User talk:Pavel Vozenilek/Archive2

Regarding my page edits

Pavel I noticed that you reverted all my changes to WikiPedia. First of all, you shouldn't second guess that I was linking to my own sites as "advertising or a mere collection of external links". I am not a webmaster, nor do I own any sites. I was linking to those sites because I felt that they were beneficial to WikiPedia not only for the different pictures of composers, but also for the audio files of composers. What joy does one get from reading a biography of a musical composer, if they cannot hear some actually MUSIC of a composer. The sites I linked to provide a service which WikiPedia main site does NOT offer. Therefore your claim "Please do not add links to pages which contain no new information compared to the article" is not legitimate, for I am added a link to a page which DOES in fact give new information, in the format of music. Please put back my additions, as I feel you are harming the WikiPedia community as a whole by disallowing useful information, which could be used to enrich WikiPedia.

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Actually, Pavel, that was a legitimate complaint, and I would like you to revert the changes you made, this was a legitimate submission to VfD and you have blatantly subverted the rules of Wikipedia in reversing my submission, I would like to submission re-set, or I will have to do it myself, thanks 68.42.0.182

Administrator

Pavel, I notice that you often post on WP:VIP when vandalism is taking place and request that repeat vandals be blocked. Would you want to be nominated for administrator? That would allow you to perform the blocks yourself. You seem to be quite active on this front, which is important for the functioning of Wikipedia. Firebug 18:47, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes. I have suspicion WP:VIP is a black hole where people could complain and nothing ever comes out of it. Pavel Vozenilek 22:01, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You are doing great work in combating vandals here. I came to your talk page thinking to award you a barnstar, but I see Firebug is in the process of nominating you for adminship, which is much more important.

Most of the time, a vandal goes away when you post the first test message on his talkpage. I often see your messages on VIP, but when I check the vandal, they've stopped posting. A few vandals continue until they get the test4 warning and then stop. Of course, a few continue and have to be blocked. I suggest that you not post on the VIP page unless a vandal is continuing for more than a few minutes after you've put up your first warning to them (give them time to notice the warning).

You should also be aware that we never block an IP address permanently, since there's a strong likelihood that it will not be held by that particular vandal forever. You should not ask for permanent blocks on such addresses.

I'll support you for administrator when Firebug nominates you, but you have to promise that you won't block people for excessive periods, or block them without giving them fair warning that they will be blocked if they don't change their behaviour.-gadfium 02:52, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Firebug has now nominated you for adminship. Please go to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pavel Vozenilek, accept the nomination, and answer the standard questions.-gadfium 04:47, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Regarding my RfA

Hello Pavel Vozenilek. I wanted to tell you that was promoted to admin today. Thank you for the time you took to review my contributions. Know that I will keep the concerns you raised on my RfA page in mind, and that I am doing my best to address them. Phils 20:00, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Neni zac

Prosim -- and thanks for writing the base article on this interesting topic and for correcting my typos. Mwalcoff 13:29, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

My adminship: thanks

Hi Pavel Vozenilek. Thanks very much for your vote for my RfA. I promise to be prudent, wise, sagacious and totally unilateral in all my admin affairs. I should say that I am very pleased at the number of people who supported me – it's very nice to know I'm making a positive impact. Cheers again, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 20:57, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Re: 156.63.253.3

You recently warned the person using this IP. I'd just like to inform you of the vandalism he committed on the Glacier page which I reverted. --RobbieFal 23:15, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Re: User:Whodidit

Hello Pavel. If you had checked the Vandals list, you would have seen my name under April 23: Wikipedia:Vandalism in Progress#Whodunit and Whodidit and Whoisit and Whowasit and now Whowillitbe. Predictably, you did not check, so now only one of my sockpuppets is blocked, and I can go on my own merry way! Nice spring day, don't you think? Anyway, gotta go, more pages are waiting to be wrecked. Bye! Whodunit 21:53, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fiji's father

Yes. I'll find references and post them on the appropriate talk page. Mara led Fiji to independence from the United Kingdom, and Ganilau was the first president of the Fijian republic. Sukuna is generally regarded as the greatest of the three, as he forged modern political institutions in the pre-independence era and mentored the generation that led the country after independence. I believe his birthday is a national holiday. I'll check my sources, and will report back. David Cannon 00:43, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I am aware that there are different opinions about that list. The arguments have been tossed around since long before either of us was involved. I'll admit to being something of an inclusionist, so I'm biased. But I'll defer to the consensus opinion, if one emerges. Sukuna should unquestionably be in the list (I've found a source and will post in a few minutes); I believe the other two should be also, but if the strict criteria of naming only "official" national fathers is applied, they could be removed. Sukuna is official; his birthday (which is mondayzed to the last Monday in May) is a national public holiday, with public celebrations. The other two are unofficial: Mara was called the nation's father by both supporters and opponents at his funeral, as was Ganilau (whose death - in 1993 - was not "recent", as you say). Anyway, I think it's important to see what everybody else thinks and establish some consensus for the size and content of the page. There's no such thing as ownership of articles on Wikipedia. David Cannon 01:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

My RfA

Although you did not support my RfA, I would just like to thank you for your comments, which I will take in the spirit they were given. I will do my best to live up to the responsibility of adminship and hopefully show to you the trust is deserved. --khaosworks 07:07, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Whodunit

Someone else had already got this user with a 48-hour block. When that expires, we'll see what happens; I blocked his sockpuppet indefinitely, but I think that it would be wrong to block A for being a sockpuppet of B and then B for being a sockpuppet of A... I'm inclined to agree with you, though, that (if he comes back) this user is heading for an indefinite block, because he's clearly an idiot without a life who's only interested in making a fool of himself. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:12, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dear Pavel, if only it could be that way! Whodunit may be blocked, but there are other ways I can get into Wikipedia. The truth is that the world is full of bad people and disappointments. If you do not brace yourself for an attack, you will most likely be overwhelmed. That's what's happening to Wikipedia right now. Do you not see, all these Vandals and Saxons and Goths are climbing right over Wikipedia's walls - the login page - and right into the castle! Then, our sysop knights try cut them down, but these vandals get back up and wreck the buildings in the fortress. Then, the only option will be to "protect" these damaged buildings from further attack. The problem is that other altruistic people are blocked from repairing these damaged buildings! The vandals move on to other buildings (there are infinitely many in this castle, remember), and then we will have to protect each building in the castle. Nobody will have freedom, and only the admins will have access to every page in Wikipedia. And if we make everybody into admins in order to give everyone equal rights, then we will be in the same situation as before. That's why I tried to make a point, both in my broken messages and in vandalizing Wikipedia: your meagre defense systems can not yet stop an obsessed vandal from wrecking Wikipedia. And if many strike at the same time, God knows what will happen to the Free Kingdom of Wikipedia... Make a petition to the programmers before it is too late, because one day, it will happen. Even if it won't, it's always better to be prepared and protected. My suggestion:

->Make an email address necessary for new users.

So long - Whoisthat 13:23, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello, Pavel. Thanks for your vote at my adminship nomination. I appreciate the support. Cheers! — Trilobite (Talk) 13:28, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

FlaBot

The bot has the botflag and doesnt appear in the recent-change list. --FlaBot 10:13, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Not vandalism

Please look a little more carefully. I have reinstated and clarified my edits. Please read before reverting. Thank you. 62.214.23.113

Thank you, Pavel!

For your vote and comments in support of my RfA. I greatly appreciate the confidence you place in me and I hope to live up to it! El_C 00:44, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for your comments on my RFA. Although the voting period just ended with a 14-8-2 vote, I will admit once and for all that I used it more as an evaluation of myself. Being promoted would have been a plus. I was more interested in who voted, when they voted, who would change their votes and when, and the comments I would receive. Hopefully I will correct the main weakness that was raised by those who voted oppose -- that I was too eager to put articles on VFD. Also, I will try to interact more with those Wikipedians who did not vote at all.

As for next month, I don't know if I will nominate myself again. I might not think about it until somebody else puts me up there on RFA at a later date. Eventually, I see myself as an admin, especially as the number of articles and users continues to grow. Thanks again and good luck at improving this vast archive of free knowledge. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 09:17, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Your RFA

I'm sorry that didn't work out for you, but I hope you'll keep up the good work fighting vandals anyway.-gadfium 00:45, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

So you reverted my changes! What exactely do you mean by: "They contain some inaccuracies and common media myths"

thanks - Luke

Update on Aesthetic Realism article

I continue to try to maintain a balanced article on Aesthetic Realism in the face of the vandalism by the group's supporters, who continue to try to excise criticism of the group and other salient facts, such as that their founder killed himself. They also continue to reinsert unsubstantiated claims removed by other (independent) Wikipedians, who have no experience with the group and are not on one side or the other. When either the AR people or I revert to a version that we like we generally label it as "Reverting to pre-vandalized version". Obviously each of us considers the others' edits to be vandalism.

I'm writing to you now because they labeled their latest revert, "restoring vandalized page to version of 7 Apr 2005 validated by Pavel Vozenilik". But since 7 Apr both sides and independents had added or edited quite a bit of content, and I thought that the article was finally starting to shape up. So I'm wondering about their using your name to support their recent revert. Have you seen the article since 7 Apr, and if so do you really feel that the community is better served by the 7 Apr article than by a more current version? Or do you think a more recent version is better?

Thank you for your time, Michaelbluejay 06:27, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Germanic vs German

No doubt you are correct that a link to Germany is not ideal, although it is probably better than German which is a disambiguation page. For Germanic people the choice is between Germanic tribes and Ethnic German (Germanic itself is a disambuiguation page.) Please feel free to improve any of these links you come across, I have revisited Jihlava nd will try to do better in future! Regards, Rich Farmbrough 10:47, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Marshall and Soviet threat

Isn't the fact that Red Army was stationed in Poland, and was used as a tool (togheter with NKVD) to persecute (often, execute) Armia Krajowa members and extend pressure on the representatives of Polish government in exile and its representatives in country (theoretical coalition with communists) sufficient to say there was a military threat? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 10:59, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Good point, it wasn't very clear - I hope if it fixed now, feel free to improve this further. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 11:17, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Paroubek etc.

All right, I will think about it again and - if I have time - will probably put back the one paragraph about the confidence vote. My opinion on this is not that strong either, I just wanted to see what reason you had to remove it all. Anyway, glad to hear that anyone found and uses the diacritics page! Good luck. Matt ෙ 07:17, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

199.217.32.2 vandal

It looks like this guy has made hundreds of malicious and possibly difficult to catch vandalisms. I haven't gone back far in his history but I notice you reverted many of them. Is this guy under control? --Malathion 02:12, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Template:Unencyclopedic

Hi,

please don't use this template for the time being. There is no consensus for its use on Wikipedia articles. See Template talk:Unencyclopedic. Thanks,--Eloquence* 19:29, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

66.25.166.173 vandal

Dear Pavel Vozenilek,

I thank you for catching vandalism to the article about Eli Siegel a while ago. The same person you caught under the IP of 66.25.166.173 has begun his nasty work again--but expanded--under the IP of 141.150.36.175 and the username of Michaelbluejay -- (or an anonymous pal of his).

Can you help?

I have called for mediation and am about to call for more. There is a lot of conversation about this matter. I hope you have time to, at least, look into it and advise.

My name is Arnold Perey, my website is www.perey-anthropology.net.

--Aperey 20:55, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Votes for deletion/Continuum calculator

Hello Pavel, thanks much for discussing the article. Since I am interested to keep the article I have overworked it a bit and I have added an explanation to the vote list. I would be glad if you had another look. Thanks. -- Karsten88 15:27, 21 May 2005 (CEST)

RK string search algorithm

Pavel,

In the pseudocode of the RK string search algorithm, if hs is given as hash(s[1..n]), the algorithm can not detect a target pattern which occurs on the first m bytes of a given text.

Your point on the case where m is larger than n is correct, but I thought that such a parameter range check can be assumed to have been performed prior to calling the function.

Btw, what do you think about the following sentence which is quoted from the sentence right beneath the pseudocode. "Lines 2,3, and 6 each require omega(m) time."

If you still think hs := hash(s[1...n]) is correct, why don't you modify the above sentence too?

--Chang.h.kim 06:08, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

CSR/SSR

There was only one Snemovňa národou. It was elected separately in the two republics, but nevertheless it was only one body... And I am quite sure it had only 1 veto right. So unless you have a good argument (because I am definitely not an expert in the Federal Assembly), I will revert it to 4 later. Juro 02:23, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Czech city template

To co pridavas k ceskym mestum rozhodne neni Template. Ja bych si to predstavoval spis jako neco co jsem zkusil u Chlumce nad Cidlinou. mikes 04:32, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

"botched up"

Hi, as you're not a native speaker of English (I guess) I just thought I'd give you the tip that describing someone's infobox as "botched up" (as you did on Děčín) will be understood as rude. Perhaps you could just write "changed template" in future. Saintswithin 07:43, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Image of 2ch on Internet forum

Hiya Pavel Vozenilek, as you've contributed to internet forum in the past, could you please read this part of the talk page, and offer your opinions, so we can reach consensus on which image to include? Talrias (t | e | c) 09:10, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

City template for Jicin

Hi, I see your point but I hadn't found any better template so I used that one, though I am well aware of irrelevancy of some items in it (water area, the time zones…). I had a look at the one you suggested, but it still needs to be worked on, e.g. it should be able to downsize the coat of arms automatically, as template City Infobox City does. So I'd prefer leaving this one, in spite of its imperfections (I wouldn't call it botched-up, sounds too rude to me) until a better one is created, preferably an international, I don't think every country needs its own city template. Caroig 09:05, 1 June 2005 (UTC)

Thank You

What a year! My first year in Wiki, a featured article and now administrator. Thank you for your support. Tony the Marine (UTC)

David Bronstein

Do you have link or reference for you edit in David Bronstein? Pavel Vozenilek 19:48, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

GM Larry Evans expanded on theories that game 23 of the Bronstein-Botvinnik match was thrown. Bronstein states in his book, the Sorceror's Apprentice that "he was subjected to strong physcological pressures away from the board"

On Zurich 1953, read here www.chesscafe.com/text/skittles173.pdf

Jiri Cerovsky

I've listed the Jiri Cerovsky page as a VfD, hope you'll support me. Oneliner 08:42, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Careful with that word "vandalism"!

Hi Pavel, congratulations on your dedication to the "admirable but completely hopeless battle with vandals", but do be careful that everything you revert is indeed vandalism and not just something you haven't heard of or don't understand. (It's easily done, I've been guilty of it myself.) On 20 Mar 2005 you reverted a small edit to University of Oxford as "vandalism" which was nothing of the sort. The Assassins and the Bullingdon, added by an anon contributor to the list of Oxford "Institutions", are indeed two well-known (not to say notorious) Oxford dining societies. For your interest, see my article on the Bullingdon Club. Best wishes Flapdragon 14:46, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Just responding to your comment back in May on this page. Vandalism such as that can be easily reverted by going to the history of the page and selecting a prior version of the article before the vandalised version. Then just save the clean version as a minor edit to wipe out the inane scribblings. Apologies if you already knew this. Lisiate 22:29, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

CfD accidental deletion

Hey, I noticed that you accidentally deleted most of the June 13's CfD entries. [1] Just wanted you to know that I reverted it back and then re-added your most recent vote. Cheers.--BaronLarf 19:12, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Cat speedy

"Category:Mozart symphonies - The contents have been moved to Category:Symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to match the naming scheme." - there was some talk on CSD whether this should be a speedy deletion criterion. Since a proposal for expanding speedy criteria is likely going to happen soon, I'd like to have your feedback on wording one for cases such as this. Yours, Radiant_>|< 07:38, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Chanov picture

Hello, I asked an author of picture for permission and I inserted picture simply to show him, how would it look like so when I receive an answer I will change the tag... Well I do not now how Chanov changed since the photo was taken but I pretty sure it is the most dirty place in czech republic:-)

And hey, thanks for adding City tables to Most and Chanov, good work ;-) --Josef Sábl cz 09:22, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My Rfa

Thank you for supporting me! --Kbdank71 13:35, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Serapeum

What specific things are you talking about? Please clarify--User:Kazuba 17 Jun 2005

Hi Pavel. I have alerted the reader something has been omitted and kept the link so that the reader will be extra watchful and learn something extra from reading the link. Here the writer has failed to show the part of the story that occurs before the Pagans have barricaded themselves in the Serapeum. What started the conflict. Something was found beneath a temple; is one of them. Only by reviewing his cited sources can this be detected. We will never know "what really happened in this story" but we can learn there can be bias reporting. In the study of literature there is a process known as redaction criticism where different versions of the same story are examined to seek the ancient author or authors' intent. This is an important lesson to learn when studying the surviving records or "stories" of the past or just about anything else. Compare. Gather data. What is the motive for telling me this story this way? Is it strictly to increase my knowlege or is there propaganda or intent involved? Be cautious and wary if you are not familiar with the subject matter, and if you are out of your field. DO NOT RUSH TO A CONVICTION! Learn about the writer from reading his material if possible. That's it. User:Kazuba 18 Jun 05

RfA

Thank you very much for your vote of support on my administrative nomination! Schissel : bowl listen 01:38, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Rotten links

Can you explain to me any way these links violate Wikipedia's external linking policy, or hurt the articles they appear in?--TheGrza 02:17, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Please read the articles before you decide. They are much longer then before and DO add a lot to the articles they have been linked to. There are still miniscule articles, but I am not linking to those for precisely the reasons you have noted.--TheGrza 02:26, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

As requested by User:Sockatume on the ViP page, I've posted this on RfC under Bohemian Grove (the first page I added a link to). I've also moved our conversation to that talk page in order to centralize it.--TheGrza 06:58, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Rotten Links

Hey, These links aren't indiscriminate and they do contain information or characterization that isn't available in the articles, specifically the Hashshashin link to al-Qaeda which is not found in either article.--TheGrza 01:47, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Could you please take care of these links (or find more people who could) - I am unable to handle such avalanche and am giving up. I noticed VIP so hopefully he'll be stopped sometime. I have suspicion the links are added by robot, I have never seen such massive vawe of linking here. Pavel Vozenilek 02:41, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Heya, thanks for helping out. It would appear I'm getting a knack for disappearing when there's work to be done, at least it wasn't my fault for a change this time. I'm not sure this qualifies as vandalism, but it would appear things have settled now and the links have been removed again. --W(t) 15:12, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)

Serapeum note

Revised caution note. Thanks, Pavel. You might find Ancient history: What is written ancient history? of interest. User:Kazuba 22 Jun 05

Infobox Town

I'm still playing a bit with it, I think you're right here, I included it kinda mechanicaly, as it originaly was in many Infoboxes. I included post code info, but than removed it…, now I added elevation as it is of some relevance. If you have any other ideas what (not) to include, you're welcome. And please do sign your comments, I had to look at History to see who it was from. --Caroig 20:01, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your ideas, the tip concerning coor template sounds great but the problem is it is a template itself, so it would need to be a template within template and I simply don't know how to achieve that … As of the region links, I don't like how it is, I miss the link to region too, just don't want to have row name Region and than e.g. Pilsen Region, as of okres, this administrative unit doesn't exist anymore, so it would be obsolete.

Concerning uploading the maps to Commons, that's logical, I had the impression everything gets uploaded to the Commons primarily, obviously I was wrong. When I finish the English version of the template, I'll put it on Czech Wikipedia too (keeping mayor in it). — Caroig 20:46, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I managed to get the coor template working, tested on Plasy, I found it in some Dutch template, once again thanks for the tip, it's really great feature.

I know the Commons is there for quite some time, and when I don't forget, I do use it.

Well, my maps are even larger, partly because I use aplha channel in them (so that the map has transparent backgound), I tried saving them as GIFs, which don't have alpha channel as such but instead can map one color as transparent, and then their size is just below 10kB, but GIF isn't prefered format here, from obvious reason. — Caroig 22:01, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Regarding those sizes, the lowest I can get a PNG in the same resolution (256x150) is 5.9kB (without the alpha channel), 9.4KB with it (saved as indexed color PNG with eight bits per pixel), probably it's not needed to save the maps as RGB True Color… The thing is I havent't given it a thought, I'm on cable, thus I don't care much about sizes, but not all people are that happy, I know… So I'll try to resample all those maps probably into those 8bit indexed PNG, but not today, zzz. — Caroig 22:01, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm trying to make the template so it's versatile, I don't know if you looked at the code, but the word kraj is not part of the template, so if you need, you can simply set region_name=okres or whatever you like…

Actually, you can reach me at ICQ# 223100190 (or any other IM, I have accounts at most of them, though I don't use them regulary), it might be more usefull to discuss it directly. But now I'm really going to bed. — Caroig 22:10, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've made a few changes to the template, removed the info on mayor and replaced it with Founded (year, when the town was founded or the first written record), it gives the general idea of how old title town/city is.

You mean there would be both region and district in the Infobox? I don't think it's reasonable to have both there. Kraj is the most important "region" in Czechia nowadays, both from local and foreign visitor's point of view, okres is of little relevance today and the information doesn't need to be in the infobox, which, I guess, should give you just basic data about the town.

I tried to make the infobox to be reusable for other countries, to be rather general. So in case U really wanted to have okres rather than kraj in it, you can do it as follows (but this would still be inconsistent with other towns):

 region_type=okres| 
 region_name=Pardubice| … this would show as clickable and take you to the page specified in:
 region_link=Pardubice District| … the actual link  
 region_local=Pardubice| 

As before I test the template on Plasy — Caroig 20:26, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Concerning the maps, I uploaded two blank templates to the Commons, "high" quality version (true color RGB PNG, 34kB) and "low" quality version (256 indexed colors PNG, 13kB). The "low" quality version is, I guess, fully sufficient.

File:Czechia region template high.png

"high" quality version

"low" quality version

— Caroig 21:10, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not so funny

Or should I say "Nazi" funny? BUT DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION I'VE RAISED? Wahkeenah 02:14, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Aha, maybe you've never actually heard these actors talk, and don't get the point of the category. Megan Mullally always talks in this kind of ultra-high-pitched voice on the TV show "Will & Grace". I've actually heard her real voice, which is somewhat lower pitched. Bobcat Goldthwait always sounds like he has sandpaper for vocal cords. I don't know if it's real or not. And Gilbert Gottfried always talks in this irritating, screechy kind of voice. I find it hard to believe it's real. I'm sure there are other actors who fit this category, I just can't think of them right now. Wahkeenah 02:26, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Interesting. So you're not opposed to the idea, as such, just the way I did it. That's some food for thought. Actually, such an article could be very large. I'll see what I can come up with. Probably not tonight, though. :) Wahkeenah 03:00, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Blood type.

Thanks, you are right, that was confusing. I've tried to rewrite it, and moved it to the next section to avoid a forward reference. I've extended it somewhat. The idea I really want to get across is that there are no common blood types. Do you think that point is made in an encyclopedic manner now? Thanks for the critism Zeimusu | (Talk page) 03:01, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ahmadinejad and populism

Could you take a look at my answer on my talk page? roozbeh 15:01, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Using Talk pages

When you do revert on outright vandalism, please add warning note to offender Talk page - e.g. with blanker [2] you reverted. While it is sort of nuisance it helps with establishing clear record for future dealing with the vandal. Thanks. Pavel Vozenilek 14:48, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I generally already do this (as you can tell by looking at my contribution history), although I occasionally miss one, usually because I got distracted or my browser crashed or something else happened. Sometimes I won't add an additional warning if I (or someone else) has already warned within the past minute or so; I don't believe in escalating warning levels that the vandal may not had a chance to read. Kelly Martin 15:11, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Hi, I'd like to inform you on some progress on Infoboxes. I'm quite happy with the current state of the template and going to suggest the use of it for towns in other countries. There are now two more version of this template:

• Template:Infobox Town noCM - a template when neither coat of arms, nor map are available
• Template:Infobox Town noC - a template when coat of arms is not available, which might be quite common situation

I know that this solution via two more templates isn't the best one, but I don't know how two achieve not displaying a blank field in a template or if it is possible at all. I read some help pages on this topic, but haven't found an answer. If you do know how to do that, I'd be greatfull for your advice.

I also provided quite an extensive help Template Talk:Infobox Town on the template use.

I also tried a new template Template:Infobox Region using the same graphic layout, which contains a little bit different set of information and should be suitable for any categories of administrative units. I tried it on Moravian-Silesian Region (which is mostly my doing, so that I don't interfere with your ongoing work). Again, your suggestions are welcome. There is also a version when no coat of arms is available (Template:Infobox Region noC).

Finally, I'm happy that you found the Czech republic regions map template usefull. I also started uploading all pictures into Commons, even some of those I uploaded to Wikipedia before, and I'm too using the "low" quality, smaller indexed color PNGs. —Caroig 15:41, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I would mainly like to submit texts and pictures, I worked on those templates because I found the current system a bit chaotic and the layout of some of the templates rather pre-historic, not worth Wikipedia. My time is scarce too, I won't be able to do much during summer, at least I will take pictures which I might submit later. — Caroig 15:54, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Plzeň

Hi Pavel, I'm sorry about the Plzeň article. I think what had happened was that I had tried moving the page, but that didn't work. I checked the talk page on the <Plzen> article but there was not much written. In fact, I made a copy of what was there:

Talk:Plzen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stod is small city (3500 inhabitants in 2001) in southwest [Bohemia]([Czech Republic]), 20 km from [Plzen].

That's it.

Sorry about the inconvenience.

Regards,

Jared Preston 06:56 29/06/05.

Arbitration request

Ahoj,

I don't think arbitration is the right way how to deal with it now. User Sumnakay (even with his possible accounts) is relative newbie. All the lacking knowledge of wikiquette and POV pushing in edits etc. possibly can be accounted to that. You know - disucussion culture on Wikipedia is quite different from many internet forums.

Also, it seem to me Sumnakay improved his behaviour after requests of other users, e.g. signs his comments and no longer edits others comments. I've returned your comment to its original shape and removed Nazi-like attacs.

I've requested on Wikipedia:Clueless newbies someone explain Sumnakay in nice and polite manner a bit of wikiquette, and hope it will help. I beleive he is editing in good faith, trying to improve Wikipedia to contain "the right view".

Anyway, I don't think it's likely ArbCom will accept the request. It's really the last step in conflict resolution, and here were just several attacks of user Sumnakay, severeal other users tried to appease it, and thats all. Also the attacks doesnt seem to continue. If some unpleasant behaviour reappears, I'd suggest previous steps, such RFC on user behaviour. --Wikimol 29 June 2005 11:17 (UTC)

České Budějovice and Plzeň

Nazdar Pavel - I'll continue in English since this is an English speaking forum. I have noticed that NoPuzzleStranger initiated changes to both articles. He is pushing a wording change to foreign name references indicating that Pilsen and Budweis are not current English name alternatives.

I have found several examples of current use of both Pilsen and Budweis in English language texts by the local population, including the municipal web site of the City of Pilsen. Obviously, both names are used by foreigners as well - for historical or practical reasons.

I disagree with his changes and have noticed at least one other user who feels the same way. I remember your name from discussions with Juro and would value your opinion. Jbetak 1 July 2005 19:01 (UTC)

Košice attack

Pavel, forgive my ignorance WRT to the mistake in my corrections to this article. I assumed that Slovak State had been a mistake. Thanks for the heads-up. Fernando Rizo 4 July 2005 04:07 (UTC)

Your vote on Talrias' RFA

Thanks for your vote on my RFA, it's good to have your support. 9 July 2005 13:03 (UTC)

Re: Everyone's vegetarian

Maybe Isaac Newton being a vegetarian is not relevant to you, but it is relavant to me. Since when does one person decide what is relevent for everybody else. The vegetarian category includes other philosophers as well. I was trying to improve the category by adding all notable/famous people that have followed vegetarianism during their lifetime. Nobody said the lives of the people in the category revolved around vegetarianism. As the category states, "The following is a category of notable people who followed vegetarianism as a conscious choice during their lifetime". He is definitely a notable person, so he belongs in the category. --Musicpvm 02:42, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

helps on snk and street fighter character pages

There's this user with an aol ip that unsorts the names for some reason. Is there anything we can do. Sorting takes a lot of time. --Dangerous-Boy

Deletion criteria

Please don't add {{delete}} templates to pages which do not meet the criteria for speedy deletion. "Taking up space on VfD" is not one of the criteria. Angela. 00:00, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Barðaströnd

Thanks for pointing out to me the VfD on Barðaströnd, I think I have managed to bring some cuteness to that article, even made a map for it. --Bjarki 13:21, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Origin of the name

That is exactly where I got it from. I play many real-world maps on the game StarCraft, and usually pick the Czech Republic as home nation. Eventually I went looking for a new username for the game, and decided on that. Over the past year, it's gradually become my username for most of my online accounts. --ArmadniGeneral 23:52, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Resistor

Re your objection to my revert here: [3], I do not work directly in resistor manufacturing - I am only a recent Electrical Engineering graduate, so if you feel I am incorrect, I won't mind if you revert it back yourself.

It just seems very counterintuitive to me for resistors to virtually be guaranteed to fall outside the designated tolerance, especially considering it has not been my experience in the countless resistance tests I have performed. I was also under the impression that tolerances were often a function of construction, with the possible exception of higher tolerances, but again, if I'm wrong, revert it back, this is a community encyclopedia after all. StuartH 10:11, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Who's RFA

Thank you for your vote of support on my RFA. ∞Who?¿? 19:38, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Emilia Plater

User:Tautvydas is (probably) a sock puppet of User:Zivinbudas created to make trouble see User contributions --Witkacy 06:39, 19 July 2005 (UTC) I'm trying to discuss, I wrote an arguments to the discussion page, I just don't get answers.

Thanks!

...for the invitation to join the Wikipedia community. I'll definitely think about it; if I do join you'll recognize me by my username: the initials of my username will be GMH.

Rail services VfDs

Hi there. I've added Waterloo via Weybridge railway service to the existing VfD for the sake of consistency and expediency. No bad-faith or anything: but there is no point in only testing one of the articles. You may or may not wish to change your vote. If you feel they should be separate please do feel free to split them up. -Splash 02:06, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Myanmar

There was no error, friend. The culture link WAS a redirect back to itself, though now I see that Sarcelles has created a stub - so no harm done!

Chochol

I'm pretty much sure that it's Chochol's design. I put the photo in this article. Slawojarek 15:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Ernst Tugendhat

I've added some information, tidied it up, and started on a bibliography. I should think that it's bound to be kept — the votes when I visited the VfD were all for 'keep'. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

you never fail to think that you are always right. when people correct informations you never fail to revert it back. e.g when the date has been changed to may you continue reverting it back ot march even though the updated date is MAY.you don't have what it takes to be a wikipedian. you don't have the accurate information to present to others and having you here is certainly a lose for wikipedia. do reflect on your actions

Comment/Question on {{verify}} on Tail Gator

I noticed that you added the {{verify}} template to the article Tail Gator. Not that I oppose it, but I'm not sure how to verify it; I played and completed the game, and that's how I got the information, so my only real 'source' would be the game itself. What would you recommend I do?

Sorry I sound like a newbie, because I kinda am one. (And please tell me if I should have posted this on the TG talk page.)

~GMH

editace "Prague"

ahoj Pavle,

jsem trochu zmatenej z tvych editaci stranky "Prague". Promazani listu se jmeny lidi, kteri jsou s Prahou spojeni je docela nestastny. Uz jen proto, ze ses dopustil ty nejhorsi subjektivity - a nechal na seznamu 6 jmen, ktery TOBE prijdou jako nejdulezitejsi (proc´s nechal Dvoraka a nikoliv Janacka nebo Smetanu? proc Hrabal a ne Seifert (nobelovka)). Z toho duvodu tam byl ten sirsi seznam (a rozhodne nebyl TAK dlouhej, aby to nekoho obtezovalo a stejne tak tam nebyl nikdo nevyznamnej). Nevim kde se tam vzala Veronica Varekova - ta tam opravdu nema co delat, ale jinak to byly peclive vybrany spicky z ruznych oboru. Ohledne "Prague-Venue" .....to MS comercial - to jako, ze to je reklama? nebo ze to je komercni akce? tam maji byt vyznamny akce -bez ohledu zda (ne)komercni a ta akce vyznamna byla.

User:67.160.204.34

Just wanted to let you know that User:67.160.204.34 hasn't made any vandalistic edits since I pointed out to him that he was listed on the Vandalism page. John Barleycorn 18:56, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Wallenstein

I won't press the issue but I think a good case could be made for Wallenstein as a mercenary. He fought not for ideological attachment to the Imperialist worldview (he was himself a Protestant and a Bohemian) but because he would be allowed to loot and sell his plunder for profit. There are those sources too who suggest that he was, before the end of his life, ready to defect to the Swedes for a better deal. --Briangotts (talk) 22:15, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

User:Soltak

Hi I noticed you placed the following on the user talk page for User:Soltak: "Please report only genuine vandalism and not your disputes over an article. The WP:VIP is overloaded enough to solve such isuues. Thanks. Pavel Vozenilek 17:11, 21 July 2005 (UTC)" However, this user has erased your warnings and previous warnings of mine, thus showing a disregard of warnings. Mel Etitis has stated that he has "calmed down," but please make sure that this true. Please see to it that he follows Wikipedia guidelines in the future. Dbraceyrules 23:43, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Never mind, the user has offered me an apology and his word to discontinue such warnings. Dbraceyrules 23:49, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Messages to IP-vandals

Great, I just logged in and got that message at User talk:213.7.94.112? Please don´t leave those messages on the discussion pages of IP-Users, because you seem to mean a vandal who used this IP-Number the last time and for a potential new good user it isn´t a great welcome, de:Benutzer:Achim Raschka 16:07, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

I'm not admin material

Dear Pavel,

Thanks for the vote of confidence but ... I don't think I would make a good admin. I lose my temper too easily, and I'm too prone to confront people rather than try to jolly them into proper behavior. When I measure myself against someone like Mustafaa, I come up wanting.

I have a mild case of Asperger's syndrome. I do better online, but human relations are not my strong point.

But thank you again for the compliment! Zora 14:22, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

SHOW REMOVING MY LINKS

My links are non commercial and non personal, stop removing it you idiot.

Editor laziness

It's interesting that in the two months since I posted that message you are the first one who has responded to it. I still think that it is an important issue for the Wikipedia and will add the point to the Criticism_of_Wikipedia article sooner or later. I have also been working off-line on a Wikipedia name-space article that I've tentitively titled "Don't make assumptions" that uses examples that I've found on the Wikipedia and elsewhere that clearly show the problems of editor laziness. The current sections in my article are:

• Don't make assumptions, verify
• Be wary, even of "official" sources
• Know the difference between primary and secondary sources
• Check existing Wikipedia data if you have any doubts
• A Google search might not help find what you are looking for

The important thing in the article that I'm working on is that I don't just talk about the problems but I include real examples. Unfortunately I haven't added to the article in awhile, so it's grown stagnant. I may have to move it online as a User subpage and ask others to contribute to it. BlankVerse ∅ 07:52, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Games

I am currently doing more research on games, but I am a very busy person and am limited in the time I can contribute to Wikipedia.

I will get to it eventually if you leave it there.

Conversation games GPS games Playground games Seduction Games

Kotik's diacritics

Hello,

I saw your edit adding accent to final "i" in "Petr Kotik" and was interested, as I've never seen this used in print, even in Kotik's own publications of any sort. As he is an expatriate I guess it was his decision not to use it, hence people here don't know this accent is proper for that name as you did. It's similar to Ernst Krenek, who did not like to write the hachek over the "r" in "Krenek." I believe the person's own spelling preference is most important when representing the name, so my suggestion is in the Kotik article to list him as "Kotik" (without accent), but add in parentheses an explanation that the name SHOULD be spelled with accent. I would be willing to call Kotik on the telephone to ask him his opinion about this if it were necessary. What do you think? Badagnani 00:42, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks--I will try to ask him about it (though he's a busy man!--his secretary always answers the phone). I'm glad to now know of the proper spelling of his surname. I agree that he should spell his name properly but you're right that a lot of emigrants change it to make it simpler. My Vietnamese music teacher changed his name from Phong to "Peter" and many Italian Americans with names that have "gn" like mine don't even pronounce their own names correctly. I don't know as much of Kotik's music as I would like, so my analysis of his musical style probably doesn't represent his work as well as it could. By the way, where are you, in Praha? My great-grandparents came from Prešov (though they called themselves Hungarian). Badagnani 17:00, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi again, To continue the saga of the Kotik-Diacritik (maybe more "ink" than it deserves), I've just been told by Kotik (via his secretary) that he doesn't use the accent. But they saw, on the wall in the office, a poster of Kotik's father and the name did have the accent. So it seems he was born with that accent as you guessed, but he doesn't like to use it now. So I can rewrite the text to reflect that. I saw your town's website (which you created). That's interesting. You should add yourself as "famous resident" of that town  ;-) I never saw a coat of arms that had a red brick wall on it before. Badagnani 19:14, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I already moved it before reading your message. No problem, I think the history will still be there. There's a redirect and I added explanatory text. It's funny, I was on the phone with the secretary when Kotik walked in and she asked him about the accent. It's as if he never got asked that before. He said, "Who wants to know?" as if it's some kind of secret. Then he quickly said "No, I don't use it" and moved on to more important things. But I checked the Czech version of his biography from the Czech Music Information Centre and it does have the accent ("Kotíka"). I was told that he's headed to Ostrava New Music Festival where he is a big name. Maybe you can see his concert. Badagnani 19:29, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi, Pavel. Jak se maš? I wanted to thank you for your support and for your words in my RfA. I will not let you down! Thanks again. Redux 01:52, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Holiday periods

I was watching your page because of the caption edit, I just wanted to note that Australian high schools have had a 2-week break between school terms (it's winter here), they went back to school this week on the 25th. - Diceman 17:30, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Vitous/Vitouš

I am surprised to know that "Vitous" should actually be "Vitouš." It seems that, like Kotik, he decided not to use the hachek but I wonder why, then, he didn't just spell it "Vitoush," which would be the sound of his name if pronounced correctly. So people probably mistakenly call him "Vitous" all the time, which would be a completely wrong pronunciation. In any case, I'd hesitate to move his whole page to the "correct" Czech spelling because (maybe I'm wrong) I've never seen it with hachek in any CD, LP or print material about him, so "Vitous" would probably be his preferred romanization. Of course I don't know him so I wouldn't know 100% without asking him. Badagnani 21:36, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

OK, now I understand by my friend Maša spelled her name "Masa" instead of "Masha," which she said she objected to doing even though it represented the accurate pronunciation in English. In both cases they prefer to keep the original letters and just explain to people via "word of mouth" how it's supposed to be pronounced. But every time someone new pronounces their name it will sound wrong the first time. Anyway, it's great that word processors (and Wikipedia) now has the ability to create such characters. Too bad each language came up with their own way to romanize non-Latin phonemes (Italian "sc," English "sh," German "sch," etc.). Badagnani 21:35, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Ladislav Kubik

Well, you don't say! I never knew this either. By the way, I am a former student of this guy, when I was an undergraduate at Florida State University. Oh, the website you sent me didn't have any diacritics. Badagnani 23:29, 29 July 2005 (UTC)