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Asian Infrastructure investment Bank information

Kindly stop removing the environmental section with no due cause. The citations are reliable, and should remain there for readers to obtain an unobscured view of proceedings You cited no reason the last time you removed the section, and I would ask you not to do so again, as it will be reinstated — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr achughes (talk • contribs) 08:56, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

user:Dr archughes, thanks for informing me here on the revert. I will answer on the contents on the talk page (talk:AIIB), but just wanted to let you know I did leave an "edit summary": remove text with no ref on env policy of the bank... there may be causes for concern, but they should be cited from reliable sources (not the bad things, but the bad things directly linked to AIIB. L.tak (talk) 10:09, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

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Bonaire in FIFA

Hi, L. Tak

I have responded to your comments on the talk page of the Bonaire national football team. I did not previously notice that you had commented their. I appreciate the discussion. Thanks.

--Gri3720 (talk) 22:11, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

2015 Dutch Appeal Court Judgment

Hi L.tak, you may wish to have a look at this section of the "European Patent Office" article. This might be in your area of expertise (Dutch and international laws). I am notably wondering whether De Volkskrant is generally regarded as a reliable source for such matters. Thanks. --Edcolins (talk) 20:20, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for raising this. De Volkskrant is one of only a few national newspapers with a large audience (together with NRC, Trouw, Parool, Telegraaf), and those are (with the exception of the latter in many cases) reasonably neutral. The big question is wether the subtleties of this type of judgement are sufficiently taken into account in newspapers in general. They often miss a bit of the context. In this case the facts are presented relatively well, but reason why this was so notable was not indicated. In my personal opinion the judgement was extremely well reasoned; spending a lot of time determine why it had jurisdiction despite the fact that an international organization was involved; basically saying that as the unions could not turn to ILOAT, and EPO had not provided in an alternative appeal mechanism, its fundamental rights were breached. The judge then went on to consider that is should only evaluate if general principles had been breached and thus ordered recognition. I'll see what I can improve in the next few days; and reduce the length a bit... L.tak (talk) 20:43, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll also try to find other sources. This must have been discussed in other newspapers, etc. --Edcolins (talk) 21:02, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

File:London_Agreement_(patents).svg to update

Would you know how to correct this image File:London_Agreement_(patents).svg? Albania should be in blue, per [1] (I think the law has changed in 2014...). Thanks! --Edcolins (talk) 18:55, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Done (it's quite easy actually)! Weird, that this data can be changed after ratification! L.tak (talk) 19:53, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!--Edcolins (talk) 13:34, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

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Template:Did you know nominations/Bei Bei

Hello, L.tak! You reviewed the above DYK nomination, and made suggestions for a better hook, which I agreed with. If you think the nomination is now OK and ready to go, would you mind saying so at the nomination, and adding the {{subst:DYKtick}} check mark? That check mark is what indicates to the DYK clerks that the nomination is approved and ready to be promoted to the next stage of the process. Thanks again for your review and advice. --MelanieN (talk) 19:11, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Re:Your recovery:

Again, I'm sure it's unintentional and—especially if you're not American—apologies. If you weren't aware, there's a history there and elsewhere in the Anglosphere that makes a hook solely devoted to "funny-sounding Chinese names" inappropriate. Yes, they are cute names, which is why the Chinese use them, but it's a bit tainted in English when you provide no context. See also why English has no good word for 中国人 anymore. — LlywelynII 00:42, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

He Lliywelyn, thanks for getting back to me and taking over the review. I am aware that stereotyping should be avoided and every country or language has its own examples of what -seen in context- should be regarded pejorative. There are also clear relations to wikipedia's many biases. I have no problems if such a point is brought up in the discussion. But using the term racism (even while you were adding the AGF assumption it was unintentional which is weird: unintentional racism is a contradictio in terminis for me) is using an extremely strong term that -at least for me- has even stronger connotations. It IMO thus shouldn't be used lightly... L.tak (talk) 07:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Referendums in the Netherlands

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