User talk:Afasmit/Archive 1

Coordinates of Mountain Peaks

Hi, I was creating new pages for highest peaks of Pakistan and I saw this image you updloaded, can you please provdie the coordinates of these mountains? Please reply on my talk page, Thanks.Waqas.usman 15:57, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

All coordinates are on my List of highest mountains site, which I see you've already discovered. I've taken a break from mountain peaks for a while, but recently received a series of better maps for the Karakoram, so there may be some changes coming, including the order of the peaks, and therefore the numbers on the image (though most of the coordinates probably are quite accurate already).Afasmit 06:13, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh ok thanks, but I was looking for co-ordinates of several other peaks as well, peaks that are not in the list of highest mountains. What is your source? Waqas.usman 06:20, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

RfD

On 21-Mar, you tagged the redirect Thieme for deletion, but you did not list it at Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. I have added it to that page for discussion. You may wish to add a comment there if you still wish to see this redirect deleted. In the future, if you nominate a redirect for deletion, please list it. Thanks and let me know if you have any questions. -- JLaTondre 02:53, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Queyranne

Bravo for your cmt

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Good catch! The blank in one use, Rhône-Alpes, used what i assume is a non-breaking space character in the title, whereas the editor should have used the special character only in a pipe. Someone's following the lk to create the article resulted in the article having the invisible special character in its title. That could only be seen

• in the markup of the Rhône-Alpes article (an ampersand-nbsp-semicolon construction), and
• in the URL of the bio article (with its former title, now the title of a mysterious-looking rdr) (two hex bytes, introduced by percent signs, representing what i presume is a unicode encoding).

(I used the search lk on the "no such article" page to show me the bio; i can't recall the exact details of my investigation, but it included following a red herring of "an en- or em-dash would have this result" and eventually realizing that looking for % signs (in the URL whose apparently normal hyphen i was staring at!) would quickly settle the matter.
Thanks for not just scratching your head and walking away!
--Jerzy•t 16:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Reply Głowacki

Thank you for contacting me. I do not operate a bot, I patrol recent changes to Wikipedia with a program designed to revert vandalism and bad edits on sight. I reverted your edit by mistake, I now see that you were just trying to get the cat index right. I will restore your edit and I apologize for the misstep. Regards.--Húsönd 01:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Susumu Ōno

May I ask you to please justify or revert your change of Ōno to Ono in the Susumu Ōno article? Bendono 07:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

duFresne / DuFresne et al. spelling changes; diacritical removals

Just repeating here as a suggestion a comment I made to Guinnog. In the absence of any explanation at the time of the change, such changes will confuse and discourage those watching a favorite article trying to keep the facts - and spelling - correct.

"Sorry to raise a false alarm; this seemed (and still does) an ambitious undertaking for an anonymous user. I noticed the activity when the categories for Nicole duFresne got changed to DuFresne, not her real name. Then I saw the diacriticals removed from such names as Guillermo Gómez Rivera and others. I see now that these names do indeed display properly in the actual category listings. I'm a little surprised that instead of changing the category name-sorting mechanism, they are changing the data going into it and leaving (to those not in the know) apparently misspelled versions of the name behind in the source articles. --CliffC 14:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)" --CliffC 12:51, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Icelanders

I saw what you did with Bja names, and it appears to be what i see as the soundest approach, duplicate entries. I wrote to Tryggvia (about their unpiping an Icelander) basically sympathizing about the general issue but taking a hard line against alpha'g on Cat pages solely by first name; i'd welcome your thots.
--Jerzy•t 20:53, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Answer

I answered you on my talk page. Alan.ca 08:18, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Evert Collier

A question about the death information you listed for Evert Collier was asked on the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities‎ - specifically [1]. Can you provide any help? Hipocrite - «Talk» 16:25, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		for following up promptly and accurately to a really isoteric request for sourcesHipocrite - «Talk» 22:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Afasmit, I don't understand why this information, once you provided it in response to the above query — but only on Hipocrite's User talk page — was not added to the Discussion page on Evert Collier or incorporated into the article itself in a References section. The way things stand, the information you so diligently provided is not easily accessible, and I think it deserves to be. However, I won't take such action when two editors (yourself and Hipocrite) more knowledgeable than myself have yet to do so. Perhaps you might reconsider? -- Thanks, Deborahjay 09:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Done - Afasmit 21:25, 13 January 2007 (UTC)