User talk:G from B

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. Cheers! --maveric149

RE your comment on my talk page: You're welcome and don't worry. We all have made mistakes in the past and will all continue to make mistakes in the future-- such is being human. I made plenty in my early days in wikiland and still make mistakes now -- even big ones once in a while. If and when you make mistakes others will fix them if you don't first. Such is the wikiway. Just keep on having good intentions and check out our policies and guidelines especialy naming conventions and neutral point of view and don't forget to have fun! --maveric149

Dear Guy: re your entries on days that never existed in the calendar changeover -- I thought that different countries changed over in different years. Could you specify the countries referred to? Thanks! The Anome

That's how it works on Wikipedia. We learn new stuff all the time. Welcome to the club. -- Derek Ross

So it does. Guy -- I forgot to say: Welcome to Wikipedia! The Anome

Als je eens twee minuten tijd hebt dan zouden we je op WikiNL ook graag verwelkomen. Er is nog heeel veel werk en we zijn met bitter weinig. User:giskart

A great contact for WikiProject protected areas would be User:ClaudeMuncey who has contributed a framework for National Parks. I just can't find where it is right now. --mav

I found it: Talk:National park --mav

Why did you redirect National parks (Australia) to Protected areas of Australia? I thought National Parks were called just that in Australia. I'm not opposed to the name change per se, but this type of name change needs to be discussed before being done unilaterally. I suggest Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions. Your title, or something similar, may just bring order to the chaos of naming these type of index pages (since this would be a more inclusive and consistant name) -- might even become a naming convention. --mav 15:24 Aug 8, 2002 (PDT)

First I want to apologise for the redirect without discussing it first. The reasons for it were:

To create a test article for the WikiProject Protected Areas. Since the basic information already existed on the page National parks of Australia (which was already a redirect from National parks (Australia) I took that information, put it on the page Protected areas of Australia and redirected the two national park pages. I admit that it probably would have been better to create the new page without the redirects...
An area called a national park obviously is just that, though the meaning of it can vary in different countries. However, on the said page there were only 6 national parks out of a total of 37 protected areas (14 of which -the Historic Shipwrecks- I included more than two months ago). While doing the redirect I included 8 more protected areas. That makes 6 national parks out of a total of 45. IMO it's not a very good idea to call a page something that covers only 13 percent of its contents.
I used the name "protected area" because, as you said, it is more inclusive and it can be used for any existing (and possibly future) type of protected area. Moreover, it is the term used by The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and other national and international organisations. For more information, see this link. Even if a particular country only has one protected area type, I am for using "protected area" as a general page title. The precise names can then be used on the page itself.

As you suggested I will put your question and my answer on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (protected areas). I'll wait for a consensus before doing any more changes. -- Guy 04:42 Aug 9, 2002 (PDT)

re: the table. You're welcome! Glad I could help. --Bth

Goede Morgen, Guy! Thanks for telling me about the Protected Areas page(s). I'm just doing something similar, writing pages about SSSIs, SACs, etc. Your page(s) would have to be part of the "conservation portal". I'm glad someone else apart from me is interested in these things and attaches some importance to them! By the way, I live in the Peak District National Park :-)) User:Renata

Hi Guy, have a look at Protected area! User:Renata

Hi again, I've replied to your latest comments on my Talk page. User:Renata

Good evening, Guy! When you have time, would you like to have a look at WikiProject Conservation worldwide and in Countries A-Z click on United Kingdom/Conservation? There are things you could add to Australia/Conservation, I'm sure. Thanks! User:Renata October 13, 2002

Hello Guy, have a look at Biosphere Reserves in Australia. Do you fancy working on it? User:Renata

Why not - it looks interesting. I'll see what info I can come up with. I don't know when that will be, though. The coming week I have quite a few things scheduled (other than Wikipedia, that is...) Guy 09:25 Oct 21, 2002 (UTC)

Dutch Wikipedia symposium in Rotterdam (27/11/2004)[edit]

Hi,

As a personal initiative I want to mention to you http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Symposium/Najaar_2004

There have been some voices that Dutch-speaking Belgian wikipedians might be underrepresented at that venue, so I took the liberty to post this message on the talk page of all people I found on Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Belgium.

If this doesn't apply to you (e.g. while French-speaking, or not interested in Dutch wikipedia,...) simply ignore this message.

--Francis Schonken 09:25, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

World Heritage template[edit]

Hi! I created a template for World Heritage Sites: {{Infobox World Heritage Site}}. Since many of the protected areas are also recognized as World Heritage Sites, I thought that it will be appropriate to forward this template here, and hopefully, for the community to help improve the template. Someone mentioned that the footnotes are unclear (i.e. why the need to emphasize "official" there). It's because the official name (or the name as inscribed on the List) is different from what we usually know. And the Region also has footnote to tackle specifically the classification of those regions which may fall ambiguously between two continents (e.g. those in Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, etc.). In addition, I think that the info provided in the template is much like a jargon for most readers since it box is more of use for internal references in the World Heritage program. I hope that the community will help improve the template and make it more relevant to the readers of wikipedia in general. Thanks. Joey80 13:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Mount Colosseum National Park[edit]

I have nominated Mount Colosseum National Park, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mount Colosseum National Park. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Bananaqueen (talk) 00:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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