User talk:Ellywa

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Hello and Welcome! I hope you like the place. --mav

Hello! I reverted some vandalism from Suffragette, and I think one of your edits got caught in the crossfire, but I can't seem to find it. Could you have a look and see if anything's missing? 81.105.48.31 00:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but it is oke, my small contribution remains. Ellywa 10:55, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I came here through the Dutch wiki, where I am currently kindof addicted to. Its nice!

Hoi. Bedankt voor je welkom. Kan jij me vertellen of de inlognamen van de Nederlandse en de Engelse versie op de een of andere manier gerelateerd (kunnen) zijn? Dolf

Bedankt voor je welkom. Ik zal waarschĳnlĳk niet veel in NL wikipedia komen, maar heb alvast mĳn username daar aangemaakt. Darkelf 10:45, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)

Please check again your historical atlas. In 1686 Danzig was a biggest city of Polish Province of Royal Prussia, and this didn't change until 1793. Thanks in advance. Cautious 12:57, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * For who does not understand this: Cautious is talking about Gabriel Fahrenheit, where an edit war is going on. Ellywa 17:52, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

We need an article about the neologism spum, which (according to the article) won't appear on the internet until next month? -- Wondering simply, Infrogmation 04:11, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks, correction made. Ellywa 11:00, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Believe me, I didn't mean to do that, I was just thinking in English too much. I'll have to go round and fix the Interwiki links, since I did it in the other languages I signed up for as well! Thanks for listing things on the Dutch VfD. David Newton 06:11, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Why do you delete the thumbnails from the constellation entries? – Torsten Bronger 00:44, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * The "tumbnails" were no real thumbnails, bur redirects to larger images. I replaced them, because the interwiki robot could not upload them automatically. I think I changed only one. I am now hoping the robot will be debugged. If you don't like it, it may be reverted (I saw you did this already). My apologies if I caused any inconvenience. Ellywa 01:13, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Could you please put a more descriptive caption on the image you added to birefringence? Thanks. &mdash;Steven G. Johnson 03:58, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

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Bedankt voor je welkom! groetjes, Sietse 21:09, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
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Broken image
Your picture at Image:Afbeelding Mauritshuis, Den Haag, juni 2003.JPG seems to be a broken image. Could you upload it again? While you're at it, could you add a image copyright tag? You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc. Thanks so much, [[User:Ricky81682|Ricky81682 (talk)]] 01:58, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

Image licensing
Hi. I am currently reviewing license/copyright information of art images. I came across this image: Image:Leeuwenjacht delacroix.jpg which User:Squash labeled as images of unknown source (Template:Unverified. I think that given Delacroix passed away more than 100 years ago, the image could be tagged with Template:PD-art, but I thought I would ask you first. Thank you for your attention, Tomos 13:27, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Interwiki for Thai cities
Recently you add Interwiki links for Thai cities. However the dutch article you link is a disambiguation page, while the German or English one are about the city. Thus I had to remove the links again. andy 22:05, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry and thank you for restoring this. I am currently adding many links to dutch wikipedia, I try to avoid mistakes, but it is sometimes inevitable. Ellywa 16:18, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

RobotE
Have you applied for permission to run your interwiki bot? I don't see anything about it on Bots. --Carnildo 05:25, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes indeed, I did, please note Wikipedia_talk:Bots below on that page. I thought I could the run the bot while permission is pending? Is this correct? Ellywa 05:32, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'd missed that. It would probably be a good idea to stop the bot, at least until it gets approved for a proper test run.  We've had trouble recently with interwiki bots accidentally removing potentially thousands of interwiki links. --Carnildo 05:57, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I do not see the need for that now. I have run the same bot from this account, Ellywa, for many 1000's of changes without any comments. The only difference is the name of the user. Please look into my "User contributions" and take a stance after that. Ellywa 06:00, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * You may run your bot for a full duration of one week, to prove the burden of proof that the bot is: harmless, useful, and not a server hog. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:50, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello. RobotE is now flagged as a bot. If you ever need this flag removed, please ask at requests for permissions. Angela. 09:39, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * HI, thank you very much Angela, in behalf of all who don't want the bot in the Recent changes. Ellywa 05:33, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Dear Ellywa, after looking the contributions under User:RobotE, I'm very impressed. Congratulations for receiving the bot status flag for the account.  Please understand that my replies on Wikipedia talk:Bots was not meant to be harsh or go against your bot in any matter.  You must understand that FlaBot caused some damage with its edits which remained unnoticed for sometime.  Therefore, I was attempting to be careful and making sure that nothing bad happened.  Although you made edits under User:Ellywa, there was no prior request for the status.  Certainly, we can accept your proof with your edits under User:Ellywa, but it is far better to make certain that whatever code you are running is run under the account you say you are going to run.  I apologize if I had caused any trouble for you, but I wished only the best for the Wikipedia.  Thank you. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:01, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi AllyUnion, Of course I understand you have to be carefull and as I am not a regular contributor here you are not aware of my intentions and the way I work at NL wikipedia. No hard feelings at all. Keep up the good work for the good of Wikipedia, Regards, Ellywa 10:16, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RobotE's edit to Tarsier (and likely other pages) was marked as modifying the ja and nl interwiki links, but it also modified the he link. I'm not sure if you intended this or noticed it, or if it worked correctly. &mdash; The Storm Surfer 01:12, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Mashhad
Hi, thank you for your message. I didn't know Wolley was from the Dutch WP and creating problems there. The website he is linking to is actually Persian. The information he wants to add to the article is totally inappropriate since these events are covered elsewhere in much more specific detail and within the proper context. See Judicial system of Iran, for instance. He also has a very definite POV as he is stating that they are homosexual when there is no evidence of this (they were convicted of raping a boy). The only way I see of dealing with him is taking the case to ArbCom. What are your thoughts? SouthernComfort 00:52, 28 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Correction: it seems that he is from the German WP - he has been involved with the article there as well. ] The image he uploaded there was also deleted it seems, as it was here (he took it from another website). SouthernComfort 03:04, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Interwiki links for categories
Hello I noticed RobotE is working on the wikilinks between articles of different languages. Is there any plan to work on categories too? Thanks. :-) &mdash; Instantnood 13:05, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Personally I have no plans, but I will try an automatic run. Usually I only put new links starting from new articles on Dutch wikipedia. Ellywa 10:25, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hello, I've seen that RobotE has been adding wikilinks to categories such as Category:1991 births. As you can see, this makes for a pretty nasty page, since the interwiki is already included in the template of which the page is made up. Would you mind reversing these changes? Thank you Sam Vimes 20:48, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
 * My sincere apologies, I put a request for help from an administrator here: Vandalism in progress. And of course I stopped the bot. Ellywa 21:11, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

I fixed dagger
I fixed the dagger on your front user page, so it looks like a dagger, not just a cross.

hope you don't mind.--GordonWattsDotCom 10:27, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

PS: Here's the raw link to the diff -which was on 10:26, 31 August 2005:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ellywa&diff=22242074&oldid=21589400


 * Thank you very much, you are very helpfull. I want to prepare an article about this in Dutch wikipedia, but there is need to do more research. Ellywa 21:02, 31 August 2005 (UTC)


 * You are welcome. Well, I am glad I could help, but now I am going to remove your page from my watchlist, so if you replied again, I would not see it. Have a nice day.--GordonWattsDotCom 09:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Appeal
Hello. Can your bot help with one issue? The issue is double-interwikis in "births" and "deaths" categories (for example look at Category:1983 deaths and Category:1847 births). Some of the interwikis are already in the "birthyr" and "deathyr" templates. - Darwinek 10:55, 26 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I would be glad to help, but there is currently no solution. I have asked bot developer Andre Engels, but it is complicated he says. Ellywa 07:15, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Lakshadweep
Hello,

Did you remove Kiltan island from the inhabited islands list? If so what is the reason for removal. It is one among inhabited islands. Noorul 14:10, 12 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I am not aware I did such thing the last few days, of even before, Ellywa 19:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Please check your WP:NA entry
Greetings, editor! Your name appears on List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct: Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 04:10, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
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 * 3) Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.
 * Thanks, I have been on a long-time wikibreak, but made my name bold today. Ellywa 07:33, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!
Jared W 11:00, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Eiland
I have nominated Eiland for deletion, you may leave a vote and a comment on its deletion here. -- E ivindt@c 07:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. Ellywa 08:32, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Ellywa/testarticle
This really ought to be a User: subpage, not in the main article namespace. (And you might want to consider what it says in WP:CONTEXT before proceeding further with this idea.) --Russ Blau (talk) 21:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, this was a mistake, I renamed it into User:Ellywa/testarticle. Can you please delete the redirect, I never know how to list a page for speedy deletion down here. Thank you for telling me. My suggestion is to make no links at all anymore, never, exept maybe for combined terms, but to link automatically if somebody wants to know more about any word or term. Guidelines such as context you mentioned are not effective (at least not at NL wikipedia) because people keep always going on with adding links.... Today somebody made a link to an old aunt of mine, just a very ordinary although nice person. Only because she is the mother of somebody... Just because the name is there, the link is made. It happens all the time. Ellywa 05:54, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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Sign please!
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GFDL verification
I noticed that Image:Dagobertduck.gif is marked as GFDL, but that tag was added by another user, RedWolf. Could you please verify that you have released this image under the GFDL? —Remember the dot (talk) 03:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, this is correct, I confirmed this on the image page. Ellywa 17:50, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks. —Remember the dot (talk) 05:06, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Idea
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Spum
deleted article about spum

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Use of dagger † (From Wikipedia:Help desk)
At the Dutch wikipedia we are having a discussion regarding the dagger † in front of the date a person has died. Did you have any discussions about this here, and where and why did you decide not to use this sign? I cannot find any discussions about it, maybe in some archive. It would be helpful if you can point it out. Thanks, Ellywa 22:40, 21 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I see no reason to, and never heard of anyone proposing this. Millions of these little crosses would need to be used, and personally I would be against since it doesn't refer to anything except some lame religious symbols. Elfguy 23:10, 21 August 2005 (UTC)


 * It's not a "lame religious symbol" - by which presumably you mean a cross - it's a dagger. (Most computer fonts don't display the difference very well, but if you paste it into Word or the like, switch to something like Times New Roman, and blow it up, you can clearly see the "daggerness"). It's a standard typographical character - the second conventional marker for a footnote (the series goes * asterisk, † dagger, ‡ double dagger).
 * Whilst the original use of the symbol was to indicate a cross - it was used in printing religious liturgies, and signalled the priest to make the sign of the cross during the reading - it became quickly secularised, probably in order that they wouldn't have to worry about using a religious symbol in a secular text. Dagger it is and has been for centuries.
 * Use of a dagger to indicate "deceased" is rare in English, but certainly not unknown - I have a copy of the Oxford University Press compositors' handbook next to me, which mentions it, though it holds that it should be prefixed to the name (so, eg, †Churchill). It's only really valid in some highly specific contexts - for example, in a list of names, where it's useful to note which ones are dead but you don't want to go into detail. It is, though, a perfectly acceptable if obscure use with no particular religious significance. There's also a similar standard use for philology, where a dagger prefixed to a word means that it's obsolete.
 * For the original question - I'd discourage its use without a particular reason, and certainly discourage adding it to all death-dates in a biography. Shimgray 23:50, 21 August 2005 (UTC)


 * If it was intended to be a dagger it would look like one. It looks like a cross, and thus is intended to be religious in nature, therefore has no place here. Religious arguments are restricted to Religion related articles, Nintendo related material is left to Nintendo related articles, and so on. I don't want a cross on every article mentioning anyone who ever lived, same as I don't want an image of Mario Bross everywhere. Elfguy 00:37, 22 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Some fonts represent it in a way such that it looks like a cross - some fonts also represent the characters "l", "1" and "I" identically, but this doesn't make the letter l "intended to be a number".
 * Your argument is just silly, because it does look like a dagger - in some fonts one stylised into being simple (since, lets face it, how much detail can you put in one-pixel-thick Courier?), in some fonts a very ornately stylised one. (see Image:Daggers.png for a set of examples) Typographical symbols are stylised by their very nature, and this is much more recognisable than most - does a pound sign look like "lb"? does an ampersand look like someone writing "et"? No-one really knows what an at-sign originally represented, but this doesn't stop people using it to mean "at" - you'd certainly not get very far claiming it looks like a snail so it represents a snail.
 * It's a valid literary use. It's not part of some super-secret religious conspiracy to infiltrate Christian symbols into people's writing - are you going to argue next that half of all books using footnotes are filled with religious symbols because they use daggers?
 * I'm not claiming we should use it on wiki - I personally think it's messy, and biographical articles aren't a good place for it even were it in common use - but spurious anti-religious objections don't help anyone. Shimgray 01:10, 22 August 2005 (UTC)


 * The German wikipedia does this. I suspect that it sounds horrible on a blind user's screen reader, and the trivial gain for sighted users doesn't seem worthwhile to me. -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 23:22, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * I see no reason to use it either since it seems to suggest some sort of religious bent which would not be NPOV. I much prefer "d. January 1, 2006", "died January 1, 2006", or eliminating the letters altogether such as "(January 1, 1900 &mdash; December 31, 2005)".  People are going to know that those dates relate to birth and death so there's not really a reason to even say "born" or "died".  I don't like "passed away" or "met their creator" or any of those terms that hedge around, and imply religion in, the fact that the person is dead.  Plus if we started using the "dagger" character, all the other religions would throw their arms up saying that they would require a Star of David or 9 pointed star or whatever.  Then we'd have disputes over what symbol to use for those people who were born into one faith but then no longer practised that faith or even converted.


 * If it's not supposed to represent a cross, though most would just assume this anyway, and it is supposed to be a dagger, its use seems archaic and has fallen out of disuse to the point where it would be more of a sore thumb than an indicator of death. Dismas 23:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC)


 * This HAS come up before, see Village_pump/January_2004_archive_6. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:37, August 22, 2005 (UTC)


 * The dagger (which I always thought was a cross) is a very common way to mark death dates in genealogy. However, this use is not common in the US, where genealogists tend to write (b. 1909, m. 1938, d. 1999).  The "m." is for "married".  I don't think such a huge change would ever be approved.  -- Reinyday, 16:19, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much. This is very interesting, there are totally different viewpoints about this subject here than on Dutch wikipedia, where we have these two extremes: Ellywa 18:57, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) The use is non-neutral because its a christian symbol.
 * 2) The use is trivial because it is used everywhere.

Marking births and deaths (from Village pump/January 2004 archive 6)
How should we be marking births and deaths on the anniversary pages? (eg January 21) people born on this day who are now dead have their year of death marks as († YYYY), (+ YYYY) or (d. YYYY) (each page seems to be different). For people who have died on this day, births are often not marked, or they use the convention ( * YYYY), (+ YYYY), (b. YYYY) or (YYYY - YYYY). I had been changing all the death symbols to the dagger (†) as I thought it was a good symbol of death (stab, stab) and * for births, but another user pointed out that both † and + could be seen as Christian symbols and there was a policy to avoid them. I can't find any policy on this in the manual of style. Fabiform 20:21, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * NPOV is the policy you seek. We need not have a Christian bias here when it is not needed. See related talk at Talk:Historical anniversaries/Example --mav 20:36, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * Well I'm not Christian and it hadn't occured to me people would see the dagger as a cross instead of weapon. But I do of course want to be NPOV which is why I asked here.  Thanks for pointing me toward the relevant talk page.  I see the consensus on the talk page is for (b. YYYY) and (d. YYYY).  Cheers, Fabiform 20:57, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * When I saw the symbol I thought it was supposed to be a cross. But, whatever, I don't care one way or another for that reason.  The dagger is unclear, though.  I'd prefer (yyyy-yyyy), or alternatively, (died yyyy). Anthony DiPierro 01:54, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * Actually Manual of Style (biographies) is better. We use (yyyy-yyyy). de.wikipedia uses the format with * and crosses. Secretlondon 20:44, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)

The issue at hand is on pages like January 21 (as indicated) where there is a ==Births== section. In that section, if the person born then has since passed on, it's common to list the year of their death. In what manner should this indication be given. Of the above options, (d. YYYY) is my preference. - UtherSRG 20:55, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * ah but (YYYY - YYYY) would duplicate information in this case

Today we have this entry for example- Births Changing this to (d. 1789) is one thing, but this would look odd IMO- Fabiform 20:58, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
 * 1738 - Ethan Allen, American patriot († 1789)
 * 1738 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (1738 - 1789)


 * The dagger (&dagger;) notation for many English-speaking users is a footnote notation. Its use to mark a death is archane and unclear to modern readers. When I see a "&dagger;", I start looking for the footnote explainer. My vote is for the standard (YYYY-YYYY) WP style. As for the Ethan Allen Link above -- the death is not germane to the list topic unless he died on his birthday. Otherwise, it should be in his bio entry article. Davodd 21:48, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * I disagree that the mention of Ethan Allen's (and everyone else's) year of death is out of place on the anniversary page. It adds context.  Either way, these dates are all over the anniversary pages and written in many different formats, so I think it's worthwhile to tidy them up (rather than remove them).  Of course, if lots of people jump in and second your comment, I'll bow to the consensus.  Fabiform 22:31, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * I think that including the death dates on the year page for someone who was born that year is a TERRIBLE scheme. If you want to know when they died, read the darn article. The only reason to have that year link there is to jump people to that year page, but presumably people aren't interested in reading about the magical connections between 1738 AD and 1789, but in reading about Ethan Allen. I beg, beg, beg people not to do this (+1789) thing. Among other things, it looks unprofessional, it clutters the page and we have enough work maintaining those timeline pages already, without having to add in a death date everywhere we put a birth date and visa versa! Please. Stop. (And delete all the junk that's already in there. Thank you kindly. jengod 02:36, Jan 23, 2004 (UTC)

Propaganda Poster Art Centre


The Propaganda Poster Art Centre is a museum located in Shanghai wich exhibits posters from the Maoist period of communist China, especially from the Cultural Revolution period.. The museum is located in the basement of an apartment building in Huashan Lu in the former French Concession area. It consists of only two rooms.

Many posters are showing Mao as the rising sun of the country. On other posters the western world is shown as the "bad guys", depicted with big noses.

The owner of the museum, Mr. Yang Pei Ming, is keeping the posters as they are to be seen as an art form. He started collecting the posters as a hobby, and he wants to preserve the posters for the future. The museum is visited mainly by tourists, as it is listed in The Lonely Planet guide.

External link
http://www.chinasnippets.com/shanghai-cultural/propaganda-poster-art-centre/

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 * As listed on the image page on commons, I copied it from here, the English wikipedia. Apperently it was removed from here. User:BenFrantzDale is the original uploader here. He seems still active. Regards, Ellywa (talk) 10:18, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

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 * Thanks, hope the EU will change their mind on this minor issue some time. Ellywa (talk) 10:08, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

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With this edit: you added the information "provinces have made in the past a large profit from selling energy  companies". Is this a translation from the Dutch word "enegiebedrijven"? In that case the translation could also be "power companies". See the redirected articles energy company and power company. I think "power company" might be better. Please have a look. --VanBuren (talk) 22:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * You are absolutely right. I am missing your subtle knowledge. What I meant however was "nutsbedrijven " which is broader. It can include water and gas. Do you think public utilities could be a better word? I have changed the article accordingly. Do you think its correct? Btw nice to see you here.Ellywa (talk) 23:33, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Nice. I linked it as well. :) --VanBuren (talk) 12:24, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

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 * Hi Jbhunley, there was a single reference, but apparently it was not noted somehow, perhaps because the template references was missing. I added several more and will remove the template. Thanks for warning me. Ellywa (talk) 10:11, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

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it is important to protect https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buk_missile_system&diff=653082522&oldid=653082078

I looked into a Dutch newspaper from 20 March 2015, De Volkskrant. It states in Dutch that a journalist has found a metal scrap three months after the crash in a part of the fuselage. The journalist took the piece with him. It has appeared to be a part of a Buk. The Dutch government has not commented yet, at least, I could not find any formal reference, so I am quite sure there is no official publication from the goverment. The "Onderzoeksraad" (research council for accident investigation) says they will study the material as soon as it is handed to them and cannot draw conclusions before they have done their own research. Ellywa (talk) 15:32, 22 March 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.104.201.221 (talk)

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Hi Ellywa! Saw you working on Drs. P. You can include a link to De Zusters Karamazov if you like. Sietske (talk) 16:57, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you Sietske, I like that song very much. Sad he died.... Ellywa (talk) 17:03, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Sad indeed! You're welcome. Sorry for replying so late. Sietske (talk) 20:30, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * Thanks VanBuren, we certainly need this! I saw some nasty discussions on NL about Tai Chi, I do not know how to help.... Ellywa (talk) 10:18, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * That's okay, that problem has been solved. Sometimes you yourself have a disagreement where I do not know how to help, so it goes. Keep smiling :). --VanBuren (talk) 11:25, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Penny Green
Hoi Ellywa,

I see that you made Penny Green a disambiguation page, also including a Professor at Queen Mary University. Because we don't yet have an article about her, I have restored the redirect: I'd suggest that you first write the article about the professor, and then restore the disambiguation page. --Slashme (talk) 09:50, 25 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi Slashme, thanks for mentioning. I wasn't aware this was the usual way to disambiguation here. I took your suggestion and made a short article about her and again made a disambiguation page. I hope somebody can correct my mistakes... I am not fluent in English. Kind regards, Ellywa (talk) 10:33, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Good work! After reading the references on that page, it seems that Green and Lynck were both controversial candidates, so I've made that clear. Maybe you'd like to translate the article to Dutch? Do you have the Content translation tool active on your account? --Slashme (talk) 11:59, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your addition! Perhaps I should translate the article, the issue was discussed in our national parliament. Thats how I came to look for her at Wikipedia. :-). I sometimes use the tool. Ellywa (talk) 12:10, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

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 * Hi User:Coffee, thank you so much for the trust in my edits. I will do my best as usual! Kind regards, Ellywa (talk) 23:18, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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Please excuse my erroneous edit, likely a mistaken rollback or revert caused by my fat fingers, hypnagogia, or one of my ridiculous cats. I have likely self reverted or noticed the mistake after you corrected it. Again, my apologies. Thank you.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 14:10, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * No problem, it happens all the time. For instance on my previous phone, which had a small screen. Actually, thanks for checking my edits (and those of others). And many thanks for the nice image of your sweet little cat. Ellywa (talk) 14:42, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

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 * thanks. Ellywa (talk) 06:23, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

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User:Ellywa, je had een vraagje over Hebreeuws. Alles wat er staat is "וְלֹא־יִכָּרֵ֧ת שֵׁם־הַמֵּ֛ת מֵעִ֥ם אֶחָ֖יו וּמִשַּׁ֣עַר מְקוֹמ֑וֹ". Dit is een citaat uit Ruth 4:10. De tekst van jullie is onnodig langer. In het Engels is dat "that the name of the deceased may not disappear from among his kinsmen and from the gate of his home town." Modern Joodse vertaling op Sefaria. gidonb (talk) 00:04, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Dank je wel Gidon! Groet Ellywa (talk) 06:28, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Ook mijn dank; ik was degene die de vraag stelde. Echter, als ik deze tekst aan Google Translate voer, geeft hij En het zal niet nodig zijn dat de naam van het woord van zijn plaats komt. (And it will not be necessary for the name of the word to come from its place.)
 * Is GT zo beroerd met Hebreeuws? En voor mijn begrip: Als ik Ellywa goed begrijp zijn op de sokkel van het monument klinkertekens ingevoegd die in het (Bijbelse) Hebreeuws ontbreken. Klopt dat?  →bertux 07:46, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * op de sokkel staat de tekst zonder klinkers, de kleine streepjes en puntjes onder de tekst van Gidon zijn de klinkers. Hebreeuws wordt heel vaak zonder klinkers geschreven. n tkst znder klnkers s gd t bgrpn. tnmnst ls j rn gwnd bnt. Ellywa (talk) 09:51, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Nog iets, hier staat de zin in context. Je kan van elk woord de vertaling zien. Daar kan je weer op klikken, en zo zie je dat de vertaling van אֶחָ֖יו, broederen, ook "de ander" kan betekenen. Zie dit. Het oude Hebreeuws uit de Tenach is moeilijk te vertalen, vandaar dat er vele varianten zijn van de vertaling van dezelfde tekst, en GT zal er dus ook veel moeite mee hebben. Ellywa (talk) 09:59, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Ah, juist. Van de omgang met klinkers in het Hebreeuws weet ik wel iets, dat is het probleem niet.
 * Op een parallelle vertaling had Matroos Vos me ook al gewezen en die heb ik uitgeprobeerd, maar toen ik die met GT terugvertaalde kwam er een kreupele tekst uit. Ik durf het niet aan om die te plaatsen, ik kan alleen verder als ik zekerheid heb.
 * Begrijpelijkheid is niet mijn doel, want in De Levenspoort heb ik de betekenis al uitgelegd. Ik zou gewoon graag de letterlijke tekst van de sokkel willen hebben, zonder klinkers dus en inclusief eventuele fouten  →bertux 10:07, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Op de sokkel staat: ולא־יכרת שם־המת מעם אחיו ומשער מקומו gidonb (talk) 12:59, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Merci Gidonb (mis je nog steeds op WP-NL)!, op een presenteerblaadje de tekst zonder klinkers, maar niet te vertalen vrees ik. Ellywa (talk) 16:32, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Google Translate doet het hier best behoorlijk: En de naam van de overledene zal niet worden afgesneden van zijn broer en de plaats van zijn familielid.
 * Vergelijk NBG 1951: Zo zal de naam van de gestorvene niet uitgeroeid worden uit zijn broederen en uit de poort zijner woonplaats.
 * Dankjewel Gidonb, ik kon het nu nauwkeurig formuleren in het artikel, want eindelijk weet ik zeker dat de vertaalde tekst niet helemaal overeenkomt met de Hebreeuwse. Plus dat het zo provinciaal voelt om het origineel weg te laten  →bertux 23:31, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

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