User talk:Petri Krohn/Archive 2005

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Hello Petri Krohn/Archive 2005, welcome to Wikipedia!

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alf ^melmac 01:50, 11 September 2005 (UTC).

Wikipedians in Finland

I added [[Category:Wikipedians in Finland]] to your user page, if you prefer it without, please feel free to remove it. Alf ^melmac

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Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. (SEWilco 20:27, 12 September 2005 (UTC))

I think he might have better phrased that to say; "Only use the talk pages for talking about images or articles, please" and "I have removed your comments as there were cluttering up the page with stuff that shouldn't be there". Alf ^melmac 21:30, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Main battle tanks

Hello, Petri! Thanks for helping with improving the article battleship. A few pointers, though:

When listing "See also"-links, you're supposed to link to the actual title of the articles. Main Battle Tank is just a redirect to tank, not an article on it's own. If you read the article, you'll see that the military concept of the MBT is covered within that article. You only use the format [[actual name|alternative name]] when describing something in article prose.

Peter ^Isotalo 17:47, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

See Talk:Tank#Main Battle Tank vs. Battleship -- Petri Krohn 19:43, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

As you can see, your stance is garnering very little support because it's based on some misconceptions on what the overall objective of any encyclopedia. It's the topic of the article that should dictate content, not the other way around. As for battleship, I urge you to read Wikipedia:Manual of Style#"See also" and "Related topics" sections and look at just about any other article to see that this is not what these sections are for.

Peter ^Isotalo 12:07, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Petri, please stop adding "See also"-links that are redirects to other articles. Use the actual article titles if you want to link somewhere or simply don't link at all.

Peter ^Isotalo 21:14, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Lincoln Cathedral

Hi I think the picture would be better described as from the West, as the photographer is to the West of the Cathedral. --John 11:10, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Watershed

Hello. Just curious, why did you add the portage link to the watershed article? Thanks. Kiaparowits 18:06, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Kiitos kaunis.

Kiitos tosiaankin. Olen ajoittain harkinnut että joku joka hallitsee kaikki lelut ja vimpaimet, tekisi minulle oikein tyylikkään käyttäjäsivun, mutta se on aina viivähtänyt vetkutteluun. Ehkä joskus sitten kun on jotain tärkeämpää mitä vetkutella sen sijasta. -- Cimon avaro; on a pogostick. 12:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

"Post Soviet times" in article Winter War

Your subtitle "Post Soviet times" and rewroting "to remove POV" was not very good edit. Sadly, your own edit was very POV and irrelevant in article of Winter War. There is already an article of Karelia question and in Finnish wiki it is peer-reviewed and rather good: fi:Karjala-kysymys.

Teit muokkauksen, jolla yritit poistaa POVia. Tässä vain ei ollut mitään POVia: "After the war, the Karjalan liitto started to work for the Karelia question." Ennemminkin lisäyksesi oli vahvasti värittynyt "[question] has clogged many Internet discussion groups and forums (including Wikipedia)." Palautin tekstin siitä, että Karjalan liitto alkoi työskennellä Karjala-kysymyksen hyväksi. Karjalan luovutus talvisodassa johti Karjalan liiton perustamiseen, jonka tavoitteisiin on sen omien sanojensa mukaan aina sisältynyt Karjalan palautus. Kommentoin eli piilotin pov-tekstisi, koska se ei oikein liity talvisotaan vaan enemmänkin artikkeliin Karjala-kysymys. Ja sittenkin vain korjattuna, koska se sisälsi virheellistä tietoa (korjasin sen). Kahkonen 12:29, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Moved discussion to the article talk page. -- Petri Krohn 23:21, 6 November 2005 (UTC)