User talk:Qertis

Zdař bůh,

believe that Bohemia is a more proper land of origin of Josef Capek's. Czechia is still a somewhat harsh neologism. Oneliner 21:17, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Could you tell me where you found the dicretic marks that you put on the Czech names? Where in Wikipedia can I find a list of these? Can you leave a msg on my talk page User:WHEELER thanksWHEELER 22:34, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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I would be nice if you could add info on Czech gymnasia under Gymnasium (school). Juro 13:25, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Done. I think it is the same as in Slovakia. Qertis 12:07, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Country name

Ahoy!

I noticed in Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing that you changed the reference to his place of education: "...Prague, in what is now the Czech Republic." The phrase you removed accurately implied that in his day the land had a different name. I think what you did in Jan Evangelista Purkinje, where you retain Bohemia as the name of the land his birthplace, is good because it shows what the land was called during his time, and one can learn the modern name by clicking it. It is always a good idea to keep historical events in context, and indicating the name of the place during his time avoids conflicts with other sources who use those then-current names. I hope you will consider reverting Krafft-Ebing back, to restore the in what is now the Czech Republic form.--StanZegel 16:40, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ahoj, you are right, but then be consistent and retype the phrase "...born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany" since there was no country named "Germany" in 1840. "True" phrase is "...born in Mannheim, Baden, German Confederation". BTW, is there any Wiki policy on this problem? Should it be a) Mannheim, Germany, b) Mannheim, Baden, Germany, c) Mannheim, Baden, German Confederation, d) Mannheim, Baden, in what is now Germany, e) Mannheim, Baden, German Confederation (now Germany) or f) Manheim, Baden-Württemerg, Germany (then German Confederation)? I don't know. The country called Czech Republic (Czechia) since 1993 (or 1918 in the name Czechoslovakia) was known as Bohemia until 1918 (in English), that is true. But this "renaming" occured only in some languages (mostly Germanic and Romance), while in others (especially Slavic) nothing has changed and the country's name remained untouched until today. Anyway, I have made the change mainly because the phrase "in what is now" seems ugly to me. What about "Prague, Bohemia" or simply "Prague"? --Qertis 09:23, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You are correct-- consistency is desirable. I think the way the location is cited in Franz Kafka should be used in all cases.--StanZegel 05:51, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Nationalization of Names of Persons

You have moved Jan Evangelista Purkinje from its previous location, which used the German form of his name. While I can appreciate Czech pride, I wonder what form of the name he used himself while he was alive? During his time, was not German the actual language he would have used? Did he usually sign his name as Johannes? How was his name registered with the authorities at birth? His identity cards? I would suggest that pre-1918 Czech persons should have their main page located under the name they used when they were alive or best known as in the English-speaking world (this being the English Wikipedia), with redirects to it from other forms of the name or aliases. Don't you agree that that better preserves the historical context?. --StanZegel 17:01, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

As a Czech I just prefer Czechs to be titled by their Czech names and since "Jan" is also used in English, I am for it. Germanized and widely used form of his name certainly should be mentioned in the article. --Qertis 11:39, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Category:Bohemian monarchs

Hi Qertis, please take a look at User_talk:Itai#Category:Bohemian monarchs and Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Czech_monarchs. There was a minimum consensus among several users to subclassify the Bohemian rulers as either Kings or Dukes. The original reason, I think, was that the Dukes were also to be a subcategory of Category:Dukes. I think you should either give a substantial (presumably historical) reason for your edits, revert them or propose Category:Dukes of Bohemia and Category:Kings of Bohemia (which you emptied) for deletion to allow for a more comprehensive discussion. Best, Martg76 15:29, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi, 1)There are huge differences between duke titles in Britain, HRE or Central Europe (Bohemia, Poland, Hungary) and it is not very useful to subsume them under one single category. 2)On the contrary, it is extremely useful to have all Bohemian sovereigns included in one category such as all Polish, Hungarian and others (see Category:Monarchs). In short, category "Bohemian monarchs" is much more valuable than "Dukes of Bohemia" and "Kings of Bohemia" together, especially when Category:Kings is empty. I will propose these categories for deletion.

You really shouldn't depopulate categories, even if you disagree with them (see item 4 in WP:CFD#How to use this page). Yours is a valid viewpoint, but by depopulating the category you prevent discussion - except for the few individuals who watch this page, the community has no way of knowing what used to be in this category. Given this, I shall take the liberty of reverting your edits. If you still believe that there is no place for this category, by all means list it in WP:CFD. (By the way, sign your posts!) -- Itai 16:22, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

OK, I am sorry for that. I am not very familiar with this stuff. -- Qertis 01:14, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No problem. -- Itai 11:36, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Vote on Talk:Gdansk/Vote

Hi. Since you have edited on Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Names issues, I would invite you to vote on Talk:Gdansk/Vote to settle the multi-year dozens-of-pages dispute about the naming of Gdansk/Danzig and other locations. The vote has two parts, one with questions when to use Gdansk/Danzig, and a second part affecting articles related to locations with Polish/German history in general. An enforcement is also voted on. The vote has a total of 10 questions to vote on, and ends in two weeks on Friday, March 4 0:00. Thank you -- Chris 73 Talk 07:13, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)