User talk:Meneerke bloem/Archive 1

A Belgian physician-naturalist?
Dear Prashanths,

Thank you for your message. As you can see from my userpage, I have a good friend, Ivo Pauwels, a well-known geen author and journalist, whose office is Antwerpen-Berchem. We will next month with a small group of garden freaks visit some interesting gardens in the centre of France.

Best regards, --Réginald (To reply) 08:56, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your message! I read about Ivo Pauwels on your user page. I wish you well for your 'garden tour' and your time on wikipedia! Nice to know other physicians with an interest in natural-history. My interest in in birds. :)Have an nice time in Paris. Prashanthns (talk) 09:52, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Redirect
Hi, Réginald! Sorry about the confusion, but the "proper venues" to get rid of an invalid redirect in the English Wikipedia is to alert administrators that the redirect needs to be deleted. This, however, is achieved not by blanking the redirect (which would alert admins alright, except that they most likely suspect vandalism and revert blanking as I did), but by either listing the invalid redirect on WP:RfD, or by prodding it, or by contacting someone directly. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:41, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you, please, provide me with links to the category/image that need to be deleted? I am having trouble finding either Category:Crocus aureus or an image with a similar name.  Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:36, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Reg, you'll need to ask someone at the Commons to delete those. I am not a Commons administrator, so I don't have a capability to delete anything there.  My first impression was that you needed these deleted here, in the English Wikipedia, where I would have been able to help you.  Sorry!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:36, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect wikilink
Reg, not sure what you want me to do. If you need the link removed from your userpage, I can, of course, do it for you, but since it is your userpage, it would be more appropriate if you removed it yourself. On the other hand, if you need the page to which the link leads (or the redirect itself) deleted, I, again, cannot do it because I am only an admin here in the English Wikipedia, and cannot delete pages in Wikipedias in other languages. If I misunderstood your request completely, could you, please, clarify what you need? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:14, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, mystery solved :) The problem was with the User doctor userbox which you have on your userpage.  Someone added the Arabic interwiki link to it improperly, so it showed up on all pages using the userbox instead of being contained in the template.  Fixed.  Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:34, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect link, part 2
Someone incorrectly added an interwiki link to User de-2 instead of placing it on the documentation page, which lead to that interwiki link showing on userpages of all users who have User de-2 displayed. I have corrected this. If it weren't for you, this oversight might have gone unnoticed for who knows how long, so thanks! Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 15:26, February 20, 2009 (UTC)

thank you for the picture
thank you for uploading the picture of the cyclamen graecum, it's one of my favorite autumn flowers :) —,—User:Kkostagiannis

Commercial links
Hi, Réginald! Linking to commercial websites is not exactly prohibited, but should only be done when no free alternative is available. In this case, the site provides fairly good pictures, yet we already have pictures in the article, plus the first link in the list (bioimages.vanderbilt.edu) leads to more pictures hosted on a website of a non-commercial entity. Thus, we have plenty of images to illustrate the subject, so linking to a commercial website is unnecessary. I have removed the link in question, as well as the other link leading to a tree nursery site. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:48, June 10, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the id
Of the Aristolochia. Shyamal (talk) 08:03, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Crocus image
Sadly, I don't know where it was taken. Nor am I a botanist. Best wishes. Saravask 22:14, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Cyclamen photos
I have been looking for good photos of cyclamen species on forums and asking permission from the picture-takers for upload to Wikimedia, so hopefully we will have photos of Cyclamen intaminatum and the others, eventually. So far I have obtained permission for photos of a Cyclamen africanum tuber, an all-white Cyclamen coum, Cyclamen parviflorum in its natural habitat, and a silver-leaf Cyclamen purpurascens: more to come. — Eru·tuon 00:13, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Does Mark Griffiths have a photo of a fully opened Cyclamen alpinum? The current photo doesn't represent the species well, since it shows not-quite-opened flowers. — Eru·tuon 13:54, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I thought that the picture Berne Botanic garden Cyclamen repandum.jpg was peloponnesiacum, not vividum, because peloponnesiacum is said to be light pink with a much darker nose, while vividum is dark all over, with only a slightly darker nose. The photo, along with the photos by Mark Griffiths (which will hopefully be able to be uploaded again...), fits the peloponnesiacum description best. — Eru·tuon 22:25, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I was aware that Cyclamen alpinum's petals do not reflex as much as other cyclamens, but the flowers in the photo (at least the two on the left) have petals that are not reflexed outwards as most Cyclamen alpinum, suggesting that they've just come out of bud. I guess Mark Griffiths is thinking of the one on the right, which is more fully open.

Whether the flowers are fully open or not, the photo looks somewhat odd, since it shows the top of the flower — we can hardly see the nose of the flower. This is confusing, since other photos of cyclamen species on Wikipedia are at more of a side angle, showing the nose and the outward (or bottom) side of the petals. It is harder to compare Cyclamen alpinum to other cyclamen species if the photos are very different. Photos of Cyclamen alpinum at a more natural angle are, for example, here. — Eru·tuon 13:57, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

 * And I thank you specifically for mentioning that new CD remastering of Bruckner's Missa Solemnis. James470 (talk) 16:35, 1 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah yes, I've been meaning to get the Letocart completion of the 9th. James470 (talk) 17:34, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)

 * That could be the case, it would not surprise me. I get the feeling that most of the people in Classical Wikiproject are morons who mostly listen to bubblegum pop and think owning a single multi-volume classical reference they bought at a garage sale makes them experts.  Anyway, your expertise might be going to waste at Wikipedia.  Perhaps you could write an article for something like the Bruckner Journal?  James470 (talk) 18:58, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Bruckner's Psalms

 * Dear Reginald,
 * My German leaves a lot to be desired, as your correction ("odemhat") showed. I did find it strange that Bruckner would use the text from the Lutheran Bible, but perhaps Bruckner would find it strange that I (a Lutheran) am so interested in Catholic liturgy pre-1960s.  I think perhaps the Bruckner Journal could use an article on this specific issue.  James470 (talk) 17:37, 16 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Who wrote that line? Look in the article history.  James470 (talk) 19:06, 16 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Dear Réginald, yes, I wrote it, so that line is based on my limited understanding of German and German Bible translations used in Austria during Bruckner's lifetime. Maybe I understand the topic better than the majority of morons who edit Wikipedia, but it seems to me that you understand this particular topic a lot better than I do.  James470 (talk) 01:36, 17 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Those are good looking articles. Take this as a compliment: Wikipedia doesn't deserve you.  James470 (talk) 06:30, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Bruckner's organ compositions
Dear Reginald

Many thanks for pointing me at the few organ works by Bruckner - I shall listen to them with interest. Maybe you would like to add information on them to the article itself? PhilUK (talk) 10:00, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Mass No. 1
Thank you very much for writing that article. This is perhaps the only words of thanks you will receive for it from anyone on Wikipedia. You ought to write articles about Bruckner for a publication whose entire readership would actually appreciate them. James470 (talk) 05:40, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

German Bible used by A. Bruckner
That actually raises more questions than answers. If you look in the Bruckner Gesamtausgabe, Psalm 150's text is almost the same as the Luther Bible except for a few small spelling differences. The translation you've cited is for some verses very different, e.g., the wohlklingende Cymbeln. James470 (talk) 03:10, 11 September 2011 (UTC)