome! ==
Hi there Mailer diablo, just wanted to thank you for your warm welcome on my talk page. It is good to know how nice my fellow Wikipedians are! --User:NicholasTurnbull 22:45, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== thanks ==
hi diablo
thanks for the welcome... what do ye think I could write on?
bye
tyagaraja
== re: RC Patrol ==
I just wanted to say thanks for the compliment! Anyway, I had been considering nominating myself for adminship, but sometimes I just don't have the time to patrol RC like I do now (I may vanish for a few weeks or more sometimes.) Still, if that wouldn't be a good reason to not nominate me as an admin, go ahead when/if you feel I'm ready. User:Y0uUser talk:Y0u 17:01, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
== haha ==
Nice one ;) I don't mind ''that'' sort of vandalism. Cheers, User:jasonglchu | User talk:Jasonglchu | Special:Contributions/Jasonglchu 19:45, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
==I award you this barnstar==
Now where do I put it?
[[Image:Barnstar-camera.png|frame|left|I, User:Natalinasmpf award you the '''Photographer's barnstar''' in recognition for taking the effort to take the much appreciated photographs concerning Singaporean places and topics. Keep it up! User:Natalinasmpf 04:37, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)]]
== VfD: Marko Alaupovic ==
I came across a vanity page for Marko Alaupovic and started the deletion process. However, once I went to edit its Votes for Deletion page, I noticed that it recently went through a round of VfD (and lost). It appears the page was added again to Wikipedia. I noticed that you closed the previous VfD, so I'm writing you asking about the procedure here. Does it go through another VfD process? If so, how do I start a new Votes page while maintaining the archived debate? Thanks. --User:Mtz206 03:49, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
== Your welcome note ==
Thankyou for the note, sorry I took so long to get back to you but I'm still feeling my way around wiki. it appears we are almost nieghbours, (see my bio) User:Xtrump 11:49, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
