User talk:RuudVisser

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Deletion votes
Not that I'm trying to swing your vote (no, really, I'm not :) ), but I've noticed you make the point at least twice in deletion votes, that since you're new, your vote shouldn't count. Don't let that be your attitude. One of Wikipedia's foremost rules is Be Bold. If your argument or position is unreasonable, then you'll likely be called up on it, but don't assume because you're new your vote doesn't count. I've only been editing for a few months, and I've created articles, moved them, nominated for deletion, uploaded images, reverted vandalism, deleted non-sensical sections. Naturally I made some mistakes but the WP community accepts that these happen, and generally moves on without another word.

Oh, and most people respond on the talk page of the user who sent them the message. Koot may not be watching your talk page so might not have seen your above response, but if you had posted it on his talk page, he would have gotten an alert box saying, "you have new messages." Some experienced members do respond on their own pages, but the majority doesn't. I tend to respond on others talk pages, then copy and paste my own responses to my page in italics after a while, so I can go back, check, and still realise what the conversation's about. :) - Hayter 13:33, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Baseball on Wikicities
Hello RuudVisser, Googie Man here and I want to ask you something as a fellow baseball fan on Wikipedia. Jimbo and Angela have made a new webstie called Wikicities. This link in particular will take you to the baseball Wikicity. As you'll see it's similar to Wikipedia, but my hope is this will allow baseball fans to do more and different things, like reporting on games, in depth statistics, create mulitple pages for pictures, and whatever else baseball fans care to create. You've done great work on Wikipedia and I was hoping you could help get this baseball Wikicity off the ground. Please let me if you're interested. Thanks!  Googie Man ( Talk), 17:29, 5 January 2006 (UTC).

VWN en WCN
Beste RuudVisser,

Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org. Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 21:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Help requested at Emancipation
We are having troubles with a somewhat eccentric editor (User:FredrickS) at the Emancipation disambiguation page. Briefly, he is insisting on a link there to proportional representation, on the theory that since emancipation can be political, and (in his view) proportional representation provides the greatest amount of this emancipation, the link is of obvious necessity, complete with a mini-essay! A number of editors have been unsuccessful in pointing out the standard format of disambiguation pages (MOS:DAB), the lack of any common usage of "emancipation" as a necessary synonym for "proportional representation", and the WP:NOR nature of his reasoning. I'm trying to enlist a few more editors to the page, and chose you somewhat randomly from the list of Wikipedians in the Netherlands (he is originally from there, and seems to feel "North American" editors are lacking a proper grasp of things). If you would be willing to stop by, read the Talk page, and offer any comments, it might be helpful. Thanks - David Oberst 21:17, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Dear Ruud Visser,
 * I will communicate with you in English, so others can read this as well. Thank you for your reply. I discovered that the Dutch/European version of Emancipation is not understood by my fellow Americans and Canadians. Your remark that the "easiest connection between emancipation and PR I can think of, is an article on political emancipation" seems to fall on deaf ears. I cannot even get the word 'politics' on this page because they consider it an opinion. For me (and at least the Dutch and German dictionary), emancipation is a political word. Just follow the word Suffragettes — which is also my entry — it got pushed and shoved around (and I don't mind to bump heads, as long as both sides learn from the experience), and it shows how uncomfortable North-Americans are with emanciaption in a political context. I will be making a new category this time, for both suffragettes and marxism (for which I found an incredible amount of entries).
 * As an extra note, foreign languages should be allowed to be included for Disambiguity pages on Wikipedia when we are talking about 'globalizing' languages. Many European articles are translated into English, for instance, and political emancipation gets translated straight into English, as is. When the disambiguity page does not refer to the option that emancipation can be known in a political context then that page is not complete?
 * Thanks FredrickS 15:59, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, Ruud (bedankt!). We got a tiny step further. (If you want I don't mind if you delete this segment after you read this) FredrickS 22:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Copyright violations
The use of fair use images on your page User:RuudVisser/temp is a violation of copyright law as there is no fair use rationale for using the pictures there. Please remove all of the fair use image on this page. -Thanks Nv8200p talk 18:56, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Template:End NFL SBS
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AfD nomination of Moquette
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File:STDS9Ep217b.jpg listed for deletion
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Nomination for deletion of Template:StarTrekDS9 article
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