User talk:Themalau

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Francophone African man living in the USA. I love knowledge, and the idea of having a place where I can access a never ending source of general knowledge just blows my mind, and I just had to participate.

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stubs

Hi Themalau - there are a lot of different stub types. theyre all listed at WP:WSS/ST. if youre mainly working on african articles then a lot of the ones youll need are on Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board (which you might like to check out anyway!). BL kiss the lizard 09:23, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

greetings, DRC

Hi, I am pleased to see we have someone from the Congo contributing articles on the topic. I have been working on articles pertaining to it for several months now, but admittedly my knowledge is limited and information about DRC is difficult to obtain right now due to the situation there. I noticed you've added some info on the recent referendum, I have also done this and that info can be found here, but you may be more update to date on this than i am. Anyway, welcome and let me know if you need any help. --Gozar 03:20, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A question, though, regarding the new flag of the DR Congo: Are you sure the version used will be the one with the larger star

and not the one with the smaller star

more recently in use? Thanks! —Nightst a llion (?) 09:23, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

U know what, that is a very good question... and from the picture currently on the President's webpage, you seem to be more right than I am on this. If you want to switch them now, go ahead. But otherwise, I will do it later today. Thank you for the note.Themalau 09:54, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Where exactly would I find that page? Thanks for the quick reply! —Nightst a llion (?) 10:47, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The site is http://www.presidentrdc.cd Themalau 10:55, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I had found it myself meanwhile. =] —Nightst a llion (?) 11:20, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ville / City

Mbote Themalau,

C'est moi qui ai bossé sur la version française de toute la structure administrative. Bien de s'y mettre aussi en anglais, mais pour l'infobox, le terme ville n'est pas bon. "Ville" (which can be translated by "city") a une définition légale en DRC (voir ma remarque sur Talk:Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo). "Ville" correspond plus à "City", et mais peut aussi être traduit par "town" (qui n'a pas vraiment d'équivalent en français autre que "ville"; peut être "bourg" ou "bourgade", mais ça ne s'utilise plus), qui conviendrait mieux à un endroit tel que Banana par exemple. En français, j'essaie de mettre territoire, ou localité quand il s'agit de la zone urbaine (en général nommée "cité" en DRC).

Il me semble qu'il vaudrait mieux reprendre la structure légale de la version française, sinon on va plus rien y comprendre sur la version anglaise.

Regards,

Vberger 12:04, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am quite impressed with the amount of knowledge you have on the Congo. I wish I could know more about you. I mean your take on some of the topics, and the fact that you speak Wallon, make me think that you are probably a "noko", but I would like to know more.

Themalau 07:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A mondele ! In fact most of my knowledge comes from various sources on the web.

Well, I am just quite bilingual in French and English, plus not far in Dutch and Walloon. For the rest, as I live in a city with 30% percents of people from various nationalities (Liège, Belgium), 30 kiliometers from the Netherlands (10 minutes with the motorway), 50 from Germany (25 minutes), 70 from Luxemburg (...) and 100 from France, it is not too hard to have some culture and a linguistic culture.

For Congo, I was born in Zambia, and I worked for 9 monthes in Kinshasa in 2003 for an international NGO as the Administrative Manager. I'll try to come back there as an international observer for the elections. You also seem to be far away from your mother land...

It is not easy in fact to translate some french words in english for Congo. For exemple, "City" is "Ville" and not "Cité", which is only a town in a territory, or historicaly, the congolese part of the main cities.

Vberger 08:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A bit late here, but isn't Cité as in Cité indigène called a township in English? --moyogo 15:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi!

Thanks for the warm note, Ali. For me as well, it is good to see a "real life" friend on here. :) Schwael 22:54, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

duplicate articles

Hi Themalau, I have merged over the information in Democratic Republic of the Congo (new) on administrative divisons to Democratic Republic of the Congo and deleted the duplicate article. If there was something else in that article that you wanted to merge over, please tell me and I will recreate it as a subpage of your user space. Also, I have merge the page histories of Ituri with the modifed cut-and-paste you created at Ituri Province. Both of these cases deal with creation of articles on duplicate subjects, which are considered very bad. If you wish to move content under a new title, please use the "move" tab at the top of your screen. If there are other edits duplicate articles that you have created, please inform me of what they are and I will assist in cleaning it up. Thanks, Banyan Tree 16:07, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey BT, thank you. The reason why I created a duplicate there, was because at the time, the matters were tentaive. I had planned to do the merge too, I just forgot. Themalau 19:48, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. See you around. - Banyan Tree 01:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

:D

http://www.parlement-rdc.org/ et commons:Image:Armoiries de la République démocratique du Congo - 2006.png :D --moyogo 09:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive me brother Moyogo, I think I am being slow today, because I am not sure I am following what you meant. I would love to get in on the joke though. Themalau 09:54, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry :D It's just interesting to see the site of parliament is using the image of the Coat of Arms made for the Wikimedia Foundation projects. ---moyogo 18:54, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's actually the same one on the President's webiste (well, with the addition of the strange light blue shield in the back. The things we will see in this country...Themalau 08:20, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DRC Portal

Congrats ndeko Themalau, the portal looks really nice. I'll try to find what I can do to help :) ---moyogo 18:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Btw I had fun (sarcasm) drawing the names of the ~203 parties with candidates (with the help of a script or two) from the CEI site: fr:Élection législative congolaise de juillet 2006 and fr:Partis politiques de la République démocratique du Congo has been updated too. Since Political parties of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has translated the names, I wasn't too keen to do it, but the most important parties from the list at fr:Élection législative congolaise de juillet 2006 should probably be added. ---moyogo 21:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Woh... didn't even see that one: http://www.cei-rdc.org/parti_politique.php3 --moyogo 23:03, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ordre des noms sur ln.wikipedia

Salut Themalau,
Il y a une discussion en cours sur l'ordre des noms dans les titres ou les articles ln:Wikipedia talk:Bísó na bísó#Nkómbó, j'aimerais savoir ce que tu en penses. Merci --moyogo 01:12, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bonjour!

J'ai une petite question. C'est écrit sur ta page d'utilisateur que tu as le français comme langue maternelle. Comment est-ce possible? Est-ce que c'est fréquent en Afrique? Bonne Journée! Aaker 14:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Non ce n'est pas frequent en Afrique. D'ailleurs j'ai moi meme un accent Congolais en Francais. Mais j'ai appris le Francais avant mes langues Congolaises (Lingala, Kikongo, etc), et je n'ai jamais reellement appris a ecrire dans ces langues jusqu'il y a de cela3 ou 4 ans seulement. Ainsi, le Francais est ma langue maternelle... par defaut. C'est la langue que je parle, et probablement ecris le mieux (quoique le fait de vivre aux USA me force a ecrire le plus souvent en anglais, donc les fautes de grammaire apparaissent maintenant dans les 2 langues :)). Mais pour la grande majorite des fricains, la langue dans laquelle ils sont le plus confortable, est une langue Africaine. Merci de la visiste!Themalau 11:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Pierre Gemayel

Next time, Themalau, please move the page, don't just use a redirect and merge. It saves all of the previous edits that way.--Daysleeper47 15:40, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That issue was being debated on the Talk Page of the (son) article. Several members were discussing it. In the midst of the discussion, we were redirected. No real harm, but please move the page next time. Thanks for your work on the article!--Daysleeper47 16:05, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Is it just me, or is this entire map a HUGE POV? Themalau 21:59, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion should go on Commons : commons:Image talk:Early-Historical-Israel-Dan-Beersheba-Judea.png --moyogo 23:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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DRC elections

Hey Nightstallion. Do you think you can also start a page for the provincial elections? Because they are the ones that allow for the subsequent Senate, and Governors. That would be really nice. Thanks!! Themalau 19:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd love to, but I have not been able to find any information on it... Could you help? Thanks! —Nightst a llion (?) 14:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Mbɔ́tɛ ndeko,
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Lingála: 600.....

Bazalí nkásá 600 ya lingála o Wikipedia. --Bombo 26 apríli 2007 22:48

Hello

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