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French castles
I notice you made some edits to some of my pages on French castles and added some more to the List of French castles page. Many thanks for that. Somehow, I took on that page when I noriced that many of the entries there were not actually castles, but palaces or even vineyards - the problem from translating the French word château. Since then, I have slowly but surely translating as best I can suitable articles from the French wiki - a massive task (and getting bigger now you've added more!!). From your user name and looking at a list of your contributions, it appears that you also interested in French culture, so, if you have the time and the interest, how about joining me in trying to get some more castle pages in the English wiki?

Once again, thanks for your edits - much appreciated. Emeraude 18:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I see you've added a translation of Château de Blandy-les-Tours from French. Well done. I hope you don't mind that I made a few changes, in particular to some of the vocabulary. The French use château fort to mean castle, as distinct from other type of château. Donjon is keep in English (dungeon being usually the underground part). Enceinte is best translated, I think, as the English arcitectural term curtain wall and cour as courtyard. Pierre meulière I think is millstone grit or gritstone, used of course for making millstones. I also took the liberty of adding the tag at the bottom to say that the article was a translation from French wiki. Great work - well done. Emeraude 15:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for going over my edits with a fine-toothed comb. Greatly appreciated. — Kaustuv Chaudhuri 23:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Castles list
Thank you - a great holiday. I found some information about many castles in the Hérault departement which is now in Castles in Hérault and Château de Pézenas. (I actually stay in Pézenas several times a year so I know the area well.)

I am still not sure about how to arrange the List. I have kept my version up-to-date, so whatever is decided it should be very easy to merge yours, mine and the original. I have looked at the various French Wikipedia lists - the alphabetical lists are too complicated, but the lists by department and by region seem to be manageable. But which to choose? I think we only need one list. I am beginning to think yours is the easier, but the maps do get in the way. Smaller perhaps? Let's give it a few days and see if anyone else comments. I will also ask for suggestions from the Wikipedia France project and see if they have any suggestions. (See Wikipedia talk:France-related topics notice board.) Emeraude 11:27, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject France
Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk)  13:15, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Cantons of the Seine-et-Marne department is informative, but I feel a template to it, showing perhaps the map would be more interesting, as not all are familiar with geography of France. Perhaps I will try to make a template which would ease up this work. Happy editing, STTW (talk)  19:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

DYK!
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Castles list

 * To: User:M-le-mot-dit, User:Kaustuv, User:SlaveToTheWage, Talk:List of castles in France, Wikipedia talk:France-related topics notice board


 * List of castles in France: I have looked at the users' suggestions and comments and have made a new draft that I think could be the way forward.  It uses the basic format drafted by User:M-le-mot-dit and the sort of layour used in the French Wiki.


 * My proposal, with notes and explanation is at User:Emeraude/Castles2.


 * For information, other versions are:


 * List of castles in France - the present page
 * User:Emeraude/Castles - my first draft, grouped by dept.
 * User:M-le-mot-dit/draft - M-le-mot-dit's draft, grouped by region, then dept


 * What do you think? Emeraude 14:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Simon Waley Waley
Thank you for your edit to this article. However, how do you know that Mr Waley was writing about Auvergne (province) and not Auvergne (region)?--Runcorn 15:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Fair enough - thanks very much!--Runcorn 17:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

865
Thanks for fixig my link to Lorraine, I guess I didn't notice I linked to a disambiguation page rather than the right article! Cheers!  Intinn Talk! 09:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Please use edit summaries for new pages that are more informative than "new article". We already know that it's a new article. &#9786; You'll assist new page patrollers greatly even if you simply use a summary such as "  ". Uncle G 16:33, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Château de Brie-Comte-Robert
Good article. I had not heard of this castle, but will try to visit it next time I am in France. I have done my best to tidy your translation. Superb photos - well done.Emeraude 16:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Your username
Just to say I love it! Ca fait très Prince de Mot tordu. -- lucasbfr talk 09:23, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

77bcr77
Que ce passe t-il ?, j'ai de droit d'immiger de wikipedia Français à Wikipedia English, 77bcr77 10:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Little context in Communauté de communes de la Brie Boisée
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Hôtel-Dieu of Brie-Comte-Robert
Tien ! (je suis 77bcr77 => France) l'article peut-être traduit ?? Hôtel-Dieu of Brie-Comte-Robert, rep, 77bcr77 17:32, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Communes de France
HI thanks for your work on French communes I've been doing Pas-de-Calais and we still have tens of thousands of articles missing. I've just started Tortequesne but could you show me how to get the locator map working. I don't understand x and y. PLease respond thanks  ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦       "Talk"? 10:57, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes - how do you know the x and y pins on the map? they look unrelated to the cordinates. You see I like yourself want to add a locator map for every new article as I feel they help people better  ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦       "Talk"? 11:03, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

I've figured a way to get them from dutch wikipedia. I use the french wiki template and I can get them from dutch wikipedia. This way my new articles can be like Tortequesne. I would love to see an article on every commune in France standardized with a locator/map and infobox like this. I wonder why at over 2 million articles most of France is still missing when lesser wikipedias all have articles on them? Keep up the good work  ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦       "Talk"? 11:08, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your clean up and improvements on Guimiliau, etc, the Breton parish closes. I got these started in August and September because I thought they deserved some real attention. Your information boxes and other additions have really given them a more uniform and coherent look.Sjwells53 (talk) 20:07, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep up the good work. Essonne was next on my list. I started with AIn and have now reached Doubs, I;ll continue later tomorrow. Sorry if they are stibs but I really want to kill of those red links which have been missing far too long. Its about time the pages were set up. What we want eventually of course is those lovely looking infoboxes and those good lookin maps that you do. Regards! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦     $1,000,000? 22:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguation of Mercedes(-Benz)
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France
Great work on French stubs! By the way, are you a member of WikiProject France? Basketballone ten  23:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Good work, again! Basketball 110  what famous people say  18:20, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, if there is anything that I can do to help... I'm already adding this:  to each talk page. Basketball 110   what famous people say  18:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Great. For a moment there, I was in the scope of the French WikiProject. Important me... Basketball 110  what famous people say  18:45, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

infobox French commune
Hi,

since you're obviously interested: I'm adding an automatic map to the infobox French commune, see: Template talk:French commune. Markussep Talk 18:28, 11 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Oops, I didn't realise I messed up the maps. Thanks for correcting it. Markussep Talk 18:17, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I think your new image is better than the original, I replaced it in the template. Markussep Talk 21:12, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Looks good buddy. Thanks!! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 22:30, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

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Château de Fontenoy-le-Château
Sorry to have taken so long to reply to you - I was in France for two weeks.

Your translation is very good. I have made a few alterations which I think improve its English style and I hope you agree. Emeraude (talk) 12:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

No, I didn't visit any castles. I was too busy. But I have a number on my list that I will look at when I go back again in June. Emeraude (talk) 18:16, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey, Thanks for all the good work you're currently doing with co-ordinates .... Hogyn Lleol (talk) 18:22, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Defaultsort
I am duplicating the defaultsort because last I checked it was not working for the category pages. Ksnow (talk) 18:35, 5 September 2008 (UTC)Ksnow

Thanks very much!
Hello M-le-mot-dit, thank you for adding the photograph on the Château de Syam article. And apologies for my misunderstanidng that the château list was intended for fortified castles. I will be in Basel next summer and hope to see Château de Syam. CApitol3 (talk) 00:55, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

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 * Parce was reverted to its original version (a redirect). — M-le-mot-dit (T) 12:05, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Chelles
Merci et saluts Charles01 (talk) 12:16, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Park Club
So when did the Park Club ("Woodlands") become an Indian Restaurant? I know that there is an "Aagrah" in an old garage 100 yds away from it, but I am surprised to hear about the club - after all, Woodlands has now lost the Cabbage, the New Club, and now this??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Judge (talk • contribs) 13:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Which article are you talking about? — M-le-mot-dit (T) 10:46, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Confort
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Request
Salut M. Maudit Mot-dit: Merci pour votre aide avec l'article "Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes". Je suis actuellement à la recherche d'une personne capable de traduire un article intitulé "Japan-Korea Undersea Tunnel", de l'anglais vers le français.

Si vous êtes cette personne, ou si vous connaissez quelqu'un qui serait intéressé à lui, s'il vous plaît n'hésitez pas à lancer une telle page. Je cherche à traduire en plusieurs langues afin de promouvoir le projet proposé, qui pourrait avoir une très large, et nous espérons positive, l'impact économique.

Best, --HarryZilber (talk) 00:44, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Je vous remercie de votre suggestion, j'ai ajouté à ma demande. --HarryZilber (talk) 17:36, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Question about templates
Thanks for the information on my talk page (I have replied there.)I hope you may be able to answer a question for me. I have noticed that commune articles on French Wikipedia all include information on mayors in a table format using the Éludébut template. Do you know if there is something equivalent on English Wikipedia? I have not been able to find anything and have thus so far omitted the mayor information from my translations of these pages. Thanks. fluoronaut (talk) 18:55, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello
can u find a more interessant image for Nantes ? 41.249.8.43 (talk) 15:03, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Intercommunality in French communes
Marcus Sep had tweaked the infobox template so that these automatically linked to the page, if it existed. I need to check with him why these are not working correctly. Ksnow (talk) 15:05, 16 September 2009 (UTC)Ksnow

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Château-Gaillard
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Volleyball players
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This one has been a struggle but I am nearly there at User:SimonTrew/Voguéo. Still some work to go there before even a first verion, but any help you could give me would be much appreciated. I added a supplementary article in, the company who built the catamarans, and again I am sure my translation is not the best, but better than nothing.

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Saint Potan
Did you create this page? Very nice. Added a photo. YellowFratello (talk) 14:32, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Picture
No problem - glad you approved. How do you know Saint P ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by YellowFratello (talk • contribs) 08:08, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

WPCleaner
Can you give me the exact WPCleaner download link? --Tito Dutta (talk) 19:49, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello, You can find the donwload link in the WPCleaner/Installation page: this address (or this one if you're having troubles) . Happy new year and merry disambiguation! — M-le-mot-dit (T) 09:11, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

guêpe
Pouvez-vous enregistrer le mot guêpe en québécois dans Wikimedia Commons S.V.P ? 198.105.102.214 (talk) 22:44, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

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Redirects
Regarding your edits and  (and many others): are you aware of WP:NOTBROKEN? One of your changes in the latter (Mozart family grand tour) is a good example why redirects should not be "fixed": there's a good reason to keep Sonata in C for Keyboard and Violin (Mozart) instead of replacing it with Violin Sonatas, KV 6–9 (Mozart). -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:49, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, I've restored this redirect. — M-le-mot-dit (T) 14:44, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Works of James Pradier
Hi

I would like to fix disambiguations you mention but need help in downloading wikicleaner. Many thanks Weglinde (talk) 08:12, 21 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * Don't worry, all disambiguation links in List of works by James Pradier are currently fixed.
 * To install WPCleaner, you can find information at WPCleaner/Installation; try this address (or this one) . Regards, — M-le-mot-dit (T) 08:31, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

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