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One comment, would you mind removing the word proud from the userbox, that smells a bit too much after nationalist sentiment, I will only put the box on my userpage without. Thanks Arnoutf 14:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
In the near future, I want to convert the infoboxes of the Dutch municipalities with the general {{ Infobox city}}. This has a number of advantages: uniformity with cities/towns outside of the Netherlands, less maintenance, and we can profit from the well developed general template.
I am at this moment writing a bot that can do the conversion automatically, preserving all information currently in the infoboxes. For practice, I've already converted Eindhoven (compare with e.g. Amsterdam (municipality), which has the old infobox). At the same time, the bot will update the statistics in the box with the latest numbers from the CBS.
Does anyone have any helpful feedback before I start? Like the idea, or not? -- Eugène van der Pijll 19:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
The bot is ready, and it has already converted two articles ( Ommen and Bladel). I'll wait a few days before starting the mass conversion. Eugène van der Pijll 23:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
The Heineken article is nominated at the Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive. If you want to contribute to the article, please vote now. – Ilse @ 13:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
There appears to be no WikiProject Belgium, so I'm bringing this here. An anon is making huge changes to the Flemish people article, and I don't want to get into an edit war there since I have no input on the subject myself, but others might want to review the edits that the anon is making, if there is anyone here who has expertise and input on the subject. Corvus cornix 23:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
You can add that, In Holland, if your trying to make fun of someone, you can call them a "belgian" -- Amsterdamned ( talk) 07:07, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Could someone tell me what year Golfvaardigheidsbewijs started? Also, why is only one course to be used for the practical part of the test? I'm just looking for facts to fill out the article and I thought that this would be a good addition. Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 15:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Does a biography about a historian whose major work was about the Netherlands ( John Lothrop Motley) fall within the scope of this project? Paul Koning 17:55, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
There is an article, entitled "Amboyna Massacre" currently in wikipedia. For some reason this only shows the Indonesia and Japan wikiprojects on its talk page. Because the main import of the incident was on the diplomatic relations between England and the Dutch Republic (three Anglo-Dutch wars were started with the incident as a pretext) I think it actually is more within the scope of the project Netherlands. Can I put the template on its talk page, or would this be against wikipedia etiquette?-- Ereunetes ( talk) 01:38, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Several WikiProjects have an Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive; see for instance Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Article improvement drive. Would it be an idea for us to do something similar? We may not have enough articles and/or participants for a weekly or bi-weekly drive, but how about a monthly drive? A ecis Brievenbus 22:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Improvement | Stub to Start | Start to B | B to Good Article | Good Article to A | A to Featured Article | Respond to FA review |
Article | Apenheul | Erasmus University | Utrecht (city) | Dutch Revolt | NA | NA |
Listed since | 3 July 07 | 3 July 07 | 3 July 07 | 3 July 07 | NA | NA |
To do | Actions Expand text |
Actions Balance text |
Actions Good prose |
Actions Finalise article |
Actions Undergo FA review |
Actions Respond to critisism in FA review |
Successfully completed |
none yet | none yet | none yet | none yet | none yet | none yet |
Arnoutf 17:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't know what do you think?, but in my boredom I created this template, for the Scottish WikiProject, to measure our members activity, this can be transcluded in the user pages, both as reminder and a motivator of this WikiProject. You can choose any given period of time: By monthly, bimonthly or trimonthly basis, to count user contributions. Also it can be customized to facilitate the task of the WikiProject Editorial Team 1.0 for representing the quality status of articles at glance. Let me know your comments. Here it is how this works for now. (If you would like I can change the colors so they match the colors of your national flag).
{{ScottishWikiProjectActivity| UserTalk=2 | WikiProject=4 | Mainspace=1 | Activity=A }}
Example:
{{ScottishWikiProjectActivity |UserTalk=<span style="color:White;">2</span> | WikiProject=<span style="color:White;">4</span> | Mainspace=<span style="color:White;">1</span> | Activity=<span style="color:White;">A</span> }}
The UserTalk, WikiProject, Mainspace and Activity parameters are all optional. Use only the ones that are appropriate for the situation. Typically, the Top, Left, Bottom and Right sections will be filled in, as a minimum; to determine inactivity within a predetermined period of time. User Inactive is depicted like this A and Active with an A.
Color | Meaning | Values |
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Left | UserTalk | 0-30
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Top | WikiProject | 0-30
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Right | Mainspace | 0-30
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Right | Activity | A,
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◙JMK◙ - 22:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Let's get Portal:Netherlands up to Featured Portal status! How can it be improved, what can be added? Please drop your suggestions here. A ecis Brievenbus 14:30, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I propose writing a monthly newsletter for this WikiProject, to keep each other informed on what has been done and what has been planned. This is common practice in many other WikiProjects. Any thoughts? A ecis Brievenbus 18:35, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I have proposed a daughter project of WikiProject Netherlands: WikiProject Dutch football, about (surprise) football in the Netherlands. The proposal, for those who are interested, can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Dutch football. A ecis Brievenbus 22:35, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
I've created a football task force covering Dutch football for you..However you may wish to rename it, I've initially called it the Holland task force, rather than the Netherlands task force.... you can find it at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Netherlands task force.
Paulbrock
11:26, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
William the Silent has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.
Jan Sloot was brought to me attention as a possible hoax. Since the dead guy was a Dutch citizen, there might be more resources in Dutch to see if this is true or false. Ya'll are welcome to do whatever you want with the article, even deletion. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 09:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Franks has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.-- Peter Andersen 20:09, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if this is the right page to do this, but i've noticed some areas of the Dutch history that are neglected. For example; they are no articles of any accused Dutch "witches" during the wich-hunt in the 16th-17th century, and as far as iv'e seen, they are know examples of any historicall actors. I think it would be very interesting to read about this, and i think every country deserves to be represented. The Netherlands is very well represented in the area of painters, but i havent find anything about historicall actors. It would, for example, be interesting to read about Johanna Cornelia Ziezenis-Wattier, whom i understand is your most famous 18th century actress, but i've found nothing abour her on Google! This is just a suggestion, and i hope someone who knows will want to write about it someday. -- 85.226.235.174 12:24, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
![]() | Though this project is inactive, you can help with : Stephen McKeon (random unreferenced BLP of the day for 14 Jul 2024 - provided by User:AnomieBOT/RandomPage via WP:RANDUNREF). |
North Sea is the current Article Creation and Improvement Drive collaboration. WikiProject Netherlands members may find that a relevant focus. Perhaps a regular member of this project could find a place for the collaboration banner on the project page itself? __ meco 22:30, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Could a Dutch speaker please come over to Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2007 July 6#Image:BAEF First Boat 070430.jpg? I need a translation of an email granting usage permission of an image. Thanks. howcheng { chat} 17:56, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
You can help peer review the article Golden Film. The goal of the review is reach A-class. – Ilse @ 14:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm updating the article " The Singapore Stone", and would like to provide an English translation of an article, "Was Malaka emporium voor 1400 A.D. genaamd Malajoer? En waar lag Woerawari, Ma-Hasin, Langka, Batoesawar?" which was published in 1921 in the journal Bijdragen to di Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie. I'd be grateful if someone could provide translations of both the article and journal titles. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Jacklee 17:58, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick response. The journal title was given in the source I referred to as Bijdragen to di..., so perhaps the author made a mistake. Or could this be an older spelling? Cheers, Jacklee 19:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Paul is probably right that there has been a typographical error in the source that I've been looking at. But I'd like to be sure. Do either of you have access to an online library catalogue in the Netherlands? Perhaps if one of you does a search for this journal we can confirm how it is spelled. Cheers, Jacklee 18:34, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for all your comments and assistance. If you're interested, I recently completed overhauling the " Singapore Stone" article – have a look if you're free! Cheers, Jacklee 16:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the Article Improvement Initiative be updated? It seems like there are not many users voting or nominating. Maybe only one article should be selected. Or maybe the initiative should be removed from the project until there are more participants for it. – Ilse @ 20:32, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if there is a really nice Dutch editor here willing to have a look at my recent photo request. I would really appreciate it.-- Carabinieri 03:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Please take a look at this new article. I am not a Dutch speaker, so I could not 100% verify some of the information. It would also be nice to wikify the term "Besloten Vennootschap" as a legal corporate ownership form. Thanks. Consuelo D'Guiche 18:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
I listed the article Golden Film as a featured article candidate. – Ilse @ 23:34, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
The featured article nomination of Golden Film was restarted by the featured article director. You can reply (again) to the nomination on: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates#Golden Film. – Ilse @ 13:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I would like to notify the members of this WikiProject of the deletion discussion on the Dutch singer Lee Towers. If you wish to join the discussion, you can do so at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Towers. A ecis Brievenbus 00:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
The article ME/CVS Vereniging was deleted without discussion or alert. Regards, Guido den Broeder 15:41, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I think this is a notable park in your country but the language barrier prevents me from editing the article directly.-- Lenticel ( talk) 12:47, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
I started the article 2007 in the Netherlands back in January. That's also when I stopped editing it, I'm afraid, so it is now horribly outdated. I wanna get it back on track, but I could use the help of the members of this WikiProject. A ecis Brievenbus 17:57, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
The list List of films that received the Golden Film is nominated as a featured list candidate. – Ilse @ 10:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey everyone, can you please translate the following:
and
Thanks a lot Deniz T C 07:45, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
(after edit conflict): "The creation of Ararat is difficult to ascertain geologically, but the type of vulcanism and the position of the vulcan suggests that subduction-related vulcanism occurred at the closing of the Tethys ocean during the Neogene, such as occurred along the tectonic boundaries of the Eurasian and African and Arabic plates from Cabo de Gata to the Caucasus.
"It is not known when the last eruption of Ararat occurred, there are no historic or recent observations of large-scale activity recorded. The last eruption will have occurred somewhere in the last 10000 years. It seems that Ararat was active in the 3rd millenium BC; under the pyroclastic flows artefacts from the early Bronze Age have been found, and remains of human bodies.
"However, it is known that Ararat was shaken by a large earthquake in July 1840, the effects of which were largest in the neighbourhood of the Ahora Gorge. An unstable part of the northern slope collapsed and a chapel, a monastery and a village were covered by rubble. According to some sources, Ararat erupted then as well, albeit under the ground water level." Eugène van der Pijll 12:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks a lot everyone Deniz T C 12:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia has articles on British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since 2001, Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan, German Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan, Coalition casualties in Afghanistan and Civilian casualties of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present). How about creating an article Dutch Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan? A ecis Brievenbus 13:04, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
ME/CVS Vereniging (ME/CFS Association) is one of the three patient organizations for Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and post-viral fatigue syndrome in the Netherlands. The deleted article now is at deletion review. The references are in a foreign language and an issue at DRV is whether there was enough reference material independent of ME/CVS Vereniging's control or anyone associated with ME/CVS Vereniging to create a Wikipedia article. Please consider participating in that DRV to assist in determining whether the references are independent from ME/CVS Vereniging or in some way connected to ME/CVS Vereniging. -- Jreferee t/ c 16:58, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Anne Frank has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. -- RelHistBuff 16:55, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
At the present time, Wikipedia has no image related to the Anne Frank Tree which is to be cut down on November 21 2007. Wikipedians in the area are encouraged to take a free picture before it is cut down. Thank you. Puchiko ( Talk- email) 13:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
I'll try to pull some strings from a different direction, but don't expect too much. User:Krator ( t c) 12:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
You guys would make shitty secret agents. Pick a day when the museum is closed, hop the wall, and take the picture. Kaldari ( talk) 17:09, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Now that the tree isn't going to be cut down two days or whatever, is anyone willing to try the museum again? It's possible that the museum was reluctant to allow access because they didn't want to 'open the door' to everyone who wanted to see the tree before it was cut down. Perhaps also they were concerned someone from the Dutch Tree Foundation or some other organisation was going to try some stunt. Now that this has all calmed down a bit, you might have a better chance. Nil Einne ( talk) 14:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Our core article, Netherlands, has been nominated for our Article Improvement Initiative. Let Wikipedia:The Core Contest be another incentive to improve the article :) A ecis Brievenbus 15:47, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
I have proposed the creation of a new WikiProject related to WikiProject Netherlands: the WikiProject Dutch politics. If you are interested in joining such a WikiProject, you can express your interest at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Dutch Politics. A ecis Brievenbus 20:17, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Articles related to Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Maarten and Sint Eustatius appear to be covered only by Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean. Should the scope of this WikiProject be expanded to include the whole of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to work alongside WikiProject Caribbean on such articles? A ecis Brievenbus 23:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Recently the Dutch film award article Golden Film was not promoted to featured article, due to a lack of votes and comments after the featured article director restarted the nomination. With your help with the current peer review, I believe the article about this Dutch film award can soon be promoted to featured article. Thanks! – Ilse @ 12:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I've been reading through a number of articles about the Netherlands and the Dutch, and I'm starting to get the feeling that it's not my country they're describing. From Dutch customs and etiquette, for instance:
I have never seen anyone make the last gesture (middle finger + slapping the elbow), not even at football matches.
It's actually quite a common sign of disagreement.
Maybe I haven't visited the right occasions, but I have never come across this rule in everyday life.
I thought it was één koekje bij de koffie?
I think that's an unverifiable generalisation. There is black humour, yes, there's subtle humour, yes, but there's also terribly politically incorrect humour, from the Sam en Moos jokes of yore (collected by Max Pam) to Hans Teeuwen.
Are they? Are we? What about the British, the Italians, the Germans, etcetera? A ecis Brievenbus 00:10, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
@Erwin85: I agree on with some of your points, but not all.
1.for the obscene gestures... the english use that commonly compared to the dutch, which I have only seen a few times in my lifetime. 2.the humor is both black, and sometimes subtle, but you cant narrow it down to a specific type 3.experienced traders....this is not really debatable the dutch had a massive fleet throughout our history. Compared to other populations the amount of people out at sea at any given time there is no comparison. This includes merchant vessels, fishing boats, and naval units... The dutch fleet at one point was the largest in the world. That included a massive amount of merchant vessels. The spice trade from the Dutch East Indies accounted for a large part of the worlds spice markets. The stock exchange and banking system as well as the currency were adapted to support a strong mercantile economy. There are too many things to list here, but the indisputable facts are that the Dutch are considered historically to be excellent traders with worldwide reaching influence. Wars were fought to keep our trading advantages and too many of our boys died for that history to be ignored. People may think I'm biased and pro-dutch, and I may be a little...lol but just look up some history of the beginnings of European mercantilism, the spice wars, or the naval/merchant fleets between 1500–1800 -- Amsterdamned ( talk) 07:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I have totally rewritten the Betuweroute-wiki this month, and then took a first look the talk-page, to learn that it was Start-class.
As I am not often on English Wikipedia these days, consider these ways to contact me:
Messages are welcome in Dutch, English and German. Please mention your preferred language for an answer.
B222 ( talk) 13:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
I have totally rewritten the tompouce wiki, and it may now qualify for the WikiProject Netherlands.
Enjoy! B222 ( talk) 14:14, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
The article Golden Film is a featured article candidate. You can vote now on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Golden Film. Thank you for your help! – Ilse @ 17:09, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
A few facts:
1 We have a few hunderd municipalities in this country and all of them have an article on Wikipedia.
2 Bigger towns in this country usually have the same name as their municipality.
3 As a consequence, the city and municipality of
Enschede for example share an article. The municipality however also includes towns such as
Boekelo. Boekelo and other towns are given an article of their own, while the main city has to share it's article with the municipality, which is non-desirable and may be confusing.
4 It appears whether or not a bigger town has an article of it's own is based entirely on whether the name is the same as the municipality. For example the town of
Drachten has it's own article, and so does it's municipality
Smallingerland, even though Drachten counts for the majority of the population of the municipality (just like Enschede which shares the article).
I personally believe this is not right. Please have a look at the articles Amsterdam and Government of Amsterdam. You should also have a look at the articles on a random American city and county with the same name: Yakima, Washington and it's county Yakima County, Washington. Maybe we need to follow those examples.
Recently I was involved in a thought-provoking discussion with User:Arnoutf on what to do with the article Leeuwarden. See Talk:Leeuwarden (city). It seems to me we have two options: create one article article for a town with the same name as the municipality and two articles for a town with a name different from the municipality's name (Bad idea in my opinion) or make sure cities and municipalities have independent articles and make sure they coexist without redundant information. A big job that is, I know. I have some ideas on how to achieve this goal but first I would like to give you the opportunity to share your thoughts on this matter.
Regards, -- Baldrick90 ( talk) 22:06, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
You can now support/oppose or comment to this featured picture candidate on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates#Wilhelmina and Juliana. Thank you, Ilse @ 13:00, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was more than one featured image for this WikiProject. Candidates can be first be peer reviewed on
Wikipedia:Picture peer review, or nominated directly on
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. For inspiration: some high quality images that might pass the nomination are:
Thanks, Ilse @ 15:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I nominated a beautiful photograph of the Prinsengracht as featured picture candidate. If you want support or oppose the nomination, please see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates#Prinsengracht by night. Thank you for your help. – Ilse @ 11:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I nominated another image, of the arrest of Diponegoro by the Dutch General Hendrik de Kock. If you want support or oppose the nomination, please see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Submission of the Prince to the General. Thanks, Ilse @ 23:15, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Help would be much appreciated in translating the following book titles, passages and terms appearing in the article " Emery Molyneux" that are not in English:
Do respond on the article's talk page. Thanks very much! — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 04:12, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
William III of England has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.
Does anyone know what will happen to "Oranje boven, oranje boven, leve de koningin" when Beatrix abdicates and Willem-Alexander is crowned king? Was there a pre-1890 version of this song? If so, could you answer at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#A Dutch patriotic song? A ecis Brievenbus 12:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I nominated the list article 1928 Summer Olympics medal count as featured list on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates#1928 Summer Olympics medal count. You can help by editing the article or comment to/support/oppose the nomination. Thanks, Ilse @ 16:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
The featured list candidate 1928 Summer Olympics medal count has undergone some changes since its nomination. I would like to invite you to support or oppose the candidacy on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1928 Summer Olympics medal count. Thank you, Ilse @ 23:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am a member of WP:Disambiguation. I came across a red link to village named Halle, in Gelderland. Given that there are several places named Halle, what would be the most preferred name of the article about this Halle? For quite some time, its link from the dismambiguation page ( Halle) has been Halle, Netherlands. Today someone changed it to Halle, Kingdom of the Netherlands. Which one is the recommended way for articles such as this one? And, is this place even notable enough to eventually have an article? I will watch this page for answers. Thank you! -- Tesscass ( talk) 18:57, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
One comment, would you mind removing the word proud from the userbox, that smells a bit too much after nationalist sentiment, I will only put the box on my userpage without. Thanks Arnoutf 14:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
In the near future, I want to convert the infoboxes of the Dutch municipalities with the general {{ Infobox city}}. This has a number of advantages: uniformity with cities/towns outside of the Netherlands, less maintenance, and we can profit from the well developed general template.
I am at this moment writing a bot that can do the conversion automatically, preserving all information currently in the infoboxes. For practice, I've already converted Eindhoven (compare with e.g. Amsterdam (municipality), which has the old infobox). At the same time, the bot will update the statistics in the box with the latest numbers from the CBS.
Does anyone have any helpful feedback before I start? Like the idea, or not? -- Eugène van der Pijll 19:42, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
The bot is ready, and it has already converted two articles ( Ommen and Bladel). I'll wait a few days before starting the mass conversion. Eugène van der Pijll 23:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
The Heineken article is nominated at the Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive. If you want to contribute to the article, please vote now. – Ilse @ 13:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
There appears to be no WikiProject Belgium, so I'm bringing this here. An anon is making huge changes to the Flemish people article, and I don't want to get into an edit war there since I have no input on the subject myself, but others might want to review the edits that the anon is making, if there is anyone here who has expertise and input on the subject. Corvus cornix 23:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
You can add that, In Holland, if your trying to make fun of someone, you can call them a "belgian" -- Amsterdamned ( talk) 07:07, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
Could someone tell me what year Golfvaardigheidsbewijs started? Also, why is only one course to be used for the practical part of the test? I'm just looking for facts to fill out the article and I thought that this would be a good addition. Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 15:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Does a biography about a historian whose major work was about the Netherlands ( John Lothrop Motley) fall within the scope of this project? Paul Koning 17:55, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
There is an article, entitled "Amboyna Massacre" currently in wikipedia. For some reason this only shows the Indonesia and Japan wikiprojects on its talk page. Because the main import of the incident was on the diplomatic relations between England and the Dutch Republic (three Anglo-Dutch wars were started with the incident as a pretext) I think it actually is more within the scope of the project Netherlands. Can I put the template on its talk page, or would this be against wikipedia etiquette?-- Ereunetes ( talk) 01:38, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Several WikiProjects have an Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive; see for instance Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Article improvement drive. Would it be an idea for us to do something similar? We may not have enough articles and/or participants for a weekly or bi-weekly drive, but how about a monthly drive? A ecis Brievenbus 22:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Improvement | Stub to Start | Start to B | B to Good Article | Good Article to A | A to Featured Article | Respond to FA review |
Article | Apenheul | Erasmus University | Utrecht (city) | Dutch Revolt | NA | NA |
Listed since | 3 July 07 | 3 July 07 | 3 July 07 | 3 July 07 | NA | NA |
To do | Actions Expand text |
Actions Balance text |
Actions Good prose |
Actions Finalise article |
Actions Undergo FA review |
Actions Respond to critisism in FA review |
Successfully completed |
none yet | none yet | none yet | none yet | none yet | none yet |
Arnoutf 17:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't know what do you think?, but in my boredom I created this template, for the Scottish WikiProject, to measure our members activity, this can be transcluded in the user pages, both as reminder and a motivator of this WikiProject. You can choose any given period of time: By monthly, bimonthly or trimonthly basis, to count user contributions. Also it can be customized to facilitate the task of the WikiProject Editorial Team 1.0 for representing the quality status of articles at glance. Let me know your comments. Here it is how this works for now. (If you would like I can change the colors so they match the colors of your national flag).
{{ScottishWikiProjectActivity| UserTalk=2 | WikiProject=4 | Mainspace=1 | Activity=A }}
Example:
{{ScottishWikiProjectActivity |UserTalk=<span style="color:White;">2</span> | WikiProject=<span style="color:White;">4</span> | Mainspace=<span style="color:White;">1</span> | Activity=<span style="color:White;">A</span> }}
The UserTalk, WikiProject, Mainspace and Activity parameters are all optional. Use only the ones that are appropriate for the situation. Typically, the Top, Left, Bottom and Right sections will be filled in, as a minimum; to determine inactivity within a predetermined period of time. User Inactive is depicted like this A and Active with an A.
Color | Meaning | Values |
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Left | UserTalk | 0-30
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Top | WikiProject | 0-30
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Right | Mainspace | 0-30
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Right | Activity | A,
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◙JMK◙ - 22:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Let's get Portal:Netherlands up to Featured Portal status! How can it be improved, what can be added? Please drop your suggestions here. A ecis Brievenbus 14:30, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I propose writing a monthly newsletter for this WikiProject, to keep each other informed on what has been done and what has been planned. This is common practice in many other WikiProjects. Any thoughts? A ecis Brievenbus 18:35, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I have proposed a daughter project of WikiProject Netherlands: WikiProject Dutch football, about (surprise) football in the Netherlands. The proposal, for those who are interested, can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Dutch football. A ecis Brievenbus 22:35, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
I've created a football task force covering Dutch football for you..However you may wish to rename it, I've initially called it the Holland task force, rather than the Netherlands task force.... you can find it at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Netherlands task force.
Paulbrock
11:26, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
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Jan Sloot was brought to me attention as a possible hoax. Since the dead guy was a Dutch citizen, there might be more resources in Dutch to see if this is true or false. Ya'll are welcome to do whatever you want with the article, even deletion. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 09:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Franks has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.-- Peter Andersen 20:09, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't know if this is the right page to do this, but i've noticed some areas of the Dutch history that are neglected. For example; they are no articles of any accused Dutch "witches" during the wich-hunt in the 16th-17th century, and as far as iv'e seen, they are know examples of any historicall actors. I think it would be very interesting to read about this, and i think every country deserves to be represented. The Netherlands is very well represented in the area of painters, but i havent find anything about historicall actors. It would, for example, be interesting to read about Johanna Cornelia Ziezenis-Wattier, whom i understand is your most famous 18th century actress, but i've found nothing abour her on Google! This is just a suggestion, and i hope someone who knows will want to write about it someday. -- 85.226.235.174 12:24, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
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North Sea is the current Article Creation and Improvement Drive collaboration. WikiProject Netherlands members may find that a relevant focus. Perhaps a regular member of this project could find a place for the collaboration banner on the project page itself? __ meco 22:30, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Could a Dutch speaker please come over to Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2007 July 6#Image:BAEF First Boat 070430.jpg? I need a translation of an email granting usage permission of an image. Thanks. howcheng { chat} 17:56, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
You can help peer review the article Golden Film. The goal of the review is reach A-class. – Ilse @ 14:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm updating the article " The Singapore Stone", and would like to provide an English translation of an article, "Was Malaka emporium voor 1400 A.D. genaamd Malajoer? En waar lag Woerawari, Ma-Hasin, Langka, Batoesawar?" which was published in 1921 in the journal Bijdragen to di Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie. I'd be grateful if someone could provide translations of both the article and journal titles. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Jacklee 17:58, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick response. The journal title was given in the source I referred to as Bijdragen to di..., so perhaps the author made a mistake. Or could this be an older spelling? Cheers, Jacklee 19:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Paul is probably right that there has been a typographical error in the source that I've been looking at. But I'd like to be sure. Do either of you have access to an online library catalogue in the Netherlands? Perhaps if one of you does a search for this journal we can confirm how it is spelled. Cheers, Jacklee 18:34, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for all your comments and assistance. If you're interested, I recently completed overhauling the " Singapore Stone" article – have a look if you're free! Cheers, Jacklee 16:34, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't the Article Improvement Initiative be updated? It seems like there are not many users voting or nominating. Maybe only one article should be selected. Or maybe the initiative should be removed from the project until there are more participants for it. – Ilse @ 20:32, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if there is a really nice Dutch editor here willing to have a look at my recent photo request. I would really appreciate it.-- Carabinieri 03:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Please take a look at this new article. I am not a Dutch speaker, so I could not 100% verify some of the information. It would also be nice to wikify the term "Besloten Vennootschap" as a legal corporate ownership form. Thanks. Consuelo D'Guiche 18:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
I listed the article Golden Film as a featured article candidate. – Ilse @ 23:34, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
The featured article nomination of Golden Film was restarted by the featured article director. You can reply (again) to the nomination on: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates#Golden Film. – Ilse @ 13:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
I would like to notify the members of this WikiProject of the deletion discussion on the Dutch singer Lee Towers. If you wish to join the discussion, you can do so at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Towers. A ecis Brievenbus 00:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
The article ME/CVS Vereniging was deleted without discussion or alert. Regards, Guido den Broeder 15:41, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I think this is a notable park in your country but the language barrier prevents me from editing the article directly.-- Lenticel ( talk) 12:47, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
I started the article 2007 in the Netherlands back in January. That's also when I stopped editing it, I'm afraid, so it is now horribly outdated. I wanna get it back on track, but I could use the help of the members of this WikiProject. A ecis Brievenbus 17:57, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
The list List of films that received the Golden Film is nominated as a featured list candidate. – Ilse @ 10:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey everyone, can you please translate the following:
and
Thanks a lot Deniz T C 07:45, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
(after edit conflict): "The creation of Ararat is difficult to ascertain geologically, but the type of vulcanism and the position of the vulcan suggests that subduction-related vulcanism occurred at the closing of the Tethys ocean during the Neogene, such as occurred along the tectonic boundaries of the Eurasian and African and Arabic plates from Cabo de Gata to the Caucasus.
"It is not known when the last eruption of Ararat occurred, there are no historic or recent observations of large-scale activity recorded. The last eruption will have occurred somewhere in the last 10000 years. It seems that Ararat was active in the 3rd millenium BC; under the pyroclastic flows artefacts from the early Bronze Age have been found, and remains of human bodies.
"However, it is known that Ararat was shaken by a large earthquake in July 1840, the effects of which were largest in the neighbourhood of the Ahora Gorge. An unstable part of the northern slope collapsed and a chapel, a monastery and a village were covered by rubble. According to some sources, Ararat erupted then as well, albeit under the ground water level." Eugène van der Pijll 12:07, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks a lot everyone Deniz T C 12:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia has articles on British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since 2001, Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan, German Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan, Coalition casualties in Afghanistan and Civilian casualties of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present). How about creating an article Dutch Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan? A ecis Brievenbus 13:04, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
ME/CVS Vereniging (ME/CFS Association) is one of the three patient organizations for Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis and post-viral fatigue syndrome in the Netherlands. The deleted article now is at deletion review. The references are in a foreign language and an issue at DRV is whether there was enough reference material independent of ME/CVS Vereniging's control or anyone associated with ME/CVS Vereniging to create a Wikipedia article. Please consider participating in that DRV to assist in determining whether the references are independent from ME/CVS Vereniging or in some way connected to ME/CVS Vereniging. -- Jreferee t/ c 16:58, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Anne Frank has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. -- RelHistBuff 16:55, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
At the present time, Wikipedia has no image related to the Anne Frank Tree which is to be cut down on November 21 2007. Wikipedians in the area are encouraged to take a free picture before it is cut down. Thank you. Puchiko ( Talk- email) 13:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
I'll try to pull some strings from a different direction, but don't expect too much. User:Krator ( t c) 12:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
You guys would make shitty secret agents. Pick a day when the museum is closed, hop the wall, and take the picture. Kaldari ( talk) 17:09, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Now that the tree isn't going to be cut down two days or whatever, is anyone willing to try the museum again? It's possible that the museum was reluctant to allow access because they didn't want to 'open the door' to everyone who wanted to see the tree before it was cut down. Perhaps also they were concerned someone from the Dutch Tree Foundation or some other organisation was going to try some stunt. Now that this has all calmed down a bit, you might have a better chance. Nil Einne ( talk) 14:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Our core article, Netherlands, has been nominated for our Article Improvement Initiative. Let Wikipedia:The Core Contest be another incentive to improve the article :) A ecis Brievenbus 15:47, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
I have proposed the creation of a new WikiProject related to WikiProject Netherlands: the WikiProject Dutch politics. If you are interested in joining such a WikiProject, you can express your interest at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Dutch Politics. A ecis Brievenbus 20:17, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Articles related to Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Maarten and Sint Eustatius appear to be covered only by Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean. Should the scope of this WikiProject be expanded to include the whole of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, to work alongside WikiProject Caribbean on such articles? A ecis Brievenbus 23:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Recently the Dutch film award article Golden Film was not promoted to featured article, due to a lack of votes and comments after the featured article director restarted the nomination. With your help with the current peer review, I believe the article about this Dutch film award can soon be promoted to featured article. Thanks! – Ilse @ 12:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I've been reading through a number of articles about the Netherlands and the Dutch, and I'm starting to get the feeling that it's not my country they're describing. From Dutch customs and etiquette, for instance:
I have never seen anyone make the last gesture (middle finger + slapping the elbow), not even at football matches.
It's actually quite a common sign of disagreement.
Maybe I haven't visited the right occasions, but I have never come across this rule in everyday life.
I thought it was één koekje bij de koffie?
I think that's an unverifiable generalisation. There is black humour, yes, there's subtle humour, yes, but there's also terribly politically incorrect humour, from the Sam en Moos jokes of yore (collected by Max Pam) to Hans Teeuwen.
Are they? Are we? What about the British, the Italians, the Germans, etcetera? A ecis Brievenbus 00:10, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
@Erwin85: I agree on with some of your points, but not all.
1.for the obscene gestures... the english use that commonly compared to the dutch, which I have only seen a few times in my lifetime. 2.the humor is both black, and sometimes subtle, but you cant narrow it down to a specific type 3.experienced traders....this is not really debatable the dutch had a massive fleet throughout our history. Compared to other populations the amount of people out at sea at any given time there is no comparison. This includes merchant vessels, fishing boats, and naval units... The dutch fleet at one point was the largest in the world. That included a massive amount of merchant vessels. The spice trade from the Dutch East Indies accounted for a large part of the worlds spice markets. The stock exchange and banking system as well as the currency were adapted to support a strong mercantile economy. There are too many things to list here, but the indisputable facts are that the Dutch are considered historically to be excellent traders with worldwide reaching influence. Wars were fought to keep our trading advantages and too many of our boys died for that history to be ignored. People may think I'm biased and pro-dutch, and I may be a little...lol but just look up some history of the beginnings of European mercantilism, the spice wars, or the naval/merchant fleets between 1500–1800 -- Amsterdamned ( talk) 07:03, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
I have totally rewritten the Betuweroute-wiki this month, and then took a first look the talk-page, to learn that it was Start-class.
As I am not often on English Wikipedia these days, consider these ways to contact me:
Messages are welcome in Dutch, English and German. Please mention your preferred language for an answer.
B222 ( talk) 13:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
I have totally rewritten the tompouce wiki, and it may now qualify for the WikiProject Netherlands.
Enjoy! B222 ( talk) 14:14, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
The article Golden Film is a featured article candidate. You can vote now on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Golden Film. Thank you for your help! – Ilse @ 17:09, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
A few facts:
1 We have a few hunderd municipalities in this country and all of them have an article on Wikipedia.
2 Bigger towns in this country usually have the same name as their municipality.
3 As a consequence, the city and municipality of
Enschede for example share an article. The municipality however also includes towns such as
Boekelo. Boekelo and other towns are given an article of their own, while the main city has to share it's article with the municipality, which is non-desirable and may be confusing.
4 It appears whether or not a bigger town has an article of it's own is based entirely on whether the name is the same as the municipality. For example the town of
Drachten has it's own article, and so does it's municipality
Smallingerland, even though Drachten counts for the majority of the population of the municipality (just like Enschede which shares the article).
I personally believe this is not right. Please have a look at the articles Amsterdam and Government of Amsterdam. You should also have a look at the articles on a random American city and county with the same name: Yakima, Washington and it's county Yakima County, Washington. Maybe we need to follow those examples.
Recently I was involved in a thought-provoking discussion with User:Arnoutf on what to do with the article Leeuwarden. See Talk:Leeuwarden (city). It seems to me we have two options: create one article article for a town with the same name as the municipality and two articles for a town with a name different from the municipality's name (Bad idea in my opinion) or make sure cities and municipalities have independent articles and make sure they coexist without redundant information. A big job that is, I know. I have some ideas on how to achieve this goal but first I would like to give you the opportunity to share your thoughts on this matter.
Regards, -- Baldrick90 ( talk) 22:06, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
You can now support/oppose or comment to this featured picture candidate on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates#Wilhelmina and Juliana. Thank you, Ilse @ 13:00, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
It would be nice if there was more than one featured image for this WikiProject. Candidates can be first be peer reviewed on
Wikipedia:Picture peer review, or nominated directly on
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. For inspiration: some high quality images that might pass the nomination are:
Thanks, Ilse @ 15:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I nominated a beautiful photograph of the Prinsengracht as featured picture candidate. If you want support or oppose the nomination, please see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates#Prinsengracht by night. Thank you for your help. – Ilse @ 11:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I nominated another image, of the arrest of Diponegoro by the Dutch General Hendrik de Kock. If you want support or oppose the nomination, please see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Submission of the Prince to the General. Thanks, Ilse @ 23:15, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Help would be much appreciated in translating the following book titles, passages and terms appearing in the article " Emery Molyneux" that are not in English:
Do respond on the article's talk page. Thanks very much! — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 04:12, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
William III of England has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.
Does anyone know what will happen to "Oranje boven, oranje boven, leve de koningin" when Beatrix abdicates and Willem-Alexander is crowned king? Was there a pre-1890 version of this song? If so, could you answer at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#A Dutch patriotic song? A ecis Brievenbus 12:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I nominated the list article 1928 Summer Olympics medal count as featured list on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates#1928 Summer Olympics medal count. You can help by editing the article or comment to/support/oppose the nomination. Thanks, Ilse @ 16:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
The featured list candidate 1928 Summer Olympics medal count has undergone some changes since its nomination. I would like to invite you to support or oppose the candidacy on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/1928 Summer Olympics medal count. Thank you, Ilse @ 23:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am a member of WP:Disambiguation. I came across a red link to village named Halle, in Gelderland. Given that there are several places named Halle, what would be the most preferred name of the article about this Halle? For quite some time, its link from the dismambiguation page ( Halle) has been Halle, Netherlands. Today someone changed it to Halle, Kingdom of the Netherlands. Which one is the recommended way for articles such as this one? And, is this place even notable enough to eventually have an article? I will watch this page for answers. Thank you! -- Tesscass ( talk) 18:57, 11 April 2008 (UTC)