User talk:Nizolan/Archive/2016 – July 2019

Guam GOP primary returns

If you don't me asking, what's your source? I don't doubt your adds, I just want to read the source myself. pbp 15:09, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

@Purplebackpack89: Hi, the source is here: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/12/politics/clinton-cruz-northern-marianas-guam-caucuses/. "... six delegates were elected, but only one of them, Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo, has publicly endorsed a presidential candidate -- Ted Cruz, according to party Executive Director Juan Carlos Benitez." That works out as 5 uncommitted elected delegates + 1 elected Cruz delegate + 3 uncommitted RNC members. None of them are technically bound, though. I'll add the cite to the primaries article. —Nizolan ^(talk) 15:50, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Gidokjayudang (Christian Liberal Party) in South korea

[1]: Gidokjayudang in 2010s is surely different from Gidokjayudang in 1940s. Thanks. --Idh0854 (talk) 19:06, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

@Idh0854: Yes, hence "compare". —Nizolan ^(talk) 20:26, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

@Idh0854: To be less flippant, semantic components are usually separated by a space in the Romanization of long titles, hence Tonghap Minjudang and not Tonghapminjudang, etc. There's no reason to think the two parties are "surely" different in their Romanization (other than that the 40s one was Gidokkyo and not Gidok), so we follow the precedent unless there's some convincing reason otherwise. Thanks. —Nizolan ^(talk) 20:39, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

I asked National Election Commission in South Korea (NEC) that the spacing of party name is available. When asked, NEC said, "Of course, it is possible". I mean, most political parties in South Korea aren't spaces between the written words of party name under the influence of the Hanja, like People's Party (국민의당, not 국민의_당). So I think that don't need to write leaving space between the words, unless it is really necessary. Thanks. --Idh0854 (talk) 03:13, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

@Idh0854: I don't understand your point, sorry. Like I said, adding spaces to separate the components of compound Korean terms is common in Romanization: see the note on p. 6 here, for example. This helps readability and English-speakers' comprehension. Wikipedia follows usage in common English sources, not official usage or usage in other languages. I believe this has been explained to you before. Indeed, the NEC's comment would appear to suggest that the official usage is agnostic on this issue anyway. —Nizolan ^(talk) 03:40, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Joseph Mitchell (city manager)

On 8 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joseph Mitchell (city manager), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when Newburgh city manager Joseph Mitchell summoned all the city's welfare recipients to City Hall to investigate their legitimacy, no cases of fraud were uncovered? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Mitchell (city manager). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:41, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Defaultsort

Thanks for catching this. I looked at the link you sent. Yes, it does appear that it should sort as Grunwald, Bela per the MOS. I have made the change. Thanks--FeanorStar7 23:57, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Béla Grünwald

On 11 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Béla Grünwald, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Hungarian politician Béla Grünwald telegraphed the news of his death to his party leader before committing suicide in Paris? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Béla Grünwald. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:12, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Béla Grünwald

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:12, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Pending changes reviewer granted

Per your request. If at some point you don't want the flag anymore, let me know. Widr (talk) 01:53, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

About your edit on National Assembly (South Korea)

I didn't necessarily find a reason to change to another parliament map when the circular arrangements fits more with the other nation's Parliament Map design. The map was updated, and it confused me. Please explain. ＨａｎＳａｎｇＹｏｏｎＵＳＡ [ Discussion ] [ History ] 02:29, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

@HanSangYoon: Sorry, that's my mistake. I didn't look carefully and thought it hadn't been updated—you were still using the "19th Assembly of the ROK.svg" file, and it was still displaying as the old version on my computer. The file should be uploaded as a new "20th Assembly of the ROK.svg" file so that the previous one can continue to be used for the 2012–16 Assembly. I temporarily changed it back to your version. (I personally prefer the new one since it conveys more information, but we can discuss that if desired.) —Nizolan ^(talk) 02:34, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Ah, sure. Thanks for the understanding in advance; I'd like to hear of what you like about your preferred map as a response.
ＨＳＹＵＳＡ [ Discussion ] [ History ] 02:29, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

@HanSangYoon: It's not a big deal, but the small reason I prefer the other one is that in cases where you have several parties with the same colour, it's easier to distinguish that they're separate parties when you have the numbered arc chart above, which can be annotated. It's not a problem now, but at the end of this outgoing Assembly the Christian Liberal Party and Minjoo Party had essentially the same colour as the Minjoo Party of Korea and the Justice Party respectively. I wasn't sure how to update the diagram because of that. I agree the circle version is more popular and consistency is worthwhile as well; there are a few exceptions though (e.g. Parliament of Australia). —Nizolan ^(talk) 02:49, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Questions and all

Template:South Korean legislative election, 2016 I'm pretty sure you know more about it than I do. But I was confused as to how did independents get 11 seats and no percentage. --QEDK (T ☕ C) 15:18, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

@QEDK: I can see the confusion, but there's a parallel voting system, so people vote once for a constituency representative and once for a party list ("Block vote" on the template). The vote percentage is for party lists; the constituencies are, well, the constituencies. Since independents aren't a party they don't have a list. Constituency vote totals haven't been released yet, hence the blank column. —Nizolan ^(talk) 15:20, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Well, thanks. --QEDK (T ☕ C) 15:29, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Choo Mi-ae

On 20 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Choo Mi-ae, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that South Korean politician Choo Mi-ae has been compared to Joan of Arc? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Choo Mi-ae. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Choo Mi-ae), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Your GA nomination of Joseph Mitchell (city manager)

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Nizolan, I have left this review open for quite a while, but there has been no response from you. I am not keen on failing it, as it is close to meeting the GA criteria. If you are able to make the required changes but need a little more time, let me know, and I'm willing to be flexible; but I am not going to leave it open indefinitely. Please respond at the earliest. Regards, Vanamonde (talk) 11:34, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Joseph Mitchell (city manager)

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New Page Review needs your help

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As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).

Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.

Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.

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Can you help verify translations of articles from Hungarian

Hello,

Would you be able to help evaluate the accuracy of translations of Wikipedia articles from Hungarian to English Wikipedia?

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This would involve evaluating a translated article on English Wikipedia by comparing it to the original Hungarian article, and marking it "Pass" or "Fail" based on whether the translation faithfully represents the original. Here's the reason for this request:

There are a number of articles on English Wikipedia that were created as machine translations from different languages including Hungarian , using the Content Translation tool, sometimes by users with no knowledge of the source language. The config problem that allowed this to happen has since been fixed, but this has left us with a backlog of articles whose accuracy of translation is suspect or unknown, including some articles translated from Hungarian. In many cases, other editors have come forward later to copyedit and fix any English grammar or style issues, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the translation is accurate, as factual errors from the original translation may remain. To put it another way: Good English is not the same as good translation.

If you can help out, that would be great. Here's a sample of the articles that need checking:

• Sándor Sörös
• László Jászai
• Dóra Danics
• Viktor Rákosi
• Szilvia Bach

All you have to do, is compare the English article to the Hungarian article, and mark it "Pass" or "Fail" (templates {{Pass}} and {{Fail}} may be useful). (Naturally, if you feel like fixing an inaccurate translation and then marking it "Pass", that's even better, but it isn't required.)

If you can help, please let me know. Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 10:53, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi again; since the last mesage, some of these articles have since been assessed by another editor. I've struck those off the list, but the others are still open. If you're available to look at the remaining ones, please let me know. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 17:45, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

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Church of the East edits

Thanks for working on things like Marganitha. I'd be interested in collaborating on more Church of the East stuff if you are. Let me know. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:12, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

@Koavf: No problem—my work on Wikipedia at the moment is mostly downstream of my transcription efforts over at Wikisource (I came across the Marganitha via the translation in Nestorians and their Rituals), but I would definitely like to help develop Church of the East/Assyrian/Syriac related topics here too given the generally patchy coverage. Are there any particular things you'd say are a priority for development? —Nizolan ^(talk) 23:22, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Wikisource-wise, easily the biggest one would be Peshitta. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:11, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

@Koavf: I was meaning to get to Etheridge's Syrian Churches at some point soon, which has the Peshitta Gospels, so I'll start indexes for that and Barnes's Peshitta Psalter on WS as a first stab. —Nizolan ^(talk) 01:50, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

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