Your map is great. Can you make the data files available? I would like to use it as a base map for another project I'm working on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmatulis (talk • contribs) 00:50, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there. Regarding you reverting my edit on the artice on Espoo, could you kindly instruct me where to further study the policy regarding "the infobox design that has been established in all the other articles relating to Finnish cities/municipalities" please? –Zinjixmaggir 17:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I did have a look at the articles on other Finnish cities and noticed that not many of them have been built using templates, so I made an effort to correct that. I believe the information I left out can either still be included in the infobox or portrayed in the body copy instead. Furthermore, the template I used is also in use on the articles on several of the world's major cities and I think it fits a city better. Or do you know of a still better template to use? –Zinjixmaggir 18:28, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If there is a reason for building infoboxes using static markup instead of a template I haven't understood what it is. I think that approach contradicts with the idea of uniform design by making the set of articles non-structured and difficult to alter afterwards. Maybe there could be a specific template for Finnish cities – one that would enable the embedding of photos too?

I've taken the conversation to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Finland for further comments, I suggest we continue there. –Zinjixmaggir 16:38, 24 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Clearly I won't be reverting your edit for a third time. However, your initial edit replaced a neutral map of the Tibetan plateau with a highly POV map of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), which is not what the article is about. The map you added is perfectly relevant to the Tibet Autonomous Region article where it is not a POV map. But on the Tibet article you initially removed a neutral map and replaced it with a highly POV map. Which is why it was reverted back to a neutral one. Also, when you say in your edit summary that "It's still a map of Tibet, and a very detailed one," - no it isn't, it is a map of the TAR, not Tibet, and the article is about Tibet not the TAR. And regardless of the detail involved it is still a POV map about the TAR and not just Tibet. ♦Tangerines BFC ♦·Talk 21:37, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that placing a map of the TAR in an article about historical and cultural Tibet is highly questionable. Tibet and the TAR are not synonymous and therefore having that map there looks like a snipe at the people of Tibet. It's inflammatory and inappropriate and I will revert it back again. If you have any questions or concerns about this issue, please address them on the talk page and not in the edit line of the article's history. Thank you. Cumulus Clouds 22:01, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Zakuragi, it's nice to know that you are interested in WikiProject Korea (your request at talk page, & the 3 icons on your user page--> this conclusion)! Sadly I couldn't make out the captions in any of the pics for the Namwon article. I can put really generic summaries like "vegetation in Namwon with apartment buildings in the behind" but that just is not worth the effort. There were some pics that made me think of parks (for exercise, etc.) but I can't guess.

Anyways, I can guess that your name "Zakuragi" is based on your interest in Japanese anime? Are you of Caucasian ethnicity b/c that would give me more of a surprise (although not dramatic)? See you around. (Wikimachine 03:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC))[reply]

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Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for helping out! ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 02:22, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

While I have no opinion about this I would like to notify you that the argument you use (similar map is in use elsewhere) is a very weak argument. By tireless putting up specific versions of maps, and bullying others into acceptance using this argument a certain "critical mass" can be built that overwhelms editors who are honestly trying to achieve a consensus based on arguments. Basically this is how the old Orange maps gained their dominance. As I said I have no opinion on these maps, so I don't mind, but IMHO editors who revert may use an argument like mine. Arnoutf 16:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks; I've put a lot of work into the index, and am pretty pleased with the results.

I agree that it should be in Wikipedia namespace; my goal is to move it there by the end of November. (That's not an arbitrary date; I'm working my way through the index, and that sometimes results in rearranging topics; I will be done sometime around the end of November, and then I'm happy to have others contribute whatever they want to maintaining the index. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:31, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The medieval kingdom of Aragon is coextensive with the modern autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain. It's a landlocked region, which has never included Catalonia, Valencia or the Balearic Islands, all of which where different kingdoms in the crown of Aragon. --Jotamar 13:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

There's a big difference between all the Hindi dialect chain and Standard Hindi. The article Hindi languages classifies Urdu as one of those dialects, which is correct and contradicts the map, so I'm just clarifying that point. That's not the same as saying that Urdu is a dialect of Standard Hindi. Indeed, it would be more correct to say that Standard Hindi is a register of Urdu. (Right now Standard Hindi redirects to Khariboli, but that's not quite correct: you could say the same about Urdu.) kwami (talk) 18:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I really really like your map Image:Hindidialects.png. However I think that there are still some issues and stuff that needs to be worked out. Listed–

• What is your source?
• Why is Nepal blanked out? Awadhi, Bhojpuri, and Maithili are spoken in its southern lip.
• What you've done with Urdu is inaccurate, first regarding the colouring as kwami has noted (it'd fall under Western Hindi), but really more importantly your positioning it over Pakistan and the fact that it's there on the map at all. The map concerns territorial bases and Pakistan is not one for Urdu; it is a base for Sindhi, Punjabi, Kashmiri, etc. whose speakers happen to speak Urdu in the capacity of a second and national language. In general Urdu is a thing without a territorial base, unlike other other things such as Braj, Bagheli, etc. that are. More accurately it is a massively successful class dialect, which historically originated in a single, specific place (Delhi), which then was accepted as a unitary symbol of cultural and religious affiliation by Muslims diffused throughout India, as well as being directly moved throughout India by its speakers (armies and court to Hyderabad, poets to Agra). The most fantastic acceptance was that of it as the national language of the new nation-state Pakistan, and the most contemporary movement is that Muhajirs to Karachi and elsewhere in Pakistan. That's why Urdu isn't to be on the map.

Either way, what I've done is found something that deals with all these problems. It is a map from a book. It shows the distribution of all Indo-Aryan languages througout S Asia (1961), territorial demarcations and all. My suggestion to and request of you is to scrap your current map and instead make two new ones from this one: a definitive one for all of Indo-Aryan, and a specifically one for Hindi. Suggested differences between the source map and ones you'd make:

• For both, the inclusion of state boundaries.
• For the Indo-Aryan one,
  • English naming: Bangla, Asamiya → Bengali, Assamese.
  • Rather than the singularly broad HINDI heading, a correct splitting into RAJASTHANI - HINDI - BIHARI. Exclude Bhili and Khandeshi from Rajasthani. This is the current IA map we have.
• For the Hindi one, use colour coding as you did before, with colours for Western Hindi, Eastern Hindi, Rajasthani, and Bihari. Of course the spanning HINDI heading won't be need because it'd be redundant. Also note that "Khari Boli" and "Kauravi" are clumped together as one "Hindi"- Just leave it like that.

Going back to the point I made, they deal with Urdu in the smaller "percentage" map at the bottom right. It could possibly be a third map you could make. So yeah, hopefully you are able and up to all this and we can all be happy. Thanks. Tuncrypt (talk) 14:46, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Zakuragi, the above named map (article: Norwegian language) has been created by you? Great! One comment: Oslo is not a bokmål community but is neutral. Kind regards, Freigut (talk) 12:04, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is your source for that map? would like to have a svg version of the same map for other purposes. and btw, a updated version of what målform the municipalities have reported here. Røed (talk · no) 21:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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You created a redirect for inat but the article Serbs seems to be manipulated, even in the history there is no more mentioning of inat. What happened? --Schwarzschachtel (talk) 11:00, 19 June 2009 (UTC)PS: Okay, I found it, it was removed long time ago. I will insert it again.[reply]

Hey there could you please help me make a map?

Nijgoykar (talk) 16:45, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I want a map for the article Daivajna showing regions of primary population of these people.. Nijgoykar (talk) 19:21, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will do it as soon as possible.. but do you need citations for making maps?

Nijgoykar (talk) 10:51, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah just one more day.. keeping busy! Nijgoykar (talk) 03:12, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. I know this happened just recently but no administrator would close these frequent rm's down, so here we go again. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:28, 22 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:14, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Kannada Nadu authentic map

Hi Zakuragi, You are from Finland. I am from Bengaluru, Karnataka. This is the authentic Kannada native speakers majority areas which I request you to upload and replace the existing flawed Kannada speakers map on Kannada Language Wikipedia article. I have travelled all these areas. Please refer Justice Mahajan committee report. Please add my map to this wiki article. File:Kannada Nadu Map.PNG , Kannada Nadu Map. Thanks in advance, Nitin NitinBhargava2016 (talk) 06:38, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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