User talk:LibStar

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SI

Hi LibStar, The user in question is not actually "banned", the user is a "previously suspected" sockpuppet. You should probably change your submittal at Sockpuppet Investigations.Synchronism (talk) 07:11, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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This is a message to warn you that you've been reported to the Wikiquette alert board.--[|!*//MarshalN20\\*!|] (talk) 01:27, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Bilateral relations articles

Thanks for the comment on my talk page. I agree there needs to be a cleanup process for these articles and that will involve AfD. Those articles unable to demonstrate notability should be deleted. My concern is with the rather poor arguments made for deletion that have nothing to do with Wikipedia's actual deletion policy but merely reflect local biases and subjective opinion. Your arguments on my talk page are no more relevant than the ones made at AfD. That there are 40,000 combinations of bilateral relations is irrelevant. If they are notable, they should have articles; if not, they shouldn't. We don't delete articles on U.S. localities (let's say) just because there is a lot of them. Besides, 40,000 from 2,841,882 (to date) articles is not a lot. That the creator of the articles is currently blocked from editing is also irrelevant, provided that the articles were created before the editor was banned (not just blocked). Under WP:BAN it is acceptable to revert and remove content provided from banned editors after they were banned, not content created before a ban.

The whole process seems to be one of creating rather than combating Wikpedia's built-in systemic bias. WP:CSB explains systemic bias and works to eradicate it. I fear this current campaign against articles on bilateral relations will only reinforce Wiki's built in biases. -- Mattinbgn\^talk 03:39, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Tajikistan

Hi, just a note, I noticed you were working on deletion; in case one wants to work on something more interesting than deleting, Ministry of Health, Tajikistan is a very spare new article. The main page http://www.health.tj/en/ has information including a lot of MoH companies and agencies, one is not sure how to successfully configure this material. Tajik doesn't seem to have a lot of its ministries up and running, vis a vis websites, main government pages are at http://www.mid.tj/index.php?lang=english and http://www.tjus.org/Government.htm . Cheers. --Mr Accountable (talk) 03:12, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Length in country articles

Hi, you should apply the length tag to the following articles that are over 100 kilobytes in size: Dominican Republic, Israel, South Africa, Sweden, Belgium, Argentina, and Germany.

Selecciones de la Vida (talk) 09:04, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Foreign relations of Ethiopia template

Actually, both of the countries you removed from this template have very notable historical relations with Ethiopia. Under Haile Selassie, for example Belgium helped to train the Kebur Zabangna as well as other military assistance; this was part of Haile Selassie's strategy of reducing his dependence on the three European countries -- France, Italy & the UK -- which controlled neighboring territories. As for Austria, not only do they provide a significant share of foreign aid to Ethiopia, they also have a notable African Studies department at their major university. If you don't mind, I'd like to restore those two links. -- llywrch (talk) 15:57, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

NZ cats

I happened to have tagged the drug lord category for the process of tagging NZ categories - btw there are some about to try bots :) I personally would counsel against seeking empty or one entry categories without careful consideration of the category structures of wiki projects Satu Suro 15:10, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Glenn Rosewall

Either way, if you feel that there needs to be substanial changes with either of the articles, then you should bring it up on the respective discussion pages. Thank you LibStar.