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Afghanistan afghani

Before you make moves please learn from official government sites of afghanistan or cia factbook. afghanistani is never used in any official government sites of afghanistan and neither is it used in any other official government or official media reports. afghanistani is only used in some places by those who lack education and not in the mood to investigate.--Hurooz (talk) 14:16, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Tony Hawk's American Wasteland soudtrack.jpg

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Reading your comment on the Spam Whitelist page, instead of blindly reverting my edit without reading furthur into it, you could have alternatively messaged me about why I removed the link to begin with, instead trying to revert and then complain at a talk page and not let me know about it at all. — Save_Us_229 13:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pre-Meiji Period: Use of Japanese era name in identifying disastrous events

Would you consider making a contribution to an exchange of views at either of the following:

As you know, Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management came up with entirely reasonable guidelines for naming articles about earthquakes, fires, typhoons, etc. However, the <<year>><<place> <<event>> format leaves no opportunity for conventional nengō which have been used in Japan since the eighth century (701-1945) -- as in "the Great Fire of Meireki" (1657) or for "the Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji" (1707).

In a purely intellectual sense, I do look forward to discovering how this exchange of views will develop; but I also have an ulterior motive. I hope to learn something about how better to argue in favor of a non-standard exception to conventional, consensus-driven, and ordinarily helpful wiki-standards such as this one. In my view, there does need to be some modest variation in the conventional paradigms for historical terms which have evolved in non-Western cultures -- no less in Wikipedia than elsewhere. I'm persuaded that, at least in the context of Japanese history before the reign of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912), some non-standard variations seem essential; but I'm not sure how best to present my reasoning to those who don't already agree with me. I know these first steps are inevitably awkward; but there you have it.

The newly-created 1703 Genroku earthquake article pushed just the right buttons for me. Obviously, these are questions that I'd been pondering for some time; and this became a convenient opportunity to move forward in a process of building a new kind of evolving consensus. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 18:19, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Air Atlanta Icelandic logo.jpg)

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Section Layout

I've reverted your edits to my use of the {{details}} template in the Iowa and New Hampshire sections of Results of the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries. WP:LAYOUT#Body Sections indicates that the use of {{main}} or {{details}} is the proper style to use here. Wdfarmer (talk) 13:37, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your idea on moving the discussion; please do so. I'll leave it up to you to create an introduction to the discussion so that others can follow it. I also agree with your idea that, if the link to the larger article is in the section header and not in a {{details}}, that the full section title should be used as the link. I see that user:Psantora has tentatively taken my lead and added several {{details}} to Results of the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, while retaining the original links in the section headers. I think you and I would both agree that having identical links in both the section header and the {{details}} is unnecessary and confusing. The style guide seems to indicate that using {{details}} is the way to go, and I personally would go that way instead of using the section header; it makes an explicit indication that additional edits should go in the larger article. Wdfarmer (talk) 07:33, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thanks

Thanks for tweaking Template:2008Demprimaries‎. Cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 07:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your opinion is solicited

Please see for comment:Wikipedia talk:List of notable accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft/Guideline for inclusion criteria and format#Definition of Incident presently includes LOS and Runway incursion Thanks, LeadSongDog (talk) 19:27, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

comment invited

As an occasional past editor at Template:United States presidential election, 2008,
your comment is invited at Template talk:United States presidential election, 2008#Revisited: Proposal on minimum standards for listing on template
-- Yellowdesk (talk) 18:47, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removing (United States) from primary article titles

For uniformity, do you plan to rename the parent articles also? The current title situation is:

which is a rather inconsistent mess. I'd find it less confusing if "(United States)" was never used, "United States Democratic Party" replaced "Democratic Party" throughout, and "United States Republican Party" replaced "Republican Party (United States)" throughout. Wdfarmer (talk) 04:27, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Generation Punk cover.jpg)

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Template discussion

As an occasional editor to the discussion at Template:United States presidential election, 2008 your input would be appreciated at Template talk:United States presidential election, 2008#Proposal: A return to the old standards. Thank you.--S TX 04:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of List of divided nations

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