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1911 Britannica articles about Polish villages

Replied at the noticeboard page - tnx!--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 04:22, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

"Mega Man XD"

Many thanks for bringing that to my attention. It was, indeed pure nonsense, exsisting only for chilish purposes. I've it up for deletion, and I encourage you to vote it for speedy deletion. This garbage must be eliminated as quickly as possible. -Zero^Talk 09:38, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

On a side note, may I inquire how you "located" my talkspace to post that comment..? I'm deeply sorry, but I don't recall ever coming across you before. It is nice to meet you however. :)-Zero^Talk 15:06, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

I came across your comments on The Wookieepedian's talk page last year, when I was having fun watching the Copperchair disaster. Not knowing anything at all about Mega Man, my brain managed to remember your username in association with that. Oh, and it is a pleasure to meet you as well. Kusma (討論) 15:41, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

User:Copperchair's rfar has finally been completed, and he is banned from Star Wars and War on terror articles. I am simply amused by the fact it took such a long duraration of time for this decision to come about. -Zero^Talk 15:47, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

AfD

Thanks - didn't know of the AfD category convention. The rest of the cleanup and spelling correction looks in order. --Ian Pitchford 21:28, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

It's not a big deal in this case, because the page will (I hope) be deleted anyway. Sorry if I sounded overly harsh, but if people do this thing a lot (and with computer help) we'll end up with many pages that shouldn't be deleted but are in the deletion category because people who close AfD's won't remove the category. Kusma (討論) 21:34, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Re: my copy and paste instead of using a "move"

I didn't know about the move option - thanks for the info - will use next time. Before it is fixed though, I should point out that what I intended really is not a move but a fork. This is because the original edit to the "David Gill" page on or around the 3 February 2006 by "Consulrjo" overwrote the biography of a historical "David Gill" (I assume accidently) with that of another contemporary individual named "David Gill". Pi lambda 02:47, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Babe Ruth

I'm posting this message on you Talk Page either because you've contributed to the article Babe Ruth, or because you've edited other baseball or sports related articles. I've recently completed a revision of this article at Babe Ruth/rewrite. If you have the time, I'd appreciated it if you'd compare the articles and leave any feedback you might have on the rewrite discussion page. I'd like to reach a consensus before making major changes to the main article. Thanks for your help. --djrobgordon 20:07, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Georg Forster and its peer review

I added the article to the Wikipedia:Peer review page. Let's see how people will react to that. alx-pl D 17:22, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Perfect :-) alx-pl D 18:44, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Idiot Funt

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page by User:Comment34343! Regards, Canley 06:01, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

{{Capmv}}

Hi, I changed the wording at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen to point to {{db-histmerge}}. If you're not happy with it, please let me know on my talk page or at the tfd page (and if you are, I'd urge you to change your vote at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 February 5#Template:Capmv). Thanks. - Bobet 18:42, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok thanks. The biggest part of the problem about all of these pages seems to be that the instructions are partially duplicated in many places and the best instructions were hard to find (the actual tagging of the pages is a pretty simple one- or two-part process but it was very hard to find). I've tried to make it a bit easier by adding the instructions for users at Wikipedia:History merge and linking to that from the most obvious places WP:CSD, WP:MOVE and m:Help:Moving a page. - Bobet 20:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

And I would agree that the instructions about moving the pages etc. are needlessly complex (since there aren't that many things non-admins can do). The problem again is that there are several instructions floating around. WP:MOVE and Help:Moving a page aren't even linked to from the main help contents. They only link to Wikipedia:History merge and yet another page called Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages. I guess this is what happens when everyone can also edit the help pages :(. Hopefully someone will eventually look at them, but the whole thing's too big of a mess for me right now. - Bobet 20:17, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Why do you

Removed sourced quotes from Georg Forster article ? They were to be put and I hoped the article could be neutral. Yet again the mention of his racist views was put to minimum, I hoped that after seeing several scholary sources the article could become more neutral by your edits. I am very dissapointed that you try to present an one sided view of this person and his influences on German prejudices.I hope this will be corrected and sourced information won't be deleted. --Molobo 00:51, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Translation pages

Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I will drop by and help as much as I can. By the way, good work with the maths articles. I need to read more!.Blnguyen 08:02, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Francis Wedge

Brookie here - you might be interested to see the above Brookie :) - a collector of little round things! ^(Talk!) 11:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of untranslated articles at WP:PNT

Ya, I saw the discussion on the talk page, but didn't really have much to add to your last comment in there. Right now prod is pretty much a backdoor way of deleting things and I figured putting things on afd is better, since it gives people time to come up with objections on the talk page of PNT.

In the future prod would be a great place to put the untranslated pages though, since they always end up being uncontested deletions. If it comes to that, it'd also be good to put a clear notification that the process has been changed on the PNT page a few days before the first articles get prodded (in case someone from there wants to find an article listed for deletion). - Bobet 00:33, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I read it since WP:PNT is on my watchlist, I just haven't seen anything there that I'd disagree with so haven't really had any reason to comment there. And about prod: I don't really think it's a great process in most cases, but it would be perfect for the pages from PNT, since the only way anyone would contest them is if they were actually translated. But I do agree that it's better to wait for a while so that more people can get comfortable with prod first. - Bobet 01:04, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

German wikipedian's notice board

Since it is much needed, I created the Wikipedia:German_Wikipedians'_notice_board. - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) File:UW Logo-secondary.gif 02:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

That's great news - tnx for telling me about it. There will always be some revert-related posts and requests, but as vast majority of users of any nationality are sensible Wikipedians, I don't think your board is at risk from trolls and revert warriors - assuming that it will be frequented by majority of German wikipedians, and not dominated by some outcast group. One thing that we have discovered fairly recently and enjoy is Portal:Poland/New_article_announcements - you may want to create German new article annoucement subpage. It's a lot of fun :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 03:53, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about it. One way to find people in Germany, of course, is Category:Wikipedians in Germany. Another way is Category:User de-N, though of course there will be Austrians and Swiss there too. Angr/talk 05:35, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Michael sogny

Kusma, I appreciate your clarification on translating relating to the Michael sogny article. I did read that portion, however since it stated not to utilize machine translation for "creation" of an article for sizable portions, and the article was already created and was very minimal in content compared to standard Wiki pages...guess I wasn't aware that the scope entailed the translation I had performed. However, I'll duly note this procedure, and thank you for bringing it to my attention. Netkinetic 06:44, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks (SW WikiProject)

Thanks for the comment. Do you suggest that I remove any template images until a later date? Or may I keep them on for now? Deckiller 23:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Srotac

That article definately needs to be merged with List of minor Star Wars characters. I wish people would learn that we don't need a separate article for every single frikkin character! :) The Wookieepedian 22:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

RE:Lacroma.

I have updated the information onLacroma and hope that it is up to standard now. Anyway, thank you for pointing out the outdated information to me. In the future, I will do my best to correct the information. Please feel free to comment on my contributions if there are other outdated or incorrect information. I will rectify the problem as soon as possible. Siva1979 06:33, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank You for your encouragement! Siva1979 06:42, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

got a little problem here

thanks for the tips, man. but anyway i noticed this guy "Jiang" who might be an admin on here postin very biased edit plus spreading hate toward people with certain political belief and ethinic backgrounds plus he has very disturbing pictures on his talk page so anyway i was wondering if you can block him or maybe just report it —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Freestyle.king (talk • contribs) 07:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

um..yeah

seems like i don't have to help jiang with restoring the picture haha. he luv the picture so much he restored himself. but did u read jiang's editin history? he is such a radical person (no disrespect) especially in taiwan-china issues, it's kinda hard to believe ppl like him become admin <sighs> but anyway i still find the picture disturbin..one last thing, do you know how admin are chosen? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Freestyle.king (talk • contribs) 07:34, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Forsters

I spotted the article on Therese yesterday when I was translating the article on Forster to Polish. In fact, I miss some information about the children in the Polish translation, because it is crucial to know the gender of the children to phrase the translation smoothly. I'll dig a bit on her biographies. It seems she might have been crucial for German feminism. alx-pl D 15:20, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, I'm not willing to attribute feminism to her before there is a good evidence that she was significant figure for that movement. alx-pl D 19:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Maybe you have an access to this book. It contains an article on Therese Huber. I've got access to this article: Romanpoetik und Weiblichkeitsdiskurs : zur Bedeutung der Kategorie gender im Romanverständnis von Therese Huber und Johanna Schopenhauer by Angelika Schlimmer, but I have to make a small excursion to get that. alx-pl D 17:29, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

More on Therese:

• [1]
• [2]
• [3]
• [4] (I guess the pictures are PD)

alx-pl D 17:42, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Silbermann

Thanks for pointing this out, Kusma. I have a couple reference sources on Silbermann as piano builder, and will give this a try next time I edit (which I only do on Sundays...). Opus33 07:53, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Annie_Emily_Lawrence

Hi Kusma The original author of the article hasn't responded to your delete proposal. I think it should stay because of her role in Tasmanian history and the usefullness the information could be for local historians. Mccready 16:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

WP:RFA/Quarl

Hi Kusma, thanks for your encouraging support in my RFA, which succeeded. If I can ever improve or help in any way, please let me know! :) —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-02-16 11:37Z

Lucien the Librarian

Hi Kusma. Thanks for the warm welcome. If I can help with a particular article, feel free to ask. Lucien the Librarian 18:18, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks!

Thank you! Hello Kusma, and thank you for your support in my request for adminship! It passed with a final count of 98/2/0. If there is anything I can do to help you, please leave me a message on my talk page! -- xaosflux Talk

Georg Forster and Cook

Hello Kusma. I got your note on my talk page responding to my mention of Georg Forster's scientific work. I'm sorry to have taken so long to respond. My expertise on Forster is narrow (relating to his work on Cook's expedition), but I will make a few small edits. I have not had time to compose exactly the changes, but will do so soon. Cheers.--MayerG 14:16, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Lübeck churches

Hello Kusma, though visiting en:WP once in a while I did not realize that there were stubbs on Marienkirche and Lübeck Cathedral "in the air". The link set from Lübeck to Marienkirche was the message. The reason was, that the stubbs were not categorized at all. I think the proper category is most important, if you want to expand a stubb, I think this a message for the message board. I fixed that and did the wikilinks on the stubbs, so that who ever is to do the translation, will find the artists and organists available in en:WP. We are still working on de:Lübecker Marienkirche, but it takes some time to write the "underarticles" on artists, priests and patrons for the links. We hope to be "exzellent" in fall 2006.--Kresspahl 13:57, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you!

Thank you!

Hi Kusma. On behalf of my right eye, I'd like to thank you for giving me your support on my recent RfA. It ended with a final tally of (73/2/2) and therefore I have been installed as an administrator now, and I'm ready to serve Wikipedians all over the world with my newly acquired mop and bucket. If you have any questions, do not hestitate to forward them to my talkpage. Once again, thanks for your support. SoothingR 20:20, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Cool bit of trivia you put up there today. --Mmounties 02:25, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Glad you like it :-) Kusma (討論) 03:03, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

German portal and noticeboard

Thanks for drawing my attention to this - allow me to congratulate you on your almost singlehanded efforts to get it up and running. I was in fact already familiar with it, but I have deliberately not been listing my new articles there for the present, and I wonder if without any offence intended I could ask you to respect that (as a purely temporary measure)? I do have a particular reason for asking this, which I would be quite happy to explain in an e-mail. The portal and noticeboard are extremely useful things and I look forward in the near future to becoming more involved with them. All best wishes, Staffelde 18:02, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox Swiss town

Hi Kusma, I was wondering whether I could ask you to support my request for larger font size on the Swiss town info boxes by plating a post in favor on the above page. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks for your help. --Mmounties 18:36, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Looks like we're going to get the same font we have in the Infobox Town DE before you even had the chance to chime in.  :) I only left ten messages with people and 7 responded within an hour or two. I'm flabbergasted. Good to know though. --Mmounties 23:09, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I saw there were enough people on your side already and I didn't have anything intelligent to say, so I decided not to say "me too". Kusma (討論) 23:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree. It wasn't necessary. Better to save it for when it is.  :) Thanks. --Mmounties 00:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

German Expulsions

I would like to invite you to look at this new version of the article I wrote, and to help me with any info you can, including on what could be, or should be, merged with it: Expulsion of Germans after World War II/new

I hope to receive your input soon. --L.A.F. 09:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

ÖFA

I took the speedy tag off this as it didn't seem like that crazy a typo, more like switching horse mid-stream for the polyglot... Austrian Football Association -> ÖFA. But it would have been the first thing I deleted from outside the standard twenty-six of the western monolingual, so I was a bit disappointed.
brenneman^{T}{L} 12:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, the author created it by mistake and asked for it to be deleted. I put a new speedy tag explaining this on the article. Kusma (討論) 13:49, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Anniversaries

I like the idea. I'll post my full response on the Portal Talk page. Nice job. --Mmounties 19:24, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

you mean we'd make a page for each day or we'd make a section of the page for the month and your code would call it up? Simple and ingeneous! I like it. It's looking good. And I just checked the Portal page for the last time before heading to dreamland and put my comments there. My favorites are 3 and 4 so if you like 3 best, let's go with that. --Mmounties 06:02, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Prep Sanssouci for FAC

I promised Trebor to help him turn the red links in the Sanssouci article into blue links and work with him to get the article admitted as a FAC. I just put a note on his page asking him to list the red links on the Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board under Requested Articles, but then I was thinking perhaps we'd want to draw special attention to a project like that. I'm not sure how to best do that though. Add a FA/Article improvement drive section? What do you think? --Mmounties 22:55, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I think we should have something like that. For a start, we could try that informally by just adding an entry on the ToDo list of the noticeboard that says "Article Improvement" -- Sanssouci and have a comment on the noticeboard below that directs people to discuss that at Talk:Sanssouci. Once we have many people coming that want their article to be the topic of the Improvement Drive, we can think about making a more formal process. For now, I think linking from the main WP:GSWN page and discussing the Sanssouci article and what needs to be done a bit on the GSWN talk page to create some interest should be enough. I think you should just go ahead and do that. If we need more formal structures for this, we should create a WikiProject Germany, but for now I will concentrate on the Portal page and not start another project. Kusma (討論) 23:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Kusma, I've asked Trebor27trebor to list the needed articles on the Sanssouci Talk page so that we can share the work. If at any time you feel like a break from all the Anniversary pages you're doing and look at someting else it would be terrific if you'd decide to help us with one, two or a few of them. What do you say? --Mmounties (Talk) 04:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

You're the best! --Mmounties (Talk) 04:42, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Carcegna

Thanks for the advice. I found the stub by chance browsing about, and I thought taking out the tag once it was translated was enough. Now I see how it works. Regards! :)--RiseRover|^talk 14:55, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Caucasus Germans article

Hey there. Question: I posted the Caucasus Germans article on the new articles announcements (Mark Lewis translated). I was going to leave a message for him to let him know, but then I wasn't sure anymore whether it really should be there. I think it should considering these Germans emigrated in times past from Germany. What do you think? --Mmounties 00:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Anniversaries

Hey, the way I figure it, the anniversaries are your baby unless you ask for help. I've got more than enough to do. Only added that article to the list because I saw it when I added my latest on the requested translations page for proof-reading. :-) --Mmounties 01:13, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thomas J. Herlihy

Thomas J. Herlihy is not copyrighted material. I am his campaign treasurer. I will therefore revert.Levesque123 03:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

With apologies for the impersonal AWB-ness of the message... Thanks for your support on my recent request for adminship. It passed at 91/1/0, and I hope I can continue to deserve the community's trust. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you, and if I make a mistake be sure to tell me. My talk page is always open. (ESkog)^(Talk) 02:39, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your voting!

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Stubs under new article announcements on the Portal:Germany

Just wanted to get your thoughts on this. I was asked today and now I just saw someone else list stubs under the new articles. I told both the following:

I don't think we want to list stubs as new articles. But it would be great if you could really translate the German articles. That would simply be wonderful. Stubs usually don't give much information and creating them just so we can say the page exists in the en-wiki doesn't help much. It would be better to leave the links red. Don't forget that stubs also take away the chance for our articles to be picked for DYKs on the main page when they are finally completed because they no longer qualify as "new" articles. But we'd love to have your contributions of full translations advertised on the Portal and perhaps picked for DYKs both on the Portal and the Main Page. That would be great.

Both users seemed to think this is reasonable. My thinking is that if we list an article there it should be complete, otherwise we have some people only creating stubs just so they see their name there. Do you agree? --Mmounties (Talk) 01:40, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I think over time the list will probably be a certain length and one week seems to be a reasonable length of time considering people do not necessarily check in every day. We won't be having 3-4 new articles from every contributor every week in perpetuum - it's just not possible. So I imagine when springtime arrives and people spend more time outside it'll shrink a little. But even if it gets a little long at times I think it is a nice little pat on the shoulder and great incentive for people to contribute, giving them a feeling of accomplishment and acknoledgment. If it serves that purpose, I think we're better of continuing as we do now (unless things really, really take of). I agree on the stubs with you: a finally completed stub should be listed, no matter how long it was sitting there as a stub. In essence that IS a new article. --Mmounties (Talk) 06:36, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

German-speaking Wikipedians

Great idea, I'll have a look at it and see what I can do. Thank you. Maybe I will bring up the topic about German political duties. Dreadlady 05:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Elisabeth Church (Marburg), which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 06:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

WOW!!! First thing I saw when I checked in! Congratulations! --Mmounties (Talk) 13:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

yea, I'll keep my eyes open too (I know you are...). We just need to make sure that we really only suggest from brand-new articles since we also list stub expansions as new articles on our list (which is something I really want to encourage since there are so many). Regarding surprise? I think good work is being rewarded with this post on the main page DYK and rightfully so.  :) --Mmounties (Talk) 17:42, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Landeshauptmann

hi Kusma, sorry for my late reply, I've been having major problems with my internet (had to go to a café to check it, etc.. it was all a big mess) but it's been fixed now. I agree with your viewpoint about this case, why delete such an article...? don't see the point. feel free to ask me or send me an email if you have any other questions. with kind regards Gryffindor 14:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA Thanks

Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. (I didn't become an admin until this morning though, so making me an admin before the end of february didn't happen, foiled again). - Bobet 10:22, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Verjnuarmu and Muanpiällinen helevetti

Ya, they were song lyrics, I speedily deleted them, since it's pretty much impossible that the lyrics to songs that were on an album published by Universal Music weren't copyrighted. The Muanpiällinen helevetti article doesn't really need translation either, since it only contains the names of the songs (and as such, I'm about to merge it with the Verjnuarmu article, since there's not much other content).

Cool! It worked!

Just checked the Portal to update the news and perhaps the DYK and saw the new month's article and picture is up. Not that I really doubted it would work... Very nice work! --Mmounties (Talk) 03:20, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

...for reversing that initial (yes! It's a first! I must be gaining prominence!) vandalism on my page. I really appreciate it.  :) --Mmounties (Talk) 03:28, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

ISO

I was redirecting to a disambiguation which includes the IOS, and I'd never heard of the International Organization for Standardization until today, and I wasn't even looking it up when I looked up ISO.--Vercalos 23:54, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Arnošt Lustig

Thank you. I was going to the link to do it but found that you did. Will know the next time.--Dakota ~ ° 03:55, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

It was no bother in the least. Thank you for doing it.--Dakota ~ ° 03:59, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Great idea

The personal sandbox is a great idea. I think I'll add a sandbox to my page as well, and start using it to proofread and correct articles.--Vercalos 08:22, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Sanssouci Picture Gallery, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 13:07, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Carna, Galway

You said on WP:PNT you could rewrite this article in English. Do you still want to do that or should the article be listed on AfD? The article has been sitting there for two weeks now, but a day or two more won't hurt if you need them - just comment at WP:PNT#Carna, Galway when you decide whether you want to do something about it. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 00:26, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I went ahead and rewrote it as a short stub (not too much info available on the village). — TheKMan^talk 04:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Great, thanks! A stub is a big improvement already. Kusma (討論) 04:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

ايرج غفوري

Thanks for fixing that. Sorry you had to do it. Firefox or my fonts are insufficient or I just don't know how. Thanks again.--Dakota ~ ° 05:03, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

PNT Templates

Thanks so much for dropping me a line. That really means so much. I know being able to copy and paste makes reporting so much easier for me (like in afd, or copyvio). Thanks again.--Esprit15d 13:35, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (66/2/3), so I am now an administrator. Please let me know if at any stage you need help, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an admin. Have a nice day! Stifle 17:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Yea, our software release is almost out the door. That more than anything kept me away (although, admittedly, editing wasn't as much fun when I did have time to check in during the last 10 days). But if I stare at the screen all day long until late at night, I just don't have the nerves/brains for this, you know? My percentages? I tripp up over them all the time myself too but I figured, over time, it'll likely get there, so I'm not too worried. I couldn't use 100 (I already had more than that on my list alone) and I didn't feel like taking out a calculator for updating. So this was personal little compromise.  :)

On a different note, I felt bad for you for using the noticeboard to settle this little battle but I felt it was important to insist on a real discussion if for no other reason to get it resolved, once and for all. Now that's done, and actually, I'm quite happy. I feel we've accomplished something. And now I'm cleaning up my own mess and then I'll get on with things. I'm proud of you though. You held up the fort quite nicely there.  :) --Mmounties (Talk) 02:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree, and just link the substantive discussion to the page you created with the standard language. That way it'll be there (and we'll be able to find it ) when we need it. --Mmounties (Talk) 02:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

This user thinks it is ironic that thanks for supporting Cyde's successful RFA came in the form of a userbox.

Here's a userbox for you. --Cyde Weys 04:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

TegaDigital

I noticed that you prodded TegaDigital. Turns out it had been prodded earlier by another editor, so I sent it to AfD as contested. Thought you might want to weigh in. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TegaDigital. NickelShoe 04:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Moritz Cantor

Hello,

I see that your work is in Mathematics. I bow to that. If you feel more confident with the April 9th death date for Cantor, please change it.

Regards, Michael David 15:35, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for the heads-up on a couple of my sources. I will be more cautious.

Be healthy. Michael David 16:06, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hey Kusma, how is it going? Thank you for supporting my Request for adminship! It passed with a final vote of 73/1/1, which means that I have been granted adminship! I look forward to using these tools to enhance and maintain this wonderful site. I will continue regular article/project contributions, but I will also allocate a sizable portion of my wikischedule toward administrative duties :) Thanks again, and if you have any questions/comments/tips, please let me know! — Deckiller 04:26, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Malplaced dab: Daniel debarcle

I didn't end up fixing your Malplaced dab request, and have removed it from the list. The reason is in the history of Malplaced dabs.--Commander Keane 08:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Freiberg Cathedral

Nice job there. Question: do you know where in Boston they copied that Golden Gate? --Mmounties (Talk) 04:44, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately not -- I just copied that from Goldene Pforte, where it was added by an anon with the summary "Mündliche Information", and I couldn't google it. I'll remove it for now as unsourced and unverified. Kusma (討論) 21:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks for participating in my RfA. It passed with a final tally of 98/13/10, just two short of making WP:100. If you need my help with anything, don't hesitate to ask.

Naconkantari e|t||c|m 23:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2 and the reversion of your edit(s)

Hello, Kusma. You may have noticed User:Tawkerbot2 reverted one or more of your edits and perhaps left a message on your talk page. Wikipedia recently experienced a database malfunction, causing Tawkerbot2 to misidentify legitimate edits; hence the reversion of your edit(s) and the message. The bot has been temporarily disabled until the problems are rectified. Thanks. —Wayward ^Talk 19:00, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

After Tawkerbot2 misidentified one of my edits as a blanking, I misidentified (due to the same database problem) his edit on my talk page as a blanking, and so reverted it (that's why this vandalism warning isn't visible here). Kusma (討論) 09:29, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Michael Dierks - German Portal

Thank you very much for making the link to the German Portal. I really appreciate it...and yes, I am thinking about translating more articles. Thank you again.Conciacalis 23:29, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Template:afd2 starter

Thanks for letting me know about the problem. The system doesn't replace simply using "pg=pagename". It's just supposed to be an easier was for new users to finish listings. I've fixed the problem by substing the {{subpagename}} using some sketchy template syntax. Superm401 - Talk 13:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Successful RfA

File:Saguaro2.jpg

Thanks for your support and kind words on my recent RfA, which I am pleased to say passed with a final tally of 80/1/1. If you ever need any help, or if I mess something up as an admin, please let me know. Cactus.man ✍ 07:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Germany

Yeah, I noticed these plans concerning the featured articles, which is why I rv'ed my edit. I just thought that the article about the prince-electors had been there quite a while, so I wanted to replace it.--Carabinieri 21:23, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the translation clarification

I've made the request and hopefully someone will get a chance to do this. (FWIW, it appears that page needs cleanup and removal of completed translations). --Kickstart70·Talk 22:34, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

	Thank you! Thank you for supporting / opposing / vandalising my RFA! The result was 71/3/0 and so I am now still a normal user / an administrator / indefinitely banned. Your constructive criticism / support / foulmouthed abuse has given me something to think about / helped me immensely / turned me into a nervous wreck. If there's any way I can help you in return, please ask someone else / suffer and die / drop me a line! --Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Mr Blanning, thank you for choosing the ACME Auto-thanker! Simply strike out the phrases that do not apply and tear off this strip at the indicated line to give all your supporters and detractors the personalised response they so richly deserve. N.B: DO NOT FORGET TO TEAR THIS BIT OFF, MORON!

former queen of Greece

Hi Kusma, so will you vote to oppose the move from Anna-Marie of Greece to the invalid Queen one?ALEKSANDAR 14:20, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

RfD Catholicism (disambiguation)

Kusma, there is no article that links to Catholicism (disambiguation). It is simply an unnecessary and redundant page. There is no reason not to delete it. --Hyphen5 00:31, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Kusma, and thank you for taking time to vote on my RfA. I understand that my last 6000+ edits were not sufficient to convince everyone that edits like some of my early ones would never be repeated again. Of course, I'll continue working the way I've been since November, and hopefully would develop trust of more wikipedians in future Regards, and I appreciate very much your kind support. deeptrivia (talk) 03:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation of German pages

Hi Kusma, and thanks for your note. I see from your user page that you sometimes translate from German into English. The German Wikipedia is particularly good on opera and we at at the Opera Project are always grateful for help with translating.

There is a list on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera page, under the heading 'Can you help'. One example would be the composer Hans Werner Henze. Regards. - Kleinzach 14:23, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:Jan Tęczyński (1581-1637)

I hope this is better?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 20:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Why, you pay close attention. My goodness. I only just got it up. I needed a break from packing and 3 times losing hours of translation on Kaiserslautern (my sons sent me stuff that opens up in Windows Media Player and when I tried to close it, I closed IE instead. You can imaging how I p-o'd I was with myself the third time it happened!  :-/ ). I just hope I still get it done before I have to go off-line for the move. Hope all is well. --Mmounties (Talk) 06:04, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

	My RfA
	Thank you for supporting/opposing/commenting on my request of adminship, sadly the result was 54/20/7 an thus only 73% support votes, resulting in that the nomination failed. As many of you commenting that I have to few main-space edits, I'll try to better my self on that part. If you have any ideas on what kind of articles I could edit, pleas send me a line. :)	→AzaToth 09:38, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Date templates

Are there more? Could you create a category for them? My full wishlist was here, where people pointed me to the rather comprehensive fr:Catégorie:Modèle calculant une date. What I would like to see most is somthing like {{day+1month}} or {{day+1day}} so constructions like Today is day {{CURRENTDAY}} of {{CURRENTMONTH}} can be paralleled by Tomorrow is day {{day+1day}} of {{day+1month}}. I just need the templates to make sure tomorrow's and next month's Portal:Germany won't have any formatting erros, but I'm sure there's many other uses. Anyway, thanks again. Kusma (討論) 04:39, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I have created {{day+1}}, {{day-1}}, and {{datewarn}} with {{month+1}}, {{daycap}}, {{NextYear}}, {{LastYear}}, {{leapday}}, and {{unleap}} as supporting components. Using {{datewarn}} returns 'December 24, 2024' for the sort of 'one month ahead view' you were talking about. On your wishlist you mentioned an idea to use these to create a view of the Main Page for the next day, which has actually been done at Main Page alternative (tomorrow). The day +/- 1 are also being used to allow forward/backward browsing at Wikipedia:Tip of the day/April 20, 2006 and subsequent dates. Finally, constructions like {{day+1|{{day+1|{{day+1|{{day+1|{{day+1}}}}}}}}}} work (i.e. 'November 29'), but compound the already considerable kludginess of the method. --CBDunkerson 13:20, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

شهاب الدین حبیبی خوزانی

No translated passage from the article was provided on the article's talk page, and as I'm unfamiliar with User:Kirbytime, I don't know whether to trust his judgment on whether the subject is notable or not. As such, I don't think I can back a deletion until I see some input from other users reinforcing that opinion, or a sample of the article to let me exercise my own judgment on the matter. If it were a copyvio or something like that, of course, it'd be another matter entirely. -Colin Kimbrell 21:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree that Dimcomputer is delete-worthy, but I can't really put the two in the same basket (unless the content of Dimcomputer is the English-language equivalent of شهاب الدین حبیبی خوزانی). I just think that a deletion where the majority of editors basically taking the content of the article on faith is too controversial for {{prod}}.-Colin Kimbrell 22:02, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg

Thanks! Until you mentioned it, I didn't know about the Portal Germany; appreciate it! Antandrus (talk) 06:48, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Bishop Minor

thanks for your message and your help. happy to oblige! Pastorwayne 15:22, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism by 194.83.25.10

Hi Kusma. I notice that recently you warned a user IP that if they vandalised another page on wikipedia, that the user would be blocked from editing without further warning. I have just reverted more vandalism by this IP on the Bob the Builder article. I don't know how to refer for blocking in vandalism cases, could you please pass this on to relevant parties or block the user/ip yourself if you have the power to. Thank you. Thor Malmjursson 15:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Sitt Article

I wrote the material myself. I did not realize that if it appeared on my website, I could not contribute it. Or can I? Is there some way to give Wiki pedia a heads up to let them know I am contributing material I have already written and put on my website? Or does Wikipedia not want any material that appears elsewhere on the web? Yours sincerely, Santo Neuenwelt

Sitt Article Revisited

Hello Kusma, I have taken your advice (and that of another Administrator Alabamaboy who deleted other contributions I made) and have sent Wikipedia a release under the GNU use license to allow the use of the material which appeared on my website. I gave them a list of all of my contributions and hope that they (including the Sitt article) can be restored because I am not sure I have the time to do it all over again. Anyway, thank you for your help. Yours sincerely, Santo Neuenwelt.

1028

Kusma, would you be willing to support the making of an article about Chuck E. Cheese? Please respond ASAP -1028

Ute Geweniger, also admin

Hello Kusma. Thanks for doing the interwiki and listing the bio. Yes, at the moment, I am creating a few more German swim bios such as Petra Schneider and will need to create more for Cornelia Sirch, Anke Mohring and Silke Horner, because they are redlinks on the list of Swimming World Swimmers of the Year, which I have submitted to Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Swimming World Swimmers of the Year. If they are not written with the necessary German accent markings, could you change them for me please??

Also, I saw on the "List of non-admins with high edit count" that you are interested in becoming an admin (your name was bolded). Are you still interested?? Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 06:41, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Template:Notenglish

I noticed the revert. As you know, I added both changes (the new version and reverted changes). I'm a little bit of a template fanatic. I like them to be worded well, do a lot of automation, and be sexy. Unfornately, it did seem that the new version left alot of them orphaned. So, I was planning on just going with your revert. Many templates have two versions, so maybe we can just go that route, for more saavy users who check this alot, they can use the other version. Whatver, I'm not very opinionated or controversial.--Esprit15d 22:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

That's a good idea, but outside of my area of expertise. But I'd support such a development. PNT gets a little neglected since it isn't as used as, say, AfD, and I think that's why some of the people who use it aren't as familiar with the process.--Esprit15d 22:23, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar and RfA nom for you Kusma

The Rosetta Barnstar For all your work on helping to translate pages at WP:PNT, I award you this way, way overdue Barnstar. Congrats! Blnguyen 00:15, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 00:23, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I see someone else had the same idea (pretty much...)

	An Award
	I hereby present this Plenary Indulgence Award to Kusma (討論) in recognition of all the wonderful work we all have witnessed from you to date . --Mmounties (Talk) 03:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA

I've added two questions to your RfA. When you have a minute, I'd appreciate responses. Thanks. JoshuaZ 06:53, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

RFD

Hi Kusma, I've responded to your keep votes in RFD, and I'll hope you'll reconsider. I oppose keeping misspelled redirects on principle, but even if you disagree, in this case the misspellings are so flagrant that I doubt other readers will be able to reproduce them. Appleseed (Talk) 22:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

JT

The problem here is that this is really a list of titles: kasztelan or wojewoda are as appopriate here as is Kurfürst here. True, most of those titles have English variants (see Offices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), so a quick F&R can do the job, but nonetheless it is an English disambig (juat one with an eye-watering amount of Polish names :>). I am - slowly, very slowly - trying to standarize this problem througout Wiki - like with Voivodes of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, with which I'd like to transform all 'wojewoda -ski' into 'voivode of...'. Currently I am heaving a terrible headache with castellans... and that's just a tip of the iceberg. :) I should probably look for some bot to help me with that...--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 03:17, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I think it's a good idea, but that is something that has to be addressed preferably as a naming convention: for example, should we go with [[kanclerz]] or [[Chancellor (Poland)|chancellor]]? Kanclerz is shorter, Chancellor is English. As W:NC state that we should concentrate on making Wiki more user-friendly than editor-friendly, I am begining to think that the second option is better, but I think may merit further discussion. Also, the problem appears because some title are untranslatable (starost), sound strange even after translation (voivode) or are so different from the original that Polish users would be confused (koniuszy - Equerry, stolnik - Pantler.) Shall we copy this to Polish noticeboard?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 03:46, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Cologne-Rath/Heumar

Hi Kusma. Thanks for your comments about my VERY rudimentary start to this article. For the time being I've simply started translating the German article about the town where I used to live. I'll keep working on it. I have de-4 and am doing a Master's in translation, but if I do need help I'll know where to go, thanks! And yes, I really can't think of any other way of naming the suburb in English!:) Does it strike you as odd?--Dub8lad1 12:59, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Month name of tomorrow's date

Does any of the clever date templates give this already? The simple-minded construction {{Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}/{{tomorrow}}}} unfortunately fails on the last day of the month. Of course I could just grab this from one of your templates, but I guess you'll find a better naming convention and a way to simplify it from the code in {{tomorrow}} than I could. Thank you, Kusma (討論) 20:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

The easiest way to do it with the existing templates would be {{switch|{{tomorrow}}|case: January 1=January|case: February 1=February|case: March 1=March|case: April 1=April|case: May 1=May|case: June 1=June|case: July 1=July|case: August 1=August|case: September 1=September|case: October 1=October|case: November 1=November|case: December 1=December|default={{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}}. However, that's a bit much to type in on the page so I set it up as Template:Tomorrow-month. --CBDunkerson 21:24, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Düsseltal

I'm giving this one a proof read. And I think it's a good candidate for our next DYK. Btw, I changed my policy on replies to posts on my page. Apparently, there is a "guideline" that says that we should try to keep conversations together. Makes a lot of sense, except then you don't get the convenient "You've got Mail" message. Anyway, to make a long story short, what does the do? --Mmounties (Talk) 04:22, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

"Echtes"

My dictionary's already in California. How do you say "echtes Kölnisches Wasser".  ?? Eau de Cologne. I'm blanking on the "Echte". original? True? Doesn't sound right. Any help?  :-p --Mmounties (Talk) 04:25, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello Kusma, how are you? Thanks for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (88/3/1), so I am now an administrator. I am very humbled by your vote and grateful. Please let me know if at any stage you require assistance, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an administrator. Once again thank you and with kind regards Gryffindor 16:59, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Benno Möhlmann

Das ist kein Problem, aber während ich mehr über Deutschland und sein Volk schreibe, könnte diese Liste noch endlos so weitergehen. Trotzdem wünsche ich Ihnen viel Spaß beim bearbeiten! Jared Preston 17:08, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

New Categories on German Portal

I have read your note to the effect that you have advertised on your portal the Category:Buildings and structures in Rhineland-Palatinate. Bitte sehr. If you check Category:Buildings and structures in Germany you will see that I have created equivalent categories for the other Länder as well (there were three already done, I think). If you want to advertise those as well, please go ahead, but I dislike Portals in general, so don't wish to involve myself in the German one by adding content to it. My loss, I'm sure, but that's the way it is! I neverthless respect the hard work you put into it. Compliments, HeartofaDog 21:42, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

No problems, and thanks for the link to the list of other Germany-related Wikiprojects, which was a page I didn't know. HeartofaDog 22:06, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou for Thomas Lurz

Thanks Kusma for giving me the start for the Lurz article. I've improved it a little bit. It's also good to see that the RfA has gone very smoothly so far. I have also dealt with another Vietnamese translation at WP:PNT. It's amazing how many people send personal family tributes on this place.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 05:36, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

RFA Thanks

Hi Kusma. Thank you for your support vote on my RFA. The final result was a successful request based on 111 support and 1 oppose. --CBDunkerson 11:20, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

WP:PNT templates

You're quite correct, I stopped working on these a while ago and had forgotten about them! They were developed after a particular spate of foreign language posts, which lead me to propose (unsuccessfully) a CSD for pages which had been on WP:PNT for 14 days without translation. If you think they are useful, please develop them—they are of course GFDL!—I would also consider a mailing of ambassadors to check translations and to remind them that we exist. Best wishes, Physchim62 (talk) 12:25, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Drink up!

I know it isn't official yet, but congratulations for your successful promotion to the administrator position. Cheers! _-M ^o P-_ 05:37, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

• Congratulations, you deserve it.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 06:11, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

You're a sysop!

Hi, Kusma, Congratulations on Becoming a Sysop

Hey there. I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator! You've volunteered to do housekeeping duties that normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops can't do a lot of stuff: They can't delete pages just like that (except patent nonsense like "aojt9085yu8;3ou"), and they can't protect pages in an edit war they are involved in. But they can delete random junk, ban anonymous vandals, delete pages listed on Votes for deletion (provided there's a consensus) for more than one week, protect pages when asked to, and keep the few protected pages that exist on Wikipedia up to date.

Almost anything you can do can be undone, but please take a look at The Administrators' how-to guide and the Administrators' reading list before you get started (although you should have read that during your candidacy ;). Take a look before experimenting with your powers. Also, please add Administrators' noticeboard to your watchlist, as there are always discussions/requests for admins there. If you have any questions drop me a message at My talk page. Have fun! =Nichalp «Talk»=

Please also add your name to WP:LA =Nichalp «Talk»= 06:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)