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[edit] Norwegian Socialist article

Thanks for fixing up that article. I see that I missed a few things when I published it. Gopher65_talk 23:28, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

No worries. That's what we do on a collaborative site. Cheers, --SVTCobra 23:56, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] arbcom

Thanks for the arbcom nom, I appreciate it :) Good Luck for your candidacy Brian | (Talk) | ^{New Zealand Portal} 23:52, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. Good luck. Cheers, --SVTCobra 23:56, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] re: Melbourne terror raids nab suspects

see my comments at the Talk:Melbourne terror raids nab suspects--RockerballAustralia (talk) 05:42, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Portals

You will actually be surprised to see that there are dozens of articles already published in Wikinews in relevance to these geographic locales, however the problem is that they cannot all be assorted into their categories as they are all archived. Ali Rana (talk) 01:55, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

If so, that is something that ought to be fixed. You can notify administrators by adding {{editprotected}} with an explanation on the collaboration page of the article. Cheers, --SVTCobra 01:59, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok - thanks for the tip :) Ali Rana (talk) 02:33, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] You got new reply

{{replied|Talk:Typhoon Morakot hits Taiwan resulting in several dead and injured despite preperations}} --98.154.26.247 (talk) (experienced editor at Wikipedia) 01:00, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced section

Re removal of Obama equated to Hitler as unsourced see my reply on the comment pageKTo288 (talk) 10:46, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

It was removed for being unattributed, not unsourced. Also, it did not form a sentence. --SVTCobra 12:35, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes not forming a sentence would be a problem. I think its pretty much unattributable, sorry for not understanding the difference, I could name a couple of the commentators who have made the comparison, but thats not really the important bit, what I wanted to get across was the grassroots reaction , I don't know how I would attribute the banners and placards equating the reforms with Nazism, the Obama pictures with Hitler moustaches etc, I could perhaps describe it, a second hand description of something seen on a TV screen, thats pretty much the impression we have of the story here in England but that could just tbe he news editors here pointing their cameras at the lunatic fringe. I guess its a story that could have done with more than a sentence or two. Anyway how is the story being reported on your side of the Atlantic?KTo288 (talk) 13:26, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

And I think you just pointed out another reason why it is inappropriate. It would violate WN:NPOV to just hightlight the fringe in a short. In a full article you can include the fringe, but a short doesn't have room for it. Cheers, --SVTCobra 00:34, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 2 letter templates

And those 2 letter templates will still be used. That's another reason why I created the redirects this way around. This way when you use {{Ar}} you're going directly to the language Arabic language template. The {{Arabic}} template redirects to Ar, but it is normally only used for categorizing purposes. Gopher65_talk 00:29, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

OK, cool. I guess I didn't understand what exactly you were doing. Cheers, --SVTCobra 00:34, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your note. Not to worry, I got in the habit of writing on my Wikipedia user page and stopped. By the way, thank you for your hard work straightening out the Baitullah Mehsud article. It was done at top speed when it looked like the Wikipedia ITN team would reject the story. I think the source template fields are random order but all are required. Anyway I was happy to go to sleep that night. -SusanLesch (talk) 03:08, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Does your country have a law about discrimination on the basis of sex or gender? I came from a meeting yesterday about passing a constitutional amendment in the United States. Which was a coincidence. I have it on my mind and it's about time the US passed it. -SusanLesch (talk) 14:20, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Being an American, yes, we have many such laws, though, as you know, no constitutional amendment. I am not sure that is the way to go, as it may have unforeseen consequences that I wouldn't like. Cheers, --SVTCobra 23:25, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, two come to mind: the military draft and alimony. Perhaps there are others. -SusanLesch (talk) 00:07, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] You'd think I would have thought of that stuff.

This I mean. Glad you did. Calebrw (talk) 08:16, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

No worries. --SVTCobra 23:26, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Just wanted to say thanks for participating in my RfA. I'll be sure to put the tools to good use. :) –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:57, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

You can thank me by doing more thorough reviews than the one on British Army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt stands down. --SVTCobra 20:14, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, I tend to pay more attention to the quality of the article itself, rather than the more trivial issues, but I'll be more careful in the future. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:30, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] WN:FAIR

Hi! I reverted your expansion of the Fair Use policy for now. Generally an established policy is not altered without a discussion, but in this case almost any use of a historic event image will end up not falling under Fair Use because most of those images were created by news agents. For example, the image of the second flag raising on Iwo Jima - despite being a US icon - is a copyrighted news image, and is still marketed as a news image. However, if you feel the expansion of the policy should be in place, please feel free to bring it up on the Water cooler and check it with WMF legal counsel. - Amgine | ^t 21:29, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

I have noted your comment and will look into it. --SVTCobra 01:09, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You!

Thank you for your help in developing my first article (the FIFA world cup draw.) I'm really glad you're on hand to fix my newbie mistakes (also, your page title is much better than the one I came up with.) Taggart.BBS (talk) 02:51, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Edit: Question regarding image use - wikipedia has an image (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2010_FIFA_World_Cup_logo.svg) which could be included, but I am unsure of whether the fair-use rationale can be carried over for use in this article. If it is allowed, it would make a nice addition to the article.

Yes, thanks for asking, we can use such images. But before you do that, I want to create an infobox which will serve as a sidebar to this and (what I hope will be many) future articles about the 2010 World Cup. --SVTCobra 03:05, 5 December 2009 (UTC)