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Emre Altug - notability questioned

an admin put a notability template on Emre Altug. Please take a look at it, i haven't the faintest idea why! --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 22:43, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Please help me convince User:Pilotguy to take off the notability template! I cited a couple of sources for him but I need TURKS to back me up that Enre IS a well-known person in Turkey! Thanks a lot. --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 23:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Featured article drive

I took the liberty of adding Suleiman the Magnificent article to the featured article drive list on on the tasks page. User:A. Garnet has been working on it for a while, and with a nice teamwork it shouldn't have too many problems making FA. Cheers! Baristarim 14:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Note

Turkcell Super League has been chosen by WikiProject football for its AID for the time period between 14 Jan - 21 Jan, any interested WPTR members are invited to take a look as well. Baristarim 13:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

There is a requested move at Talk:Uşak carpet to move the page to Ushak carpet. Baristarim 17:14, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Turkish-Armenian War

Please if you check the Turkish-Armenian War, as the user User:Clevelander asked all these articles for deletion. He claims, they do not deserv to have articles. I guess the Armenian history does not tell much about this part of the history.OttomanReference 04:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Oltu
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Sarıkamış (1920)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Kars (1920)
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Alexandropol

These battles do exist. I have questions regarding the credibility of the argument that there is no information. There are many shorter articles on wikipedia? Why we are in such a rush to delete these article?OttomanReference 04:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

The articles are not referenced and theres no information online or in books so far. Nareklm 04:15, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Can you give me another reason, because Battle of Gamelsdorf is much shorter article and no google references. However, I have not seen anyone asking this article for deletion. Is it related you being an Armenian? I would like to support your view, be open minded but it does not look like a good policy, especially coming from a good wikipedian like you. OttomanReference 04:33, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Well the articles shouldn't be deleted in the first place your right, Plus the nominations were a little to fast since its a suitable article :-) plus my comment was on the refs so it should stay since refs don't really get an article deleted for an article like this. Nareklm 04:51, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Requested delete's

There were AfD for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turko-Persian Tradition and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turco-Persian articles, which were concluded as "Speedy Keep". Now, nominator opened voting in Talk:Turco-Persian and Talk:Turko-Persian Tradition pages.Must^TC 17:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I took care of them and removed the unofficial delete proposals since they are not part of the wikiprocess.. Baristarim 14:38, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

RIP

Hrant Dink 1954 - 2007

New articles

Just informing you I have created many stubs about volcanoes of Turkey, you can find 'em at Category:Volcanoes of Turkey. Check on Turkish characters etc. welcomed. Regards. - Darwinek 21:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Districts of Turkey

Template:Districts of Turkey has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --Gene Nygaard 12:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Mehmet Murat İldan

Someone should look at this article nominated for deletion. library records show he exists while others state he doesn't. Some Turk opinion would be fine. Because prejudice against turkish articles has grown significantly recently. --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 15:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

help with portal

someone please have alook at the portal's code. I shortedned the feature article (this is a requiremment for featured portals) and now there is a huge gap between the featured article section and the featured pictures section. Please help me with the codes, i'm no technical guru...--Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 10:19, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Done. --Bugtrio | Talk 18:12, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Cok sagol :) --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 19:14, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Good job! Baristarim 03:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

selam

Merhaba,Türk projesine yardımcı olabilirim.Bitti mi acaba?--Edebiyataski 18:57, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

You can use the links from the sidebar (in the main page) to reach articles that needs improvement. It is better if you choose a single article and improve it. Project has many articles but high quality articles are nearly non existent. Thanks--OttomanReference 19:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Melih Ozakat

Hello. Could someone from the project check out the article Melih Ozakat? I'm tempted to submit it to AfD since the claims of notability are pretty flimsy but I definitely would need to understand Turkish to convince myself that the article should be deleted. Thanks for your help. Pascal.Tesson 23:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

        Why are you tempted to delete the article?  As far as I know, even though Melih Ozakat is not well known by the young generation of Turkey, he was such a strong figure back in 80's.  Let me see if I can find articles on him.. he was on the news recently.

Atatürk - time to move our a**es

Arkadaslar, su maddenin "featured Article" olmasi lazim! Ben simdi tezimi yaziyorum atatürk hakkinda ve Macarca wikipedi'de bu maddeyi gelistirmeye balsadim. Zamanim olsa Ingilizce maddeye de katilacagim, insallah cok yakinda. Gördüm ki references ve intext citation yüzünden good article olamadi... Bunlari yapmaya calisacagim, zaten elimde süper bir kitap vardir: Kinross'un kitabi. Bu kitaptan hicbir Ingiliz editör sikayet etmicek :) I wuld also like to have some volunteers find some more reliable sources for the statements in the article. Unsourced statements have to be removed. This article should be the BEST work of the Turkey Project on this wikipedia and I'm determined to the bring it up to Featured Status. Sevgiyle kalin, Ata'nin bir Macar cocugu... --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 21:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Dogru, o sayfada bir ilerleme saglamamiz lazim. O konuda iki sorun var: a) çok daha fazla referans bulmamiz gerek veya referans olacak kitaplara sahip olan editorlerin ise daha fazla el atmasi lazim; b) tabi ki o makalede en ufak politik veya kulturel konuda yapilan editlerin veya yazilarin bazi milletlerden editorlerle devamli kapismalara sebep olmasi. Bundan iki ay once bir paragraf yuzunden onbes editor gunler harcadik ve de sonuçta ancak birkaç cumle degistirilebildi. Umarim onumuzdeki bir-iki ay içinde bir ilerleme saglariz. Zamanim oldukça ilgilenmeye çalisacagim. Cheers! Baristarim 23:26, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Inch axgh ak kosome? Nareklm 23:27, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

:) There was no secret talk - but we should pay more attention because it is not only Turkish editors that read this page. Sorry about that! Baristarim 11:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Lord Kinross… He claimed that Mustafa Kemal was Macedonian. Therefore I don't understand our advantage (I read it and it didn't satisfy me -I mean the book- ). Whatever, use their own weapons against them haha :) Deliogul 16:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I think you didn't understand why he claimed that :) probably bc of place of birth and his mother's fair feautres...? HM? :) i don't think that is such a hurting thing... we must not go into blind nationalism abicim :) the book is fair enough I think. you don't have to take everything from it but at least it is one source we can use. IMHO. --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 11:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Images in danger

I've just had to tag a huge lot of photographs uploaded by User:Shuppiluliuma for deletion [1], because they had no license. Shuppiluliuma left upset over such image problems the other day, so he isn't here to clean the mess up. If any of you feel some of these photographs deserve to be saved, I'd much appreciate it if you could help finding correct licensing for them. In the case of photographs downloaded from www.wowturkey.com, you'd have to contact the individual photographers and ask them to release the image under GFDL. I guess many of them might be willing to do that, so it's worth a try. Otherwise, we'll have no choice but to delete the images in a few days. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:25, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and could somebody take care of Çerkes Ethem please? Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I tried to clean it up as much as I could. I am not sure if I can bring some references though. I hope that somebody else can take care of that. Thanks for the notice! Baristarim 12:26, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I just ran into this: Murat Kurnaz - with a little proofreading it can become GA. All the references are there. For those that are interested :) Baristarim 21:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Requesting small option to WPTR template

Hi, I would like to request that WPTR support the small option. The template size is rather big, and combining it with several other project templates clutters up the talk page enormously. --Free smyrnan 12:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Help request--images from wowturkey.com

Hi! I wonder if someone from this Wikiproject can help me. An anon editor (IPs: 151.44.159.203 (talk · contribs), 151.44.147.108 (talk · contribs) & 151.37.179.179 (talk · contribs)) has been systematically going through iamges sourced from wowturkey.com and changing the licence. The new licence applied states that permission is required for commercial use. If this new licence is correct all of these images will have to be deleted (per WP:CSD#Images/Media). The anon editor did not reply my questions regarding these changes. Could a Turkish speaker check this claim (supposedly it is verified at http://wowturkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14278, which is in Turkish). Thanks, —JeremyA 03:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, the statement is I believe clear in intent, though a little hazy in the details. The website WOW turkey owns the images. They request that the logo on the photo be kept. And they give permission to everyone to freely use the images. If the logo is removed, they ask that the user contact the photographer (which is possible through their website) and ask for its use, commercial or non-commercial and remind people that the photographer is within his/her rights to ask for renumeration in these cases. --Free smyrnan 12:27, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Wondering what happened to Baristarim?

Hi everyone, I noticed that Baris is not around. I think this project definitely has suffered from his absence. Just curious, is he gone for good or just taking a break? --Free smyrnan 00:11, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, i've been wondering where his got to. Let's hope he returns soon. --A.Garnet 20:50, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I was so busy that I had to stay away from the Net for a while.. :)) I will have much more time for the next couple of weeks. Cheers! Baristarim 19:34, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh! No! He is back!!! Shit! And I was hoping that he decided to leave for ever Wikipedia! Futile hopes! Refuted dreams!!! (PS: Welcome back!)--Yannismarou 21:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

No worries :) Baristarim 21:35, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Let's get Suleiman the Magnificent to FA.

Hello,

I have been involved in a gradual rewrite of this article from top to bottom in order to get it to FA status. If more people help then I think FA is not too far away. Cheers, --A.Garnet 20:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Good work. I suggest going through a WP:Bio review and GA review first though. --Free smyrnan 06:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, still more work to be done before i get it reviewed. I've put some to-do tasks on the talk page. Cheers, --A.Garnet 15:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Series of Istanbul articles and its template

Lets make a template for Istanbul, everything about it. The current article is big, and we can split it and make it into a series of articles related to Istanbul, just like the 'Kurdish history and Culture series' thing. Istanbul deserves it. Can we just do it, or do we need to make requests? deniz 03:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I would discuss it on the articles talk page first Ignore, didnt see your comment on the talk page. --A.Garnet 10:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Turkish language

Congratulations and thanks to Atılım for his efforts in getting it to GA status! Baristarim 19:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Project pages

I tried re-organizing/editing just a bit. There are a few things left to do - tasks need to be cleaned up and organized. Also, we don't really have enough people to start organizing taskforces, but should it be attempted? For example those who undertake to look at new announcements and those who undertake rating? --Free smyrnan 15:38, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Adding user boxes to users pages

I am trying to move participants list to being dynamic. Putting the userbox on a user's page automatically puts them in the Category:WikiProject Turkey Wikipedians category, which is simpler than the user adding their name to the participants' list *and* putting the userbox on their userpage. Regards, --Free smyrnan 16:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I've been adding userboxes to those users listed in the participants' list, but not in the category. --Free smyrnan 16:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd prefer to have no userboxes on my page, if i remove it will my name be taken off the list? --A.Garnet 16:10, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Would you be OK with a category? [[Category:WikiProject Turkey Wikipedians]] also puts you in the list, w/o a userbox. --Free smyrnan 16:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)