User talk:Rikker04

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As I am writing mostly about Thai topics I really enjoy your additions to these articles, especially all those things which cannot be found in English yet, like the histories of the Khet/Amphoe. When I try to write such an article it so difficult to research with my nearly nonexistent knowledge of Thai. Some useful links for these may be Portal:Thailand, Wikipedia:Thailand-related topics notice board, Wikipedia:WikiProject Thai districts and List of Thailand-related topics. andy 11:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, andy. I've been a lurker for a while now, and I'm finally getting involved. It's hard to adapt without errors to the style and conventions which you and others have already developed for all the Thai pages, so be bold in editing my articles. I'm trying to be bold in creating them. I'm a decent copycat, so I made a navigation box for Amphoe of Yasothon, and I'm trying my best to keep the style consistent. Let me know any bad habits I have so I can curb them early. I'm very open to guidance and assistance. I also have contributed a bit on the Thai Wikipedia, mostly with interlinking and whatnot, as I don't trust myself to write actual content in the language. Thanks for the welcome! rikker04 14:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Those Amphoe article you created are already very good. The only thing I would change after the quick look is the sorting in the category - you'd have to do something like [[Category:Amphoe Khlang|Khlang]], as otherwise all is sorted by the letter A. For the photos of the district offices I would prefer them to be our own photos (there are a few at Commons) and avoiding to use anything copyrighted. For the tambon table I usually also include the number of villages and the population (see e.g. Amphoe Mueang Surat Thani), but when I don't have enough time I also do the plain table like you did. BTW: Feel free to suggest changes to the style of these articles in the Wikiproject - the style is not fixed, it's just what was so far the consensus of the few Wikipedians active in the project. andy 11:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I once lived in Mueang Yasothon for several months, so I figured I'd jump in there. Thanks for the tip on category sorting--I couldn't figure out how to get it to do that.

As for district office pictures, you're right. Now, I'm sure you know better than I do: are government works copyrightable in Thailand? In the U.S. they're automatically public domain, so I ask. But looking around at some of the images of official seals and things, it seems like they must be copyrightable. Anyhow, I won't be in Yasothon anytime soon, so we can always get rid of those pictures if they're inessential. I'm pretty sure I don't have any of my own, but maybe I do for other parts of Yasothon.

With population tables, I've copied your style on a couple of the Amphoe. See Sai Mun, for example. Although I did change Nr. to No., because No. is the standard abbreviation for "Number" in English, assuming that's what Nr. is supposed to stand for. Is that something I should mention on the project? I haven't studied the style too closely, but I should, before I get even further off. I think Sai Mun has the most info of any of them, even though I'd like to turn the economy section into real content, not just lists.

Finally, do you think the list of Nai Amphoe should still go on the main page when it's quite long, as with the older Amphoe like Mueang Yasothon itself, which has a history as an Amphoe back before Yasothon became a province? If so, I'll put that info up. Oddly, this morning I'm getting a broken link to the Amphoe Mueang page on yasothon.go.th. sure hope that comes back up! rikker04 13:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Any photos you have which would fit into an article - even if it not yet written - can be uploaded to commons. Of course the district offices aren't the most popular things to take photos, especially as they usually look quite similar to each other. I did a few for fun last time in Thailand, hoping others may help to fill it. For the Nr. vs No. - seems like the Nr. used in German did slip into my template. I will at least use the correct one from now, the existing ones can be changed with time as well. Right now I am quite busy to fill the short Amphoe articles of User:Oatz into a bit more complete ones. Which sections a "complete" Amphoe article should have isn't fixed yet, so far I rarely found enough info to do much more than a short geography and history section, and the tabular things like the tambon list. The outline in the project is more like a suggestion, it's not a fixed one which needs to be followed in every case. For the Nai Amphoe I rarely found these lists before (the govenors of the provinces are also only rarely listed anywhere online, seem like the Yasothon website is one of the better ones), for those in Surat Thani (my focus province) I found some lists, but most apparently not up-to-date, so I haven't yet added them. We can do similar like I did for the province infobox - list the current Nai Amphoe with an optional field infobox, and if present link to articles like List of district officers of Sai Mun (like the List of governors of Surat Thani). As the Nai Amphoe are reshuffled similar often like the province governors the lists will get long quite fast anyway. andy 20:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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Template:HW

Another editor attempted to nominate Template:HW for speedy deletion on the grounds that you had blanked it or requested deletion. While the template itself does not display anything, I couldn't confirm whether you had requested deletion. Also, I do not know what the template is intended to do. Can you confirm whether you want to keep this template, and, if so, what it is supposed to do? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:23, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm creating the Thai highway infobox in English wikipedia, which is a modification of the German railroad line infobox. Work in progress. --rikker (talk) 04:38, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Just wondering: why not use an existing highway infobox from Category:Highway infobox templates as the basis for the Thai highway infobox, rather than a railroad infobox template? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:26, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

It's a visual route infobox. The Thai one is customized based on the German railroad version, and there's nothing like it that I can find in English or anywhere else. Here's an example: th:แม่แบบ:ถนนพหลโยธิน. Existing ones are textual, like this: Template:Thailand motorway routebox. --rikker (talk) 07:53, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I saw a glimpse of your work on {{Sukhumvit Road}} and {{HW}}. I love the way it's heading. Why are you saying the HW template is specific for Thailand? It looks rather generally applicable. It will need some documentation however to be used by others. Keep up the work. −Woodstone (talk) 20:35, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm sure it will be generally applicable, and I'll generalize the descriptions when I can. I've already started to do so with the icons. I moved them to Commons and put them in commons:Category:Icons for highway descriptions. The icons were customized for Thai Wikipedia by a user there, so that's my starting point. I'll get on the documentation right away. I appreciate the feedback! --rikker (talk) 00:06, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Thai highway network

The Thai highway network is looking much better with your added explanation of its numbering system. Would you mind tweaking it a bit, to say routes 1, 2, 3 and 4 link Bangkok to the hinterlands? And that the ##, ### and #### scheme is a principle that sometimes falls to the wayside in practice?

You may have noticed from the images I've recently posted that I now live in Ampur Meuang Yasothon (Tambon Tadthong) AND that I'm not a very good photographer. I noticed that you said you lived here once (and your user page says you're still in the time zone), but that you can't take pictures you'd like to have at present. I can do that for you, if you'll leave a note of what you want on my talk page.

I live by Hwy 202, and it has a peculiarity. At the Technic Intersection with 23, continuing straight ahead puts you on 23-bypass. That leads to the Don Ma Yang Intersection with 202 again, about 2 km from where it resumed at the Yasothon Hospital Intersection with 23-main. The U.S. custom would be to have put both route markers together (there's one street in Chattanooga where North, South, East and West-bound highways all proceed together in one direction!) And, minor roads share sign space with the majors. Obviously, Thailand only wants one route number per section.

As for Named Intersections, that seems to be a common practice these days all over Thailand (at least the parts I'v been to) but only in Yasothon have I seen them with GPS coordinates.

You will have noticed that I added the section on milestones, but I have yet to meet a Thai who can read one (or an American who could read a mile post in that country.) Pawyilee (talk) 18:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I'll try to make the changes you suggested, but feel free to tweak the phrasing yourself. I'm just going from the info on the DOH website--I don't really know a lot of exceptions to the regional numbering scheme in real life.

One thing, though--on the DOH website there's a page where you can type in a highway number for details about that highway. It breaks it down into quite small sections, with very precise lengths (three decimal places!) for each section, but they don't give a sum length. For the length of the highways, I've just been adding up all of the lengths. It occurred to me, though, that this includes bypass highways. In summing the total length of a highway, should the bypass and the city route both be included? Just a thought. --rikker (talk) 03:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Amphoe Kut Chum

Amphoe Kut Chum is a hotbed of organic farming, and has foreigners traipsing there from as far away as Canada. I don't know how to add that without OR, and I'm not trained in research any way. I did add the Boon Kut Chum. Pawyilee (talk) 18:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I've only passed through Kut Chum, and it's been five years since I've been to Yasothon anyway, so I don't know anything about the organic farming there. Have you seen any articles online or other references to it? --rikker (talk) 03:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Amphoe Kut Chum ref. 3 is a HUGE file of hundreds if not 1000s of citations, so huge that it choked up my poor little laptop -- I had to ctrl+alt+del outta there and start over. If yours can handle it, Ctrl+f

organic foods; specifically, organic farming of rice and chemical-free rice cultivation

then copy and paste that as a ref, instead. In the immediate vicinity, you'll find citations for Bia Gut Chum, and for Yasothon General Hospital. Go ogle up "organic thailand" and score 3.8M hits; +organic +kut +chum scores 1K. I also have on my 'puter as .txt an October 22, 1997 Bangkok Post Outlook article, RURAL DEVELOPMENT "Old wives' tales" byline Sanitsuda Ekachai, that doesn't mention Kut Chum, either, but tags women as the driving force, as does a technical report from Laos. This "Asok" movement organic farm is just east of me on 202, but I only know that Santi Asoke offers shelter to women, and don't know if it listens to them. If you've been five years away from Yasothon, be advised the province has not been standing still. Pawyilee (talk) 09:49, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Thetsagan Sart

This is the only article I've started, mainly because I added the section Public_holidays in Thailand#Other national observances and Thetsagan Sart didn't have an article.

Sart Chin has grown from its Phuket vegetarian Festival roots to be quite a big deal among the Thai Chinese, with ghosts from the Mid Autumn Festival and the Nine Emperor Gods Festival in attendance: Thetsagan Sart Chin Kin Che lasts nine days to honor said gods!

Sart Thai seems to have toned down to purely local observances at the nearest wat, except in Phetchabun Province with its Um Phra Dam Nam, when the governor, himself, bears the image under water. But the article I started really sucks, and even its trademark picture comes from the US! I just can't get as good a one, myself, and now it's too late in the season (if seasons mean anything anymore. Pawyilee (talk) 18:00, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

PS: Thetsagan Sart is also languishing in my User:Pawyilee/Sandbox. Pawyilee (talk) 18:06, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't know anything about this festival, really, but I'll look around and see what I can add. --rikker (talk) 03:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Thai 101

Titles in Thailand

File:MaePhloyBrandChiliSauce.jpg

Don't know how to post to your blog so will leave comment here:

Mae Ploy (แม่พลอย) is the lead character in M.R. Kukrit Pramoj's novel, Si Phaendin (สี่แผ่นดิน). Her brother is similarly called Paw (พ่อ). M.R. Kukrit began the novel has a continuing series of short stories in his newspaper, Thai Rath (ไทยรัฐ) specifically to preserve a record of vanishing customs -- such as addressing little children as Paw-Mae. นำพริก ตราแม่พลอย seems to have been named after her (if you can see it before it's deleted.)

(สี่แผ่นดิน ม.ร.ว.คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช ISBN 9749906209; translated into English as Four Reigns by Tulachandra (ISBN 9747100665.) Pawyilee (talk) 16:57, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. I have that book (in both Thai and English), but haven't read it yet. Sitting neglected in a box in the U.S. at the moment, sadly. That's an interesting connection with the chili sauce. Just goes to show how much allusion there is to literature/culture that goes over our heads (just as there is in English). พ่อ/แม่ used with children is really a term of address, though, rather than a title. Calling kids พ่อหนู and แม่หนู is a vestige of this practice you'll still run into. --rikker (talk) 03:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I'll watch for "Terms of address" on my RSS feed from Thai 101! Pawyilee (talk) 09:56, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Foreign stuff

Farang stuff is a good article, and you could add one just as good on foreign stuff associated with เทศ Thet. Etymology for Thet as a single word, or Thetsa- if compounded, is in my sandbox, where I've played with Thetsagan Sart; down below, I've just added that for -บาล. That เทศบาล originated as a powerful foreign concept shouldn't be surprising, give that municipality is not exact English. Arguably the funniest compound comes from นกกระจอก sparrow: นกกระจอกเทศ is officially an ostrich and, by extension, also an emu! Pawyilee (talk) 08:20, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

We think alike, I see, because I have a "sequel" article about เทศ half-written at the moment. Things have stalled on the blog for a few weeks, unfortunately. I'll try to kick things back into gear. Thanks for reading! --rikker (talk) 08:28, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Thesaban

Can you help here - is it thesaban or thetsaban? andy (talk) 23:27, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Excuse me for butting in: it's Thetsaban. See the entry [I'm going to add], above, for etymology of Thetsa-; -ban is from bála, page 517 entry 9161.

No problem with the butting in, of course. But bála corresponds to Thai พล /phon/ and พละ /phala/ "strength", not บาล /baan/ "protect" (see pālá. I see that's you, Pawyilee (checked the history), but let's continue this conversation on andy's talk page --rikker (talk) 07:55, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I call myself Pawyilee, not just because my middle name is Lee, is easier to pronounce than first name Richard, and is shorter when transcribed into Thai than is the initial, L., but also to honor the Isan village chief who was quite sure that สุกร are หมาน่อย ธรรมดา Pawyilee (talk) 08:33, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Since we seem to agree the correct romanisation according to RTGS is thetsaban, why is the article not yet given that name? −woodstone (talk) 15:12, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I didn't think we'd agreed -- I think it's best to keep thesaban, as I wrote on Andy's talk page, for reasons of etymological transparency/consistency with thesaphiban, and because it's closer to how the word is actually pronounced. Plus, it's a well-established spelling, with more web hits than Thetsaban. --rikker (talk) 15:42, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Gidday Rikker...

...and very pleased to meet you. It's always nice (and a little reassuring) to meet a fellow niche editor. Any chance we could get you to add the user box {{User WP Cambodia}} to your user page as well the Thai wikiproject box? It's only a small step over the border and It would be great to have your enthusiasm in Wikiproject Cambodia - I don't know what else to say to tempt you except, "C'mon over, our script is even older" ;) Cheers, Paxse (talk) 14:23, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I enjoyed your blog, by the way - language IS fascinating. Paxse (talk) 14:26, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, pleased to meet you, too. Certainly seen your name on plenty of edits. I added the WP Cambodia user box, and I'll help out where I can. It was your line about the script that tipped the scales. :P --rikker (talk) 08:25, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

The line about the script tipped me into asking you both to help me out with Thai numerals, PLEASE! Pawyilee (talk) 09:27, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Thesaban laws

As you just added the laws into the thesaban article - have you seen anything in these laws about the drop of the population density as a necessary qualification for the thesaban tambon? See this blog posting, the TAO upgraded to thesaban in the last two years never had the 1500 per km², and some even did not have the 5000 people either. And also Ko Samui, which was upgraded to thesaban mueang (at first was even planned to become thesaban nakhon) does not qualify for the population density. andy (talk) 10:02, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

The pop. density requirements were dropped in 2000, as noted in the article now. Good catch. Got me to go through and carefully read the requirements in the different editions. --rikker (talk) 12:39, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Another one - as you added the Gazette citations for the cities, I guess you already know that I am processing all those announcements into a more machine readable form, so in case the simple search for the announcement title fails chances are good that you'd find the right one in those XML files in my tambon project. andy (talk) 11:45, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I knew you were, but I hadn't looked in much detail. Looking more closely, you're doing fantastic work with the processing. Have you downloaded the entire archive? I'm working on it myself, using browser plug-ins to automate things, but with my limited prowess I can only do batches of 100 PDFs at a time, so I don't have the full set yet. I'd like to help with your project, if I can. I noticed you have corrected errors in the typed names from the Ratchakitcha site, too, such as พระราชบัญญัติัจัดตั้งเทศบาลนครศรีธรรมราช corrected to พระราชกฤษฎีกาจัดตั้งเทศบาลนครนครนครศรีธรรมราช (the title in the underlying PDF is correct, of course). You have a great eye for detail!

Also, continuing from the Thesaban topic above, I don't know how familiar you are with the naming conventions of these Thai laws, but this might prove useful for you with your XML-ifying of the data: When an Act is sub-numbered (ฉบับที่ X) before the year, it's a revision of a previous Act. It will specify which articles (มาตรา) of the original act it supersedes, but it will not give a full version of the law. So sometimes you have to check several revisions to find the most recent changes of the particular article you're interested in. If an act is released with no sub-number, then it is wholly supersedes any previously passed Acts with the same name.

To illustrate: First there was the Thesaban Organization Act of 1934. Then there is the Thesaban Act of 1939 (different names, but the latter still superseded the former). The Thesaban Act of 1939 was superseded by the Thesaban Act of 1943. Later, the Thesaban Act (No. 2) of 1944 modified portions of the 1943 act (the original act is considered No. 1). An entirely new law was passed as the Thesaban Act of 1953, entirely superseding all previous acts and amendments. When the 1953 act is later modified, the numbering starts over with No. 2, which was the Thesaban Act (No. 2) of 1955. These modifications have continued up through the present, with the most recent being the Thesaban Act (No. 12) of 2003.

If you don't already know this (but maybe you do), you should be able to process this naming scheme to determine which is the most recent "full" act, and how many modifications there have been to it. --rikker (talk) 12:39, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I only downloaded those announcements I also have in the XML by now, which are those which are on the specific entities, as my aim for now is to be able to have solid references for the history - you know all this Royal Gazette stuff was started because I was so annoyed by a troll who placed the {{unreferenced}} on a Amphoe article, and the search for references then made me discover the Royal Gazette database. The rest is history...

So for now, I have left out the general laws like the municipal act, but of course these can be placed in yet another XML file as well. If you want to join in, all you need is a XML editor (but even notepad would do) and a SVN client. If you also want to use the software (which does the downloading and caching of the PDF, makes the search a bit more comfortable, and also allows to search for topics or news) you'd need MS C# Visual Studio, that has a free express version which would be enough - I am using that one at home as well. And it includes a good XML editor as well. Only other thing you need is an account at http://code.google.com.

I clearly did not check all Thai titles, only when I notice them to be wrong because my automatic tools placed them wrong, or like that Nakhon Si Thammarat one I knew must have a wrong header because I knew I searched for that town before and did not find that one. andy (talk) 15:28, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Honorifics

Please read honorifics, then initiate the very badly needed Thai honorifics! Pawyilee (talk) 14:38, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Proposal for new Manual of Style for Thailand-related articles

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Thai MoS proposal, naming of settlements

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I can't really be bothered to fight you on this. It's stuff like this why I don't really participate in Wikipedia anymore. Time should be spent being constructive. Meh. --rikker (talk) 06:48, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

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G'day Rikker04, I have recently being revamping the category structure for Thai Orders, decorations and medals as part of WP:ODM. I notice that you were responsible for the initial establishment of most of the category structure for Thai ODM - good work! Just to give you a heads up, as part of the revamp I am splitting the orders into separate categories for each grade and distinguishing between Knights and Dames (these have separate thread links to parent categories at an international level). These changes are in accordance with WP:ODM's view of best practice. On a separate note, I notice that in addition to the categories you created for the various orders, decorations and service medals, you created a number of categories for commemorative medals. General consensus on WP:ODM when the issue has been raised in other contexts has been that service medals and commemorative medals are non-notable for the purposes of categorisation. They are also inherently problematic as there are potentially large numbers of recipients who may or may not have the medals listed on their page. Categorising recipients is therefore likely to be very haphazard and the utility of having people categorised for this type of award is questionable. Consequently, I am proposing to remove these categories. The specific affected categories contain few pages and are as follows:

• Category:Recipients of the 150 Years Commemoration of Bangkok Medal (2 P)
• Category:Recipients of the 25th Buddhist Century Celebration Medal (1 P)
• Category:Recipients of the Border Service Medal (6 P)
• Category:Recipients of the Chakra Mala Medal (5 P)
• Category:Recipients of the Chakrabarti Mala Medal (2 P)
• Category:Recipients of the Commemorative Medal of the Royal State Visits to the United States of America and Europe (1 P)
• Category:Recipients of the Dushdi Mala Medal (7 P)
• Category:Recipients of the King Rama IX Coronation Medal (1 P)
• Category:Recipients of the King Rama VI Coronation Medal (2 P)
• Category:Recipients of the King Rama VII Coronation Medal (2 P)
• Category:Recipients of the Medal for Service Rendered in the Interior (3 P)
• Category:Recipients of the Silver Jubilee Medal (2 P)
• Category:Recipients of the Victory Medal (Thailand) (5 P)

Please note that this does not affect detailing applicable medals on the recipients' page - that is an entirely appropriate practice where the information is known. Cheers, AusTerrapin (talk) 18:07, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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