User talk:Van der Hoorn

NOTE: If you have any stars to give me, please do so at User:Van der Hoorn/Star. That will keep this page clean for conversation. Thanks! Van der Hoorn (talk) 22:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

National Variants of English
Hi and welcome (or should I say G'day mate). Can you please use the appropriate spelling of words for the region the article is about. In Australia we have barbeques and spell it that way. I've reverted a number of edits you made to articles about Australia using WP:ENGVAR (Articles that focus on a topic specific to a particular English-speaking country should generally conform to the usage and spelling of that country) as the basis for doing so. Alex Sims 06:38, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi there. The correct spelling of the word (even in Australian English) is barbecue, not barbeque. That some folks spell it differently, doesn't mean it's correct. Van der Hoorn 15:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * According to the Macquarie Dictionary 4th ed 2005 "The alternative spelling barbeque is much more widely used in Australia than in the US or UK". The dictionary marks barbecue as the head entry and more common and thus you should find this used exclusively on the ABC (although google shows 1980 for barbecue but still 1080 for barbeque). Nevertheless in Australian English barbeque is perfectly acceptable and in the article on Glover Playgrounds the local council used this spelling on their material which I cited. As to the Oxford Dictionary it doesn't even mention barbeque. Alex Sims 10:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

"The Dictionary of American English shows that the word [barbeque] was used in America at least by 1655, when it first appeared in print, and by 1733 it had taken on the implications of a social gathering. By 1836 barbeques were popular in Texas...” The Encyclopedia of American Food, John Mariani [Lebhar-Friedman:New York] 1999pg1Osakadan 14:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I see you also were 'Barbequed' and thought I'd extend my support. I put a fact or two about the spellings on my user page if you want to argue back. Good luck. Ewen 14:49, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

HDJ High School
I wanted to take this time to thank you for your contribution to the Harry D. Jacobs High School article. I appreciate your reading over everything and correcting my typo.

By the way, you seem more than qualified as a WikiGnome. You might consider adding it to your userpage. Limp Trizkit 05:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the spelling help
Thanks for the spelling edits on the "Seconds" article - I tend to fly too fast sometimes - or is it "tend too fly to fast?" I'm pretty sure its the first one.

I'd be interested in knowing what led you to read the "Seconds" article?

todd@idratherdirect.com

Redirects
Hi, I noticed you were editing lots of links. Just wanted to make sure you're aware of the recommendations at Redirect. Cheers, Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually I wasnt :S Thanks for the hint, I'll be more careful in the future. Van der Hoorn 20:42, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Western Sahara
Hi, you have reverted my edits to WS as vandalism. You do better familiarize yourself with the meaning of vandalism and its use. I removed three categories that do not apply to Western Sahara: it is not a AU member state (it is different from the SADR which is a member), it is not a spanish speaking "country". you will hardly find anyone less than 40 years old who can speak spanish. Finally, it is not under military occupation because it is a disputed territory and not occupied. Saying it is a military occupation is dismissing the claim of one of the parties to the conflict which the UN has not done. Cheers. --A Jalil 12:52, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * According to the AU page it is a member state (see the colored picture), therefore I assumed your edits were vandalism. If you watch the Western Sahara page, you know that a lot of vandalism takes place, so please do not feel offended, it was not my intention. Also, it might be wise to put your motivations in the discussion thread, so others will understand them. Greets. Van der Hoorn 12:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Sheerness FAC
Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but as a Wikiproject Grammar member, I just wondered if you would be willing to have a look through the Sheerness article. It is currently a Featured Article Candidate and needs a copy-edit for grammar by someone who hasn't yet seen it. Any other ways to improve the article would also be welcome. Thank you very much, if you can. Epbr123 23:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Viking picture
Hoi, de bron van de viking foto is. Groeten, 80.100.145.237 16:21, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Hoi Van der Hoorn
Dear Van der Hoorn,

Hi! First of all, I want to congratulate you for your great work on Wikipedia.

I would like to know if you could please help with adding a brief NL translation of the PIP-English Wikipedia article or a translation (to the Dutch language) from the Lingua Latina shorter-version of the Independentiae Portus Divitis article.

If you could help with that, that would be great and I would be very grateful!

Anticipated thanks,

Boricua janitoress (talk) 03:18, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Template:Explorer program
Thanks for sorting this out; I'd come to the same conclusion about the names. Sardanaphalus (talk) 15:10, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

"indirect link -> direct link" - some good edits, but a bad reason...
Hi,

I notice you've been making several edits with the above comment. Some of them are good edits, such as "Mariner I" to its correct name, "Mariner 1", but the reason it's a good edit is not because it's no longer an indirect link; it's because you corrected the content of the article.

Please see Redirect. There is no benefit to changing a link just because it is to a redirect; redirects perform useful purposes. For example, there's no particular benefit to changing Ruby to Ruby, as you did on Talk:Interpreted language; it doesn't change the reader's experience in any way. Mostly, it's just churn in the change log. Regards, NapoliRoma (talk) 03:56, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

A new task force - ESA
Hello,

I've noticed that you are active in the area of space exploration. I just wanted to let you know that a European Space Agency task force has been set up to improve the presently very poor condition of articles about ESA and related topics. If you are interested, please join the task force here. We sure could use your help. Thanks.U5K0 (talk) 11:35, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

de:Liste der Biografien
Hallo Van der Hoorn,

du hast in der Liste der Biografien Einträge/Austräge vorgenommen. Das ist künftig nicht mehr nötig. Die Listen werden von einem Bot bearbeitet. Alle Einträge auf den Listen stammen aus den Personendaten. Wenn du also da deine Korrekturen vornimmst erscheinen sie spätestens zwei Tage später auch in den Listen. Gelöschte Links werden automatisch aussortiert. Gruß de:Benutzer:Graphikus

Script
Hi. I am in the process of developing a script to automatically correct common misspellings in articles. The initial goal is for users to have a button at the top of the article which will open an edit window and do a search/replace to correct common misspellings. When the script completes, it then shows the changes and allows the editor to decide if the changes were correct. The goal is to have as few falsely corrected entries, so some of the entries on WP:LCM wouldn't be added. If you are interested in trying it out, let me know. My initial prototype only has entries from the "A" page. There are probably some minor bugs in there as well, but it won't commit any changes without approval. The script is at User:Symplectic Map/spell.js and you just have to include it in your monobook.js file, e.g., User:Symplectic Map/monobook.js. If you are using something other than the standard theme, it would have to be included there instead. It should work on Firefox and Google Chrome. I haven't tested Internet Explorer. If you know of another script for doing this sort of thing, please let me know, so I don't unnecessarily waste any time. Thanks! Symplectic Map (talk) 20:51, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

de:Heinrich Cotta
Hallo Van der Hoorn, ich melde mich aufgrund deines Edits in obigem Artikel. Du hast dabei die Rechtschreibung in einem Zitat verändert. Das ist nach dem allgemein gültigen Zitatrecht nicht zulässig. Vergleiche dazu auch de:Wikipedia:Zitate, wo es u.a. heißt: ''Ein wörtliches Zitat muss genau sein. Es ist nicht gestattet, den Text zu korrigieren, an die heutige Rechtschreibung anzupassen oder Verbformen zu beugen usw.''. Gruß -- J.-H. Janßen (talk) 17:32, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Demographics of Estonia
As a significant contributor to Demographics of Estonia at some time in the distant or recent past, I am asking you to look over the article for any factual errors that I may have introduced or overlooked in my recent cleanup of said article. I have no expertise at all regarding Estonia, but undertook to clean up the article anyway. My primary contribution was to create an introduction more in keeping with the provisions of WP:LEDE, and to introduce a more readable prose in place of the previous emphasis on tables and bullets. The current result is far from perfect, but I think it is much more reader-friendly. My concern is, is it factually accurate? If you are knowledgeable, please give it a lookover and make any necessary corrections. It would also be very appreciated if some additional sources could be added to the article. Thank you for your help. Un sch  ool  17:54, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Communist genocide
Just a heads up to say I've questioned your tagging of Communist genocide as of high importance to Wiki Project Estonia, on the WikiProject talk page. The article is, if you look at its talk page, clearly a troubled one. It's about to be renamed, and it's not clear that it is going to include much information about Estonia, as the RS making the link between communism and mass killings deals with the 1930s Stalinist purges, the Cultural revolution and the Khmer Rouge. The title itself has constantly been under serious dispute.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 03:22, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I noticed that prior to the assessment the article is troubled and a large discussion is going on. However, for the assessment it's just the subject/content + relevance that is important; not whether the actual article is correct in every sense. In other words, it would be weird considering the content and looking at other assessed articles, that this article wouldn't be assessed in the same way. Also, it would be hard for the project to keep track of the article. If you have a different opinion/suggestion, let me know. Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk • contribs) 03:33, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose it's the high importance tag that strikes me as possibly provocative - although not your intention, I'm sure. That the article should have a connection to Soviet actions in Estonia is contentious (to do with definitions of genocide, and any ideological aspect to those actions). Would you be prepared to lower the importance level, which would still allow the project to keep track of it?VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 03:39, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I have to disagree here. Whether there was any genocide or not doesn't matter for the importance of the article; i.e. if there was any genocide then the article is of high importance, if there was not, then it is also of high importance (so people know the claims are false). However, as I do not want to be part of the discussion on the truthfulness of the article, I lowered the importance to mid. Still, I think high is more appropriate. Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk • contribs) 03:45, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I appreciate there are lots of different (and often very strong) views on the topic - I think this is the best thing to do for the moment until what the article is actually about is settled.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 04:01, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

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Viking Mars image
Hi, please see my comments about your Mars image at File_talk:Mars_Viking_21i093.png--it seems to me that using your own color-correction scheme, which gives quite different colors from those produced by NASA, constitutes a form of WP:OR. Hypnosifl (talk) 17:29, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for notifying me. I added a response to the talk page of the image. Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk • contribs) 18:27, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

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