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==[[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos|Typo]] on "Now"== |
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Could you throw me a few examples of the false positives on "now". I'd like to take a crack at fixing it. [[User:Shadowjams|Shadowjams]] ([[User talk:Shadowjams|talk]]) 21:11, 3 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Shadowjams, thank you for your message. |
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:The main problem I came across with this one was when running spell-checks on Eastern-European town/city/village articles. A frequent word which triggered the spell-check was '''nowe''' (Polish/Slovak for 'new'). |
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:I know that foreign words create a problem with spell-checking and we can't fix every case, but this one seems to be occurring very frequently in the areas I've been working. |
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:I wasn't sure how to exclude this particular case - is this possible just to exclude the word 'nowe'? |
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:Thank you for taking an interest in this. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 01:45, 4 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::Yeah. Right now it looks like this: '''find="\b(N|n)(?:ow[es]|wo)\b" replace="$1ow"'''. If it's just "nowe" we could remove the e from the brackets. If catching "nowes" is important, but avoiding "nowe" is too, then this could work: '''find="\b(N|n)(?:owe?s|wo)\b"'''. |
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::As a side note, the '''(?:''' idiom seems to be common on AWB/T but I don't know why. It just designates a noncapturing group so you don't have to readjust the $1 numbering, which isn't an issue most places where it's used. Go figure. |
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::Let me know if you think that might fix it. I'll test it later if I get the time. [[User:Shadowjams|Shadowjams]] ([[User talk:Shadowjams|talk]]) 01:55, 4 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::Another possibility, to actually catch misspellings of now as "nowe", would be to try to exclude sentences that have accented characters, things like "Ś", in them. That might knock down the false positives. We could also exclude the capitalized ones that use that one. |
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:::Doing the accent character avoidance is probably too verbose for AWB/T, and would tie up too much processor to be used widespread, but if you wanted to use it on your own Find/Replace patterns it might work. Making it could be a bit of a pain, so before I try to do one, let me know if you think that either of those mechanisms would avoid most of the false positives you've seen. [[User:Shadowjams|Shadowjams]] ([[User talk:Shadowjams|talk]]) 02:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::::Thanks for the fast replies, Shadowjams. |
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::::I think that just removing 'nowe' would be of great benefit. I have no idea if 'nowes' is a frequent typo. There was obviously some reason for adding it to the list in the first place. |
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::::The word 'nowe' often appears in text on its own within English text, usually as part of a place or landmark name, rather than part of a line of foreign text. |
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::::I think just removing 'nowe' from the list would be the simplest solution. |
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::::If you are able to this, I would be very grateful. |
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::::Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 02:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Hello! == |
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hello thanks for the welcome! |
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[[User:Ceroman|Ceroman]] ([[User talk:Ceroman|talk]]) 23:02, 3 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Ceroman, you're very welcome. ''Happy Wiki-ing!'' -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 17:53, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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Hi! Thanks for the welcome... I do not usually edit anything, unless some minor sentences I find unclear, or some statements when I read them twice. But I was thinking about translating some articles over to the Spanish Wiki, which is sadly underdeveloped... However, I am not sure if I can keep the same sources, or if the sources must be in the language of the Wiki... I guess I will have to search the info! [[User:Leirus|Leirus]] ([[User talk:Leirus|talk]]) |
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== About Nativity church == |
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Hi. Im glad you translated (or created) the page about "Adormirea Maicii Domnului" church in Causeni...in english. The name of the church translated in english is Assumption of Mary, or something like that. Nativity church maybe in the case of Nasterea Domnului, but not this case. "Dedicated to jesus" is another mistake. So please correct this things. Best wishes. [[User:Dan.chent|Dan.chent]] ([[User talk:Dan.chent|talk]]) 18:16, 4 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Dan.chent, thank you for your message. Could you please show me which page you are referring to. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:20, 4 February 2010 (UTC) |
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Hi, Marek. This is the page: [[Nativity Church, Căuşeni]].[[User:Dan.chent|Dan.chent]] ([[User talk:Dan.chent|talk]]) 14:59, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Violating links == |
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This link is to saojoaodepernambuco.com has changed and now has only a sponsored ads. |
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Don know how edit since I dont see the editing page for Referências at http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiana |
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I have reason to believe that some of the refernces at Wikipedia is abused by a network of websites, belong to one person. |
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An example: http://www.google.se/#hl=sv&source=hp&q=Brazilian+teams+may+play+at+several+championships+simultaneously.&btnG=Google-s%C3%B6kning&meta=&aq=f&oq=Brazilian+teams+may+play+at+several+championships+simultaneously.&fp=76b2f1f97b71ad7a |
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These two is very similar in content: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_football_league_system |
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http://www.natal-brazil.com/communities/football-brazil.html |
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I checked natal-brazil.com and some of the content is copied from other wbesites. |
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The above link even had a url from Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Brazil (could not edit and remove) |
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The websites that are joined in a network and many of them has references in Wikipedia(Example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natal,_Rio_Grande_do_Norte) : |
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viagemdeferias.com |
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visitfortaleza.com |
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aboutbrasilia.com |
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natal-brazil.com |
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aboutsaopaulo.com |
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v-brazil.com |
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joao-pessoa.com |
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www.recifeguide.com |
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The content is not unique on some pages and filled with Google ads. |
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Another example: |
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The text on recifeguide.com is not unique, I think the material is copied as well, compare "The History of Recife and Pernambuco is unique" in Google: |
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http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:-8-nWtmn3zEJ:www.diveglobal.com/explore_destinations/divertales/feb2006.asp+%22The+History+of+Recife+and+Pernambuco+is+unique%22&cd=3&hl=sv&ct=clnk&gl=se |
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http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:wteQjgw0qhsJ:www.recifeguide.com/+%22The+History+of+Recife+and+Pernambuco+is+unique%22&cd=1&hl=sv&ct=clnk&gl=se |
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Regards |
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Sammyname |
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[[User:Sammyname|Sammyname]] ([[User talk:Sammyname|talk]]) 23:58, 4 February 2010 (UTC) <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Sammyname|Sammyname]] ([[User talk:Sammyname|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sammyname|contribs]]) 23:50, 4 February 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi Sammyname. Thank you for your message. |
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:If these links you are referring to are not under the References section, then they're likely to be within the text of the article. |
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:If you make a note of the number of the reference, then look where that same number shows up in the article. |
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:i.e The article text will look like this.<sup>[3]</sup> |
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=====References===== |
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:1. Good Reference |
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:2. Good Reference |
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:3. Bad Reference |
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:When you find the place the bad reference is in the text (e.g. the number 3 - it will probably have <nowiki><ref></nowiki> before it and <nowiki></ref></nowiki> after it) you will be able to remove it. |
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:I hope this helps. |
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:Please come back if you need more help. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 00:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== First personal problems with IP editors == |
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Salutings Marek69, for the second time a paragraph of mine has been deleted in the [[Leipzig#Sport]] section by an IP editor. Both times I reverted this and now I am wondering what to do the next time this happens. I already placed a section on the [[Talk:Leipzig#Red_Bull_Engagement|related talk page]] expressing my opinion. But I find it hard to communicate with editors who do not care for explaining their reasons. So what are my options? Thanks for Your time. Greetings [[User:Arrmaniac|Arrmaniac]] ([[User talk:Arrmaniac|talk]]) 13:07, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Arrmaniac, in both these cases the whole paragraph was deleted without any discussion or explanation. |
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:This type of edit can be treated as 'unexplained removal of cited content' |
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:If it happens again you can simply revert using the above edit summary. Also you should leave a message on the IP editors talk page. If they give no explanation and repeat the same section blanking, then you can treat it as disruptive editing and use the appropriate warning. Usually this will do the trick. |
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:Please let me know if you have any more problems with this. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::Thanks for the quick reaction. I'll keep your advice in mind. [[User:Arrmaniac|Arrmaniac]] ([[User talk:Arrmaniac|talk]]) 08:08, 9 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Carpe Diem == |
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Hi there marek. How come my good faith edit was reverted by you? I'd certainly consider that including "Seize the Day (novel)" disambig would be just as relevant to the top of the main page of the Carpe Diem article just as relevant as the "Seize the Day (song)", if not more so. |
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I tried to add both the song and the novel to the top of Carpe Diem but was unable to get the formatting correct to include both, so I moved both to the disambig page, to be fair. It would seem either both should be included or neither. Please assist?! Thanks again. [[Special:Contributions/38.109.88.196|38.109.88.196]] ([[User talk:38.109.88.196|talk]]) 18:09, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi, I [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carpe_diem&diff=next&oldid=342041301 reverted] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carpe_diem&oldid=342041301 this version] back to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carpe_diem&oldid=342041412 this version] with the edit summary of ''Previous format was better.'' |
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:This was for the simple reason that using the template <nowiki>{{Redirect|Seize the day}}</nowiki> is better formatting than manually writing <nowiki> ''"Seize the Day" redirects here. '' </nowiki> |
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:This had nothing to do with whether "Seize the Day (novel)" is as relevant as "Seize the Day (song)". |
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:I hope this answers your question |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 18:22, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::I see your point. But since there are two "Seize the Day" works here (the song and the novel), how can [[Carpe Diem]] be formatted to either include both or neither on it's front page? Why should the song get top billing? (Actually, why should either get top billing? It's only a redirect, after all.) But if anything, I believe the song should take a backseat as the novel is unquestionably more notable. Please forgive my lack on knowledge about proper formatting; any advice you can give would help. [[Special:Contributions/38.109.88.196|38.109.88.196]] ([[User talk:38.109.88.196|talk]]) 21:37, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::So. Any ideas? Perhaps removing the redirect altogether and simply leaving the disambig? If I don't hear back on your thoughts in the next few days that is the action I will assume to be best. [[Special:Contributions/38.109.88.196|38.109.88.196]] ([[User talk:38.109.88.196|talk]]) 18:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::::I've already removed the <nowiki>{{Redirect}}</nowiki> template. It seems unnecessary to me. If you disagree you may replace it with both song and novel if you wish. I'm not particularly fussed on this one. |
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::::Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:14, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::::I'm going to restore them both to the page, if only because the redirect is to "Carpe Diem" and the song and the novel are both titled "Seize the Day"...wouldn't want anybody to miss either. Thanks again for being willing to see this POV. You're awesome. :o) [[Special:Contributions/38.109.88.196|38.109.88.196]] ([[User talk:38.109.88.196|talk]]) 02:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::::No Problem -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 14:51, 8 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Hello!! == |
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Thank you for your welcome note! I hope my contributions are okay for you ;-). |
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Greetings from Hamburg, Germany |
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ExcelsiorHH [[User:ExcelsiorHH|ExcelsiorHH]] ([[User talk:ExcelsiorHH|talk]]) 18:19, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi ExcelsiorHH, thank you for your message. I hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia :-) |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 18:26, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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I sometimes enjoy it far too much and forget everything else around me... [[User:ExcelsiorHH|ExcelsiorHH]] ([[User talk:ExcelsiorHH|talk]]) 18:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:<nowiki>:-)</nowiki> OK just don't enjoy it too much, ''too often'' then. Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:17, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
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==Ze'ev Tzahor Auschwitz lie== |
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[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Holocaust_denial]] |
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Potrzebuje poparcia [[User:Cautious|Cautious]] ([[User talk:Cautious|talk]]) 21:15, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Welcome! == |
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Well, considering I'm about three times as long here than you, I guess I should be the one to welcome you as newbie ... ;-) -[[User:Caballito|Caballito]] ([[User talk:Caballito|talk]]) 13:18, 6 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Well ''thank you'' for the welcome then, Caballito :-) Cheers! -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">''the newbie''</span>}}]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:19, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::And I'm very sorry it took me so long :-) The long time rookie -[[User:Caballito|Caballito]] ([[User talk:Caballito|talk]]) 15:10, 8 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Hello == |
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Thank you for welcome ! I make in the majority a translation from English and Turkish Wikipedia to Polish Wikipedia and it is my main target now. I am in [[Ankara]] currently, so if you some suggestion for help in developing Wikipedia connected with this place give me cue, please. You can see more information about me on my polish account - [[http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Mcdrwal Mcdrwal in polish]]<br /> |
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Best regrades, [[User:Mcdrwal|Mcdrwal]] ([[User talk:Mcdrwal|talk]]) 14:58, 6 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Initial capital in piped links == |
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(This text replaces what I originally wrote, which was probably not correct) |
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Re your edit to [[European Union]] on 3 Feb and others: is there any reason that I don't know for explicitly replacing initial capitals in piped links with lower case? I had thought that this caused an unnecessary redirection, but on checking it seems that the case of the first letter (only) is ignored and does not cause any overhead. My general practice is to use the title of an article exactly in the first part of the pipe (specifically, with initial capital e.g.<br><nowiki>"... an [[Autonomous area|autonomous province]] ", not</nowiki> <br><nowiki>"... is an [[autonomous area|autonomous province]] ".</nowiki> Is there any general recommendation you know of, or are they equally acceptable? Best wishes, [[User:Pol098|Pol098]] ([[User talk:Pol098|talk]]) 21:18, 6 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Pol098, thank you for your message. |
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:You are probably right, these piped links should remain with first letter in uppercase. That seems logical to me. |
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:But if, as you say, the case of the first letter (only) is ignored, it would then seem that it makes no difference at all(?) |
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:Regarding ''my'' edits, this change happens automatically when making other changes when using some of [[User:Dispenser|Dispenser]]'s tools, such as [[tools:~dispenser/view/Dab_solver|Dab solver]], [[tools:~dispenser/view/Checklinks|Checklinks]] & [[tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks|Reflinks]]. |
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:I was going to ask user [[User:Dispenser|Dispenser]] for the reasoning behind this, but found that someone already had [[User_talk:Dispenser#Decapitalizing_.7B.7BCite_....7D.7D|asked this question]] ''(in a manner)'' |
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:Personally, it makes little difference to me, I just happen to use Dispenser's tools quite frequently as I find them useful and these changes come with the package. |
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:I hope this answers your question :-) |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:40, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::Thanks. You say "I hope this answers your question": to be pedantic, not quite; I would take the attitude that the change of case is incorrect, and it's up to you not to use a tool that actually introduces error into the articles you edit. Anyway, if I repair your car and the wheels fall off, I now know that you will be satisfied if I say that my nut tightener actually tightens nuts to the standard its manufacturer intended, nothing to do with me.<br><br>I've left a comment to Dispenser; the existing discussion on case changing was perhaps debatable, this one is clearcut. Very confusing; the last time I reported incorrect changes due to the use of a template I was told that these changes were down to the user, not the template! (Obviously that was true, and this case is different; just confusing.) Best wishes [[User:Pol098|Pol098]] ([[User talk:Pol098|talk]]) 11:19, 8 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::Hi Pol098, thank you for your message. Don't worry, I don't think you were being pedantic, you're just trying to get your message across. |
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:::Please excuse my confusion, I didn't realise that these edits were ''wrong'' as such, and would be introducing ''errors'' into the edited articles. I thought what you were saying above was that the first letter's case would be ignored anyway, and it wouldn't matter. |
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:::Anyhow, I won't argue the point as I strongly suspect you are correct in what you are saying (i.e that there is no point in changing the case needlessly) so I will now be completely suspending my use of Dispenser's tools until this matter is clarified. |
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:::I thank you for bringing this to my attention, as it was never my intention to deliberately introduce errors into the encyclopaedia. |
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:::Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 14:45, 8 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::::Thanks for your response again. Like most things in Wikipedia it's probably largely a matter of opinion; my opinion is that the "correct" way to do things is to pipe the title of an article exactly (i.e, with leading capital), and that anything else is, strictly speaking, incorrect. When I formed this opinion I thought that this would be more efficient than starting with a lower-case letter, but I think I was wrong on that issue. So my opinion is that lower-case is incorrect, but that it does not actually cause inefficiency. I've never heard of anyone saying that the initial letter in a piped quote should be lower-case (but I haven't looked...), so I don't think there's any controversy here. This is purely a matter of how it looks, apparently with no impact on performance. This is pretty pedantic, but I don't mind being pedantic here - if it's appropriate to be pedantic anywhere, an encylopaedia is the place! Best wishes [[User:Pol098|Pol098]] ([[User talk:Pol098|talk]]) 15:04, 8 February 2010 (UTC) |
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In case you or anyone is interested: I wrote about this on the [[User talk:Dispenser#Incorrect capitalisation in piped references|Talk page of Dispenser]], who made Reflist and other tools; his position is that removal of initial capitals is by design and will stay. At the time of writing there's one additional comment by someone who agrees with me and asks if there is a guideline covering this issue. [[User:Pol098|Pol098]] ([[User talk:Pol098|talk]]) 11:12, 9 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Thank you for the update Pol098. |
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:I would just like to clarify some of my previous comments. |
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:I said ''this change happens automatically when making other changes when using some of [[User:Dispenser|Dispenser]]'s tools''. |
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:In fact the changes only happen automatically when using [[tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks|Reflinks]]. With the other tools [[tools:~dispenser/view/Dab_solver|Dab solver]] & [[tools:~dispenser/view/Checklinks|Checklinks]], you have a checkbox you can tick to 'apply common fixes' or an option to run ''reflinks.py'', in both cases optional. |
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:I will wait and see the results of the discussion before I return to using Reflinks, in order to avoid upsetting any other editors |
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:Thank you for your comments on this subject. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 18:04, 9 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Brazil, Introduction == |
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Hi Marek69, |
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Just a brief note. The correct translation of "Republica Federativa do Brasil" in English is "Federal Republic of Brazil" not "Federative Republic of Brazil." There is no such word as "federative" in English (see: Webster's Dictionary of the American Language or any other English dictionary) and Larousse, Concise Dictionary of English/Portugese, p. 171 cites "federativa" as "federalist." The best translation to conform to good English usage and to render the correct meaning of the Portugese is "Federal Republic of Brazil." It is a good idea to start the article on Brazil with the correct name of the country. Please correct. (And yes, I speak Portugese and my wife is Brazilian and agrees with this point.) Thanks. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Harrisles|Harrisles]] ([[User talk:Harrisles|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Harrisles|contribs]]) 19:23, 7 February 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi Harrisles, I have found many instances in different dictionaries of the word 'Federative' being in the dictionary. |
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:Here are the first three instances I found: [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Federative], [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/federative] and [http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Federative] |
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:The text on the [[Brazil]] article referring to Federative Republic of Brazil is referenced to [http://www.brasil.gov.br/ingles/ The Brazilian Government official website] which clearly also says Federative. |
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:Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:03, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== It's a long time since we've talked, but i need to ask a q. == |
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Hi Marek. I need to contact you for something. I was wondering, can info from [[wikitravel]] be copy-pasted? Reply--[[User:Theologiae|Theologiae]] ([[User talk:Theologiae|talk]]) 20:03, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Theologia, When you contribute to Wikipedia, you irrevocably agree to release your contributions under the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|CC-BY-SA 3.0]] License and the [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GFDL]]. Techncially, under these licences you shouldn't copy-paste large sections of one Wikipedia article into another as it contravenes the rules on [[Wikipedia:Attribution| |
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Attribution]], i.e. the section you've copied is likely to have a different set of authors, to the article your pasting into. So you shouldn't copy-paste within Wikipedia, you should treat the text like any other copyrighted text and paraphrase it. |
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:[[Wikitravel]] is not technically part of Wikipedia, it uses similar [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|CC-BY-SA 3.0]] licensing and may be interpreted differently. |
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:In practice, it would be best should treat Wikitravel like any other external site; you could probably get away with copy-pasting one or two lines maximum (to be safe), but it would still be a good idea to put this text into your own words. |
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:I hope this answers your question. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 22:23, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::So, what would happen if you just copypasted huge chunks? Would you be accused of copyright infrangment. What if you copy large chunks but change the wording slightly i.e. |
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::On wikitravel it says: "Prague is a beautiful city with many sights and has a large medieval area" |
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::you then copy it, and say: "Prague is an ''attractive metropolis'' with many sights and has a ''great central area dating from the middle ages''" |
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::reply--[[User:Theologiae|Theologiae]] ([[User talk:Theologiae|talk]]) 22:34, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::The one line you quote, would probably be acceptable, if you ''just'' used that line of text or maybe one more. |
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:::If you say took a whole paragraph, say 10 lines and just changed the odd word using a thesaurus or similar method, it would not be acceptable. You would have to re-write the paragraph (or the parts you wish to use) in your own words. |
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:::The exception, of course would be [[public domain]] or copyright free texts, which are allowed ''(but it is still not a good idea to copy paste these either)''. |
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:::For more information you could look at these articles: |
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::::[[Copyright]] |
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::::[[Wikipedia:Copyrights]] |
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::::[[Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ]] |
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::::[[Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements]] |
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:::I hope this helps [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 22:49, 7 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Oxford flag size == |
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Bit puzzled by {{diff|Oxford|342630257|342491539|this edit}} ... flag size, if not blank, should be an integer followed by the letters "px" - the default is 100px. --[[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#d30000; background:#ffeeee">Red</span>rose64]] ([[User talk:Redrose64|talk]]) 10:35, 8 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Oops, I'm a bit puzzled as well. Someone has (incorrectly) added 7 FT here, which AWB has taken for 7 ft and applied the convert template to show the corresponding length in metres. The edit would have been correct if it hadn't been in the wrong place! I ''should have'' noticed it at the time. |
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:Anyway, I'm sorry it was a mistake. Thanks for fixing it and letting me know, Redrose64 :-) [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 14:07, 8 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== hello == |
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hi Marek |
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i just read on Wikipedia about Cyprus signing joining the schengen zone on the 26 march 2010.i will be much grateful if you let me on your source of information.thanks i await your reply.thanks sinbad <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Sinbadgh|Sinbadgh]] ([[User talk:Sinbadgh|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sinbadgh|contribs]]) 13:27, 8 February 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi Sinbadgh, thank you for your message. I've looked through the [[Schengen Area]] article and there doesn't appear to be one. |
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:I've also done a quick Google on it, and can only find references in the negative, ie Cyprus ''will not'' be integrated into the Schengen Area until ''at least'' March 2010. |
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:I'll keep looking and let you know when I find something. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 03:10, 11 February 2010 (UTC) |
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==Welcome== |
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Hello! And thank You for welcomming me into the Wiki-world. |
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// Mr Per Sanderford, Sweden <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Stringence|Stringence]] ([[User talk:Stringence|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Stringence|contribs]]) 17:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi Per, thank you for your message. I hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia. |
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:Please let me know if there is anything I can help you with. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:06, 9 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== a matter of license for text I wrote == |
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Hi |
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On the page about Seydisfjordur is a text tha I wrote and did ad to the wikipedia. I also gave the east.is a permission to use the text. So my question is how do I prove to you that I'm the author of the text? |
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Adalheidur Borgthorsdottir id, number 010758-6619 |
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[[User:Ferdamenning|Ferdamenning]] ([[User talk:Ferdamenning|talk]]) 11:03, 11 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Adalheidur, thank you for your message. |
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:Only text that is licensed compatibly with the [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License]] (CC-BY-SA) or in the [[public domain]] can be freely copied onto Wikipedia. (If copyright of the previously published text belongs exclusively to you, it must ''also'' be licensed under [[Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|Gnu Free Documentation License]].) |
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:Basically you need to release the text on your website into the [[public domain]] or under compatable licenses to Wikipedia, i.e. [[Wikipedia:Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License|Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License]] (CC-BY-SA) ''(you can find more info from [http://creativecommons.org/ CreativeCommons.Org])'' and [[Gnu Free Documentation License]]. ''([http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html Gnu.Org])'' |
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:You need to state this on your website. When you have done so, you can copy over text. |
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:You may find the following article helpful; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_FAQ#Can_I_add_something_to_Wikipedia_that_I_got_from_somewhere_else.3F|Can I add something to Wikipedia that I got from somewhere else?] |
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:The other option you have is to rewrite the text completely, before adding. (Thus avoiding ''any'' copyright issues) |
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:In my opinion it would be better to change the text somewhat, before adding it to Wikipedia, ''either'' way. |
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:I hope this helps. Please come back to me if you require any further assistance. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:53, 11 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Thanks for the welcome. == |
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Thanks for the welcome. I hope I did the right thing. I'm fairly sure the Parthenon was not built by midgets. [[User:A.M. Winship|A.M. Winship]] ([[User talk:A.M. Winship|talk]]) 21:08, 11 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi A.M. Winship, thank you for your message. Hmmm...are you sure? I was sure it was. |
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:No, sorry, I was thinking about Stonehenge. You're right. |
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:Cheers! -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 22:11, 11 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:P.S. Yes, you did do the right thing. :-) [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] |
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==Welcome response== |
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Thanks for the welcome, Mark. I already have an account, but wikipedia seems to have some trouble in keeping me logged in -- and also asks me to creat another account everytime I try and check other languages, which annoys me, so I just don't log that often. |
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Still, thank you.[[Special:Contributions/187.14.22.127|187.14.22.127]] ([[User talk:187.14.22.127|talk]]) 04:58, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Column with too few references == |
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Its a bit silly to have {{diff|Molde|next|344149363}} to have colwidth=30 with less than 8 references. — [[User:Dispenser|Dispenser]] 16:08, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Yes, you're right, Dispenser. It's probably not increase much from 8 either. I've already reverted my edit. :-) |
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:Cheers! -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 16:19, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::Considering your using AWB you can setup a regex condition like: If contains: <code>(</ref>.*?){8,}</code> — [[User:Dispenser|Dispenser]] 16:34, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::I could set that up, if I knew a little more about coding ''(or knew someone who did)''... |
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:::At the moment I have set up a simple find/replace with the 'Replace Special' feature |
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:::i.ei search for: <nowiki>{{reflist}},{{reflist|2}},{{Reflist}} or {{Reflist|2}}</nowiki> |
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:::and replace with: <nowiki>{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}</nowiki> |
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:::OK I see now, I have to add <code>(</ref>.*?){8,}</code> into the If Contains box, sorry it was too obvious! |
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:::Thanks for your help, Dispenser :-) -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:35, 17 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Nobel Prize, New Section and GA == |
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Hey Marek! First of all, good job on the [[Nobel Prize]]! It's a good article now, much thanks to you. However, I would like to talk about the new part you made in the "Emphasis on ..." section. As much as this is an interesting fact about Einstein which not many know I don't really understand why it is there? I don't see the connection between it and the "Emphasis..." thingie. Please explain :) |
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BR --[[User:Esuzu|Esuzu]] ([[User talk:Esuzu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Esuzu|contribs]]) 16:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Esuzu, thank you for your message. Good news about the Nobel Prize GA |
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:I wasn't sure which section to put this info in, whether to start a new section, subsection or otherwise |
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:I eventually settled on the '...discoveries over inventions' section, which seemed most appropriate. |
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:My reasoning: Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which he devised in 1905, can be effectively treated as an 'unproven invention' |
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:It wasn't until he made the ''discovery'' of the law of the photoelectric effect (which proved the Theory) that he was then awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. |
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:I think this information is important enough to be included in this article |
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:It's just the wording or grammar ''(or something)'' in this new paragraph is not yet 100% right. I'm not sure if I've explained it all that well. Please feel free to change/improve it. |
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:Do you think this info should possibly go under another heading? ''(I'm not sure)'' |
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:Regards [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 17:41, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:I will copy this over to the [[Talk:Nobel_Prize#New_addition_on_Albert_Einstein.27s_1921_Nobel_Prize_for_Physics|article's talk page]] for wider discussion. -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 17:48, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::Answering on the talk page. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Esuzu|Esuzu]] ([[User talk:Esuzu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Esuzu|contribs]]) 17:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:::Also! |
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{| style="border: 1px solid gray; background-color: #fdffe7;" |
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Original Barnstar''' |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I, Esuzu, hereby give you, Marek69 a barnstar for your hard work on the Nobel Prize article! |
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--[[User:Esuzu|Esuzu]] ([[User talk:Esuzu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Esuzu|contribs]]) 18:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::Thank you very much, Esuzu! :-D [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 18:24, 15 February 2010 (UTC) |
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*Update: Hey again Marek! I've been fixing up Nobel Prize now to make it ready for FA nomination again, there's just some image issues left that are left (the section you started looks very good now imo). Hopefully they might be done next week or so and then it is FA nomination again! If you have time to help when under the nomination I'd be grateful :) I'll leave a new message before I nominate it. Cheers --<font color="purple">[[User:Esuzu|Esuzu]] ([[User talk:Esuzu|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Esuzu|contribs]])</font> 18:26, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==re: Welcome== |
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Hi, thanks for welcoming me, I hope that I can be a useful wikipedian. I'm looking forward to this. |
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([[User:Alexhobbit|Alexhobbit]] ([[User talk:Alexhobbit|talk]]) 20:40, 15 February 2010 (UTC)). |
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:Hi Alexhobbit, I'm sure you will be a useful Wikipedian. |
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:Kind Regards & Happy Wiki-ing! :-) [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 00:30, 16 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== [[WP:AIV|AIV]] report == |
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I'm guessing you didn't mean to report [[Special:Contributions/76.214.195.253]], as they haven't edited since they're last block :). I've blocked the user who the diffs you provided were by ([[Special:Contributions/70.166.203.30]]), hope that's what you wanted. Best, - [[User:Kingpin13|Kingpin]]<sup>[[Special:Contributions/Kingpin13|13]]</sup> ([[User talk:Kingpin13|talk]]) 17:12, 16 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Thanks Kingpin, I was in hurry to get rid of this persistent vandal. IP [[Special:Contributions/76.214.195.253]]'s details were already in the template from last time, when I copied it over. Cheers for noticing and sorting it out :-) |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 17:18, 16 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Adding Notes sections under References == |
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On a number of articles about Swiss Municipalities, you've been adding a "Notes" Sub-Section Header under the "References" Section Header with AWB. Here's a diff if what I'm saying is unclear [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arni,_Berne&curid=6148079&diff=344850113&oldid=325752262]. There's only the reflist template below the header, so I'm not sure why Notes is being added. Is this something new, or just some thing that you like? Is there a reason to be making these edits? [[User:Tobyc75|Tobyc75]] ([[User talk:Tobyc75|talk]]) 22:06, 18 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Tobyc75, thank you for your message. I'm sorry for the delay in reply, but I've been away for a few days, with no reliable internet access. |
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:In answer to your question, I don't think the 'notes' subsection is anything new or particularly special. There are many different formats around, I just picked one and copied it. For example see the [[Nobel_Prize#References|Nobel Prize]] article. |
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:This has a format of: |
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<nowiki>==References==</nowiki> |
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<nowiki>===Bibliography===</nowiki> |
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<nowiki>* {{cite book #1}}</nowiki> |
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<nowiki>* {{cite book #2}}</nowiki> |
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<nowiki>===Notes===</nowiki> |
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<nowiki>{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}</nowiki> |
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:Although, looking at the example you gave above, [[Arni, Berne]], on reflection, I'm not sure if this format is entirely necessary for an article of this (small) size, so I've restored it back. (I will have to adjust my AWB settings, I think). As I have said, there seem to be many different formats for this section, essentially doing the same thing. The reasoning behind my edits was primarily standardisation in this area. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 16:57, 23 February 2010 (UTC) |
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==re: Welcome== |
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Hallo, thanks for the warm welcome, I hope I can contribute. I'm looking forward to this. |
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[[User:Amnestyman|Amnestyman]] ([[User talk:Amnestyman|talk]]) 23:11, 18 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:You're Welcome Amnestyman. I hope you enjoy all your time here on Wikipedia. :-) [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 16:58, 23 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== A warning I received. JEDI == |
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Hello, I was digging around in Wikipedia a few minutes ago, when I came across a warning from you dated Oct. 2009 as follows: |
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October 2009 |
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Oslo, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Marek69 talk 20:48, 14 October 2009 (UTC) |
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If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make any unconstructive edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant warnings. |
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First of all, I have no idea what you are talking about, I never looked up Oslo let alone made an edit. I realize the IP address is what you are basing your warning on but... |
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I can get a new IP address as many as 20 times a week due to AT&Ts crap DSL "service" here, if it can happen to me, I imagine it happens to many people! Sending a warning to an IP address and it being there since Oct is a bit of an overkill as this means anyone and anyone who receives this IP address is also going to receive the warning. As active as you appear to be in Wikipedia I would think this is not the first time this has come to your attention. The system as it is can cause more than an irritated person such as myself. Let's say for example that I am a regular contributer but do not want to be a registered user (you can pick your own reason for a person not wanting an actual account)then my IP address changes to one attached with a plethora of warnings for being rude lewd and crude in the edits and posts made to Wikipedia... You can see where I'm going with this? |
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Surely there must be a better method of keeping track of the true offender and not just assigning it to an IP Address that can be picked up by anyone of tens of thousands of AT&T customers?? At the very least you need to address the issue of having these warning expire when a new person receives the IP Address? I know for a fact there is a way to do this as I was a moderator for an RC Truck Enthusiast Forum for 6 years and we did this. (I don't know how but the owner of the site was most adamant that the new "owner" of an IP Address not be saddled with the sins of the previous "owner" of the IP Address). |
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I just moved to this area and this is another way I know this warning was not aimed at me, but as far as it being an "irrelevant" issue, I disagree completely, it is your responsibility to not be giving MY IP Address any type of warning that does not belong to me. |
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My first visit to Wikipedia should not be tainted with a warning to someone who had this IP Address 5 months ago. (by the way, some more advice if you are up to it, your warning should warn of nonconstructive not unconstructive edits, unconstructive is not a word) |
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I'll check back here for your thoughts on this issue (hopefully I can search for the Subject/headline? thus the JEDI)as by morning I will have lost this IP address and be assigned a new one... Very irritating as my Firewall has to be re-set to my new IP Address EVERYDAY! But with my luck, I will be stuck with this one... My point in writing to you! |
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[[Special:Contributions/75.17.193.129|75.17.193.129]] ([[User talk:75.17.193.129|talk]]) 04:51, 20 February 2010 (UTC)NEW IP ADDRESS GUY |
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:Some IP addresses change all the time, some remain constant for years. If you take over an IP address that has previously been used for vandalism then you are liable to receive messages for the previous user of that IP address - if you don't like that I suggest you create an account. As for changing the rules to require warnings to be removed after a week to ten days, I think that would be unlikely to get consensus unless someone came up with a way to identify when an IP had changed hands. Current policy on removing user warnings is [[WP:WARN|"Old warnings may be archived into page history when they are no longer useful. Give consideration to the IP's contribution history when deciding how long to leave warnings visible. Always note the archiving of old warnings, but be sure to remember that any editor—including anonymous IPs—may remove messages at will from their own talk page."]] So you are free to delete warnings from IP pages that you take over. But I don't see that Marek69 is doing anything wrong in the way he warned the previous users of your IP addresses for the vandalism that they did. ''[[User:WereSpielChequers|<span style="color:DarkGreen">Ϣere</span>]][[User talk:WereSpielChequers|<span style="color:DarkRed">Spiel</span>]]<span style="color:DarkOrange">Chequers''</span> 22:20, 21 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::Hi, thank you for your message. I'm sorry for the delay in reply, but I've been away for a few days. I am also sorry for the strange replies ''(with the exception of [[User:WereSpielChequers|WereSpielChequers]])'' you were given. It appears that some editors took advantage of my absence to post various points of view. The whole section seems to have been copied over to [[Wikipedia:ANI]] and is now closed and archived '''[[Wikipedia:ANI#Marek69_in_breach_of_WP_Policy|here]]''', together with some replies/comments from Wikipedia's administrators. |
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::I'm not sure if there is much more I can add to what has already been said. You mention that you know of a method of having warning message expire when a new person receives the IP Address, through your experience on another site. Perhaps you could put this suggestion forward. I'm not sure who would deal with this. However, if you post you message at the [[Wikipedia:Help desk]], somebody there may be able to direct you further. |
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::If in the future you find messages which are not meant for you, please ignore them. According to Wikipedia's policies, you are allowed to delete them if you like.(I've already removed the one for Oslo you refer to) The alternative, which would avoid this problem, is to '''<span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:Userlogin|type=signup}} create an account]</span>'''. You may have a preference against doing this, but an account has many benefits and is actually ''more'' anonymous than editing as an 'anonymous IP'. With an account you can reveal nothing about yourself if you wish. An IP address (even a dynamic IP) can reveal more information about you than you would like.''(i.e country, possibly town, name of ISP or employer)'' I would encourage you to consider it, but at the end of the day it's your choice. :-) |
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::I wish you the best of luck. Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 17:53, 23 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Help! == |
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Hi Marek69. I'm in a situation of trouble...people telling me that I've broken copyright (even copying withing wikipedia). I just need to get some things straight! |
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* Firstly what do you have to do to attribute (I read the page, but it gave me wikipedia creep; please simplify it)? |
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* What do you do if you've done edits way in the past in which you've copied from other wiki articles without attribution (I only discovered it relatively recently)? |
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* Can you copy and paste info from other articles that you've written yourself? |
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Please make this clear to me. I've been blocked in the past for a misunderstanding, and I don't want to get blocked again! |
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Please reply as soon as possible. I need to go soon, and I hope to have a reply soon. Please reply...--[[User:Theologiae|Theologiae]] ([[User talk:Theologiae|talk]]) 14:43, 22 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Note: This message was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Marek69&diff=prev&oldid=345669784 removed] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Marek69&diff=next&oldid=345674506 twice] by the IPs in the above discussion, and readded twice by me. Just thought I would point that out, in case you didn't see his original post and thought I had made it up myself. -[[Special:Contributions/38.116.200.85|38.116.200.85]] ([[User talk:38.116.200.85|talk]]) 16:38, 22 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Thank you. As a matter of fact, I was shocked when I saw that a person (who wasn't me) was writing under my name. For a moment, I felt someone had hacked into my account, but that's a relief! Anyway, I've already asked the same question to someone else, so Marek69 needen't bother reply.--[[User:Theologiae|Theologiae]] ([[User talk:Theologiae|talk]]) 17:13, 22 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::Hi Theologiae, I'm sorry for not replying immediately, but I've been away for a few days, with no reliable internet access. :-( |
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::I see that user [[User:Ironholds|Ironholds]] was able to successfully help you with your query. |
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::I hope you have resolved your problem and that all is well now. Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 18:11, 23 February 2010 (UTC) |
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==Cookies== |
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Thank your bot for the cookies. ;)--[[User:Dr Lean|Dr Lean]] ([[User talk:Dr Lean|talk]]) 00:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:You're welcome, Dr Lean. Happy Wiki-ing -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 00:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Einstein == |
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Hello again Marek. I see you have been away from Wikipedia for a few days so you may not be aware that I sought help on the [[Nobel Prize]] article regarding the sentence you added about the photoelectric effect proving relativity. There are still no reliable sources that contradict Wilhelm directly, but the general consensus from other editors so far appears to be that Wilhelm was mistaken. Since you added that sentence and are much more experienced at Wikipediaing than me I thought you might like to comment or give some advice as to the best course to take. Hope I haven't stood on your toes, your other efforts have improved the article greatly. [[User:Aircorn|AIR<font color="green">'''''corn'''''</font>]] [[User talk:Aircorn|(talk)]] 00:55, 24 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Aircorn, thank you for updating me with recent developments on the article. I've had a quick read through the recent discussion. Like yourself, I also feel that The Theory of Relativity is a bit above my head as well. Finding someone more knowledgeable on the subject was ''exactly'' the correct thing to do. |
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:As there seems to be a question mark over Peter Wilhelm's quotation, I've simply removed that whole line about proof of theory. I believe the rest of the paragraph remains unchallenged. |
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:I would welcome anyone who wishes to improve/rewrite this info if they have additional info/sources. If you feel you can improve on it please go ahead and do so, you won't be stepping on my toes. |
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:After all isn't that what Wikipedia is all about? :-) |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 01:14, 24 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::No problem. I don't see anything wrong with what the paragraph says now. Cheers [[User:Aircorn|AIR<font color="green">'''''corn'''''</font>]] [[User talk:Aircorn|(talk)]] 01:35, 24 February 2010 (UTC) |
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==[[Cathedral]]== |
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That was very sweet of you to leave a welcome message to a new editor who dropped by and made two unnecessary deletions. |
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The editor left a summary justifying both the removals. |
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However, both of the removals smack of an ultra Low-Church anti-Catholic attitude. In the few regions in the Anglican Communion where this sort of mindset exists there is a high intolerance to many aspects of traditional church/cathedral practice, liturgy, vestments etc as being "Catholic" with a capital "C". Hence the removal of the pictures of the procession and the robed and mitred bishop, and the implication that they were "unnecessary" and "inappropriate". I don't think that a minority attitude ought to dictate the removal of pictures that show common practice almost everywhere that cathedrals exist. |
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[[User:Amandajm|Amandajm]] ([[User talk:Amandajm|talk]]) 15:20, 24 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Amandajm, thank you for your message. I did leave a welcome message for new IP [[Special:Contributions/118.90.121.17|118.90.121.17]]. I often welcome new users to Wikipedia. I believe the welcome message is a good method of introducing new editors to Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines, such as Manual of Style, etc. |
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:The fact that I welcome a new editor does not necessarily mean that I endorse all, or any, of their edits. At the time of welcoming IP editor [[Special:Contributions/118.90.121.17|118.90.121.17]] had already made 10 edits. |
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:If I had noticed that a new user’s edits were clear vandalism, then I would have reverted and left an appropriate warning message, rather than a welcome. In this case I saw no obvious vandalism. |
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:You may notice that this user got a cut down version of the standard IP welcome, which says ''‘Thank you for [[Special:Contributions/118.90.121.17|your contributions]]’'', but leaves out the following part which says ''‘such as the one you made to [[Kremlin]]’'' or ''‘particularly what you did for the [[Cathedral]] article’''. This is ''deliberate'', in order to clarify that I am just welcoming the user and ''not'' endorsing their edits. In other situations I use different versions of the welcome message. |
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:Unless someone is an obvious vandal, I believe they deserve a welcome to Wikipedia. It would be impractical to review ''all'' the new users edits before each welcome message (however, I do try to look at a few.) and impossible to predict the edits they make after. |
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:I also believe it would be unfair ''(and a little [[WP:BITE|bitey]])'' for me to analyse their edits and sit in judgement upon them with my opinion of whether their edits are good or not, before I decide whether they deserve a welcome message. This is the case with the example you put forward on [[Cathedral]], I simply welcome the editor (neutrally) and leave it up to editors like yourself who are more familiar with the article (and knowledgeable on the subject) to make an informed decision on the merits of the edit. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 16:27, 24 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::Thanks for your reply Marek. I don't think that the message could have been classed as "vandalism". [[User:Amandajm|Amandajm]] ([[User talk:Amandajm|talk]]) 07:42, 25 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::Hi Amandajm, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Could you please clarify? |
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:::Kind Regards [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 18:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC) |
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::::You commented that unless a new editors edit was obviously vandalism, then they deserved a welcome. I was agreeing with you. [[User:Amandajm|Amandajm]] ([[User talk:Amandajm|talk]]) 03:33, 26 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:::::OK I understand now, Amandajm. Thanks and Best Regards :-) -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 16:11, 26 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Hi Marek69 == |
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Thanks for the welcome! |
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I have been editing Wikipedia (very occasionally) on and off for a few years, but I anticipate becoming more active with this wonderful resource as I get less intimidated. |
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It seems the system loses trace of my account if I do not use it for 30 days or so, then I have to re-sign-in. Is there a way around that? |
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[[User:Didier wkpd|Didier wkpd]] ([[User talk:Didier wkpd|talk]]) 15:45, 24 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Didier wkpd, thank you for your message. |
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:When you say 'the system loses trace', do you mean that Wikipedia loses your account, or that your computer loses your username and password, and logs you out? |
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:If it is the latter, this is a Wikipedia security feature, it is just a case of logging in again. |
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:If it is Wikipedia that is losing your account, then I'm not sure what the reason would be. You might find someone who could give you an answer at the [[Wikipedia:Help desk]]. |
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:Please let me know how you get on. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 17:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC) |
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==Thanks== |
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Thanks from me as well. By the way, check out this user, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:68.202.98.41 68.202.98.41] - it seems to mess up the categories by adding his content. I guess it's not appropriate, but I don’t want do admin’s work here. Perhaps you might? --[[User:Finn Bjørklid|Finn Bjørklid]] ([[User talk:Finn Bjørklid|talk]]) 13:15, 25 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Finn, thanks for the message. I'll take a look at the IP. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 13:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== help! == |
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--[[User:Cub68134|Cub68134]] ([[User talk:Cub68134|talk]]) 05:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Cub68134, how can I help you? -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 14:37, 26 February 2010 (UTC) |
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this is all way too confusing for me; i edit a few things in French or German for spelling or the phonetics, if possible. to connect with you other than by e-mail is iffy since i don't have any idea if you will even get this message.....i have absolutely NO idea what in the heck i'm doing here......to read ALL the info on these pages to figure out what i need to do is enough to not return....i just tend to give up as it's like doing taxes.........[[User:Cub68134|Cub68134]] ([[User talk:Cub68134|talk]]) 21:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC) |
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== Welcome == |
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Dear Marek, |
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Thanks for the warm welcome - and the cookies were great! |
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Hawkins Brooks <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Hawkins Brooks|Hawkins Brooks]] ([[User talk:Hawkins Brooks|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Hawkins Brooks|contribs]]) 14:34, 27 February 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:You're welcome Hawkins Brooks, enjoy your time on Wikipedia and please let me know if I can help. -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:15, 1 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== About Liquidambar orientalis == |
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Hi Marek, |
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I have frequently been touring around in the region where ''Liquidambar orientalis'' is an endemic species, and I remember that already some 30 years ago I found the native name of this tree rather puzzling. In those days there was no Wikipedia, and I had almost forgotten about my initial surprise when I found the article – precisely in Wikipedia. |
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I have always been keen on etymologies in this part of the world for the simple reason that I know several Mediterranean languages. Through this knowledge I am able to sift linguistic material from the Inner Mediterranean somehow more critically than most people, and especially locals who would just “use folk-etymological procedures” when explaining unusual words. And the Turkish word for ''Liquidambar orientalis'' is unusual. The word ''günlük'' normally means “daily, that lasts one day, ''éphémère''”. Obviously this word has nothing to do in the context of the plant, but this is how people associate because they can't come up with any other explanation. In fact, ''günlük'' also means what I mention in Wikipedia, but the interesting thing with this rare meaning of ''günlük'' is that its etymology is – or should probably be considered as – unknown. One of the two most authoritative Turkish etymological dictionaries (''Türk dilinin etimolojik sözlüğü'' by Hasan Eren – the other one never arrived as far as the letter '''g''' before the author died) states indeed – and that is a very honest view – the origin of this word to be unknown. Now I see that Nişanyan, an Armenian inn keeper and hobby etymologist (with a lot of interesting etymological suggestions – you know Armenians from Istanbul are well known to be polyglots), in this dictionary on the web he suggests a Persian etymology. As I see it, this is pure guesswork, but I would have to look more closely into it and perhaps consult an expert on Persian that I know in Chicago. |
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Whatever the etymology is, the question is of great importance when considering the origin of this endemic species in Turkey. Obviously the plant is, as the article in Wikipedia indicates, a ''tertiary relict endemic taxon''. As I see it, cracking the question of the etymology of ''günlük'' might shed light on how the tree ended up in this region. |
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I should add that there are Turkish words galore without an authoritative etymology, and the reason is of course that this country has seen quite a number of different ethnic groups coming and going through Anatolia for the last 4.000 years or so. |
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I would therefore be against your opinion that this is gullible only for those who enjoy the nitty-gritty of exotic etymological explanations. Instead I would invite whoever might come up with some better idea than Nişanyan – or perhaps even corroborate his version! – to mobilize. We live in an age of inter-disciplinary studies. The good thing about Wikipedia is that people having widely – if not ''wildly'' – different expertise, read things that they might never have read before. I am not a botanist, but I happen to be a hobby entomologist. And entomology is as far from my own expertise as one could possibly imagine. |
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''Mutatis mutandis'', nobody would say today that the notorious Etruscan origin of ''Roma'', being the capital of Italy, is of no interest. |
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By the way, I am not very "productive" in Wikipedia for the time being as I am too busy with other things. Thanks for the cookies anyway! |
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Best greetings from |
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[[User:Hirpex|Hirpex]] ([[User talk:Hirpex|talk]]) 19:06, 27 February 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Hirpex, thank you for your message. I did indeed leave a 'Welcome' message on your talk page. |
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:However, the [[User_talk:Hirpex#Etymology|second message]], asking you to elaborate on your edits [[Liquidambar orientalis]], was not left by me. [[User_talk:Hirpex#Etymology|This second message]] was left by user: [[User:Pembeana|Pembeana]]. |
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:I believe the above reply was therefore intended for Pembeana (and not me) and have copied the message over to [[User_talk:Pembeana#About_Liquidambar_orientalis|user:Pembeana's talk page]] so that they can respond to you directly. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-?color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:33, 1 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::Thanks, Marek ! I got a bit mixed up here. Now I believe the question will be settled through the right channels. [[User:Hirpex|Hirpex]] ([[User talk:Hirpex|talk]]) 17:13, 1 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:::No Problem. I hope you manage to sort everything out :-) |
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:::Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 17:30, 1 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Thanks for welcome! == |
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Thanks! --[[User:SamantaGhezzi|SamantaGhezzi]] ([[User talk:SamantaGhezzi|talk]]) 12:53, 1 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:You're welcome Samanta, enjoy your time on Wikipedia and let me know if you require any help. -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:14, 1 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Make a new article == |
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How coul you make a new article thanks <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Ajt10|Ajt10]] ([[User talk:Ajt10|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Ajt10|contribs]]) 15:04, 2 March 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi Ajt10, thank you for your message. |
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:If you are thinking of starting a new article, please read [[Wikipedia:Starting an article]]. It contains a lot of useful information of where to start, and a lot of do's and dont's. |
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:If you require any help, please come back to me. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:10, 2 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Barbara Baird-Filliter == |
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Information not accurate. This woman was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench in 2007. See Who's Who in Canada for current biograghical information. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/142.139.0.53|142.139.0.53]] ([[User talk:142.139.0.53|talk]]) 17:02, 2 March 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:If you can correct it, then please do so. Don't forget to include a citation/reference to where you sourced the information. |
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:If you require any assistance please come back to me :-) |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 17:38, 2 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== aren't you listining to me? Y&R == |
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are you a Y&R soap fan? <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/204.191.138.12|204.191.138.12]] ([[User talk:204.191.138.12|talk]]) 23:50, 2 March 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:I can't say I am, sorry. -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 14:13, 3 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== hi == |
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dear Marek thanks so much for your kind note. i am really new to wikipedia as a member, but am a frequent user. can i ask your help to fix a mistake? in editing the Hub Culture entry here on Wikipedia, i tried to add a reference link for wired, but it got messed up and generated an error. and i want to format the zeitgeist ranking on the same page, as well as fix the contents for the headings, but not sure how to do so. any tips? thanks! ([[User:Kaskaad|Kaskaad]] ([[User talk:Kaskaad|talk]]) 05:51, 4 March 2010 (UTC)) |
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:Hi Kaskaad, thank you for your message. I have fixed the problem on the [[Hub Culture]] article - ''don't worry'', it's not easy when you start, but ''do not'' be discouraged. |
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:I would recommend you take it slowly and practice your edits in a sandbox. (You could create [[User:Kaskaad/sandbox]] in your own userspace if you like and try out some editing there) |
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:You could start by reading some Wikipedia guides, for example: [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page]],[[Wikipedia:Introduction]], [[Wikipedia:Tutorial]], [[Wikipedia:Starting an article]] and [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style]] |
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:For more information on how to create references, please read [[Wikipedia:References]] |
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:If there is something else you need you can always come back to me (or, alternatively, there's always someone who can answer your questions on [[Wikipedia:Help desk]]. |
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:Please let me know how you get on. |
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:Kind Regards and Happy Wiki-ing -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 00:28, 6 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Glasgow == |
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Hi Marek, thanks for your message. |
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I feel your comment is probably justified, but unfair. Our website provides a service to tourists and locals alike, with information about restaurants, pictures, integrated Google maps, etc., but most importantly genuine reviews left by customers who have dined at the venues. |
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I know Wikipedia's external links do not contribute to Google rankings because of the implementation of the 'no follow' tags, therefore we are not seeking undeserved advertising, but just enreaching articles about cities and their information completeness. |
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Please let me know if you still feel I'm not contributing fairly to Wikipedia by providing this service. |
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Thanks and regards, |
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--Marino 09:44, 4 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Marino, thank you for your message. I understand what you are trying to do, but although it may seem unfair, it is clearly covered by Wikipedia's policies, i.e. [[Wikipedia:External links]] and [[Wikipedia:Spam]]. |
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:Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia which by its nature is neutral and does not allow advertising or promotion. |
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:Your website is basically promoting the restaurants listed on it, as far as I can see. |
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:There is also the issue that you are promoting your ''own'' website, which is covered [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest]] |
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:I'm sorry, but unfortunately I do not feel that a external link to your site would be appropriate or allowable under these policies. |
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:I wish you the best of luck with your website and future endeavours. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 00:50, 6 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück== |
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Hi Marek69, |
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thanks for your notice on Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück. Just a tiny problem: I couldn´t link Kim Longinotto (see her site at wikipedia) to the FilmFest. What´s wrong? |
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Best 15:52, 4 March 2010 (UTC) <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:LS200|LS200]] ([[User talk:LS200|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/LS200|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi LS200, thank you for your message. If you want to make a link to the Kim Longinotto article, simply put double square brackets around the name, as in '''<nowiki>[[Kim Longinotto]]</nowiki>''', which will give you [[Kim Longinotto]] as a link. |
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:Does this answer your question? |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 16:04, 4 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Question == |
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Why aren't you an admin? Can I nominate you? '''[[User:NSD|<span style="color:green">Nerdy</span><span style="color:#0F0">Science</span><span style="color:#8bd877">Dude :)</span>]]''' ([[User:NSD/t|✉ click to talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/NerdyScienceDude|my edits]] • [[User:NSD/Guestbook|sign]]) 23:48, 5 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi NerdyScienceDude, thank you for your message. |
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:''I didn't realise that adminship was compulsory''. |
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:Joking apart, I thank you for thinking that I have what it takes to be an admin. |
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:However, at this moment in time I do not feel I have sufficient experience in all the areas required to be a good admin. |
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:I will be concentrating on gaining more experience in my weak areas, and when the time is right I would be very pleased to have you as a nominator. :-) |
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:Kind Regards. -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 01:38, 6 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::Just let me know when you're ready. '''[[User:NSD|<span style="color:green">Nerdy</span><span style="color:#0F0">Science</span><span style="color:#8bd877">Dude :)</span>]]''' ([[User:NSD/t|✉ click to talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/NerdyScienceDude|my edits]] • [[User:NSD/Guestbook|sign]]) 02:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:::I'll do that. Thanks again for the offer, NerdyScienceDude. :-) [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 02:33, 6 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::::Hi Marek, if and when you decide to run I'd be more than happy to conominate you. ''[[User:WereSpielChequers|<span style="color:DarkGreen">Ϣere</span>]][[User talk:WereSpielChequers|<span style="color:DarkRed">Spiel</span>]]<span style="color:DarkOrange">Chequers''</span> 17:50, 10 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:::::Hi WereSpielChequers, thank you very much for your kind offer. I would be very pleased to have you on side. |
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:::::Don't hold your breath though, as I mentioned above, I need to increase my experience in my weaker areas first, plus improve my article building skills. |
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:::::I appreciate your offer and I will certainly let you know when I am ready to take the plunge :-) -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 18:07, 10 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==Where to report?== |
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Marek69, |
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Thank you very much for sending me a message regarding the article on Mexico City. |
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As per a note I previosuly left in the discussion section of such article, I wanted to know how to report users who delete well documented information entered in Wikipedia articles. |
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In your message you mention that the edit I did to such article appears to be vandalism. I would like to request clarification. Please note that the information I entered has been supported with references, which I invite you to verify. Also, please note that no disrespectful words were used. I read the Wikipedia tutorial to find out what can be entered and I feel strongly I have respected Wikipedia rules. |
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Would you kindly specify why you think my edit appears to be vandalism? |
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If after analyzing my edit you arrive to what I consider to be the inevitable conclusion that I simply added information that adds objectivity to what appears to be a printed commercial (you might like to read the comments in the discussion section of the article to find out what other users think of it), would you kindly let me know how to report users that, without valid reason, remove well documented information entered in Wikipedia articles? |
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Thank you and regards. |
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[[User:ElEditordeWiki|ElEditordeWiki]] ([[User talk:ElEditordeWiki|talk]]) 04:27, 7 March 2010 (UTC) |
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=== Mexico City article === |
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Marek69, |
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I just noticed that I received another message blatantly indicating that I had vandalized the Mexico City article. |
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I am totally shocked, as the information I entered is backed by references. I realize that a couple of the references are in Spanish. However, a significant number of the references found in this article are in Spanish as well. I would like to request that the references I entered are read and analyzed in their entirety. A thorough analysis of them will reveal that they are valid references: one is a copy of Mexico's Constitution; another one is a link to a decent article associated with Televisa, one of the two major television chains in Mexico. |
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Once more I would like to request that the discussion section of this article be read to find out that a lot of the information in this article is not supported. This, this right here, is completely unacceptable and puts Wikipedia in utter disrespute. |
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I look forward to your valuable feedback based on the analysis of the references I entered and the comments in the discussion section of this article. |
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Thanks again and regards, |
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[[User:ElEditordeWiki|ElEditordeWiki]] ([[User talk:ElEditordeWiki|talk]]) 04:51, 7 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi ElEditordeWiki, thank you for your message. |
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:On reading your first message above, I reviewed your edit and, on reflection, I believe that you made these edits in [[WP:AGF|good faith]] rather than vandalism. I have therefore [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AElEditordeWiki&action=historysubmit&diff=348233835&oldid=336777741 removed my warning message] from your talk page. Please accept my sincere apologies, as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mexico_City&diff=next&oldid=348204336 this editing], did at first, look like non-constructive edits to me. |
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:Thank you for your explanation. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 05:03, 7 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== hello == |
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No, this is not vandalism, but it is a true fact. In fact i'm about to publish a report for wikipedia these days, on danish racism. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/87.61.142.57|87.61.142.57]] ([[User talk:87.61.142.57|talk]]) 19:42, 9 March 2010 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi, I'm sorry if a mistake was made and your edit was in good faith. However, I did not mention vandalism. |
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:If you wish to add the sentence: '''''...Denmark has become known as the most racist country in the European Union''''', I would advise you to provide a reference from a [[Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources|reliable source]] for this information. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 01:14, 10 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== A Question on References == |
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Hello Marek69, |
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I,ve been editing pages in order to take away all mentions of '''virtual finland''' in wikipedia pages. Virtualfinland.fi was an old site of The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and that site is called now thisisFINLAND.fi. Some of the now existing links go to the articles which dont exist anymore. I try to find new articles from thisisFINLAND.fi to put to these links. |
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I actually had one problem, didn't know how to change references -sections. When I put edit, the window is empty, there is no text. Can you help me with that? <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Poulie|Poulie]] ([[User talk:Poulie|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Poulie|contribs]]) 07:53, 10 March 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi Poulie, thank you for your e-mail. The most likely reason for the references not being under the 'References' section is that the page in question is using the inline citation & footnotes system, where the section will probably look like this: |
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<blockquote style="color:#999; background:white; padding:1em; border:1px solid DarkSeaGreen;"> |
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<span style="color:#666;">===References==</span><br /> |
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<span style="color:black;"><nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki></span> |
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</blockquote> |
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:The actual references are in the actual body of text, as in the example code below: |
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<blockquote style="color:#999; background:white; padding:1em; border:1px solid DarkSeaGreen;"> |
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<span style="color:#666;">===The Sun and the Moon==</span><br /> |
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The Sun is pretty big,<span style="color:black;">'''<ref>'''Miller, E: <nowiki>''The Sun''</nowiki>, page 23. Academic Press, 2005.'''</ref>'''</span><br /> |
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but the Moon is not so big.<span style="color:black;">'''<ref>'''Brown, R: "Size of the Moon", <nowiki>''Scientific American''</nowiki>, 51(78):46'''</ref>'''</span><br /> |
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The Sun is also quite hot.<span style="color:black;">'''<ref>'''Miller, E: <nowiki>''The Sun''</nowiki>, page 34. Academic Press, 2005.'''</ref>'''</span><br /> |
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The Sun is pretty big,<sup id="nbFoot01a" class="reference">[[#noteFoot01a|[1]]]</sup> but the Moon is not so big.<sup id="nbFoot02a" class="reference">[[#noteFoot02a|[2]]]</sup> The Sun is also quite hot.<sup id="nbFoot03a" class="reference">[[#noteFoot03a|[3]]]</sup> |
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:In order to find a particular reference from the list, make a note of its number on the list, then look for the corresponding number in the main text. When you have found it, you need to go to that section and edit it there.''(as in the ‘The Sun and the Moon’ section in the example above)'' |
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:I hope this makes sense to you. |
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:Please let me know if I can help you further. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 17:23, 10 March 2010 (UTC) |
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Thanks a lot , yes it helped. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Poulie|Poulie]] ([[User talk:Poulie|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Poulie|contribs]]) 10:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:That's good :-) [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 22:54, 12 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Mexico City article == |
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Marek69, |
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Thank you very much for your message. |
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I am glad there is someone out there verifying the content of Wikipedia articles. |
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Regards, |
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[[User:ElEditordeWiki|ElEditordeWiki]] ([[User talk:ElEditordeWiki|talk]]) 01:04, 11 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Thanks == |
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Thanks for the greeting, Marek! [[Special:Contributions/72.164.134.59|72.164.134.59]] ([[User talk:72.164.134.59|talk]]) 00:59, 12 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:You're welcome. I hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia! -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 01:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Thanks for the cookies! == |
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Thanks for your welcome and the cookies, Marek! I constantly forget to sign my posts with four tildes, so it's very nice of you to remind that. Other than that, I don't have any issues at the moment, but if I ever do, it's good to know I can address myself to a more experienced user like you. Thanks again! [[User:Goodcoin|Goodcoin]] ([[User talk:Goodcoin|talk]]) 10:12, 12 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:You're very welcome Goodcoin. Enjoy you time here on Wikipedia. If you need any help, you know where to find me. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 22:52, 12 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==Thanks for the nice welcome== |
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I'm completely new to this and it's nice to be welcomed whilst I'm still trying to get my footing. Maybe you could help me with something that I'm sure is probably very easy and obvious.... |
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My alterations/additions to web pages are almost always going to be in the Arabic language and regarding correcting the spelling of proper place names. I'm a serious bookworm and have all of the sources/references and evidences for my changes handy but don't yet know how to link them in (by putting a number after my entry for example that would take one to the correct reference). Also, changing the spelling as the header on a page and then putting in a re-route for anyone typing in a common misspelling of the name. |
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I'm sure all of this information is here but I have strict time restraints so it's taking a while. |
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Sorry to natter on but thanks again and any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. |
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Peace! |
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[[User:Khaadimone|Khaadimone]] ([[User talk:Khaadimone|talk]]) 00:56, 13 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Khaadimone, thankyou for your message. You may find your answer in the [[User_talk:Marek69#A_Question_on_References|section above]]. |
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:This article: [[Wikipedia:Citing sources]] covers the subject in greater detail. |
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:If you get stuck, please come back. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 01:02, 13 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==Stockholm== |
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I've seen plenty enough here, and have semi'd the article indefinitely. [[User:Mjroots|Mjroots]] ([[User talk:Mjroots|talk]]) 21:22, 13 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Thanks Mjroots, this is typical Historian19 behaviour and I have just [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ASockpuppet_investigations%2FHistorian19&action=historysubmit&diff=349681114&oldid=346714066 submitted a report] to SPI. |
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:Cheers -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 21:25, 13 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==Thanks for the welcome== |
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I've used Wikipedia for a long time, but am new to editing. Just thought I'd correct a couple capitilization (sp?) mistakes, and suggest a couple new article links to some notable artists. Please let me know if I'm doing it incorrectly, I'm not too sure about the "wiki mark ups." |
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p.s.the cookies were a nice touch in this online digital age. |
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my best |
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[[User:Arthistorian1872|Arthistorian1872]] ([[User talk:Arthistorian1872|talk]]) 02:33, 14 March 2010 (UTC)Arthistorian1872 (did I do that right? (don't feel obliged to answer)) |
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:Hi Arthistorian1872, thank you for the message. |
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:From what I can see, your edits are fine. :-) |
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:I hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 02:36, 14 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== editing / Ska Cubano == |
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Hi - I have what may be quite a difficult question : is it legitimate to quote published sources on a topic when the ultimate source of the information in them is himself the contributor / editor ? My problem is that I created a band, relating to which I have given many interviews (several published in/by , e.g. , major newspapers, the BBC) and have written articles, press releases and sleeve notes which are the basis, directly or indirectly for virtually all the information in the public domain (apart from fan comments and blogs, photos and videos etc )relating to the band. I have recently edited the wikipedia page based on these "verifiable " sources, sticking strictly to factual information and avoiding self-promotion. Am I permitted to do this? Would it be better if I asked someone else to author the changes? |
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thanks [[User:Sengleani|Sengleani]] ([[User talk:Sengleani|talk]]) 11:05, 14 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Sengleani, thank you for your message. Hmm...the answer to this question in not entirely black-and-white. |
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:The guideline article [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest]] covers this in the [[Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Citing_oneself|‘Citing oneself’]] section, stating: |
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::''‘Editing in an area in which you have professional or academic expertise is not, in itself, a conflict of interest. Using material you yourself have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is notable and conforms to the content policies. Excessive self-citation is strongly discouraged. When in doubt, defer to the community's opinion.’'' |
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:At the same time [[Wikipedia:No_original_research#Citing_oneself|Wikipedias:No original research ‘Citing oneself’]] section states: |
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::''‘This policy does not prohibit editors with specialist knowledge from adding their knowledge to Wikipedia, but it does prohibit them from drawing on their personal knowledge without citing [[WP:SOURCES|reliable sources]]. If an editor has published the results of his or her research in a reliable publication, the editor may cite that source while writing in the third person and complying with our [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|neutrality policy]].’'' |
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:In my opinion, I think you should ‘err on the side of caution’ and start a new discussion section on the articles talk page, openly explaining the situation and providing the references you have. Another (independent) editor may decide to incorporate this into the article. If this happens then you can avoid any accusations of ''‘conflict of interest’'' against you. |
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:If you do decide to add these references yourself, and it appears by the above guidelines you ''are'' permitted, I would also be open and explain the situation on the talk page, quoting the above guidelines, but keeping the citations to a minimum to satisfy the ''‘excessive self-citation is strongly discouraged’'' part. |
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:I hope this helps |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 01:37, 15 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==The vandal== |
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Is cutting and pasting Balinese page into Jakarta page - I think its straight to vandal page [[User:SatuSuro|Satu]][[User talk:SatuSuro|Suro]] 02:37, 15 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Thanks Suro, I've [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jakarta&action=historysubmit&diff=349929667&oldid=349929573 reverted the article to last good version] by [[user:Caniago]]. |
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:I notice you've given the IP a final warning. Please report them if they repeat their behaviour. |
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:Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 02:41, 15 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::Normally would never do that but cutting and pasting between articles can be a headache for cleanup - blocked anyways - cheers [[User:SatuSuro|Satu]][[User talk:SatuSuro|Suro]] 02:42, 15 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:::That's good, problem solved, for a while... Cheers :-) [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 02:44, 15 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Re: Welcome == |
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Dziękuję za miłe powitanie :) Mam zamiar pomóc trochę Wikipedii angielskiej, więc gdy będę miał jakieś pytania, to się zgłoszę, dziękuję za zaoferowaną pomoc. Widzę, że dobrze mówisz po polsku, dlatego też odpowiadam w tym języku. Czy jesteś Polakiem, bądź masz polskie korzenie, że nasz język znasz na poziomie równym z użytkownikiem ojczystym? ;) Pozdrowienia, [[User:AdSz|AdSz]] ([[User talk:AdSz|talk]]) 14:08, 15 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Cześć AdSz, tak jestem Polakiem, ale urodzony i mieszkającym w Anglii. Mówię nie źle po Polsku, rozumiem więcej, ale pisać poprawne to trudniejsze. Dużo łatwiej jest mi pisać po angielsku, tak, więc pomagam na Wikipedii angielskiej. Też czasami tłumaczę Polskie artykuły na język Angielski (odwrotnie jest mi dużo trudniej!) |
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:Jeśli masz jakieś pytania o Wikipedii angielskiej, prześlij je proszę do mnie to pomogę, jeśli zdołam:-) |
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:Pozdrowienia -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 16:07, 15 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Translation == |
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Hi Marek! How are you? I'd like to ask you a question. I've found a page in English and I want to translate into another language. How to create the new page for the translation? |
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Thank you in advance, Annarapo <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Annarapo|Annarapo]] ([[User talk:Annarapo|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Annarapo|contribs]]) 18:36, 15 March 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi Annarapo, thank you for your message. |
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:Hi if you are starting a new page, I would advise that do so in your own userspace to start with. |
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:You could create [[User:Annarapo/Sandbox]] or [[User:Annarapo/Article1]] or whichever name you like. ''(Click on one of the red links on the right to start editing that article)''. |
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:If the finished article is going to be in another language, you'd probably be better off starting it in your userspace on that particular language version of Wikipedia - same principle just add '''/ArticleName''' after the name of your userpage on that wiki. |
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:That way you can work on the article without interruption and when it is ready to go into the mainspace it is relatively easy to move the article over. |
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:You may find some useful tips on the subject in this article: [[Wikipedia:Your first article]] |
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:If you require further help, please come back to me. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 16:05, 16 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==Thank you!== |
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Dear Marek69, thank you a lot for a warm reception! =) |
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[[User:Yana Mazul|Yana Mazul]] ([[User talk:Yana Mazul|talk]]) 09:59, 16 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Yana Mazul, thank you for your message. |
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:You're very welcome. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy your time here. :-) |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:40, 16 March 2010 (UTC) |
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===Thanks=== |
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Sorry, thank you so much!--[[Special:Contributions/79.23.144.237|79.23.144.237]] ([[User talk:79.23.144.237|talk]]) 15:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi, thank you for your message. |
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:Welcome to Wikipedia. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:40, 16 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Welcoming == |
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Why are you welcoming IPs, banned users, and users who haven't edited in a very long time? Are you using some kind of bot? [[User:Gigs|Gigs]] ([[User talk:Gigs|talk]]) 23:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Gigs, thank you for your message. |
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:As far as I am aware, I am not welcoming ‘banned users and users who haven't edited in a very long time’. Could you please provide me an example of this? -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 00:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Regarding welcoming IPs, is there any problem doing this? |
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:I am not using a bot, I'm using [[WP:Friendly|Friendly]]. Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 00:08, 17 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::[[User talk:Agent Smith (The Matrix)]] is a banned sock that hasn't edited in a long time. There's no policy against welcoming IPs with templates, it's just not a very useful thing to do IMO, and most people don't do it. I mean, if we, as a community, wanted everyone to get a automatic welcome template, we'd just have the software generate one when they made their first edit, or authorize it as a bot. |
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::Anyway, after reviewing the edits more carefully, it does look like the Agent Smith thing was more or less isolated. I had used popups and seen you welcoming users with a small number of edits that had registered years ago, I just assumed they were all like Agent Smith, when in fact all the rest I checked had indeed made a recent edit. [[User:Gigs|Gigs]] ([[User talk:Gigs|talk]]) 01:15, 17 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:::Gigs, I first noticed [[User talk:Agent Smith (The Matrix)]] yesterday when looking at the edit history of my user page. I notice this particular user [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AMarek69&action=historysubmit&diff=337508422&oldid=337508356 had reverted some vandalism] on the page. Their last few edits were using [[WP:Huggle]] reverting vandalism and seemed like constructive edits to me. These edits were on 13 January 2010, two months ago, which I do not consider a long time to take a break. At the time I was unaware that they were a sockpuppet, otherwise I would not have welcomed them. |
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:::I normally welcome IPs after carefully reviewing their first edits. If they are constructive, I leave them a welcome message containing useful links such as [[Wikipedia:Five pillars|The five pillars of Wikipedia]], [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page|How to edit a page]], [[Wikipedia:Article development|How to develop articles]], [[Wikipedia:Your first article|How to create your first article]] and [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]] and offer my help if needed. I do not believe a bot could do all this. Also in the welcome message I encourage the user to create an account and emphasise the benefits of doing so. If the new IPs edits are not so constructive I leave them the appropriate message or warning. I believe I am providing a useful service with a net benefit to Wikipedia. If you review the contents of my talk page (and archives) for replies back from these IPs you may reconsider your position. |
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:::You state that the Agent‘ Smith thing was more or less isolated’. Do you have any further examples you wish to bring to my attention? I would be happy to discuss these instances. If they are simply mistakes, then please accept my apologies. |
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:::Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 02:09, 17 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::::No, it's fine. We don't need to agree regarding the value of welcoming IPs. Sorry for not checking more carefully before asking if you were using a bot. [[User:Gigs|Gigs]] ([[User talk:Gigs|talk]]) 02:28, 17 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Question about editing == |
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I received a message saying that a change I had made to a page was 'reverted' as it was unnecessary. |
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Are you tracking users via IP address or login identity? |
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The page was one I have never seen nor have no interest in editing. |
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What gives? |
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Another user at this IP address? |
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Thanks! |
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:Hi R, thank you for your message. |
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:If you do not have an account on Wikipedia, and edit anonymously you are identified by your IP address, i.e. 71.214.112.251 |
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:The message you refer to was from the 4 March 2010, so it could be that someone else had the [[Special:Contributions/71.214.112.251|71.214.112.251]] IP address at the time. |
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:If you have never edited the page in question, please ignore the message. |
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:It is very likely that you have a [[IP_address#Static_and_dynamic_IP_addresses|dynamic IP address]], which means it could be different every time you turn your computer on, so on 4 March it could have been allocated to someone else. |
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:If you are considering editing Wikipedia, I would recommend that you '''<span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:Special:Userlogin|type=signup}} create an account]</span>'''. This has many benefits, the least of which is avoiding situations, like this. |
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:In short please ignore this particular message, delete it if you wish. If you have any further questions please come back to me. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 18:43, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== [[Medicinernes Skiklub Svartor]] == |
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Hello. I am contacting you because you are listed as a participant for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway|WikiProject Norway]], and the above-mentioned article is sourced by all Norwegian-language references. Moreover, the references do not appear to support [[WP:CORP|notability]]; they might be mere trivial references to the subject. Since these sources are all offline, and I do not speak or read Norwegian, I'm hoping whether you can assist me in determining whether the article qualifies for [[WP:CSD|speedy deletion]]. Many thanks! <span style="white-space:nowrap; text-shadow:gray 5px 3px 1px;"> - <font face="Verdana">[[User:Cobaltbluetony|CobaltBlueTony™]] <sub>[[User_talk:Cobaltbluetony#top|talk]]</sub></font></span> 12:59, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi CobaltBlueTony, thank you for your message. I would happy to help you if I could. Unfortunately my knowledge of the Norwegian language is very little, so I am really in the same position as you, as far as being able to accurately validate Norwegian language references. |
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:I'm sorry I can't help and hope you find a Norwegian speaker who can. Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 18:51, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::Thanks for your response! <span style="white-space:nowrap; text-shadow:gray 5px 3px 1px;"> - <font face="Verdana">[[User:Cobaltbluetony|CobaltBlueTony™]] <sub>[[User_talk:Cobaltbluetony#top|talk]]</sub></font></span> 12:46, 19 March 2010 (UTC) |
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=="Welcome"== |
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Well Marek69, i'm a user of Wikipedia a very time, in english, spanish and portuguese, but, thanks for this, please, visit my page in portuguese Wikipedia: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:D%C3%A1lmata, i´m brazilian, from the capital [[Brasilia]], visit this link too! Bye, or in portuguese, "até mais". [[User:Dálmata|Dálmata]] ([[User talk:Dálmata|talk]]) 23:37, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Welcome to English Wikipedia, Dálmata :-) |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:39, 18 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==Also from me about Welcome== |
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Hey Marek69, like the user above me, I'm also writting for almost 3 years - on the Hebrew Wikipedia; & sometimes when I work there - based on articles here on the Ennglish Wikipedia - I add some links to other articles that I see here or correct some minor mistakes here as well. But thanks anyway for your kind welcoming! I wish there were more friendly people like you on Wikipedia :-) Greets, [[User:אומנות|אומנות]] ([[User talk:אומנות|talk]]) 21:47, 19 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi אומנות, thank you for your message. I hope you enjoy your time on English Wikipedia. Please let me know if there is anything I can help you with. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:56, 19 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::I will let you know if I will have problems in the future :-) Thanks again for your kind words & desire to help! |
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::Kind regards -- [[User:אומנות|אומנות]] ([[User talk:אומנות|talk]]) 15:46, 20 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==Bad Cannstatt== |
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Hello Marek, |
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I've reverted your revision about the mineral spas. I've also occasionally read in newspapers, thas Europe's second largest spas after Budapest, which is not in Western Europe, are in Bad Cannstatt. Is there perhaps another town, which also claims the second largest spas? |
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Kind regards --[[User:Henrig|Henrig]] ([[User talk:Henrig|talk]]) 08:55, 20 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Henrig, thank you for your message. I assume you are referring to my last edit to the [[Stuttgart]] article, titled ''Reverted 2 edits by [[User:Rosh2610|Rosh2610]]; Incorrect edit'' |
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:If you look at [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart&diff=next&oldid=350876370 this diff], you can clearly see the reason for my reversion. |
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:That was the addition of the following text to the article: |
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:'''000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 08 1 11 000 ''' |
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:'''end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 08 1 11 000''' |
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:'''end_of_the_skype_highlighting''' |
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:This text was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stuttgart&action=historysubmit&diff=350876370&oldid=350715105 added] by [[User:Rosh2610|Rosh2610]] ([[WP:AGF|probably by mistake]]). This was my reason to revert the user's edits. It had nothing to do with the content on spa towns. |
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:The part reading ''‘second only to the ones in Buda, Hungary’'' just happened to get caught in the same reversion edit. If this is indeed correct, then thank you for reinstating it. |
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:I hope this clarifies the situation for you. :-) |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] |
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Hi Marek, I assume the information correct and have also found some information on the web about like this.[http://www.europeanrailguide.com/destinationguides/stuttgart/]. Rosh2610's other addition looks like an accidentally coding. Kind regards --[[User:Henrig|Henrig]] ([[User talk:Henrig|talk]]) 16:18, 20 March 2010 (UTC) |
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==Hi== |
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Hi Marek. I was just wondering if copying onto wikipedia from the [[CIA World Factbook]] was allowed. Reply--[[User:Theologiae|Theologiae]] ([[User talk:Theologiae|talk]]) 13:37, 20 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Theologiae, thank you for your message. |
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:The [[CIA World Factbook]], as a [[Work of the United States Government|work of the U.S. government]], is in the [[public domain]],<ref name="pd">{{cite web | author = Directorate of Intelligence | title = The World Factbook - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Can I use some or all of The World Factbook for my Web site (book, research project, homework, etc.)? | url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/faqs.html | accessdate = 2006-09-23 | quote = The World Factbook is in the public domain and may be used freely by anyone at anytime without seeking permission.* * * As a courtesy, please cite The World Factbook when used. }}</ref> so the short answer is yes. Although it is not really ''good practise'' to copy word-for-word from anywhere. |
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:I hope this answers your question. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 13:48, 20 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::So that means that it is not advisable, but it can be done. Ok. I was just wondering if there are any restrictions to your copying (I read about the CIA seal, but what does that mean?) Reply--[[User:Theologiae|Theologiae]] ([[User talk:Theologiae|talk]]) 14:00, 20 March 2010 (UTC) |
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::::The [[heraldic]] symbol that composes the CIA [[Seal (device)|seal]] consists of three representative parts: the "right"-facing bald eagle head atop, ("right" facing, since the eagle looks over its "right" shoulder, not the left shoulder) the ''[[compass]] star'' (or [[compass rose]]), and the shield. The [[eagle]] is the national bird, standing for strength and alertness. The 16-point compass star represents the CIA's worldwide search for intelligence outside the United States, which is then reported to the headquarters for analysis, reporting, and re-distribution to policymakers. The compass rests upon a shield, symbolic of defense.<ref name=CIAsealCIA>[https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2007-featured-story-archive/the-cia-seal.html "What’s the Meaning Behind the CIA Seal?" from the CIA]</ref><ref name=CIAsealETCHSTAR>[http://www.etchstar.com/art/530/CIA-Sealhttp://www.etchstar.com/art/530/CIA-Seal "CIA Seal" by Etchstar]</ref> |
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::::Basically its OK to copy from the CIA World Factbook as long as you attribute or reference back to the original text. I would advise to try as much as possible to put it into your own words, rather than copying [[Wikipedia:Verbatim copying under the GFDL|verbatim]] |
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::::Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 15:59, 20 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Hi == |
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Thanks for your welcome message. Actually I'm not new here but thanks anyway. At hr.wiki I'm sysop. Here on en.wiki I'll correct or add IW for articles written on hr.wiki. Regards :-)--[[User:Bracodbk|Bracodbk]] ([[User talk:Bracodbk|talk]]) 12:46, 21 March 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi Bracodbk, thank you for your message. I thought I'd welcome you to the English Wikipedia. |
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:Please let me know if there is any thing I can do to assist. |
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:Kind Regards :-)-- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:58, 23 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Blanking a page == |
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Hi, you just told me off for blanking a page ([[Mao Asada]]), but I didn't actually mean to blank it, I just wanted to add one sentance to a section of the article. There is obviously some problem, because when I clicked "save this page" it blanked the whole thing. Not my fault, and I tried submitting my update again and it worked the second time, so I don't know what the problem was. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Hellomontana|Hellomontana]] ([[User talk:Hellomontana|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Hellomontana|contribs]]) 23:46, 23 March 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:Hi Hellomontana, I'm sorry about that. I've now removed my message from your talk page. |
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:Kind Regards -- [[User:Marek69|{{#if:|<span style="background-color:Marek;color:DarkBlue;"></span>|<span style="color:DarkBlue;">Marek</span>}}]]<small>.</small>[[Special:Contributions/Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:69;color:Blue;"></span>|<span style="color:Blue;">69</span>}}</small>]][[User_talk:Marek69|<small>{{#if:|<span style="background-color:<sup>'' talk''</sup>;color:Green;"></span>|<span style="color:Green;"><sup>'' talk''</sup></span>}}</small>]] 23:48, 23 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Thank you! == |
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Many thanks for your welcome. I have only made some very modest contributions so far, but hope to do more in the future. Thanks again. [[User:Froghood|Froghood]] ([[User talk:Froghood|talk]]) 20:50, 24 March 2010 (UTC) |
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== Help == |
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Hey Marek i need help with a page i made. Its [[St. Pius X school, Chula Vista]] someone always comes and deletes it all and i always have to undue it. Can you help me get the person to stop. |
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[[User:Spongie555|Spongie555]] ([[User talk:Spongie555|talk]]) 04:47, 25 March 2010 (UTC) |
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Typo on "Now"
Could you throw me a few examples of the false positives on "now". I'd like to take a crack at fixing it. Shadowjams (talk) 21:11, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Shadowjams, thank you for your message.
- The main problem I came across with this one was when running spell-checks on Eastern-European town/city/village articles. A frequent word which triggered the spell-check was nowe (Polish/Slovak for 'new').
- I know that foreign words create a problem with spell-checking and we can't fix every case, but this one seems to be occurring very frequently in the areas I've been working.
- I wasn't sure how to exclude this particular case - is this possible just to exclude the word 'nowe'?
- Thank you for taking an interest in this.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 01:45, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah. Right now it looks like this: find="\b(N|n)(?:ow[es]|wo)\b" replace="$1ow". If it's just "nowe" we could remove the e from the brackets. If catching "nowes" is important, but avoiding "nowe" is too, then this could work: find="\b(N|n)(?:owe?s|wo)\b".
- As a side note, the (?: idiom seems to be common on AWB/T but I don't know why. It just designates a noncapturing group so you don't have to readjust the $1 numbering, which isn't an issue most places where it's used. Go figure.
- Let me know if you think that might fix it. I'll test it later if I get the time. Shadowjams (talk) 01:55, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- Another possibility, to actually catch misspellings of now as "nowe", would be to try to exclude sentences that have accented characters, things like "Ś", in them. That might knock down the false positives. We could also exclude the capitalized ones that use that one.
- Doing the accent character avoidance is probably too verbose for AWB/T, and would tie up too much processor to be used widespread, but if you wanted to use it on your own Find/Replace patterns it might work. Making it could be a bit of a pain, so before I try to do one, let me know if you think that either of those mechanisms would avoid most of the false positives you've seen. Shadowjams (talk) 02:02, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for the fast replies, Shadowjams.
- I think that just removing 'nowe' would be of great benefit. I have no idea if 'nowes' is a frequent typo. There was obviously some reason for adding it to the list in the first place.
- The word 'nowe' often appears in text on its own within English text, usually as part of a place or landmark name, rather than part of a line of foreign text.
- I think just removing 'nowe' from the list would be the simplest solution.
- If you are able to this, I would be very grateful.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 02:12, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello!
hello thanks for the welcome! Ceroman (talk) 23:02, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for the welcome... I do not usually edit anything, unless some minor sentences I find unclear, or some statements when I read them twice. But I was thinking about translating some articles over to the Spanish Wiki, which is sadly underdeveloped... However, I am not sure if I can keep the same sources, or if the sources must be in the language of the Wiki... I guess I will have to search the info! Leirus (talk)
About Nativity church
Hi. Im glad you translated (or created) the page about "Adormirea Maicii Domnului" church in Causeni...in english. The name of the church translated in english is Assumption of Mary, or something like that. Nativity church maybe in the case of Nasterea Domnului, but not this case. "Dedicated to jesus" is another mistake. So please correct this things. Best wishes. Dan.chent (talk) 18:16, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Dan.chent, thank you for your message. Could you please show me which page you are referring to.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 23:20, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Marek. This is the page: Nativity Church, Căuşeni.Dan.chent (talk) 14:59, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Violating links
This link is to saojoaodepernambuco.com has changed and now has only a sponsored ads. Don know how edit since I dont see the editing page for Referências at http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goiana
I have reason to believe that some of the refernces at Wikipedia is abused by a network of websites, belong to one person.
These two is very similar in content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_football_league_system http://www.natal-brazil.com/communities/football-brazil.html I checked natal-brazil.com and some of the content is copied from other wbesites. The above link even had a url from Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Brazil (could not edit and remove)
The websites that are joined in a network and many of them has references in Wikipedia(Example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natal,_Rio_Grande_do_Norte) : viagemdeferias.com visitfortaleza.com aboutbrasilia.com natal-brazil.com aboutsaopaulo.com v-brazil.com joao-pessoa.com www.recifeguide.com
The content is not unique on some pages and filled with Google ads.
Another example: The text on recifeguide.com is not unique, I think the material is copied as well, compare "The History of Recife and Pernambuco is unique" in Google: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:-8-nWtmn3zEJ:www.diveglobal.com/explore_destinations/divertales/feb2006.asp+%22The+History+of+Recife+and+Pernambuco+is+unique%22&cd=3&hl=sv&ct=clnk&gl=se
Regards
Sammyname Sammyname (talk) 23:58, 4 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sammyname (talk • contribs) 23:50, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Sammyname. Thank you for your message.
- If these links you are referring to are not under the References section, then they're likely to be within the text of the article.
- If you make a note of the number of the reference, then look where that same number shows up in the article.
- i.e The article text will look like this.[3]
References
- 1. Good Reference
- 2. Good Reference
- 3. Bad Reference
- When you find the place the bad reference is in the text (e.g. the number 3 - it will probably have <ref> before it and </ref> after it) you will be able to remove it.
- I hope this helps.
- Please come back if you need more help.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 00:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
First personal problems with IP editors
Salutings Marek69, for the second time a paragraph of mine has been deleted in the Leipzig#Sport section by an IP editor. Both times I reverted this and now I am wondering what to do the next time this happens. I already placed a section on the related talk page expressing my opinion. But I find it hard to communicate with editors who do not care for explaining their reasons. So what are my options? Thanks for Your time. Greetings Arrmaniac (talk) 13:07, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Arrmaniac, in both these cases the whole paragraph was deleted without any discussion or explanation.
- This type of edit can be treated as 'unexplained removal of cited content'
- If it happens again you can simply revert using the above edit summary. Also you should leave a message on the IP editors talk page. If they give no explanation and repeat the same section blanking, then you can treat it as disruptive editing and use the appropriate warning. Usually this will do the trick.
- Please let me know if you have any more problems with this.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 15:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Carpe Diem
Hi there marek. How come my good faith edit was reverted by you? I'd certainly consider that including "Seize the Day (novel)" disambig would be just as relevant to the top of the main page of the Carpe Diem article just as relevant as the "Seize the Day (song)", if not more so.
I tried to add both the song and the novel to the top of Carpe Diem but was unable to get the formatting correct to include both, so I moved both to the disambig page, to be fair. It would seem either both should be included or neither. Please assist?! Thanks again. 38.109.88.196 (talk) 18:09, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, I reverted this version back to this version with the edit summary of Previous format was better.
- This was for the simple reason that using the template {{Redirect|Seize the day}} is better formatting than manually writing ''"Seize the Day" redirects here. ''
- This had nothing to do with whether "Seize the Day (novel)" is as relevant as "Seize the Day (song)".
- I hope this answers your question
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 18:22, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- I see your point. But since there are two "Seize the Day" works here (the song and the novel), how can Carpe Diem be formatted to either include both or neither on it's front page? Why should the song get top billing? (Actually, why should either get top billing? It's only a redirect, after all.) But if anything, I believe the song should take a backseat as the novel is unquestionably more notable. Please forgive my lack on knowledge about proper formatting; any advice you can give would help. 38.109.88.196 (talk) 21:37, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- So. Any ideas? Perhaps removing the redirect altogether and simply leaving the disambig? If I don't hear back on your thoughts in the next few days that is the action I will assume to be best. 38.109.88.196 (talk) 18:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- I've already removed the {{Redirect}} template. It seems unnecessary to me. If you disagree you may replace it with both song and novel if you wish. I'm not particularly fussed on this one.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 23:14, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'm going to restore them both to the page, if only because the redirect is to "Carpe Diem" and the song and the novel are both titled "Seize the Day"...wouldn't want anybody to miss either. Thanks again for being willing to see this POV. You're awesome. :o) 38.109.88.196 (talk) 02:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- No Problem -- Marek.69 talk 14:51, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- So. Any ideas? Perhaps removing the redirect altogether and simply leaving the disambig? If I don't hear back on your thoughts in the next few days that is the action I will assume to be best. 38.109.88.196 (talk) 18:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello!!
Thank you for your welcome note! I hope my contributions are okay for you ;-).
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany ExcelsiorHH ExcelsiorHH (talk) 18:19, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi ExcelsiorHH, thank you for your message. I hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia :-)
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 18:26, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
I sometimes enjoy it far too much and forget everything else around me... ExcelsiorHH (talk) 18:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- :-) OK just don't enjoy it too much, too often then. Regards -- Marek.69 talk 23:17, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Ze'ev Tzahor Auschwitz lie
[[1]] Potrzebuje poparcia Cautious (talk) 21:15, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Welcome!
Well, considering I'm about three times as long here than you, I guess I should be the one to welcome you as newbie ... ;-) -Caballito (talk) 13:18, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Well thank you for the welcome then, Caballito :-) Cheers! -- the newbie talk 23:19, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello
Thank you for welcome ! I make in the majority a translation from English and Turkish Wikipedia to Polish Wikipedia and it is my main target now. I am in Ankara currently, so if you some suggestion for help in developing Wikipedia connected with this place give me cue, please. You can see more information about me on my polish account - [Mcdrwal in polish]
Best regrades, Mcdrwal (talk) 14:58, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Initial capital in piped links
(This text replaces what I originally wrote, which was probably not correct)
Re your edit to European Union on 3 Feb and others: is there any reason that I don't know for explicitly replacing initial capitals in piped links with lower case? I had thought that this caused an unnecessary redirection, but on checking it seems that the case of the first letter (only) is ignored and does not cause any overhead. My general practice is to use the title of an article exactly in the first part of the pipe (specifically, with initial capital e.g.
"... an [[Autonomous area|autonomous province]] ", not
"... is an [[autonomous area|autonomous province]] ". Is there any general recommendation you know of, or are they equally acceptable? Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 21:18, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Pol098, thank you for your message.
- You are probably right, these piped links should remain with first letter in uppercase. That seems logical to me.
- But if, as you say, the case of the first letter (only) is ignored, it would then seem that it makes no difference at all(?)
- Regarding my edits, this change happens automatically when making other changes when using some of Dispenser's tools, such as Dab solver, Checklinks & Reflinks.
- I was going to ask user Dispenser for the reasoning behind this, but found that someone already had asked this question (in a manner)
- Personally, it makes little difference to me, I just happen to use Dispenser's tools quite frequently as I find them useful and these changes come with the package.
- I hope this answers your question :-)
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 23:40, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks. You say "I hope this answers your question": to be pedantic, not quite; I would take the attitude that the change of case is incorrect, and it's up to you not to use a tool that actually introduces error into the articles you edit. Anyway, if I repair your car and the wheels fall off, I now know that you will be satisfied if I say that my nut tightener actually tightens nuts to the standard its manufacturer intended, nothing to do with me.
I've left a comment to Dispenser; the existing discussion on case changing was perhaps debatable, this one is clearcut. Very confusing; the last time I reported incorrect changes due to the use of a template I was told that these changes were down to the user, not the template! (Obviously that was true, and this case is different; just confusing.) Best wishes Pol098 (talk) 11:19, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks. You say "I hope this answers your question": to be pedantic, not quite; I would take the attitude that the change of case is incorrect, and it's up to you not to use a tool that actually introduces error into the articles you edit. Anyway, if I repair your car and the wheels fall off, I now know that you will be satisfied if I say that my nut tightener actually tightens nuts to the standard its manufacturer intended, nothing to do with me.
- Hi Pol098, thank you for your message. Don't worry, I don't think you were being pedantic, you're just trying to get your message across.
- Please excuse my confusion, I didn't realise that these edits were wrong as such, and would be introducing errors into the edited articles. I thought what you were saying above was that the first letter's case would be ignored anyway, and it wouldn't matter.
- Anyhow, I won't argue the point as I strongly suspect you are correct in what you are saying (i.e that there is no point in changing the case needlessly) so I will now be completely suspending my use of Dispenser's tools until this matter is clarified.
- I thank you for bringing this to my attention, as it was never my intention to deliberately introduce errors into the encyclopaedia.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 14:45, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for your response again. Like most things in Wikipedia it's probably largely a matter of opinion; my opinion is that the "correct" way to do things is to pipe the title of an article exactly (i.e, with leading capital), and that anything else is, strictly speaking, incorrect. When I formed this opinion I thought that this would be more efficient than starting with a lower-case letter, but I think I was wrong on that issue. So my opinion is that lower-case is incorrect, but that it does not actually cause inefficiency. I've never heard of anyone saying that the initial letter in a piped quote should be lower-case (but I haven't looked...), so I don't think there's any controversy here. This is purely a matter of how it looks, apparently with no impact on performance. This is pretty pedantic, but I don't mind being pedantic here - if it's appropriate to be pedantic anywhere, an encylopaedia is the place! Best wishes Pol098 (talk) 15:04, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
In case you or anyone is interested: I wrote about this on the Talk page of Dispenser, who made Reflist and other tools; his position is that removal of initial capitals is by design and will stay. At the time of writing there's one additional comment by someone who agrees with me and asks if there is a guideline covering this issue. Pol098 (talk) 11:12, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you for the update Pol098.
- I would just like to clarify some of my previous comments.
- I said this change happens automatically when making other changes when using some of Dispenser's tools.
- In fact the changes only happen automatically when using Reflinks. With the other tools Dab solver & Checklinks, you have a checkbox you can tick to 'apply common fixes' or an option to run reflinks.py, in both cases optional.
- I will wait and see the results of the discussion before I return to using Reflinks, in order to avoid upsetting any other editors
- Thank you for your comments on this subject.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 18:04, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
Brazil, Introduction
Hi Marek69,
Just a brief note. The correct translation of "Republica Federativa do Brasil" in English is "Federal Republic of Brazil" not "Federative Republic of Brazil." There is no such word as "federative" in English (see: Webster's Dictionary of the American Language or any other English dictionary) and Larousse, Concise Dictionary of English/Portugese, p. 171 cites "federativa" as "federalist." The best translation to conform to good English usage and to render the correct meaning of the Portugese is "Federal Republic of Brazil." It is a good idea to start the article on Brazil with the correct name of the country. Please correct. (And yes, I speak Portugese and my wife is Brazilian and agrees with this point.) Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harrisles (talk • contribs) 19:23, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Harrisles, I have found many instances in different dictionaries of the word 'Federative' being in the dictionary.
- Here are the first three instances I found: [2], [3] and [4]
- The text on the Brazil article referring to Federative Republic of Brazil is referenced to The Brazilian Government official website which clearly also says Federative.
- Regards -- Marek.69 talk 23:03, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
It's a long time since we've talked, but i need to ask a q.
Hi Marek. I need to contact you for something. I was wondering, can info from wikitravel be copy-pasted? Reply--Theologiae (talk) 20:03, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Theologia, When you contribute to Wikipedia, you irrevocably agree to release your contributions under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. Techncially, under these licences you shouldn't copy-paste large sections of one Wikipedia article into another as it contravenes the rules on Attribution, i.e. the section you've copied is likely to have a different set of authors, to the article your pasting into. So you shouldn't copy-paste within Wikipedia, you should treat the text like any other copyrighted text and paraphrase it.
- Wikitravel is not technically part of Wikipedia, it uses similar CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensing and may be interpreted differently.
- In practice, it would be best should treat Wikitravel like any other external site; you could probably get away with copy-pasting one or two lines maximum (to be safe), but it would still be a good idea to put this text into your own words.
- I hope this answers your question.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 22:23, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- So, what would happen if you just copypasted huge chunks? Would you be accused of copyright infrangment. What if you copy large chunks but change the wording slightly i.e.
- On wikitravel it says: "Prague is a beautiful city with many sights and has a large medieval area"
- you then copy it, and say: "Prague is an attractive metropolis with many sights and has a great central area dating from the middle ages"
- reply--Theologiae (talk) 22:34, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- The one line you quote, would probably be acceptable, if you just used that line of text or maybe one more.
- If you say took a whole paragraph, say 10 lines and just changed the odd word using a thesaurus or similar method, it would not be acceptable. You would have to re-write the paragraph (or the parts you wish to use) in your own words.
- The exception, of course would be public domain or copyright free texts, which are allowed (but it is still not a good idea to copy paste these either).
- For more information you could look at these articles:
- I hope this helps Marek.69 talk 22:49, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- reply--Theologiae (talk) 22:34, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Oxford flag size
Bit puzzled by this edit ... flag size, if not blank, should be an integer followed by the letters "px" - the default is 100px. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:35, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Oops, I'm a bit puzzled as well. Someone has (incorrectly) added 7 FT here, which AWB has taken for 7 ft and applied the convert template to show the corresponding length in metres. The edit would have been correct if it hadn't been in the wrong place! I should have noticed it at the time.
- Anyway, I'm sorry it was a mistake. Thanks for fixing it and letting me know, Redrose64 :-) Marek.69 talk 14:07, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
hello
hi Marek i just read on Wikipedia about Cyprus signing joining the schengen zone on the 26 march 2010.i will be much grateful if you let me on your source of information.thanks i await your reply.thanks sinbad —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sinbadgh (talk • contribs) 13:27, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Sinbadgh, thank you for your message. I've looked through the Schengen Area article and there doesn't appear to be one.
- I've also done a quick Google on it, and can only find references in the negative, ie Cyprus will not be integrated into the Schengen Area until at least March 2010.
- I'll keep looking and let you know when I find something.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 03:10, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Welcome
Hello! And thank You for welcomming me into the Wiki-world.
// Mr Per Sanderford, Sweden —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stringence (talk • contribs) 17:00, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Per, thank you for your message. I hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia.
- Please let me know if there is anything I can help you with.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 15:06, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
a matter of license for text I wrote
Hi On the page about Seydisfjordur is a text tha I wrote and did ad to the wikipedia. I also gave the east.is a permission to use the text. So my question is how do I prove to you that I'm the author of the text? Adalheidur Borgthorsdottir id, number 010758-6619 Ferdamenning (talk) 11:03, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Adalheidur, thank you for your message.
- Only text that is licensed compatibly with the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) or in the public domain can be freely copied onto Wikipedia. (If copyright of the previously published text belongs exclusively to you, it must also be licensed under Gnu Free Documentation License.)
- Basically you need to release the text on your website into the public domain or under compatable licenses to Wikipedia, i.e. Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) (you can find more info from CreativeCommons.Org) and Gnu Free Documentation License. (Gnu.Org)
- You need to state this on your website. When you have done so, you can copy over text.
- You may find the following article helpful; I add something to Wikipedia that I got from somewhere else?
- The other option you have is to rewrite the text completely, before adding. (Thus avoiding any copyright issues)
- In my opinion it would be better to change the text somewhat, before adding it to Wikipedia, either way.
- I hope this helps. Please come back to me if you require any further assistance.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 15:53, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome.
Thanks for the welcome. I hope I did the right thing. I'm fairly sure the Parthenon was not built by midgets. A.M. Winship (talk) 21:08, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi A.M. Winship, thank you for your message. Hmmm...are you sure? I was sure it was.
- No, sorry, I was thinking about Stonehenge. You're right.
- Cheers! -- Marek.69 talk 22:11, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Welcome response
Thanks for the welcome, Mark. I already have an account, but wikipedia seems to have some trouble in keeping me logged in -- and also asks me to creat another account everytime I try and check other languages, which annoys me, so I just don't log that often.
Still, thank you.187.14.22.127 (talk) 04:58, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Column with too few references
Its a bit silly to have [5] to have colwidth=30 with less than 8 references. — Dispenser 16:08, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, you're right, Dispenser. It's probably not increase much from 8 either. I've already reverted my edit. :-)
- Cheers! -- Marek.69 talk 16:19, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Considering your using AWB you can setup a regex condition like: If contains:
(</ref>.*?){8,}
— Dispenser 16:34, 15 February 2010 (UTC)- I could set that up, if I knew a little more about coding (or knew someone who did)...
- Considering your using AWB you can setup a regex condition like: If contains:
- At the moment I have set up a simple find/replace with the 'Replace Special' feature
- i.ei search for: {{reflist}},{{reflist|2}},{{Reflist}} or {{Reflist|2}}
- and replace with: {{reflist|colwidth=30em}}
Nobel Prize, New Section and GA
Hey Marek! First of all, good job on the Nobel Prize! It's a good article now, much thanks to you. However, I would like to talk about the new part you made in the "Emphasis on ..." section. As much as this is an interesting fact about Einstein which not many know I don't really understand why it is there? I don't see the connection between it and the "Emphasis..." thingie. Please explain :)
BR --Esuzu (talk • contribs) 16:53, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Esuzu, thank you for your message. Good news about the Nobel Prize GA
- I wasn't sure which section to put this info in, whether to start a new section, subsection or otherwise
- I eventually settled on the '...discoveries over inventions' section, which seemed most appropriate.
- My reasoning: Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which he devised in 1905, can be effectively treated as an 'unproven invention'
- It wasn't until he made the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect (which proved the Theory) that he was then awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
- I think this information is important enough to be included in this article
- It's just the wording or grammar (or something) in this new paragraph is not yet 100% right. I'm not sure if I've explained it all that well. Please feel free to change/improve it.
- Do you think this info should possibly go under another heading? (I'm not sure)
- Regards Marek.69 talk 17:41, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- I will copy this over to the article's talk page for wider discussion. -- Marek.69 talk 17:48, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Also!
The Original Barnstar | ||
I, Esuzu, hereby give you, Marek69 a barnstar for your hard work on the Nobel Prize article! |
--Esuzu (talk • contribs) 18:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Update: Hey again Marek! I've been fixing up Nobel Prize now to make it ready for FA nomination again, there's just some image issues left that are left (the section you started looks very good now imo). Hopefully they might be done next week or so and then it is FA nomination again! If you have time to help when under the nomination I'd be grateful :) I'll leave a new message before I nominate it. Cheers --Esuzu (talk • contribs) 18:26, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
re: Welcome
Hi, thanks for welcoming me, I hope that I can be a useful wikipedian. I'm looking forward to this. (Alexhobbit (talk) 20:40, 15 February 2010 (UTC)).
- Hi Alexhobbit, I'm sure you will be a useful Wikipedian.
- Kind Regards & Happy Wiki-ing! :-) Marek.69 talk 00:30, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
AIV report
I'm guessing you didn't mean to report Special:Contributions/76.214.195.253, as they haven't edited since they're last block :). I've blocked the user who the diffs you provided were by (Special:Contributions/70.166.203.30), hope that's what you wanted. Best, - Kingpin13 (talk) 17:12, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks Kingpin, I was in hurry to get rid of this persistent vandal. IP Special:Contributions/76.214.195.253's details were already in the template from last time, when I copied it over. Cheers for noticing and sorting it out :-)
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 17:18, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
Adding Notes sections under References
On a number of articles about Swiss Municipalities, you've been adding a "Notes" Sub-Section Header under the "References" Section Header with AWB. Here's a diff if what I'm saying is unclear [6]. There's only the reflist template below the header, so I'm not sure why Notes is being added. Is this something new, or just some thing that you like? Is there a reason to be making these edits? Tobyc75 (talk) 22:06, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Tobyc75, thank you for your message. I'm sorry for the delay in reply, but I've been away for a few days, with no reliable internet access.
- In answer to your question, I don't think the 'notes' subsection is anything new or particularly special. There are many different formats around, I just picked one and copied it. For example see the Nobel Prize article.
- This has a format of:
==References==
===Bibliography===
* {{cite book #1}}
* {{cite book #2}}
===Notes===
{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}
- Although, looking at the example you gave above, Arni, Berne, on reflection, I'm not sure if this format is entirely necessary for an article of this (small) size, so I've restored it back. (I will have to adjust my AWB settings, I think). As I have said, there seem to be many different formats for this section, essentially doing the same thing. The reasoning behind my edits was primarily standardisation in this area.
re: Welcome
Hallo, thanks for the warm welcome, I hope I can contribute. I'm looking forward to this. Amnestyman (talk) 23:11, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
- You're Welcome Amnestyman. I hope you enjoy all your time here on Wikipedia. :-) Marek.69 talk 16:58, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
A warning I received. JEDI
Hello, I was digging around in Wikipedia a few minutes ago, when I came across a warning from you dated Oct. 2009 as follows:
October 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Oslo, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Marek69 talk 20:48, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make any unconstructive edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant warnings.
First of all, I have no idea what you are talking about, I never looked up Oslo let alone made an edit. I realize the IP address is what you are basing your warning on but... I can get a new IP address as many as 20 times a week due to AT&Ts crap DSL "service" here, if it can happen to me, I imagine it happens to many people! Sending a warning to an IP address and it being there since Oct is a bit of an overkill as this means anyone and anyone who receives this IP address is also going to receive the warning. As active as you appear to be in Wikipedia I would think this is not the first time this has come to your attention. The system as it is can cause more than an irritated person such as myself. Let's say for example that I am a regular contributer but do not want to be a registered user (you can pick your own reason for a person not wanting an actual account)then my IP address changes to one attached with a plethora of warnings for being rude lewd and crude in the edits and posts made to Wikipedia... You can see where I'm going with this?
Surely there must be a better method of keeping track of the true offender and not just assigning it to an IP Address that can be picked up by anyone of tens of thousands of AT&T customers?? At the very least you need to address the issue of having these warning expire when a new person receives the IP Address? I know for a fact there is a way to do this as I was a moderator for an RC Truck Enthusiast Forum for 6 years and we did this. (I don't know how but the owner of the site was most adamant that the new "owner" of an IP Address not be saddled with the sins of the previous "owner" of the IP Address).
I just moved to this area and this is another way I know this warning was not aimed at me, but as far as it being an "irrelevant" issue, I disagree completely, it is your responsibility to not be giving MY IP Address any type of warning that does not belong to me.
My first visit to Wikipedia should not be tainted with a warning to someone who had this IP Address 5 months ago. (by the way, some more advice if you are up to it, your warning should warn of nonconstructive not unconstructive edits, unconstructive is not a word)
I'll check back here for your thoughts on this issue (hopefully I can search for the Subject/headline? thus the JEDI)as by morning I will have lost this IP address and be assigned a new one... Very irritating as my Firewall has to be re-set to my new IP Address EVERYDAY! But with my luck, I will be stuck with this one... My point in writing to you!
75.17.193.129 (talk) 04:51, 20 February 2010 (UTC)NEW IP ADDRESS GUY
- Some IP addresses change all the time, some remain constant for years. If you take over an IP address that has previously been used for vandalism then you are liable to receive messages for the previous user of that IP address - if you don't like that I suggest you create an account. As for changing the rules to require warnings to be removed after a week to ten days, I think that would be unlikely to get consensus unless someone came up with a way to identify when an IP had changed hands. Current policy on removing user warnings is "Old warnings may be archived into page history when they are no longer useful. Give consideration to the IP's contribution history when deciding how long to leave warnings visible. Always note the archiving of old warnings, but be sure to remember that any editor—including anonymous IPs—may remove messages at will from their own talk page." So you are free to delete warnings from IP pages that you take over. But I don't see that Marek69 is doing anything wrong in the way he warned the previous users of your IP addresses for the vandalism that they did. ϢereSpielChequers 22:20, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, thank you for your message. I'm sorry for the delay in reply, but I've been away for a few days. I am also sorry for the strange replies (with the exception of WereSpielChequers) you were given. It appears that some editors took advantage of my absence to post various points of view. The whole section seems to have been copied over to Wikipedia:ANI and is now closed and archived here, together with some replies/comments from Wikipedia's administrators.
- I'm not sure if there is much more I can add to what has already been said. You mention that you know of a method of having warning message expire when a new person receives the IP Address, through your experience on another site. Perhaps you could put this suggestion forward. I'm not sure who would deal with this. However, if you post you message at the Wikipedia:Help desk, somebody there may be able to direct you further.
- If in the future you find messages which are not meant for you, please ignore them. According to Wikipedia's policies, you are allowed to delete them if you like.(I've already removed the one for Oslo you refer to) The alternative, which would avoid this problem, is to create an account. You may have a preference against doing this, but an account has many benefits and is actually more anonymous than editing as an 'anonymous IP'. With an account you can reveal nothing about yourself if you wish. An IP address (even a dynamic IP) can reveal more information about you than you would like.(i.e country, possibly town, name of ISP or employer) I would encourage you to consider it, but at the end of the day it's your choice. :-)
Help!
Hi Marek69. I'm in a situation of trouble...people telling me that I've broken copyright (even copying withing wikipedia). I just need to get some things straight!
- Firstly what do you have to do to attribute (I read the page, but it gave me wikipedia creep; please simplify it)?
- What do you do if you've done edits way in the past in which you've copied from other wiki articles without attribution (I only discovered it relatively recently)?
- Can you copy and paste info from other articles that you've written yourself?
Please make this clear to me. I've been blocked in the past for a misunderstanding, and I don't want to get blocked again!
Please reply as soon as possible. I need to go soon, and I hope to have a reply soon. Please reply...--Theologiae (talk) 14:43, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
- Note: This message was removed twice by the IPs in the above discussion, and readded twice by me. Just thought I would point that out, in case you didn't see his original post and thought I had made it up myself. -38.116.200.85 (talk) 16:38, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you. As a matter of fact, I was shocked when I saw that a person (who wasn't me) was writing under my name. For a moment, I felt someone had hacked into my account, but that's a relief! Anyway, I've already asked the same question to someone else, so Marek69 needen't bother reply.--Theologiae (talk) 17:13, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Theologiae, I'm sorry for not replying immediately, but I've been away for a few days, with no reliable internet access. :-(
- I see that user Ironholds was able to successfully help you with your query.
- I hope you have resolved your problem and that all is well now. Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 18:11, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Cookies
Thank your bot for the cookies. ;)--Dr Lean (talk) 00:29, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Einstein
Hello again Marek. I see you have been away from Wikipedia for a few days so you may not be aware that I sought help on the Nobel Prize article regarding the sentence you added about the photoelectric effect proving relativity. There are still no reliable sources that contradict Wilhelm directly, but the general consensus from other editors so far appears to be that Wilhelm was mistaken. Since you added that sentence and are much more experienced at Wikipediaing than me I thought you might like to comment or give some advice as to the best course to take. Hope I haven't stood on your toes, your other efforts have improved the article greatly. AIRcorn (talk) 00:55, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Aircorn, thank you for updating me with recent developments on the article. I've had a quick read through the recent discussion. Like yourself, I also feel that The Theory of Relativity is a bit above my head as well. Finding someone more knowledgeable on the subject was exactly the correct thing to do.
- As there seems to be a question mark over Peter Wilhelm's quotation, I've simply removed that whole line about proof of theory. I believe the rest of the paragraph remains unchallenged.
- I would welcome anyone who wishes to improve/rewrite this info if they have additional info/sources. If you feel you can improve on it please go ahead and do so, you won't be stepping on my toes.
- After all isn't that what Wikipedia is all about? :-)
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 01:14, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
That was very sweet of you to leave a welcome message to a new editor who dropped by and made two unnecessary deletions.
The editor left a summary justifying both the removals.
However, both of the removals smack of an ultra Low-Church anti-Catholic attitude. In the few regions in the Anglican Communion where this sort of mindset exists there is a high intolerance to many aspects of traditional church/cathedral practice, liturgy, vestments etc as being "Catholic" with a capital "C". Hence the removal of the pictures of the procession and the robed and mitred bishop, and the implication that they were "unnecessary" and "inappropriate". I don't think that a minority attitude ought to dictate the removal of pictures that show common practice almost everywhere that cathedrals exist. Amandajm (talk) 15:20, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Amandajm, thank you for your message. I did leave a welcome message for new IP 118.90.121.17. I often welcome new users to Wikipedia. I believe the welcome message is a good method of introducing new editors to Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines, such as Manual of Style, etc.
- The fact that I welcome a new editor does not necessarily mean that I endorse all, or any, of their edits. At the time of welcoming IP editor 118.90.121.17 had already made 10 edits.
- If I had noticed that a new user’s edits were clear vandalism, then I would have reverted and left an appropriate warning message, rather than a welcome. In this case I saw no obvious vandalism.
- You may notice that this user got a cut down version of the standard IP welcome, which says ‘Thank you for your contributions’, but leaves out the following part which says ‘such as the one you made to Kremlin’ or ‘particularly what you did for the Cathedral article’. This is deliberate, in order to clarify that I am just welcoming the user and not endorsing their edits. In other situations I use different versions of the welcome message.
- Unless someone is an obvious vandal, I believe they deserve a welcome to Wikipedia. It would be impractical to review all the new users edits before each welcome message (however, I do try to look at a few.) and impossible to predict the edits they make after.
- I also believe it would be unfair (and a little bitey) for me to analyse their edits and sit in judgement upon them with my opinion of whether their edits are good or not, before I decide whether they deserve a welcome message. This is the case with the example you put forward on Cathedral, I simply welcome the editor (neutrally) and leave it up to editors like yourself who are more familiar with the article (and knowledgeable on the subject) to make an informed decision on the merits of the edit.
Hi Marek69
Thanks for the welcome!
I have been editing Wikipedia (very occasionally) on and off for a few years, but I anticipate becoming more active with this wonderful resource as I get less intimidated.
It seems the system loses trace of my account if I do not use it for 30 days or so, then I have to re-sign-in. Is there a way around that?
Didier wkpd (talk) 15:45, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Didier wkpd, thank you for your message.
- When you say 'the system loses trace', do you mean that Wikipedia loses your account, or that your computer loses your username and password, and logs you out?
- If it is the latter, this is a Wikipedia security feature, it is just a case of logging in again.
- If it is Wikipedia that is losing your account, then I'm not sure what the reason would be. You might find someone who could give you an answer at the Wikipedia:Help desk.
- Please let me know how you get on.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 17:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks from me as well. By the way, check out this user, 68.202.98.41 - it seems to mess up the categories by adding his content. I guess it's not appropriate, but I don’t want do admin’s work here. Perhaps you might? --Finn Bjørklid (talk) 13:15, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Finn, thanks for the message. I'll take a look at the IP.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 13:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
help!
--Cub68134 (talk) 05:22, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
this is all way too confusing for me; i edit a few things in French or German for spelling or the phonetics, if possible. to connect with you other than by e-mail is iffy since i don't have any idea if you will even get this message.....i have absolutely NO idea what in the heck i'm doing here......to read ALL the info on these pages to figure out what i need to do is enough to not return....i just tend to give up as it's like doing taxes.........Cub68134 (talk) 21:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Welcome
Dear Marek, Thanks for the warm welcome - and the cookies were great! Hawkins Brooks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hawkins Brooks (talk • contribs) 14:34, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- You're welcome Hawkins Brooks, enjoy your time on Wikipedia and please let me know if I can help. -- Marek.69 talk 15:15, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
About Liquidambar orientalis
Hi Marek,
I have frequently been touring around in the region where Liquidambar orientalis is an endemic species, and I remember that already some 30 years ago I found the native name of this tree rather puzzling. In those days there was no Wikipedia, and I had almost forgotten about my initial surprise when I found the article – precisely in Wikipedia.
I have always been keen on etymologies in this part of the world for the simple reason that I know several Mediterranean languages. Through this knowledge I am able to sift linguistic material from the Inner Mediterranean somehow more critically than most people, and especially locals who would just “use folk-etymological procedures” when explaining unusual words. And the Turkish word for Liquidambar orientalis is unusual. The word günlük normally means “daily, that lasts one day, éphémère”. Obviously this word has nothing to do in the context of the plant, but this is how people associate because they can't come up with any other explanation. In fact, günlük also means what I mention in Wikipedia, but the interesting thing with this rare meaning of günlük is that its etymology is – or should probably be considered as – unknown. One of the two most authoritative Turkish etymological dictionaries (Türk dilinin etimolojik sözlüğü by Hasan Eren – the other one never arrived as far as the letter g before the author died) states indeed – and that is a very honest view – the origin of this word to be unknown. Now I see that Nişanyan, an Armenian inn keeper and hobby etymologist (with a lot of interesting etymological suggestions – you know Armenians from Istanbul are well known to be polyglots), in this dictionary on the web he suggests a Persian etymology. As I see it, this is pure guesswork, but I would have to look more closely into it and perhaps consult an expert on Persian that I know in Chicago.
Whatever the etymology is, the question is of great importance when considering the origin of this endemic species in Turkey. Obviously the plant is, as the article in Wikipedia indicates, a tertiary relict endemic taxon. As I see it, cracking the question of the etymology of günlük might shed light on how the tree ended up in this region.
I should add that there are Turkish words galore without an authoritative etymology, and the reason is of course that this country has seen quite a number of different ethnic groups coming and going through Anatolia for the last 4.000 years or so.
I would therefore be against your opinion that this is gullible only for those who enjoy the nitty-gritty of exotic etymological explanations. Instead I would invite whoever might come up with some better idea than Nişanyan – or perhaps even corroborate his version! – to mobilize. We live in an age of inter-disciplinary studies. The good thing about Wikipedia is that people having widely – if not wildly – different expertise, read things that they might never have read before. I am not a botanist, but I happen to be a hobby entomologist. And entomology is as far from my own expertise as one could possibly imagine.
Mutatis mutandis, nobody would say today that the notorious Etruscan origin of Roma, being the capital of Italy, is of no interest.
By the way, I am not very "productive" in Wikipedia for the time being as I am too busy with other things. Thanks for the cookies anyway!
Best greetings from
Hirpex (talk) 19:06, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Hirpex, thank you for your message. I did indeed leave a 'Welcome' message on your talk page.
- However, the second message, asking you to elaborate on your edits Liquidambar orientalis, was not left by me. This second message was left by user: Pembeana.
- I believe the above reply was therefore intended for Pembeana (and not me) and have copied the message over to user:Pembeana's talk page so that they can respond to you directly.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 15:33, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for welcome!
Thanks! --SamantaGhezzi (talk) 12:53, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
- You're welcome Samanta, enjoy your time on Wikipedia and let me know if you require any help. -- Marek.69 talk 15:14, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Make a new article
How coul you make a new article thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajt10 (talk • contribs) 15:04, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Ajt10, thank you for your message.
- If you are thinking of starting a new article, please read Wikipedia:Starting an article. It contains a lot of useful information of where to start, and a lot of do's and dont's.
- If you require any help, please come back to me.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 15:10, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Barbara Baird-Filliter
Information not accurate. This woman was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench in 2007. See Who's Who in Canada for current biograghical information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.139.0.53 (talk) 17:02, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
- If you can correct it, then please do so. Don't forget to include a citation/reference to where you sourced the information.
- If you require any assistance please come back to me :-)
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 17:38, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
aren't you listining to me? Y&R
are you a Y&R soap fan? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.191.138.12 (talk) 23:50, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
hi
dear Marek thanks so much for your kind note. i am really new to wikipedia as a member, but am a frequent user. can i ask your help to fix a mistake? in editing the Hub Culture entry here on Wikipedia, i tried to add a reference link for wired, but it got messed up and generated an error. and i want to format the zeitgeist ranking on the same page, as well as fix the contents for the headings, but not sure how to do so. any tips? thanks! (Kaskaad (talk) 05:51, 4 March 2010 (UTC))
- Hi Kaskaad, thank you for your message. I have fixed the problem on the Hub Culture article - don't worry, it's not easy when you start, but do not be discouraged.
- I would recommend you take it slowly and practice your edits in a sandbox. (You could create User:Kaskaad/sandbox in your own userspace if you like and try out some editing there)
- You could start by reading some Wikipedia guides, for example: Wikipedia:How to edit a page,Wikipedia:Introduction, Wikipedia:Tutorial, Wikipedia:Starting an article and Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- For more information on how to create references, please read Wikipedia:References
- If there is something else you need you can always come back to me (or, alternatively, there's always someone who can answer your questions on Wikipedia:Help desk.
- Please let me know how you get on.
- Kind Regards and Happy Wiki-ing -- Marek.69 talk 00:28, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Glasgow
Hi Marek, thanks for your message.
I feel your comment is probably justified, but unfair. Our website provides a service to tourists and locals alike, with information about restaurants, pictures, integrated Google maps, etc., but most importantly genuine reviews left by customers who have dined at the venues. I know Wikipedia's external links do not contribute to Google rankings because of the implementation of the 'no follow' tags, therefore we are not seeking undeserved advertising, but just enreaching articles about cities and their information completeness. Please let me know if you still feel I'm not contributing fairly to Wikipedia by providing this service. Thanks and regards, --Marino 09:44, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Marino, thank you for your message. I understand what you are trying to do, but although it may seem unfair, it is clearly covered by Wikipedia's policies, i.e. Wikipedia:External links and Wikipedia:Spam.
- Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia which by its nature is neutral and does not allow advertising or promotion.
- Your website is basically promoting the restaurants listed on it, as far as I can see.
- There is also the issue that you are promoting your own website, which is covered Wikipedia:Conflict of interest
- I'm sorry, but unfortunately I do not feel that a external link to your site would be appropriate or allowable under these policies.
- I wish you the best of luck with your website and future endeavours.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 00:50, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück
Hi Marek69,
thanks for your notice on Unabhängiges FilmFest Osnabrück. Just a tiny problem: I couldn´t link Kim Longinotto (see her site at wikipedia) to the FilmFest. What´s wrong?
Best 15:52, 4 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by LS200 (talk • contribs)
- Hi LS200, thank you for your message. If you want to make a link to the Kim Longinotto article, simply put double square brackets around the name, as in [[Kim Longinotto]], which will give you Kim Longinotto as a link.
- Does this answer your question?
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 16:04, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Question
Why aren't you an admin? Can I nominate you? NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 23:48, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi NerdyScienceDude, thank you for your message.
- I didn't realise that adminship was compulsory.
- Joking apart, I thank you for thinking that I have what it takes to be an admin.
- However, at this moment in time I do not feel I have sufficient experience in all the areas required to be a good admin.
- I will be concentrating on gaining more experience in my weak areas, and when the time is right I would be very pleased to have you as a nominator. :-)
- Kind Regards. -- Marek.69 talk 01:38, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Just let me know when you're ready. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 02:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- I'll do that. Thanks again for the offer, NerdyScienceDude. :-) Marek.69 talk 02:33, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Marek, if and when you decide to run I'd be more than happy to conominate you. ϢereSpielChequers 17:50, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi WereSpielChequers, thank you very much for your kind offer. I would be very pleased to have you on side.
- Don't hold your breath though, as I mentioned above, I need to increase my experience in my weaker areas first, plus improve my article building skills.
- I appreciate your offer and I will certainly let you know when I am ready to take the plunge :-) -- Marek.69 talk 18:07, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Marek, if and when you decide to run I'd be more than happy to conominate you. ϢereSpielChequers 17:50, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- I'll do that. Thanks again for the offer, NerdyScienceDude. :-) Marek.69 talk 02:33, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- Just let me know when you're ready. NerdyScienceDude :) (✉ click to talk • my edits • sign) 02:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
Where to report?
Marek69,
Thank you very much for sending me a message regarding the article on Mexico City.
As per a note I previosuly left in the discussion section of such article, I wanted to know how to report users who delete well documented information entered in Wikipedia articles.
In your message you mention that the edit I did to such article appears to be vandalism. I would like to request clarification. Please note that the information I entered has been supported with references, which I invite you to verify. Also, please note that no disrespectful words were used. I read the Wikipedia tutorial to find out what can be entered and I feel strongly I have respected Wikipedia rules.
Would you kindly specify why you think my edit appears to be vandalism?
If after analyzing my edit you arrive to what I consider to be the inevitable conclusion that I simply added information that adds objectivity to what appears to be a printed commercial (you might like to read the comments in the discussion section of the article to find out what other users think of it), would you kindly let me know how to report users that, without valid reason, remove well documented information entered in Wikipedia articles?
Thank you and regards.
ElEditordeWiki (talk) 04:27, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Mexico City article
Marek69,
I just noticed that I received another message blatantly indicating that I had vandalized the Mexico City article.
I am totally shocked, as the information I entered is backed by references. I realize that a couple of the references are in Spanish. However, a significant number of the references found in this article are in Spanish as well. I would like to request that the references I entered are read and analyzed in their entirety. A thorough analysis of them will reveal that they are valid references: one is a copy of Mexico's Constitution; another one is a link to a decent article associated with Televisa, one of the two major television chains in Mexico.
Once more I would like to request that the discussion section of this article be read to find out that a lot of the information in this article is not supported. This, this right here, is completely unacceptable and puts Wikipedia in utter disrespute.
I look forward to your valuable feedback based on the analysis of the references I entered and the comments in the discussion section of this article.
Thanks again and regards,
ElEditordeWiki (talk) 04:51, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi ElEditordeWiki, thank you for your message.
- On reading your first message above, I reviewed your edit and, on reflection, I believe that you made these edits in good faith rather than vandalism. I have therefore removed my warning message from your talk page. Please accept my sincere apologies, as this editing, did at first, look like non-constructive edits to me.
- Thank you for your explanation.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 05:03, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
hello
No, this is not vandalism, but it is a true fact. In fact i'm about to publish a report for wikipedia these days, on danish racism. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.61.142.57 (talk) 19:42, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm sorry if a mistake was made and your edit was in good faith. However, I did not mention vandalism.
- If you wish to add the sentence: ...Denmark has become known as the most racist country in the European Union, I would advise you to provide a reference from a reliable source for this information.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 01:14, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
A Question on References
Hello Marek69,
I,ve been editing pages in order to take away all mentions of virtual finland in wikipedia pages. Virtualfinland.fi was an old site of The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and that site is called now thisisFINLAND.fi. Some of the now existing links go to the articles which dont exist anymore. I try to find new articles from thisisFINLAND.fi to put to these links.
I actually had one problem, didn't know how to change references -sections. When I put edit, the window is empty, there is no text. Can you help me with that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Poulie (talk • contribs) 07:53, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Poulie, thank you for your e-mail. The most likely reason for the references not being under the 'References' section is that the page in question is using the inline citation & footnotes system, where the section will probably look like this:
===References==
{{reflist}}
- The actual references are in the actual body of text, as in the example code below:
===The Sun and the Moon==
The Sun is pretty big,<ref>Miller, E: ''The Sun'', page 23. Academic Press, 2005.</ref>
but the Moon is not so big.<ref>Brown, R: "Size of the Moon", ''Scientific American'', 51(78):46</ref>
The Sun is also quite hot.<ref>Miller, E: ''The Sun'', page 34. Academic Press, 2005.</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
- Below is how this would look in the article, once you had previewed or saved your edited section:
The Sun and the Moon
The Sun is pretty big,[1] but the Moon is not so big.[2] The Sun is also quite hot.[3]
References
- In order to find a particular reference from the list, make a note of its number on the list, then look for the corresponding number in the main text. When you have found it, you need to go to that section and edit it there.(as in the ‘The Sun and the Moon’ section in the example above)
- I hope this makes sense to you.
- Please let me know if I can help you further.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 17:23, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Type heading text here
Thanks a lot , yes it helped. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Poulie (talk • contribs) 10:51, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Mexico City article
Marek69,
Thank you very much for your message.
I am glad there is someone out there verifying the content of Wikipedia articles.
Regards,
ElEditordeWiki (talk) 01:04, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for the greeting, Marek! 72.164.134.59 (talk) 00:59, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
- You're welcome. I hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia! -- Marek.69 talk 01:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the cookies!
Thanks for your welcome and the cookies, Marek! I constantly forget to sign my posts with four tildes, so it's very nice of you to remind that. Other than that, I don't have any issues at the moment, but if I ever do, it's good to know I can address myself to a more experienced user like you. Thanks again! Goodcoin (talk) 10:12, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
- You're very welcome Goodcoin. Enjoy you time here on Wikipedia. If you need any help, you know where to find me.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 22:52, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the nice welcome
I'm completely new to this and it's nice to be welcomed whilst I'm still trying to get my footing. Maybe you could help me with something that I'm sure is probably very easy and obvious.... My alterations/additions to web pages are almost always going to be in the Arabic language and regarding correcting the spelling of proper place names. I'm a serious bookworm and have all of the sources/references and evidences for my changes handy but don't yet know how to link them in (by putting a number after my entry for example that would take one to the correct reference). Also, changing the spelling as the header on a page and then putting in a re-route for anyone typing in a common misspelling of the name. I'm sure all of this information is here but I have strict time restraints so it's taking a while. Sorry to natter on but thanks again and any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Peace! Khaadimone (talk) 00:56, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Khaadimone, thankyou for your message. You may find your answer in the section above.
- This article: Wikipedia:Citing sources covers the subject in greater detail.
- If you get stuck, please come back.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 01:02, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Stockholm
I've seen plenty enough here, and have semi'd the article indefinitely. Mjroots (talk) 21:22, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks Mjroots, this is typical Historian19 behaviour and I have just submitted a report to SPI.
- Cheers -- Marek.69 talk 21:25, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome
I've used Wikipedia for a long time, but am new to editing. Just thought I'd correct a couple capitilization (sp?) mistakes, and suggest a couple new article links to some notable artists. Please let me know if I'm doing it incorrectly, I'm not too sure about the "wiki mark ups."
p.s.the cookies were a nice touch in this online digital age.
my best Arthistorian1872 (talk) 02:33, 14 March 2010 (UTC)Arthistorian1872 (did I do that right? (don't feel obliged to answer))
- Hi Arthistorian1872, thank you for the message.
- From what I can see, your edits are fine. :-)
- I hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 02:36, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
editing / Ska Cubano
Hi - I have what may be quite a difficult question : is it legitimate to quote published sources on a topic when the ultimate source of the information in them is himself the contributor / editor ? My problem is that I created a band, relating to which I have given many interviews (several published in/by , e.g. , major newspapers, the BBC) and have written articles, press releases and sleeve notes which are the basis, directly or indirectly for virtually all the information in the public domain (apart from fan comments and blogs, photos and videos etc )relating to the band. I have recently edited the wikipedia page based on these "verifiable " sources, sticking strictly to factual information and avoiding self-promotion. Am I permitted to do this? Would it be better if I asked someone else to author the changes?
thanks Sengleani (talk) 11:05, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Sengleani, thank you for your message. Hmm...the answer to this question in not entirely black-and-white.
- The guideline article Wikipedia:Conflict of interest covers this in the ‘Citing oneself’ section, stating:
- ‘Editing in an area in which you have professional or academic expertise is not, in itself, a conflict of interest. Using material you yourself have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is notable and conforms to the content policies. Excessive self-citation is strongly discouraged. When in doubt, defer to the community's opinion.’
- At the same time Wikipedias:No original research ‘Citing oneself’ section states:
- ‘This policy does not prohibit editors with specialist knowledge from adding their knowledge to Wikipedia, but it does prohibit them from drawing on their personal knowledge without citing reliable sources. If an editor has published the results of his or her research in a reliable publication, the editor may cite that source while writing in the third person and complying with our neutrality policy.’
- In my opinion, I think you should ‘err on the side of caution’ and start a new discussion section on the articles talk page, openly explaining the situation and providing the references you have. Another (independent) editor may decide to incorporate this into the article. If this happens then you can avoid any accusations of ‘conflict of interest’ against you.
- If you do decide to add these references yourself, and it appears by the above guidelines you are permitted, I would also be open and explain the situation on the talk page, quoting the above guidelines, but keeping the citations to a minimum to satisfy the ‘excessive self-citation is strongly discouraged’ part.
- I hope this helps
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 01:37, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
The vandal
Is cutting and pasting Balinese page into Jakarta page - I think its straight to vandal page SatuSuro 02:37, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks Suro, I've reverted the article to last good version by user:Caniago.
- I notice you've given the IP a final warning. Please report them if they repeat their behaviour.
- Regards -- Marek.69 talk 02:41, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Re: Welcome
Dziękuję za miłe powitanie :) Mam zamiar pomóc trochę Wikipedii angielskiej, więc gdy będę miał jakieś pytania, to się zgłoszę, dziękuję za zaoferowaną pomoc. Widzę, że dobrze mówisz po polsku, dlatego też odpowiadam w tym języku. Czy jesteś Polakiem, bądź masz polskie korzenie, że nasz język znasz na poziomie równym z użytkownikiem ojczystym? ;) Pozdrowienia, AdSz (talk) 14:08, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
- Cześć AdSz, tak jestem Polakiem, ale urodzony i mieszkającym w Anglii. Mówię nie źle po Polsku, rozumiem więcej, ale pisać poprawne to trudniejsze. Dużo łatwiej jest mi pisać po angielsku, tak, więc pomagam na Wikipedii angielskiej. Też czasami tłumaczę Polskie artykuły na język Angielski (odwrotnie jest mi dużo trudniej!)
- Jeśli masz jakieś pytania o Wikipedii angielskiej, prześlij je proszę do mnie to pomogę, jeśli zdołam:-)
Translation
Hi Marek! How are you? I'd like to ask you a question. I've found a page in English and I want to translate into another language. How to create the new page for the translation? Thank you in advance, Annarapo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Annarapo (talk • contribs) 18:36, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Annarapo, thank you for your message.
- Hi if you are starting a new page, I would advise that do so in your own userspace to start with.
- You could create User:Annarapo/Sandbox or User:Annarapo/Article1 or whichever name you like. (Click on one of the red links on the right to start editing that article).
- If the finished article is going to be in another language, you'd probably be better off starting it in your userspace on that particular language version of Wikipedia - same principle just add /ArticleName after the name of your userpage on that wiki.
- That way you can work on the article without interruption and when it is ready to go into the mainspace it is relatively easy to move the article over.
- You may find some useful tips on the subject in this article: Wikipedia:Your first article
- If you require further help, please come back to me.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 16:05, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you!
Dear Marek69, thank you a lot for a warm reception! =) Yana Mazul (talk) 09:59, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Yana Mazul, thank you for your message.
- You're very welcome. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy your time here. :-)
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 15:40, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks
Sorry, thank you so much!--79.23.144.237 (talk) 15:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, thank you for your message.
- Welcome to Wikipedia.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 15:40, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Welcoming
Why are you welcoming IPs, banned users, and users who haven't edited in a very long time? Are you using some kind of bot? Gigs (talk) 23:25, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Gigs, thank you for your message.
- As far as I am aware, I am not welcoming ‘banned users and users who haven't edited in a very long time’. Could you please provide me an example of this? -- Marek.69 talk 00:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
- Regarding welcoming IPs, is there any problem doing this?
- I am not using a bot, I'm using Friendly. Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 00:08, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
- User talk:Agent Smith (The Matrix) is a banned sock that hasn't edited in a long time. There's no policy against welcoming IPs with templates, it's just not a very useful thing to do IMO, and most people don't do it. I mean, if we, as a community, wanted everyone to get a automatic welcome template, we'd just have the software generate one when they made their first edit, or authorize it as a bot.
- Anyway, after reviewing the edits more carefully, it does look like the Agent Smith thing was more or less isolated. I had used popups and seen you welcoming users with a small number of edits that had registered years ago, I just assumed they were all like Agent Smith, when in fact all the rest I checked had indeed made a recent edit. Gigs (talk) 01:15, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
- Gigs, I first noticed User talk:Agent Smith (The Matrix) yesterday when looking at the edit history of my user page. I notice this particular user had reverted some vandalism on the page. Their last few edits were using WP:Huggle reverting vandalism and seemed like constructive edits to me. These edits were on 13 January 2010, two months ago, which I do not consider a long time to take a break. At the time I was unaware that they were a sockpuppet, otherwise I would not have welcomed them.
- I normally welcome IPs after carefully reviewing their first edits. If they are constructive, I leave them a welcome message containing useful links such as The five pillars of Wikipedia, How to edit a page, How to develop articles, How to create your first article and Manual of Style and offer my help if needed. I do not believe a bot could do all this. Also in the welcome message I encourage the user to create an account and emphasise the benefits of doing so. If the new IPs edits are not so constructive I leave them the appropriate message or warning. I believe I am providing a useful service with a net benefit to Wikipedia. If you review the contents of my talk page (and archives) for replies back from these IPs you may reconsider your position.
- You state that the Agent‘ Smith thing was more or less isolated’. Do you have any further examples you wish to bring to my attention? I would be happy to discuss these instances. If they are simply mistakes, then please accept my apologies.
Question about editing
I received a message saying that a change I had made to a page was 'reverted' as it was unnecessary. Are you tracking users via IP address or login identity? The page was one I have never seen nor have no interest in editing. What gives? Another user at this IP address? Thanks! R —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.214.112.251 (talk) 05:46, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi R, thank you for your message.
- If you do not have an account on Wikipedia, and edit anonymously you are identified by your IP address, i.e. 71.214.112.251
- The message you refer to was from the 4 March 2010, so it could be that someone else had the 71.214.112.251 IP address at the time.
- If you have never edited the page in question, please ignore the message.
- It is very likely that you have a dynamic IP address, which means it could be different every time you turn your computer on, so on 4 March it could have been allocated to someone else.
- If you are considering editing Wikipedia, I would recommend that you create an account. This has many benefits, the least of which is avoiding situations, like this.
- In short please ignore this particular message, delete it if you wish. If you have any further questions please come back to me.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 18:43, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I am contacting you because you are listed as a participant for WikiProject Norway, and the above-mentioned article is sourced by all Norwegian-language references. Moreover, the references do not appear to support notability; they might be mere trivial references to the subject. Since these sources are all offline, and I do not speak or read Norwegian, I'm hoping whether you can assist me in determining whether the article qualifies for speedy deletion. Many thanks! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 12:59, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi CobaltBlueTony, thank you for your message. I would happy to help you if I could. Unfortunately my knowledge of the Norwegian language is very little, so I am really in the same position as you, as far as being able to accurately validate Norwegian language references.
- I'm sorry I can't help and hope you find a Norwegian speaker who can. Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 18:51, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for your response! - CobaltBlueTony™ talk 12:46, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
"Welcome"
Well Marek69, i'm a user of Wikipedia a very time, in english, spanish and portuguese, but, thanks for this, please, visit my page in portuguese Wikipedia: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usu%C3%A1rio:D%C3%A1lmata, i´m brazilian, from the capital Brasilia, visit this link too! Bye, or in portuguese, "até mais". Dálmata (talk) 23:37, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Also from me about Welcome
Hey Marek69, like the user above me, I'm also writting for almost 3 years - on the Hebrew Wikipedia; & sometimes when I work there - based on articles here on the Ennglish Wikipedia - I add some links to other articles that I see here or correct some minor mistakes here as well. But thanks anyway for your kind welcoming! I wish there were more friendly people like you on Wikipedia :-) Greets, אומנות (talk) 21:47, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi אומנות, thank you for your message. I hope you enjoy your time on English Wikipedia. Please let me know if there is anything I can help you with.
- I will let you know if I will have problems in the future :-) Thanks again for your kind words & desire to help!
Bad Cannstatt
Hello Marek,
I've reverted your revision about the mineral spas. I've also occasionally read in newspapers, thas Europe's second largest spas after Budapest, which is not in Western Europe, are in Bad Cannstatt. Is there perhaps another town, which also claims the second largest spas? Kind regards --Henrig (talk) 08:55, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Henrig, thank you for your message. I assume you are referring to my last edit to the Stuttgart article, titled Reverted 2 edits by Rosh2610; Incorrect edit
- If you look at this diff, you can clearly see the reason for my reversion.
- That was the addition of the following text to the article:
- 000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 08 1 11 000
- end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 08 1 11 000
- end_of_the_skype_highlighting
- This text was added by Rosh2610 (probably by mistake). This was my reason to revert the user's edits. It had nothing to do with the content on spa towns.
- The part reading ‘second only to the ones in Buda, Hungary’ just happened to get caught in the same reversion edit. If this is indeed correct, then thank you for reinstating it.
- I hope this clarifies the situation for you. :-)
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk
Hi Marek, I assume the information correct and have also found some information on the web about like this.[7]. Rosh2610's other addition looks like an accidentally coding. Kind regards --Henrig (talk) 16:18, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi
Hi Marek. I was just wondering if copying onto wikipedia from the CIA World Factbook was allowed. Reply--Theologiae (talk) 13:37, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Theologiae, thank you for your message.
- The CIA World Factbook, as a work of the U.S. government, is in the public domain,[1] so the short answer is yes. Although it is not really good practise to copy word-for-word from anywhere.
- I hope this answers your question.
- Kind Regards -- Marek.69 talk 13:48, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- So that means that it is not advisable, but it can be done. Ok. I was just wondering if there are any restrictions to your copying (I read about the CIA seal, but what does that mean?) Reply--Theologiae (talk) 14:00, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- The heraldic symbol that composes the CIA seal consists of three representative parts: the "right"-facing bald eagle head atop, ("right" facing, since the eagle looks over its "right" shoulder, not the left shoulder) the compass star (or compass rose), and the shield. The eagle is the national bird, standing for strength and alertness. The 16-point compass star represents the CIA's worldwide search for intelligence outside the United States, which is then reported to the headquarters for analysis, reporting, and re-distribution to policymakers. The compass rests upon a shield, symbolic of defense.[2][3]
- Basically its OK to copy from the CIA World Factbook as long as you attribute or reference back to the original text. I would advise to try as much as possible to put it into your own words, rather than copying verbatim
- References
- ^ Directorate of Intelligence. "The World Factbook - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): Can I use some or all of The World Factbook for my Web site (book, research project, homework, etc.)?". Retrieved 2006-09-23.
The World Factbook is in the public domain and may be used freely by anyone at anytime without seeking permission.* * * As a courtesy, please cite The World Factbook when used.
- ^ "What’s the Meaning Behind the CIA Seal?" from the CIA
- ^ "CIA Seal" by Etchstar
Hi
Thanks for your welcome message. Actually I'm not new here but thanks anyway. At hr.wiki I'm sysop. Here on en.wiki I'll correct or add IW for articles written on hr.wiki. Regards :-)--Bracodbk (talk) 12:46, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Bracodbk, thank you for your message. I thought I'd welcome you to the English Wikipedia.
- Please let me know if there is any thing I can do to assist.
Blanking a page
Hi, you just told me off for blanking a page (Mao Asada), but I didn't actually mean to blank it, I just wanted to add one sentance to a section of the article. There is obviously some problem, because when I clicked "save this page" it blanked the whole thing. Not my fault, and I tried submitting my update again and it worked the second time, so I don't know what the problem was. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hellomontana (talk • contribs) 23:46, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Hellomontana, I'm sorry about that. I've now removed my message from your talk page.
Thank you!
Many thanks for your welcome. I have only made some very modest contributions so far, but hope to do more in the future. Thanks again. Froghood (talk) 20:50, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Help
Hey Marek i need help with a page i made. Its St. Pius X school, Chula Vista someone always comes and deletes it all and i always have to undue it. Can you help me get the person to stop.
Spongie555 (talk) 04:47, 25 March 2010 (UTC)