User talk:Gerrit

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Commons
Ook hallo! Ik heb me op Commons ook maar geregistreerd aangezien het een interessant concept is, sterker nog, heb het altijd dubieus gevonden dat er geen centrale image repository is. Nu hopen dat het project een beetje rap van de grond komt, hoe eerder hoe beter. -- Solitude 13:36, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)

Lenzburg
I don't know what editarticle.py is, but please don't use it again until the part is fixed where it breaks links across newlines. That's pretty bad. Knudde met een rietje, zeg maar. :-) JRM 13:54, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
 * Sorry. The error is not in editarticle.py, but caused by my editor doing newlines, but I should have thought of it and prevented it by hand. I will next time. Gerritholl aka Topjaklont | Talk 14:06, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I hacked editarticle.py to replace all newlines not followed by a whitespace-only line with a single space character. Thank you for your feedback. Gerritholl aka Topjaklont | Talk 15:12, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Map of Lapland
I do not have anything that could be used right away. If you want to do such a map yourself, maybe Image:Nordic-countries.png would be usefull? I have done location maps for Finnish towns and municipalities, for example Image:Finnish map with Rovaniem highlighted.png. I guess something similar for Sweden and Norway would be best. -- Jniemenmaa 18:27, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

User name change
saw your comment on the change user name page, just wanted to hint that User:Gerrit seems to be free, its red. GOGETIT! :) Dan Koehl 22:09, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * It's not: "The user name you entered is already in use. Please choose a different name." Gerritholl aka Topjaklont | Talk 22:12, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia Mainpage Screenshot
Thanks for telling me about that! By the way, are you left handed? =) Oven Fresh 22:08, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * No, I'm not left-handed. But I do have my watch on my right hand and I do like rtl-smiley's, especially to confuse irritating software converting smileys into pictures (-:

DYK
 Did you know has been updated and a fact from the article Guido Castelnuovo, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page. Warofdreams 11:31, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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00
Because his number was 00 and I thought it would be cute. Feel free to change it if you don't like it. Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 12:05, May 10, 2005 (UTC)

Summary element and Mgmbot
I'd already put a speedy tag on Summary element. Your Mgmbot added a second one. Maybe it still needs a bit of work? &mdash; P Ingerson (talk) 16:32, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * My bot is user-controlled. Before a user decides an article should get a speedy tag, it shows the contents of the article to the user. The user then decides, and the bot then adds it if the user decides to do so. It is possible that between those two instants, someone else has added a speedy tag to the article. A solution might be to ensure the article is unchanged between the two instants. Gerrit CUTEDH 28 June 2005 09:37 (UTC)

"Stupid categories"
Sorry you see it that way, but I those categories serve a great purpose. There is no racist intent in them; if anything, it is the exact opposite. --FuriousFreddy 17:34, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Meetups in NYC
Just saw your edit. I've seen info about past meetups -- is there a calendar somewhere that we can watch for future meetups?

Thanks.

paul klenk
 * I don't know. I just felt like expanding the acronym. Gerrit CUTEDH 12:47, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for helping me
Just a quick note to thank you for correcting my error in placing deletion notes on Hopkin Green Frog on that page's "talk" page. --tgeller 21:34, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

ga-0
Now, I'll be damned if I understand why you show up in the ga-0 category, and I, who uses the exact same template (and has the category showing up on my user page), do not. Any ideas?--Ag Foghlaim 21:52, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Strange... no, I have no idea, sorry! Gerrit CUTEDH 22:42, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

LPMCOTW/current
Might I ask why you wish to use a separate page only for transcluding a single line in a template? Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 15:40, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It was messing up the community portal, because the entire article got included. Gerrit CUTEDH 15:42, 9 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, but why are you including a single line, rather than including the LPMCOTW template, or simply copy/pasting the name of the current collaboration? Because that's what every other COTW does. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 00:52, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Dayton Peace Agreement
Hello, Gerritholl. Thought you may want to know that the Dayton Peace Agreement is already on Selected anniversaries/December 14. -- PFHLai 23:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Featured article for December 25th
I noticed you have listed yourself in Category:Atheist Wikipedians. That said, you will probably be interested in my suggested featured article for December 25th: Omnipotence paradox. The other suggestion being supported by others for that date is Christmas, although Raul654 has historically been against featuring articles on the same day as their anniversary/holiday. &mdash; BRIAN 0918 &bull; 2005-11-28 08:15

VWN en WCN
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Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 13:50, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

hi-can u plz help??
Hi Geritt,Im takin a Debate course in which the subject we're supposed to be debating is the possibility of havin platonic relationships between guys & girls.I was lookin 4 the exact definition of platonic love 'n i read ur name under the "Quotes" :( The quotes section mentions only negative quotes. How can that be? Gerrit CUTEDH 18:48, 14 Jun 2005 ). I wonder if u have any idea abt these quotes,can u plz fill me in?? & if u dont mind can u give me ur personal opinion abt the it?

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, I can see from your userboxes that you love cats.

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Extremes on Earth
I restored Eureka as the coldest average place based on verifiable data. If you look at Environment Canada's weather data for Eureka and Resolute you can see that the daily average for the year is -19.7 for Eureka and -16.4 for Resolute. Also, Alert is -18. Oymyakon is difficult to research as this only gives the daily weather and most sites are only interested in the fact that it got down to -65, -68 or -71 depending on where you look. The problem is that it may be colder on average but it's not possible to say for sure. I did use the link to Oymyakon to check their summer temperatures and they seem to be a bit warmer than Eureka. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:50, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * OK. I was basing myself on Resolute, Nunavut, which quotes an average temperature of -23. Gerrit CUTEDH 08:19, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I edited that and never noticed it. Thanks for spotting it. Environment Canada are so helpful in providing free weather services. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 08:46, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

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Userbox Public Transit
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Biedis Heikka
Sorry it's taken me so long to answer, but I needed to ask a few people about it. None of us could figure out which language it might be in, but the majority said it must be northern Sami. None of us could understand the text though. Have you tried contacting User:Ante Aikio? He's a native speaker :) -Yupik 19:32, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for the effort! --Gerrit CUTEDH 22:19, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for your note. You have a reply. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:46, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi. Since the time for closure of this is well passed and there's no sign of verification, I have deleted the earlier version and replaced it with a new one, rewritten. Where possible, I have incorporated updates with attribution in edit summary. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:53, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh well, ok. I actually got a reply today that the linked page is very old, unlinked and unmaintained, and that they were surprised it still existed, and deleted theirs too. They recommended to use the Dutch Harry van Bommel article as a basis instead. --Gerrit CUTEDH 16:57, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

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Silly section?
Hi, I've undone your change to Maelström (film), as 'In Popular Culture' is quite a common section on Wikipedia. Mebden (talk) 12:02, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I think there are some guidelines regarding the In Popular Culture section, and I think this one was out of proportion. --Gerrit CUTEDH 12:06, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I have added to the discussion on that page. Mebden (talk) 13:46, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Naked marriage
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Invitation: WikiProject Autism
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 * Thanks!

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 * Thank you for informing me. --Gerrit CUTEDH 22:44, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

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RfC on the type of treemap
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Swiss referendum
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 * Do not both the Forbes and the taz article count as significant, independent, reliable, and secondary, thus meeting the notability for organisations and companies? Does not the fact that the launch of an organisation is causing international significant press coverage (there are Italian and Spanish language sources too) evidence of notability?  I don't see anything on organisations in the TOOSOON essay either (and is this just an essay or enwiki policy?).  I am considering to challenge this proposed deletion (would it in this case go to AfD?  I know AfD and Speedy deletion but I'm new to "Proposed deletion"). --Gerrit CUTEDH 16:14, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

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