User talk:Witan

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DYK

On 23 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Opus Majus, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Yomangani^talk 18:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Historical Eastern Germany

Perhaps you'd be interested in this:Talk:Historical_Eastern_Germany#Requested_move. -- Hrödberäht (gespräch) 05:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

Well thanks very much - & well done you for getting the article started! Cheers Johnbod 02:26, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

You have new questions at Editor review

The Transhumanist   04:35, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox help

Is there any way to link the edit page of my Sandbox (under "My Random Stuff") with an internal Wiki-link, instead of the external one I have now? I specifically want it linked so that it goes right to the "Edit This Page" screen.--Witan 17:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Nope, because that page is not like an article page. Xiner (talk, email) 17:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 15 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1300-1400 in fashion, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 06:15, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

User page

Thanks for the revert. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Moving Czech film 1919-1939 to List of Czechoslovakian films. Sorry if the summary didn't register it didn't work first time when I stated. Films are not alienated unnecessarily now Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 16:18, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

For obvious reasons!!! You do a great job with vandals by the way. I bow down to you!! I am currently trying to fill all the lists of films and add all the details with WikiProject Film but so many of the lists need cleaning up and organizing I am going through first. If you see consistent edits on the List of films you'll know its me!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"I've been expecting you"} 16:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Need help on Categories

What would be good Categories for my article Letter to Posterity that was written by Petrarch in 1372? --Doug ^talk 15:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I put Medieval Latin Literature. You can browse through other categories here to look for other possibilities--Witan 18:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate that. --Doug ^talk 18:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

May 2007 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - May 2007
From the editor This is the first issue of WikiProject Germany's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts.	Other areas where you can help Assessment requests: Some open Requests for assessment need to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watchlist the assessment page. More task forces and subprojects: As this WikiProject covers a very large topic area, it is helpful to add more task forces that focus on specific aspects of Germany. Currently, we have a Mainz task force, a Munich subproject and some joint task forces with other WikiProjects. Any project member is invited to start a new task force. Suggestions for possible topics: Transportation in Germany German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians) German Democratic Republic Be creative! If you have an idea, just suggest it on the project talk page (don't forget to watchlist it). Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized
Project news Criteria for B-Class status: The assessment criteria for B-Class have been changed. {{WikiProject Germany}} template now has 5 switches, B-Class-1 through B-Class-5 that correspond to 5 easily checked criteria that an article should meet to be assessed as B-Class. The advantage of this system is that now there is a clear boundary between Start-Class and B-Class articles. Authors of articles that were assessed as Start-Class now get more direct feedback what they should improve to attain a B-Class rating. All of our B-Class, Start-Class and Stub-Class articles now need to be checked whether they meet any of the B-Class criteria. This is a major effort, and we need your help! If you want to help, but don't know how, please post at the project talkpage. Cities and municipalities task force A task force dedicated to creating and improving articles on all German cities and municipalities has been started and is looking for help.

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Early medieval

Great minds are thinking alike again. User:Johnbod started Early medieval European dress about the same time you were starting Anglo-Saxon dress. I think we can make both of them work with some creative linking, especially if Anglo-Saxon gets very detailed, but do you think a merge makes more sense? - PKM 02:55, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Indeed! An article about earlier medieval dress was overdue. Anyways, I think right now we should see where both articles end up. It may warrant a merger eventually, but I think for a while we should see how each article develops. One reason I think this is because Europe during this period was divided between the continent in the south (the Frankish Empire, Normandy, etc.) and the north, (with England, Scandinavia, etc.), which remained until about 1066 (Stamford Bridge, Hastings, and all that stuff), after which northern Europe got more into sync with the rest of Europe. What we may want to do is have the Early Medieval and Anglo-Saxon articles specialize in Continental dress and Northern dress respectively. I think that there are sufficient differences to warrant separate articles if information can be found for both. But anyways, for the time being I think we should see how they both end up.--Witan 05:43, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. I will add things to both where appropriate. - PKM 02:10, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

March 2008 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter Issue II - March 2008
From the editor This is the second issue of WikiProject Germany's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you think anything should be featured in the next issue, please leave a note at the Newsdesk	Other areas where you can help Assessment requests: Some open Requests for assessment need to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watchlist the assessment page. More task forces and subprojects: As this WikiProject covers a very large topic area, it is helpful to add more task forces that focus on specific aspects of Germany. Currently, we have a Mainz task force, a Munich subproject and some joint task forces with other WikiProjects. Any project member is invited to start a new task force. Suggestions for possible topics: Transportation in Germany German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians) German Democratic Republic Be creative! If you have an idea, just suggest it on the project talk page (don't forget to watchlist it). Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized
Project news Cities and municipalities task force The task force dedicated to creating and improving articles on all German cities and municipalities is happy to announce that there are now (at least) stub articles for all municipalities of Germany. Now the task force is looking for help in fleshing these out a little bit. The current phase of activity for the task force is to copy in infoboxes from the articles in German Wikipedia. If you want to help, even just for a few articles, look at the instructions and links here Article Assessment: There are now way over 26.000 articles tagged as part of our Wikiproject and many still need either an importance or a quality assessment. Also there are many more out there that do need to be tagged like approx 8000 municipalities. If you would like to help take a browse through Articles needing Importance assessment or Articles needing a basic quality assessment.

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Rule of Two

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AfD nomination of Rule of Two

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Nakagusuku

Witan, thank you very much for your support on my move request at Talk:Naka_Castle. I think you overlooked signing your comment, however. Can you go back and sign it, please? It'll look cleaner and nicer that way than me or someone else adding an Unsigned template. Cheers. LordAmeth (talk) 17:50, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

RE: Your comment on my proposed move

I just wanted to say that I spent a lot of time trying to decide whether the move/merge of air superiority and air supremacy into a single, new article would best be classified as a move or a merger. I'm sure you would agree that it shows characteristics of both. I decided to list it in the "requested moves" because I felt that it fit best there. I would appreciate it if, in the future, you would offer suggestions of what I should do differently and why, rather than simply stating a terse opposition and recommending the closure of the discussion of my suggested move.

Thank you, --Witan 21:09, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

As it is not a requested move, but a merge request, you cannot use WP:RM for such a request, it is an abuse of process. It's as simple as that. As for what to do with it, I made the comment that it should be listed at WP:PM when I posted a procedural close on the WP:RM page itself. 76.66.192.64 (talk) 06:08, 26 July 2009 (UTC)