User:Lectonar/Archive 1
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Great to see another person at the Irish wikipedians' notice board!
zoney ♣ talk 11:54, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Sister Fidelma[edit]
- copied from my talk page
Thanks for editing the Sister Fidelma article... it was my first try apart from 'sandbox'-fooling Lectonar
- No problem. I'm sure I read some of those books a while back and seeing it on Detective fiction intrigued me. Would you be able to define some of those Irish legal terms? --Phil | Talk 12:14, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
Speedy deletes[edit]
Remember to check the article history when nominating an article for speedy delete; fx the text at Abe Lincoln in Illinois was completely replaced by a vandal. Happy wiki editing :). Thue | talk 13:55, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Book Version?[edit]
Heh. Oh, it's obvious that WP runs on some bizarre open-source system designed to supplant the most worthy BOOK system. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cat were behind it... :-) Inky 19:05, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Thanks[edit]
Thanks for your support of Ryanair on WP:FAC. CGorman 16:52, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Kleinert[edit]
Hi! As you mentioned that you had Hagen Kleinert as a teacher at university, I wonder if it would be possible for you to rewrite the article from scratch in a way which explains his research and makes its significance somewhat clearer to non-physicists? We could then move the present autobiographical article to user space and avoid that policy problem. / Uppland 12:45, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
NYC Subway stubs[edit]
I see you've been changing some NYC Subway station stubs to rail-stubs. I recently created Template:NYCS-stub for these; you may want to use that. --SPUI (talk) 09:30, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Agreed; that's why I usually just use stub. --SPUI (talk) 09:34, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Danke schon[edit]
Thank you for your message. I have corrected 3 or 4 mistakes in my English page ;-) I do not think that English belongs only to English people re-;-).
You would be welcome in the French Wikipedia. We need foreign contributor. And you French seems to be very good.
I learnt German at school but I was not a good student, I cannot speak or write in German.
Romary 18:38, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
GRider[edit]
Regarding GRider's 'Socratic' VfD nominations and the ensuing reactions by voters, please read and comment on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/GRider2. Thanks. Radiant_* 12:23, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
—[edit]
I was just kidding when I said you needed to get a life. I was referring to the large amount of time you spend adding stub tags. Sorry about that. → JarlaxleArtemis 23:13, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
Re:Starky reverts[edit]
Hi Lectonar - you wrote: I just noticed that you protected several pages geo-stub-sorted by me and reverted by Starky, obviously especially the ones concerning Czechia; is there a problem which I could help to resolve?
- Thanks for the offer, and I'll definitely keep it in mind. At the moment I'm waiting for a developer's investigation of whether User: Starky is a sockpuppet.
- Basically (to cut a long story short), new user User:NoPuzzleStranger starts getting into edit wars to do with European geography articles (notably about the term Czechia) skirting and occasionally exceeding the three revert rule. Then a new user appeared in Wikipedia - User:Starky. His total time on Wikipedia was two hours. During this timey, he created Template:Czech-geo-stub and replaced every use of Template:Czechia-geo-stub with this new template. Finally, he listed Template:Czechia-geo-stub on tfd - to be supported by NoPuzzleStranger. During the following two days NoPuzzleStranger has several times edited and/or reverted the two templates and their associated categories, only to be reverted by one of several other users. In the end I did the only thing I could think of - I protected the original template and category.
- Understandably, if (as I suspect) Starky and NoPuzzleStranger are the same person it'll put a different light on things, so I'm waiting to find out whether that's the case before going any further - but, as I said, I'll keep your offer in mind! Thanks! Grutness|hello?
23:39, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Conas atá tú?[edit]
The Irish wikipedia is in desperate need of contributors. At the moment there is around 5 active wikipedians(or vicipéideoirí in Irish). If you can, come and help us at ga, it doesn't matter your standard of Irish, there are people there to correct it for you. We're at 778 articles at the moment and pushing for 1,000 but it's slow work with so few contributors. So come and help us pleae. Bí ann! - Dalta 22:05, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
- That's grand, don't worry about it. If you ever get a chance in the future, come on over. We'll give you the proper Céad Míle Fáilte. - Dalta 13:30, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your support[edit]
Hi Lectonar! Thanks for supporting my RFA! Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:45, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
lots of edits, not an admin[edit]
Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 17:20, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks![edit]
Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:36, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Tea Sucking[edit]
Please re-visit this discussion. Uncle G 2005-07-01 16:16:21 (UTC)
Crime-book-stub[edit]
Hi Lectonar - the link from the template to the category was fine, but you'd categorised the category into a non-existent parent. It should be fine now. And there's no need for the "sorry to disturb you" business. I'm happy to help :). BTW, I see from your user page we share a common interest - although I haven't read much of Harry Turtledove, I'm also a fan of alternative timeline books (Randall Garrett's "Lord Darcy" series are probably my favourites!) Grutness...wha? 4 July 2005 13:12 (UTC)
- Thanks for that - I've heard good things about The Difference Engine before, so I'll have to try that. Grutness...wha? 4 July 2005 13:28 (UTC)
Büdingen[edit]
folow up from de:User Talk:Hagrid: Ich habe begonnen diesen Artikel aus de: zu Übersetzen, bin aber noch nicht damit fertig. Leider ist mein Englisch so zwischen en-1 und en-2, deshalb meine grammatischen Probleme. Was nun Deine Kritik angeht: Ich habe den de-Artikel massiv auf das wesentliche gekürzt. Warum sollte ich das Rad neu erfinden und bei Null anfangen, gerade wegen meinem schlechten en-2? Das "elaboriert" nehme ich mal als Kompliment (Duden5: differenziert, ausgebildet, hochentwickelt)... :-) Sicher ist Büdingen keine große Stadt, doch Sie ist geschichtlich sicher auch nicht ganz unwichtig. Die zweite Hälfte des Geschichtsabschnitts ist noch nicht übersetzt, daher auskommentiert. Vielleicht komme ich am Wochenende dazu, damit weiterzumachen. Ich hätte auch ganz sicher nichts dagegen, wenn jemand anderes schon mal damit anfängt :-) --Hagrid 4 July 2005 16:50 (UTC)
Antworten auf Benutzer Diskussionen[edit]
Bei Interwiki-Usern antworte ich selbstverständlich auf der Nutzerseite des Talkpartners. Innerhalb einer Sprache halte ich das Pingpong-Spiel aber für verwirrend. Nicht selten habe ich mich bei längeren Diskussionen (an denen ich ursprünglich nicht beteiligt war) verzettelt und den Überblick verloren. Wenn dann noch einer der beteiligten seine Diskussionseite aufräumt, ist das Chaos perfekt. Nach beendeter Diskussion kann man die Benutzer-Diskussion ja wieder aus der Beobachtung nehmen. Du kannst jetzt hierauf gerne hier antworten oder auf Deien de-Seite umziehen, sind beide auf Beobachtung --Hagrid 4 July 2005 16:50 (UTC)
How to use Talk Pages[edit]
You mean like this ? Frelke 7 July 2005 19:08 (UTC)
Uncle G rfa[edit]
Hi - I thought you'd like to know Uncle G has accepted his nomination on WP:RFA. -- Rick Block (talk) July 9, 2005 17:13 (UTC)
Robert Anton Wilson[edit]
Thanks for adding sci-fi stubs, I'm not sure exectly where these books fit, not quite Psychology, not quite Sci-Fi and I did even think of Education in some form. I can't even say it's it's NonFiction. I'd say generally it's 'Futurology Literature' which I can't find in stub lists, only Futorology. Alf 12:04, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
- The following was copied from the above users talk page: "Wise choice, I'll bear those ideas in mind, thanks." Alf 12:17, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Büdingen[edit]
Thanks; I was especially concerned about translating "Gymnasium mit Turnhalle" since "Gymnasium with gymnasium" is more likely to confuse than edify. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 12:16, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
- I like it a lot; I've lived here eight years now. I see from Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany#Berlin you live in Reinickendorf, a part of town I know moderately well (I sang in the church choir of Frohnau once). And as you can see from the same page, I live in Moabit. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 12:41, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
wp:tie[edit]
Hi! I see you signed up as a French-to-English translator. There is a big backlog of articles needing translation from French (one of the biggest such backlog we've got) at Wikipedia:Translation into English. If you'd like to sign up to take on one of these, it would be very welcome. If you have any questions about the process, feel free to ask me or Jmabel, --Wonderfool t(c) 10:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
Battle of Soissons(486) translation[edit]
Thanks! — Itai (f&t) 13:28, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
{{Broadway-stub}}[edit]
I'd like to invite you to revisit the deletion discussion for this stub, as I have made a post which I hope may address your concerns, and I would appreciate your continued input. EvilPhoenix talk 17:32, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
{{Bio-book-stub}}[edit]
About {{Bio-book-stub}}, you may be right. I started with the boilerplate, and when that seemed unclear, added to it instead of altering it. Thanks. DES 14:34, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
- I've edited the text a bit, see if it seems better now, please. DES 16:24, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Re: Silvia Neid[edit]
Sorry, I intended to do it that night and got distracted. I am positive your English is better than my German (I'm badly out of practice, and was never as fluent as I wanted to be), so I'd encourage you to do the translation, as you suggest. :-) I'm happy to look it over after you've done your work (which was excellent on Tina Theune-Meyer, as I recall). Thanks for being willing! Jwrosenzweig 23:04, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
A Query[edit]
I am pretty new to Wikipedia, and constantly both learning and astonished. I cannot quite make it all out - like the world, it is probably a mystery.
More specifically - how did you pick up and welcome user:Eliot Stearns? Since he wrote an article on the Wiener Library it seems entirely appropriate but how did it happen? Was that also 'chance.'
I am looking for help with developing the article on Hannah Arendt and synchronistically checked to see if there was an article on the library as part of my attempt to make contact with Margaret Canovan who did the introduction to the English edition of Arendt's : "The Human Condition."
I came to your page to find who it was that had welcomed 'eliot_stearns' and find there a reference to WP:CSB which is a major concern of mine! Still of greater interest to me is synchronicity. Jeffrey Newman 08:03, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
A Welcome[edit]
I would like to to thank you for your kind welcome, although i cannot help but wonder if there is a hidden message - the one time i post something about a halfway serious topic, someone notices me.
I would also like to thank you for the information you provided, i thought typing out name and date stamps every time was a little tedious... Grey Area 14:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Geo-stub and political[edit]
Cunningham, Queensland Electoral District you converted a stub from generic stub to Category:Australia geography stubs I'm not sure I agree. Electoral districts in Australia have boundaries that move every few years, and have no significance other than being the pool of voters from which a member is elected to arliament. Not asying it is wrong, just not sure it is appropriate. There is a Category:Electoral divisions of Australia but it is not applicable as it covers Commonwealth rather than state seats. Also Oz geo-stubs is overloaded. Alex Law 10:53, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
categorized deletion[edit]
Hi - you wrote: since the breakup into dayly portions, it isn't in one place any more and second: I see categorized deletion as much as an, ok let's call it an editing tool as stub-sorting; getting the right people to look at the right things
I see your point... I guess I think of it as still being in one place because of the way I use it - I go to WP:VFD and click on the latest day, then go back through the previous few days by simply changing the last digit of the page's name. It does have an advantage over a category in that you can see what items are new, though. Grutness...wha? 01:08, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome[edit]
Wie gehts? Thanks for the welcome on my talk page! Bis dann...Phgao --Phgao 13:42, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Edit: I have a question. If i want to make a new page, how do i do that? Normally i search and nothing comes up and it says i can make a new page. But when i search this particular phrase stuff comes up but which does not relate to what i want to write. Help needed!
answered on user's talk-page Lectonar 07:40, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations[edit]
...on the rite of passage that is your first userpage vandalism! Had I known perhaps I would have left it for you to clean up yourself. ;-) Side note: that's an impressive collection of languages you have there! Happy editing, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 01:48, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
A question...[edit]
Reading through your comment on Wikipedia talk:sfd, I realised that there has been a gross oversight. No-one seems to have nominated you for admin yet! If you'd be keen to become an admin, I'd be more than willing to nominate you... Grutness...wha? 11:42, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
- Limited computer access is a disadvantage, but there are quite a few admins who don't contribute huge amounts to the janitorial side of wikipedia. I thin if you're doing the sort of work where things like rollback would be an advantage then there might still be a point in you having admin powers. Have a think about it anyway. if you decide not to, that's fine, I'd understand it... maybe one day you'll join the 21st century and get online at home :) Grutness...wha? 13:10, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Hauptschule[edit]
It's an upper elementary school according to Encyclopaedia Brittanica. I hope I haven't misunderstood it. Feel free to fix it if you know more than me, I was just creating a stub. Soo 13:57, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
answered on users talk page
- Oh excellent. It's very satisfying when a stub you've created gets expanded, even slightly. By the way, I see you're involved in translation to/from the German Wikipedia. I think this is one of the most underrated aspects of Wikipedia (since not many people read Wikipedia in more than one language, including me). I would give you a barnstar if only there were a translation one! Soo 14:06, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Thank You for your Welcome ![edit]
I hope to contribute a little bit and wish you happy writing and editing! Cheers, Gego 08:55, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Barnstar[edit]
Thank you! Once I've had enough of creating stubs, I'm going to go back and create decent articles for some stubs. It's amazing that every state, county, town and village in America has an article to itself while we are still missing articles for lots of major African cities. I will investigate that translation barnstar too as you surely deserve one. Soo 10:39, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro[edit]
Thank you sorting out the stub reference on Anta Grande do Zambujeiro. You only did one mistake, Evora is in Portugal not in Spain, at least the last time I checked they hadn’t invaded yet. :) Since you’re an expert in early history could you please check, this article Almendres Cromlech for errors. Thank you. João Correia 13:31, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
- I included the wikilinks you said on the Almendres Cromlech. Also added a few pic on the Anta Grande do Zambujeiro, when i have time i will add some more info. Thank you for your feedback.João Correia 14:21, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
- I have filled up Anta Grande do Zambujeiro with some more info, can you please, when you have time, take a look a it? Has for the Ceíde Fields if you show me where to find some info on them I will gladly write a few lines on them.João Correia 00:00, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
answered on users talk-page
Gutten Tag,Hello ou Bonjour[edit]
- Bon visiblement on partage bcp de langue nous deux lol
Donc si tu veux tu peux me changer les liens(sur ma page perso) pour qu'ils puisse pointer sur le wiki français je vais creer une catégorie spéciale pour le wiki anglais avec mes contributions sinon il est où les rainbow flag chez vous :p??
Goldensun 11:37, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
- answered on users talk page
- Voilà c'est fait j'ai même mis un lien vers mon wiki Français et les articles auquel j'ai beaucoup contribués sinon j'ai une grosse question d'anglais je comprends pas la différence entre les 2 articles : Touch football (rugby league) et touch rugby
Goldensun 23:40, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
How can I delete a accidently created page[edit]
Hi Lectonar,
Thanks for the welcome, but as you can see I have already one question regarding a page that accidently created by miss spelling the word matrix MALDI marix I created a new page called MALDI matrix and the page MALDI marix is now redundent. I would appreciate if you could leave me a message on my Talk page.
Thanks for your help JOK 19 Aug 2005
answered on users talk page
Stubs[edit]
Thank you for the stub help! Don't know why I didn't look there before...just lazy, I guess. :) ADeveria 14:23, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Check this out[edit]
Hallo, wie Geht’s? Ich habe einen problem: I speak little German…. too little, but I managed to make a rough translation into English of a German fragment taken from the back cover of an album released by an Icelandic band. I need you to check whether my translation is accurate or not.
Here is the text in German:
Gemäss der Verordung des Reichspräsidenten vom 28. Februar 1933 ist die Verteilung aller ausländischen Veröffentlichungen der politisch-psychologischen Reiche der Verleger für Sexualpolitik (Verlag für Sexualpolitik, Kopenhagen, Dänemark, ebenso, Prag, Tchechoslowakei und Zürich, Schweiz) im Reich bis auf weiteres verboten.
Here is how I translated it: According to the order by the Reich’s president on February 28, 1933 the distribution of all foreigners publications about the physiologic politics of the Reich editor for the sexual politics (Editorial for sexual politics, Copenhagen, Denmark, the same as Prague, Czechoslovakia and Zurich, Switzerland) has been so far forbidden in the Reich.
That’s it. I will add this text to the article The Fourth Reich with further explanations of its meaning. Aufwiedersehen mein Freund! Luis María Benítez 18:36, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
answered on user's talk page
- Vielen Dank! and tahnks for your kind comments about my German. I've found you through the category "Wikipedians of Germany", then I chose one at random mode and you were the one! I will modify the article soon. Thanks a lot again. Regards, Luis María Benítez 19:21, 25 August 2005 (UTC)