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there was a mediation offer quite a while ago concerning the issue of Trentino-South Tyrol. I am happy to announce that the issue has been discussed, voted upon and settled. However the mediation offer still needs to be officially closed. Please take a minute to visit the page Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-10-20 Trentino-South Tyrol and put your signature at the bottom if you agree with the decision, thank you. sincerely Gryffindor 20:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• A very important note. This mediation offer concerned the greater overall naming convention to use in this region, not just the name of the region itself. We came up with a very good compromise for the regional name itself. I for one am still looking forward for Lar to help us out. Taalo 21:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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hello there PhJ, you once voted and showed interest on the topic of South Tyrol. Certain Italian users just can't seem to give the topic a rest and had the article moved with a sham vote to the Italian name. I am calling for that vote to be annulled or at least extended so that more can vote and the result be representative. Drop by the talk page or drop me a message if you would like to share your thoughts, I am interested in hearing from you. sincerely Gryffindor 04:26, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

supparluca emptied and redirected Category:South Tyrol despite consensus at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 28#Category:South Tyrol to leave it alone. Chris (talk) 05:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I would like to hear your opinion on a possible different disambiguation concerning the term South Tyrol. The naming dispute for the Province of Bolzano-Bozen has been exhausting and I think that the current compromise is fine, although I might have preferred a forward slash (Bolzano/Bozen) rather than a hyphen. Since the linguistic majority of the province is German (as Icsunonove correctly points out here), it might also be possible to invert the names (Province of Bozen/Bolzano). After all, this is the convention used for instance in the article Åboland, where the Swedish place name comes first, and the Finnish one after. However, the naming dispute has been so long and "acidic" that it seems useless and not constructive to flame it again.
What I find unsatisfactory is the redirection from South Tyrol to Province of Bolzano-Bozen. I propose something as follows:

South Tyrol (German: Südtirol) may refer to:

• the areas of the County of Tyrol (part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) south of the Alpine divide, including the Italian-speaking areas of Trentino, in past times also known as Welschtirol in German.
• the German-speaking part of the County of Tirol that was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1918.
• the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Bozen, a political subdivision of the Republic of Italy, which is also known as Alto Adige (lit. "Upper Adige") in Italian and Südtirol (lit. "South Tyrol") in German.

I think that this suggested disambiguation is informative, balanced and reasonably neutral. This version relates to the current articles Tyrol, History of Alto Adige/South Tyrol and Province of Bolzano-Bozen, so any reader can find the information that matches his/her interests. This version also seems quite language-balanced. I would really like to hear your opinion.
Best regards,FrancescoMazzucotelli 22:47, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My proposal is now on the talk page of Province of Bolzano-Bozen. You are welcome to add your comments there. Best regards, FrancescoMazzucotelli 19:20, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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--Zeitgespenst (talk) 18:51, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I was informed that you actively worked in the past on articles related to South Tyrol. You are invited to share your thoughts on a Wikiproject Tyrol. Regards Gun Powder Ma (talk) 22:59, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I got the image of that rare Polylepis tree here: File:Polylepis rugulosa (A. Yates).jpg licensed freely after I contacted the flickr owner. It has now been passed by Flickr review. See my edit here I moved your image of the Polylepis Australis a bit lower. I hope that is OK. This is not my stuff--ancient history is--but I thought I should try to get that tree licensed freely by Mr. Yates for Wikipedia. It looked important. Thankfully, he was kind enough to oblige as many flickr owners don't even bother to respond to flickrmail from strangers. With kind Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 01:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Of course it's OK. Mr. Yates's pricture is the best, as it shows Polylepis in its natural environment. Best regards, -- PhJ (talk) 09:55, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You PhJ. Unfortunately, there are very few or often no images for many plants on Commons. I usually focus on ancient art because they are not replacable. But after being here since 2005, I have done all I can for Egyptology on Commons. Here are a few images of ancient art I managed to place on Commons...if you are interested.

• File:18th dynasty pharaonic crown by John Campana.jpg
• File:Victory stela of Psamtik II at Kalabsha by John Campana.jpg
• File:Crown of Sit-Hathor Yunet (Senusret II's daughter).jpg
• File:Mask of Amenemope1.jpg
• File:Tutankhamun's bed (Cairo Museum).jpg
• File:Psusennes I mask by Rafaèle.jpg
• File:Sassanid silver plate by Nickmard Khoey.jpg
• File:City of Surrey Museum1.jpg

• They are indeed beautiful. The last image of the Museum is by me but the image resolution is not high. I am honest with people on flickr about Common's licensing policies for their images and I think people respect that. With kind Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 00:29, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there, you have nominated File:Historygerman2.png for speedy delete, but your reasoning is too complex and outside the knowlege of administrators. Instead you should list it at WP:FFD and explain your reason there, also ask others who know to participate in the discussion. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 11:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is this correct? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 02:38, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, principally the articles there are in Southern Quechua, but texts in other varieties have been accepted as well. Therefore I think it is better to keep the name "Quechua", not "Southern Quechua Wikipedia" -- PhJ (talk) 19:33, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

When an article is written in other Quechua languages, are those articles revised to conform to Southern Quechua?

We need some way to describe the scope of 'qu.wikipedia' so it doesn't include mutually unintelligible Quechua languages like incubator:Wp/qvs (with only one page incubator:Wp/qvs/Qiv'vorin vori). John Vandenberg ^(chat) 01:21, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The standard ist defined on qu:Wikipidiya:Allin qillqay: Southern Quechua is used. Articles are revised so they can be understood by Southern Quechua speakers. Only in articles on Ecuador and Colombia, Kichwa is also allowed. Spanish-based or 3-vowel writing is corrected in any case. -- PhJ (talk) 21:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just saw Gottscheerish; great article! Thanks for writing it :). Ironholds (talk) 03:59, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the user rights. :) -- PhJ (talk) 15:05, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Repaired: Ljubljana tram system. -- PhJ (talk) 15:36, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Did you draw these yourself? If so, I could have them moved to the Commons. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 08:05, 28 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

These are old versions of my pictures in regional Cusco orthography with some orthographic errors (unintended, of course). There are other versions of the same pictures with unified orthography of Southern Quechua, which are used for the anatomy articles at the Quechua Wikipedia, e.g. qu:Runap kurkun and qu:Runa saqru. Author of the images is qu:User:AlimanRuna, "{{own}}" (own drawing). Probably it would be best that I add the necessary tags (necessary for Commons) to the images at the Quechua Wikipedia, and then you can move them to Commons. "Sapaq:ManaLlamkachisqaRikcha" means "Special:UnusedFiles". -- PhJ (talk) 15:20, 28 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I knew you were fairly active and just wanted to see what should be done. I had a feeling it was UnusedFiles since the format looks the same as ours (and other wikis). User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 05:09, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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fixed. -- PhJ (talk) 18:46, 2 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Fixed. --PhJ (talk) 19:25, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello PhJ, I'm contacting you because we need some Quechuan translators to help with the deployment of the new VisualEditor on qu.wikipedia. It is important that we get the User Guide and the User Interface translated before VisualEditor is deployed to users (to translate the User Interface, you need to start an account at translatewiki.net). More information on the translating work is available MediaWiki: Translation Central. I also need help with a personal message about the rollout for the Quechuan Wikipedians. If you are able to help in any way, either reply here, or head over to TranslationCentral. Thanks for your time, PEarley (WMF) (talk) 19:56, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My time is limited, but I am going to help as much as I can. -- PhJ (talk) 18:24, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I see you've listed me and several other editors on your user page article called Azerbaijani state propaganda on Wikipedia and have accused me and others of being paid by the Azerbaijani government. Could you please provide evidence of me being paid by the government and if not, remove the accusation? — CuriousGolden (T·C) 20:25, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have not accused anyone but have written that some users are likely to be paid ... That is not the same. -- PhJ (talk) 20:29, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's still an accusation. Could you provide evidence that me or any other editor in that list is likely to be paid by the Azerbaijani government? — CuriousGolden (T·C) 20:32, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this is not a Wikipedia article but a user page, so the rules for articles do not apply. However, I can change the title of the section to "propagandists". You will have to live with that. You know what you are doing, and so do I. Good night, sleep well. -- PhJ (talk) 20:38, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have solid proof that we're working for Aliyev's cabinet? These accusations are not characteristic to Wikipedia's morality. I don't work for the government, hell, I've even been arrested by this government over election-related protests. But that's not the case. Your comment above makes clear that you don't care about such things. --► Sincerely: SolaVirum 20:47, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, in Germany, the AfD and the NPD are also opposition parties, but they are also called nationalist. So, also in this case, "nationalist" will do. You can call it a personal opinion. But it is the truth, and here on this page it will be written, for it is not an accusation, but a description. Good night. -- PhJ (talk) 21:00, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a classical liberal, and me having different views than you doesn't mean that I'm working for the government. But it is the truth, prove that it is the truth. --► Sincerely: SolaVirum 22:46, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Many thanks for your input in Kanach Zham article, PhJ. I wonder you have the skills of importing the satellite images from Google - both the current one and pre-demolition one, to the article? That would really complete the section on destruction. Thanks for considering. Best wishes, --Armatura (talk) 22:50, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Armatura, it's so nice to see you here on my user talk page. I use Google satellite images to locate buildings and landmarks, primarily for the German Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I have not imported such images to Wikipedia, and I presume they are copyrighted. On the other hand, they are excellent evidence for the current conditions of a building. I inserted this link some weeks ago, but Parishan removed it because he didn't like it. Obviously it is useful to have this page on one's watchlist. It would like it so much to help you with the import, but I am afraid it's not so easy. Good luck! -- PhJ (talk) 06:34, 19 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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