User talk:Markussep/Archive 3

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Feiten over Brussel

Hoi Markussep, ik heb de feiten die je over Brussel had toegevoegd vervangen door de cijfers uit de eerder door mij aangehaalde studie van de VUB. De verhouding 85% Frans-15% Nederlands die op de Franse Wikipedia vermeld wordt en door een anonieme gebruiker op de Duitse Wikipedia is toegevoegd, is volgens mij enkel gebaseerd op de verkiezingsuitslagen van Franstalige en Nederlandstalige partijen in Brussel. De lijst met voornamen vond ik eerlijk gezegd nogal ver gezocht: heel wat jongensnamen zijn islamitisch en veel namen kunnen zowel Nederlands als Frans zijn. Neem de lijst met meisjesnamen: Clara, Emma, Laura, Sara, Elisa e.a. uit de top-20 kun je toch moeilijk Frans noemen, die komen ook in Nederland veel voor.

Overigens, hoe lang loopt de peiling nu eigenlijk nog? En heb je al een idee wat er daarna moet gebeuren? Groeten, Diemietrie 14:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Town GR

Hi, could you take a look at the display problem of the Infobox template on Loutrochori, Pella (this revision), and check if the non-display of the locator map might be related to your recent edits to the infobox code? Thanks, Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Yep, thanks, I was just going to say I figured it out. But by the way, are you certain we really want the functionality you introduced? If somebody provided a correct map image but failed to provide coordinates, why should the template not show the correct map? Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I understood only now that your version of the template actually creates the maps on the fly instead of using a stored one. Nifty. Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, come to think of it, probably you are quite right and it's a good idea. The coordinates aren't too difficult to find after all, and it's probably easier than creating and uploading a separate map for each village. Thanks again, Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Brussels-Capital Region

Hi Markussep, I am independently doing the same work as you just started, and so far got results very similar to yours, making me feel good about process reproducibility. My search is a bit less restrictive, allowing names in addresses (as long as they are not street names, or appearing together with Brussel or Bruxelles) and taking somewhat larger samples. The only difference so far is a much closer call for Berchem-Ste-Agathe/St-Agatha-Berchem. I have now complete results for the first 9 municipalities. Would you mind if I added my results as a second line for each municipality in your table? LVan 15:08, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

the REAL name: Trentino-Alto Adige

So I did some research and checked with some pretty credible sources as to what they print, in ENGLISH, for the name of this region (and province) in Italy.

Fodor's - a well recognized and respected name (and expert guide) has regional and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".

Michelin - also expert in travel guides - has regional and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bozen".

Rand McNally (name speaks for itself) has world, regional, and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".

Streetwise Map's regional, and local publications show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".

Dorling Kindersley or "DK" - by far, probably the best travel guides available - has regional and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".

Lonely Planet (the self-proclaimed largest independently-owned travel guide) regional, and local publications show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".

Hammond Map - a subsidiary of Langenscheidt Publishing Group (a privately-held German publishing company) - has regional and local publications that show the region and local names of "Trentino-Alto Adige", "Alto Adige", and "Bolzano".

As far as proof, I am quite sure that the above sources are credible enough, especially in the sense of geographical knowledge, expertise, and English-translation. Rarelibra 03:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Edit

I do not appreciate the comments with me. It is well proven that only a few are involved in this (and I have also seen the repetitious names involved with other such articles). Thus, I have the right (and proof) to make such mentions. You are I are on the same approach - the article itself can stay as a historic reference but the province and region articles should comply with the official usage. So let's not you and I lock horns, please. Thanks. Rarelibra 15:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol flag

Thanks for taking care of that - it was a shame to see that Bot delete the image and take away from the article. Rarelibra 18:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Palatinate

As you have provided input on this subject in the past, you may be interested in move requests at Talk:Palatinate of the Rhine and Talk:Palatinate. Cheers, Olessi 17:55, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Update User:Markussep/Luxembourg

I uploaded a newer version of the Athens Seal, and it's now Athens_seal.png, so if you want you can update you user page: User:Markussep/Luxembourg. I'll probably end up deleting the older version soon (Athens_seal.jpg). El Greco 14:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Missing topics of GG

Thanks for your notes in the missing topics list - Skysmith 13:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Trentino-South Tyrol

If you want, you can cast your vote also in Talk:Trentino-South Tyrol#Straw poll. --Checco 16:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

...and in Talk:Trentino-South Tyrol#Could we go with? and Talk:Trentino-South Tyrol#3-way referndum. --Checco 17:29, 6 March 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)

Ades

Hey Markussep, interesting bit on the Alter Ades and Adesc Aut. I think either can be ok in "Ladin", and as you say, it is a broad language. As far as I know the Adige is Ades, so I'm a bit confused by the c at the end. I think either Alter Ades or Ades Aut is fine. I know of the usage of Ades Aut, Ades Bas (Adige High, Adige Low). Not sure the spelling on low.. anyway. I've put both now, the more the merrier. Taalo 23:43, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

umm, i don't think i've made any changes on that (at least not on purpose) since you posted about the hoax. you need some coffee this monday morning?? :P Taalo 16:29, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

yeah, last time i added it was three hours before you posted the info about the hoax. it did get reverted back incidentally with the little edit war with PhJ. like i said, i was going to commend you on your research. my point of contention is a bit with the ades and adesc.. but small stuff. it may be a difference between the language in trentino and the official ladin. no biggie.. Taalo 16:32, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

your message

thanks for your message, i replied on my talk page. Taalo 18:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

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motion to close mediation

hello there,

there was a mediation offer quite a while ago concerning the issue of Trentino-South Tyrol. I am happy to announce that the issue has been discussed, voted upon and settled. However the mediation offer still needs to be officially closed. Please take a minute to visit the page Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-10-20 Trentino-South Tyrol and put your signature at the bottom if you agree with the decision, thank you. sincerely Gryffindor 20:25, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

A very important note. This mediation offer concerned the greater overall naming convention to use in this region, not just the name of the region itself. We came up with a very good compromise for the regional name itself. I for one am still looking forward for Lar to help us out. Taalo 21:33, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Târnava River

Hi. Do you think it's time to split the page into multiple articles? Khoi khoi 21:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. I see the other language wikis have more info, I'll include that too. Markussep 16:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Khoi khoi 18:58, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Province of BZ

Markussep, didn't you once find an official gov't document that showed there was a motion to have the name of the province be Province of BZ - AA/ST (i.e. with area name appended), but it was rejected? On South Tyrol it shows Official in German: Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol, based off the name shown on the provincial website. But if we write official I'd kind of like that to be really true, along the lines of what we've done with Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. My hunch is that the official names in gov't documents are Autonome Provinz Bozen and Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano (or possibly Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano-Bozen). cheers, Taalo 00:01, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It's in my archive: User talk:Markussep/ArchiveSouthTyrol#bolzano, my first answer. If you like, you can search the South Tyrolian Parliament proceedings, they're all on www.landtag-bz.org. Markussep 18:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Bad Iburg

Hello, Markus,
you started Bad Iburg last year, thank you so much. I added some information and the city box but do not know how to ad the map that already exists in de:WP. Do you manage to help, please? Freundliche Grüße --MrsMyer 16:04, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your support. I just copied an infobox from of the other articles about places near Osnabrück. So I did'nt know there is a new one. Somehow I feel that information about what to do in en:WP is not easily to be found.

Well, all new informations in Bad Iburg are a rough summary and translation from my first article I startet in de:WP about Schloss und Benediktinerabtei Iburg. Of course there is a lot of information about the city itself still missing in en:WP - but sometimes I'm simply missing the words and do not know how to translate precisely. And for the momment I'm busy with the de:writing competition for which I started an article about Heinrich Babender, a sculptor from [Münster]] (1475-1537), and his son Johann Brabender. Quite a challenge.

By the way: Can you give an example how to link from en:WP to de.WP oder vice versa? I would like to link my en:Usertalk to my german one because I don't look here very often. Kindest regards, a lovely weekend --MrsMyer 12:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much again - I'll think about what to do best. --MrsMyer 12:35, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

german territories

Thank you for helping me. Thw1309 18:10, 28 March 2007

Category:Chalcidice

I've posted a request for a rename of this category to Category:Chalkidiki as a result of the discussion we had here. --Kimon^talk 14:47, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Another double name

You may be interested in the discussion at Talk:Arvandrud/Shatt al-Arab; it began as a move request to Shatt al-Arab/Arvandrud. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 21:41, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Merano

You may want to participate in the poll there. Icsunonove 06:21, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, you may want to comment again on the consensus that was found at C of ST. There seems to be quite a bit of confusion being created. See the end of the Discussion section at the poll. regards, Icsunonove 20:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Would you mind taking a look at some of the edits of Audioline (talk · contribs)? I've been cleaning up some of his/her additions to Central/Eastern European articles, but I'm not as knowledgeable about South Tyrol (Merano, Moos in Passeier, Partschins, etc.). Olessi 03:35, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Blofeld

Hey hows it going these days. Remember me? I used to be User:James Janderson. I have seen your name on various pages a few days in a row so I though I'd see how you are!!!! Isee you have been working on Belgium. Great - no longer on Greece!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 12:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Great work. No I have hardly touched geo articles since about October - I have worked immense;y on Films by country. E.g see List of Argentine films and List of French films etc and have been creating hundreds of film articles my most recent Joymati and Uttara (film). However I am the creator of WikiProject Tibet and WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers!!! I did complete setting up every village in SLovakia and was 1/3 the way through Hungary when I saw how vast a missing part of wikipedia film was and it kind of changed my wiki direction. When the lists and films becaome more complete i will then go back to concnetrating on geo articles which is where my true interest lies - yesterday I added some images to some Sardinian comunes.

♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 12:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

If you are interested

In case you are interested, there is a proposal to move an article about a 97% ethnic Hungarian settlement in Romania to its native Hungarian name. The town is called Székelyudvarhely by locals and Odorheiu Secuiesc by Romanians. For more, see the talk page of the article. Please remember that this is not a vote; comments must include reasons to carry weight. Information about Hungarians in Romania can be found at Székely, Hungarian Autonomous Province, Hungarian minority in Romania. --KIDB 06:20, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

You were reverted as per WP:NCGN --84.95.241.145 16:09, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

German templates

I was going from the lists on the district pages, but I found that they were incomplete, so I started updating them from the German templates. I'm afraid I didn't get very far on that before I got side-tracked into doing the same thing for Austria. Go for it! Ksnow 14:44, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Ksnow Use the German Wikipedia site as a source. It is pretty current. Ksnow 14:56, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Ksnow

May 2007 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

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May 2007

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Sorry!!

Sorry 'bout that!! Your article has been reverted. Mhzfutbol5 22:10, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Appropriate method

Could you help me to find the appropriate method, please?

And could you help everybody else that needs your help, please?

The only thing I can see is that two days ago an editor started to destroy article titles against the previous consensus without any debate. (Line of declarations is hardly a debate...) Now he believes he is the consensus.

So: Could you help me to find the appropriate method, please?

--peyerk 13:54, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Could you help me to find the debate that led to the consensus over using Slovak names for counties of KoH?

I only found the previous consensus over Hungarian names for KoH counties and Slovak names for historic and touristic regions.

--peyerk 13:59, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I realized that a huge mess was created with former Hungarian countries in Slovakia. User Svetovid moved these articles under Slovak names against the former consensus and now he claims that every article should remain so "until the end of discussion", and reverts every revert. I think this is incorrect because he was the person who tried to change the situation. He should have reached consensus on the talk pages and AFTER that moved the article not the opposite way. Another (new) Hungarian user who opposed his moves created forks. In the end we have a huge mess ans somebody should restore the former order - but the pre-Svetovid version, I think. Could you help with this? Zello 17:46, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I am not a beginner only I'm less active here than in HU. Sorry for the mess, I have just realized today this funny naming convention. I see that some Slovak editors are keen to have the KoH counties named in Slovak. It is too important for them. I find it funny.

I correct a lot of Magyarization of geographic names in HU wikipedia because I hate this way of thinking and acting. But I also get angry of this "reslovakization" of KoH county names.

Would you ever support renaming the Roman province of Hispania to España? And would you argue that this name is most commonly used in English?

--peyerk 21:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

you are mistaken

Please take more time to learn about the issue, before taking action or reverting my edits. See this post by tankred you should learn more from it about the situation.

The official language of the kingdom was Latin until (if I remember well) 1848. Then it was Hungarian, German, and again Hungarian. At the same time, counties had also their local names (in Slovak, Romanian, etc.), which were not used in official documents. In my opinion, he most accurate solution would be to use Latin names, but I do not see much support for it. So, another compromise has emerged and remained more or less undisputed until now: to have separate articles for counties (e.g. Szepes county) and for informal regions (Spiš). See Talk:Spiš#Requested_move. Most Hungarian editors seem to prefer a Hungarian name of a county. Although it is clearly an anachronism for most of the history of KoH (when Latin was the official language), it seemed to be a viable compromise until now. It is a pity that a new edit war has been launched over this issue. Tankred 14:24, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

See this post? Read it carefully. See where it links to Szepes county as an example of undisputed compromise? You blanked that article with your edit. Please take the time to learn about the situation before you start to edit. thanks Also in the second link there is a discussion where you even voted for the split to create the two articles one about the historical county e.g. Szepes county), and the other informal region (Spiš). And now you try to delete Szepes county by blanking the page ? Hobartimus 22:17, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

I won't revert you but why are you so obsessed with article history? Telling me how 'destroying' it and 'trapped in another article' is so bad? Hobartimus 23:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, this is your message. "See e.g. Spiš county and Szepes county, the Slovak version tells you that the article was started in November '06, not May '07." I did actually look at these articles, please take a moment to look at these histories yourself. You will see that they are exactly the same, check the first edit of Spiš county, you will see that someone copy pasted the whole article there, so the real article history that you fight over is not even there. I don't know why this copyright is so important to you, but the article history is not really there to "trap" or "destroy". Also i really don't understand this copyright issue could you explain in simple terms? why is claiming copyright so important to a supposedly free encylopedia? Hobartimus 08:25, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

So the solution is to place a note in the history to make it tracable? sorry to bother you this much but i see that you are an advanced editor who also followed this county issue. Hobartimus 11:00, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Szepes is a historical county of HUNGARY, while Spis is an informal region of SLOVAKIA. Slovak language was NEVER official in hungary. I don't know why you still say things like "propose szepes" when you yourself voted for the split and the name "Szepes" with it so the two distinct articles could be separated one called Spis informal region one called Szepes county. There was already a vote on this Tankred even said it(he calls it undisputed compromise in the post above and links to Szepes county), MarkBA said it, you can read it on the links above. Tankred even suggested this same solution for even more counties. my head hurts. Hobartimus 14:29, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

How many times do I have to explain this? The history is at "Spis county", so if there is consensus that the page should be named "Szepes county" than that page has to be moved by an admin, and not copy-pasted. There hasn't been a vote about how to name the county page, one anonymous user just decided to name it "Szepes county". If it's going to be "Szepes (county)" or something like that, fine, but not copy-pasting. Markussep ^Talk 14:58, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Markussep, I think that an article with the Szepes title may be allowed to exist on wikipedia. There is already one Spis article about the present Slovak county and nobody wants to rename that. The other counties in the Historical Hungarian County Category also bear their Hungarian names. In the long history of constant renaming and reverts I cannot determine who was the first to revert and who was reverting the reverted version. The first edits in the page history are about moving the article from Szepes to Spis - I actually don't understand this, I don't see any earlier version, I don't see who created the Szepes article at all. I think the discussion should rather be about what the content of the Szepes article should be. --KIDB 14:13, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

See the histories Spiš county and Szepes county. The original article was Spiš, this was split into Spiš and Szepes county. "Szepes county" was moved to Spiš county on 27 May (including history), and copy-pasted back to "Szepes county" by Hobartimus 4 hours later. That's when the mess began. Further see my reply to Hobartimus above. Markussep ^Talk 14:58, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

KoH county names - restart

Could you join this starting debate: Talk:Kingdom of Hungary#What language versions to be used for naming former KoH counties?

--peyerk 16:15, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Pleas use English

Bitte schreiben Sie hier keine Artikel auf Deutsch: dies hier ist die englischsprachige Wikipedia. Artikel auf Deutsch gehören in die deutschsprachige Wikipedia. Please do not contribute text in German to English Wikipedia. Your contributions are more than welcome at the German Wikipedia. Thank you.To have a page translated, list it at Wikipedia:Translation Andreas ^(T) 20:40, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Same name

I think we agree on what the substance of the question is, and are using different words to express it; possibly combined with the metaphysical question of whether esszett is the "same letter" as ss/sz.

I'm not sure we agree on the answer: My point of view is that Meissen resembles the question of Istanbul or İstanbul; and that we should use Istanbul: nationalists and pedants want İstanbul. Your results may vary. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 19:45, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

See the related discussion at Talk:Berliner Weisse, where I also give a non-comprehensive list of articles with a potential scharfes es in the title. Andreas ^(T) 19:57, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

My position, btw, is not that ß is never English usage, but that it's not English usage here - or in Wilhelmstrasse - or Richard Strauss. German usage should of course govern the de: Wikipedia. (Talk:Wilhelmstrasse links to an interesting survey on the English practice on the matter.) Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:14, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Missing German municipalities

Hi Mark - I've noticed we have both been stubbing German municipalities - I was shocked to see so many missing articles - all the places in Germany should be mapped out asap. I have found though that you can copy and paste the info in the German infoboxes staright into the english one - please see Roßbach, Neuwied. The infobox makes the stubs twenty times better. I am trying to ensure that every arrticle on a German municipality has a standard info bo xlike this -please can you use and info box from now on - it only takes about ten seconds longer per article . Hope you are well ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 17:48, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey there's no rush at all - but I wish there was more people who would help. - we can add a few every day or two and I'm sure it'll be done in no time at all. They are smaller places after all -its not as if Berlin is missing is it?!! Hey I've spent the last hour or so browsing articles on space exploration, rockets and airliners with all the cool images of space-this really is some unique project isn't it - its like reading NASA secret documents - every intricate of detail is given - of course all the images are public domain. The more you browse the more you realise how ginormous this is -but imagine how many articles are still missing and how many there could possibly be!!!!! Give this ten years and this will be something phenonemal. The potential of wikipedia is endless. Anyway just drooling over it!!!! Hope you are well, ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 14:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

If you do want some help with that I suggest you make a worklist of missing municipalities as a subpage of WP:GER and point the members to it. I am sure that will created quite some drive-by article creation. BTW as both of you create these articles could you also place the project banner on the talkpage - the articles will get some more attention that way. Agathoclea 17:27, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

A little more work ahead see this Agathoclea 14:50, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Location maps

Would you consider dual-licensing your contributions to {{Location map}} and related templates under the cc-by 2.5 license so i could use them on the english wikinews? Happy editing. Bawolff 00:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Note I'm refering to the templates, not the images. Bawolff 21:28, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Wow you beat me to it by about 3 seconds!!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 14:01, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Can you add the municips to the main Birkenfeld (district) and I'll make a start on the next. Its a drab rainy day here so I may as well do what I can while I am in the mood . PLease respond ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 14:06, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

As I said you beat me to it with the misses I had already altered several and was going to complete it. Yes I've just started the next one its huge but is not a good look for wikipedia is it with all those red links!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 14:13, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

I've fixed the doubles first before I start so that you don't feel you have to clean up after me. You may want to fill in the disamb pages a bit more though. Here we go!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 15:17, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with stubbing, I mean this in the nicest possible way - its just I'm wondering why you are so against using the info box which provides information especially when it can be done in seconds. Even if it takes a little longer it is much more worth doing -there is a big difference betwene the stubs which show all the info and location and the one liners -maybe you don't have the time but -as it is the stubs you created don't provide any information to anybody. I or someone else will have to go through the stubs you have created and add the info boxes anyway - so if you can do it initially it would save a lot of time. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 11:44, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes that does occur occasionally - on those articles I have mostly not added an info box at all as it was messed up. Most of fine. Hey its fine to stub to them its just I was thinking in the long term. Really the priority should be as you said to rid of the red links. -it'll all get done eventually anyway ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 12:00, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Wow good progress - you're shooting through those districts -luckily most are not over 2225 municips like the one I'm on -leave that one to me I'll finish it eventually ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 18:26, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Good consistent work particularly today. Yes I'd like to see the states of Germany all with full decent articles like the main Germany article. For some reason often there appears to be a distinct lack of detail on provinvial articles on wikipedia but full articles on small towns etc. As you may know my work on wikipedia covers many topics mostly film-rleeated work but I'm glad to help out in a geo area I see not fully covered and I'll keep my word to finish that big district and maybe stub a few others. Have a great break (Greece?????!!!) -just joking - if you are taking a breather and I look forward to hearing from you. Saludis de Tu amigo calvo (your bald friend) 21:18, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Spalt

My name is Hogan, from the USA, and I have made several additions to your article on Spalt. Most of it has been simply translating everything from the German page onto the English page. I hope that I have time to finish translation, and I have already completed 5 sections. Would you mind looking over the article? Click here for the page

Rivers in Europe

I agree that the corrections made are not final and I intended to continue correcting. However, I have my doubts that the old list is as good as you claim. I am not discussing the order in which the tributaries enter the river. But the general title indicates In Romania. The Iskar is not in Romania, neither is the Yantra and so on. Agreed that the mouth is in Romania (actuallz also in the Ukraine) but the tributaries are in various countries. Indicating the country only according to the mouth of the river is confusing. I also have serious reservations about indicating the order of the rivers from downstream to upstream. In most countries the presentation is done in the direction of the flow of the water, not otherwise. But I have no objection to reverting to the former version for the time being, until these matters are sorted out.Afil 19:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Saxony stubs

First of all thank you for creating all the municipality stubs. However, there is no rush necessary. I'd prefer if you could add two or three sentences too that are special about whatever municipality you're creating... If you speak German fluently it shouldn't be a problem to skim the the German articles and see what might distinguish the municipality from others. See for example what I added to Wechselburg and to Ralbitz-Rosenthal. I'm realistic, so I don't really think people will start filling up those articles in the near future so please make your stubs a little more "interesting";-) thx, --X-Weinzar 23:00, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm sure they'll develop soon enough. Great progess - I have looked through several districts and all the red links have been removed. Which regions now need to be completed? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 18:23, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

well, I do understand and do appreciate your efforts to create those articles but honestly: Who do you think will put work into them? I'm skeptical about this unless some German users sign up in order to promote their home towns. I think just creating articles in order for "links to be blue" may not be the right way... --X-Weinzar 19:04, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

There will be a minimal but sufficient information in each of those stubs once the infoboxes are copied in. Far more will grow then if we would not plant the seedling. Agathoclea 20:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Un salle de bains avec duche . Have a nice holdiay? ♦ Blofeld the Bald ♦ ^{"Expecting you?" Contribs} 17:30, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Hope you had a great time. The weather in the Uk this summer has been terrible -this is the first summer of my life that we haven't had a proper summer!!! Its only this weekend since April that the weather has been warm!!! I've been doing some French communes in the Pas de Calais department but mostly taking it easy ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you?" Contribs} 17:40, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I think we should try to get Rhineland completed. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 18:51, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Well I'm sorry I didn't complete it before now. I have been rather busy. It was getting done gradually. But now they are inconsistent as some have an info box and others don't. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 16:28, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Great work though - I filled in a district yesterday ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 16:30, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Kusel (district) next???? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 16:34, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:Athens

I was hoping you could add your name to the WP:COUNCIL/P page to help get WP:Athens into existance. It's just a proposal so far, but I hope more people will add their names. ^{El Greco (talk · contribs)} 16:06, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

South Tyrol location

Now that South Tyrol has been moved to Province of Bolzano-Bozen, if you care, please add your opinion on the future of South Tyrol here: Talk:Province_of_Bolzano-Bozen#Whither_South_Tyrol.3F. — AjaxSmack 00:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Val Passiria

Yes I know... the same old, boring conflict Italian vs German name, but I think in this case i have the Naming Conventions on my side. Maybe you're interested, Mai-Sachme 16:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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South Tyrol

hello there Markussep, you once voted and showed interest on the topic of South Tyrol. Certain Italian users just can't seem to give the topic a rest and had the article moved with a sham vote to the Italian name. I am calling for that vote to be annulled or at least extended so that more can vote and the result be representative. Drop by the talk page or drop me a message if you would like to share your thoughts, I am interested in hearing from you. sincerely Gryffindor 04:32, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

What are you doing?

subject says it all.Hobartimus 14:54, 27 August 2007 (UTC) You still cannot do what you are doing, you disruptively delete the whole article and then change even the links at other places. What you should understand that there was never such a thing as Zvolen county. Now the article has history at two places both contains only a handful of edits like ten, so who are you to say which history is more important. Even if we accept that that history is so important then you should move the article and ask admin help to do it you cannot do what you are doing even editing related templates and such. Hobartimus 15:57, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Deleted cut and paste due to violation of GDFL. Agathoclea 18:18, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm happy to see that it's resolved and you are pleased with the situation. Sorry if I used a harsh tone, it's just the title of the article was an important detail to me. Hobartimus 20:11, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Germany

I have fixed the links for Mayen-Koblenz. The path is now clear to just stub them all. But why are many municipalities categorized as towns and some municipalities not. Surely most municipalities have a village or small town of the municipality name? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 14:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I believe that there was sometime ago someone who classed everything as town. Current practice is to class "Städte" under 100k as towns ond over as cities and leave the rest as municipalities. I am linking [[Municipalities in Germany|municipality]] which is currently a redirect but could later be an article. Agathoclea 14:59, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Well I would prefer a Category:Cities, towns and villages in Rhineland-Palatinate - much less confusing. The "cities" often have a subcateogry of their own anyway.

Mark - I've done that entire district now -there's one less for you to do - but some of the interwiki links may not be correct - this can be fixed when info boxes are copied and added. No one's going to thank me as ever though are they!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (talk • contribs) 15:30, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your effort! Agathoclea 15:32, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Well done to all. I'll add a few infoboxes now. Hey Mark I've begun developing French films. Mostly I've been working on French films of the 1920s. today and yesterday, Now theres a lots of missing work there too!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (talk • contribs) 15:40, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

OK links for Rhein-Hunsrück is just about fixed. I've started a few. I'll complete it with you tomorrrow. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 22:06, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Laubach is the last one to fix I'll do that tomorrow. Guten nacht mein freund. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 22:09, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Finished

♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Das ist sehr gut der doktor jaaaaaaaa! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 11:08, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I know you did. The reason I didn't start them was because the stub cateogry didn't seem to be established yet and didn't know what you intended dpoing with it. I didn't want to start then all and you have to go through changing it all afterwards, Good!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 21:28, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Great you've sorted all the remainders!!! If you set up the stub categories for the remainding districts we can aim at finishing them in the next few days. Good work with the collective municips too ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 21:30, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Why have you stopped? I've added infoboxes to all your new ones and we've sorted out that you can't speedy delete geo locations. I had trouble with French communes the other day -the guy didn't know what a commune was and put it as a speedy bio!!!!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 16:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I know but you just started. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{<f
Wont color="Navy">"Talk"?} 16:57, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Done. I got quite annoyed when somebody put my French communes up for deletion. We're trying to build this into the greatest site ever and this is the thanks we get huh? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 17:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm taking it easy the next few days and won't be editing much!!! I'll leave the last one for you. Three nailed in one day!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 17:52, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Well? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 13:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I find that once I had a few I go into bot mode and do it with my eyes shut! I've always been very quick. We've done well together. I'll add the new region to my note pad. Keep up the good work ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 14:27, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Program?

Are you using a bot or a program to create articles so quickly? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 14:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

That's interesting. Can I Help? How does this one look? Neverin? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 15:06, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, What do you think of the recent creations? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 15:11, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Alright, Mecklenburg-Strelitz (district) is finished. Message me another one and I'll start on that one as well just so that I know what needs to be done. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 15:15, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Tell me what you mean by "Checking for ambiguity issues". Wikidudeman ^(talk) 15:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Could you let me know what I can help you with right now? I want to test AWB on creating those articles much quicker. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 17:04, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Let's do some more. Tell me which Templates you've already gone over so that I can create the relevant articles. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 20:50, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Nordvorpommern Done. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 20:55, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Check

Ostvorpommer so that I can complete it. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 20:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Whenever you finish checking over a German cities template just let me know and I'll fill them all in and create the articles. Every time you finish one then just post it on my talk page and I will create all of them that need to be created. Be sure to provide a link to the specific template where the articles are located so that I don't get confused though. Thanks. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 21:50, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Concerning use of AWB

I've concluded that it AWB won't work to help create those articles quicker unless we find a way to add a template to the AWB input that will automatically result in the name of the article said template is placed on. For instance a template, if placed on the article Superman would automatically turn into the text "Superman" once saved. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 19:45, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I just figured that out thanks to someone else telling me. I'm trying it now with Towns and municipalities in Nordwestmecklenburg. Check to see if I'm making mistakes. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 20:23, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Oops

I seem to have made a mistake. I forgot to change the attributes for a lot of German cities such as Wittenhagen. The result is that it says it's a municipality in the Nordwestmecklenburg district but it's actually in the Nordvorpommern district...I'm going to start fixing it but if I don't finish please fix them for me. Thanks. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 22:06, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I think I fixed it all pretty quickly using AWB. Are you done with anymore districts? If so just let me know and I'll fill them all in within a minute or two using AWB. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 14:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to start Ostvorpommern now. Keep an eye on it to make sure I don't make a mistake. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 18:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Have we found a bot to do the German municipalties? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 19:13, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 19:29, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Districts completed

Ostvorpommern (district)

Done Check it over for me real quick to make sure everything is in order. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 18:20, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Parchim (district)

Done up to Lübz Check it over for me real quick to make sure everything is in order. Tell me when you've checked the rest so that I can finish it. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 18:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Done - I've completed the Parchim district. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 17:14, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Rügen and Uecker-Randow

Done with Rügen and Uecker-Randow Wikidudeman ^(talk) 20:11, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Saxony-Anhalt

What have you completed exactly? Also, What do you mean by Model municipality? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 21:35, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind, I know what you mean. I'm starting work on Altmarkkreis Salzwedel now. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 21:43, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Altmarkkreis Salzwedel

Done with Altmarkkreis Salzwedel. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 21:52, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Anhalt-Bitterfeld and Börde

Done with Anhalt-Bitterfeld and Börde. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 16:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Burgenlandkreis

Done with Burgenlandkreis. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 19:47, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Harz and Jerichower Land

Done with Harz and Jerichower Land. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 16:29, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Mansfeld-Südharz and Saalekreis

Done with Mansfeld-Südharz and Saalekreis. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 22:09, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Pagenames...

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll get right on it ASAP. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 14:52, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Alright, I've changed all of the {{PAGENAME}} to {{subst:PAGENAME}}. I'll definitely use {{subst:PAGENAME}} from now on instead. Have you finished looking over any other districts? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 15:29, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Are you finished checking Uecker-Randow yet? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 18:56, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Adamello-Presanella

I'm part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Short article clean-up. The article Adamello-Presanella does not have any references, and I couldn't find any through Google search. Since you created the article, would you happen to know which sources you used? Thanks, Psych less 00:40, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Please tell me...

when you finish overlooking an article and I'll get right to filling it in using AWB. I do it a bit slower from now on as not to flood the newpage servers but I generally get it done much faster than if done manually. Thanks. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 13:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Your note

Thanks for the note, I will fix that; my bad I kinda ignored the german, thought it was part of the template, instead of a interwiki link. And I learn german too! I'll go back and fix the ones you have not fixed yet. Thanks again! Phgao 15:26, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm still fixing, can't believe I created so many articles with it, lucky you pointed that out, otherwise a lot of spadework there. Phgao 15:36, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Tick. All done. Phgao 15:44, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

AWB

Thanks for your offer, I actually have access to AWB, but have no idea how to use it. Now, I could do things manually, if it's as easy as the stuff I did above and doesn't take too long. Otherwise I may have to get your help in configuring AWB. But any menial tasks that need to be done, feel free to send them to me with how I should go about doing it. Phgao 16:18, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Interwikilinks

I am leaving this message here as a number of people involved seem to be checking in from time to time. I came across a number of articles recently where in the hurry of setting up the article a wrong interwikilink was set (either non-existant or pointing to a dab page). That could be avoided by following the link to check and then copy the other interwikilinks from the de-wiki article. Agathoclea 09:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I might be able to fix this. Which articles or Municipalities are these articles in? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 14:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Note..

When giving me districts or municipalities please leave model municipalities so that I can use them to base the others off of. Otherwise it's quite difficult. Thanks. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 19:22, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Serein

You're too quick - I was just getting round to the data from the French page.... :-) FlagSteward 13:31, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		I'm awarding you this barnstar for your great work on German towns and cities. Good work. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 23:48, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

On wikipedia mirrors.

Hey there. I've added the four mirrors you found to the list.

Incidentally, feel free to User:CorenSearchBot/exclude add entries to that list as well if you find more. Please make certain you only include urls that are only wikipedia mirrors (so as to not accidentally allow other contents just because it cohabits with a mirror). — Coren ^(talk) 15:47, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Senscheid

A tag has been placed on Senscheid, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia per CSD A1.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not meet basic Wikipedia criteria may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as an appropriate article, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is appropriate, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag) and leave a note on the page's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. Shawnpoo 21:59, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

mini stubs and vo-closure discussion

Dewiki is slowly revolting against interwikilinks to what they call "substandard robot generated rubbish". One of the outspoken ones is de:Benutzer:Rauenstein who has already vandalized entries on enwiki because he did not like the interwikilinks. Currently it lead to the discussion to close vo-wiki which makes an interesting read. We are often quoted as an example/inspiration for the bot activity. Any ideas? Agathoclea 05:43, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, you posted a message on my talk page about our Germany-related stub creations being cited as an example. The length of the discussion discourages me to read it completely, what's the bottom line regarding our stubs? BTW in a week from now all German municipalities will have an article!!! Markussep ^Talk 13:15, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

I am looking forward to completion. There is not much that we can do against such bad attitude apart from making sure that all those articles will get fleshed out eventually - first with infoboxes and then a bit more text. Prove them wrong! Agathoclea 17:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

AWB prob

AWB seems to be on the fritz so it might be a day or two before I can start again with those articles. Keep posting them on my talk page and I'll get to them ASAP if there starts to be a backlog of a few. Thanks. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 19:16, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Nothing else?

No other German municipalities need to be completed? Wikidudeman ^(talk) 18:45, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

upcoming newsletter

I'd like to resurrect the newsletter and started working on it already. As the feature concerns the Cities taskforce, I thought you might want to have your input as well. Agathoclea 15:44, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Diff you might be interrested in

This diff seems interesting. Agathoclea 13:17, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the link. I think we already covered these changes of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaften (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, and Bad Kösen not disbanded), not sure about the municipalities, but I checked most of those this summer. Next up: Saxony, 2008. Is there an easy way to find out about municipality mergers? Markussep ^Talk 13:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Kommunen und Landkreise in Deutschland/Aktuelle Gemeindegebietsveränderungen is what I wanted to port to our project for a while. Just very thin on references. Agathoclea 14:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Most prolific article writers

A new list of the most prolific article writers is out and you're in the top 10. See description here Raul654 16:48, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

German location template

I am having some problems with the new German location template that someone brought over from the German Wikipedia. Do you know who owns it?

To see the problems, look at Altusried.

Ksnow 17:05, 5 November 2007 (UTC)Ksnow

Gemeindeschlüssel

I just left a note with Ksnow, but it affects all of us involved. Having the Gemeindeschlüssel in the infobox will later help us identify the places in question when making botgenerated updates like population. Agathoclea 21:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

German Infoboxes

What other states are not yet complete? What should I work on while you do Lower Saxony? Ksnow 02:31, 14 November 2007 (UTC)Ksnow

Good morning. While you were answering the above I added another note to Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Cities which you might want to doublecheck. Agathoclea 08:21, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I noticed in some cases that the infobox as copied from de: didn't contain the "Art" field even though it was a town/Stadt. I corrected the ones I noticed, but probably I missed several. And there are still many places in both a "municipalities" and a "towns" category. I think the best way to fix this is to compare the "towns in X" categories with a list of towns from de:, like de:Liste der Städte in Deutschland, or the bold names in de:Liste der Städte und Gemeinden in Baden-Württemberg etc. for the states that have been completed (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Hesse). Unfortunately, there are no lists of towns by state, or categories of towns by state in de:. It's not my highest priority, though. One complicating thing is also that there are several places in the "towns" categories that aren't independent municipalities or towns (e.g. Rheydt, Obermarsberg, Nassau, Saxony). They should go to a "villages" or "boroughs" category, but I don't think there's been a decision on that yet. Maybe "localities in X", "quarters in X" or "municipal subdivisions in X". Markussep ^Talk 12:33, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

That does complicate matters. But I think that can wait sorting until we managed to sort out the infoboxes and categories. Agathoclea 12:38, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I just discovered Category:Neighbourhoods in Germany, but there's also Category:Villages in Germany. What we're looking for is an equivalent for "Ortsteil", something that covers both urban subdivisions like Rheydt and Bad Godesberg, and rural places like Denklingen (Reichshof) and Klein Priebus. Neighbourhood looks fine to me. Markussep ^Talk 14:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

FYI

Hörselberg-Hainich -- Agathoclea (talk) 16:27, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Images not yet on commons

If you come across more like Hörselberg feel free to dump a reference in the section on my userpage. That is until I get around to start a project page. Agathoclea (talk) 19:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Sponheim

There seems to be something wrong with the Grafschaft Sponheim Infobox that I am not able to fix. Ksnow 15:15, 3 December 2007 (UTC)Ksnow

The equals sign is showing where the flag is, and the sin escudo flags are off to the right, almost out of the box. Ksnow 15:28, 3 December 2007 (UTC)Ksnow

Landkreis in Deutschland

As far as the English Wikipedia is concerned. Can Landkries be "County" and Verbandsgemeinde be "Township" or "County district". Due to the target audience being American in which our federal structure is as follows: National = Bundeswiet State = Bundesland County= Landkreis Township/County district = Verbandsgemeinde City/Town = Stadt/Ort so with that said may it remain County of Kaiserslautern as to better serve the American population in the region and the readers of English Wikipedia. Danke ;) MKLPTR 17:46, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

RE: Land kreis in Deutschland

It would be nice if we did re-name them to counties. But that would be impractical by now due to the number of articles. However the rationale is you need to look at the equivalent governmental body in your target audiences area. For us here in the U.S. district is only used in cities like "Stadttiel" in German. Like I live in The City of Antioch (Stadt) on the County of Contra Costa (Landkries) in the state of California (Bundesland) in the Nation of the United States of America (Bundesrepublik). see where I am going with this? here is also an excerpt from the Deutsch "County" page:
"County (Plural: Countys; englischer Plural: counties) ist in 48 der 50 Bundesstaaten der Vereinigten Staaten der Name der Verwaltungseinheiten, die den deutschen Landkreisen"
Hope that helps ;) MKLPTR 19:00, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Update on Bavaria

Just to let you know what I had been up to for the last week or so. I removed all (or most) of the Towns in/municipalities in... Categories to let the infobox do the categorization. I am still in the process of matching the lead to the category generated from the infobox. But I ran into a slight problem: there are only 315 Städte in Bavaria - 6 Cities and 309 Towns - so I still have about 60 which are marked as Towns when they are not. I found a few where the type=town or Art=Stadt has been added when the infobox was copied from dewiki. All in all still a bit of work ahead. Agathoclea (talk) 23:06, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Avanton

Hi. I'd like to thank you for adding that Avanton article, especially considering that I had only added Cone d'Avanton a few hours earlier. athinaios (talk) 16:31, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I followed your advice. It's now Avanton Gold Cone. athinaios (talk) 17:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel

If you work around this page please leave the finish as it was. Second time now "contents" was repositioned! No objections if you place links but keep the form please!

I will consider a attempt to place "contents" back to it's genuine place as ecxuse! :-) User talk:Atyx

Fine! :-) ...dont worry be further good as you are!

Was die Fotos betrifft: Die sind in Ordnung und nehmen voll Bezug auf den Text auch wenn Du das nicht sehen kannst da Du nicht ortskundig bist - oder doch?

Der link auf hypermart ist in Ordnung, schließlich habe ich die Fotos gestellt und mir auch Arbeit gemacht zum Vorteil der Stadt oder? Atyx (talk) 20:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC) Atyx (talk) 20:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Slow but shure I get the story! :-) You are a wikiholic and you prefixed the code inputs in all the villages/Cities concerning Lower Autria, right?

This is great, made work for me really easy! Instead of working and experiencing all the wiki rules to edit a page I only had to fill in your prefixed form!

Thanks for this great help. Atyx (talk) 22:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC) Atyx (talk) 22:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

2007-12-16 / Hi Markus!

I have in mind to create a page about LEDNICE / CZ which is really a wonderfull place, a place I´m very often over there and I have plenty pics. This page should just be a suggestion to visit Lednice on a weekend and tell people some storys about Lednice. But I must log in and if I try that wiki always reply: The user atyx is unkwon! Do you know why please?

Atyx (talk) 14:33, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

2007-12-18

HI! Great the new finish of Wolkersdorf! Looks very professionell :-)Are you still alive? I get a look in your talk page and it seems more and more you are a wikiholic! :-) Please try - if its not too much asked - to place the content box on its genuine place! I give up, wikipedia`s internal structure drives me crazy... Atyx (talk) 00:31, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Atyx (talk • contribs) 20:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Germany stubs

Hi Mark. Did you finish Germany after? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 13:53, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

That is excellent work and progreess. i admire you for it!!!! i'm a bit tied up myself at the moment sorting out film, but it was always good to work with you. Let me know if you really need a hand with something and I'll see what I can do when I have a moment spare. I was gradually aiming to add the communes in France (which also needs doing). Regards 15:43, 17 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk • contribs)

Herxheim

There is an inter-wiki link on this page to Lumbaart (lmo:Herxheim), but when I try to move it into its proper position so that the links are alphabetical or to copy it onto the German page, it doesn't show up. Can you figure out what is going on?

Ksnow (talk) 11:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)Ksnow

Yes, but I am on a different computer. I wonder what the problem was? Thanks, again. Ksnow (talk) 14:16, 19 December 2007 (UTC)Ksnow

Gemeinde Web sites

Is there any way we can edit the Ort in Deutschland template so that Web sites with long names don't make the infobox get wide? This would mean that we could include the whole address without having an aesthetically unpleasant effect. Ksnow (talk) 08:57, 23 December 2007 (UTC)Ksnow

Yes, I finished Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saarland is done. I am working on Saxony. Ksnow (talk) 17:02, 27 December 2007 (UTC)Ksnow