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ITN for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874

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		For seeing a redlink, being bold, and starting the World Uyghur Congress article—a timely addition to the encyclopedia, and an article that thankfully is not full of the sensationalist and POV stuff that more prominent recent-news articles often are. rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 17:48, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, if you expand the article a little more (about 600 characters), it will be eligible for

Did you know... rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 17:48, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply

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I nominated the article for DYK World Uyghur Congress. Since you did most of the work writing it, please check the nom to make sure you're ok with the hooks proposed or have any other comments; thanks. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 16:50, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I've noticed that you have made some very timely contributions to the articles on recent coverage of the Urumqi riots. I just wanted you to check the current "background" section on the page to see if it is presented in a factual manner. Thanks! Colipon+(T) 19:26, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that in this edit you added Pakistan to the list; you may be interested in some of the Times of India sources in the relevant paragraph near the bottom of this version of the ETIM article (I have since rewritten that section and the sources are gone, but in the old version it mentioned stuff about Sino-Paki relations and accusations of "Uyghur terrorist training camps" in Pakistan). rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 00:42, 10 July 2009 (UTC)#[reply]

Actually, this is probably easier: "China asks Pakistan, other countries to unearth links with Urumqi violence" is the article that seems to have the stuff on Pakistan. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 00:47, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems as though none of us (who have been fighting over the prose-part of the July 2009 Ürümqi riots article) even noticed that you've basically build the International Response-part basically all by yourself. So... *smile* - *tapdance on table* - *cough* - "YAY!" Seb az86556 (talk) 17:05, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the World Uyghur Congress article is featured on the main page/DYK... better watch out for vandalism now Seb az86556 (talk) 16:08, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the entry. Do you think it is notable enough for ITN? If you do, you might want to nominate it at

hey, you just stumped me by spelling "focussing" with a double-s... but then I realiZed that I should have realiSed that we agreed to spell British. So if you find the time, could you go through the entire thing and check for spelling? (since you're the expert:P) THX Seb az86556 (talk) 14:31, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding to this article. Do you think we could get it onto

Actually, I just got bold and added it to ITN myself... now I guess I'll just sit back and wait to see if anyone objects. (and in the meantime I'll brace myself for tons of edits...although hopefully this doesn't become as big a project as

July 2009 Urumqi riots did!) rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 18:33, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply

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Regarding this edit: I think I also had the Kachin Independence Army listed in an earlier revision... but now that I look more closely at the source, it's not clear if he's saying they were actually involved in the fighting; this might just be saying that the KIA is somewhere in the area, not that they've participated in the fighting per se. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 18:17, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I think that's an underlying problem with the whole issue.... there is so little information out (and what is out is repeated by different people, at different times, sometimes inappropriately, creating a bit of a mess) and it's not clear who is involved or who has done what. The same problem is causing a mess with numbers... for example, for the number of refugees, 10 000, 30 000, and 37 000 have all been thrown around and (and still are being thrown around today, different numbers in different sources), and the numbers of people reported to be in each army don't match up anywhere. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 18:46, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for working on the sourcing here; however, this one: Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS4 is complete crap; what they said, based on what I said, was completely mangled. When I did the SPIE paper that you cite now, I hadn't yet found the 1932 use of Pix in Variety; but by my talk at the Computer History Museum I had that: video here. The Online Etymology Dictionary had it in 1932, but didn't give any useful reference, so I had to do a lot of looking at microfilm. Anyway, it's in my "handout" of slides, and in the talk, so that talk video might be a better source to cite. Dicklyon (talk) 04:54, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I got that wrong; the 1932 Variety is not in the talk. It's in my slides for the SPIE talk, but that's not published. But you could reference Variety directly: Tuesday, July 12, 1932, p.6, section "PICTURES" headline "HIPP REOPENS AUG. 12: 2D RUN PIX -- Hippodrome, New York, is scheduled to reopen as a straight film house for RKO, its pictures following the Palace, on Aug. 12. ..." If you'd like a copy, email me. Dicklyon (talk) 05:34, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think it's a good idea to include this? It is recent, but also it's from the same publication that apparently (according to the local officials) got the numbers wrong a week or so ago. If it were up to me, I would probably say leave it out until there are other sources independently corroborating it (not just repeating it). rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 18:59, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think Xinhua has the same issues (the XH article is probably, just like the CD one, coming from the central government somewhere far away); I would feel more comfortable waiting for something more independent to confirm this. After BBC and several others hurriedly picked up the first "200" story back in August and then got chided, I imagine they'll check their facts carefully now, so if we see BBC or one of those reporting on this and claiming those numbers are true, we could be a lot more confident in them. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 19:07, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thinking the article is probably ready now to get a nice copyedit and go in for

Would it be possible for you to update the article with the latest res? Thanks! Poliphile (talk) 20:26, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, that's the article I was referring to and I've made a minor correction. Cheers Poliphile (talk) 22:07, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

nice work

I nominated your CE addition at

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ITN for North Korean won

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Thanks for taking care of moving the article to the 19th Dec. section. I'm not really familiar with how

Yes, that section needs starting, let alone expanding! I'll try to have some reasonably accurate and NPoV information for you within the next 24 hours, unless anyone beats me to it! Best wishes for 2010, Physchim62 (talk) 19:37, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Midway, the July 2009 Ürümqi riots article is at FAC and someone has raised an accessibility concern about the use of flagicons in the "International reactions" section. Since you did most of the work creating that section, would you be interested in checking out Eubulides' comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/July 2009 Ürümqi riots/archive1? I would appreciate your advice. Thank you, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 23:01, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Midway, I just read one of your articles at newpage patrol, and was surprised to see that an editor who has been contributing articles since 2005 hadn't already been approved as an

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		For all your UN contributions Schrandit (talk) 04:17, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Midway, thanks for your work on the UN, especially the Resolutions. Your additions have really made things easier to navagate. I'll try to write a few more myself when I've got more time. Keep up the good work. - Schrandit (talk) 04:17, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to echo what Schrandit has said. I've been browsing through the UNSC Res list for sometime and have noticed that you've written a great many articles. Well done lad. Nirvana888 (talk) 00:06, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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		For single-handedly creating hundreds of UNSC Res articles of high calibre. Nirvana888 (talk) 01:50, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Left a note earlier but thought you deserved another formal Barnstar for the great work you're doing. Nirvana888 (talk) 01:50, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have to second this. The work you have put in is really amazing! David Straub (talk) 01:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Links to UNSC resolutions

Just a note that the links to the PDF copies of the UNSC resolutions you've been including don't work when a browser has not accessed the page before. What you need to do is include the web address that is used before the UN doc system redirects you to the address you end up at. So for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1091, instead of this you can include this and it should work for all users. It's just a kink in the UN Doc system—this is the only workaround that I have been able to find. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 03:42, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still having trouble getting the links to work even for the ones you have changed. (I note that the link I gave you above as an example won't even work for me now.) I'll try to investigate more and see if I can figure something out. Maybe don't bother going back and changing them until we can be sure we know what will work and what won't. (I heartily agree with the barnstar below, btw. You are doing very good work with these.) Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 23:19, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Yet another, but it's deserved! GregorB (talk) 18:32, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was founded in 1992 and renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003. Should stuff in Category:United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning Yugoslavia that involves FR Yugoslavia be placed in here if it is post-1997? Why is 1997 the cut-off date? Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 22:50, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply

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