User talk:Sebastian scha./Archives/2009/April

Flagicons
Regarding the flagicons, they are legitimately used on election templates to differentiate templates of different countries when used on the same page, and as such are the standard for all those templates.

In addition, the whole flagicon thing is almost entirely down to just two users, only one of which continues with the crusade. I'm not for overlooking wiki policy, but if there's any one that deserves ignoring because it doesn't reflect mainstream consensus, it's this one. пﮟოьεԻ  5  7  15:45, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but they appeared to be blind reverts, as they removed useful changes other than adding the flagicon (e.g. linking to an existing article on politics). Apologies if you also meant to reinstate the redlink. пﮟოьεԻ   5  7  16:53, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * FWIW: Flagicons can be removed from view by css. Agathoclea (talk) 15:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * These templates link in the flagicon to the country, so I don't know how it will look (and work) if the flag is switched off. But as I said on the corresponding talk page, it's not my problem. Sebastian scha. (talk) 17:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Germany


Welcome,, to the WikiProject Germany! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template WikiProject Germany. A few features that you might find helpful:
 * The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you.
 * Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to [ watchlist it].
 * We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project!Agathoclea (talk) 15:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks, my very first star. I'm proud and speechless *smile* Sebastian scha. (talk) 17:15, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Verbindungsbahn (Stuttgart)
I saw your addition to the Verbindungsbahn (Stuttgart) article to do with the lack of references. Here is my question: Since the article is tagged in the discussion page as a translation from the German article, and this German article has references (if only 2), does that suffice, and mean that this article can stand alone without repeating the references, or should the references seen in the German article be carried forward into the translated article? I am totally open to suggestions - is there a page that explains this issue? Thank you! Concertmusic (talk) 16:34, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your answer on my talk page. I have added the references used in the German article, and have changed the template to .  One additional question:  I think one could assume that the article is largely based on the one item listed in the Literature section, based on the fact that the book appears to be about the Verbindungsbahn, and has 226 pages.  However, this is not stated anywhere.  If the facts as stated cannot be researched further, and the book seems to be out-of-print, I would still argue that the article should be kept, as it appears to provide useful, if unreferenced information.  What are your thoughts? Concertmusic (talk) 19:00, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Temporary injunction and your use of my monobook script
Hi Sebastian,

I am pleased to see that you have used my monobook script in the past; I hope you've found it useful.

This is to let you know that ArbCom has announced a temporary injunction against the "mass delinking of dates". You can still delink dates on an occasional basis; however, you may wish to be cautious and use the script only for its non-date functions until the issue is resolved by an RFC poll. You may wish to express your view on autoformatting and date linking in the RFC at: Date_formatting_and_linking_poll.

Lightmouse (talk) 18:04, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Categories of railway lines
Hi Sebastian, I'd forgotten to 'watch' Minden Museum Railway, so thanks for the message! Gruß, Paul. --Bermicourt (talk) 09:34, 14 April 2009 (UTC)