User talk:Gidonb/Archive 2014
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Please no more calls for assistance from the Dutch Wikipedia. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Hello! Why did you remove the change I made on the page "List of metropolitan areas by population"? The metropolitan area of Paris (see the article about Paris on Wikipedia) actually has 12,672,000 (2007 data) habitants. So, Paris should be included in the list of metropolitan areas by population!
Hi GidonB. Could you take a look at the talk page Talk:List of Dutch Jews. Waarom de opname van niet-joden? Thanks, Metzujan (talk) 14:27, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Mutzujan! Thank you for drawing my attention to the new issues with VKing on this list. He has been banned from nl.wiki for edit warring, hate speech, copyvio violations, lying about them and pushing a fringe right-wing agenda. See [1] and [2] for more details. It is sad news that he has just started to "improve" this list. As for the inclusion and formatting question. Other formats than this one are possible but more complicated to implement. Please do not view this list as detached from similar other lists. BTW I would love to chat sometime and exchange Wikipedia experiences. Regards, gidonb (talk) 15:06, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
- By all means... I have already noticed that we have encountered the same problems, in particular relating to Jewish topics, see here and here and the spelling of shabbat (it's one of my top priorities to tackle). For almost 3 years clearly wrong information was not corrected. But it can be even worse. Since 2005 till very recently you could find a painful wrong explanation of this word. Enough to be done, and slowly but surely the problems are being solved.
As for the above mentioned user, thank you for the relevant feedback. I wasn't aware of his background hence my polite explanation of his rather racial view, which brought me back to memories of my college friends who also had their own "particular" view on the holocaust, and jews. Never a dull moment. Metzujan (talk) 15:39, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
- By all means... I have already noticed that we have encountered the same problems, in particular relating to Jewish topics, see here and here and the spelling of shabbat (it's one of my top priorities to tackle). For almost 3 years clearly wrong information was not corrected. But it can be even worse. Since 2005 till very recently you could find a painful wrong explanation of this word. Enough to be done, and slowly but surely the problems are being solved.