User talk:RaF~enwiki

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Nice work on Railway line of Dakar-Niger; African topics tend to be much too neglected on Wikipedia. Good job linking the other articles up to it, too; I'll link up a few more things and set up some Redirects to the article as well. (You can click "What links here" if you want to see what gets added)

If you're interested in writing more about the region, you may want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias or Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics, though neither of these lists is anywhere near complete. Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Africa also has Wikipedia Africa news and a Colloboration of the Week.

Good luck, and happy editing! Drop a line for anything you might need, --Dvyost 16:17, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

PS I've nominated your article on Template talk:Did you know for possible inclusion on the front page; this is a great way to showcase a new article. Unfortunately there a lot of noms this weekend, but we'll see if it gets lucky...--Dvyost 16:43, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've also moved the article to Dakar-Niger Railway, which I think is a more standard Wikipedia usage (as per Category:Railway lines, e.g. Hejaz railway, Hell Valley Railway). The redirects are in place for everything to work as before. Cheers, --Dvyost 17:18, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just realized the link above wasn't right and fixed it. Apologies!

Thanks!

Hey RaF, nice work in putting up another Malian article! I'm sure you've noticed they're few and far between. I wanted to let you know that I've moved it to Salif Keita (footballer) to keep it consistent with other football articles (see, for instance, John Anderson (footballer)) on wikipedia. A good way to name articles is to look at how people have labelled other articles in the same category; Wikipedian naming conventions are sometimes consistent, sometimes not, but if you can find a pattern it's generally best to follow it.

Anyway, I just wanted to warn you in case you were surprised to find it shifted. Again, good job, and I'll look forward to seeing more of your stuff! --Dvyost 17:03, 25 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Dakar-Niger Railway, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf

Hi RaF,

Glad to be of help on this article. Interesting to work on as I knew nothing about this person previously. Valiantis 18:44, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

VWN en WCN

Beste RaF,

Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 21:16, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Niassa Company

Thank you for creating this excellent article - it's been on my mental list of "articles to start" for ages! Humansdorpie 10:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pizza delivery

Hi, RaF, thanks for your note.

I agree with you that the Pizza delivery article is "American Centric" (an inevitable result of contributions from experts in the field, which I think Wikipedia is fortunate to have), and I applaud your efforts to rectify that. The article is still relatively young, and there is much that might be done.

I have refrained from commenting on pizza delivery in Asia because I can only speak for Thailand, and I didn't feel that I had anything to say on that subject which was particularly pertinent, and I'm more of a copyeditor than a writer. However, I'll tell you what I know (probably more than you wanted to know), in case you think there is potential for one of us to make a worthwhile contribution. I could always order a pizza, and give the delivery guy a big tip to let me take a photo and make him famous....

There are a couple of businesses in Bangkok which deliver food prepared at various independent restaurants, and one or two independent pizza chains which deliver, but pizza delivery throughout Thailand is dominated by two franchises, Pizza Hut and Pizza Company. There was a bit of a stir a few years ago when the overall control of Pizza Hut franchises in Thailand passed to a different company, with the effect that all Pizza Hut branches became Pizza Company branches, almost overnight, and new Pizza Hut branches opened.

Pizza in Thailand is pretty much the same as pizza anywhere else, except that some Thai dishes have occasionally been included on the menu - this works well for social gatherings involving those Thais who dislike foreign food (and who wouldn't normally eat in western restaurants).

Pizza is quite popular with some middle class Thais (and westeners, of course), but it costs a great deal more than most Thais would usually expect to spend on a meal; a large pizza costs about 140 Thai baht, whereas it is not difficult to find a Thai meal for thirty baht per head. Twenty baht is considered a generous tip for pretty much anything in Thailand; percentages don't really enter into it.

Pizza deliveries are invariably by motorcycle - there is a higher motorbike to car ratio generally than in Europe and the States, due to traffic congestion in Bangkok, and relatively low average income throughout Thailand.

I understand that there was very little in the way of western franchises before the 1980s, whereas these days there are Pizza Huts, McDonalds and KFC branches all over Bangkok, and at least one branch of these chains in every Thai city I've ever visited.

It occurs to me that you might be able to build a comprehensive overview of pizza delivery throughout Asia, if you are interested in doing so, by contacting western Wikipedians in other Asian nations - there are probably categories that list them.

I will be happy to answer any questions that you might have, and to research the matter as far as is practical. --TheMadBaron 13:11, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello RaF! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 698 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Johan Kremers - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 13:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Julliard

Re this edit, are you creating articles for either Éditions Julliard or René Julliard? TJRC (talk) 21:50, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Normally, DAB pages should not be linked to redlinks, but if you're going to write the articles, I won't delete the DAB entry for the time being. TJRC (talk) 15:50, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed

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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called RaF. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name RaF~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

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02:34, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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17:51, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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