User talk:Mvdleeuw

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William III of England & Photo Alt Text[edit]

Earlier today, I made a change to the ALT text on the William III of England article and was also reverted. Afterwards, I did a quick search and found this at WP:ALT:

Alt text is meant for readers who cannot see an image.
It summarizes the image's appearance, not its meaning, and typically has little in common with the image's caption.
Every image should have alt text, unless the image is purely decorative and does nothing when you click on it.

I never would have thought this was the case since on most websites the alt text so often just repeats the caption. Nonetheless, the above is the policy at Wikipedia. I guess we both learned something today. Happy editing! — Spike Toronto 08:11, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed we did. Thank you! Mvdleeuw (talk) 12:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dutch windmills[edit]

I've notice that you've been making a few improvements to various articles about Dutch windmills. I'm guessing from your username that you are Dutch. We have a WikiProject covering mills worldwide at WP:MILLS which you are welcome to join. If you feel up to tackling the backlog of uncreated windmill articles please feel free to do so. Mjroots (talk) 08:37, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You guess was correct ;-). I think I'll join the project, but for the time being I shall limit myself to making minor corrections. Mvdleeuw (talk)

French empire[edit]

Regarding your recent revert of my edit in the George V article, please see this.--Alexandru Demian (talk) 13:17, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Bijleveld (Rhoon)[edit]

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not notable, no inline references, deleted at the very inclusive nl.wiki, where it was even identified as a hoax (see edit history)

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Doesburgermolen[edit]

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Tried to fix! --Tito Dutta ✉ 12:37, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tnx, I should have noticed that. Mvdleeuw (talk) 17:00, 19 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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