User talk:AxSkov/Archive1

Welcome!
Hello Axel, welcome to Wikipedia. You might like to start by reading the tutorial and introducing yourself at the new users page. You can sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ) and you can preview your changes before you save using the show preview button. You can regularly find new tips on the Community Portal. If you have any questions, you can ask at the help desk or on my talk page. I look forward to reading your great articles and I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. :) Angela. 07:44, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

Spelling
We don't make a preference of one spelling system over another. Please don't Move articles, especially, just because you think the spelling should be different. I will be reverting List of Defence Ministers of France. RickK 06:48, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

Do not edit a page simply to "correct" the spelling in either direction.. If you do, I will revert it again. DO NOT DO ANY major changes like this without dsicussing them first. RickK 07:00, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

I apologise for RickK's rudeness. He lacks tact. Basically on Wikipedia, to avoid reactions like this, we leave spellings the way the original author wrote them. Only in country (or culture) specific articles do we favour one spelling over another. So we use Australian English on Australia, but US English on New York, for example. By the way, welcome (belatedly) to Wikipedia, from a fellow Aussie :) - Mark 07:06, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * It's not really technically 'wrong' as such. Some Americans just get irritated when they have to face the harsh reality that their cultural influence does not affect every aspect of life around the entire world. - Mark 07:42, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * If I were you I would just leave the spelling. It's an ambiguous case. But no, RickK does not have the authority to just ban you based upon a spelling dispute. There are other mechanisms in place to help resolve such disputes. - Mark 04:20, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * The "reverted edits by..." edit summary is automatically inserted when a sysop/administrator uses the rollback feature, which rolls back to the old version of the page, which is most useful in cases of vandalism (it's a lot quicker than reverting manually). Regular users can't do this, they must apply for adminship on RfA, which is now usually only granted after more than 5 months of editing and over 1500 or 2000 edits. - Mark 01:06, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Ignore RickK and be bold! Nelson Ricardo 00:27, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)

Review request
Hi :) If you have a few minutes it be great if you could have a look at West Papua and the re-name proposal at the bottom of its discussion page. Any input, edits, or opinions be great. I've always tried to ensure there was an abundance of supporting evidence before adding content, and avoid emotive wording; I welcome different opinions, just wish they would explain what it is they disagree with. All Best :)Daeron 06:02, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Palatal nasal
I am reorganizing the sections on language examples in each of the consonant articles (trying to make them all fit the same format), and I noticed the English language example, canyon, you added on palatal nasal. Is that an Australian pronunciation? I'm not sure I've ever heard it pronounced that way (by the way, I'm from the US). I just wanted to make sure before I move things around. Thanks. CyborgTosser (Only half the battle) 10:18, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * That surprises me, because I watch American programs on TV (there are alot on our TV channels) and to me that's how Americans pronounce canyon, just as we do here in Australia. This is definitely a correct pronunciation (if not for North Americans) from both Australian & British dictionaries that I have. If your confused about the two different pronunciations, one is the broad transcription (between the slashes) and the other is the narrow transcription (between the square brackets). Could you give me an example of how Americans pronounce canyon from a dictionary using IPA? -- Kind regards, AxSkov 14:29, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm used to hearing either [kænj&#601;n] or [kænjn&#809;]. My dictionary gives kan'y&#601;n, which could be either of the those (American dictionaries are weird about &#601;, they think everything is a &#601;).  I don't think Americans generally pronounce Spanish ñ correctly, even when speaking Spanish, much less for loanwords.  Even in Spanish class in high school, I was taught to pronounce Spanish ñ as [nj], not [&#626;]. CyborgTosser (Only half the battle) 19:51, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm having a hard time finding an American dictionary that uses IPA. Neither Websters New World or American Heritage use IPA.  Both, by the way, give only one pronunciation, but I guess that doesn't really mean anything, considering it's a wide transcription.  Since I have to rely on my own observations, I decided to write the word down and ask several of my friends to speak it.  I got a sampling of dialects from the midwest (myself), the southwest, the northwest, Hawaii, and a non-native speaker (Vietnamese).  Everyone said [nj], except the guy from the southwest, who occasionally said something closer to [&#626;].  So I can say now that I've heard it pronounced as you indicated, although it would appear that at least among American dialects, that is a fairly rare pronunciation.  I'm going to go ahead and reformat that article leaving your example, but adding a note that it varies between dialects, and if you can think of anything to add beyond that, it would be appreciated.  Thanks. CyborgTosser (Only half the battle) 23:26, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Maybe then something like your dictionary's full explanation would be good. One of the points of the language examples is, besides giving a survey of usage, helping readers who are not familiar with the phonetic terms recognize what it is they are reading about.  Perhaps even something at the top, right after the IPA and XSAMPA symbols, explaining to English speakers that if they speak the word canyon with the emphasis on...they will likely be pronouncing this consonant or a good approximation.  And with this kind of expansion, I don't see any problems with the change you suggested.  Good luck. CyborgTosser (Only half the battle) 06:15, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

IPA transcriptions, rhoticity, and /r/
Just a note to say, first, that I appreciate your taking the time to convert some of the many SAMPA phonetic transcriptions to IPA.

I would ask, however, that you avoid non-rhotic transcriptions. Non-rhotic dialects are phonologically innovative, and more complex, than rhotic English. Learners of English as a foreign language, the chief audience for phonetic transcriptions, should not be taught to imitate them. More importantly, they are rule-bound, and the non-rhotic pronunciation can be derived simply from a rhotic transcription by the application of simple derivational rules; so those whose speech is non-rhotic can figure out their local pronunciation from a full transcription. Thanks. -- Smerdis of Tlön 14:57, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh for heaven's sake. Just as both British and American spellings are acceptable, so are both rhotic and nonrhotic pronunciations. I'd suggest only using RP for nonrhotic transcriptions, though, not other nonrhotic accents like Australian. I'd also suggest following the same guidelines for pronunciation as for spelling: rhotic pronunciations on American topics, nonrhotic pronunciations on British/European/Commonwealth topics, and both for region-neutral topics. --Angr 12:37, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * I'll just add that I disagree with Smerdis of Tlön. Are ESL students really the cheif audience for phonetic/phonemic transcriptions?  I doubt it but even if they are, they're not the only audience.  Should they not be taught non-rhotic English?  Why not?  On the contrary, a non-rhotic ESL teacher should be teaching non-rhotic English (& a rhotic one, rhotic English).  Neither one is better than the other.  Jimp 19Jun05

Swedes steaming up
At RfC I listed: I guess this is a field where you can weight in as a moderating force.
 * Talk:Rikssvenska, Talk:Swedish language, Talk:Swedish phonology, Talk:Voiceless dorso-palatal velar fricative, and most probably soon in more related articles, souring relations between contributors with conflicting attitudes and personalities (likely related, among other things, to the status of Finland-Swedish and the Mandatory Swedish education in Finland)

Regards! --Johan Magnus 09:59, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Australia-gov-stub
Hi - just noticed your creation of Australia-gov-stub. Looks like this will be a useful one, but in future please propose new stub categories on WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria, so that they can be debated before creation! Grutness|hello? 09:46, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC) PS - there seems to be something up with the edit function on your talk page... The wrong section opens up when you go to edit a section...
 * No problems as far as the stub is concerned - it's largely a courtesy to discuss things first, since it's the stub sorters who use the templates more than anyone else. This one will be useful - it's mainly when people start creating stub categories which will only ever have four or five articles in them, or ones which don't fit in with existing categories (by design or chance yours fits in well with things like canada-gov-stub). A to the edit problem, I'm not sure what's causing it - I just know that clicking on a section edit brings up the previous section. Try ashing at Village pump (technical) - someone there is bound to know what' going on. Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 01:55, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yog(h)urt
Sorry for the delay in responding. But there's a bit more in my latest edit to Talk: Yoghurt. rossb 21:07, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Edit count
Even more apologies for a delay in responding, but I've been away dealing with a family crisis. I use Kate's tool for monitoring my edit count when I am getting near to a landmark. You can work it out for past milestones by going through your 'My contributions' link; setting the number of articles to 500; and then repeatedly hitting the 'next 500' link. When you get to the end, then you keep reducing the number of articles displayed and paging through until you're showing the last 20. Setting the article count back to 500 will show the last 500 articles, and so the first article displayed is your 500th edit. You can then select 'previous 500' to find the later milestones. Apparently this puts a heavy load on the servers, so it's not really something to be recommended. Hope that helps. Noisy | Talk 13:46, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Pronouncing your name
On my talk page, you've asked how Danes would pronounce your name. I'm a Dane, but I'm not good at phonetics. Anyway, here's a suggestion:

"Axel" or "Aksel" is old norse, probably meaning "gods helmet". It is pronounced much as in English. The A is perhaps more open like in British "bath", and the E is almost silent ("ahksl").

"Skovdam" means "forest ´pond", I guess. "Sko" is pronounced as in the word "Scotch"; "ov" is like a diphtong "ou" (and also like the Danish word "og", meaning "and"). In "dam", the A is like that in "Axel", but shorter and with auxilliary stress only. So it is quite short and open compared to the A in English "dam" or "damn".

Hope this helps.--Niels Ø 17:39, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

Riḍván
Regarding your recent edits at Riḍván, I don't think you realize the problem. You got rid of the "d with a dot below it" in the "the correct title is..." message and replaced it with (what I assume is) the same character the message warns users about. I can't even confirm this as my perspective looks like the following: (deleted) lol the colors got a little messed up in the gif conversion.

(however, using d&#803; (d&#803;) renders properly in the article but not as a title.)


 * &mdash;  F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( TALK )  09:02, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

More on Riḍván and Firefox
Ok well it still does not look much different, (I still have empty squares in place of the d&#803;'s) so I will have to take your word for it as I'm not really at liberty to download Firefox on the computer I'm using at the moment. (I do most of my wikipedia use/contribution at work&mdash;night shift at a hotel gets boring.) I have heard positive comments about Firefox and do plan to get it on my home computer soon. I don't, however, think my bosses (less computer-literate than me, even) would even notice if I added extra font sets/unicode (or whatever) to the hotel computer. And then perhaps I would be able to view it properly in MSIE. Can you give me at a URL from which I can download the stuff I'd need to view it in IE? Also, I'm sure I'm not the only one having this problem, so is there an existing template message that says something to the effect of "If your system does not properly display some of the characters on this page, you might consider installing extra font-sets from _____."? I think that would be helpful to a large portion of wikipedia users. Lastly, regarding firefox, I did have one person tell me it's kinda futile to install a 2nd web browser on a windows system because internet explorer is built into the system (I know explorer is used for displaying contents of local folders, etc.) Is firefox capable of completely replacing explorer for all tasks? I realize this last question has little to do with wikipedia but I've been wondering this for a while, whether IE can be completely gotten rid of at that point or whether it will maintain a permanant and largely redundant (hard drive- and RAM-consuming) presence even after firefox is installed. A lot of questions, I know. Thanks in advance for advice on this.
 * &mdash;  F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( TALK )  09:57, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

A slight change
The squares representing the "unknown" character are now much narrower. I figured I would have to download something on my end for it to work. &mdash;  F REAK OF N URxTURE  ( TALK )  10:53, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

North (Germanic)
Would you please stop doing these pointless reverts? We are here to state the obvious and this idea about shortening phylums to just a point on the compass that are somewhat oblique unless you're very familiar with the whole classification thing.

Peter Isotalo 03:52, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

User categorization
Hello there, saw your edit to the Category:Australian Wikipedians cat, with reference to the page that it is supposed to be replacing. It would be much more helpful to start making the subcategories for the Australian Wikipedians category (such as Australian Administrators, Wikipedians in Australia Capital Territory, etc.) and help make the transition rather than provide a link back to the system that is being overwritten. The English Wikipedia is one of the only ones sill using large lists to categorize users instead of categories, which have shown to work a lot better despite lack of annotation (which should be reserved for the respective users' page anyhow). Thoughts on this? If you want to help, please do! The project goal is to replace the subpage lists of the Wikipedians article with categories: Category:Wikipedians, Category:Wikipedians by location. I haven't gotten to Australia yet but if you fall into the category it would be more prudent for you to make these changes anyway. --thereverendeg 17:42, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your numerous contributions to the user categorisation project! I have created a preliminary project page here: User categorisation please make any changes you see neccessary. Thanks again! --thereverendeg 00:43, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

User categorizing (one more)
Hey. When adding categories to users' pages, it would be helpful if the edit summary included a link back to the project page, so that the user would both see what's going on and possibly even help. The one suggested by the project page (which I admit I wrote there) is User categorisation. Other projects tend to do this a lot to gain attention. If it's annoying to copy between two things (both the category tag and the edit summary), then autocomplete in the edit summary textbox can be helpful (though personally I just copy between two Firefox tabs). PeepP 19:48, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

|family=Indo-European &amp;nbsp;Balto-Slavic

is, for some reason, rendered with  between Indo-European and Balto-Slavic. This results in uneven line spacing in the resulting table. That's why I prefer to use

|family=Indo-European &amp;nbsp;Balto-Slavic

Naive cynic 00:51, 1 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Belated Reply: Yeah OK I agree, that spacing is quite ugly. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 06:37, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Australian English SAMPA
Hi Axel. I was looking at the SAMPA chart for English and found myself disagreeing with many of the Australian English sounds you added on May 2, 2005. The suggestions that we use a schwa in the first syllable of words such as father and arm are particularly hard to understand. Would you care to clarify what regional pronunciation you used as your reference and how you made these decisions?

Thanks

Mbwardle 23:47, 7 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Replied to this question on SAMPA chart for English talk page. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 07:35, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Location
Hi Axel,

Just thought I'd say hi since you live in the Macedon Ranges, and so do I (Gisborne). Drop me a line sometime!

Neolux 06:15, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Category sorting
Thanks for sorting the categories on my user page, It is much appreciated. — Wackymacs 20:24, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Same thanks here! N (t/c) 12:39, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

User name
I did think of this when I added the categores, but my user name isn't real (it's not a given name and a family name), and I think of it as beginning with "M". --Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 08:00, 16 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Ah, sorry to be so slow; I'll do it now. --Mel Etitis ( &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda; &Epsilon;&tau;&eta;&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; ) 08:25, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Removal of post
In a few posts, I left this message about edits from an anon IP-user that matched your editing habits very closely and was making some fairly sneaky and unmotivated edits. You removed this post without a comment. Hardly a constructive response to a polite inquiry. Would you care to explain why?

You are also still rather forcefully and unilaterally trying to decide the appearance of the language infoboxes. Your motivation so far (SIL likes that layout format) isn't really a very convincing argument and I would wish you would have a more compromising approach to this. Editors at Norwegian language don't seem to be agreeing with you here either. Otherwise you seem to be doing a good job. Keep it up.

Peter Isotalo 14:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)


 * This is, what, the fifth time now? If you don't show any sign of cooperation, I'm going to open an RfC on you.
 * Peter Isotalo 03:11, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * This conversation has been continued at Peter's talk page. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 04:25, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Australia
Just a minor point - you removed the spacing on the IPA transcriptions. Isn't spacing a customary device to indicate syllabification? They are harder to read otherwise. What are your views? Slac speak up!


 * Actually, a dot is the standard device for separating syllables. If you like, I can insert dots to separate the syllables. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 03:11, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Duff Cooper
Hello there. I noticed your vote on Talk:Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, and I was hoping you could further explain it. The policy on naming conventions specifically allows for the exception I and others are proposing: "EXCEPTIONS: When individuals received hereditary peerages after retiring from the post of Prime Minister (unless they are better known for their later career under an additional/alternative title), or for any other reason are known exclusively by their personal names, do not include the peerage dignity. Examples: Anthony Eden (not 'Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon'), Bertrand Russell (not 'Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell') (but Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth not 'Henry Addington')." Given that Duff Cooper is exclusively referred to without his peerage, it seems to me and others that this exception applies. Best, Mackensen (talk) 20:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Cut it out
You're making edits that are neither helpful nor enlighetening. You're focusing more on getting your personal whims reflected than caring about article quality. It's very, very frustrating and I would appreciate if you just stopped it altogether. These errors are obvious enough that you should understand, so I'm not eager to have another long, pointless discussion with you about it.

Peter Isotalo 07:35, 1 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I feel the contributions I have made actually do add to article quality, it seems to me that you don't give a s*** about article quality. Some of the contributions you have made are atrocious, and regarding my personal whims what about yours! Bloody hypocrite. – AxSkov ( ☏ )

My Name
I don't know why you would consider my edit "vandalism", since I was trying to clarify. If you want people who don't know phonology to get the pronunciation right, you should consider at least using phonetic transcription. Most people are just going to be confused by those /g/s. Peter Isotalo 13:01, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm an English speaker and I don't get confused with the g's. I called it "vandalism" because I did not agree with the changes you made to my user page, which you should have brought up on my talk page first! Using the g's is Danish phonetic phonemic transcription, which is what I want. (This information coming from Danish-English dictionaries and How to learn Danish books.)
 * You seem to take everything personal here, don't it's not worth it so lighten up. Life's too short to worry about such trivial things. That's one reason why I stopped long ago arguing with you, regarding various articles from Norwegian to Harpsichord, even though I felt the changes I made were better. No matter what I say you would disagree and revert my changes. I also don't like you linking me with various Anon individuals who insist on editing article content that's different from your own opinion. Please grow up. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 07:19, 3 September 2005 (UTC)


 * You're an English speaker who happens to have read up on phonetics, but that's not particularly common among English speakers. The transcription, however, is not phonetic, it's phonemic and /g/ represents a devoiced [g] and sounds more or less identical to the unaspirated [k] in English. I don't know why you'd want people to pronounce your name in Danish, though, since you're an English speaker living in an English-speaking country and by deductive logic, you obviously don't pronounce it that way yourself. However, if you want to do it properly, you should first of all put it in brackets and make it narrow. The transcription might then be something like this: . I think you should use the transcription of how you pronounce it, though.
 * Peter Isotalo 09:12, 5 September 2005 (UTC)


 * And that is what I've done! The  sounds very much like a voiceless /g/ rather than a /k/. I've used the transcription of how I want my name pronounced, OK.  That's what I meant, "phonemic", thanks for the correction. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 06:20, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

The Winter Queen
I guess you wish to influence how to apply naming conventions. Please take a look at Talk:Elisabeth of Bohemia. Arrigo 15:03, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Voted on this one. – AxSkov ( ☏ )

and another: Kindly take a look at Talk:John, Duke of Burgundy, where a poll is ongoing. Arrigo 10:57, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Voted on this one too. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 06:35, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Merging
With regard to AfD/VfD, please read Wikipedia:Guide to Votes for deletion#Incompatible votes Guide to deletion.

To comply with the GFDL, we need to retain the edit history of edits we merge and redirect it to the article we merge it to. You cannot vote to delete the edit history while voting for merge of information. - Mgm|(talk) 11:16, September 6, 2005 (UTC)


 * OK, thankyou for the clarification. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 08:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/JDizzle Comics
Hello, you voted on this VfD which I had accidentlally pasted Gillian Slovo instead of JDizzle Comics. I cleared all votes in order to remove any bias because of my stupidity so please vote again knowing that it is about JDizzle Comics. Sorry and thanks. gren グレン 21:31, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Recast my vote. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 08:16, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Customising keyboard (notification of reply)
(Copied from User_talk:Cassowary)


 * I use GNU/Linux, on which it works for every GUI app that supports Unicode (which is almost everything I use, and certainly everything I’d want to put IPA in). It’s also heavily geared towards Dvorak keyboard layout, so while it might be useful, it won’t have the same mnemonic power. If you’re looking to convert to a Free operating system, I could give you the files I use; otherwise, I probably can’t help you. —Felix the Cassowary (User talk:Cassowary) 13:46, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I use Windows XP so any information concerning Linux will not be helpful. Thanks for the reply though. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 05:43, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Hi, thanks for voting for me in my RFA. I was really touched at how many people voted for me! --Angr/undefined 22:49, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem, I'm sure you'll do a good job. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 05:44, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Ordinals for East Francian Carolingians
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles) 217.140.193.123 04:15, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Strauss reversion
Hi Axel. Please note that you just reverted an edit of mine that I tagged with the following comment
 * Debate is ongoing on several pages like WP:MOS and Wikipedia:Proper names, please contribute to those talk pages instead of editing.

I would have been happier if you heeded my invitation to discuss this (possibly contentious) issue instead of just reverting it. As I pointed out, I had a paragraph about exactly this issue (i.e., value of ß in disambiguating the Strauss page) on WP:MOS's talk page. Your opinions on this are appreciated. Arbor 07:47, 15 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I've been discussing this issue on Naming conventions (use English). From what I've read on Proper names my changes adhere to those rules mentioned in that article. I also made those changes due to the fact that many of the Strauss article names listed use 'ss' rather than 'ß' in their titles. (Note: I have also made some other minor changes to the Strauss article.) – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 08:12, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Australian highway edits
Axel, I notice you've worked through tidying up most of the Australian Highways today. Is there a reason you've tagged a lot of the short ones with road-stub instead of Australia-road-stub? Just wondering if you had a reason rather than me following up and retagging them all if you had a reason. Cheers. --Scott Davis Talk 07:43, 18 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I really didn't think the Australia-road-stub was that necessary, when a road-stub is sufficient enough for me. Although, if you feel it's really necessary to have a separate roads stub for roads in Australia, then I won't object to you retagging those articles with  . – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 04:09, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

I guess my view is that since there's a more specific stub category, I'd use it, the same as putting articles in the most specific available category. Maybe one day someone will make a point of working through all our roads and expanding them to full articles. I just wanted to make sure you weren't in the process of deliberately emptying the category or something. I might sort all Aus roads back into the Australian stub category, or even expand some, sometime this week then. Cheers. --Scott Davis Talk 04:24, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Coipel
In light of the total rewrite of Oliver Coipel, can I convince you to change your vote? DS 19:48, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. Recast my vote. – AxSkov ( ☏ ) 03:43, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Fir e Fo  x  RFA
 AxSkov 

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (96/2/0), so I am now an administrator. If you ever have any queries about my actions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Again, thanks! Fir e  Fo  x  18:21, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi! New Category
Hi! I'm trying to make a new category: Wikipedians from Garneau or from . I got run off today, but perhaps you can help out. --CyclePat 16:36, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Page move
Completely without announcement, an article was moved from its common English name Nidhogg to the old Norse version Níðhöggr, even though a proposal to move mythology articles to non-English spellings failed to gain consensus. You have expressed interest in simular page moves in the past. Please take a minute to look at this one. CDThieme 18:59, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Unicode font
It seems you are very knowledgeable regarding Unicode fonts; I'm looking for the most complete font available, as in the font that covers the largest part of the current Unicode standard characters. Thanks in advance! &mdash; Nightstallion (?) 14:13, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Football World Cup move
As a contributor to football articles you may wish to vote at talk:Football World Cup Jooler 13:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

2003 invasion of Iraq
Hi there, when trying to go over the discussion at 2003 invasion of Iraq I saw it has become a big mess. If I see it correctly there was a conflict between an anon and others and now the page has been blocked. I think the anon had a point that an encyclopedia article about any military conflict should not be written exclusively by three members of one the conflicting parties, in this case Pookster11, Swatjester, and Dawgknot who according to this comment all belong to the US military. I therefore suggest to get more people into the boat, that should take the wind out of the sails of bias allegations. As I saw you also edited on that page, would you be willing to help out? Get-back-world-respect 22:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)