User talk:Maracana

Welcome[edit]

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Flags[edit]

Please stop unnecessarily adding flagicons to infoboxes. It's considered overuse. Thank you. - Dudesleeper · Talk 12:18, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have added a flag to Cesc Fàbregas claiming consensus. Would you please show where? As you can see in Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Archive_12#Flags_in_infoboxes and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Players it is quite the opposite. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 23:56, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is no consensus on addition of flags to boxes. Please stop reverting others edits or you will be blocked under WP:3RR. Qwghlm (talk) 00:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As you can see on the talk page of Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Football/Players there is a "one flag only" subcategory in which it is discussed. It is common sense that pictures - and thereby flags - are more memorable than text for a lot of people. Therefore, a single flag next to the birthplace is acceptable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Maracana (talk • contribs) 00:03, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are taking things out of context. You are quoting a comment/question I made in July 2007 where I was shown I was in error and flags do not belong in infoboxes for places of birth/death and nationality. Also you cannot call one question and answer "consensus". See Wikipedia:FLAGS#Not_for_use_in_locations_of_birth_and_death. -- Alexf^{(Talk/Contribs)} 01:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:FLAGS It specifically states that flags for place of birth are not acceptable. It also states may other reasons why flags are not acceptable in infoboxes.++Arx Fortis (talk) 21:30, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't say anything about Benjani....I made my comment under this topic. I removed a flag from an article here. You added it back here, so I removed it again per WP:FLAGS. ++Arx Fortis (talk) 15:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Benjani[edit]

Rhodesia did not exist in 1978, as such Benjani cannot have been born there. Pbradbury (talk) 22:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My appologies you are correct Pbradbury (talk) 22:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USSR[edit]

Hey, buddy, you need to stop change stuff around to USSR. I understand that there are people who love USSR, but that was country without nationality. All of the republics in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics were a unique political entity, at least officially. Therefore stop changing things around especially when did not start the page. best regards Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 04:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm quoting following specifically for you. Initially established as a union of four Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR grew to contain 15 constituent or "union republics" by 1956: Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Byelorussian SSR, Estonian SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, Moldavian SSR, Russian SFSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Uzbek SSR. (From annexation of the Estonian SSR on August 6, 1940 up to the reorganisation of the Karelo-Finnish SSR into the Karelian ASSR on July 16, 1956, the count of "union republics" was 16.) Please, refer to this link for more information. best regards Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 04:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, please stop edit warring. There are valid reasons to keep the countries of birth to the USSR, there are reasons to keep them as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc. There is no valid reasons to have an edit war here. Please start a discussion on a talking page somewhere and advertise it so everybody could participate. Or just drop the edit war and do something non-controversial instead. If you will continue the mass changes without reaching some sort of consensus first I will block you. I will revert all the changes of the birthcountries to the stable versions Alex Bakharev (talk) 05:38, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it appears you're working against consensus. I think I've previously backed you up on the issue, but if the majority are working the other way, it will only be looked upon as vandalism. - 13:13, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

If you read the centralized discussion you would see, that I am not the one working against consensus. There have now been two polls, both with the outcome of adding the consistuent state, e.g. Soviet Union. To say that I am off consensus is directly wrong, I am actually trying to defend it against the persons who don't respect it. User:Maracana

The Baltic states were never legally part of the USSR. I have no issue noting the territories were SSRs, as in "Estonia (SSR") versus "Estonia" for places of birth, but please stop vandalizing articles with your POV demanding respect (per your own words above which prove you are only out to push a POV and not contribute) for a despotic and dead regime which invaded the Baltics and murdered and deported their inhabitants long before Hitler arrived. Thank you. —PētersV (talk) 14:09, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

March 2008[edit]

Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Oleh Husyev. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. See above for more information. STYROFOAM1994^talk Review me! 12:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Olof Ask[edit]

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Spelling[edit]

Thanks for all your work. Please check your spelling before you post your edits. I noticed you have spelt the word "appearance" incorrectly several times. You can help! Clerks. (talk) 14:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you are still spelling "appearance" wrong. You are spelling it like this "appearEnce". Clerks. (talk) 19:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, sorry. I'll try to be more careful in the future. User:Maracana

3 revert rule[edit]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution.

Last Warning[edit]

Marakana, edit warring on a large number of articles around such a trivial matter as infoboxes is not acceptable. Please do not continue to change infoboxes unless you have a clear consensus on a particular article talk. If you continue I will block you for disruption. See WP:DE for details Alex Bakharev (talk) 04:48, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with the above. Maracana is inserting factual material. The idiots who keep removing it should be dealt with though. пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 09:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. As I work mainly in the Israel-related sphere I see more than enough fact-deniers around and I have no qualms about dealing with them harshly. пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 12:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, enough is enough, you're up to 6 reverts during last 24 h and 33 min on Jaak Aaviksoo, please self-revert your last edit immediately and stop that kind of behavior. Maybe you're right, but you know, WP:3RR is here for reason, you have to work with others, edit-warring is not an option. Ptrt (talk) 18:17, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

July 2008[edit]

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Jorge Cadete edit war[edit]

Hi there. The edit war at Jorge Cadete is getting a bit daft now. I've started a discussion on the talk page to try and come to a solution. Could we please try come to a solution so we can move forward. Peanut4 (talk) 21:22, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

François Lemarchand[edit]

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Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

Hello Maracana! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 12 of the articles that you created are Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 938 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

BLP Articles that you Created[edit]

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Live scores[edit]

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Kim Jong-il[edit]

Look at Military brat to define. Jong-il's daddy may have been military at some point in time, but Jong-il himself was not the child of an active duty military person. Nor is the term used in Korea to describe people like him. ~~Funny, yes, but WP is not an appropriate place for such humor.~~ Still, thanks for the note.--S. Rich (talk) 01:24, 8 February 2011 (UTC)03:56, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I retract my comment about being funny. You are quite right about the military brat material being US centric, but most if not all of the RS on the subject will be American or western. Still, the military brat article gives a parameter or description of the term as being used in particular cultures. I rather doubt that PRK has a distinctive military brat subculture similar to that defined in the article. Indeed, as they maintain quite a large military, everyone in the country would fall into this ill-defined military brat subculture. In Kim Jong-il's case, he and his dad lived on the military base where Kim Il-sung was the commander until Jong-il was 3 or 4. Does he consider himself a "military brat"? Perhaps, but no RS says so. Back on the military brat articles themselves, perhaps the definition of military brat should be narrowed to those children or adults who consider themselves as military brats. This would give the articles and definition more precision, which is lacking.--S. Rich (talk) 03:56, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've copy/cut & pasted our comments onto the KJI talkpage. See [1]. Let's make this a public discussion. Thanks and best regards.--S. Rich (talk) 17:51, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fine. I have also posted the same on the discussion page of Miltary brats as it IMO is in this category's inclusion criteria the problem/solution lies. The category is close to not notable, but since it is there it should include all people who during childhood had their life influented by parent's military career. Not only Americans. Maracana (talk) 18:47, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Kenneth Peters[edit]

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