User talk:Lear 21/Archive 1

Berlin
Hello Sashandre! Thank you for all your edits to the Berlin article. I would only like to ask you to always give a short summary of your edits. If someone checks their watchlist or the history of the article, it is useful to have a few words about each edit there. That's what most registered users do, unlike the anonymous ones, who mostly don't summarize their edits and are more likely to be suspected of vandalism. If you know an edit has been made by a trusted user and is summarized, there's no need to check it for vandalism. Therefore, please do summarize. Thank you. Btw, if you feel you don't have enough photos of Berlin available (of your own or from Commons), feel free to ask me about a picture of a particular place in Berlin. I have a few hundred of them. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 23:18, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Berlin II
Hallo Sashandre! wow what a lot of hard work you´ve put in! The Berlin page does now look much better, I like especially the Bahnhof Friedrichstraße image. I do also feel that you´ve been very radical, sometimes too much so, but think like Trees, it´s better to prune back radically to get good new growth.
 * A Berlin Wiki meeting is being planned for May 2006, so I´ve enclosed a link..., as you might be interested? or not?
 * I´m not sure if you are aware that there are Category lists for Wikipedians in Berlin or Wikipedians in Germany. With all your contributions, I think you belong on these lists??
 * Übrigens, most of us are poor; but not all of us are sexy!
 * User:IsarSteve

Category:wikipedians in Berlin Category:Wikipedians in Germany

"Berlin" dix point! IsarSteve 19:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Japanese?
Hi Sashandre! I guess it was you who posted this on the Berlin article in the Japanese Wikipedia:

''Hi engl.-BerlinPage Lovers ! would be great to see you voting here Wikipedia:Good Article Collaboration of the week)''

Unfortunately the link does not work. Maybe you should put something like en: before Wikipedia, but I am not sure. Remember: English is not the default language in the wikipedia world.de:User:ペーター

Berlin photos
Hi Sashandre! I've gone through my Berlin pictures. I have found e.g. the TIPI tent (the picture is not the highest quality though), a picture of Tiergarten with or without Kanzleramt taken from the air, the new buildings at Potsdamer Platz also taken from the air, Checkpoint Charlie, some pictures from the (inside of the) Bundestag, the Jewish Museum, a street near Zoologischer Garten at dawn (with Hitachi and Burger King signs etc.), a huge black-and-white poster in front of the Brandenburg Gate (taken last summer), some pictures from the surroundings of the Arkaden, the Theater am Potsdamer Platz, and the apartment buildings at Potsdamer Platz. It's not exactly what you asked for, but I tried to select the most interesting of my pictures. If you think you could use any of them, please let me know and I'll upload them as soon as possible. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 21:20, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Time
The time is not yet accurate in Berlin and London! It is a 5 min delay ... User:Sashandre


 * Thanks for the feedback. The clock is only correct when you load the page. If you leave the page open for five minutes, then it will be 5 minutes delayed. Pcb21 Pete 11:06, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Last state election
What state does the Last state election article refer to? --DMG413 13:41, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I've just added this sentence to the talk page of the article:
 * "This article should have a more specific name and at least one introductory sentence, so that it is clear what it is about." Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 13:43, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Vote and meeting
Thanks for your message; I voted in support of Berlin. And feel free to join us here Lectonar 14:25, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

India links
Hello Sashandre, Some India related links that might interest you.

- Ganeshk  ( talk ) 23:48, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

theater articles
Sashandre, I'd suggest expanding the page for the Gorki Theater and others. You could easily include some info from the website to make it a more helpful article. I would do it myself, but I don't know German. That article would not be a candidate for deletion if it had just a little content, imho. --Kchase02 05:47, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes I was going to change the username. Thank you for the correct page WP:CHU ! (Sashandre 10:42, 29 June 2006 (UTC))

Berlin meetup
Some of us English-speaking Wikipedians from Berlin are going to meet up in August. If you'd like to join us, sign up at Meetup/Berlin. Hope to see you there! User:Angr 07:34, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Advertising
¿Podrías dejar de poner tu aviso en es:Discusión:Berlín? Si no podés, no habrá más remedio que bloquearte.
 * Übersetzung (?): Halt. Du kannst nicht halten, du wirst blockiert. --es:usuario:angus

Signing talk pages
It would be great if you actually sign your post as I did for mine. Kingjeff 00:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

and by the way, you better get your facts straight before you accuse me of anything. You should know I'm no sockpuppet. Kingjeff 00:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

If you're so sure that I'm a sockpuppet, then whats the other account? The fact is I only did 1 revert of it which you reverted yourself. Kingjeff 00:34, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I don't even use those warnings. There's 1 piece of evidence that I'm not a sock puppet. Kingjeff 01:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Lear21, it's clear that those were sockpuppets making those POV edits, but they aren't Kingjeff's sockpuppets. I'm pretty sure this edit of his was done in good faith, and he quickly switched to reverting the page to the NPOV version:, . No, the socks responsible for the recet POV-pushing almost certainly belong to User:Just the way, who was doing the exact same thing in June: calling the Reichstag photo "Soviet propaganda", removing all mention of Kristallnacht, and talking about how the Nazis made "technical and aesthetical innovations". I've now blocked both Semlow and Ide Nov on suspicion of being Just the way's socks. Also, please do not refer to POV-pushing as "vandalism", however much it feels like it. There is an important distinction between vandalism and POV pushing, and it's actually rather trollish to call POV pushing "vandalism". —Angr 05:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * See also Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. —Angr 05:57, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

user page box
Hi mate - I was just checking out your userpage and saw the "places I've been" boxes. How do you get them? There doesn't seem to be any code that refers to them on your page, but they are very cool indeed and I'd sincerely like to steal your idea! Regards,  DJR  ( T ) 22:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

There is a code! Click 'edit this page' and sroll down the code, you´ll find it and you just have to change the image of the flags... all the best Lear 21 22:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah yes - I didn't think to scroll down! Thanks,  DJR  ( T ) 23:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

EU cities
hi there. thanks for your invitation about EU cities. I definitely support the EU, and I personally would love to see EU being included after the country, but I am not sure whether this Wikipedia is the right place to promote this idea. I am sure that some people could label this as POV. Some may argue that we should also do the same for NAFTA, ASEAN, African Union, UN, etc. I should think more about this before I support this practice in the wiki. NerdyNSK 15:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Ide Nov
He's been busy: Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Semlow Jayjg (talk) 18:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Please Use Edit Summaries
When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this: The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. –-  kungming·  2 | (Talk ·Contact) 19:16, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Berlin
Would you be interested in starting WikiProject Berlin? I know you've done a lot of edits in the Berlin articles and I thought you might be a prime candidate to lead a WikiProject for Berlin. You can get back to me asap about this. Kingjeff 03:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Probably the Germany project talk page is the best place to discuss an implementation of this proposal. There are definitely enough Wikipedians interested or living in Berlin around (including at least five admins) that such a project can get off the ground. Kusma (討論) 12:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, to both of you! I certainly think the Berlin-Issue has the potential for a standalone Wikiproject. But! Right now, I´m not that convinced of enough contributers to make it a fully rolling one. So, some combined forces of Germany project/portal seem more realistic to me. I´m very split about this decision. Personally, I´m rather aiming to reduce my input and concentrate more on maintenance in the future. all the best Lear 21 23:08, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

WP Munich
 Hello,

You are invited to join WikiProject Munich!

There are a lot of things to do in this project. From creating new articles to finetuning articles into featured article status.

How can you help?
 * You can join a Task Force.
 * You can help comform Munich-related articles to Wikipedia Policy.
 * You can get free Munich-related images under GNU Free Documentation License.
 * You can create and edit of Munich-related articles.
 * You can do translations from German Wikipedia to English Wikipedia on Munich-related articles.
 * You can help do assessments of Munich-related articles.
 * You can help expand articles currently in the Stub-class and Start-class.
 * You can help reference articles.
 * Since original research is against Wikipedia policy, you can research topics to expand. This means you don't need to know anything about Munich.
 * You can help expand stubs and start-class articles and help finetune other articles into Featured article status.

A WikiProject of this nature is very broad. Munich has a rich history in sports, culture, politics along with many more topics. Feel free to help out in your area of interest.

If you want to check the project out you can click the link above. If you want to join the project, you can sign up here.

If you have any questions feel free to contact myself or any other member of the project.

 Kingjeff 16:01, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Kingjeff, thanks for invitation. For now it seems unlikely that I join soon, even for the Berlin article I will have less time in the future. all the best Lear 21 23:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

test
this is ....Lear 21 11:46, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello
I was curious about why you remove European Capital of Culture from all sorts of places like you did in Thessaloniki. Is there a previous discussion re that template somewhere? NikoSilver 15:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, I´m not sure I really understand what you mean. I introduced/ added a new template to the cities in a standard template format. all the best Lear 21 15:41, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Duh, nice work on your part and sorry. Why did I read it backwards (like Arabic?) I don't know.


 * Trying to compensate you for my error; it reminds me of a major marketing blooper when in order to advertize a pain-killer in an Arabic country, they copied a series of three pics; one sad, one taking the pill, and one happy. The audience perceived it backwards of course... :-) NikoSilver 15:57, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

eu page
Wie geht's? Es scheint, dass du fast alles in den letzen Tagen geschrieben hast, also schreibe ich dir - ich merke aber, dass die Struktur noch ein bisschen verwechselt ist. Kann ich vorschlagen, vielleicht koennte es wie die Indien oder Nepal Seiten sein? z.B. Religion sollte lieber unter Kultur diskutiert werden; und Militaer vielleicht passt besser mit Aussenpolitik zusammen? :) (Ick war ein Berliner) Wikidea 06:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)


 * ich bemerkte gerade auch, dass die intergov. stoff wahrscheinlich von diesem "philosoph" (Thomas Ash) geschrieben war - die einzige Fussnote ist von seinem website! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikidea (talk • contribs) 06:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC).

Hi, der Artikel ist immer noch in der Entwicklung. Deine Anregungen hatte ich auch schon im Sinn ( military/international relations). Die bisherigen Vorbilder waren UK,Canada,USA -Artikel. Allerdings denke ich, muss man die einzigartige Struktur der EU berücksichtigen und zeigen. Ein 100% country-like Artikel ist vielleicht nicht ganz möglich ... lets see ( Ick war ein Humboldtianer) all the best Lear 21 06:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Creation of templates
See Help:Template for info on creating templates. I haven't created one myself, so I can't help you past that. I hope you find what you need. --Sopoforic 22:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

education/demographics
In the US article, education is placed under demographics Ssolbergj 19:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

European Union
Hi,

I've noticed the new design for the en: European Union article too. The current article at the Chinese Wikipedia is a disgrace. I was planning to work on it whenever I can find free time, though this is turning out to be as abortive as many of my other Wikipedia-related resolutions. -__-

Thanks for your reminder, by the way. =)

-- ran (talk) 20:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Largest city template
The population numbers are official and trustworthy, but the density numbers are more questionable. (24,672 per km2 in paris and 1,985 per km2 in rome?)

An own template-list of cities in the infobox would be totally non-standard, and as I see it unnecessary as we allready have the topic in the article, which is common practice. Just delete the density-numbers if they are (as you said) results of edit wars, and you dont trust them at all. all the bestSsolbergj 16:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I will stop
but you're mistaken that I'm vandalising anything. You're the only one in the whole wp who adds this mad img to title bars. You're vandalising templates, not me. --132.73.80.97 15:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Changes to EU Article
Please don't revert changes that you haven't been willing to discuss (as you put it yourself, you'd rather edit than discuss). Countersubject 01:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I have explained my reasoning, at considerable length, both in terms of general principals and specific items. Unfortunately you've responded with points that, while interesting, don't address the those I and others raised. They also seem to be long on sentiment, and short on the specifics of particular graphics. You've then gone on to say - quite damningly - that you'd rather edit than discuss. You've also made comments to another user that look to be menacing (I hope this is just a problem of translation).

You clearly have a great interest in the subject matter of the article, and a belief in the potential of graphics for improving an article. So do I. Let's both take a deep breath and harness that interest and belief in a rational, focussed, NPOV discussion. Regards, Countersubject 15:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)