User talk:Bermicourt/Archive 11

Article moves (thank you)
Thank you for your recent article title moves (Rohrer Sattel → Rohr Saddle, Perchauer Sattel → Perchau Saddle, Feistritzsattel → Feistritz Saddle, etc.). These are much appreciated and greatly improve the readability of English WP. Doremo (talk) 04:20, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Idstein Castle
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  12:03, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Aarhus River move
Hello. You recently moved the page Aarhus River to a new page Aarhus (river). I opt for a revert of this unexplained and unnecesseary move. RhinoMind (talk) 23:51, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Now I did the same with Vuoksi River.--Ymblanter (talk) 18:28, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Rivers
You may also want to look at other edits made yesterday by Good Olfactory, as he reverted most of my attempts to name various rivers in Spain in a manner consistent with Spain. Thanks Hmains (talk) 17:59, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

City/town
Re this edit. In Lithuania the status of city/town/village is defined by law. The status is changed by the Seimas. I agree that to a casual reader Kupiškis does not seem much of a city, but it is. Renata (talk) 16:07, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * List of cities in Lithuania and List of towns in Lithuania. In general, each country defines cities separately. For large, populous countries 100k might be a reasonable threshold, but for smaller countries like Lithuania, it's way to high. Renata (talk) 16:17, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Translations
Hello, Bermicourt. As I mentioned in September, you must, when you create articles by translating them, provide attribution in your edit summary. The talk page is a good addition, but the edit summary note is required. See Copying within Wikipedia. Please provide the necessary attribution for Lexicon of the Middle Ages and any other articles you may have translated. If you have questions about how, please let me know. Thanks! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:27, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Aras River to Aras (river)?
What is the benefit of this? One normally writes Aras River instead of Aras River. Most British Rivers don't take the River but nearly all US rivers do, and most foreign ones for clarity. There may be a good reason for this, but I don't know what it is. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 21:33, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * It complies with WP:COMMONNAME and the Wiki river naming convention. --Bermicourt (talk) 15:08, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Ar Har! Correct code is " Aras (river) River" eg: Aras River. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 01:48, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Or even " Aras (river) river" or "the Aras (river) " e.g. "Aras river" or "the Aras." --Bermicourt (talk) 21:11, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox German railway vehicle
Template:Infobox German railway vehicle has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox locomotive. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:05, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

GA article review for Cross-country skiing?
Hi, Bermicourt. Thank you for creating Cross-country skiing trail! Would you be willing to provide a GA review for Cross-country skiing? You would appear to be eligible and qualified to do so. Sincerely, User:HopsonRoad 23:43, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Expansion of article and Happy New Year!
Hi Bermicourt, I hope that you approve of the expansion of the article on Cross-country skiing trail that you brought across from WP. Thanks for providing the opportunity to add depth to a Cross-country skiing-related topic! Happy New Year, User:HopsonRoad 02:22, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Hopson, yes I really like the new sections on grooming the trails. Good teamwork! Happy 2015! --Bermicourt (talk) 09:31, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Your next project could be to translate the article back into German to improve what's there! ;-) Cheers, User:HopsonRoad 14:43, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hahahaha!!! I'm not sure my German friends would appreciate that! --Bermicourt (talk) 15:01, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Nein, wahrscheinlich nicht! Mit herzlichen Grüssen von User:HopsonRoad 15:43, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Actually, a very kind editor helped me with an article on my grandfather at Ralph Flanders in German Wikipedia. User:HopsonRoad 15:51, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Romanian rivers
Happy new year to you! I see our Romanian friend is still creating these. It would be different if he created a few of them at least with something to say about them. We're not a map. The German sub stubs at least can be translated and expanded with information. A lot of these Romanian streams I can find nothing or very little actually on them. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  12:58, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Frohes neues Jahr, Herr Doktor! Is there a procedural way forward? i.e. do we make a formal proposal at WikiProject Rivers to a) stop producing more stubs for now, b) generate an agreed list of river articles to expand and c) delete the rest and put them into a list? With the proviso that we can always expand again once the core articles are done. Or something like that... --Bermicourt (talk) 14:38, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Lexicon of the Middle Ages
You might want to merge this new article into Lexikon des Mittelalters. —Srnec (talk) 13:41, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for spotting this Srnec. Articles merged. --Bermicourt (talk) 15:15, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

German Kreis - county or district?
Hi Bermicourt, district is correct according to EU use, Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS 3), and used by german authorities in official translations of documents. Best regards. ManfredV (talk) 16:46, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Category:Amateur radio repeater sites
Category:Amateur radio repeater sites, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor (talk) 19:42, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi, I created List of amateur radio repeater sites to replace this; please improve it. – Fayenatic  L ondon 17:01, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Partial point of view
Hidden text... <!-- I read your message and I do not agree. You are mixing different part of the history and your vision is partial. As an Alsatian I do not agree with your point of view. The Holy empire encompassed the German dialect area and lots of French speaking and Italian territory were part of it, and it coud not be call a German state. As for the thirty wars, you shoud read all the point of views.. France spent lots of efforts and money to restaure the region and invite lots of people from other region of France, Austria (mostly Voralberg) and switzerland to help the region to recover.. We are french since 1647-1687, and we sided for France all along since then, most of our Alsatian General like Kellerman or Kléber for exemple fought in the Rhine army and attended fully to the French Revolution and fought against the German and Austrian coalition. The balltle of Valmy was won by an Alsatian. I'm sure you are not aware of the story of the "Malgrés nous", Jacques Stosskopf, Marcel Weinum, and all the Alsatians the joined the free French forces after being liberated from the Russians, or created resistance network in Alsace. We are French, and we don't like those narrow views of the history that say that all the people having an alemanic dialect should be Germans, exept if you share the vision of some weirdos with ethnics views who triggered the Second World War. In 1918 the majority of us wanted to return to France, even the German politician recognised this fact, and in 1870 all the Alsatian deputies called "députés protestataires" rejected the german annexion. In the French Assemblée Nationale the text is still displayed. The allied sided for France since we always wanted to remain French and the German did not let us choose whether we wanted to stay French or join the Reich. The only possibility was to stay in our land and farms or leave behind all of our belongings. See the 14 points of Roosevelt, of the call from the Alsatians to the American president to let him remember that we did not accepted the annexion of 1871. Read the event of the Saverne affaire, and how the German army treated us during the first war. "Quand la guerre s'achève l'opinion publique alsacienne est massivement en faveur de la France: Voir Archives de l'INA, images d'époque et commentaire de Jacques Meyer. Dans son journal: L'Alsace pendant la Guerre publiée en 1925, qui contient la partie du journal de Charles Spindler allant du 25 juillet 1914 au 29 avril 1919 ; son auteur, qui ne cache pas ses sentiments francophiles, prend soin de rapporter avec une grande objectivité tout ce qu'il entend autour de lui, que ce soit ou non favorable à la France. Charles Spindler montre la joie de ses compatriotes face au désarroi des Allemands immigrés. Le 6 novembre il nous dit que sa sœur revient de Strasbourg où elle a acheté rubans et papiers tricolores : Citation:On ne vend plus que cela, aussi bien dans les magasins allemands que dans les vieilles maisons alsaciennes. Le 8 novembre, après avoir écrit : Citation: Les journaux, tels que la Neue Zeitungjournal protestant.et l'{{lang|de|Elsässer} }journal catholique, proclament l'attachement de l'Alsace à la France}}, il ajoute  : Citation:J'éprouve une singulière impression à lire imprimé ce que jusqu'à présent on ne se disait qu'à voix basse entre amis." When Clemanceau and Poincaré arrived in Strabourg in 1918, they were celebrated by the Alsatian population. Declaration from the American Foreign affairs: "On the east side of the circle of statues to French cities that bounds the Place de la Concorde, the female figure representing Strasbourg, capital of Alsace-Lorraine, for many years sat draped in mourning, a constant reminder to a symbol-loving nation of an historical event which President Wilson in his Fourteen Points was to describe as "the wrong done to France in 1871." That wrong having been righted by the agreement by which Germany laid down her arms on November 22, 1918, the French army marched over the Vosges, to be greeted at every village by an outburst of collective emotion approaching the delirious. Improvised triumphal arches bore the legends, "To our Liberators," and "We Have Long Awaited You." Streets were decorated as for a festival and in the windows of many houses appeared portraits of ancestors of the occupants, testimony of loyalties antedating the forty-seven-year rule in Alsace-Lorraine of the Empire whose disorganized forces had scarcely yet completed their eastward passage of the Rhine. The President of the National Council of the two provinces, speaking from the tribune of the Palais Bourbon, assured the French Chamber that Alsace and Lorraine "gave themselves freely to France;" while the National Assembly at Strasbourg issued a declaration welcoming "joyously" the return to France "after a long and cruel separation," and suggesting "a new era of liberty, prosperity and happiness." We are French and proud of it. We are not looking back to the Middle age to define who we are. And if the situation was so clear, why during the Vienna conference in 1815, when France was on its knees, all the allied powers agreed to let the Alsace region in France if it is so obvious to you ? http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/british_dominions_yearbook/fr_recon_frontiers_1918.jpg Anyway, you are free to believe what you want, but that won't change the fact the the region is in France since 368 years less the 48 years in the German reich and that we are proud of our French nationality. And unlike many area in the worl like Scotland for exemple we never had the idea to make a referendum. Hope you would see our point. An Alsatian --Gabriel Haute Maurienne (talk) 16:28, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * It's always good to have a dispassionate view of history. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:35, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

The former message that you sent to me was full of accusations, saying that the French were cruel, destroyed the area on purpose and torn Alsace away from the Holy roman Empire. We were on the first front during the revolution and the napoleonic war for the french empire. It is for these reasons that in 1815 nobody really tried to take Alsace away from the Republic. Mulhouse decided by herself to leave the Swiss confederation and join the Republic in 1798. You said that France gained back Alsace only because we were on the good side after the second WW. You said and I quote "France took advantage of being on the winning side in the Second World War to take the area back under its control" This is a shame, knowing what the nazi did to us, annexed Alsace without any legal terms nor agreement of the population. Sent our people to death in the eastern front especially because we refused to fight agains't our nationals. If we refused all of our family was deported. They killed innocent civilians just because they showed the French flag, beheaded resistants like this poor marcel from "la main noire" he was only 18. How can you say that the French took back Alsace just because we were on the side the winners? Have you ever heard the oath of Kuffra? Do you believe that we welcomed the German in 1941? In all the towns and Alsatian villages we celebrate the liberation from the Germans every years. If you want to make an article about history, refrain your affirmations that are biased. And once again, unless you have a very narrow view of what is a nation, the dialect does not make a state. I don't think that you would find people more proud to be French than us in Alsace, I don't think that the observation from the American Foreign affairs following the French army in Alsace in 1918 was a lie. Come once in Strabourg, Mulhouse or Colmar the 14th of July to see it from your own eyes. You have the right to have you version of the fact, but not making partial affirmations. In France we speak Alemanic, Frankish, Flemish, Celtic, Occitan, Catalan, Arpitan, Basque, Provençal and many other dialects, and that does not divide us, but makes us stronger as a nation. And once and for all, we are French, and we are not looking at who ruled us 1000 years ago to know who we are now. Otherwise England should be under a French crown. I have to admit that your quote about the second WW was really partial, and offending for us, and for all our ancestors that died under the nazi regime, and fought for our freedom and our right to remain French. --Gabriel Haute Maurienne (talk) 22:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * There are two problems in the world: causing unnecessary offence and taking unnecessary offence. Bermicourt (talk) 08:39, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!
Hi Bermicourt. I haven't looked at much of your work until very recently. I am amazed at both quantity and quality of the articles you create. Very impressive. And my recent batch of bare minimum stubs hopelessly pale in comparison.

I hope you don't mind but I have removed flag icons from several of your most recent creations, citing the MOS guideline MOS:INFOBOXFLAG. It's been a little ongoing endeavor of mine the last couple years to remove flag icons from geographic infoboxes. I think I'm at about 6,000 articles now in which I have removed them.

If it at all interests you, lately there have been discussions at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons, and more recently at Village pump (proposals), involving proposed changes to the wording and to the intent of the guideline itself.

Thanks again for your efforts and take care. -- Racer X11 Talk to me Stalk me  04:11, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Stuttgart population figures
I noticed you are quite active in Wikiproject Germany, so I figured maybe you could help out with this little issue that's been bothering me. The population figure given in the infobox for Stuttgart is from 2012-- it should be updated to match the properly sourced 2014 population figure in the lead. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to edit that infobox. Could you perhaps help out? Thanks so much! A2soup (talk) 05:38, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Precious again
  coverage of German topics

Thank you for raising the awareness of German geography from coastal regions to the glacier of the highest mountain, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 03:26, 10 March 2012 (UTC) Three years ago, you were the 55th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:32, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Four years ago, you were recipient no. 55 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Theodoxus fluviatilis
Hello, Bermicourt. I have noticed that you are good at German and also listed as a translation volunteer, so I would like to ask you for some help.

There is some text on predators of Theodoxus fluviatilis at the Animal Diversity web, see this link, paragraph Predation. The information comes from this paper, paragraph Vergesellschaftung im Freiland und im Aquarium. Could you please confirm, that the information is the same, please? If you had time, it would be great, if you could translate it to English, but if you don't, I would be glad at least for the confirmation of the information. Thank you very much. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 21:27, 22 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Not needed anymore, so you do not have to bother. Jan Kameníček (talk) 22:59, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

Gorges of Austria and Germany
I notice you recently created the category Category:Gorges of Austria and Category:Gorges of Germany. Would you mind if I changed them to Category:Canyons and gorges of Austria and Category:Canyons and gorges of Germany to match the parent/sibling categories of these. This would be regardless whether there are canyons in these countries and removing the valley parents as a valley is something different than these landforms. Hmains (talk) 23:45, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Template:Lesenswert nominated for deletion
Please see discussion at Templates for discussion/Log/2015 April 18. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 21:25, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki
Hi. As I know you regularly translate articles from German wiki, I wondered if I could interest you in joining WikiProject Intertranswiki. You can use the German workspace pages to organize missing German articles and work towards them etc. For instance you could list missing articles at WikiProject Intertranswiki/German/Geography and map out what is missing still. If interested, please add your name to the list on the wikiproject talk page with a tick as instructed and add your name to WikiProject Intertranswiki/German, and when I update I'll add you to the main page.♦ Dr. Blofeld  08:02, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

I don't know how much translation work you still do from German wiki but you're welcome to put your name down. Basically anybody translating content from other wikis I'd like to keep tabs on with this.♦ Dr. Blofeld  08:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Will do, translated one today already, and made a little speech about the qualities of template:lang in general on my talk ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:11, 29 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Thankyou! Can you think of any other editors who regulate translate articles from other wikis?♦ Dr. Blofeld  09:14, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Übersetzung?
Hallo Bermicourt, vielen Dank für die Übersetzung der beiden Artikel zur Kettenschifffahrt. Auf hat der Benutzer Tomcat7 mit der Übersetzung des deutschen Artikels Pizzakarton angefangen. Er wird diese Übersetzung aber nicht fortsetzen. Hast Du Interesse an einer weitergehenden Übersetzung?--Salino01 (talk) 11:35, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Leider hab' ich keine Interesse dafür. Gruß. --Bermicourt (talk) 17:09, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Upmerge Category:9th-century Roman Catholic bishops
Please see my proposal to upmerge Category:9th-century Roman Catholic bishops to Category: 9th-century bishops Hugo999 (talk) 12:42, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

BibISBN
Hi, Bermicourt: After fixing 1000s of broken ISBNs, I am now making order in all things ISBN. What's the status of Template:BibISBN? At a minimum, I would like to remove it from until it actually works. Your thoughts? Knife-in-the-drawer (talk) 02:38, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Rhön Mountains
"Lying within the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia, the Rhön is" .. wrong. Ein Ganzes kann z.b. ein Teil dreier Dinge sein, nicht aber innerhalb von drei aparten Dingen zugleich liegen. See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teilmenge

I don't approve a few other follow-up chances you made, but anyway, this was my last effort to contribute to wikipledia. (now I remember why I 'deleted' my previous wp-account a few years ago.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Umpf-da (talk • contribs) 09:41, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Translation of a scientific article from German
Hi there, I'm a new Wikipedian, and in my quest to improve some articles I came across (what was) a stub in English, but a fairly detailed article in German. I machine-translated it and then fixed most of the glaring errors and broken links, but I am entirely unqualified to fix the more technical aspects of the article. I don't know if you would be interested in helping, as this might not be of any interest to you, but do let me know! Thanks :) Rambunctious Racoon (talk) 09:17, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * The article is Ipomoea_oenotherae. Do you think you could take a look when you have the time? Rambunctious Racoon (talk) 17:41, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Perfect, thank you so much! I'll try to get someone from the relevant WikiProject on it ASAP :) Rambunctious Racoon (talk) 20:28, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

DNB
This is just a reminder. The template DNB links to the Dictionary of National biography. I notice that you created and alternative Template:DNB portal which is now named template:German National Library portal, but it must have escaped you mind because recently you used DNB in Heckengäu, Herzogenhorn and some others (about half a dozen which I am fixing using AWB). -- PBS (talk) 08:23, 23 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I don't think a move is a good idea, DNB like ONDB are commonly used expressions in English language encyclopaedias. DNB is used on 7,800 articles with another 8,500 for cite DNB. There is a whole project based around it, see WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography.


 * What I can do fairly easily is alter the script to produce an error message if DNB is used with an unamed parameter, as it is a wrapper around cite encyclopedia and that calls the CS1 module written in Lua, the module defaults to an error anyway, it is just at the moment the unamed parameter is altered and assigned to a named parameter called wstitle, I have been meaning to remove the link for a couple of years now, and this is a good reason to implement it. -- PBS (talk) 16:06, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Rail Jeeps, Jeep trains, and J--p-m-t-v-s
There is an article on the German wiki called Jeepomotive which could use some translation skills, preferably by someone with some knowledge of railroading. The page's creator used a newspaperman's nonce word to describe the switch engines, speeders (i.e. draisines), and light locomotives that were converted from jeeps during WWII, and a great deal of creative license with the sources; my language skills are enough to recognize a problem, but not to fix it, especially if it comes down to a dispute. Anmccaff (talk) 02:56, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I appear to owe you an apology; my final edit of this message was linked to the English wiki, although speaking of the German, which probably led to confusion. Anmccaff (talk) 16:14, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Cryptophyte ambiguous link
Thank you for your cleanup work at Ipomoea_oenotherae. In 3 edits in this diff you fixed up a lot. I arrive at the article, however, because the Cryptophyte link that you added is ambiguous, and thus it shows up in worklists(*) for the wp:DPL group that works to eliminate links to disambiguation pages, Wikipedia-wide. The project is within 6 months of succeeding, I figure. Could you possibly take another look at that? I have it teed up for you here in the following link: DabSolver tool applied to "Ipomoea_oenotherae" article. Just click on the ambiguous term that is highlighted, and select the intended meaning, from options on the disambiguation page. If the meaning you meant is not on the disambiguation page, and is a worthy topic for the Wikipedia, it would be great if you could convert your link to a redlink like "Cryptophyte (other meaning)".

Hmm. I would fix it myself but I am not knowledgeable about this area. The second meaning on the dab page Cryptophyte seems incorrect. The first meaning given, Raunkiær plant life-form, seems incorrect, because that is about a whole system. So maybe linking more specifically to Raunkiær plant life-form would be it? But then I would prefer to see a redirect created from Cryptophyte (multi-celled) or something to that section. And for the dab page itself be edited to offer that.

If you could fix this up this situation, it would be most appreciated. Otherwise it is likely that some other editor will "fix" it incorrectly. Either way, thanks for your attention, and keep up the good work. :) -- do  ncr  am  19:25, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

(*) You show up fairly high in a daily ranking of Wikipedians who have added ambiguous links recently. In that report, you can click on "Fix" at relevant page to bring it up in DabSolver].


 * Thanks for your thoughtful and quick reply at User talk:Doncram. Ah, so its your German language skills more than knowledge of botany that brought you there. ( is a botanist and might be able/willing to resolve this...please?)  Yes, I would not make the mistake to judge that editors high up on the list are being careless, although some are.  You're just contributing very valuable but complicated stuff, which necessarily brings up some linking questions.  You can always try posting at a relevant WikiProject to get help, to preclude their being "fixed" by relatively uninformed others (who may just unlink them).  BTW, I hope to build up a system that notifies each Wikiproject of ambiguous links within their domain for them to fix, which would be more efficient way of calling in experts. (My first try is ongoing with wp:SHIPS, which seems to be going okay at their Talk page, as a trial.)  Mainly I hope you'll just proceed as you have been doing, thanks! -- do  ncr  am  20:15, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Requested move of Kingdom of Germany
Hi, I noticed you've recently participated in a discussion on the talk page of the above-mentioned article. I'm letting you know I've opened a move request here. Bataaf van Oranje (talk) 21:19, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Berlin–Hamburg Trainway!
Somebody has moved the Berlin–Hamburg railway to this silly name, but I can't move it back.--Grahame (talk) 01:55, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, lots of work still to do when I can find time.--Grahame (talk) 08:54, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Portal:Saarland
Hello Bermicourt, skimming through my regular assessment tasks, I noticed you created a new state portal (great work - only 2 more to go :)). Do you think that the portal is ready to be listed in Portal:Germany (I can do it, no problem), or do you want to do more work on it first? We probably should also list more of those portals in "Europe - Germany" on Portal:Contents/Portals (but to be honest, I have no idea how that portal listing is organized). Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 00:43, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi GJ. I think we may as well list it; not least because it may encourage more folk to create articles for the red links. I'd go for it. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:21, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Silver age
Hi Bermicourt, Just to let you know I've rv'd this page back to alpinism spelled with a small a, as that's the spelling given in most dictionaries, eg, and if not then it's not always capitalised; it was also the original spelling on the page. Thanks! Ericoides (talk) 07:27, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Cool, and it's now consistent with the golden age article. --Bermicourt (talk) 09:22, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Nadine Poss for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nadine Poss is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Nadine Poss until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:47, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of German Wine Princess for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article German Wine Princess is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/German Wine Princess until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:48, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

Imperial-Royal Mountain Troops
Mein lieber Mann, Du hast vielleicht eine Ahnung! Chapeau! -- Centenier (talk) 07:26, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Translation help
Hi, I am Aforl from Singapore, and I'm currently working on a wiki project on Singapore's metro system. I'm hoping that you could maybe help me translate some terms into German:
 * Singapore MRT/LRT Map: Singapur MRT/LRT Strekenplan(?) - Streckenplan (or Liniennetz) MRT/LRT Singapur
 * Updated on 27th December 2015: (?) - am 27. Dezember 2015 aktualisiert
 * (The line) Opens in 2017: (?) - Die Linie soll 2017 geöffnet werden
 * Downtown Line Stage 3: Downtown Line 3. Stufe (?) - Abschnitt 3 der Innenstadt-Linie
 * West Coast Extension: (?) - Verlängerung Westküste
 * Subject to feasibility studies: (?) - von den Durchführbarkeitsstudien abhängig

Appreciate your assistance!!!!! :) Aforl (talk) 18:31, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Aforl - I've added my suggested translations above. But it would be worth getting a German-speaker to check them! --Bermicourt (talk) 19:20, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, Bermicourt! Wish you merry xmas and happy new year! Aforl (talk) 05:26, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

2016
Happy new year !!! --Pampuco (talk) 18:40, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Need comment on mountain names
Hello Bermicourt! I would like to invite you to comment here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mountains. – Dentren |  Ta lk  21:06, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Done! Bermicourt (talk) 21:36, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Canyons and gorges
Seems to have been done to match the other categories in the set - there are no "gorges of" categories that I can see. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:51, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Perhaps...but then what of the United States? Perhaps "canyons" and "gorges" could be separated then?   I think there's enough difference between the two that such an argument could be made. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 22:04, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll leave them be if I see any others, then. I think those were the last three, though. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 22:15, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Translation request
Hi, I came across your name via the list of available translators, and I am wondering if I could interest you in developing a new article for the English wiki, based on Franz Kurowski. I have developed some content on Kurowski for these two articles:


 * List of World War II Panzer aces from Germany
 * HIAG

but I only have one English language source, while the German wiki has many more. I've had (am having) several discussions pertaining to Kurowsk; see for example here:


 * Reliable Sources Noticeboard -- Kurowski for a GA article
 * Otto Kittel -- Kurowski
 * Michael Wittmann -- Kurowski

So an article on him where I could point people to would be great! If you don't have availability or this is not your cup of tea, that is totally cool. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:10, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

The translation of Franz Kurowski is almost complete and I will be posting it to mainspace as soon as possible.Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:07, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Tirolean Hat
Hallo, I slightly changed your edit to Tyrolean Hat. I agree that the tradition was born when the city was Austrian, but the common name in English is Bolzano, so this should have more evidence. Bye, Alex2006 (talk) 05:38, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Portal:Peak District
Following your note at WP:England I took a look at Portal:Peak District & see there are lots of diambiguations needed. I add the template to High Peak in the picture caption but it doesn't appear to show up. I will tag some of them as I'm unsure what they should point to but I have a tool which highlights them in yellow which you may find useful - I just can't remember which tool it is.&mdash; Rod talk 11:01, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

BibISBN templates
Hello, I was going through the unused templates, and came across your BibIsbn templates. I've read that this template does not work on the English Wikipedia, but I see three BibIsbn templates in Category:Template:BibISBN. I was going to nominate those templates because they aren't being used, but I wanted to ask you first about the status of these templates. Thanks! --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:15, 6 March 2016 (UTC)


 * You have added BibISBN templates to Hagen Mountains, Bratschenköpfe, Lamkopf, and other articles, even though the template documentation specifically says that it should not be used. Why are you doing that? I have fixed BibISBN/9783763311279 for you, but if you are going to use this template, please make sure it does not leave error messages for other editors to fix. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:07, 17 March 2016 (UTC)


 * There are only nine article links to this template, three of which I didn't create, so that's possibly a slight over-reaction, but thank you for correcting the ones you found. Actually, I don't consciously "add" them; they get imported with the text from German Wikipedia and usually work or don't display (so it's difficult to pick up any problem). When you're translating hundreds of articles, it is possible to miss the odd glitch, for which I apologise. Great teamwork though when other sharp eyed editors pick them up and actually do something about them. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:50, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmm. The three articles linked above would have been showing a red template link before you created the BibISBN template in question, and displayed red error messages until I fixed the template in question. Perhaps you could subst those templates so that they are not transcluded, since that is what the template documentation suggests. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:24, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Pilgrimage church
Hi Bermicourt. I need your help on this. Pilgrimage is a very important phenomenon in all Christian denominations, and I myself looked up the page looking for distinctly non-Catholic sites. I found it to be a bit of a trap. You are an active editor, so headings and hatnotes are all you need, but to the regular user, being a bit more explicit is quite important; as a user, I'm also quite likely to miss a discrete hint, and I end up, like many others, not getting the info I need, or spending more time on it that I should. According to common sense, as well as to WP guidelines, it's the common user we should care most about - if not exclusively. Now the "article" looks like a minuscule dog with a huge cat's tail: a bare-bones lead with a very large, very selective and particular list attached to it. You might be right and highly articulate ("tautology"), but the user might have thanked me for the additional information and looked up under those links what pilgrimage sites and habits non-RC Christians have. I won't argue, let alone fight with you over this, so since you care about this article, please do come up with some more info for the user, ideally with some links to other non-RC denominations and their pilgrimage traditions. In my opinion, judging but what WP standards are, the "List of RC pilgrimage churches" should be moved to a page all of its own, and the very rich topic of Christian pilgrimage SITES, rather than churches (a bit wider; for instance, many quintessential Christian pilgrimage sites, such as the oldest traditional ones of the baptism of Jesus, the ascension of Jesus, the tomb of Lazarus, the hall of the Last Supper, etc., etc., are not inside churches) should receive far more detail and attention. As you can see, for "Christian pilgrimage sites" we also have a separate list. Quite remarkable is that we don't have a good page on Christian pilgrimage - that one's also strictly-RC. As food for thought: no hint in the Gospels at Jesus intentionally creating any pilgrimage traditions; you might know better if in the Acts or the Epistles there's anything on it, but I don't think so. So it looks very much like a development rooted in outside traditions. Or the habit of locals to go to pilgrimage sites of whatever denomination and even religion and pray for help, as part of "folk religion". Very rich topics, nothing to do with lists, which add little to understanding a deeply human and religious phenomenon. A lot of work to be done - viel Spass dabei! ArmindenArminden (talk) 14:18, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I agree this is an important topic and should not be RC-centric, but it was just a translation from de.wiki. See the talk page. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:49, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

King George IV
Hello Bermicourt I notice you reverted an edit I made on the Wilseder Berg page, restoring the link King George IV of England with the redit summary “more usual way of describing” I had a couple of questions about this: On a practical note, the article linked to is at George IV “of the United Kingdom”, and George IV “of England” is a redirect, so half of that link is redundant anyway. But more puzzling to me is, why do you say "of England" is more usual? AFAIK "King George IV of England" is neither particularly common, nor very accurate; after 1801 the king was ruler of a United Kingdom, not just England, and even before that monarchs from 1707 were "of Great Britain" (leaving aside the personal union of crowns going back to Henry II). And the most usual way of describing him is simply as "King George IV"; there haven't been any other Georges of that number in Europe, so he's the only one it could be. What's the thinking, here? Moonraker12 (talk) 23:39, 14 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for replying to this; and my apologies for not answering sooner.
 * “Sounded very odd”: Well, fair enough; part of the reason I changed it in the first place was that it looked odd to me. But the google search for "George IV of England" was a bit of a surprise; I suppose people have been using England as a synecdoche for the UK as a whole. (Unless there's an implied criticism there, following the rule If we win, it's “Another triumph for Great Britain”; if not, it's “England loses again”).
 * It would be nice if we weren't perpetuating an inaccuracy, but it seems there are getting on for a hundred pages that link to George IV of England (the redirect) so it looks like a bigger problem than just here.
 * Anyway, I've trimmed the link down to just the redirect; every little helps! Regards, Moonraker12 (talk) 23:27, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Annexation or reannexation
Hi, I saw your |modification on the article about the German empire and I don't agree with you. What happened in 1871 was indeed an annexation. The HRE was not Germany nor the German empire, but a political and geographic different entity. Otherwise what is going to be the limit? Back at the time of the HRE, many parts of Italy, Danemark, Poland, and France were part of it. Furthermore, the south of the region was belonging to the hasbourg that sold the Haute Alsace to France with the Westphalia treaties, and Austria was not part of the HRE. Legally in virtue of international laws a reannexation is among the time limit of a continuous political existing state. One can say that France annexed Alsace from the HRE, or that Germany in 1941 reannexed Alsace-Moselle since the Weimar and the third reich are a continuity of the German empire, but I don't think that the word is correct for this particular case. Anyhow, I won't spent a long of time arguing with you, since that will not change anything, but I wanted to express my point of view on your modification.--Gabriel HM (talk) 18:09, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree in this case that annexation is probably better... and less contentious. I've reverted my edit. BTW, do you like my (French) username?! --Bermicourt (talk) 18:22, 18 March 2016 (UTC)


 * It is nice, did you wanted this name to mean something in French or did you just want to sound like a typical French name? For Saint Louis I clearly want to add, that I did not started  an edit war, and I engaged  the discussion on the talk page, and opened the administration notice board procedure. Furthermore, if I was the kind of guy that the other user is saying I would have tried to change the names of all cities and not just one. And at last, from the beginning I said that the city was named after Saint Louis by Louis XIV. I followed all the procedure, so I don't appreciate some comments saying that "I'm a high profile maintenance guy" Kind regards--Gabriel HM (talk) 18:36, 18 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I once stayed at "Bermicourt House" and discovered that the name came from a small hamlet in France used as the headquarters of the first tank brigade during the First World War! Bermicourt (talk) 19:46, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

You teach me something I was not aware of the name, eventhough it sounds very French indeed. I have never been on the WWI ground eventhough I would love to. For your comment about the Franco-German border, the article was empty and was starting in 1918. It just added facts with wiki links to the differents events. There is nothing but the facts, once again, I'm not a troll nor a freak obsessed with some kind of will to change to past or the present. I have been editing here for years, and apart to this issue I had only one argument with someone on the Weimar article about a legal issue concerning the official flag from 1933 to 1935 (I was right) and another one regarding if we should put the numbers of French learners in the info box of the French language.--Gabriel HM (talk) 20:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Procedure for complaint against insults and mean comments
Hi, since you have been nice and fair, could you give the link to lodge a complaint against another user (Eric). The comments that he made in several posts are insulting, mean, and disrespectful. Ex"| as you claimed several times in your peevish, chaotic edit summaries. Before you continue to waste your time and ours with unsubstantiated claims" eventhough I was right.. Or | That, combined with his level of English, make him a high-maintenance editor here, | I asked him gently to stop this kind of comment on his talk page but he ended saying that my French was very bad (even thought I'm a French native speaker with a law degree), that I was talking nonsense and to go away. Since you are using the English wiki more than me, you should have the correct link to lodge a complaint. It would be nice. Just to be clear I'm not asking you to be part of it in any way, but just giving me the link. Thank you--Gabriel HM (talk) 19:51, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * If you have tried to discuss this with the editor concerned and got nowhere, you could take your complaint here. However, you need to be sure you're squeaky clean because they will also look at your comments and actions. I've never used this process because I prefer to focus on the issue and not the person, although I will ask people not to be personal or rude. Doesn't always work, mind you! HTH. Bermicourt (talk) 20:06, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:BibISBN/0801857899
Template:BibISBN/0801857899 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:25, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

BibISBN leftovers
I currently have nominated three BibISBN templates that aren't used. However, I've found articles that use BibISBN, and another BibISBN template that is actually been used. My question is, should the BibISBN be changed with ISBN, and any pages related to BibISBN be deleted? --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:39, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Drainage basin categories and progressions
Hi Bermicourt, I like the system for drainage basin categories you've been creating, based on German wikipedia. I couldn't find the discussion about it (except this Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rivers/Archive_3), but I think it would be nice to expand this to other countries than Germany. Do you know whether there's consensus to do so? I also thought of an easy way to create the "progression" field of the Infobox river: see for instance Ahne (Fulda), which uses RFulda, which uses PFulda, which uses PWeser. You see it's a combination of those progressions and the basin categories. Before, I tried simply adding to PWeser, but of course that also shows up in all articles calling PFulda. If I understand the category system correctly, articles of rivers that have their own basin category (like the Fulda) are not categorized into the basin category of their parent river (the Weser in this case), only the category is in that parent category. So those rivers should use a P template, not an R template. Do you think this could be useful? Markussep Talk 14:16, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

I also made a documentation template for drainage basin categories Category doc drainage basin, based on what you added to and many other categories, probably translated from German wikipedia. See for example. I updated it partly to the English Wikipedia situation, probably we need to define another responsible Wikiproject, since I don't think WP:GEOGRAPHY is involved. Markussep Talk 13:08, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Burgstall
First of all thanks for welcoming me. I started contributing to Wikipedia in 2012, so I wouldn't consider myself as new. I'm mainly contributing to the German Wikipedia. Unfortunately I "corrected" gemeinde by mistake and will change it again. Best regards Caproni Ca.33 (talk) 16:50, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Categories for River Axe Catchments
I noticed your work on river catchment categories (eg Category:Bristol Avon catchment & Category:Parrett catchment) and that you have now done Category:Axe catchment. I wondered what is the best way to differentiate the catchment categories for River Axe (Bristol Channel) & River Axe (Lyme Bay)?&mdash; Rod talk 19:53, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you - sorted. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:03, 22 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm interested that you took the Avon out of the Severn catchment (but the Wye and Usk are still there). Is there a sourced definition to these, and just where the boundaries are drawn? Andy Dingley (talk) 21:43, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I've just based in on List of rivers of England for now, but open to improving on that. --Bermicourt (talk) 07:32, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Relief energy listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Relief energy. Since you had some involvement with the Relief energy redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 17:46, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

what a gent
If I had hatstars I would take one off and hand it to you... no hang on I would need a hatrack, ok if I had rackstars.. no that won't work.

Well just thanks for adding the content at the article for relief energy. I couldn't find anything about it at all on my searches around, so that is ALWAYS the best solution to add content, so 1 hat is duly doffed here (and I closed the discussion as withdrawn by nominator). I did have "not sure you are the expert" and I hope you didn't take that to mean that I were not sure you were the expert (i.e. saying you were incompetent), patently you are and expert advice is always the best, I just missed a comma not to say "not sure, you are the expert" or "not sure, because Bermicourt is the expert". I hope you didn't take offence at that, my mistake (I don't think you did.) Si Trew (talk) 23:29, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
 * No worries. Glad to help. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:43, 27 April 2016 (UTC)