Ivario

Hi! I saw you added a lot of extra info to Riga neighbourhood articles, including infoboxes. I think you probably copied the infobox format from the existing article(s). They were using flags in infoboxes, and English Wikipedia doesn't do those (anymore) per MOS:FLAGINFOBOX. I fixed/removed them from all the suburb articles now. Just letting you know if you plan to add more infoboxes. —  HELLKNOWZ   ▎TALK 14:48, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for reminding me of this issue. I do, however, see this sentence: "Human geographic articles – for example settlements and administrative subdivisions – may have flags of the country and first-level administrative subdivision in infoboxes." So doesn't this apply to that? I think that these two small flags don't distract much from the content of the neighbourhood articles, since a large number of these are just stubs with a few sentences. Ivario (talk) 17:29, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
It does apply if we want it to. (As far as I know, this comes from historic use of flags everywhere and having a zillion pages of various geographical administrative divisions with their specific flag layouts.) My interpretation is that if we are adding new ones, there usually isn't a good reason to add them. I personally agree with the intro of the FLAGINFOBOX that flags don't add anything to already-busy infoboxes and only subtract from clarity, even when they are for administrative divisions. The usual argument is that if it links to Latvia, then does a tiny 24px   really make it any clearer unless you already know the flag? If anything, Latvia's maroon flag is really prominent. (It's the first thing you will probably notice in this reply.) Riga flag or coat of arms is something even many Rigans won't know, so the tiny icon is unlikely to help. I know most other language Wikipedias use flag icons, because they are basically kind of cool. I might be mistaken, but I believe most articles that have frequent editors don't have icons anymore. Since English Wikipedia has discussed every minute detail, I think most editors agree that icons only add redundancy and undue prominence to fields when there is a full text name already. —  HELLKNOWZ   ▎TALK 18:15, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
In this case it sounds a bit like an overreaction, and the claim of the flag/CoA of Riga being unknown to Rigans seems preposterous to me with it being used quite widely in the public space for quite some time (on municipal buildings, schools, busses, municipal police uniforms/cars, posters/visuals etc.). But fine, if it is such an eyesore, I will refrain from using the small flags for now. Ivario (talk) 12:47, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
My point about recognition was that I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the world would not recognize Latvian flag, let alone a city flag. The articles aren't written for people from Riga. Something like WP:RF talks on the subject and how included information may or may not be be useful. I don't really feel strongly about this either. I just removed the flag from an article on my watchlist, but then clicked some others and they had it too and I ended up removing them from pretty much all neighbourhood articles. So I thought I would leave a note to you because you have edited/added many of them and I wanted to explain myself. —  HELLKNOWZ   ▎TALK 14:55, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Understood. I have to admit that I haven't brushed up on all of the style manuals too, and if there are restrictions with asterisks involved, it can get confusing. I guess will still remain a passive advocate of flags in infoboxes for now :) Thanks for letting me know your thoughts. Ivario (talk) 19:34, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

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I tried to find anything about change of representing country about Pavel Tregubov, all I search is this, [Pavel V Tregubov - Top Chess Players], which I had added as a source reference.

Regarding the date March 2023, that Chess.com news [Former Women's World Champion Changes Federation From Russia To Switzerland] only mentioned about Wife Alexandra Kosteniuk transfer allegiance to Switzerland on March 2023. And her first marriage to Swiss citizen [Diego Garces] hence her Swiss 2nd citizenship (and remarried Pavel Tregubov in 2015) so March 2023 only related to her.
Since there's is no mention of the date Pavel Tregubov change to France, someone could "said" March 2023 is not that actual date he changed to play chess for France. (But he switching to France is proven with the addition of reliable source reference [WP:RELIABILITY]] from Chess News I just recently added)

Can I remove "March 2023"? (or someone would "dispute it")
Or where is that "March 2023" switching date come from?

Thanks. --- Cat12zu3 (talk) 19:16, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I got the information from the Russian Wiki article. I dug around and found that a major Russian sports news portal, sports.ru, wrote in August 2023 that Tregubov started to represent France 'at the same time as Alexandra [Kosteniuk]' (Russian: Одновременно с Александрой за Францию начал выступать ее супруг Павел Трегубов (306-е место в мире), https://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/allresp/3179572.html). This is quite murky, but seems to confirm my edit. I'll add this to the article as well. Ivario (talk) 19:24, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
oh I see...ru domain....becuase (if I'm not wrong) generally most of Russia media are state-owned so (at least imo) are propaganda...much like Mainland China CCP Communist propaganda.
I will try again to find exact date / excat details (albeit in English) as much as possible.
(to be upfront, (roughly) half of Chinese diaspora are not pro-CCP-PRC communist but are pro-ROC/Taiwan myself included, as for the other half well...... My source never use any cn/hk(post-2020) domain source or CCP-PRC source...becuase is still unreliable Communist propaganda.)
Thanks --- Cat12zu3 (talk) 19:42, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Dear colleague, I have noticed that you are simply removing text from the (possibly incorrect) redirects. While this indeed will cause someone else to look at the redirect, this is not a good way to deal with an issue, as the User:Somebody "Notme" Else is not always familiar with Latvian. If you know a better target for a redirect, simply put this target in. If you think that the redirect should not exist, use the deletion request at Wiki: Redirects for discussion. Thank you in adavnce! Викидим (talk) 01:57, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, thank you for your concern. I did this for the sake of time and I will put in simple, one-sentence descriptions of these counties which I hopefully will be able to expand from the Latvian articles later. If you, User:Somebody "Notme" Else, are reading this, please take this into account. :) Ivario (talk) 02:04, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
The situation for me as a WP:NPP member is a bit confusing, as technically this is no longer a redirect (and I do not want to revert your change). I will try to delete one of the blanked redirects using WP:PROD, and will see what the people with flags will say (they might not like my take, then I will be forced first to revert you change, then go WP:RFD). I will revert your change and go to WP:RFD. Regular deletion way is so much cleaner. Plus, you seem to know differences between administrative units and can explain it so much better. Викидим (talk) 02:11, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
OK, but can I still go ahead with my original plan on the one-sentence descriptions? Ivario (talk) 02:19, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Sure, WP:BEBOLD. There are two easy ways for you: (1) Simply change the redirect into an article (keeping the Latvian title), (2) Create a new article with translated title ("... County"?) and change redirect to point to it. It is also possible to create an article first and then "move" it over the redirect using WP:MOR. Note that had you not blanked the page, such a move could have been performed by you (or me), but with two or more edits higher powers need to be summoned. Викидим (talk) 02:26, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Haha, I guess I just bit the bullet in a way. I'd rather keep the Latvian article names as the base ones for the sake of consistency. Ivario (talk) 02:34, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Since it looks like you know Latvian, note that there are no WP:RS in Liepāja District. Викидим (talk) 02:47, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
OK, I can tend to that on a later date as well than. Ivario (talk) 02:51, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Jēkabpils apriņķis. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

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The original sources at the moment are only in Latvian. Assuming that you don't read Latvian, don't you think that will render the article in permanent review limbo? Ivario (talk) 09:38, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
One (or more) Latvian sources is better than the current unreferenced state. At least there is a chance that a reviewer who knows Latvian gets to the draft. Also, google translate is pretty good on a lot of languages. Hopefully, Latvian is one of them. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:37, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

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