User talk:Mamut

Welcome!

Hello, Mamut, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Kusma (討論) 15:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hermann Tietz[edit]

Thank you for translating this to make it an article instead of a stub! I have listed it on the Germany portal's section for new articles. If you don't like to see your name there, please remove the listing. If you do like to see your name there, please list other Germany-related articles you create or translate in that box. You might also be interested in our German speaking noticeboard. Hope to see you there, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 15:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay! I won't add any of your articles to the Portal page, then. It is a pity because it seems you are doing good work on the translation front. Viele Grüße, Kusma (討論) 17:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries[edit]

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--Spook ^{(my talk | my contribs)} 11:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Siemens[edit]

Hi. I notice that you have recategorised all the members of the Siemens family within Category:Siemens. I think that it would probably have been better if they were left as they were, because now all the people are sorted under 'S'. Did you have a reason to group them all together? There are only a few entries in the category, anyway.

Also, I notice that you prefix the Siemens company names with 'the'. To my eyes this looks incorrect and we don't usually do that in English. Do you mind if I change it? Noisy | Talk 17:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs[edit]

Hello Mamut! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 4 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 944 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Harald Ringstorff - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Martina Ertl-Renz - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Hilde Gerg - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Trude Beiser - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 04:49, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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