User talk:Mmounties/Archive 1

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Hey, Lucky. Just stopping in to tell you not to worry about the stub creation by Mmounties. She is my mom and a Deutscher to the core. I'm helping her learn how to use Wikipedia and she wants to participate in the translation of lots of German material. Trust me, if she creates an article, she will finish it. See Achern for a final product and Bruchsal for one in progress. I welcome you to check any of her contributions just to be sure, but I'm guiding her along, and she's going to be a huge help for En-De wikipedia translations. JHMM13 (T | C) 19:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

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Hi! I thought that perhaps there was something more to these articles than met the eye.  :) I think it's absolutely wonderful that your mom is participating! Please give her my best and welcome her aboard for me. - Lucky 6.9 23:11, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I almost forgot: Those two articles are gorgeous!! - Lucky 6.9 23:14, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment! Both of you! --Mmounties 01:56, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen so many short articles started and forgotten that I thought that's what was happening here. This is one time that I'm glad to have been proven wrong. Wonderful, wonderful work. - Lucky 6.9 06:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm currently proofreading this. I've got a lot of work to do this weekend, so I may not get to all of them. Heidenheim seems to be a lot more error-free than Bruchsal was, though, but still look through my changes when I'm finished so you don't make similar translation errors in the future. The typo errors are also fewer in number, but those are unavoidable, so don't worry about them. JHMM13 (T | C) 23:53, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You've got two "boroughs" sections on Heidenheim. Check into that and I'll come back later to reread it. That city's got an interesting history, though. Nice job. JHMM13 (T | C) 23:59, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. I see it's in the history section now. Does the city really only have one borough with two sub-neighborhoods though? JHMM13 (T | C) 00:01, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi Mmounties,

thanks alot for your work, looks really good. I hoped someone would be able to translink Jewish and Austro-Hungarian noble family somehow, I'll have to take a look at that one later. but thanks for your work, appreciate it. I translated (or tried) many more article which still request proof-reads, I am sure you might have noticed, sometimes it's really draining and tiring work don't you think? are you new around here, I've never noticed you before? In that case a belated welcome from my side. If you need help with navigation around here and the sorts, feel free to drop a line, ist kein Problem :-) You may also refer to Esperanza if you need anything else. with kind regards Gryffindor 14:32, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hallo. yes there is a lot of work to do, i'm really busy myself as well. I don't think I do very well work, I mean click here and you shall see User:Gryffindor/RfC. oh well, but life goes on, it's ok. Mia ösis sogn "pfia di" oda "seas".. :-) Gryffindor 15:51, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aw.... that's so nice :-)) dankeschön. Well again, if you need help or assistance, just ask, I know navigating around Wikipedia can be sometimes treacherous, so don't be afraid. liebe Grüße nach Maine Gryffindor 17:46, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Guten Morgen Mmounties, yes yes, I thought that there was going to be a problem concerning "publicly" and "public", also sprich: öffentlich. Also, I couldn't find a proper translation for "Firmenbuchänderungen" (commercial register?), vielleicht kennst Du Dich da besser aus....? Looking good though, as usual excellent work. liebe Grüße Gryffindor 13:23, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, saw your message about my revert on nl:. Don't know whether you'd prefer an answer here or over on de:. Anyway, there's already an interwiki on nl:Keizerlijke fora that links to Imperial forums, which treats the same subject, I don't think its necessary to add another one on nl:Forum van Caesar. Interwikilinks are great, but the articles aren't the same here. The nl:Forum van Caesar article contains info on just the forum of Caesar, not on the Imperial Forums as a whole. I'm not that active on en: (or de: for that matter) but I know that on nl: non-equal interwiki's aren't very much appreciated, that's why I reverted. Greets, NielsFTalk to me.. 04:03, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

If I'd suspected that you were a vandal, I wouldn't even have bothered to explain myself :). If you're into Roman/Antique stuff overall, please let me know if there's some new stuff over on en/de. I'm also involved with the Antiquity Portal over on nl: (nl:Portaal:Oudheid), so any input is greatly appreciated! Grüße, NielsFTalk to me.. 04:14, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah, doesn't matter, I'll just steal stuff off en: / de: by myself ;-). If you ever need help for example translating from Dutch, let me know. NielsFTalk to me.. 04:45, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I've actually moved on to another article and am only tweaking it now. It would actually be great if someone could briefly compare it with the German article and see if something is missing. Simply adding the stuff missing to the todo list would be very helpful. Gflores ^Talk 14:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hallo Mmounties, thanks for your comments. I think it just sounds very strange trying to translate German-language family names into English. I've placed my new comments on the talk page of Austrian nobility, danke für Deine Hilfe nochmals. Gryffindor 15:45, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mmounties (I noticed your name at Gryffindor's Talk page)! I'd like to inform you that a noticeboard has been established to better aid discussion of articles concerning German-related topics. Feel free to participate with the project if you are interested! Olessi 01:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're correct, the noticeboard was recently created. I'm trying to inform many German-speakers and/or contributors interested in German topics to help improve the project. Regarding Platt, it's not a language I can speak well yet, unfortunately. As I lived in Kiel for a few months, I figured my understanding of the language would suffice for Babel level 1- "for basic ability - enough to understand written material or simple questions in this language." I doubt I would be able to converse fluidly with someone raised as a Platt speaker, however! Olessi 01:46, 9 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

On Mozilla and Firefox (both of which I use), it looks fine to have the Pending Tasks box next to the flags provided the flags are arranged vertically. If they're arranged horizontally they push the Pending Tasks box off the right edge of the screen. Angr/talk 21:20, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would you mind taking a look at Portal:Germany/Things you can do to see if you could fiddle around with the text so it displays properly at Portal:Germany? I added Portal:Germany/New article announcements, but that addition makes the Portal page display incorrectly on my browser (Firefox), and I fear my changes have just been making it worse... Danke sehr! Olessi 23:21, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It displays clearly on my Firefox now! Olessi 23:57, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo Mmounties, ich bin gerade über deine Frage auf der Diskussionsseite von Kjunix gestolpert. Kjunix scheint gerade Urlaub zu machen, deshalb antworte ich jetzt, damit du mit deiner löblichen Übersetzung ungehindert weitermachen kannst.

Ober-, Unter- und Mittelzentren sind Begriffe aus der Raumordnung und Raumplanung. Die Artikel Oberzentrum, Mittelzentrum und Unterzentrum hast du schon gefunden? Da steht das wichtigste schon drin. Welche Stadt jetzt als Ober-, Mittel- und Unterzentrum ausgewiesen wird, bestimmt z.B. das Land Baden-Württemberg im Landesentwicklungsprogramm. Praktische Auswirkungen kann das z.B. haben, wenn es um Zuschüsse für bestimmte Einrichtungen oder bei bestimmten öffentlichen Neubauten geht. Umgekehrt lässt eine Einstufung aber auch zu, Rückschlüsse darauf zu ziehen, welche Einrichtungen es in einer Stadt so gibt. Heilbronn als Oberzentrum verfügt beispielsweise über alle Einrichtungen, die im Artikel "Oberzentrum" als typisch für ein Oberzentrum genannt sind, also besondere Warenhäuser, Spezialgeschäfte, Fachkliniken, Theater, Museen, Fach- und Hochschulen und Regionalbehörden.

Alles klar? Wenn nicht, kannst du gerne bei mir nachfragen. Ich behaupte nicht, diese Raumplanungstheorien bis in die letzten Verästelungen zu kennen und zu verstehen, aber einen groben Überblick glaube ich zu haben. Viele Grüße --Rosenzweig 20:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo, zu deiner Frage: Heilbronn versorgt in der Tat einen "Oberbereich" (wobei ich nicht weiß, ob der so heißt) mit den Dingen, die ein Oberzentrum auszeichnen. Der Bereich ist sogar ziemlich groß, da es im Nordosten Baden-Württembergs kein anderes Oberzentrum gibt, und umfasst im Wesentlichen die Region Heilbronn-Franken (4 Landkreise und die Stadt Heilbronn), geht also bis zur bayerischen Grenze.

Der "Mittelbereich" ist einfach die Summe der untergeordneten Orte, die einem Mittelzentrum zugeordnet sind. Neckarsulm z.B., die nördliche Nachbarstadt Heilbronns, ist so ein Mittelzentrum, das für die Orte seines Mittelbereiches (Neckarsulm selbst und außerdem noch Bad Friedrichshall, Erlenbach, Gundelsheim, Hardthausen am Kocher, Jagsthausen, Langenbrettach, Möckmühl, Neudenau, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Oedheim, Offenau, Roigheim, Untereisesheim und Widdern - das ist der Nordosten des Landkreises Heilbronn) die typischen Dienste eines Mittelzentrums bereitstellt, also lt. Artikel Mittelzentrum höhere Schule und Berufsschule, Krankenhaus, Facharzt, Notar, Anwalt, Steuerberater, Kino, kulturelle Angebote. (Das Krankenhaus ist genaugenommen nebenan in Bad Friedrichshall, aber gleich hinter der Stadtgrenze). Diese Einrichtungen müssen nicht zwingend alle vorhanden sein, meistens ist es aber schon so. Es gibt im "Oberbereich Heilbronn" noch weitere Mittelzentren, z.B. Schwäbisch Hall, Öhringen, Crailsheim und andere. Und, das ist die Antwort auf deine eigentliche Frage, Heilbronn ist nicht nur als Oberzentrum ausgewiesen, sondern zusätzlich auch noch als Mittelzentrum, das schließt sich nicht aus. Der Mittelbereich Heilbronn ist natürlich kleiner als der "Oberbereich"; er umfasst die Städte und Gemeinden des Landkreises Heilbronn, die nicht schon Neckarsulm als Mittelzentrum zugeordnet sind.

Ich hoffe, ich konnte es verständlich erklären. Viele Grüße --Rosenzweig 20:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Eine Ergänzung noch: hier findest du eine Karte der Mittelbereiche in der Region Heilbronn-Franken. Viele Grüße --Rosenzweig 18:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo Mmounties, ich habe deine in Arbeit befindliche Heilbronn-Übersetzung kurz angeschaut. Eins ist mir aufgefallen: du übersetzt (im Abschnitt "Religion") "Deutscher Ritterorden" mit "German Ritterorden". Gemeint ist aber der Deutsche Orden, auf Englisch Teutonic Order. Ich habe im dt. Artikel jetzt einen Wikilink hinzugefügt, damit das klarer ist. Viele Grüße --Rosenzweig 09:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo Mmounties, der Artikel ist gut gelungen, ein paar kleine Fehler habe ich gefunden und verbessert. Mach weiter so & Viele Grüße, --Kjunix 20:04, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm no expert on these things. I came up with a way of doing what you wanted (well, it was doing what you wanted in my screen anyways, but there's no accounting for that). Let me know if it's not what you wanted, and I can revert it. - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) File:UW Logo-secondary.gif 21:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point, albeit I think it is too much work in relation to the target audience to translate every article into English. Maybe a single list article will do for the beginning - notable roads could be expanded from there.

Agathoclea 23:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mmounties! It was absolutely no problem looking over the Bruchsal article. The best translation I've come up with for Weihe zum Deutschordensmünster is "Consecration/Dedication of the Deutschordensmünster". Both versions mean essentially the same thing. I hope this helps. --Inge-Lyubov 00:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

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Thanks for that, I've done so.

I wish I could help with your de -> en translation projects, but alas, my German is poor (a B at GCSE). I can however copyedit, and correct any grammar problems, so feel free to message me if that needs doing :) James Kendall [talk] 14:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How to nominate an article for deletion is outlined at WP:AFD. However, in this case, it's probably best to just make Hesse-Hanau a redirect to Hanau, which I have now done. AFD gets well over a hundred nominations a day, so it's best to avoid it if at all possible. Angr/talk 19:46, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, ich freu' mich, dass dewiki auch mal Quelle für enwiki ist und nicht immer nur umgekehrt :-)

Falls Dich die Leichtathletik speziell interessiert: Wir haben ein WikiProjekt, und zwar de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Leichtathletik. Die statistischen Daten sind ab den Olympischen Spielen abwärts bis zu den Europameisterschaften komplett (außer Hallen-EM), AFAIK hauptsächlich aus enwiki übernommen. Parallel dazu sind alle deutschen Leichtathleten mit Medaillenrängen als Biografien vorhanden, bei den Weltrekordlern fehlen noch ca. 35. Insgesamt werden es mal 700 Biografien.

Ein paar Leute sind außerdem dabei, die fehlenden Biografien der ausländischen Sportler zu schreiben. Falls Du z. B. Lust hast, ein paar US-Sportler beizusteuern oder aus enwiki zu übersetzen oder wenn Du Fragen hast, melde Dich bitte mal, entweder auf dem oben erwähnten de:WP:WPL (Kürzel) oder der de:Wikipedia Diskussion:WikiProjekt Leichtathletik oder einfach auf meiner User-Talk-Seite de:Benutzer Diskussion:Hunding. Gruß, Hunding 20:25, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rehi, Mmounties, und danke für die Nachricht. Ich werde mich sicherlich nochmal melden, wenn ich Hilfe beim Recherchieren im Internet brauche. Es fehlen nämlich für einige Ergebnisartikel in der Leichtathletik noch Daten, die wir bisher nirgends finden konnten. Vielleicht kennst Du ja noch irgendwelche Seiten im englischsprachigen Internet, die wir bisher noch nicht gefunden haben. Gruß, -- Hunding 22:13, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that you uploaded some location images to commons. Will they be linked from there or do they need to be uploaded to en: as well? Agathoclea 16:59, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How do you link the image in the town infobox? Can't seem to work that one out :-( Agathoclea 19:08, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks - I had the filename wrong :-(

Anyway as far as the template goes I just copied it over from the German Wiki. Easy to change Agathoclea 21:39, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

see [1] for a recent change you might want to follow. Agathoclea 19:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've done my best to translate this article, though there's one paragraph - an extract from the "Protestationsschrift" - that I couldn't do and have left on the talk page. Let me know what you think anyway.

Also, I've left most of the titles of nobility in their German form (Herzog, Markgraf) etc. rather than translating them to their English equivalents, but can easily translate those as well if that's preferable. --Malthusian (talk) 21:24, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd certainly appreciate another proof reader, as you can never have too many, my German is far from perfect and also I'd like to featured article nominate this article soonish. Unfortunately the number of red links may make that later rather than sooner. Just as a note, I've written the whole page in British English spelling as I live near London, and would probably be inconsistent otherwise. I've also voted for the larger type, you are absolutely right that its too small without it. Trebor27trebor 19:31, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sanssouci. Keep at the red links and it could make it as long as the references are in order. Unfortunately, these days there are some serious sticklers in the FA area. JHMM13 (T | C) 21:39, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

^{Copied from my talk page}

Can you post something there in support of my request? Thanks. --Mmounties 18:17, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like they'll change it to 90%, same as the Infobox Town DE. Thank you for your help. --Mmounties 22:29, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kein Problem, Frau Schnitzelgruebenmeisterhavenfoerstergraben. Kein Problem. JHMM13 (T | C) 04:15, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to hear your comments about my silly idea to include a daily-changing anniversary section on the Portal page. There is some disagreement at Portal talk:Germany that I don't quite understand, and I would appreciate hearing your opinion on this issue. Kusma (討論) 16:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For a glimpse of what I think the organization of the anniversaries per day editing pages could look like, here's Portal:Germany/Anniversaries and Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/February. Please don't fill in the missing red links yet, until I am sure that this is the right way to do it. I have also put some ideas for the main portal page design at Portal talk:Germany that are waiting for your critical comments. Kusma (討論) 05:49, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, we'll have one page per day. The monthly pages will simply consist of the content of the daily pages (that are transcluded, like templates are) together with some headers and the German and English links to the event pages for that day. If you know of other useful links I should add to these monthly overview pages, please tell me before I implement this scheme for the whole year :-) Kusma (討論) 06:48, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mmounties: Thank your for your support in the ongoing Esperanza elections. I appreciate the support that you show in myself and our fellow Esperanzians. I don't think we've interacted much here on the project, so I hope to see your around soon! Cheers, Bratsche^talk 02:39, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. Question: I posted the Caucasus Germans article on the new articles announcements (Mark Lewis translated). I was going to leave a message for him to let him know, but then I wasn't sure anymore whether it really should be there. I think it should considering these Germans emigrated in times past from Germany. What do you think? --Mmounties 00:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think it can stay. The German emigration to the East is a part of German culture. Just as the article Germany is about more than just the Federal Republic, so is the Portal. We should, however, avoid topics that clearly belong to other countries. For example, we shouldn't have articles about former German villages or churches that are now in other countries. This article is about the history of Germans in other countries, and I think we can claim it for our portal. Kusma (討論) 01:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

While I'm here: please don't edit the Anniversaries yet. I am still reorganizing and renaming these pages, and anything that is added now will just mean extra work in the renaming. I'll ask for help when I have set everything up nicely :-) Kusma (討論) 01:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I'm having fun with the anniversaries, and am currently happy to do them on my own. We'll see how much fun they'll be after 50 or so. Kusma (討論) 01:18, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mmounties, thank you very much for supporting me in the Esperanza council election.--Dakota ~ ° 06:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mmounties, you moved Lichtenau, Baden and Bühl, Baden to Lichtenau (Baden) and Bühl (Baden), claiming consistency. I've created lots of (stub) articles for towns in Germany, and I've always used the comma for disambiguation, like it's usual in the USA, Canada, UK etc. (e.g. Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln, Lincolnshire). It's done the same for many other countries, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names). I know it's more usual in German to use brackets, but let's try to be (really) consistent. Markussep 18:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That was a quick response! Comma or brackets seems state-dependent: Baden-Württemberg has more brackets, NRW more commas. I can also live with both, we can leave it as it is until someone invents a naming convention. Markussep 19:11, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo! Remember when making new articles (Juršinci) to create redirects for other search criteria (Jursinci, Georgendorf). Happy editing! Olessi 23:20, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, it will be no problem. I only have one small paragraph left to translate at Mostviertel, then I'll start working on the red links at Sanssouci. --Inge-Lyubov 04:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have started work on Elisabeth Church (Marburg) already :-) Kusma (討論) 04:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'd be happy to give you any suggestions on Wikipedia/Esperanza work. I think that, if you had to choose one project to help on, it would be the Wikipedia:Esperanza/Alerts. We should always strive to help our fellow Esperanzians when they need it. Other than that, it's pretty much personal taste. A fun one is the Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award. But don't let all this extra stuff get in the way of the encyclopedia project: we've got work to do! Hope this helps. Cheers, Bratsche^talk 04:35, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo Mmounties,

Ihren Sohn habe ich kurz gesprochen und der sagte mir, dass Sie mir vielleicht eine Hilfe leisten koennen. Ich habe letztes Jahr in Deutschland verbracht und bin jeztz im wesentlichen zweisprachig. Ich habe eine Benutzerseite auf der deutschen Wikipedia und ab und zu trage ich auch einen kurzen Artikel bei. Meistens werden meine Aenderungen aber geloeschet oder voellig veraendert, da mein Deutsch verstaendlich ist, doch vielleicht ein Bisschen zu informell. Ich finde ja nicht, dass mein Deutsch so schlecht ist. Das koennen Sie natuerlich besser einschaetzen. Ich faende das nett, wenn Sie mir mal einige Tipps geben koennten, damit ich meine Deutschkenntnisse irgendwie verbesseren koennte, mit bessonderem Bezug auf die formelle Sprache.

Vielen Dank und Viele Gruesse schick ich Ihnen aus sonnigem Brisbane. Bobby1011 15:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why I changed county to district in the Renchen article is, because I thinks it's better use only one of the terms in all articles relating to German geography. The article Districts of Germany corresponds to the German Landkreis. The category Districts of Germany also uses district. If you'll check any specific district you'll see that they all use that term. For the sake of consistancy I think it would be better to always use district.

I also have another question: I noticed you're very active on the Germany portal. Can the New articles relating to Germany also be stubs?--Carabinieri 19:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could we take this County or district question to Wikipedia talk:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board it is an interresting question - and if we used county for Kreis then district for Regierungsbezierk would be just fine. But a lot of people have used district (myself included), so it would need some kind of consensus to get a uniform look of German articles. Agathoclea 20:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I checked the homepage of the German foreign ministry and they use county to describe Landkreise (see: [2]). I think this would be good reason to use that term. But if you we are going to change anything it should definately go on the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board and get consensus there. And it would be important to do have the articles use the term we decide on there.--Carabinieri 20:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. A Stift is a monastery. --Inge-Lyubov 00:48, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roger that. Olessi 01:36, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree on the stubs - they shouldn't be on the Portal page. I'd rather prefer people to list articles that they created from year-old stubs than new stubs. Also, we can't list much more than we do right now before the list gets really lengthy. I don't think we should list articles for less than a week, and so we should only list somewhat decent ones to avoid a really long list. As long as we keep the names on the page, let's aim for articles - I could also imagine a different format listing more articles but without names and dates, but then we'd need an extra place to do our bragging :-) Kusma (討論) 01:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was patrolling the new articles page, and noticed your name. I gave the first paragraph a quick copyedit, but after that I got back to the AfD nominations. Your english is really nothing short of excellent. I know native speakers with higher error rates. I know all too well that translation and being bilingual are two seperate things. I understand both spoken and written German very well, and can reply in German without problems, but if I need to translate something, it's can take me hours just to get through a few long sentences if I want every thing to be well written, and I need a German<->English dictionary there the whole time. Bobby1011 04:49, 26 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thanks for the tips, I'll go back and add the de template. As a matter of fact though, I've not been posting the ones that I do to the portal page, not sure who has been doing that. Actually, just went through the history, Carbinieri added at least the most recent I did. And yes, I have been interwiki-ing on the de pages. These athlete bios are fairly straightforward, so I do a couple a day. Anyway, see you around... --Easter Monkey 15:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was pleasantly surprised by this (of course) :-) We should try to suggest more main page DYK's from our new articles (suggestions go to Template talk:Did you know) - with our pretty list on the Portal page, it shouldn't be hard to find suitable things. Kusma (討論) 16:51, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Mmounties! I wish to say thanks for your vote at the Esperanza elections.

I've made my way into the Advisory Committee, so if you ever need any help or have any queries about the stuff we do, please do not hesitate to ask. Thanks again, KnowledgeOfSelf 09:46, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mmounties! A note from me too, thanks for your vote! Like KnowledgeOfSelf said, please let us know if there's anything we can do for you! --JoanneB 18:19, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for listing Lilienthal, Lower Saxony at the Portal. I took a wikibreak and have just now come back, so I had no idea we were doing that. In fact, I had no idea there was a Portal or even the GSWN, so thanks for the heads up! -Maaya まあや 05:53, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And thanks for the listing at DYK on the Portal, very exciting! I feel so special! -Maaya まあや 06:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"T-60" was not translated from German Wikipedia: I know because I compiled much of it.

Why are you making this up? You can't just look at articles and guess that they were translated. Unless you have some references, or you did the translation work yourself, please remove all of those spurious notices you've been adding. —Michael Z. 2006-03-02 15:01 Z

copied here as responded on User Mzajaz's talk page: To err is human

I added references yesterday to articles indicated by one of the people in the de:en project as completed. I noticed afterwards that not all of them were translations and reversed what I believed were the instances were the reference was incorrect. Seems like I missed one there. Sorry. --Mmounties (Talk) 18:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome :-) I also had my page vandalized (twice) today (also a new experience for me), and was pleased to see that the vandalism was reverted within minutes, by people whose name I had never heard before. Kusma (討論) 03:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mmounties, aw that's really sweet of you thank you :-)) what did you mean with the category of users with certain number of edits, where do I find this? hope all is well on your end as well, have a nice weekend too! Gryffindor 13:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo Mmounties,

es kommt darauf an, wo du das Bild hochladen willst. Die engl. Wikipedia hat ja eine ganz andere Politik bzgl. Bildrechten als die deutsche - Stichwort "Fair Use". Ich denke, damit müsstest du es hier auf alle Fälle hochladen können. Ich bin aber kein ausgewiesener Experte für Fair Use, frag bitte noch einmal an einer passenden Stelle in der engl. WP nach (weiß leider nicht, wo das ist). Für die deutsche Wikipedia bzw. Commons sehe ich die Möglichkeit, das Bild wegen mangelnder Schöpfungshöhe für gemeinfrei (Public Domain) zu erklären; damit könntest du es auch auf Commons hochladen. Das im Logo verwendete Wappen Baden-Württembergs ist als amtliches Wappen sowieso gemeinfrei; es bleibt also nur noch ein bisschen Typografie. Ich bitte dich aber, sicherheitshalber auch hier noch einmal bei kompetenteren Wikipedianern nachzufragen. Das geeignete Forum dafür ist in der dt. Wikipedia Wikipedia:Urheberrechtsfragen. Da sollten alle mitlesen, die das beantworten können.

Viele Grüße --Rosenzweig 18:22, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(Not sure if you will accept it). I owe you an apology for the tone of the argument over county vs. district. I made the very basic mistake of forgetting that there was a person behind the words on the screen, for which I am sorry. I hope you will be back soon. Sincerely, Staffelde 01:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, no grudges!Staffelde 00:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

		The Rosetta Barnstar
		Thanks for all your hard work translating from German. Saint

The Rosetta Barnstar may be given to any editor who exhibits outstanding translation efforts on Wikipedia.

Good to have you back! Work and real life shouldn't be allowed to use the time of good editors like you ;-) The mathematician in me wanted to ask if the "Of the initial gazillion entries (130 on my list alone) 46 are done: 4.6% completed (Estimate)" is self-contradictory on purpose or if you have two lists: one that is at 46/130 (35.4%) and one that is at 4.6%. Also, I want to congratulate you on your well-deserved Rosetta barnstar. All the best, Kusma (討論) 01:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think the noticeboard was the best place for this discussion. I think we should keep it there for a couple more days and then archive it (as an extra archive that only contains the county/district discussion). I'm pretty sure the question will come up again in the future, so it should be useful to have something to point people to. Kusma (討論) 02:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For being one of the nicest users around, you are awarded the Barnstar for Kindness by the House of Gryffindor

aaahh..., I see someone beat me already to awarding you the first barnstar on your page. Macht nichts, then you'll get another one. For being one of the nicest users around it has been a pleasure to work and communicate with you. Keep up your good work, alles Gute und alles Liebe from Gryffindor 09:39, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chateau is fine for articles in French or when speaking of French castles and palaces, but not went translating schloss into English. Charles 05:23, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is used in English when referring to French structures and structures derived from such. I have studied architecture for almost my entire life. Schloss is also used in English and is the German name for the palace (which is in Germany, btw). Please see talk page for Schoenhausen to continue this. Charles 05:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just a quick note: Wikipedia states to assume the good faith of the user. Why would you revert such an edit and cite it as vandalism? Please make note, all of my edits are in good faith. Charles 05:38, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have to say, I am sorry for how harsh I may appear. None of what I suggested is meant to be offensive. I just feel that chateau has a very specific application in the English language and precedent has shown me that it is only used in the names of French structures and structures derived from French design. An English synonym for schloss may be chateau, but it is messy. What I have learned about translation is that ideas must be translated. There are lots of articles on Wikipedia with schloss in the title. If palace isn't voted on, I think schloss should be used. Charles 02:30, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Might I suggest that everyone promise to follow Wikipedia policy and discuss major translation changes before they are made. It's not so bureaucratic of a process that we can't ask something on the German-English translation talk page and have an answer from several people within a day as to whether or not it's a good idea. Pretty please? This will save me some time digging through talk pages :-D. JHMM13 (T | C) 05:25, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mmounties;

I see you are working on an article called New Palace. I have been there a few times before and would like to help if the article needs some embellishment. Are you just translating or composing a new article? I also retain the guidebook which I bought there. Charles 03:36, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am not the *best* at translation (I do it too literally most of the time), but give me a while and I can make it work. I tend to do very well in writing in English though. I'll pull some of the major themes from the Neues Palais article and work it into an English version with material cited from the guidebook. You can look it over when I'm done... Should take a day or so. Good luck with your move! Charles 03:58, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've managed to almost complete the history of the palace up to 1918, but it's getting late and I must be off to bed; I'll make it available for you to view tomorrow. Charles 04:40, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there... I realize that I told you I would show you my work on the New Palace article... However I am caught up in university work at the moment. It's coming soon though ;-). Charles 01:20, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the first half: User:Cfvh/New_Palace.It looks awfully short now that I've removed the intermediary German passages :( Still, there is more to translate and I am slowly but surely getting to it. Feel free to edit what you see and we can discuss changes. Charles 03:04, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I will surely get to it. I love writing, but lately it seems I have been falling behind on it. Charles 19:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's all done here for now! Let me know what you think ;-) Charles 04:21, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo Mmounties,

ich musste erst etwas suchen. Diese Vorlagen benutzen Javascript. Deine Vorlagen benutzen ihrerseits die Standardvorlage Dynamic navigation box with image. Auf der Diskussionsseite dort befindet sich ein Hinweis von Worldtraveller: "I have tweaked MediaWiki:Monobook.js to make the default for this template to be hidden. If anyone objects let me know and I'll change it back. Worldtraveller 15:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC)". Wenn du dir seine Änderung anschaust, siehst du, dass er vor kurzem das Standardverhalten solcher einklappbaren Navigationsleisten geändert hat: jetzt sind sie standardmäßig immer zu, vorher waren sie standardmäßig nur dann zu, wenn es mehr als eine Navileiste im Artikel gibt. Das lässt sich auch wieder zurückändern, aber nur mit Adminrechten. Worldtraveller scheint solche zu besitzen, wende dich also am besten an ihn.[reply]

Wenn es dir nur darum geht, dass du selbst die Leisten offen sehen willst, kannst du dir auch überlegen, deine eigene monobook.js anzulegen, die dann für dich gilt, wenn du angemeldet bist (immer vorausgesetzt, du benutzt den standardmäßigen Monobook-Skin). Sie muss User:Mmounties/monobook.js heißen.

Dort kannst du folgendes reinschreiben:

var NavigationBarShowDefault = 0; // Alle Leisten einklappen

Dann werden alle Leisten standardmäßig eingeklappt.

Die 0 kann ersetzt werden durch die maximale Anzahl der auszuklappenden Leisten:

var NavigationBarShowDefault = 10; // Bis zu 10 Leisten ausklappen

Oder jede andere Zahl.

Mehr dazu in der deutschen Hilfe: de:Wikipedia:Navigationsleisten (die englische habe ich auf die Schnelle nicht gefunden).

Ich hoffe, das hilft dir weiter.

Viele Grüße --Rosenzweig 17:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice new sig! JHMM13 (T | C) 20:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In terms of who actually acts on those alerts, well, anyone who wants to. Sometimes I do, since the conflicts that turn up there are often in their early stages and easier to resolve before they escalate. But anyone who thinks they can heal the wounds is welcome to join in. I don't have the time very often, unfortunately. In terms of how to archive it, there are links in the "Archived alerts" section to the old and the current archive. So you can just cut and paste from the main page to the archive once a request is older than 7 days. This time-delay is to give someone time to notice the request and to avoid the page becoming massively huge (which it often does). Of course, if your alert has been dealt with you can remove it (preferably to an archive) yourself. -Splash^talk 22:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi Mmounties, how are you? I could use some input from you if you care about this topic, Talk:Marie Josepha, maybe you care to drop by? As usual your help is greatly appreciated :-)) with kind regards Gryffindor 13:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No way, you are moving? When did this happen, and how come? We can chat over email again if you prefer. Happy packing, I hope it goes well! Gryffindor 13:54, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My god! that is just Beautiful, I can't believe this!! I am so jealous now :-)) so your son is coming to, or is he somehow staying on the East Coast? It's a pity you're going to be offline, when do you think you're going to be able to reconnect? When is your definite last day online? Gryffindor 15:25, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mmounties, would you take a look at Talk:Victoria, Princess Royal and Empress Frederick and contribute a vote? Many thanks. Charles 17:06, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Many, many thanks for the vote. Btw, how do I go about showing you what I currently have for the New Palace article? Charles 02:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mmounties! Thank you for supporting my RfA. It passed at 105/1/0, putting me in WP:100 - I'm delighted and surprised! I'm always happy to help out, so if you need anything, please drop me a line. Cheers! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 20:23, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the RRevise template from the talk page, per your request. Cheers. youngamerican (talk) 13:13, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thanks for the note on my talk page. Yes, I did move the {{de}} template to the end of the article, and removed the [[:de:Sanssoucci]] link. Please note that I moved the {{de}} template, I did not remove it entirely, but rather moved it to the end where I think it belongs. Here's why: The end of the article is a much better place for the de template, it is much more noticeable there, as opposed to up above where it was/is. I removed the direct link to the de version, simply because it is already interwiki linked. Bottom line: every article in the en wikipedia needs to stand on its "own two feet" as it were. Meaning that although it is based on the de version, it does not have to absolutely correspond to the de version. I'd say that a majority of en users don't speak or understand German, it's meaningless to directly link to the de version in the body of the article for the two reasons already stated: a) it's already interwiki linked and b) most en wikipedia users don't speak or read German. IMO, I think that a clean version of the de template, all the way at the end of the article, without the redundant interwiki link, is the most appropriate. --Easter Monkey 17:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mmounties, if you're not busy could you please contribute a vote at Talk:Anne-Marie of Greece? Thanks. Charles 19:06, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

	Thank you! Thank you for supporting / opposing / vandalising my RFA! The result was 71/3/0 and so I am now still a normal user / an administrator / indefinitely banned. Your constructive criticism / support / foulmouthed abuse has given me something to think about / helped me immensely / turned me into a nervous wreck. If there's any way I can help you in return, please ask someone else / suffer and die / drop me a line! --Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Mr Blanning, thank you for choosing the ACME Auto-thanker! Simply strike out the phrases that do not apply and tear off this strip at the indicated line to give all your supporters and detractors the personalised response they so richly deserve. N.B: DO NOT FORGET TO TEAR THIS BIT OFF, MORON!

Thank you for voting on my RfA. It passed with a consensus to promote of 45/7/1. To those of you concerned about the fact that I am a relative newcomer, I encourage you to poke me with a sharp stick if I make a mistake. Or better yet, let me know on my talk page, and I'll do my best to fix it. Makemi 05:21, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for supporting me in my recent RfA, which passed with a final tally of 56/1/0. I thank you for your confidence in my abilities. If you ever need anything or find that I have made an error, please let me know on my talk page. — Scm83x hook 'em 21:30, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hi Mmounties, just send you an email, best wishes. Gryffindor 00:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA recently closed and it was a success, passing at 84-02-00. I would like to thank you for taking the time to weigh in and on your subsequent support. And I know it's quite cliche, but if you ever need any assistance and/or want another opinion on something, grab a Pepsi and don't hesitate to drop me a line on my talk page. Thanks again. Pepsidrinka 05:10, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have changed the format of that page (the old format (shown on the portal) is now at Portal:Germany/New articles). There is now a space to announce templates, and so I put Template:Cities and towns in Lörrach (district) there. Please add more :-) Kusma (討論) 05:56, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Near the top of my computing wishlist is an "undo" button for "close window" so I know what you mean :-) Kusma (討論) 06:19, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

	My RfA
	Thank you for supporting/opposing/commenting on my request of adminship, sadly the result was 54/20/7 an thus only 73% support votes, resulting in that the nomination failed. As many of you commenting that I have to few main-space edits, I'll try to better my self on that part. If you have any ideas on what kind of articles I could edit, pleas send me a line. :)	→AzaToth 09:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh wow, that article is a hot mess if I've ever seen one. Granted, I'm sure a lot of time was dedicated to it, but I think an ahnentafel of Nicholas' ancestors would be much, much better. I'll get to the Bavarian lines and see what I can do. Charles 19:57, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I had a quick look at it, but I think the whole article needs to be redone. Take a look here. Charles 00:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggested on the talk page an ahnentafel of 8 or so generations. What do you think? Charles 04:22, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Mmounties, I have responded to your proposal as requested. Please don't take offense, but I really don't think your proposal is necessary. I understand where it's coming from, I too was disappointed that AzaToth's RfA failed. The early closing and miscalculation on the percentage were unfortunate. Given the level of discussion on the RfA page I, do think there were good grounds for serious consideration as a borderline case by the closing bureaucrat. Nevertheless, if the extra half hour had been allowed, and the calculation was done correctly, I think the outcome would still have been the same. That point has now passed. In another month, when AzaToth returns, I am certain his position will have been considerably enhanced by all of this. I will be there to offer my support again. Best wishes. --Cactus.man ✍ 10:37, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding. Just to make it clear though, and as I have stated before, this proposal has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that AzaToth's candidacy failed. It has, however, everything to do with trying to avoid the same sort of uproar we had over this failed candidacy when the next close, "AzaToth 1"-type of candidacy comes around. It is avoidable. And easily so. And it makes absolutely no sense to have instructions for the bureaucrats in one place and different instructions/explanations for the general public in another place. The "instructions" to the bureaucrat should be written in a way that is sufficient for both (i.e., similar to the proposed text). Currently they are not. That, and only that, is what this proposal is about. I haven't gone to check the comments yet today and right now I've got to run, so I won't be able to see them until later, but I hope this clarifies things for you a bit. --Mmounties (Talk) 21:16, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again Mmounties, if I misunderstood the motivation for your proposal, I apologise. It came after a flurry of vigorous discussions following AzaToth's failed RfA, and the first insertion of a mathematical formula by Doug Bell. It therefore seemed to me to be related directly to that RfA. I understand that you are after a wider clarification for the avoidance of further mistakes. I can support that aim, but your proposal on the page does not address that issue in my opinion. It adds nothing of substance to, or clarification of, the intended process, other than the mathematical formula. I really don't think that's necessary, I'm sure all WP bureaucrats know how to calculate the relevant percentage. --Cactus.man ✍ 13:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mmounties/Archive 1, thank you for supporting me in my RfA which passed with a tally of (93/1/2). If you need any help or wish discuss something with me, you are always welcome to talk to me. Gizza^{Chat ©} 12:00, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please consider removing the images from your signature, as that practice is considered by many to be something to avoid. -- Netoholic @ 14:11, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the message. As it is, WP:SIG is a guideline, not a Wikipedia policy. They are simply preferences that have been expressed. Here's the section on images:

There are several objections to having images in signatures. In particular, they are said to cause server slowdown, and to serve no purpose in an encyclopedia project other than vanity in addition to making pages more difficult to read. There have been some calls for banning them entirely; some people have objected to such a ban, arguing it would stifle creativity. (emphasis added)

I'm in the second group. Knowing a thing or two about computers I don't think the image in my sig drags the servers all that much, and I think it says something about who I am. Therefore, when people see it in my signature they know better who the person on the other end is. For these reasons I think I'll leave it just the way it is. Thank you. --Mmounties (Talk) 21:05, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just wanted to say that I appreciate what you are attempting to do in improving the bureaucrat page. I hope people understand your statement that "it has nothing to do with the fact that AzaToth's candidacy failed." My edit to the page was to add clarity. My edit comment, unfortunately, was caught up in the AzaToth RfA. Certainly, a mistake on my part, and one that I've learned from, which undermined my sincere claim that the edit itself was done in good faith and for the purpose that your are attempting to serve now. —Doug Bell ^{talk•contrib} 06:35, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, no these guys are a legit big-time hockey equipment company. I remember seeing their names around locker rooms in the form of sticks and possibly skates (though not too much anymore). Bauer, Reebok, Sher-wood, etc. are big these days. JHMM13 (T | C) 06:19, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to be my lucky day today: a barnstar, a nomination, and best of all: all my sins are forgiven. Thank you very much! Kusma (討論) 06:44, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mmounties/Archive 1, thank you for your constructive opposition in my recent RfA. Although it did not succeed as no consensus was declared (final: 65/29/7), I know that there is always an opportunity to request adminship again. In the meantime, I will do my best to address your concerns in the hope that when the opportunity for adminship arises once again, you will reconsider your position. If at any time I make any mistakes or if you would like to comment on my contributions to Wikipedia, you are more than welcome to do so. Regardless of your religious, cultural, and personal beliefs, I pray that whatever and whoever motivates you in life continues to guide you on the most righteous path. --- joturner 05:28, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]