User talk:L.Willms

Rail Transport in France
Are you positive there aren't other articles on French railways with your information included within them? Also, please capitalize your article titles. --Theunicyclegirl 20:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

My start was articles like Rail transport in the United Kingdom and the template "Rail Transport in Europe", pointing to 14 articles of that type, but not on France. So I added one on this major country, because I looked for statistical figures on the size of the various networks. Currently there are such articles on the following countries: Austria · Belgium · Denmark · Finland · France · Germany · Ireland · Italy · Netherlands · Norway · Romania · Russia · Sweden · Switzerland · Ukraine · United Kingdom. L.Willms 02:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Eurostar Response
I have left one under your comment. Hencetalk (talk) 17:34, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Cuba in Angola
hello l.willms, may i turn your attention to a discussion for deletion of the article "cuba in angola" as well as to the article itself. i feel like a lone fighter and i would appreciate your contribution.Sundar1 (talk) 15:33, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation
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Changes to Eurostar
By all means revert my edit if you think it changed the sense of what you wrote. It was not necessary to leave a note on my Talk page.

While the standard of your English is clearly high (and certainly much better than my German), it's not quite as good as that of a native English speaker. Most of my edit was therefore attempting to improve the readability of your contribution, as well as correct errors with a couple of the links. I also deleted a clause in the middle of your paragraph which I thought was not readily comprehensible to most people, and which I felt was anyway too detailed for the article. If you decide to put this back in, it would be helpful if you could re-word it to make clearer what you meant. --JCG33 (talk) 21:02, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Yoani Sanchez
You reverted with out explanation. Please discuss your reversion on the discussion page. Thanks (olive (talk) 16:33, 19 November 2009 (UTC))
 * This is an extremely unhelpful edit, I suggest you refactor it and discuss it rationally in the section immediately above it. Dreadstar  ☥  19:00, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Per WP:COI, I would like to know if you have any affiliations with or interest in Cronon AG or its subsidaries? Thanks!  Dreadstar  ☥  21:45, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * No, I have no relationship whatsoever with Cronon AG. Cronon is for big corporations, ad I am not a big corporation. Also I don't know if Cronon AG has any subsidiaries. What I know is that Cronon AG is itself a subsidiary of Strato AG. Strato sells to the mass market (where I could get web space), and Cronon to corporations. This is like Chevrolet and Cadillac. --L.Willms (talk) 21:52, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

São Tomé and Príncipe
You recently added:
 * A Cuban medical team of seven doctors, nurses and other health workers is working on the main island, with occasionally visits to Principe.
 * São Tomé also hosts a broadcasting station of the US-American International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) for the Voice of America.

Please provide your sources for this statements, If you would like help researching it, I am happy to help. Just let me know. Senator2029 &#124; talk &#124; contribs 10:34, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
 * As to the IBB facility on São Tomé: I saw it with my own eyes. I have several photos on which the antennas do appear; I have to revise the photos though if there is one which shows the entry with the sign identifying the site as belonging to the International Broadcasting Bureau.
 * As to the Cuban medical team: the Cuban Ambassador to Angola and São Tomé (Pedro Ross Leal) told me so, and I also met in person the medical workers themselves.
 * I happend to be in São Tomé on the occasion of the "tomada de posse" of Manuel Pinto da Costa.
 * Yours, L.Willms (talk) 14:13, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

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Moxico Province
please be careful with edits when posting them, such as recent change you made to Moxico Province. It required cleanup. --RichardMills65 (talk) 23:16, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * What's the problem there? What "cleanup" was required according to your view? Please be specific and not so evasive in your comments. --L.Willms (talk) 23:18, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * you could go back and look at the history, but i guess I will do it for you. Please try not to assume that others are out to insult you. In another, more recent edit, Uíge Province here's what you put :

Here's what it was changed to:
 * Offical website
 * Official website
 * A simple typographic error! So what? Good that you spotted that problemito, and thanks for correcting that minor error of mine, but there is no need to make a big fuss about, right? Cheers, L.Willms (talk) 23:34, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * not making a big fuss; just noticed that you made the mistake on 2 consecutive edits and wanted to let you know the correct spelling before you copy/pasted that to any more articles. Thanks - --RichardMills65 (talk) 00:17, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It's good that you are so considerate, but by simply saying that I made a typo which you corrected would have avoided spending so much time on this minor problem. You could have used that time better by telling me something about you, where you are from for example. A better use of our time! Cheers, and bye bye! L.Willms (talk) 00:15, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

SNCF Geodis
I should say this early on - - if you are going to add detail financial information to articles please provide references.

Additionally I don't want to criticise what are fundamentally good additions, but please write in english: 'In the perspective of industrial logic' is not that. Also please make use of links eg Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial..Oranjblud (talk) 23:51, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Also I didn't find some of the companies you added to the lead in the body of the article: Naviland Cargo, Modalohr Express, Novatrans, Districhrono, Ecorail, Froidcombi, Rouch Intermodal et Sefergie in the body of the article - have you got information on when they became part of the organisation? Note- as a general rule the 'lead section' (abstract) should contain a summary of key points in the article, and not contain information not covered in the body of the text. eg see Manual of Style/Lead section.Oranjblud (talk) 00:08, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

..Sorry - I didn't realise english was a second language for you, please don't take my comments personally. I see that fr:Transport et Logistique Partenaires has been written - I will see if it is worth adding an article in english which may simplify things. As for the companies mentioned above - they appear to be small or splinter organisations, and may not credit significant mention - I will take a closer look and see if the article needs updating.Oranjblud (talk) 00:17, 8 August 2012 (UTC)


 * You might have noted that the french article fr:Transport et Logistique Partenaires had been written by meself. On the rest please see my comment on Talk:SNCF Geodis. --L.Willms (talk) 06:13, 8 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry about my error describing Geodis as an EPIC - I have corrected that. I have added a reference noting that 'francewagons' has been merged into 'ermewa'. I'm not aware of any other ways in which the article is out of date, but haven't fully checked the current situation.Oranjblud (talk) 21:19, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

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SAIC-GM-Wuling‎
I made some changes to SAIC-GM-Wuling‎. Please let me know what you think and if I made a mess of the references section. I'd be happy to clean it up! Fleetham (talk) 20:35, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * As to the RE section -- you have again introduced inline REFs instead of placing them in the REF section (which shoudl be sorted by the name= parameter, please); inline REFs make editing of the source very very difficult, because one doesn't see the wood for the trees. You also deleted in the text a reference to a REF in the REF section, which leads to an error. As to the content -- I have to look at it more. Just for the beginning, I think the term "pint-size" is not appropriate; it sound pejorative to me. It also seemed to me that you removed the sentence saying that both SGMW and Liuzhou Wuling use the Wuling brand. I have to take a closer look tomorrow afternoon. --L.Willms (talk) 23:18, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * About placing the refs in the refs section, the only worry I have about that is that it would disallow using two sources to cite a single sentence. IDK if there's a way to do this (which can be seen on the sentence about the cost of SGMW products) using your refs method, but if there is, I think we should do so. I like doing this because it's often much easier to write a nice sentence using multiple sources even if it can introduce reference fragmentation, where the same reference will appear multiple times in the references section. If absolutely necessary, I could re-write everything in a "1 sentence, 1 reference" style, however. As for using the term pint-sized, I don't think it's pejorative. But it is something you might use to describe a child or something for a child, so I agree that it is somewhat out of context in an article about cars. I would be happy to have it changed, but I do think that it helps to alert the reader to just how small these vans are. In the US, a commercial van is going to be much larger than your average passenger vehicle, but SGMW vans are super tiny for commercial vehicles. For example, I believe that the Sunshine is shorter in length than the Chevy Sonic. Anyway, please do read it over tomorrow and know that I'm pretty open to any changes being made. Fleetham (talk) 05:03, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

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Yosef Heller (Historian)
Hello, L.Willms. You recently added a link to Yosef Heller (Historian) on the page Joseph Heller (disambiguation), and in the process had a disagreement with some other editors. I don't believe anyone objects to creating an article about the historian. The "redlink" was removed from the disambiguation page because (1) the page doesn't exist yet, and (2) there don't seem to be other articles referring to Heller. Redlinks are only added to disambiguation pages when existing articles link to them. Yosef Heller is not mentioned at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and there are no articles linking to the title you added, as you can see: Special:WhatLinksHere/Yosef Heller (Historian). The people at WikiProject Biography/Science and academia might be interested to help create an article. Happy editing, Cnilep (talk) 03:44, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The vandalism against this scientist lookes increasingly as a manifestation of antisemitism or a disdain for scientific work. Why do you think that I added this person to the Yosef Heller disambiguation page? Because at least one of his works is being cited in Wikipedia, and the search for the name only shows some very insignificant persons, like a local priest in Brookly or to a 2-line article about a isignificant sportsman from the 1930ies. I added this title so that other users can identify this author of at least a dozen books as a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem what then can help to find biographic information on him. I found this university as identification in the book by this person which I am currently reading ("British Policy towards the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1914", ISBN 0-7146-3127-2, (and other OCLC-numbers). One should be able to read Hebrew for creating the article on this historian, but I unfortunately cannot read Hebrew. As to your claim "there are no articles linking to the title" added, this is quite ridiculous. This Yosef (Joseph) Heller needs to be differentiated from the other bearers of that name. As to links to this scientist see: Special:WhatLinksHere/Yosef Heller (Historian). References to this book in the article space were deleted by political activists for European colonialism. The vandalism against the mentioning of the historian Joseph Heller in the disambiguation page looks like being motivated by the same political hate monger under the pretext of spraying some noodles from the alphabet soup. Just like articles e.g. on  Angola are being manipulated by nostalgics of the South African Apartheid system and the Portuguese Salazar fascism, always hidng the real political motives behind this same alphabet soup as in this innocent disambiguation page, . Wikipedia is increasingly an instrument for reactionary propaganda. --L.Willms (talk) 07:29, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * As it turned out, an article on this person exists, but with the given name transscribed as "Joseph", and somebody added that to the disambiguation page. I have created the REDIRECT page for the given name as "Yosef". --L.Willms (talk) 07:46, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Please calm down: your talk of "political hate monger" is a personal attack on another editor. The link was being removed from the disambiguation page because Joseph/Yosef Heller was not mentioned in the article to which the blue link (to the university) was leading. It was being removed by disambiguation page experts, with no political motivation. There are firm rules about disambiguation pages, included in the "Alphabet soup" links which you were shown but appear to have ignored. Fortunately, as it turned out, there was already a page about the historian so he's now happily linked from the disambiguation page. But please accept that there was no politics in all this, just firm adherence to the long-established rules about what entries do and do not belong in disambiguation pages. (And the disambiguator would always have been "(historian)" with a lower case "h"). Happy Editing. Pam  D  08:29, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Based on my experience with Wikipedia in its various language versions, in 99.9% of all cases there is a political or other sectarian motivation behind such deletions "explained" by just spraying around the alphabet soup. Somebody serious would spell out concretely his motivations, as I do in case I change what other people have created. The "all the knowledge" claim is tainted by the fact that also in Wikipedia the ruling opinion is that of the (current) rulers, and everything else is being censored into the nirvana. --L.Willms (talk) 09:35, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Based on my experience, edits to dab pages by dab page enthusiasts are entirely motivated by the wish to have a consistent set of disambiguation pages which comply with WP:MOSDAB. The editor who first removed "Yosef Heller", at a time when he was not mentioned in any article, fully explained her motivation by directing you to MOS:DABRL and MOS:DABMENTION in her edit summary. These are not "alphabet soup" but links to clear explanations. But if you choose to see political motivation in everything anyone does in the encyclopedia, you won't agree. What a strange experience you've had of editing. Pam  D  23:15, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
 * What happened was an orgy of destruction, instead of adding the article on Yosef Heller (historian) which did exist, just missing the necessary REDIRECT page -- if I hadn't resisted, this article would still not be added to the disambiguation page. And please, just throwing alphabet-soup links around is not an explanation of motives. Those destroyers of knowledge must not prevail. --L.Willms (talk) 08:29, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions. It appears that the page is in good shape now. If I may suggest, working with others is often easier if we assume good faith. While all manner of bad motivations do exist, it's usually most helpful to assume that people are trying to do right and that disagreements result from honest misunderstanding or sincere differences of opinion. "Throwing alphabet soup" may indicate a certain bias – thinking like an insider and failing to explain things sufficiently – but I don't agree that it is prima facie evidence of antisemitism or even reactionary politics. Of course you are free to disagree. Best wishes, Cnilep (talk) 04:25, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

A caution
...if in my presence, you again accuse another editor of being in personal relationship with a family or organisation about which they are writing, or insinuate participation as paid editors rather than volunteer, or otherwise accuse another editor of bias without any basis, as you did at the Fred Trump article Talk page about myself and another editor, I will immediately take the matter to an administrative setting. You can hate the Trump family as much as you wish, and express this however you wish. You cannot, however, disrespect other editor's work or intentions and motivations, without there being consequences. This is the last you will here from me on this, barring further biased, misplaced accusations from you (regarding POV-interfering employment, Trump University affiliation, bias, etc.). Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 00:15, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Look, this is the way to react with threats those people writing biased, interest driven texts in Wikipedia. As I said, Wikipedia is largely biased by paid and unpaid PR agents, and not really limited to presenting facts. --L.Willms (talk) 09:28, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

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Capella (notation program)
Guten Morgen. I have observed the article Capella (notation program) has been proposed for deletion and I have observed you have not been notified despite your contributions to that article. I also note this article was not allocated to any Wikiprojects and may not have come under the radar of such projects. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 08:42, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Sorry noticed this had aleaady been de-prodded but the need for quality references remain. I may help a little later. thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 08:47, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info, User:Djm-leighpark. The proposal to delete the Capella article came from the same User:Wumbolo who proposed the deletion of Forte (notation program). Working for the Competition? What more knowledge does this user want to destroy? --L.Willms (talk) 11:29, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
 * And "wumbolo" has reintroduced the deletion proposal. What a nonsense. BTW, I have updated the article - version 8 is already nearly one year old. --L.Willms (talk) 12:11, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
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Nomination of Edilon Sedra for deletion
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How can that happen? Big raid to destroy information? L.Willms (talk) 19:15, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

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