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Hello Axel, welcome to Wikipedia. You might like to start by reading the tutorial and introducing yourself at the new users page. You can sign your name using four tildes (~~~~) and you can preview your changes before you save using the show preview button. You can regularly find new tips on the Community Portal. If you have any questions, you can ask at the help desk or on my talk page. I look forward to reading your great articles and I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. :) Angela . 07:44, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
We don't make a preference of one spelling system over another. Please don't Move articles, especially, just because you think the spelling should be different. I will be reverting List of Defence Ministers of France. Rick K 06:48, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
Do not edit a page simply to "correct" the spelling in either direction.. If you do, I will revert it again. DO NOT DO ANY major changes like this without dsicussing them first. Rick K 07:00, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
I apologise for RickK's rudeness. He lacks tact. Basically on Wikipedia, to avoid reactions like this, we leave spellings the way the original author wrote them. Only in country (or culture) specific articles do we favour one spelling over another. So we use Australian English on Australia, but US English on New York, for example. By the way, welcome (belatedly) to Wikipedia, from a fellow Aussie :) - Mark 07:06, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi :) If you have a few minutes it be great if you could have a look at West Papua and the re-name proposal at the bottom of its discussion page. Any input, edits, or opinions be great. I've always tried to ensure there was an abundance of supporting evidence before adding content, and avoid emotive wording; I welcome different opinions, just wish they would explain what it is they disagree with. All Best :) Daeron 06:02, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I am reorganizing the sections on language examples in each of the consonant articles (trying to make them all fit the same format), and I noticed the English language example, canyon, you added on palatal nasal. Is that an Australian pronunciation? I'm not sure I've ever heard it pronounced that way (by the way, I'm from the US). I just wanted to make sure before I move things around. Thanks. CyborgTosser ( Only half the battle) 10:18, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Just a note to say, first, that I appreciate your taking the time to convert some of the many SAMPA phonetic transcriptions to IPA.
I would ask, however, that you avoid non-rhotic transcriptions. Non-rhotic dialects are phonologically innovative, and more complex, than rhotic English. Learners of English as a foreign language, the chief audience for phonetic transcriptions, should not be taught to imitate them. More importantly, they are rule-bound, and the non-rhotic pronunciation can be derived simply from a rhotic transcription by the application of simple derivational rules; so those whose speech is non-rhotic can figure out their local pronunciation from a full transcription. Thanks. -- Smerdis of Tlön 14:57, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
At RfC I listed:
I guess this is a field where you can weight in as a moderating force.
Regards!
--
Johan Magnus 09:59, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi - just noticed your creation of Australia-gov-stub. Looks like this will be a useful one, but in future please propose new stub categories on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria, so that they can be debated before creation!
Grutness|
hello?
09:46, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
PS - there seems to be something up with the edit function on your talk page... The wrong section opens up when you go to edit a section...
Sorry for the delay in responding. But there's a bit more in my latest edit to Talk: Yoghurt. rossb 21:07, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
Even more apologies for a delay in responding, but I've been away dealing with a family crisis. I use Kate's tool for monitoring my edit count when I am getting near to a landmark. You can work it out for past milestones by going through your 'My contributions' link; setting the number of articles to 500; and then repeatedly hitting the 'next 500' link. When you get to the end, then you keep reducing the number of articles displayed and paging through until you're showing the last 20. Setting the article count back to 500 will show the last 500 articles, and so the first article displayed is your 500th edit. You can then select 'previous 500' to find the later milestones. Apparently this puts a heavy load on the servers, so it's not really something to be recommended. Hope that helps. Noisy | Talk 13:46, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
On my talk page, you've asked how Danes would pronounce your name. I'm a Dane, but I'm not good at phonetics. Anyway, here's a suggestion:
"Axel" or "Aksel" is old norse, probably meaning "gods helmet". It is pronounced much as in English. The A is perhaps more open like in British "bath", and the E is almost silent ("ahksl").
"Skovdam" means "forest ´pond", I guess. "Sko" is pronounced as in the word "Scotch"; "ov" is like a diphtong "ou" (and also like the Danish word "og", meaning "and"). In "dam", the A is like that in "Axel", but shorter and with auxilliary stress only. So it is quite short and open compared to the A in English "dam" or "damn".
Hope this helps.-- Niels Ø 17:39, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
Regarding your recent edits at
Riḍván
[1], I don't think you realize the problem.
You got rid of the "d with a dot below it" in the "the correct title is..." message and replaced it with (what I assume is) the same character the message warns users about. I can't even confirm this as my perspective looks like the following:
[[Image:Ridvan_article.gif|center]] (deleted)
lol the colors got a little messed up in the gif conversion.
(however, using ḍ (ḍ) renders properly in the article but not as a title.)
Ok well it still does not look much different, (I still have empty squares in place of the ḍ's) so I will have to take your word for it as I'm not really at liberty to download
Firefox on the computer I'm using at the moment. (I do most of my wikipedia use/contribution at work—night shift at a hotel gets boring.) I have heard positive comments about Firefox and do plan to get it on my home computer soon. I don't, however, think my bosses (less computer-literate than me, even) would even notice if I added extra font sets/unicode (or whatever) to the hotel computer. And then perhaps I would be able to view it properly in MSIE. Can you give me at a URL from which I can download the stuff I'd need to view it in IE?
Also, I'm sure I'm not the only one having this problem, so is there an existing template message that says something to the effect of "If your system does not properly display some of the characters on this page, you might consider installing extra font-sets from _____."? I think that would be helpful to a large portion of wikipedia users.
Lastly, regarding firefox, I did have one person tell me it's kinda futile to install a 2nd web browser on a windows system because internet explorer is built into the system (I know explorer is used for displaying contents of local folders, etc.) Is firefox capable of completely replacing explorer for all tasks?
I realize this last question has little to do with wikipedia but I've been wondering this for a while, whether IE can be completely gotten rid of at that point or whether it will maintain a permanant and largely redundant (hard drive- and RAM-consuming) presence even after firefox is installed.
A lot of questions, I know. Thanks in advance for advice on this.
The squares representing the "unknown" character are now much narrower. I figured I would have to download something on my end for it to work. — FREAK OF NURxTURE ( TALK) 10:53, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
Would you please stop doing these pointless reverts? We are here to state the obvious and this idea about shortening phylums to just a point on the compass that are somewhat oblique unless you're very familiar with the whole classification thing.
Peter Isotalo 03:52, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello there, saw your edit to the Category:Australian Wikipedians cat, with reference to the page that it is supposed to be replacing. It would be much more helpful to start making the subcategories for the Australian Wikipedians category (such as Australian Administrators, Wikipedians in Australia Capital Territory, etc.) and help make the transition rather than provide a link back to the system that is being overwritten. The English Wikipedia is one of the only ones sill using large lists to categorize users instead of categories, which have shown to work a lot better despite lack of annotation (which should be reserved for the respective users' page anyhow). Thoughts on this? If you want to help, please do! The project goal is to replace the subpage lists of the Wikipedia:Wikipedians article with categories: Category:Wikipedians, Category:Wikipedians by location. I haven't gotten to Australia yet but if you fall into the category it would be more prudent for you to make these changes anyway. -- thereverendeg 17:42, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Hey. When adding categories to users' pages, it would be helpful if the edit summary included a link back to the project page, so that the user would both see what's going on and possibly even help. The one suggested by the project page (which I admit I wrote there) is [[Wikipedia:User categorisation|User categorisation]]. Other projects tend to do this a lot to gain attention. If it's annoying to copy between two things (both the category tag and the edit summary), then autocomplete in the edit summary textbox can be helpful (though personally I just copy between two Firefox tabs). PeepP 19:48, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
|family=[[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]]
is, for some reason, rendered with <p> between Indo-European and Balto-Slavic. This results in uneven line spacing in the resulting table. That's why I prefer to use
|family=[[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]]<br> [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]]
Naive cynic 00:51, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel. I was looking at the SAMPA chart for English and found myself disagreeing with many of the Australian English sounds you added on May 2, 2005. The suggestions that we use a schwa in the first syllable of words such as father and arm are particularly hard to understand. Would you care to clarify what regional pronunciation you used as your reference and how you made these decisions?
Thanks
Mbwardle 23:47, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel,
Just thought I'd say hi since you live in the Macedon Ranges, and so do I (Gisborne). Drop me a line sometime!
Neolux 06:15, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting the categories on my user page, It is much appreciated. — Wackymacs 20:24, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Same thanks here! ~~ N ( t/ c) 12:39, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I did think of this when I added the categores, but my user name isn't real (it's not a given name and a family name), and I think of it as beginning with "M". -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 08:00, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
In a few posts, I left this message about edits from an anon IP-user that matched your editing habits very closely and was making some fairly sneaky and unmotivated edits. You removed this post without a comment. Hardly a constructive response to a polite inquiry. Would you care to explain why?
You are also still rather forcefully and unilaterally trying to decide the appearance of the language infoboxes. Your motivation so far ( SIL likes that layout format) isn't really a very convincing argument and I would wish you would have a more compromising approach to this. Editors at Norwegian language don't seem to be agreeing with you here either. Otherwise you seem to be doing a good job. Keep it up.
Peter Isotalo 14:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Just a minor point - you removed the spacing on the IPA transcriptions. Isn't spacing a customary device to indicate syllabification? They are harder to read otherwise. What are your views? Slac speak up!
Hello there. I noticed your vote on Talk:Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, and I was hoping you could further explain it. The policy on naming conventions specifically allows for the exception I and others are proposing:
EXCEPTIONS: When individuals received hereditary peerages after retiring from the post of Prime Minister (unless they are better known for their later career under an additional/alternative title), or for any other reason are known exclusively by their personal names, do not include the peerage dignity. Examples: Anthony Eden (not "Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon"), Bertrand Russell (not "Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell") (but Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth not "Henry Addington"). [2]
Given that Duff Cooper is exclusively referred to without his peerage, it seems to me and others that this exception applies. Best, Mackensen (talk) 20:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
You're making edits that are neither helpful nor enlighetening. You're focusing more on getting your personal whims reflected than caring about article quality. It's very, very frustrating and I would appreciate if you just stopped it altogether. These errors are obvious enough that you should understand, so I'm not eager to have another long, pointless discussion with you about it.
Peter Isotalo 07:35, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
I don't know why you would consider my edit "vandalism", since I was trying to clarify. If you want people who don't know phonology to get the pronunciation right, you should consider at least using phonetic transcription. Most people are just going to be confused by those /g/s. Peter Isotalo 13:01, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
I guess you wish to influence how to apply naming conventions. Please take a look at Talk:Elisabeth of Bohemia. Arrigo 15:03, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
and another: Kindly take a look at Talk:John, Duke of Burgundy, where a poll is ongoing. Arrigo 10:57, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
With regard to AfD/VfD, please read Wikipedia:Guide to Votes for deletion#Incompatible votes
Wikipedia:Guide to deletion#Shorthands.
To comply with the GFDL, we need to retain the edit history of edits we merge and redirect it to the article we merge it to. You cannot vote to delete the edit history while voting for merge of information. - Mgm| (talk) 11:16, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Hello, you voted on this VfD which I had accidentlally pasted Gillian Slovo instead of JDizzle Comics. I cleared all votes in order to remove any bias because of my stupidity so please vote again knowing that it is about JDizzle Comics. Sorry and thanks. gren グレン 21:31, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
(Copied from User_talk:Cassowary#Customising_keyboard)
Hi, thanks for voting for me in my RFA. I was really touched at how many people voted for me! -- Angr/ tɔk tə mi 22:49, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)#Ordinals of medieval personages 217.140.193.123 04:15, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel. Please note that you just reverted an edit of mine that I tagged with the following comment
I would have been happier if you heeded my invitation to discuss this (possibly contentious) issue instead of just reverting it. As I pointed out, I had a paragraph about exactly this issue (i.e., value of ß in disambiguating the Strauss page) on WP:MOS's talk page. Your opinions on this are appreciated. Arbor 07:47, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
Axel, I notice you've worked through tidying up most of the Australian Highways today. Is there a reason you've tagged a lot of the short ones with {{ road-stub}} instead of {{ Australia-road-stub}}? Just wondering if you had a reason rather than me following up and retagging them all if you had a reason. Cheers. -- Scott Davis Talk 07:43, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
I guess my view is that since there's a more specific stub category, I'd use it, the same as putting articles in the most specific available category. Maybe one day someone will make a point of working through all our roads and expanding them to full articles. I just wanted to make sure you weren't in the process of deliberately emptying the category or something. I might sort all Aus roads back into the Australian stub category, or even expand some, sometime this week then. Cheers. -- Scott Davis Talk 04:24, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
In light of the total rewrite of Oliver Coipel, can I convince you to change your vote? DS 19:48, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.
The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks!Fir e Fo x 18:21, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I'm trying to make a new category: Wikipedians from Garneau or from {{Category:Wikipedians from l'École Secondaire Catholique Garneau}} {{Category:Wikipdeians from Garneau}}. I got run off today, but perhaps you can help out. -- CyclePat 16:36, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Completely without announcement, an article was moved from its common English name Nidhogg to the old Norse version Níðhöggr, even though a proposal to move mythology articles to non-English spellings failed to gain consensus. You have expressed interest in simular page moves in the past. Please take a minute to look at this one. CDThieme 18:59, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
It seems you are very knowledgeable regarding Unicode fonts; I'm looking for the most complete font available, as in the font that covers the largest part of the current Unicode standard characters. Thanks in advance! — Nightstallion (?) 14:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
As a contributor to football articles you may wish to vote at talk:Football World Cup Jooler 13:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, when trying to go over the discussion at 2003 invasion of Iraq I saw it has become a big mess. If I see it correctly there was a conflict between an anon and others and now the page has been blocked. I think the anon had a point that an encyclopedia article about any military conflict should not be written exclusively by three members of one the conflicting parties, in this case Pookster11, Swatjester, and Dawgknot who according to this comment all belong to the US military. I therefore suggest to get more people into the boat, that should take the wind out of the sails of bias allegations. As I saw you also edited on that page, would you be willing to help out? Get-back-world-respect 22:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
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Hello Axel, welcome to Wikipedia. You might like to start by reading the tutorial and introducing yourself at the new users page. You can sign your name using four tildes (~~~~) and you can preview your changes before you save using the show preview button. You can regularly find new tips on the Community Portal. If you have any questions, you can ask at the help desk or on my talk page. I look forward to reading your great articles and I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. :) Angela . 07:44, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
We don't make a preference of one spelling system over another. Please don't Move articles, especially, just because you think the spelling should be different. I will be reverting List of Defence Ministers of France. Rick K 06:48, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
Do not edit a page simply to "correct" the spelling in either direction.. If you do, I will revert it again. DO NOT DO ANY major changes like this without dsicussing them first. Rick K 07:00, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
I apologise for RickK's rudeness. He lacks tact. Basically on Wikipedia, to avoid reactions like this, we leave spellings the way the original author wrote them. Only in country (or culture) specific articles do we favour one spelling over another. So we use Australian English on Australia, but US English on New York, for example. By the way, welcome (belatedly) to Wikipedia, from a fellow Aussie :) - Mark 07:06, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi :) If you have a few minutes it be great if you could have a look at West Papua and the re-name proposal at the bottom of its discussion page. Any input, edits, or opinions be great. I've always tried to ensure there was an abundance of supporting evidence before adding content, and avoid emotive wording; I welcome different opinions, just wish they would explain what it is they disagree with. All Best :) Daeron 06:02, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I am reorganizing the sections on language examples in each of the consonant articles (trying to make them all fit the same format), and I noticed the English language example, canyon, you added on palatal nasal. Is that an Australian pronunciation? I'm not sure I've ever heard it pronounced that way (by the way, I'm from the US). I just wanted to make sure before I move things around. Thanks. CyborgTosser ( Only half the battle) 10:18, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Just a note to say, first, that I appreciate your taking the time to convert some of the many SAMPA phonetic transcriptions to IPA.
I would ask, however, that you avoid non-rhotic transcriptions. Non-rhotic dialects are phonologically innovative, and more complex, than rhotic English. Learners of English as a foreign language, the chief audience for phonetic transcriptions, should not be taught to imitate them. More importantly, they are rule-bound, and the non-rhotic pronunciation can be derived simply from a rhotic transcription by the application of simple derivational rules; so those whose speech is non-rhotic can figure out their local pronunciation from a full transcription. Thanks. -- Smerdis of Tlön 14:57, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
At RfC I listed:
I guess this is a field where you can weight in as a moderating force.
Regards!
--
Johan Magnus 09:59, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi - just noticed your creation of Australia-gov-stub. Looks like this will be a useful one, but in future please propose new stub categories on
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria, so that they can be debated before creation!
Grutness|
hello?
09:46, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
PS - there seems to be something up with the edit function on your talk page... The wrong section opens up when you go to edit a section...
Sorry for the delay in responding. But there's a bit more in my latest edit to Talk: Yoghurt. rossb 21:07, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
Even more apologies for a delay in responding, but I've been away dealing with a family crisis. I use Kate's tool for monitoring my edit count when I am getting near to a landmark. You can work it out for past milestones by going through your 'My contributions' link; setting the number of articles to 500; and then repeatedly hitting the 'next 500' link. When you get to the end, then you keep reducing the number of articles displayed and paging through until you're showing the last 20. Setting the article count back to 500 will show the last 500 articles, and so the first article displayed is your 500th edit. You can then select 'previous 500' to find the later milestones. Apparently this puts a heavy load on the servers, so it's not really something to be recommended. Hope that helps. Noisy | Talk 13:46, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
On my talk page, you've asked how Danes would pronounce your name. I'm a Dane, but I'm not good at phonetics. Anyway, here's a suggestion:
"Axel" or "Aksel" is old norse, probably meaning "gods helmet". It is pronounced much as in English. The A is perhaps more open like in British "bath", and the E is almost silent ("ahksl").
"Skovdam" means "forest ´pond", I guess. "Sko" is pronounced as in the word "Scotch"; "ov" is like a diphtong "ou" (and also like the Danish word "og", meaning "and"). In "dam", the A is like that in "Axel", but shorter and with auxilliary stress only. So it is quite short and open compared to the A in English "dam" or "damn".
Hope this helps.-- Niels Ø 17:39, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
Regarding your recent edits at
Riḍván
[1], I don't think you realize the problem.
You got rid of the "d with a dot below it" in the "the correct title is..." message and replaced it with (what I assume is) the same character the message warns users about. I can't even confirm this as my perspective looks like the following:
[[Image:Ridvan_article.gif|center]] (deleted)
lol the colors got a little messed up in the gif conversion.
(however, using ḍ (ḍ) renders properly in the article but not as a title.)
Ok well it still does not look much different, (I still have empty squares in place of the ḍ's) so I will have to take your word for it as I'm not really at liberty to download
Firefox on the computer I'm using at the moment. (I do most of my wikipedia use/contribution at work—night shift at a hotel gets boring.) I have heard positive comments about Firefox and do plan to get it on my home computer soon. I don't, however, think my bosses (less computer-literate than me, even) would even notice if I added extra font sets/unicode (or whatever) to the hotel computer. And then perhaps I would be able to view it properly in MSIE. Can you give me at a URL from which I can download the stuff I'd need to view it in IE?
Also, I'm sure I'm not the only one having this problem, so is there an existing template message that says something to the effect of "If your system does not properly display some of the characters on this page, you might consider installing extra font-sets from _____."? I think that would be helpful to a large portion of wikipedia users.
Lastly, regarding firefox, I did have one person tell me it's kinda futile to install a 2nd web browser on a windows system because internet explorer is built into the system (I know explorer is used for displaying contents of local folders, etc.) Is firefox capable of completely replacing explorer for all tasks?
I realize this last question has little to do with wikipedia but I've been wondering this for a while, whether IE can be completely gotten rid of at that point or whether it will maintain a permanant and largely redundant (hard drive- and RAM-consuming) presence even after firefox is installed.
A lot of questions, I know. Thanks in advance for advice on this.
The squares representing the "unknown" character are now much narrower. I figured I would have to download something on my end for it to work. — FREAK OF NURxTURE ( TALK) 10:53, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
Would you please stop doing these pointless reverts? We are here to state the obvious and this idea about shortening phylums to just a point on the compass that are somewhat oblique unless you're very familiar with the whole classification thing.
Peter Isotalo 03:52, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello there, saw your edit to the Category:Australian Wikipedians cat, with reference to the page that it is supposed to be replacing. It would be much more helpful to start making the subcategories for the Australian Wikipedians category (such as Australian Administrators, Wikipedians in Australia Capital Territory, etc.) and help make the transition rather than provide a link back to the system that is being overwritten. The English Wikipedia is one of the only ones sill using large lists to categorize users instead of categories, which have shown to work a lot better despite lack of annotation (which should be reserved for the respective users' page anyhow). Thoughts on this? If you want to help, please do! The project goal is to replace the subpage lists of the Wikipedia:Wikipedians article with categories: Category:Wikipedians, Category:Wikipedians by location. I haven't gotten to Australia yet but if you fall into the category it would be more prudent for you to make these changes anyway. -- thereverendeg 17:42, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
Hey. When adding categories to users' pages, it would be helpful if the edit summary included a link back to the project page, so that the user would both see what's going on and possibly even help. The one suggested by the project page (which I admit I wrote there) is [[Wikipedia:User categorisation|User categorisation]]. Other projects tend to do this a lot to gain attention. If it's annoying to copy between two things (both the category tag and the edit summary), then autocomplete in the edit summary textbox can be helpful (though personally I just copy between two Firefox tabs). PeepP 19:48, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
|family=[[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]]
is, for some reason, rendered with <p> between Indo-European and Balto-Slavic. This results in uneven line spacing in the resulting table. That's why I prefer to use
|family=[[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]]<br> [[Balto-Slavic languages|Balto-Slavic]]
Naive cynic 00:51, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel. I was looking at the SAMPA chart for English and found myself disagreeing with many of the Australian English sounds you added on May 2, 2005. The suggestions that we use a schwa in the first syllable of words such as father and arm are particularly hard to understand. Would you care to clarify what regional pronunciation you used as your reference and how you made these decisions?
Thanks
Mbwardle 23:47, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel,
Just thought I'd say hi since you live in the Macedon Ranges, and so do I (Gisborne). Drop me a line sometime!
Neolux 06:15, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting the categories on my user page, It is much appreciated. — Wackymacs 20:24, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Same thanks here! ~~ N ( t/ c) 12:39, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I did think of this when I added the categores, but my user name isn't real (it's not a given name and a family name), and I think of it as beginning with "M". -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 08:00, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
In a few posts, I left this message about edits from an anon IP-user that matched your editing habits very closely and was making some fairly sneaky and unmotivated edits. You removed this post without a comment. Hardly a constructive response to a polite inquiry. Would you care to explain why?
You are also still rather forcefully and unilaterally trying to decide the appearance of the language infoboxes. Your motivation so far ( SIL likes that layout format) isn't really a very convincing argument and I would wish you would have a more compromising approach to this. Editors at Norwegian language don't seem to be agreeing with you here either. Otherwise you seem to be doing a good job. Keep it up.
Peter Isotalo 14:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Just a minor point - you removed the spacing on the IPA transcriptions. Isn't spacing a customary device to indicate syllabification? They are harder to read otherwise. What are your views? Slac speak up!
Hello there. I noticed your vote on Talk:Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, and I was hoping you could further explain it. The policy on naming conventions specifically allows for the exception I and others are proposing:
EXCEPTIONS: When individuals received hereditary peerages after retiring from the post of Prime Minister (unless they are better known for their later career under an additional/alternative title), or for any other reason are known exclusively by their personal names, do not include the peerage dignity. Examples: Anthony Eden (not "Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon"), Bertrand Russell (not "Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell") (but Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth not "Henry Addington"). [2]
Given that Duff Cooper is exclusively referred to without his peerage, it seems to me and others that this exception applies. Best, Mackensen (talk) 20:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
You're making edits that are neither helpful nor enlighetening. You're focusing more on getting your personal whims reflected than caring about article quality. It's very, very frustrating and I would appreciate if you just stopped it altogether. These errors are obvious enough that you should understand, so I'm not eager to have another long, pointless discussion with you about it.
Peter Isotalo 07:35, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
I don't know why you would consider my edit "vandalism", since I was trying to clarify. If you want people who don't know phonology to get the pronunciation right, you should consider at least using phonetic transcription. Most people are just going to be confused by those /g/s. Peter Isotalo 13:01, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
I guess you wish to influence how to apply naming conventions. Please take a look at Talk:Elisabeth of Bohemia. Arrigo 15:03, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
and another: Kindly take a look at Talk:John, Duke of Burgundy, where a poll is ongoing. Arrigo 10:57, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
With regard to AfD/VfD, please read Wikipedia:Guide to Votes for deletion#Incompatible votes
Wikipedia:Guide to deletion#Shorthands.
To comply with the GFDL, we need to retain the edit history of edits we merge and redirect it to the article we merge it to. You cannot vote to delete the edit history while voting for merge of information. - Mgm| (talk) 11:16, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Hello, you voted on this VfD which I had accidentlally pasted Gillian Slovo instead of JDizzle Comics. I cleared all votes in order to remove any bias because of my stupidity so please vote again knowing that it is about JDizzle Comics. Sorry and thanks. gren グレン 21:31, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
(Copied from User_talk:Cassowary#Customising_keyboard)
Hi, thanks for voting for me in my RFA. I was really touched at how many people voted for me! -- Angr/ tɔk tə mi 22:49, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)#Ordinals of medieval personages 217.140.193.123 04:15, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel. Please note that you just reverted an edit of mine that I tagged with the following comment
I would have been happier if you heeded my invitation to discuss this (possibly contentious) issue instead of just reverting it. As I pointed out, I had a paragraph about exactly this issue (i.e., value of ß in disambiguating the Strauss page) on WP:MOS's talk page. Your opinions on this are appreciated. Arbor 07:47, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
Axel, I notice you've worked through tidying up most of the Australian Highways today. Is there a reason you've tagged a lot of the short ones with {{ road-stub}} instead of {{ Australia-road-stub}}? Just wondering if you had a reason rather than me following up and retagging them all if you had a reason. Cheers. -- Scott Davis Talk 07:43, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
I guess my view is that since there's a more specific stub category, I'd use it, the same as putting articles in the most specific available category. Maybe one day someone will make a point of working through all our roads and expanding them to full articles. I just wanted to make sure you weren't in the process of deliberately emptying the category or something. I might sort all Aus roads back into the Australian stub category, or even expand some, sometime this week then. Cheers. -- Scott Davis Talk 04:24, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
In light of the total rewrite of Oliver Coipel, can I convince you to change your vote? DS 19:48, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.
The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks!Fir e Fo x 18:21, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I'm trying to make a new category: Wikipedians from Garneau or from {{Category:Wikipedians from l'École Secondaire Catholique Garneau}} {{Category:Wikipdeians from Garneau}}. I got run off today, but perhaps you can help out. -- CyclePat 16:36, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Completely without announcement, an article was moved from its common English name Nidhogg to the old Norse version Níðhöggr, even though a proposal to move mythology articles to non-English spellings failed to gain consensus. You have expressed interest in simular page moves in the past. Please take a minute to look at this one. CDThieme 18:59, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
It seems you are very knowledgeable regarding Unicode fonts; I'm looking for the most complete font available, as in the font that covers the largest part of the current Unicode standard characters. Thanks in advance! — Nightstallion (?) 14:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
As a contributor to football articles you may wish to vote at talk:Football World Cup Jooler 13:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, when trying to go over the discussion at 2003 invasion of Iraq I saw it has become a big mess. If I see it correctly there was a conflict between an anon and others and now the page has been blocked. I think the anon had a point that an encyclopedia article about any military conflict should not be written exclusively by three members of one the conflicting parties, in this case Pookster11, Swatjester, and Dawgknot who according to this comment all belong to the US military. I therefore suggest to get more people into the boat, that should take the wind out of the sails of bias allegations. As I saw you also edited on that page, would you be willing to help out? Get-back-world-respect 22:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)