User talk:Jeandré du Toit/archive/2003

Welcome.
Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149 (2003-02-28t14:08:08z, originally at User talk:I am Jack's username)

Username.
Welcome to Wikipedia. May I suggest that other users may feel less confused if you change your username from "I am Jack's username" to the simpler "I am Jack" -- based on your website, I think I understand why you chose the more complex formulation, but in the interests of fostering community I thought I'd offer the suggestion. Anyway, welcome! --Uncle Ed 20:42 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC) (originally at User talk:I am Jack's username)


 * thanks for the voluntary name change --Uncle Ed 21:00 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)

Afrikaans.
thanks for the copy editing of my noordzee-afrikaans. I hope you dont mind if I try to write some more occasionally? I lived in Alice EC for a while but I learned little Afrikaans there. I'd love to see the afrikaans wiki take off (finally). Jcwf (nl.wikipedia), 2003-04-19t21:39z

Mahatma to Mohandas.
Jeandré, I was going through your contributions and noticed your massive Mahatma-to-Mohandas edits in multiple pages. What is the reasoning behind this change ?

While its true that Mohandas is the first name of Gandhi, he is more popular with the Mahatma name. A search on google would return 205,000 results for "Mahatma Gandhi" as opposed to 30,700 for "Mohandas Gandhi".

If correct linking was your objective, then Mahatma_Gandhi was already being redirected to Mohandas_Gandhi.

In Mumbai you have changed the name of a road by mistake. There is no "Mohandas Gandhi Road", it's "Mahatma Gandhi Road".

Jay 16:17, Aug 31, 2003 (UTC)


 * Reply.


 * A discussion on Mahatma vs Mohandas is certainly needed. I've replied on Talk:Mohandas_Gandhi Jay 22:58, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Bold links.
Re:.


 * Avoid bold links especially in titles and headings Pizza Puzzle, 2003-09-21t00:53z


 * Reply at User_talk:Pizza_Puzzle8.

Homepage 404.
"Jack's home page link", on your user page, doesn't seem to be pointing at anything particularly useful... &mdash;Paul A 11:19, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)


 * Reply. - Jeandré

Interlang order.
Re: Feature to automatically order interlanguage links alphabetically on what is displayed: "Español | Esperanto", instead of alphabetical listing of 2-letter code ISO 639 codes: "eo es"? -- Jeandré 2003-11-24t13:59z


 * That's exactly what I meant. For french langage, the interwikis list looks like:

'af','ar','ms','bs','ca','cs','cy','da','de', 'et','el','en','es','eo','eu','fr','fy','ga', 'gl','ko','hi','hr','id','it','ia','he','sw', 'la','lv','lt','hu','ml','mr','nah','nl','ja', 'no','oc','nds','pl','pt','ro','ru','sq','simple', 'sl','sr','fi','sv','tt','vi','tr','uk','vo', 'zh','zh-cn','zh-tw'


 * Hashar 22:31, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)