Hi, it seems I get to be the first to post to the talk page after the archiving.
I just wanted to bring this to your attention WP:ANI#CDThieme_sockpuppetry since you have had dealings with some of those accounts. Although I had suspicions about some of them, I was shocked to see the extent of the problem. Stefán Ingi 03:37, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
cheers, I knew you would understand. Did he ruin any of your votings as well? I think with Nidhogg he tried didn't he? Gryffindor 19:41, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Morning (for me) Gryffindor,
I was wondering how I could go about joining Esperanza. Thanks, gotta go... Prsgoddess187 12:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Gryffindor,
I'd like to thank you for your suggestions regarding the article I wrote on the Imperial Crown of Brazil.
I have taken your advice and renamed the article.
I have also added tags to the images (the rationale for fair use I had already provided). As for your other comments, rest assured that I wrote the article myself (taking care to provide accurate information, of course).
Can you take a look at this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rebbe_1928_berlin.jpg The image before it was cropped is from http://www.mentalblog.com/hello/271/1249/1024/11-25-2004%208-44-49%20PM_0000.jpg which clearly appears as if it is from a book. If so it may have copyright problems. -- Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 05:26, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi there. I very vaguely remember being asked in IRC to delete that image because it was now on Commons; I don't retain IRC logs to prove that fact. Anyway, yes, if an image on Commons has the exact same name as the former-image on Wikipedia, it will magically replace it. There's no need to update article links or anything, the server is clever enough to work that out. That being the case, there's no need to upload images to both wiki and Commons. Provided you own the copyright to Image:Krone Kaiser Rudolf II Kaisertum Österreich.jpg and are able to make that GFDL licence (or another free licence) then yes, the local copy could be deleted without harm to anything. If it's a fair use image or otherwise unfree, then it shouldn't be on Commons at all. I note that you didn't add the GFDL tag: are you sure it's a GFDL image? It might have been taken from the German wikipedia: if it was, then the attribution history needs to be imported from there.
The complication with moving things to Commons is that the GFDL insists we retain the authorship history, of both the image and the image page. This is why, oftentimes, things are not deleted from enwiki even though they are on Commons too since it's too much hassle to carefully move every revision to Commons with the correct authorship attribution etc. If the only uploader and substantive editor of the image page is you, then it can be deleted at your request. - Splash talk 17:56, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry, it was an oversight on my part. It is the seal of Chhattisgarh, I had incorrectly labelled it while bulk uploading. Chhattisgarh is spelled in Devanagiri on the seal. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 04:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
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I have posted the following message on the image page on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rebbe_1928_berlin.jpg "Original picture is from http://www.mentalblog.com/hello/271/1249/1024/11-25-2004%208-44-49%20PM_0000.jpg which is from the book Larger than life: The life and times of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson by Shaul Shimon Deutsch" Is that enough? -- Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 23:02, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Gryffindor/Archive4! Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. To my amazement there were no negative or neutral votes and the result was (28/0/0). I am now an administrator so I'll try and do my best in this new position. I'll be happy to answer any comments or requests from you. Thanks one more time, Mihai - talk 20:27, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Your comments would be welcome at
Prime Minister. One user, without even bothering to go through the proper procedures, wants to rename the article
Prime minister and keeps moving it to push that version!!! While there is an article for all uppercasing or all lowercasing, half-casing (which is all WP allows, as all lowercasing is not possible in article titles) would produce a semi-literate mess that would make WP a laughing stock. A student who writes the title that way in an essay earns an instant fail because it is seen as such a monumental clanger. With all the attacks WP is under right now, the last thing WP needs is to make it look as though it does not know how to write the title of the office of premier correctly. What next? Lord mayor? lol
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I'm 99% sure the correct translation is Greater Austria (e.g., besides Greater Serbia, would be the at one time proposed Greater German Reich), although I must admit that I never heard about that before. I think it comes from the different connotations in German and English regarding groß/great. Cheers. Lectonar 10:32, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
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Looks like I was a little late to the party, and it was decided that greater was the more correct term. It sounds right to me, but I have to confess that the differences between great and greater in regards to the naming of countries seems a fine line indeed. Somehow it sounds more correct to say greater. Isn't that strange how that works? I'm always trying to verify grammar rules when talking with my German friends, and why, exactly, things are said the way they are and it's always, "Because it sounds better that way". And then I turn around and say that to them when they ask me the same thing. lol - Maaya 19:48, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Sie sind aus Österreich stammend, oder? Wir haben ein, um, rege Diskussion bei dem Elisabeth of Bavaria Artikel, besonders wie Ihr name sollte. Vielleicht Sie können uns helfen? Ich denke es sollten nicht Elisabeth in Bavaria werden, aber das Elisabeth of Bavaria ist besser, oder Elisabeth (Austria-Hungary) wie in der deutsche wiki. Aber auch wenn Sie nicht mit mir überein, eine andere Ansicht würde sehr nützlich sind. (Ich schreibe auf Deutsch weil ich bin in dem Bestreben zu verbessern. Ich habe ein Prüfung am nächsten Monat!) - Maaya 23:08, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
こんにちは! I ☆ed on you head page! Are you Jewish Austrian? Why don't you log in as ja:User:Gryffindor -- Sheynhertz געשׁ״ך 12:05, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
A vote has been called to rename
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Aleksandar Karađorđević. The renamers have at least stopped constant unilateral renaming (at last!). Please come, express your opinion and vote. Slán.
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Yeah, I came across your welcome thingy on User talk:Stavos. You're right... why does the welcome message have to be so bland? You'rs is much better, and Ima borrow it... can it be made into a template? That'd be easier... Herostratus 03:27, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
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Thanks for voting for me in the Esperanza elections. I've been appointed to the Advisory Committee, thanks to your show of confidence in me. I'll do my best to make you proud, but please feel free to ask me for help at any time or to give me tips as to what you would like to do. Thanks for being an active member of Esperanza! I'll see you around. Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 00:40, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
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I've made my way into the Advisory Committee, so if you ever need any help or have any queries about the stuff we do, please do not hesitate to ask me. Thanks again, Fir e Fox 11:53, 31 December 2005 (UTC)Hi mate,
You may remember the war on
styles that was waged some time ago and the eventual compromise reached which meant that styles (Holiness, Majesty, Royal Highness, etc) are no longer used in royalty articles. A series of templates were created to enable users to warn other users who attempt to reinsert styles into articles that that is no longer WP policy. However a user who is trying to get a whole series of templates deleted has nominated them on the
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Hi, Gryffindor. I came across an edit of yours that i don't understand. In a change made on November the 24th 2005 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Die_Zauberfl%C3%B6te&diff=29141882&oldid=29137939) you added square brackets around the language identifier "en".
The wikipedia article for "en" is a disambiguation page. I take it you didn't mean to link to it.
Did you instead mean for the link to look like this: [[English language|en]]
or maybe intend for it not to be a link at all:
<nowiki>[[en]]</nowiki>
[[en]]
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Hello, in future please put {{ d}} or {{ db}} on the page you want deleted - not the talk page. Thank you, r3m0t talk 02:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Morning,
I was wondering if I could get your support on moving Maud of the United Kingdom back to Maud of Wales. Since she married Prince Carl of Denmark prior to her father's accession, she should be at her proper per-marital name.
Thanks, Prsgoddess187 13:00, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
That's okay, no major rush on it. She was the daughter of Edward VII, but married Haakon VII of Norway (when he was still Prince Carl of Denmark) prior to her father taking the throne. So her pre-marital name, as fitting a queen consort, should be at Maud of Wales. Makes sense, right? Prsgoddess187 16:35, 7 January 2006 (UTC) PS - Hope you had a good vacation...
It's my understanding that a queen consort goes back to maiden name, without a title ( Mary of Teck and Alexandra of Denmark, were both princesses and queen consorts). Thanks for the support. I am pretty sure that none of the other princesses you listed became queens. Prsgoddess187 17:12, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for checking, I always like to have the facts straight too. Thanks for the support. Prsgoddess187 17:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you. By the way I enjoyed looking at your gallery.-- Dakota ~ ε 17:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.
The final outcome was (80/3/0), so I am now an administrator. I was flattered by the level of support and the comments, so I'm under real pressure not to disappoint, thus if you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as an admin then please leave me a note -- pgk( talk) 12:18, 8 January 2006 (UTC)Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.
The final outcome was (70/5/0), so I am now a bureaucrat. I seriously didn't expect so many good comments from everybody and I appreciated the constructive criticism from those that gave it. If you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as a bureaucrat then please leave me a note. -- Francs 2000Hi there! Happy new year to you too. Regarding your query, I'm only 1 for 2:
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I'm sorry I couldn't be any more help. Let me know if you need more assistance. Take care! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 18:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not one-hundred percent sure on this, but I think that since the reverting was done by three different users ( Pgk, you, and me, I don't think it violates 3RR. To double check, you might want to ask Pgk, who just became an admin and would have a better idea on this than me. But that's my take on it. (Although, from the looks on this page, you did a good job.) Oh, and nice to "meet" you!-- Violin G irl ♪ 23:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. Alai 04:34, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Say - why exactly aren't you already an admin? — Nightstallion (?) 08:29, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
<ignore sockpuppet> On a different note, what's the proper procedure for a vote that's being swamped by sockpuppets? — Nightstallion (?) 08:49, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Mud-miner, anon, cease the egregious baiting and taunting. NS, see Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser if you need for this to be formally established, though if a vote is clearly being swamped in that manner, the "votes" will simply be disregarded by the closing admin or bureaucrat. Alai 09:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gryffindor- Thanks for your support on my RfA. I appreciate the kind words that you used in your comments. If I can be of any service please leave me a message -- rogerd 01:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I think it's alright to occasionally add, "or [shortform]," to a country lead, but that this officially standardization reads more poorly than simply starting off with the formal name. I am open to persuasion, but for the moment, I tentatively object to these changes being implemented acorss many country articles without a central discussion being facilitated. Therefore, I am undoing your changes. For convinience, I'm using the rollback button; if we come to an agreement I could re-rollback, some, or all, of these changes — or if you're an admin, you could do so, but I'd like to get some further input on these changes (hopefuly, other people will wish to participate). Thanks in advance for understanding. Regards, El_C 16:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for supporting me on my Rfa, Gryffindor! I appreciate your trust, and for wishing me "good luck". The puppy is now an Admin (final tally 58/7/2) Please let me know if there is anything I can ever do to assist you. KillerChihuahua ?!? 18:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC) |
I don't have a fancy layout like other new admins, but I just want to thank you for your support at my RfA. It passed 48/3/1, so I have officially been promoted. I hope I won't let you down. If I'm not doing something properly, please tell me. Aecis Mr. Mojo risin' 21:09, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gryffidor. I'm just dropping you this message to thank you, very much, for your so very kind words and support in my RfB. It's been delisted as unsuccessful, but that doesn't changes how appreciative I am for your support. I remain, as always, at your disposal should you need my help. Thank you so much, again. Redux 21:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello. You marked Buganda as a stub, but I reckon it isn't a stub. However, it needs to be expanded, so an "expand" tag is probably more appropriate. Wouldn't you agree? . -- Ezeu 22:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Gryffindor. Thank you for the contributions. Unfortunately you didn't add your sources. Since the letters and poems are public domain anyway, it doesn't matter if you got them from a book or a website. So could you please add them or tell me where you've got the texts from? Thanks Jofi 23:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
"Municipal council". 66.238.96.53 11:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
BTW, in case you don't already know it the Leo dictionary is useful - there's a forum for discussing how best to translate words or check your own ideas. I have no idea about Austrian politics myself :-) Saint| swithin 21:02, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
You may be interested in this page. Thought I'd let you know. Cheers!-- Violin G irl ♪ 22:52, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I've been swamped, so forgive my delay in replying to you (ditto for your e-mail). I have to research your inquiry, but I'll get back to you in a few days. OK? Stay tuned! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 06:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Vote here "keep" : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rosario Poidimani (3 nomination). Regards, M.deSousa 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gryffindor! According to this, Banes and I are now your admin coaches! :) For AC meetings, would you prefer to meet on #wikipedia-esperanza, this talk page, or a user subpage of yours? And when would you like to start? Cheers, Sango 123 (talk) 21:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
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The practice with nobles has always been to translate their titles and and prepositions into English in English writings... To not do so is sloppy. The only notable, but still disagreeable, exception is the French language, where one alternatively refers to someone such as the Comte de Paris as that or as the Count of Paris (but never the Comte of Paris or the Count de Paris]]. To present Austrian noble families with such articles not preceded by the title is sloppy and wrong. Again, here is another exception though: When there is no title or the family does not hold pretense to a title, the von may be used as there isn't a German or English title to match the preposition. The prepositions are indeed translatable into English, and are translatable as a fact of having several families with de and et with von and und noted. Von becomes of, zu alone becomes of, sometimes in (when following a main name, such as von X zu Y (of X in Y). Von und zu becomes of and in. This is what my family is. So, Paul von Hindenburg is fine as is, however, if he were a prince and used that title officially, he would be Prince Paul of Hindenburg. On another note, presenting the "current" names of those families is rather presumptuous in that many of them live elsewhere and do not follow Austro-republican convention. Since the article includes the historic families, it ought to have the historic names presented. Remember, many of the families still in Austria use the prepositions socially and grudgingly go along with Austro-republican convention for legal matters. I am going to removed the first prepositions. I will keep the intermediary ones for now. I appreciate that you came to my page to talk to this. Let's see if we can strike some middle ground. Charles 19:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Charles, are you actually trying to say that in English we always translate titles? That's ridiculous. We talk about "Baron vom Stein," not "the Baron of Stein". We talk about "Prince Otto von Bismarck" not "Prince Otto of Bismarck". Sometimes we might say "Baron Stein" or "Prince Bismarck," but in neither case is "of" actually used. Your Czernin example is particularly bizarre. I've never seen any source referring to him as "Count Czernin of Chudenitz" or "Count Czernin of and in Chudenitz." In informal contexts, he will simply be called "Count Czernin." In formal contexts, the German title is pretty much always given untranslated, or else as "Count Czernin von und zu Chudenitz." You may think this is inelegant, or inconsistent, or whatever, but it is nevertheless true. You are basically demanding that we use name forms which are never actually used in English. Until you can provide a citation to show that "Czernin of and in Chudenitz" has actually been used in major English sources, I don't see why we should give any deference to this viewpoint at all - Gryffindor has already shown that many sources simply give the untranslated title. john k 18:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gryffindor, I proofread and edited the article on Marcel Prawy. I've translated several articles now but this is my first edit and I'm not sure that I did it the way you're perhaps used to. What I did was to just edit on the page, figuring you can compare to the previous version to see what I changed. It's a very nice article. Funny thing is, I remember seeing him on TV sometimes when I was growing up in Germany. -- One more thing: I noticed when comparing your translation to the German language article that the link on the German page doesn't seem to work. I replaced it with the one you placed onto your English page. :) -- Mmounties 04:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gryffindor! User:Gryffindor/AdminCoaching is no longer a red link, so please add it to your watchlist and take a look! :) Thanks, Sango 123 (talk) 22:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. Sorry I missed the links. Yes, I'm still a bloody beginner at this Wiki thing, but I'm catching on quickly. My son got me into it. ... and there is so much to do! I'll make sure I look more for linking going forward. Hadn't seen the Esperanza page before. I'll check it out. Thanks again. (By the way, aside from everyone trying to reduce the huge backlog, I think the reason why you don't hear from proof-readers much is that you really write well.) And thanks for the offer to help. I'll drop you a line whenever I need it. Salü! Das isch Schwitzer Dütsch, I weiβ. What do Austrians say? G'pfürr' Di! like the Bavarians? I don't know. -- Mmounties 15:15, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi again. I took a look at the Wiener Zeitung. I changed things around a little and inserted some expressions that perhaps you didn't know. I tripped a little over "publicly owned". I know how the word "public" is used in the German language as compared to the English language and I believe, looking at the German text, you meant here that the paper was owned by the government. Publicly owned in English (at least American English) usually means ownership like Aktiengesellschaft where shares are traded on an exchange. I changed it to read that the government owned the paper for that time but you'll want to read it over and make sure you agree. -- Mmounties 01:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I fully agree with you - translation is neither necessary nor desirable. john k 18:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gryffindor, It looks like you all have come to terms regarding the non-translation of particles, which is as it should be, lest we be faced with "Charles of Gaulle". It's nice that this latest periodic dust-up over what to call people ended so amiably! - Nunh-huh 21:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Gryffindor! I'd like to alert you that a noticeboard has been established to better aid discussion of articles concerning German-related topics. Feel free to participate with the project if you are interested! Olessi 01:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey,
A dispute is on which might be of interest to you. You probably have heard of the US periodical, The Nation. It is one of a number of publications that exist or have existed using that name. However some US Wikipedians have decreed that all other publications of that name must be shunted off to a disam page with the US publication given sole custody of The Nation page, even though neither it nor any other publication with that name is international nor widely known outside each state's border. The confusion this causes can be seen in the fact that people making entries to the Thailand newspaper, the British magazine, the famous 19th century Irish paper, etc usually end up innocently creating links to the US periodical page on The Nation rather than the obscure disamb page (which is only found by a link at the top of the US article). It is blatently wrong. While most links are for the US publication, that is because most contributors on WP are US and the US publication covers a lot of people mentioned on WP. If the US publication was something like Time or Newsweek or The Times then one could justify it getting the main page. But even many US people have not heard of the US magazine and it is largely unheard of outside the US. Technically the Irish newspaper is more international in noteworthyness — it features in history books in Australia, the US, the UK etc because it was a prominent politically motivated radical newspaper in the 19th century. But IMHO it too does not enough international recognition to justify getting pride of place and claiming the name for itself.
The dispute is at
Talk:The Nation.
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No problem. There are two conflicting standards in place across the 'pedia, and I went with the newer one (originated in the British parties). Colours are editable via each party's talk page. The Tom 03:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
You asked me can I polish Image:SDAPÖ logo.PNG to a better version. Well, if you ask me, image is not so bad. Second thing is that what I like to do is to create new images (maps). To polish existing image is not so creative or challenging work for me (In another words, it is too monotonous). You can polish it by yourself if you have "Photoshop" program, if not, the "Paint" program would be also fine for such job. PANONIAN (talk) 13:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, after that "not yet vandal/troll" comment you made, I thought I'd check his contributions (last time I checked there hadn't been much). It seems like he's been busy changing names around on quite a few pages and even moving pages over the last week or so. I'll leave it up to you to bring that to anyone's attention or not. :) -- Mmounties 15:24, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, it seems I get to be the first to post to the talk page after the archiving.
I just wanted to bring this to your attention WP:ANI#CDThieme_sockpuppetry since you have had dealings with some of those accounts. Although I had suspicions about some of them, I was shocked to see the extent of the problem. Stefán Ingi 03:37, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
cheers, I knew you would understand. Did he ruin any of your votings as well? I think with Nidhogg he tried didn't he? Gryffindor 19:41, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Morning (for me) Gryffindor,
I was wondering how I could go about joining Esperanza. Thanks, gotta go... Prsgoddess187 12:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Dear Gryffindor,
I'd like to thank you for your suggestions regarding the article I wrote on the Imperial Crown of Brazil.
I have taken your advice and renamed the article.
I have also added tags to the images (the rationale for fair use I had already provided). As for your other comments, rest assured that I wrote the article myself (taking care to provide accurate information, of course).
Can you take a look at this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rebbe_1928_berlin.jpg The image before it was cropped is from http://www.mentalblog.com/hello/271/1249/1024/11-25-2004%208-44-49%20PM_0000.jpg which clearly appears as if it is from a book. If so it may have copyright problems. -- Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 05:26, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi there. I very vaguely remember being asked in IRC to delete that image because it was now on Commons; I don't retain IRC logs to prove that fact. Anyway, yes, if an image on Commons has the exact same name as the former-image on Wikipedia, it will magically replace it. There's no need to update article links or anything, the server is clever enough to work that out. That being the case, there's no need to upload images to both wiki and Commons. Provided you own the copyright to Image:Krone Kaiser Rudolf II Kaisertum Österreich.jpg and are able to make that GFDL licence (or another free licence) then yes, the local copy could be deleted without harm to anything. If it's a fair use image or otherwise unfree, then it shouldn't be on Commons at all. I note that you didn't add the GFDL tag: are you sure it's a GFDL image? It might have been taken from the German wikipedia: if it was, then the attribution history needs to be imported from there.
The complication with moving things to Commons is that the GFDL insists we retain the authorship history, of both the image and the image page. This is why, oftentimes, things are not deleted from enwiki even though they are on Commons too since it's too much hassle to carefully move every revision to Commons with the correct authorship attribution etc. If the only uploader and substantive editor of the image page is you, then it can be deleted at your request. - Splash talk 17:56, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry, it was an oversight on my part. It is the seal of Chhattisgarh, I had incorrectly labelled it while bulk uploading. Chhattisgarh is spelled in Devanagiri on the seal. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 04:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
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I have posted the following message on the image page on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rebbe_1928_berlin.jpg "Original picture is from http://www.mentalblog.com/hello/271/1249/1024/11-25-2004%208-44-49%20PM_0000.jpg which is from the book Larger than life: The life and times of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson by Shaul Shimon Deutsch" Is that enough? -- Eliezer | £€åV€ m€ å m€§§åg€ 23:02, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Hey Gryffindor/Archive4! Thank you very much for your support on my RfA. To my amazement there were no negative or neutral votes and the result was (28/0/0). I am now an administrator so I'll try and do my best in this new position. I'll be happy to answer any comments or requests from you. Thanks one more time, Mihai - talk 20:27, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Your comments would be welcome at
Prime Minister. One user, without even bothering to go through the proper procedures, wants to rename the article
Prime minister and keeps moving it to push that version!!! While there is an article for all uppercasing or all lowercasing, half-casing (which is all WP allows, as all lowercasing is not possible in article titles) would produce a semi-literate mess that would make WP a laughing stock. A student who writes the title that way in an essay earns an instant fail because it is seen as such a monumental clanger. With all the attacks WP is under right now, the last thing WP needs is to make it look as though it does not know how to write the title of the office of premier correctly. What next? Lord mayor? lol
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I'm 99% sure the correct translation is Greater Austria (e.g., besides Greater Serbia, would be the at one time proposed Greater German Reich), although I must admit that I never heard about that before. I think it comes from the different connotations in German and English regarding groß/great. Cheers. Lectonar 10:32, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
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Looks like I was a little late to the party, and it was decided that greater was the more correct term. It sounds right to me, but I have to confess that the differences between great and greater in regards to the naming of countries seems a fine line indeed. Somehow it sounds more correct to say greater. Isn't that strange how that works? I'm always trying to verify grammar rules when talking with my German friends, and why, exactly, things are said the way they are and it's always, "Because it sounds better that way". And then I turn around and say that to them when they ask me the same thing. lol - Maaya 19:48, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Sie sind aus Österreich stammend, oder? Wir haben ein, um, rege Diskussion bei dem Elisabeth of Bavaria Artikel, besonders wie Ihr name sollte. Vielleicht Sie können uns helfen? Ich denke es sollten nicht Elisabeth in Bavaria werden, aber das Elisabeth of Bavaria ist besser, oder Elisabeth (Austria-Hungary) wie in der deutsche wiki. Aber auch wenn Sie nicht mit mir überein, eine andere Ansicht würde sehr nützlich sind. (Ich schreibe auf Deutsch weil ich bin in dem Bestreben zu verbessern. Ich habe ein Prüfung am nächsten Monat!) - Maaya 23:08, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
こんにちは! I ☆ed on you head page! Are you Jewish Austrian? Why don't you log in as ja:User:Gryffindor -- Sheynhertz געשׁ״ך 12:05, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
A vote has been called to rename
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Yeah, I came across your welcome thingy on User talk:Stavos. You're right... why does the welcome message have to be so bland? You'rs is much better, and Ima borrow it... can it be made into a template? That'd be easier... Herostratus 03:27, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
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Thanks for voting for me in the Esperanza elections. I've been appointed to the Advisory Committee, thanks to your show of confidence in me. I'll do my best to make you proud, but please feel free to ask me for help at any time or to give me tips as to what you would like to do. Thanks for being an active member of Esperanza! I'll see you around. Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 00:40, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
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I've made my way into the Advisory Committee, so if you ever need any help or have any queries about the stuff we do, please do not hesitate to ask me. Thanks again, Fir e Fox 11:53, 31 December 2005 (UTC)Hi mate,
You may remember the war on
styles that was waged some time ago and the eventual compromise reached which meant that styles (Holiness, Majesty, Royal Highness, etc) are no longer used in royalty articles. A series of templates were created to enable users to warn other users who attempt to reinsert styles into articles that that is no longer WP policy. However a user who is trying to get a whole series of templates deleted has nominated them on the
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Hi, Gryffindor. I came across an edit of yours that i don't understand. In a change made on November the 24th 2005 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Die_Zauberfl%C3%B6te&diff=29141882&oldid=29137939) you added square brackets around the language identifier "en".
The wikipedia article for "en" is a disambiguation page. I take it you didn't mean to link to it.
Did you instead mean for the link to look like this: [[English language|en]]
or maybe intend for it not to be a link at all:
<nowiki>[[en]]</nowiki>
[[en]]
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Hello, in future please put {{ d}} or {{ db}} on the page you want deleted - not the talk page. Thank you, r3m0t talk 02:17, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Morning,
I was wondering if I could get your support on moving Maud of the United Kingdom back to Maud of Wales. Since she married Prince Carl of Denmark prior to her father's accession, she should be at her proper per-marital name.
Thanks, Prsgoddess187 13:00, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
That's okay, no major rush on it. She was the daughter of Edward VII, but married Haakon VII of Norway (when he was still Prince Carl of Denmark) prior to her father taking the throne. So her pre-marital name, as fitting a queen consort, should be at Maud of Wales. Makes sense, right? Prsgoddess187 16:35, 7 January 2006 (UTC) PS - Hope you had a good vacation...
It's my understanding that a queen consort goes back to maiden name, without a title ( Mary of Teck and Alexandra of Denmark, were both princesses and queen consorts). Thanks for the support. I am pretty sure that none of the other princesses you listed became queens. Prsgoddess187 17:12, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for checking, I always like to have the facts straight too. Thanks for the support. Prsgoddess187 17:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you. By the way I enjoyed looking at your gallery.-- Dakota ~ ε 17:09, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.
The final outcome was (80/3/0), so I am now an administrator. I was flattered by the level of support and the comments, so I'm under real pressure not to disappoint, thus if you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as an admin then please leave me a note -- pgk( talk) 12:18, 8 January 2006 (UTC)Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.
The final outcome was (70/5/0), so I am now a bureaucrat. I seriously didn't expect so many good comments from everybody and I appreciated the constructive criticism from those that gave it. If you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as a bureaucrat then please leave me a note. -- Francs 2000Hi there! Happy new year to you too. Regarding your query, I'm only 1 for 2:
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I'm sorry I couldn't be any more help. Let me know if you need more assistance. Take care! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 18:08, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not one-hundred percent sure on this, but I think that since the reverting was done by three different users ( Pgk, you, and me, I don't think it violates 3RR. To double check, you might want to ask Pgk, who just became an admin and would have a better idea on this than me. But that's my take on it. (Although, from the looks on this page, you did a good job.) Oh, and nice to "meet" you!-- Violin G irl ♪ 23:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. Alai 04:34, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Say - why exactly aren't you already an admin? — Nightstallion (?) 08:29, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
<ignore sockpuppet> On a different note, what's the proper procedure for a vote that's being swamped by sockpuppets? — Nightstallion (?) 08:49, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Mud-miner, anon, cease the egregious baiting and taunting. NS, see Wikipedia:Requests for CheckUser if you need for this to be formally established, though if a vote is clearly being swamped in that manner, the "votes" will simply be disregarded by the closing admin or bureaucrat. Alai 09:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gryffindor- Thanks for your support on my RfA. I appreciate the kind words that you used in your comments. If I can be of any service please leave me a message -- rogerd 01:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I think it's alright to occasionally add, "or [shortform]," to a country lead, but that this officially standardization reads more poorly than simply starting off with the formal name. I am open to persuasion, but for the moment, I tentatively object to these changes being implemented acorss many country articles without a central discussion being facilitated. Therefore, I am undoing your changes. For convinience, I'm using the rollback button; if we come to an agreement I could re-rollback, some, or all, of these changes — or if you're an admin, you could do so, but I'd like to get some further input on these changes (hopefuly, other people will wish to participate). Thanks in advance for understanding. Regards, El_C 16:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for supporting me on my Rfa, Gryffindor! I appreciate your trust, and for wishing me "good luck". The puppy is now an Admin (final tally 58/7/2) Please let me know if there is anything I can ever do to assist you. KillerChihuahua ?!? 18:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC) |
I don't have a fancy layout like other new admins, but I just want to thank you for your support at my RfA. It passed 48/3/1, so I have officially been promoted. I hope I won't let you down. If I'm not doing something properly, please tell me. Aecis Mr. Mojo risin' 21:09, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gryffidor. I'm just dropping you this message to thank you, very much, for your so very kind words and support in my RfB. It's been delisted as unsuccessful, but that doesn't changes how appreciative I am for your support. I remain, as always, at your disposal should you need my help. Thank you so much, again. Redux 21:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello. You marked Buganda as a stub, but I reckon it isn't a stub. However, it needs to be expanded, so an "expand" tag is probably more appropriate. Wouldn't you agree? . -- Ezeu 22:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Gryffindor. Thank you for the contributions. Unfortunately you didn't add your sources. Since the letters and poems are public domain anyway, it doesn't matter if you got them from a book or a website. So could you please add them or tell me where you've got the texts from? Thanks Jofi 23:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
"Municipal council". 66.238.96.53 11:20, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
BTW, in case you don't already know it the Leo dictionary is useful - there's a forum for discussing how best to translate words or check your own ideas. I have no idea about Austrian politics myself :-) Saint| swithin 21:02, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
You may be interested in this page. Thought I'd let you know. Cheers!-- Violin G irl ♪ 22:52, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I've been swamped, so forgive my delay in replying to you (ditto for your e-mail). I have to research your inquiry, but I'll get back to you in a few days. OK? Stay tuned! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 06:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Vote here "keep" : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rosario Poidimani (3 nomination). Regards, M.deSousa 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gryffindor! According to this, Banes and I are now your admin coaches! :) For AC meetings, would you prefer to meet on #wikipedia-esperanza, this talk page, or a user subpage of yours? And when would you like to start? Cheers, Sango 123 (talk) 21:17, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:26, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
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The practice with nobles has always been to translate their titles and and prepositions into English in English writings... To not do so is sloppy. The only notable, but still disagreeable, exception is the French language, where one alternatively refers to someone such as the Comte de Paris as that or as the Count of Paris (but never the Comte of Paris or the Count de Paris]]. To present Austrian noble families with such articles not preceded by the title is sloppy and wrong. Again, here is another exception though: When there is no title or the family does not hold pretense to a title, the von may be used as there isn't a German or English title to match the preposition. The prepositions are indeed translatable into English, and are translatable as a fact of having several families with de and et with von and und noted. Von becomes of, zu alone becomes of, sometimes in (when following a main name, such as von X zu Y (of X in Y). Von und zu becomes of and in. This is what my family is. So, Paul von Hindenburg is fine as is, however, if he were a prince and used that title officially, he would be Prince Paul of Hindenburg. On another note, presenting the "current" names of those families is rather presumptuous in that many of them live elsewhere and do not follow Austro-republican convention. Since the article includes the historic families, it ought to have the historic names presented. Remember, many of the families still in Austria use the prepositions socially and grudgingly go along with Austro-republican convention for legal matters. I am going to removed the first prepositions. I will keep the intermediary ones for now. I appreciate that you came to my page to talk to this. Let's see if we can strike some middle ground. Charles 19:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Charles, are you actually trying to say that in English we always translate titles? That's ridiculous. We talk about "Baron vom Stein," not "the Baron of Stein". We talk about "Prince Otto von Bismarck" not "Prince Otto of Bismarck". Sometimes we might say "Baron Stein" or "Prince Bismarck," but in neither case is "of" actually used. Your Czernin example is particularly bizarre. I've never seen any source referring to him as "Count Czernin of Chudenitz" or "Count Czernin of and in Chudenitz." In informal contexts, he will simply be called "Count Czernin." In formal contexts, the German title is pretty much always given untranslated, or else as "Count Czernin von und zu Chudenitz." You may think this is inelegant, or inconsistent, or whatever, but it is nevertheless true. You are basically demanding that we use name forms which are never actually used in English. Until you can provide a citation to show that "Czernin of and in Chudenitz" has actually been used in major English sources, I don't see why we should give any deference to this viewpoint at all - Gryffindor has already shown that many sources simply give the untranslated title. john k 18:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gryffindor, I proofread and edited the article on Marcel Prawy. I've translated several articles now but this is my first edit and I'm not sure that I did it the way you're perhaps used to. What I did was to just edit on the page, figuring you can compare to the previous version to see what I changed. It's a very nice article. Funny thing is, I remember seeing him on TV sometimes when I was growing up in Germany. -- One more thing: I noticed when comparing your translation to the German language article that the link on the German page doesn't seem to work. I replaced it with the one you placed onto your English page. :) -- Mmounties 04:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gryffindor! User:Gryffindor/AdminCoaching is no longer a red link, so please add it to your watchlist and take a look! :) Thanks, Sango 123 (talk) 22:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome. Sorry I missed the links. Yes, I'm still a bloody beginner at this Wiki thing, but I'm catching on quickly. My son got me into it. ... and there is so much to do! I'll make sure I look more for linking going forward. Hadn't seen the Esperanza page before. I'll check it out. Thanks again. (By the way, aside from everyone trying to reduce the huge backlog, I think the reason why you don't hear from proof-readers much is that you really write well.) And thanks for the offer to help. I'll drop you a line whenever I need it. Salü! Das isch Schwitzer Dütsch, I weiβ. What do Austrians say? G'pfürr' Di! like the Bavarians? I don't know. -- Mmounties 15:15, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi again. I took a look at the Wiener Zeitung. I changed things around a little and inserted some expressions that perhaps you didn't know. I tripped a little over "publicly owned". I know how the word "public" is used in the German language as compared to the English language and I believe, looking at the German text, you meant here that the paper was owned by the government. Publicly owned in English (at least American English) usually means ownership like Aktiengesellschaft where shares are traded on an exchange. I changed it to read that the government owned the paper for that time but you'll want to read it over and make sure you agree. -- Mmounties 01:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I fully agree with you - translation is neither necessary nor desirable. john k 18:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Gryffindor, It looks like you all have come to terms regarding the non-translation of particles, which is as it should be, lest we be faced with "Charles of Gaulle". It's nice that this latest periodic dust-up over what to call people ended so amiably! - Nunh-huh 21:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Gryffindor! I'd like to alert you that a noticeboard has been established to better aid discussion of articles concerning German-related topics. Feel free to participate with the project if you are interested! Olessi 01:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey,
A dispute is on which might be of interest to you. You probably have heard of the US periodical, The Nation. It is one of a number of publications that exist or have existed using that name. However some US Wikipedians have decreed that all other publications of that name must be shunted off to a disam page with the US publication given sole custody of The Nation page, even though neither it nor any other publication with that name is international nor widely known outside each state's border. The confusion this causes can be seen in the fact that people making entries to the Thailand newspaper, the British magazine, the famous 19th century Irish paper, etc usually end up innocently creating links to the US periodical page on The Nation rather than the obscure disamb page (which is only found by a link at the top of the US article). It is blatently wrong. While most links are for the US publication, that is because most contributors on WP are US and the US publication covers a lot of people mentioned on WP. If the US publication was something like Time or Newsweek or The Times then one could justify it getting the main page. But even many US people have not heard of the US magazine and it is largely unheard of outside the US. Technically the Irish newspaper is more international in noteworthyness — it features in history books in Australia, the US, the UK etc because it was a prominent politically motivated radical newspaper in the 19th century. But IMHO it too does not enough international recognition to justify getting pride of place and claiming the name for itself.
The dispute is at
Talk:The Nation.
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No problem. There are two conflicting standards in place across the 'pedia, and I went with the newer one (originated in the British parties). Colours are editable via each party's talk page. The Tom 03:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
You asked me can I polish Image:SDAPÖ logo.PNG to a better version. Well, if you ask me, image is not so bad. Second thing is that what I like to do is to create new images (maps). To polish existing image is not so creative or challenging work for me (In another words, it is too monotonous). You can polish it by yourself if you have "Photoshop" program, if not, the "Paint" program would be also fine for such job. PANONIAN (talk) 13:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading Image:Mappa Due Sicilie.PNG. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is therefore unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.
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If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Matt 13:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, after that "not yet vandal/troll" comment you made, I thought I'd check his contributions (last time I checked there hadn't been much). It seems like he's been busy changing names around on quite a few pages and even moving pages over the last week or so. I'll leave it up to you to bring that to anyone's attention or not. :) -- Mmounties 15:24, 16 February 2006 (UTC)