User talk:Takeaway

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This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on October 05, 2007 (17 years, 2 months, 3 weeks and 2 days ago).

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Talk archives:

• Archive 1: Beginner's mistakes
• Archive 2: Complaint
• Archive 3: Miscellaneous and barnstars
• Archive 4: My favourite barnstar and other stuff
• Archive 5: All sorts

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My favourite barnstar

		The Bulletproof Barnstar
		In recognition of your contributions to 2010 Thai military crackdown, in which you risked your own personal safety, I award you the Bulletproof Barnstar. Your photography is in keeping with the highest standards of Wikipedia, and I thank you for it. Stay safe out there. - Kafziel Complaint Department 16:45, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks again! - Takeaway (talk) 20:07, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Espresso or nespresso?

Hi , The picture was of Espresso Coffee, I'm new in Wiki and working on articles and media. please guide. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kambojharsangeet (talk • contribs) 11:06, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Kambojharsangeet. Please see https://www.flickr.com/photos/30478819@N08/22655254601, and read the tag there. According to the tags, it is a Nespresso. - Takeaway (talk) 11:11, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

Happy Halloween!

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Lua/Lawa on Inthakin article

Hello. There is a serious problem. It appears that you just changed two words in a referenced citation, and then changed the citation. It doesn't really work that way. For one, there is attribution-by that is needed for the Inthakin story. Removing that is a problem legally. Then just substituting some other source (without explanation). It seems you are trying to skirt an edit-war issue here. Sorry, but the reference you cite points out the basic problem of differentiating the words in the historical record, as well as the meaning. While the author uses the word Lawa, there is no clear statement of identity, rather that it might be impossible to sort it out, regardless of present day peoples and their names. I have serious misgivings about this change in language as if the "correction" is standing on any historical evidence, as it is not. It is best to point out the problems in the article, if you must, but don't just make changes to words that have meaning. Jeffmcneill (talk) 15:44, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

@Jeffmcneill:. Hi. Sorry for the late response. I was kind of real world busy. I will rewrite that section of the Inthakin article soon to reflect the more academic content of the latest source that I had provided. The previous source was very much a tourism website. - Takeaway (talk) 16:36, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Hello Takeaway: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:30, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

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Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:30, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy happy!

Happy New Year!
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Ingvar the Far-Travelled

I am sorry, but I don't find any other way to reply to your removal of a link to Ingvar the Far-Travelled in the William of Rubreck-article.

You say that the Caspian sea is not mentioned in the page I link to. That is correct, the page on Ingvar states that

"Ingvar the Far-Travelled launched this expedition from Sweden, travelling down the Volga River into the land of the Saracens (Serkland)."

Hence, he sailed down the Volga into the Caspian sea, and across the Caspian sea to today's Iran.

This might be the best reference, although the article on the Rus' expeditions to the Caspian sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_expeditions_of_the_Rus%27) also mentions Ingvar's expedition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brainspin (talk • contribs) 17:17, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi Brainspin! First of all, although it is mentioned that Ingvar the Far-Travelled travelled to the Caspian, nowhere is it mentioned that he knew that it was an inland sea and not connected to the Arctic Ocean. One can assume that he might have known it, but that will only be an assumption. Secondly, a good place to question the removal of content is on the talk page of the article itself -> Talk:William of Rubruck. Thank you. - Takeaway (talk) 17:54, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

spam to Udon Thani International Airport ...

... to note that I have globally blacklisted the url. They had their opportunity to stop, and now we have helped. — billinghurst sDrewth 09:49, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

🖒 - Takeaway (talk) 06:59, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Removal of http://www.songkranfestival.net/

Hi

I added our website to Songkran/Thailand. We are probably the only website only about songkran with very well written content. Our Songkran website are translated to English, Swedish and YES Thai language to respect Thai culture and Thailand.

This website have 90% content about songkran in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Burma and China. 5% This website have information about holidays and festivals in same countries, as Songkran is actully only a festival. 5% We have images of Songkran.

100% Website about songkran.

We do have internal banners on desktop left side and right side, mobile is 2 up and 2 down. all is related to Thailand only. No google adverds, no pop up banners nothing ells. this small banners no one can buy.

I see you removed other links. In "References" first link i open is bangkokpost, they may not fit in wiki either. Millions of websites have some sort of income from eg, ads or banners and they are on wiki.

But you win, i will close down my wiki account as on some websites we do make money.

BR Johan songkranfestival.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pihljohan (talk • contribs) 14:24, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

@Pihljohan: Please read WP:ELNO. It is for those reasons that I removed the external links you had placed into two articles. Please also read WP:COI because that apparently applies to you by your own admission. And as for for using a newspaper as a reference for content in articles, this is even advised in wikipedia (read wp:source for more info). Good luck earning more money elsewhere. Cheers. - Takeaway (talk) 14:36, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

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Happy turkey day

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