User talk:Helly

Welcome!

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 * Welcome from me as well! I like your edits to speed skating articles so far - keep it up! Sam Vimes 20:31, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * So do I! Happy editing, Punkmorten 13:58, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Christine Witty/Chris Witty
Thanks for the question! I'm going to be away from the computer for the next 6 hours or so, but as soon as I get back I'll look at the two articles, sort them out for you and then report back here what I've done. Hope that's okay! ➨ ❝ R E  DVERS ❞ 13:57, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

What I did
Hi again. Sorry for the delay. Here's what I did (and what you can do in future if you come across this again and feel confident to do so!).


 * 1) I compared the two articles; yours was superior so I used that as the base of the merged article.
 * 2) I did a quick search of Google to see which name she was more likely to be known by (because our readers will usually search for the name they know something best by, rather than the real name). In this case, there was little to choose between, so I went with her birth name - this is personal choice and others may not agree!
 * 3) Having looked at the two articles, the inferior one had a section in it that seemed too good to lose (it might be expanded by other editors, or of use to researchers) so I copied the text out of the article and put it into a section in the better article.
 * 4) Finally, having saved the expanded Christine Witty article, I cleared all the text from the less-good version and replaced it with:  #REDIRECT Christine Witty  so anyone searching for Chris Witty will get Christine Witty and any wikilinks will be preserved.

I hope this helps and the above makes sense. If it doesn't, please get in touch with me again and I'll try to explain it better! Of course, if you have any other questions or need any help at all, please get in touch with me again and I'll be delighted to help out!

Oh, and a PS: Your Christine Witty article was expertly written, superbly laid-out and exactly what the Wikipedia needs - you should be proud of an entry that so many people (myself included) couldn't have done when we'd just started at Wikipedia. I'm amazed and delighted: and I'll look forward to your future new articles and your edits! Thanks. ➨ ❝ R E  DVERS ❞ 21:04, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

DYK
Ok, now it looks like I'm Wikistalking you...! But we have a section called Did You Know...? that runs on the front page. I've nominated your Christine Witty article for inclusion. It probably won't make it, as it is notionally a stub, but I thought it was worth considering. Just so you know! ➨ ❝ R E  DVERS ❞ 21:29, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Olympic Rings in svg format
What version of FireFox are you using? If you're using an older version, you might want to upgrade to 1.5. Besides, Wikipedia should be rendering the image into a bitmap version if you're viewing the image inline in an article. Denelson83  22:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, they look perfectly fine to me. This particular image does have a transparency, and Wikipedia renders it as a PNG when it's in an article.  Denelson83  23:01, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Adelskalenderen
Thanks :) Good to see that you're checking. Sam Vimes 11:06, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

VWN en WCN
Beste allemaal Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org. Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

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 13:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Helly! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created  are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the list:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:05, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Tonny de Jong -
 * 2) Ids Postma -