You added Category:Upper Saxon Circle to the Ernestine duchies article. I don't think that is appropriate, as only five of the duchies (Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Eisenach, Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Altenburg) were members of the Upper Saxon Circle. I think it is more appropriate to add those five duchies to the category, but not the whole group of duchies. -- Donald Albury 01:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I observe that you changed both Royalist and Monarchism to record your opinion that the two concepts are different. I do not think these are minor edits. -- RichardVeryard 19:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated this category that you created for deletion, as the 'House of Saxe' as such doesn't exist: all the houses named like ' Saxe-Altenburg', etc. are sub-houses of the House of Wettin and the 'Saxe' is just an abbreviation of 'Saxony', as they all ruled subdivisions of Saxony (and technically all bore the title 'Duke of Saxony'). Therefore, they should just be listed under Category:House of Wettin, and I've moved them there. Thanks! — smigs 23:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey - just a note on categories for Dukes and Counts of France: if an article already links to a subcategory of Counts or Dukes of France, there is no need to add it to the Counts/Dukes of France main category. For example: Counts of Verdun already links to the Category:Counts of Verdun, which is a subcat of Counts of France. Thanks- NYArtsnWords 20:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
When moving articles, please ensure that you then fix any double redirects caused by the move. Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 02:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Be sure that the coats of arms you provide were actually those used by the persons whose articles you add them to! I doubt that any duke of Gascony was using a coat of arms in the tenth century. Srnec 23:54, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Noticed you have moved Freskin to Freskin of Flanders. If you read the article, you will see that it is not categoric that Freskin was Flemish. The point is though, that if even he did originate in Flanders he was never known as Freskin of Flanders and because of his importance in being the common ancestor of very important Scottish families so applying this title is incorrect. He remained unrecorded during his own lifetime — only referred to during the lifetime of his children and grandchildren. So I would ask you to reconsider this change. Thanks. -- Bill Reid | Talk 17:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Despite my earlier comments, you are continuing to mark the vast majority of your edits as minor. But many of your edits are clearly substantial rather than minor - I think the discussion on this page provides some evidence of this. Can I please ask you again to read and follow the guidance on minor edits. -- RichardVeryard 00:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Will this category ever have more than two or three entries? If not, it isn't needed, because categories are supposed to group a reasonable amount of related things, not just a few. Picaroon 22:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! I was curious to know if it was you who posted the gold lion/lepord on red field for the House of Aquitaine. I am needing to find the source for that image, as in when was it first recorded as identified with that house. Any help you can give will be appriciated. Drachenfyre 15:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
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Please stop creating categories that are populated only by one or two people. These people are generally linked from each other's articles and such categories are completely pointless. Charles 22:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed a number of article moves that you have made today. Please remember to update redirects so that double redirects are avoided.
Additionally, I'm not sure of some of the moves. Ansbach and Bayreuth/Kulmbach are usually known as the "Principalities of", not "Margraviates of" (Manfred Scheuch's Historischer Atlas Deutschland, Westermanns Atlas zur Weltgeschichte, William R. Shepherd's Historical Atlas). Your desired titles of Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Margriavate of Brandenburg-Ansbach [sic] are also quite rare; Google Books indicates that "Principality of Ansbach" is used more frequently.
Could you clarify your rationale for moving Moravia to Margraviate of Moravia? The article is about a historical region (Moravia) through the present-day, not just a state until 1918 (Margraviate of Moravia). Olessi 18:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Stijn Calle is right. In it´s original sense, the German title of prince is a title awarded by the Emperor to dukes, margraves, landgraves and counts palatine, expressing a certain level of independence in relation to the Empire. The rank of the person still was expressed by his original title. So in relation to his neighbour, the Duke of Palatinate Zweibrücken, the count of Nassau Saarbrücken occupied the lower rank of nobility, although both of them were princes. There was only one difference. The count of Saarbrücken used the title of prince, because for him, this was a possibility of separation from other counts, not being allowed to use this title. The duke of Palatinate Zweibrücken used the dukal title, because he wanted to show his higher position in comparison to a simple count or margrave, who was allowed to use the title of prince too. Therefore only princes with the position of count were called prince. The higher nobles used their own title, indicating their princedom only with the address "Durchlaucht". With the exception of the lowest rank, the title prince only means collective term. To be precise, the real title has to be used. The magraviates of Ansbach and Kulmbach were principalities but the accurate title is magraviate. Not to do so is like calling the King of england or the emperor of Nippon monarch of England and Monarch of Nippon. It is not wrong, but why use an imprecise title, if there is a correct title. Thw1309 06:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed you created the category Princes Bibescu. The thing is that there is already a Category:Bibescu family, and virtually all its members were princes... Or, actually, very few of them were: the ones that were princes for real were actually reigning princes, as in "rulers" (they go under Category:Rulers of Wallachia). The others were not actually princes, since, after 1860 or something, Romanian law did not give recognition to any nobility but the royal house of Hohenzollern. I view the cat as an error leading to complications, and I think it should be merged into the family cat. Granted, we still lack articles to cover these nuances, but I assure you that cat cannot lead anywhere. Dahn 11:37, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
[2]: I proposed the category for delete as it is non-defining and actually oversimplifying the history of Egypt. The only item added there was also quite incorrect. Pavel Vozenilek 22:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Please could you add some informations on the activities of the fraternity. Thw1309 08:31, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Dear Cartellbruder, are you sure about Only in matters of protocol are based. Your En-4 is better than mine, but this looks funny. Thw1309 15:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
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Could you explain why you flooded the article with red links? Are you not aware that Wikipedia is not a genealogical reference? I would appreciate your revert to the previous version of the page. -- Ghirla -трёп- 13:46, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I would be grateful if you could answer my query at Talk:Counts of Hainaut. Gdr 21:22, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
DO NOT perform copy/paste moves as you did with Bourbon-Busset, especially after the article was already moved back. Charles 19:22, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Hallo, Stijn. Dat was een goed idee van je om een category:Bosonids te maken. Daar had ik zelf ook al nagedacht, maar ik wist niet hoe. Dan is het fijn dat er iemand met je mee denkt. Thanx! johanthon 17:26, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
What is the "House of Chateaudun"? I have never heard of that, especially in relation to the Angevin kings of Jerusalem (who are rarely ever referred to even as "Angevin"). Adam Bishop 18:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
ehm.... The French word "maison" translates in English as "house". Within branches of noble families it is worldwide custom to associate a particulair branch with their main property, or highest title. Naturally both "maison" and "house" do relate to the property-custom. Since the vast majority of visitors of wikipedia-English are non-native speakers I think it is sufficient that the French qualify this branch as "maison de Chateaudun" and "house of Chateaudun" is the best translation. If you have ever seen the Chateau, you will understand the French. The work Stijn does is very helpfull for navigation and it orders the information more understandable. johanthon 13:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I thought WP:EN was an English language encyclopedia. That is, it is written in the English language. It did not think it was an English culture encyclopedia (that sort of goes a bit against the very idea of an encyclopedia). You can use the word 'house', 'family' or 'dynasty', I do not care, as long as there is categorisation to make the whole nobility descendency scene a bit more comprehensible. Stijn Calle 14:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I still it agree that it sounds odd to use these terms in English. Yes of course "maison" means "house" but what you are claiming seems to go beyond normal English usage. To me, describing something as a "house" means they themselves identified with that name. But what is "House of Chateaudun"? People descended from a family that owned that castle? How does that make them a "house"? Or "House of Ingelger"? Obviously they are all descended from Ingelger, but did any of them consciously identify themselves that way? We have pages about the Valois, the Capetians, the Bourbons, the Windsors, even lesser families like the House of Courtenay, but a lot of these other ones sound like Stijn is just making them up. Adam Bishop 01:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, dear Stijn, you created a category 'Counts of Salis'. Their name is De Salis. There is no place Salis, so 'of' is doubly redundant. Was wondering, therefore, if you could please change the category name to 'Counts de Salis'? Rodolph —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rodolph ( talk • contribs) 14:21, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I see you have created the Category:Counts of Portugal (Castile). There is a problem... it should be Category:Counts of Portugal (Leon). The counties of Portugal were nver counties of Castile but of the Kingdom of Leon. This should be corrected. Thank you. 62.169.101.221 12:06, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
As you have been asked before, please do not move articles and the like to such "inventive" names that have no basis in usage or literature. Charles 19:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Please stop creating all these unecessary one-article categories, which are likely to be deleted. Johnbod 22:04, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I also noticed teh same thing as "Johnbod" commented on. Please see my detailed comments on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Divine_visionaries which is also a "specially invented category" that seems to serve a specific purpose for expressing a subtle personal point of view. Please revert those to a neutral point of view, or I will have to edit them back if you like. Thank you. History2007 16:04, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Stijn Calle. You've recently restored some material I deleted from this page without responding to the concerns I raised about it on the talk page. Could you please discuss, rather than simply restoring. Thanks. -- SiobhanHansa 17:51, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I would appreciate your comments here. Thanks Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 17:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello - if you create a category, and then decide that you don't want it, can I suggest that you add{{db-author}} to the page, instead of just blanking it? I've been going through Special:Uncategorizedcategories and came across various occasions where you had created the category and then blanked the page (such as Category:Marquisses Dessolles, Category:Marquisses of Namur, Category:Seigneurs of Lorges, Category:Viscounts of Beziers and Category:Viscount of Marsan). I've nominated them for speedy deletion, but it'll save other people work in the future if you remember this. Thanks, and happy editing. Bencherlite Talk 11:40, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated for deletion several categories which you created: see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 October 28#Apparitions. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
You may be interested in this revived category, Wikipedia:WikiProject Secret Societies. JASpencer ( talk) 15:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
You added Category:Upper Saxon Circle to the Ernestine duchies article. I don't think that is appropriate, as only five of the duchies (Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Eisenach, Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Gotha and Saxe-Altenburg) were members of the Upper Saxon Circle. I think it is more appropriate to add those five duchies to the category, but not the whole group of duchies. -- Donald Albury 01:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I observe that you changed both Royalist and Monarchism to record your opinion that the two concepts are different. I do not think these are minor edits. -- RichardVeryard 19:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated this category that you created for deletion, as the 'House of Saxe' as such doesn't exist: all the houses named like ' Saxe-Altenburg', etc. are sub-houses of the House of Wettin and the 'Saxe' is just an abbreviation of 'Saxony', as they all ruled subdivisions of Saxony (and technically all bore the title 'Duke of Saxony'). Therefore, they should just be listed under Category:House of Wettin, and I've moved them there. Thanks! — smigs 23:20, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey - just a note on categories for Dukes and Counts of France: if an article already links to a subcategory of Counts or Dukes of France, there is no need to add it to the Counts/Dukes of France main category. For example: Counts of Verdun already links to the Category:Counts of Verdun, which is a subcat of Counts of France. Thanks- NYArtsnWords 20:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
When moving articles, please ensure that you then fix any double redirects caused by the move. Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 02:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Be sure that the coats of arms you provide were actually those used by the persons whose articles you add them to! I doubt that any duke of Gascony was using a coat of arms in the tenth century. Srnec 23:54, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Noticed you have moved Freskin to Freskin of Flanders. If you read the article, you will see that it is not categoric that Freskin was Flemish. The point is though, that if even he did originate in Flanders he was never known as Freskin of Flanders and because of his importance in being the common ancestor of very important Scottish families so applying this title is incorrect. He remained unrecorded during his own lifetime — only referred to during the lifetime of his children and grandchildren. So I would ask you to reconsider this change. Thanks. -- Bill Reid | Talk 17:39, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Despite my earlier comments, you are continuing to mark the vast majority of your edits as minor. But many of your edits are clearly substantial rather than minor - I think the discussion on this page provides some evidence of this. Can I please ask you again to read and follow the guidance on minor edits. -- RichardVeryard 00:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
Will this category ever have more than two or three entries? If not, it isn't needed, because categories are supposed to group a reasonable amount of related things, not just a few. Picaroon 22:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! I was curious to know if it was you who posted the gold lion/lepord on red field for the House of Aquitaine. I am needing to find the source for that image, as in when was it first recorded as identified with that house. Any help you can give will be appriciated. Drachenfyre 15:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
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Please stop creating categories that are populated only by one or two people. These people are generally linked from each other's articles and such categories are completely pointless. Charles 22:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed a number of article moves that you have made today. Please remember to update redirects so that double redirects are avoided.
Additionally, I'm not sure of some of the moves. Ansbach and Bayreuth/Kulmbach are usually known as the "Principalities of", not "Margraviates of" (Manfred Scheuch's Historischer Atlas Deutschland, Westermanns Atlas zur Weltgeschichte, William R. Shepherd's Historical Atlas). Your desired titles of Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Margriavate of Brandenburg-Ansbach [sic] are also quite rare; Google Books indicates that "Principality of Ansbach" is used more frequently.
Could you clarify your rationale for moving Moravia to Margraviate of Moravia? The article is about a historical region (Moravia) through the present-day, not just a state until 1918 (Margraviate of Moravia). Olessi 18:20, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Stijn Calle is right. In it´s original sense, the German title of prince is a title awarded by the Emperor to dukes, margraves, landgraves and counts palatine, expressing a certain level of independence in relation to the Empire. The rank of the person still was expressed by his original title. So in relation to his neighbour, the Duke of Palatinate Zweibrücken, the count of Nassau Saarbrücken occupied the lower rank of nobility, although both of them were princes. There was only one difference. The count of Saarbrücken used the title of prince, because for him, this was a possibility of separation from other counts, not being allowed to use this title. The duke of Palatinate Zweibrücken used the dukal title, because he wanted to show his higher position in comparison to a simple count or margrave, who was allowed to use the title of prince too. Therefore only princes with the position of count were called prince. The higher nobles used their own title, indicating their princedom only with the address "Durchlaucht". With the exception of the lowest rank, the title prince only means collective term. To be precise, the real title has to be used. The magraviates of Ansbach and Kulmbach were principalities but the accurate title is magraviate. Not to do so is like calling the King of england or the emperor of Nippon monarch of England and Monarch of Nippon. It is not wrong, but why use an imprecise title, if there is a correct title. Thw1309 06:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I just noticed you created the category Princes Bibescu. The thing is that there is already a Category:Bibescu family, and virtually all its members were princes... Or, actually, very few of them were: the ones that were princes for real were actually reigning princes, as in "rulers" (they go under Category:Rulers of Wallachia). The others were not actually princes, since, after 1860 or something, Romanian law did not give recognition to any nobility but the royal house of Hohenzollern. I view the cat as an error leading to complications, and I think it should be merged into the family cat. Granted, we still lack articles to cover these nuances, but I assure you that cat cannot lead anywhere. Dahn 11:37, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
[2]: I proposed the category for delete as it is non-defining and actually oversimplifying the history of Egypt. The only item added there was also quite incorrect. Pavel Vozenilek 22:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Please could you add some informations on the activities of the fraternity. Thw1309 08:31, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Dear Cartellbruder, are you sure about Only in matters of protocol are based. Your En-4 is better than mine, but this looks funny. Thw1309 15:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
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Could you explain why you flooded the article with red links? Are you not aware that Wikipedia is not a genealogical reference? I would appreciate your revert to the previous version of the page. -- Ghirla -трёп- 13:46, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
I would be grateful if you could answer my query at Talk:Counts of Hainaut. Gdr 21:22, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
DO NOT perform copy/paste moves as you did with Bourbon-Busset, especially after the article was already moved back. Charles 19:22, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Hallo, Stijn. Dat was een goed idee van je om een category:Bosonids te maken. Daar had ik zelf ook al nagedacht, maar ik wist niet hoe. Dan is het fijn dat er iemand met je mee denkt. Thanx! johanthon 17:26, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
What is the "House of Chateaudun"? I have never heard of that, especially in relation to the Angevin kings of Jerusalem (who are rarely ever referred to even as "Angevin"). Adam Bishop 18:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
ehm.... The French word "maison" translates in English as "house". Within branches of noble families it is worldwide custom to associate a particulair branch with their main property, or highest title. Naturally both "maison" and "house" do relate to the property-custom. Since the vast majority of visitors of wikipedia-English are non-native speakers I think it is sufficient that the French qualify this branch as "maison de Chateaudun" and "house of Chateaudun" is the best translation. If you have ever seen the Chateau, you will understand the French. The work Stijn does is very helpfull for navigation and it orders the information more understandable. johanthon 13:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I thought WP:EN was an English language encyclopedia. That is, it is written in the English language. It did not think it was an English culture encyclopedia (that sort of goes a bit against the very idea of an encyclopedia). You can use the word 'house', 'family' or 'dynasty', I do not care, as long as there is categorisation to make the whole nobility descendency scene a bit more comprehensible. Stijn Calle 14:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
I still it agree that it sounds odd to use these terms in English. Yes of course "maison" means "house" but what you are claiming seems to go beyond normal English usage. To me, describing something as a "house" means they themselves identified with that name. But what is "House of Chateaudun"? People descended from a family that owned that castle? How does that make them a "house"? Or "House of Ingelger"? Obviously they are all descended from Ingelger, but did any of them consciously identify themselves that way? We have pages about the Valois, the Capetians, the Bourbons, the Windsors, even lesser families like the House of Courtenay, but a lot of these other ones sound like Stijn is just making them up. Adam Bishop 01:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi, dear Stijn, you created a category 'Counts of Salis'. Their name is De Salis. There is no place Salis, so 'of' is doubly redundant. Was wondering, therefore, if you could please change the category name to 'Counts de Salis'? Rodolph —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rodolph ( talk • contribs) 14:21, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I see you have created the Category:Counts of Portugal (Castile). There is a problem... it should be Category:Counts of Portugal (Leon). The counties of Portugal were nver counties of Castile but of the Kingdom of Leon. This should be corrected. Thank you. 62.169.101.221 12:06, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
As you have been asked before, please do not move articles and the like to such "inventive" names that have no basis in usage or literature. Charles 19:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Please stop creating all these unecessary one-article categories, which are likely to be deleted. Johnbod 22:04, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I also noticed teh same thing as "Johnbod" commented on. Please see my detailed comments on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Divine_visionaries which is also a "specially invented category" that seems to serve a specific purpose for expressing a subtle personal point of view. Please revert those to a neutral point of view, or I will have to edit them back if you like. Thank you. History2007 16:04, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:ITS.gif. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
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Hi Stijn Calle. You've recently restored some material I deleted from this page without responding to the concerns I raised about it on the talk page. Could you please discuss, rather than simply restoring. Thanks. -- SiobhanHansa 17:51, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I would appreciate your comments here. Thanks Gustav von Humpelschmumpel 17:17, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello - if you create a category, and then decide that you don't want it, can I suggest that you add{{db-author}} to the page, instead of just blanking it? I've been going through Special:Uncategorizedcategories and came across various occasions where you had created the category and then blanked the page (such as Category:Marquisses Dessolles, Category:Marquisses of Namur, Category:Seigneurs of Lorges, Category:Viscounts of Beziers and Category:Viscount of Marsan). I've nominated them for speedy deletion, but it'll save other people work in the future if you remember this. Thanks, and happy editing. Bencherlite Talk 11:40, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated for deletion several categories which you created: see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 October 28#Apparitions. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
You may be interested in this revived category, Wikipedia:WikiProject Secret Societies. JASpencer ( talk) 15:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)