User talk:Karl Stas

Welcome
Hello there Karl, 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. BTW, nice work on Paul Van Zeeland - I formated the date section to conform to our maual of style. Cheers! --maveric149 -- Hi Karl! Welcome to wiki! Just to let you know that I found a couple of the authors you've written on (Lipius, Campellena) listed in Library of Sir Thomas Browne. I'm always interested in making contact with Euro scholars especially when fields of interest  meet. Sir T.B. graduated from Leyden 1637. Norwich in 17th c. shared in trade, culture,migration even dialect with the Low Countries. I've noticed there are several contemporary Flemish authors in Catalogue. May i link titles to Library ? Always good to see serious work from a Euro scholar Norwikian 15:39, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)


 * Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not actually a scholar, I'm more of a dilettante. Feel free to make links. KS

I see where you did the excellent article on Paul-Henri Spaak. I came across Suzanne Spaak, the wife of Paul-Henri Spaak's brother, Claude Spaak. I had a hard time finding much on her background so I did the best biography I could. However, because you live in Belgium I thought you might have library and other sources to search for better information. It would be nice to try to get her full maiden name, plus place and date of birth etc. NightCrawler 16:31, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
 * I'll see what I can do. KS

Hi Karl,

any article that is to be added to Featured articles has to undergo approval at Featured article candidates first. This does not appear to be the case for Ignatius of Loyola, so I removed it from the list again.--Eloquence* 09:38, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your excellent (italicizing) work on the "List of Belgians". --Edcolins 18:51, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)

Hello Karl,

Why have you changed, in List of comic creators, the link of Morris to Maurice de Bévère, while this latter is redirected to Morris (comics) ? Shouldn't we talk about this guy, with always the same name ? Morris is far more familiar to me than Maurice de Bévère, and i have read a couple of Lucky Luke ! Lvr 10:42, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)


 * You're right, I have made a direct link to Morris (comics) now. -- KS
 * I did the same for Lucky Luke. Lvr 14:57, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi Karl, thanks for changing the date of death, they have changed it 3 times so far on the television and I was just about to amend it again.Scraggy4 17:33, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * See Talk:Henri Cartier-Bresson - Karl Stas 22:25, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
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Sources for Giaches de Wert
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queen of singers
Hello. I am the person who put in the "queen of singers," the comment you reverted. Fine, I won't change it back, but I am bilingual in English and Italian and I assure you that the term "voce regina" can indeed be read as an insulting pun--roughly in the modern sense of "queen" especially when applied to a castrato. I might have written "queen of voices" and not "queen of singers", in which case it is the same sort of metonomy as calling Frank Sinatra "the voice". Jeffmatt 18:15, 24 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, "voce regina" can be translated as "queen of voices" (not "queen of singers"). I'm not sure if this is intended as a pun, though. Since "voce" is female, the epithet has to be female as well. Karl Stas 11:17, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Referring to a castrato as "queen of voices" is probably intentional since Farinelli was commonly called in his lifetime, "singer to the kings". Calling a castrato a "queen of voices" is clearly an attempt to be clever and there are grammatical ways to get around the problem if one chooses to do so. In any event, I did say "read as" (meaning "interpreted"), not "translated", in which case "queen of singers" and "queen of voices" mean pretty much the same thing. Jeffmatt 07:33, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Early Netherlandish painting
I would suggest a merge between that article, Flemish School, and Flemish painting. The most difficult could be to reconcile points of view about what was Flemish or not in those times. Give me your advice if you please. --DLL 17:49, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I can't say you are wrong, Karl. Go on as you feel it. --DLL 21:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Are you aware of this Wikipedia talk:Censorship ?
For myself, I would like to say that the method is not innocent. The subject is truly important : there is one talk page and twoscore people discussing auto censorship for one million (counting non active users). Will you give your advice ? --DLL 20:09, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Saints Wikiproject
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2005 Belgian urban violence
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List of Belgians
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WikiProject Belgium
Dag Karl,

ik heb momenteel het initiatief genomen voor het nieuwe WikiProject Belgium, neem eens een kijkje en als je geïnteresseerd bent aarzel dan niet om je bij de deelnemers te zetten! Aangezien je degene bent die het artikel over Paul-Henri Spaak is begonnen, denk ik dat dit project op je lijf geschreven is! Natuurlijk zonder verplichtingen...

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Endorphin
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WikiProject Medicine/Dermatology task force
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