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Foto of Ségrie

I found a foto of the french village Ségrie at Flickr. Is there a posibility to get it into wikipedia? --Tschips (talk) 10:29, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately no. See the "All Rights Reserved" copyright tag? This means it's not compatible with our license. See Wikipedia:Upload/Flickr for more details. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 10:38, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Proof reading needed

As I am not very good in english language, it would be nice if someone could read and correct the article I made in my namespace: User:Tschips/work. It is about a French botanist. Thank you --Tschips (talk) 12:17, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pierre Dangeard

Hey Tschips. Glad to help. I have moved the article to the mainspace in place of your cut and paste there though, since once an article has any significant revisions by anyone else its page history is required for copyright attribution. This required some fancy steps here because you work edit up in a subpage, but not one dedicated to this article. To make this easier in the future, it might be better to create a dedicated subpage for each new article, rather than using a sandbox, e.g., for this past one you wold have created User talk:Tschips/Pierre Dangeard. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:31, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ya I see the point. Thanks! --Tschips (talk) 23:33, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Republic of the Congo

Thank you for catching that extra "the" at Republic of the Congo. It was the result of a copy-and-paste error; I was re-arranging the entire sentence and didn't see the other "the". I noticed your request for copy-edit help about two sections above. I just wanted to offer my help anytime you have a question about wording in English. You can leave a comment or question on my talk page. If it's an entire article you have created or substantially improved, you can submit a request for a copy-edit at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. If you have an article but feel it's not ready for that, I'd be glad to look at it. Corinne (talk) 16:15, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Corinne!

Thanks a lot! And - sure, as I'm not native speaker it is veeeery helpful to have someone to ask directly. I'll contact you. Greetings, --Tschips (talk) 16:24, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hofberg

Earlier today I copy-edited the article Bad Aibling. In that article is an image with a caption "Hofberg. Engraving by...." I tried to find some information about "Hofberg" in English WP but didn't find anything. Then I found the German WP article, but it's in German. Can you tell me what "Hofberg" is? Is it the name of a castle or palace? Corinne (talk) 03:46, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Corinne, I checked it and primarily it is a hill or ridge within the city area. As it lies at a prominent and strategicly "profitable" place nearby the stream (or creek) it seems to be "inhabited" [presumably, says the german article] since celtic times (La Tene). Later on the romans (might have, imho) used the place and in 470 bc the de:Agilolfinger erected [or rebuilt]] a "Hof" - from where today's name derives. The date of 470 bc has no source and it is only claimed by the author. The article about the Agilolfinger contradicts it in the way that their progenitor might be a legend :-) The later Königspfalz of the Carolingian dynasty seems to be real, also the later history. "Hof" means "court" and it was a castle hill. But you have to keep in mind that a Königspfalz -like a monastary- also was an organization (like today's company) with firm economic activity to produce natural products and get money out of the people around. The term "Hof" also stands for "farm". But the original meaning seems to be faded away and -if I'm not mistaken- today's use of the word names the area of the hill. There seems to be no building with a specific name which could fit in the meaning. And please ask me if you have more questions -on this topic or others. Greetings --Tschips (talk) 12:02, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the interesting information! I notice that "Hofberg" is not mentioned in the article. I think either some information should be added to the History section (sourced, of course), or a phrase should be added to the caption to indicate what it is (although just adding that it is an engraving of a hill in the town doesn't add much to a reader's understanding of the town's geography or history), or both. If you feel like working on this, you could write a paragraph (or two) in your sandbox, or right here, and I'd be glad to take a look at it before you add it to the article, and Checkingfax could review the referencing, which I'm not good at.

I wanted to add that the ping does not work if, after you have already typed and saved your comment, you go back and add it and save. If you forget to add a ping and want to go back and add it, you have to type something, at least a few words, and sign and save it. (You could just write, "(Adding the ping.)" or something like that.) Corinne (talk) 16:08, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Corinne Welcome, and I will have a close look on the german articles related to the subject. May be I can add some veryfied information about Hofberg and clear the german article as well. Greets --Tschips (talk) 16:22, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Great! See also the discussion on Checkingfax's talk page. Please feel free to work on it and let me know if and when you need help. Corinne (talk) 21:59, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Corinne Ya, I'll need your help, surely. --Tschips (talk) 02:12, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]