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Change my Name edit

Hi! How may I change my name from Dimorsitanos into something new?

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Έμβλημα Βριλησσίων.jpg) edit

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Macedonia and FYROM edit

The issue of the naming of the various territories who claim the name 'Macedonia' is a longrunning one and after long discussion we have arrived at a consensus. Please do not disrupt it by copy and paste page moves and turning pages into redirects. Disruptive editing can lead to you being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Sam Blacketer 18:28, 4 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

You copied the text of Republic of Macedonia and created a new page called FYROM into which you pasted the copied text. That form of page move is not allowed because of issues with the GFDL license, which is why I speedily deleted it as housekeeping. The current location of pages relating to Macedonia is the result of lengthy discussion, which you can find by going to Talk:Republic of Macedonia and browsing around the archives. I'm afraid you are very unlikely to persuade the community to change this consensus, although there may be room for some changes if the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic is changed to the satisfaction of the Greek government, as some news sources have recently claimed it will be. Sam Blacketer 18:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Kalimera Dimorsitane. The way that wikipedia is treating articles is with neutrality, accuracy and realism. Whatever changes you may wish to make they must be well founded and commomly accepted by the community of editors. It is not a place to "correct" history or promote and impose national or any other vues whatsoever. The Macedonia name dispute is an issue pending resolution under the UN umbrella. When and if such resolution is materialised be certain that wikipedia will straight away adjust the information provided in the related articles to meet the new and commonly accepted reality. Till then the current references, which are aligned with wiki universal convensions, will stay in place. All the best. Italiotis 10:45, 5 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Administrators? edit

Hello, is there another administrator online beside Black and Decker to whom I may pose my questions regarding the FYROM and Republic of Macedonia article?

--Dimorsitanos 20:13, 4 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Please see Talk:Republic of Macedonia#Questions posed. -- ChrisO 22:36, 4 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

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question on Talk:Republic_of_Macedonia about the name edit

I archived your question [1]. You should go to Talk:Republic_of_Macedonia/name, and, hum, ooops, I just noticed that I already moved your comment there [2], I must have pressed the "submit" button while I was pondering if I should move it or not :( . Well, go to that page anyways and read it, and revert my addition of your comment if you didn't want me to move your comment there. Sorry for that. --Enric Naval (talk) 02:58, 24 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Stop it, now edit

You are edit-warring all over the place, and blatantly pushing towards your favorite national POV. Just stop it. This behaviour is not welcome here. Fut.Perf. 09:32, 24 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

What does POV stand for?--Dimorsitanos (talk) 09:32, 24 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Sorry for the jargon, we tend to take it for granted here. :-) "Point of view", as in: "opinion". See WP:NPOV ("Neutral point of view") for our stance on that. Fut.Perf. 09:36, 24 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Well historical macedonia is not a point of view. It's an historical fact.--Dimorsitanos (talk) 09:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Dimorsitanos, αν έχεις οποιεσδήποτε απορίες για τις πολιτικές της Wikipedia μη διστάσεις να με ρωτήσεις ή να στείλεις mail (ενεργοποίησε και το δικό σου αν δεν το έχεις κάνει - είναι ασφαλές). Έχε υπόψη ότι εμπλοκή σε edit-warring μπορεί να οδηγήσει σε blocks, ιδίως σε θέματα συνδεόμενα με τη ΠΓΔΜ, καθώς υπάρχει σχετική απόφαση της ArbCom (WP:ARBMAC), που δίνει υπερεξουσίες (κακώς κατά την άποψή μου, αλλά έτσι είναι τα πράγματα) στους administrators. Ήδη, άλλωστε, από ό,τι βλέπω έχεις προειδοποιηθεί σχετικά από administrator, οπότε μπορούν να σε μπλοκάρουν χωρίς περαιτέρω προειδοποίηση, αν ξαναεμπλακείς σε revert-warring. NPOV αλλά και WP:CITE είναι βασικές αρχές της εγκυκλοπαίδειας. Για ό,τι άλλο χρειαστείς η talk page μου και το mail μου είναι στη διαθεσή σου.--Yannismarou (talk) 09:49, 24 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Και πώς το ενεργοποιώ το e-mail μου?--Dimorsitanos (talk) 09:59, 24 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Πήγαινε στο "my preferences" πάνω στην οθώνη, και βάλε το "enable e-mail from other users". Fut.Perf. 10:39, 24 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

please use the edit summary field edit

When making changes to articles, please remember to leave a short explanation of what you are doing on the field "Edit summary", right below the edit box where you type the changes.

For example, I saw this change here [3] and I had to look at it for five minutes just to realize that you were merging several infoboxes into one. Next time, please, leave at least a short note like "merging infoboxes" or "merging several infoboxes into one infobox" or "merging geographical and municipality infoboxes" so other editors can easily see what changes are being made on each edit. It's very difficult to have an idea of what is happening on an article if editors don't fill the edit summary with an explanation. --Enric Naval (talk) 00:00, 25 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

OK--Dimorsitanos (talk) 15:28, 25 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

WP:MOSMAC edit

Please read Wikipedia's guidelines for articles related to Macedonia, WP:MOSMAC. You are definitely not obliged to like it, but you are obliged to follow it when editing. Thanks JdeJ (talk) 19:27, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

  • Well, I read some of the conventions about: "In articles where there is a need to distinguish the aforementioned ethnic group from the other ethnic groups inhabiting Macedonia Use "Macedonian Slavs" or "Slavic Macedonians" to distinguish them from the other ethnic groups in the region" and I noticed in sections of articles referring to these groups of people as minorities in greece, there is use of "Aegean Macedonians" or "Ethnic Macedonians" or "Macedonians" contrary to the convention above. Consequently, I reedit these parts and ablate these terms with "Slavic Macedonians". In addition, I expect you to delete immediately the article "Aegean Macedonians" and all of its links until the next time I log in. --Dimorsitanos (talk) 19:38, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply
"In addition, I expect you to delete immediately the article "Aegean Macedonians" and all of its links until the next time I log in." If you want to nominate the article for deletinon, follow the proper procedure. It will then be dealt with and discussed during a period of four to five days and a final verdict on whether it should be deleted or not will be given. JdeJ (talk) 19:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

OK, I will.--Dimorsitanos (talk) 19:55, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

  • I notice you undid the editing about the "overall majority of countries recognise it under its constitutional name". I preserve the right to expect enough and rational references and citations to points of doubted neutrality (in the beginning of an article without further explanation of the point made, therefore I add a tag of citation needed.--Dimorsitanos (talk) 19:44, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply
Be my guest. You're always free to add tags after unsourced statements, and I agree that that statement would need a source so a tag is a good thing. JdeJ (talk) 19:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Speedy Deletion of Aegean Macedonians edit

Hi. I've declined the speedy deletion request you posted at Aegean Macedonians, since it didn't appear to fit any of the current Criteria for speedy deletion. It looks like there's a merge discussion ongoing, so you might want to comment there. If there is a better title for this article, you might consider proposing a page move on the talk page. If you believe the article needs to be deleted, then I'd suggest reading the instructions at Articles for Deletion, which will indicate how to nominate the page for deletion. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 20:54, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Oh, Ok, thank you.--Dimorsitanos (talk) 20:56, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

I'm not familiar with the region, or with its people and culture, so I'm not the best person to give advice on the specifics of WP:MOSMAC. However, I can offer some general guidance, if you like. First, take a deep breath - you'll get much more done if you're calm and rational. We're all here to improve the project, and getting angry or defensive toward other editors will not help to achieve that. I realize that you feel strongly about this issue - rightly so - but it still helps to stay calm.
With that out of the way, my first impulse would be to participate in the merge/move discussion here. It looks like there's some consensus for a move or a merge, and that's going to be the best option at this point. The article was recently at AfD, and was Kept, so it might be disruptive to re-nominate it again. The rule of thumb I use is that, if nothing has really changed with the article or its circumstances, then a re-nomination should wait 4 months - but that the article can be re-nominated sooner if something has changed dramatically. Since the merge discussion is ongoing, I'd recommend participating there.
If WP:MOSMAC is being applied inconsistently - if you think it would work one way, but it's being used differently - then you might discuss the issue on its talk page, here. It's worth a shot, and might bring greater attention to the issue. Beyond that, I'm not sure what else to tell you - but Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. Best, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 13:48, 28 July 2008 (UTC)Reply
I add that, since the merge discussion is very specifically linked from the article's text itself, that it should get broad attention beyond what a normal talk page discussion would receive. Hope that helps, UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 13:49, 28 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Aegean Macedonians edit

You didn't do the listing right. The page has been nominated for deletion before and kept, so the AfD process is a little different then. Since this was only two months ago, it might be considered disruptive to re-nominate it so soon (although I'm assuming good faith on your part). If you have an issue with the article, it'd be best to take it up on the talk page if you haven't already. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters(Broken clamshellsOtter chirpsHELP!) 21:06, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Agreed, discussion on the talk page would be best; I didn't see that there had been a recent AFD nomination. UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 21:17, 26 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Yes, but who reads the talk page of an article? The parties that are interested on the subject. In this case we may need a third party to comment. --Dimorsitanos (talk) 06:02, 27 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

Your comments edit

Please note that comments like this are not tolerated. If you do it again, you may very well be blocked. BalkanFever 02:14, 27 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

And what exactly is your point? BalkanFever 04:28, 27 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

I think I do not need to make that in layman's terms. It's rather obvious.--Dimorsitanos (talk) 04:38, 27 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

So you're saying that I proved that I'm not civilised by giving you a warning about personal attacks. Well that's another personal attack, so that's one more warning for you. BalkanFever 05:07, 27 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

That's your point, not mine. And I may ask you again. Try to act civilized. Threatening is not a civilized action. Disagree? I may have to report you on this insistent threatening. --Dimorsitanos. I preserve the right to feel offended by an offensive term, as stated by the wikipedia community itself. Please read again the WP:MOSMAC (talk) 05:10, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Removing comments from discussion page edit

I replied on my talk page --Enric Naval (talk) 17:23, 24 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Χρήστης:Dimorsitanos/Αμμοδοχείο edit

 

A tag has been placed on Χρήστης:Dimorsitanos/Αμμοδοχείο, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Hi there edit

Hello there, you can help me improve the Greece article if you are interested. Historian19 15:17, 19 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I think we should improve a bit the article Greece, I will add some articles, between you can help by adding corresponding pictures.

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NEVER USE MACHINE TRANSLATOR in JAPANESE WIKIPEDIA edit

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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Macedonia 2 edit

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Macedonia request for comment edit

Since you have in the past taken part in related discussions, this comes as a notification that the Centralized discussion page set up to decide on a comprehensive naming convention about Macedonia-related naming practices is now inviting comments on a number of competing proposals from the community. Please register your opinions on the RfC subpages 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

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Attica-expand edit

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Photo Halandri edit

Kalispera Dimorsitane. Ftiaxnw ena group gia to Halandri sto facebook. Mporw na anevasw kapoia diki sou photo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polydrosiwtis (talkcontribs) 13:39, 11 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Photo Halandri edit

Kalispera.Ftiaxwn ena group sto facebook sxetika me to Halandri. Mporw na xrisimopoiisw mia photo sou? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Polydrosiwtis (talkcontribs) 13:41, 11 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ναι μπορείς - δε μου άφησες e-mail να επικοινωνήσω μαζί σου (το e-mail μου είναι dimors@hotmail.com). Πάντως δεν έχω φτιάξει ποιοτικό αρχείο για το Χαλάνδρι, όλες οι φωτό είναι τραβηγμένες με κινητό... --Dimorsitanos (talk) 17:29, 28 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Greek help needed edit

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