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Proposal for achieving infobox-template coherence of properties in Wikipedia(s) Discussion on promoting Wikipedia:Notability (news events) to guideline status Discussion regarding the "Wikipedia Forever" fundraising banner. Discussion on promoting Wikipedia:Notability (academic journals) to guideline status Discussion on the composition, term lengths, and method of selection of the Arbitration Committee, including a proposal to modify SecurePoll for said election. Discussion on defaulting no consensus to delete for biographies of living persons Discussion on several proposed administrator recall processes. Proposal to add userfication (admins)/incubation(everyone) to Twinkle, and deal with related issues on userfication. Discussion on how to move forward on paid editing guideline/policy in light of the recent RfC on the issue.

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Contents 1 Templates for deletion nomination of Template:South America box 2 Hello!!! 3 Chinese classifier 4 Caribou photo 5 Human rights in Chile 6 An award and request 7 POTD notification 8 Updates to Caddie_(CAD_system) 9 Proposed deletion of Wen Yunsong 10 Ecuador 11 Blu (artist) 12 Adalaj Stepwell

[edit] Templates for deletion nomination of Template:South America box

Template:South America box has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. ^blurred_peace ☮ 18:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!!!

I hope you are having a wonderful time. You are the true Himalayan Explorer eh? Wow I'd love to be in Leh right now! Make sure you photograph all the buildings and try to get inside that white palace eh? I'll check out your photos shortly, I'm sure they are exciting! Himalayan 08:40, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Wow nice pics! You were only in Alaska on the 23rd and now you are in northern India! Keep me posted where you are going anyway. Funnily I and User:John Hill improved the Leh article a few weeks back... Himalayan 09:05, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello, are you back now? I was only thinking about you earlier too! Did you enjoy India? Ive done a bit of work on Ladakh monasteries lately actually... Himalayan 17:31, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Nothing much on the translation front... Not a lot has happened really, although the AFD over the bunny freezer Miriam Sakewitz from Oregon was deleted after a a big argument....It somehow hit the main page as a DYK and swiftly resulted in being taken to AFD... Himalayan 18:51, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Can you add as many missing monasteries/gompas to Template:Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh as you know of. I have a suspicion that we are missing a high number from what actually exists. Himalayan 19:11, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry to hear about your illness. Mmm that does sound like a tropical disease or something and your doctor doesn't know what it is? Well you obviously had the injections before going to India to build up a resistance to common diseases.... Hope you feel better soon, keep me posted on how you are, feel free to email me as I will be worrying about you!! Himalayan 14:01, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Glad to hear. I had thought it might be something like typhoid actually... Himalayan 13:24, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Chinese classifier

Hi Calliopejen,

Since you commented on the last FAC, I'd like to inform you that Chinese classifier is at FAC again, located at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chinese classifier/archive2. Thanks, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 16:12, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Caribou photo

Thanks for the notification. Can you email me the photo? Address is my username through gmail. — BRIAN0918 • 2009-09-02 16:49Z

[edit] Human rights in Chile

I was just done stubbing Human rights in Argentina when I saw your article. I like it. However, how credible is it to copy paste our human rights articles from the US Gov pages knowing their own record? Maybe we can use their structure and their basic info and extend the model to all the different Human rights per country pages? What do you think? --- willuconquer —Preceding unsigned comment added by Willuconquer (talk • contribs) 00:26, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] An award and request

		The Ecuador Barnstar
		Awarded to Jen as a token of my appreciation for her important work on topics in Latin America, particularly Panama and most recently Ecuador. Thankyou for helping fill in gaps. Himalayan 16:35, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your hard work the last day or two on Ecuador. The fact that those articles were missing is really embarrassing but not in the least bit surprising... Thanks... May you celebrate by klistening to this wonderfully tacky 90s track "Ecuador". And to think I used to listen to dance/hardcore rave music as a teen! Oh I have a request. Is it possible you could upload these free images the ones of on Tibetan and Qinghai/Sichuan are awesome. If you see the second image on my talk page of the stunning lake, that is one of his. P.S. hope you are feeling better! Himalayan 16:34, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Cool, did you have any photos to upload of India afterwards? I was looking forward to seeing your pics. I saw a few on flickr but not the hundreds I had expected.. I've been doing a lot of work recently on northern Indian monasteries (and Ladakhi kings). I finally got around to creating the infbox for Buddhist monasteries, see e.g Likir Monastery John and I recently wrote. I also managed to make a locator map for Tibet see Lhasa, although someday we will get some decent dvgs for all the Chinese provinces maybe... I found a history book on google books which has a detailed history of Ladakh, chronicles and all that, it is a very good way to identify missing content I think related to Ladakh. Did you go to Zanskar by any chance? I'm in love with this region. Himalayan 16:51, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Yep, you should count yourself very lucky that the people were very hospitable!!! Better than them being nasty! In some places, the people can be less welcoming.... Himalayan 19:30, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] POTD notification

Hi Jen,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:The battle of Mazandaran.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 4, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-11-04. howcheng {chat} 01:21, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Updates to Caddie_(CAD_system)

Hello. I've made extensive changes to Caddie_(CAD_system), added some references, added a few facts, removed a bit of advertising :-) and removed factoids that I could not find references for. I also need your opinion on the features (see the article's Talk page). I used Caddie 4 when I studied civil engineering in 1992, but I'm not an engineer now, so I'm not the ideal person to write about Caddie's feature set. Thanks. -- leuce (talk) 08:02, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion of Wen Yunsong

The article Wen Yunsong has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence of notability, and having a famous relative isn't enough to make this person individual.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. GiantSnowman 18:24, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Ecuador

How is Ecuador? Where are you? Himalayan 17:16, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Cool, yes I can well imagine just how many museums we probably have nothing or little on. Yes I think Udaipur is one cool looking city, in fact it was one of my favourite locations in the whole Bond series. Shame they let the Monsoon Palace fall into ruin. Himalayan 16:13, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Blu (artist)

Why did you delete the page for BLU? He is quite important in the Italian street art scene. He has been recognized by the Tate Modern Gallery in London as an "internationally acclaimed artist... whose work is intricately linked to the urban environment"(http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetart/). He has had a book of his work published and been featured in the publication Streetsketchbook created by the graffiti photographer Tristan Manco (who has a wiki page on him). Three of the other artists who were exhibited along with Blu have their own wiki pages (Francisco Rodrigues da Silva - "Nunca", Os Gêmeos and Faile). This, I find, is a highly irritating and inconvenient omission. Please rectify this soon. Good sources for making a page on him include - http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetart/, his own website (especially it's blog section) - http://blublu.org/sito/blog/ and he was part of the Italian Fame Festival, so - http://www.famefestival.it/?page_id=6. Also - http://outsides.de/artist/Blu.html, www.jaunted.com/ tag/Public%20Art, http://www.blindangle.co.uk/blind_angle/artist_pages/blu/blu_worldwidetrap.html, keef.tv/blog/ archive/blu_moto/, http://berlin-pictures.blogspot.com/2009/04/mural-paintings-by-blu.html, http://30gms.com/tags/C55/P10/, http://www.justseeds.org/blog/general/, www.woostercollective.com/ best_of_2005/, http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/11/streets-blu-in-bogota/#more-41205, http://reupmag.com/graffiti/blus-muto-an-artistic-tour-de-force, http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/7668/blu-combo.html, http://JonathanLeVineGallery.com/?method=Artist.AllArtists, http://gallerydriver.com/?method=Art.ArtDetail&ArtistID=1B700BFA-19DB-5802-E06F3CA74991BD82&GalleryID=82C33C59-3048-28EB-92DB386C8C733405&ArtID=8D70D120-19DB-5802-E0604978E1860A3E 124.168.234.126 (talk) 00:08, 22 November 2009 (UTC) An anonymous member of the public

[edit] Adalaj Stepwell

Hi! Calliopejen,

You are most welcome to add and edit the artcile. Thanks for adding the photo category of wikicommons.--Nvvchar (talk) 02:07, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi!Calliopejen,

I have posted the above article on the main space. You are welcome to nominate it on DYK with a suitable hook after any copy edit as required. Add the infobox imgae to the DYK Hook. --Nvvchar (talk) 01:22, 25 November 2009 (UTC)