User talk:Hdamm

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 * Hi Chazz88. Thanks for your friendly welcome message. As I stated on my user page, my main playground is the German Wikipedia. I just drop in every now and then to complete some InterWiki-links. --hdamm 15:22, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Anna Leonowens
Your edit history indicates you have briefly worked on the article on Anna Leonowens. Recently this version of the article has been contested by User:J M Rice who calls it "POV" and reduces the article to a stub version by removing most content. Could you contribute your own opinion on the discussion? Up till now we seem to be reverting back and forth undproductively. User:Dimadick

Wat
I found these from : -- Lerdsuwa 16:18, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * ชั้นเอก - highly honored wat or very important, with chedi containing Buddha relic.
 * ชั้นโท - honored or has important chedi.
 * ชั้นตรี - honored, being the main temple of a major city, or less important than higher level.

Ko Sichang
I have reviewed and corrected it. -- Lerdsuwa 14:40, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Map Phra Nakhon.png
Thanks for the suggestion. I will add them in the revised version of the map. -- Lerdsuwa 16:54, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Phu Thai
I have seen Phu Thai written as ภูไท, ผู้ไท or ผู้ไทย. They all refer to the same ethnic. I am not sure which one is the term used officially in ethnic study.

For Bai Si Su Khwan, it's a custom to bring in luck to people who participates. One popular reason to hold such event is to performed to new students to a university. Some photos can be found here (at Prince of Songkhla University). The green thing made from banana leaves in the fourth picture of the second row is Bai Si. The term Su Khwan means bring khwan back. According to old belief, khwan is inside each individual and may leave him/her during scared, sickness, sadness, etc. Part of this event is tying cotton thread to the wrist of participants by respected person (in third photo, last row - tied by University professors). -- Lerdsuwa 16:00, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Phu Thai is actually written as ภูไท coming from ภู for mountain (ie. mountain thai). I lived in a Phu Thai village for 2 years and that is how they spelled it. It is not ผู้ไท, which is an entirely different tone and meaning. -- User:202.129.59.2 15:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Then please use the correct spelling: ภูไท  (not ภู้ไท!) - at least in your edits within the German Wikipedia. Thank you. --hdamm 08:58, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns
Aphai means forgive, Racha means king - so direct translation doesn't give the desired meaning. Maybe the term "vice-roy" was used in newspapers or documents. It may also came from his duty as a royal advisor. He was one of the five advisor to the queen when King Rama V travelled to Europe for 9 months. I am just guessing here. -- Lerdsuwa 15:27, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Re: Pix of Thailand's Royal Barge Procession
Hello Hdamm. I didn't watch the real event. I am on business travel. I would definitely go to photograph the real one from a different angle if I didn't have this trip. Have to wait for the next occasion - I just don't know when. --Lerdsuwa 14:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation
--Zeitgespenst (talk) 00:33, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Preah Vihear Temple
Guten Tag. I would like to thank you for reverting vandalism in Preah Vihear Temple. It is very disgraceful and so annoying. I have once asked sysop to semi-protect that page up, but they wouldn't will to do so. What could I possibly do next? Also, if you could please monitor Preah Vihear Temple in Deutsch Wikipedia I would be very grateful. Vielen Dank. --Passawuth (talk) 15:06, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * สวัสดีครับ คุณ Passawuth. I think you can do nothing but watch that article. It seems, its often the same IP-address, so that makes it a bit easier. --hdamm (talk) 15:24, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Road signs in Thailand
Road signs in Thailand is under construction! Pawyilee (talk) 17:04, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, no problem. But why don't you use this template: then? --hdamm (talk) 10:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Don't know what it does; only just discovered template: . How do they differ? Also, please see Talk:Thai_highway_network, and comment on proposed use of wikitables in article.  Pawyilee (talk) 07:50, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * You can put one of these templates on top(!) of your page:
 * : "This article is actively undergoing a major edit for a short while. As a courtesy, please do not edit this page while this message is displayed. "
 * : "This page is in the middle of an expansion or major revamping. You are welcome to assist in its construction by editing it as well."
 * moved underconstruction notice up to top of Road signs.
 * The table: looks better for me as just text, espc. the small graphix. --hdamm (talk) 08:45, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Write now I think the text looks better, too, but will leave wikitable on talk page for now, and WON'T move it to main article absent consensus. Pawyilee (talk) 12:43, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out the error
Thank you for pointing out that I have written the word Ko wrongly. Xufanc (talk) 00:56, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Wie Gehts? or perhaps Sok Sabai?
Hello Heinrich, I've noticed and enjoyed your edits to Cambodia-related articles in the past. I noticed your edit to Phnom Penh (as I assume you noticed mine). I've recently finished going through the 24 Provinces of Cambodia trying to 1) add the Khmer script to each article - in the infobox and the lead and 2) make sure they are formatted consistently. Currently, the other province articles don't use the lang-km template inside the infobox, only in the lead text. It seem like a good practice to me as the highlighted link to Khmer Language at the top of the infobox appears more prominently than the Khmer name of the place itself, which is distracting. I wonder if you would consider changing your mind about the template? Cheers, Paxse (talk) 17:20, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, Paxse. You're quite right, my edit within the infobox doesn't look very good. What I intended was this: adding a directive for the webbrowser to know how to render a certain foreign-language script. It can also be used for the user, to apply in his own css file a special look to this script (like I did in my User:Hdamm/monobook.css). I wasn't aware, that in English Wikipedia the use of {{lang-km|... adds a link to Khmer language to the schript, while the {{lang|km|... (you see the difference?) just formats the font. I'm terribly sorry for this edit and I reverted it accordingly. I hope, this is now ok with you? --hdamm (talk) 17:47, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * No apologies are needed, thank you for fixing it. And thank you for the explanation. So, perhaps I should be adding {{lang|km|... in the info boxes to aid in displaying the font in different browsers? That is a very useful piece of information, thank you. Does this allow you to see the Khmer unicode font normally? For example can you see Khmer script here > {{lang|km|ពោធិ៍សាត់}}? or do you have Khmer Unicode installed already? I have been considering adding a small tag to each article to help puzzled readers without Khmer Unicode. this would explain that Khmer scripts are used in the article and include a link to the appropriate unicode page for those who wish to download. In any case, I'm very glad I stopped by your page, another useful piece of wikicode for my collection. Thank you. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 18:30, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can see your Khmer scrip above - though I don't know what it means. And no, I don't have a special Khmer-Unicode installed, just the "normal" Unicode font. Background: at first I was fed up with those little squares in some texts so I activated "DaunPenh.ttf" (it comes with my Windows-Vista-installation). The next problem was my bowser: it rendered the script so very small, it was only a black blob. So I put the lang-template around it and now I can adjust the size of the script with my monobook.css. Another advantage: as I put the colour green to my lang-template I can see quite easily, which parts of script do not yet have the template: that's all the small black ones ;-)

{{Contains special characters|Khmer}}
 * I find it a good idea to put up this small box with hints, like you can see on the right (I found it in Khmer script). In Help:Multilingual support theres more help. I would find it also a good idea, if all occurrences of Khmer script in Wikipedia would have the {{lang|km|...
 * --hdamm (talk) 08:34, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Vegetable Carving
Hallo Heinrich, Thank you for editing the article! But are you certain that Vegetable Carving is not also refered to as Kae-Sa-Luk? According to this source, it is. Does Kae-Sa-Luk only refer to Thai carvings? I'm not quite an expert on Vegetable Carving, so if you could tell me why it is/is not, that would be wonderful. George.eliza (talk) 10:54, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I suppose, the URL you are referring to is http://www.fruitcarving.com/home.html?
 * I put the reason I reverted it into the comment line: "Where". What languange is it? Korean? Some Chinese dialect? The URL doesn't give any clue, so we shouldn't copy everything without scrutinizing it. --hdamm (talk) 10:59, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely right, thank you! George.eliza (talk) 11:08, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: "The Cat-Book Poems"?
Replied on my talk page. --Paul_012 (talk) 18:02, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Farang
Hello,

I don't understand why you want to change the th interwiki for Farang.th:ชาวตะวันตก refers to The Westerner, not Farang

--Hercule (talk) 14:53, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * And what is the difference between "Westerner" and "Farang"? BTW: did you check th:ฝรั่ง? This page has nothing to do with those Farang from our article, its just a disambiguation, and deals with Guave, French and France. So why should we link to it? --hdamm (talk) 15:10, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * th:Farang is linked with all other wikis Farang named articles. Since there is no specific article for the expression, ฝรั่ง is the best interwiki. It's the page to the name, and show what other acceptations of the word.
 * The Westerner is something else, and the page refers to films, series and newspaper ...
 * --Hercule (talk) 15:29, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe you should read the linked Thai article then? In the first paragraph "ทำไมถึงเรียกว่าตะวันตก" ("Why it is called West") it is written: ... เรา เรียก ชาวตะวันตก ต่อเมื่อ เขา เป็น คน ฝรั่ง เช่น ชาวยุโรป ชาวอเมริกัน ชาว ออสเตรเลีย ล้วน เรียก ว่า ชาวตะวันตก ("we call westeners Farang, for example Europeans, Americans, Australians - all are called westeners"). Thats in short the contents of Farang, not? BTW, it is also linked in th:ฝรั่ง (in the last line). --hdamm (talk) 15:43, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow, now I know what you mean: the Interwiki link from th:ชาวตะวันตก went to The Westerner. Well, as this Thai article has nothing to do with "The Westerner" but goes about "Inhabitants of the Western World", I changed the Interwiki link accordingly. Sorry for me being so dumb. --hdamm (talk) 15:52, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * If you change the th interwiki here, change it also in interwikis of th:ฝรั่ง (de:Farang, en:Farang, fr:Farang,nl:Farang,Фаранг and wuu:法朗 (泰语))), and move th:ฝรั่ง interwikis to th:ชาวตะวันตก ;) (I don't speak thaï.
 * Regards --Hercule (talk) 16:04, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Done as you wish, Massa. But what do I link in de:Farang and nl:Farang? There are no Interwiki to Thai so far. And: I don't speak any Russian! --hdamm (talk) 16:20, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Naming Conventions
I have observed that you have undone my name changes on the Pattaya article. Kindly refer to the comment I placed on the discussion page. Thank you. Rak-Tai (talk) 03:01, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Candi Foto
Seems to be from Candi Bukit Batu Pahat. Flickr image probably? See https://www.flickr.com/photos/imhadi/55638488/in/photostream/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/imhadi/55637491/in/photostream/ Yosri (talk) 18:59, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, Yosri, for your time. --hdamm (talk) 11:50, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * You welcome. I have been there, that is why I recognise the place. You mentioning it did help also. I also got some photos from there, just haven't got the time to shift through the photos. Also due to licensing issues. Yosri (talk) 14:29, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

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