User talk:Egil

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Co-op (supermarket)

I posted a merge request on this page. If you're interested, please leave your comments at Talk:Co-op (supermarket). --Dforest 01:04, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Toolserver

hi. you asked for an account on m:Toolserver. if you're still interested, please give me an SSH key (either on my talk page or by email to keturner [at] livejournal.com). thanks, kate. (ps: i notice your map resource appears to be running on MediaWiki. the current policy is that users should not have their own installations of large PHP applications for security reasons. if this is likely to be a problem, please let me know and we can probably work something out.)

Map project

Hi Egil,

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you will be back in the future. Currently i'm working on the state leaders per year project. Maybe some of the people from there want to work on the map project to make historical maps.--Daanschr 09:20, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Warnings

Hi, could you please make a habit of signing warnings on anon talk pages so that further admins adding warnings/considering blocking can know when/what happened at a glance. Thanks. - Roy Boy ⁸⁰⁰ 00:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You have been nominated

Hello. I've reviewed your contributions to Wikipedia, your edit history, community involvement, bot maintenance, promotion of images to feature status, and cannot understand why, until just minutes ago, Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Egil did not exist. It does now, so go do something about it. :-) Hall Monitor 20:12, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your kind words. I've now accepted the nomination, and added the article here — hope that is the right way to do it. -- Egil 08:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Think nothing of it. Congratulations in advance, it is only a matter of time. Hall Monitor 21:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stig Olai Kapskarmo

After reading the article, I agree. Kapskarmo is only a local politician, and unless they are mayors or something, they fail WP:BIO. I will support the article's deletion if you nominate it. Regarding the categorization, I just recategorized it because I had first sorted Terje Søviknes under "T" rather than "S", realized that, then made a skim through the category to find others who had been listed by first name rather than surname. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:46, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see you have already nominated that one once, tell you what, I will nominate it. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:49, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have listed it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stig Olai Kapskarmo (2nd nomination). He does appear to be on the council, this list places him in last place. Sjakkalle (Check!) 15:02, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

I'm pleased to inform you that you are now an administrator. Please consider reading all the material on the administrators' reading list before testing out your new privileges. Though everything you do, excluding image deletions and page history merges, is reversible, you should nevertheless be very careful with your sysop capabilities. For instructions, please see the administrators' how-to guide. Good luck! — Dan | Talk 19:50, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

- Congrats on adminship. Dlyons493 Talk 21:13, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect

Hi Egil, even if pseuoscientific approaches well exist in historical metrology, this was not the case with the content of Historical measures as seen by pseudoscience article you created once. I redirected to Pseudoscientific metrology. Perhaps since, you saw that me like you, I'm foe of all pseudoscience.

Perhaps you also saw my recent edits in Geographic coordinate system* and Cubit. Thus, I hope you can accept the this redirect. This content had been treated as pseudo all-too long.

Have a good day, -- Paul Martin 17:47, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I verified, this was my SP Match. No sad.

"Centre" vz. "Village"

A "Villages in Norway" category has popped up by itself. Which accentuates the question about the right term for the Norwegian tettsted. My vote is pretty clearly for village. Webster has for village: "a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town". Which is what we are looking for, exactly. Note that village in English is not an exact synonym for landsby in Norwegian. -- Egil 10:14, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Moreover, Category:Villages in Norway belongs to the subcategory Category:Villages, whereas Category:Centers in Norway does not really belong to any category. Can we just be bold and move all articles in Category:Centers to Category:Villages? In addition, of course, to other, misplaced articles in Category:Cities in Norway and Category:Towns in Norway such as Koppang. By the way, I think we should keep the distinction between city and town. Punkmorten 19:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

~~umm, why did u put the disambiguation is spanish?--Ewok Slayer 02:59, 24 November 2005 (UTC)~~my bad[reply]

I did a total rewrite of List of cities in Norway and coordinated the categories accordingly. Everything should be in order now, except that Category:Centers in Norway still exists. What to do? Punkmorten 23:19, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Utterly useless article

Hi! Could you consider speedy deleting Kjelsås j91? Punkmorten 17:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, as far as I can see it does not fulfill Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion. It is about a real team, and not patent nonsense. I'm pretty sure the team seems to be not notable enough for Wikipedia, so I'm making it a candidate for ordinary deletion. -- Egil 15:02, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, well. It will go anyway. Punkmorten 16:17, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Also my House of Trouser entry is not vandalism. It is a valid location on an internationally known TV show. Merge it, don't delete it. Don't be such a snob! Cls14 00:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Toolserver

I hope you are still interested on a account on Toolserver. It would be good. I have write a little bit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolserver. The access is with Winscp really easy and comfortable, there you can also generate your keys with putty. de:Benutzer:kolossos 08:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

P.S.: What do you think about Wikipedia-de-dyn.kmz and Wikipedia-en-dyn.kmz for Google Earth? de:Benutzer:kolossos15:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Wicked

Hello Egil!

As an administrator, would you know of some sections of the norwegian section were there might be some effort worth doing? I am specially referring to sections related to Philosophy and Political science... Happy new year by the way! Axezz 17:37, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Landscapes" of Norway » (Traditional) Districts of Norway

Hello Egil. About the awkward rendering of landskap into the cognate "landscape". I have inserted a short section on all counties that list these smaller zones of local identity, folklore and dialect. I have called these districts and changed from landscapes where appropriate. BUT, I still feel that traditional district would be optimal, since district alone sounds like something that has to do with health care or voting or mail service. //Big Adamsky 07:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have no strong feelings here, traditional district is OK too (historical would be wrong, since they still exist). In addition to districts being unified in a cultural and geographical sense, in many cases the distrcts have administrative meaning too, since it is often the case that municipalities will organize common entities for utilities, health care, education etc that covers a traditonal district. But there is no formal requirement to do so. -- Egil 08:40, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Parallel computing

Hi! I've noticed that you've made some large contributions to the article Parallel computing. There is presently a discussion on restructuring various articles on concurrency and parallel computing taking place at Talk:Concurrent programming language#On the proposed merge, and I thought you might want to make your views known.

There is also some talk of starting a Concurrency Wikiproject to coordinate efforts on taming the structure and content of the diverse articles on concurrency and parallel computing. Would you be interested in contributing to this effort?

--Allan McInnes 17:17, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Districts of Norway

Excellent. Williamborg

moves

Thanks for the help... I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't! I'm sorry. Peregrine981 03:48, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stop immediately!

You are deleting many of the images by one of Wikipedias best and most recognized photographers, Uwe Kils- He has clearly marked the images as gfdl self, although he does not use the tag. -- Egil 07:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't deleted a single image. OrphanBot's removed a number of them from articles, though. --Carnildo 07:23, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've just checked OrphanBot's log. Unless Uwe Kils is uploading under some other username, it's removed exactly one image from four articles. --Carnildo 07:29, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your robot (hopefully) acts by the exact instructions you gave it, it does not have a will of its own, it is doing what you want. You cannot blame your robot. -- Egil 07:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, and the exact instructions were to "orphan all images in Category:Images with unknown copyright status and all subcategories that have been tagged for more than five days, or if tagged without a date, were uploaded more than five days ago. For all images, notify the uploader if there is no evidence of a notification already, and OrphanBot has not notified them about an image recently. For all images acted upon, save a local copy of the image in case deleting the image turns out to have been a mistake." OrphanBot is performing exactly as specified. If you feel that blame is needed, blame User:Admrboltz, who tagged the image as "no license". --Carnildo 08:21, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I already did. -- Egil 09:38, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Care to give me an example? --Admrb♉ltz (T | C) 14:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Vikingshipkils.jpg&oldid=35452919 -- Egil 15:46, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Granted, yes the license is in the upload hist, which I didnt notice when I was tagging the images, but it was not noted in the main image page when i tagged it -Admrb♉ltz (T | C) 15:56, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

extending to a week

It's fine if you've extended it, but the reason I chose such a small time is because it's a school IP, so most likely, the person vandalising will move on in at least 1-3 hours and any new people will end up suffering. Blocking for a week is fine for a private IP address, but public ones affect many people, so i tend not to go beyong 24 hours for them. Still, I trust your judgement and will not change the block you imposed. -- PRueda29 / ^Ptalk29 / ^Pcontribs29 14:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed that it is collective punishment, but for this particular school there has been nothing but massive vandalism the last couple of months, and at some point the school must take responsibility for the actions of their pupils. They can always ask for unblocking. -- Egil 15:35, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

security-copy of Kvaleberg

Your mapsources-Wiki is very important for the Wikipedia. Since I know that the Toolserver will not the right place for the wiki, i think about a possibility to increment the dependability and safeness of it. Can you send me the Wiki-folder and a Database-dump? So I would make a copy on my server http://www.alder-digital.de

So it would be also possible to share the traffic (I have 50 GB per month free) but thats not my priority intension. de:Benutzer:kolossos

I hope for a short answer, my e-mail is: tim at alder-digital dott de. Or do you have a problem with my plan? de:Benutzer:kolossos 10:33, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Page name for temperature articles

To avoid flip-flopping between 'degree Fahrenheit' and 'Fahrenheit' or 'degree Celsius' and 'Celsius', I propose that we have a discussion on which we want. I see you have contributed on units of measurement, please express your opinion at Talk:Units of measurement. Thanks. bobblewik 22:07, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Google Maps copyright

Hi! I'm about to do MAJOR work on List of villages in Norway and former municipalities of Norway. How are the copyright rules for Google Maps? Are screenshots from this service allowed/free to use? Punkmorten 07:26, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Afraid not. Google maps terms and conditions says: For individual users, Google Local, including local search results, maps, and photographic imagery, is made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. Etc.

What are you interested in? There are some satelite photos and even maps what are available, but generally not very much, because Norway (as does the rest of Europe) issues public map data on commercial terms only. -- Egil 12:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ptolemy spellings

Hi there. I am currently tidying up the Ptolemaic links in Wikipedia, prior to doing a disambiguation page for this term (it currently redirects to Ptolemaic dynasty, when many of the Ptolemaic links refer to Ptolemy). I am also tidying up the Ptolomaic links (a mis-spelling of Ptolemaic that is redirected to the correct spelling). I noticed that User:Egil/Sandbox/rktect is linked to Ptolomaic. I guess it doesn't matter that much, and the content has changed drastically since you wrote the account about rktect, and it is effectively an archive, but I thought I'd drop a note here to let you know. Carcharoth 22:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shock wave

Hallo Egil. I rolled back your change in Shock wave. The problem was that your edit changed the meaning of the sentence. If you'd like to change the style again, please keep in mind that there are several different ways to compress gas flowing supersonically, of which waveless isentropic compression, Prandtl-Meyer compression, and shock waves are three. AKAF 08:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. In that case, I would claim that the current wording could be misunderstood, i.e. that the or means that shock wave is another word for the other two. -- Egil 09:47, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. In fact I agree, and hopefully the description can be whipped into shape. I've tried a bit of an extension too.AKAF 12:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help please

Hi! Can you do something about 72.229.186.113 (talk · contribs). The modifications he's making clearly show that he's an anonymous sockpuppet vandal that has been here last night and before. I warned him but he inores me. He keeps reverting and vandalising today, using this new IP. --Realek 16:22, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

When you make claims about someone being a sockpuppet or acting against 3RR (as you do here), you must provide some evidence. Otherwise you should refrain from making such claims. Throwing about acusations will only further a conflict. Since this users edit had clear elements of vandalism, and he has been warned, I have given him a temporary block. -- Egil 16:39, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hilarious

Nice edit summary. :) —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-04-06 09:43Z

Cool that you noticed! -- Egil 16:10, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More copyedit

I invite you to more copyedit on Jotun (company), as the article has grown a tiny bit lately. Nordby73 22:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kjetil r as admin on commons

Hi! The norwegians have put foreward an admin request on commons, commons:Template:Administrators/Requests and votes/Kjetil r. It would be nice to have your votes! — John Erling Blad (no) 21:39, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maritime military history task force

I just wanted to let you know that a Maritime warfare task force has been established. Inge 12:08, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the entries to the Norwegian computer history-related pages - I'm especially happy about the NORD-10 fixes. It was needed :)

Out of curiosity... where did you stumble on these links? Is it possible that my blog has an actual reader? :) toresbe 08:56, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Geocoords

Hello Egil, your services mapsources brings following error message:

Warning: dir(/home2/egil/kvaleberg-www/wiki/skins): failed to open dir: No such file or directory  in /home/egil/public_html/wiki/includes/Skin.php on line 23

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/egil/public_html/wiki/includes/Skin.php on line 26

http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/?params=50_50_00_N_12_55_00_E_type:city(247094)_region:DE-SN

Thanks de:Benutzer:Kolossos

Sorry, if my telephone-call disturbed you. It was a unusully way but the only way I know. And thank you again for the work you have done for wikipedia, it is the base for all my work [1]. de:Benutzer:Kolossos

I am looking at the problem. The ISP where this is hosted has changed equipment. Cannot promise a fix today. Of course, the help from anyone to make Wikipedia host the mapsource service on their own servers (where it belongs IMHO), is appreciated. -- Egil 23:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed a config issue, but I still do not have the database content. Working with the ISP to resolve, but haven't got an answer yet. -- Egil 07:37, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have put in a plea here to one of the deveoplers. Incidentally, what is your traffic level Egil? -- RHaworth 22:34, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I left some statistics here. The database is now in place, but some more configuration is still required. -- Egil 07:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Żagań

Hello, Egil. I'm Kondzio1990 from Poland. Can you write an article about my city (Żagań)? Kondzio1990 08:02, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV editing help

Would you mind dropping by Talk:AVR_Butterfly? I'd like some specific feedback on how to address your concerns about the article. Thanks! --Bushing 09:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Imho it is mostly with regards to 'tone' - it describes the product with the same type of total positive note as is found in an ad. A more neutral point of view is better. -- Egil 16:48, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I'd like to fix it, but I'd rather hash out the specifics on the article's talk page, if you'll join me there... --Bushing 07:25, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Population

Hi! I got in touch with you a few months ago about an IP editor changing population figures for Norwegian towns - well, he's at it again, see here. Even if the figures are correct, no source or methodology for the figures are given, and he's not changing the accompanying date (i.e. as of 200x the popn. was... ). I'm not an expert on the topic so I wonder if you could investigate. This is a particularly troublesome IP for edits to UK geography articles, so it might be worth keeping an eye on. Aquilina 17:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seems not well founded, so I have reverted them all. Thanks for the info. Other edits from the same IP seem legitimate enough. Strange. -- Egil 12:10, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sturve Geodetic Arc

Greetings, Egil. I have been doing some research to expand the article of the Hogland island in the Finnish Gulf. In that conjunction I came across the Struve Geodetic Arc, which has one (or two?) points on the island. However, in the article on SGA the points in Russia are a little strangely marked, and I tracked back the original edition to you. It says:

Russia

   * "Mäki-päälys" (Mäkipällys) in Kingisepp
   * "Hogland, Z" (Gogland, Tochka Z) in Kingisepp

Now; Mäkinpäällys is a hill on Hogland (spelled Gogland, when transscribed from cyrillic letters), but Kingisepp is a small town in Russia close to the Estonian border. (See eg. Map of Russia) If we examine the description of the arc for instance at [Struve Geodetic Arc - A tour de force in land surveying before the satellite era (National Land Survey of Finland) and open the pop-up "Struve-brochure(pdf)" (Which I didn't manage to make a link of...) we see that the arc doesnt go anywhere near Kingisepp, (Neither does it go near the town Kuressaare, that in the history has been named Kingissepp also) though there is a dotted line from Tartu (Dorpat) to some observatory near St. Petersburg, which I don't know the meaning of, that may go right over Kingissepp. But if we look at the magnification of the original, there actually seems to be two dots close to each other on the same hill. "Tochka" means "second" or "number two" in Russian, if I recall right.

My request is: Could you be so kind to check your sources in the matter? (Or give me a link, so I can do it?) rgds. -Islander(Scandinavia) 14:26, 16 August 2006 (UTC) (And sorry for as usual not being able to express myself briefly...)[reply]

It could very well be a typo. Just fix it to what the authorative sources say. The following seems to be a good resource also: http://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/1187.pdf -- Egil 20:15, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks. I've actually studied that page earlier yesterday, and though it seems to confirm my doubts, it doesn't seem reliable enough really (or interpretable enough...), but I'll fix it like that, and hope somebody comes with better knowledge. Should we copy this conversation to the discussion page of the arc? -Islander(Scandinavia) 00:45, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I found out what was the problem. Apart from being a town, Kingisepp (or actually Kingiseppsky) is also an administrative region, to which Hogland also is counted. I will slowly correct it in the different projects. (Though the ones where I don't have a signature, are very sceptic. The german one throwed it out immediately, as "Undeutsches Deutsch", and nynorsk took some convincing...) Islander(Scandinavia) 01:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It has been a few years since I wrote my thesis about this but we need not to forget that the SGA also used material from previous triangular measurments of the areas it passed through as well as SGA calculations for the new triangulation work later. In some documents from those measurements you can see odd bulges i.e. in the north (where they used Maupertius points and measurements) [2], that is one reson why it is deviating from the Tartu meridian. I have seen documents in the Finnish Geodetic Institute where there different measurements are on the same map. It could also be a matter of misunderstanding. MoRsE 15:45, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

kvaleberg.com wiki broken?

Hi, the kvaleberg.com wiki seems severely broken, with circular redirects and database errors. I've managed to leave a comment on the wiki itself, but thought I should post a note here in case you aren't reading it. EdC 12:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Holmenkollen ski jump

I saw what you did regarding the Holmenkollen and the Holmenkollen ski jump and I like what you did. I do have a problem though with what was done and that is would it not make more sense to have the ski jump as part of the Holmenkollen ski festival? My reasoning behind this is that the jump is the centerpiece of the festival though you also have to include the compeitions such as the cross country skiing, ski jumping, nordic combined, and biathlon. I am in the process of overhauling the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships and was planning on returning to the Holmenkollen article to include the biathlon winners and to put in more information on the ski jump as part of the 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. This article has the potential of reaching "Good Article" status, but it needs some more information to justify this. Would it make more sense to change this article's name to the Holmenkollen ski festival with the ski jump? Look at some of the winners and medalists that now have to be overhauled. You are talking legends like Thomas Wassberg, Thorleif Haug, Stefania Belmondo, Julija Tchepalova, Lauritz Bergendahl among others. Chris 12:59, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem with that - my main thing was to seperate the geographical area in Oslo called Holmenkollen from the ski arena and ski jump. I've tried to make distinctive wikilinks for Holmenkollen ski jump, Holmenkollen ski festival, Holmenkollen medal etc so they can be redirected and rearranged without having to go through lots of articles. -- Egil 14:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

maps / kvaleberg.com

I dont know if you are right person: If I click in article London on coordinates, it gives error. --Li-sung 16:31, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I was about to make the same complaint. Only, it wasn't very many days since it worked fine. Islander(Scandinavia) 23:06, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Egil, would you check your website? The mapextension there gives an error. I'm missing the helpful links to map sites. BTW I opened a thread on Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Activating_the_mapsource_extension_on_Wikipedia about activating the extension on wikipedia (would be about time). -- User:Docu

There's a script on www.nsesoftware.nl that links to Google Maps, using the same parameter format that kvaleberg.com did: http://www.nsesoftware.nl/wiki/maps.asp?params=52_22_0_N_4_54_0_E_type:city(746000)_region:NL .

It's under construction, at the moment there is a problem with type:city(nnn), region is ignored, and the calculation of the zoomfactor is not 100% correct. - Erik Baas 20:33, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kvaleberg.com map-sources

As a temporary solution, the coordinates currently point to a version the toolserver. Would you re-post the contents of the map-source pages (e.g. the global, the /CH and /Europe) to User:Magnus Manske/GeoTemplate or Wikipedia:Map sources? Thanks -- User:Docu

I will see what I can manage. Pretty busy right now, sorry. -- Egil 18:53, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Is the data of the mapsource pages still available in your Mysql database, or did it crash? I'd be glad if you could repost the pages to wikipedia. -- User:Docu

Haven't had time to check yet. These are silly times. Will get back to you asap. -- Egil 14:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hope times aren't too hard on you and you will have some time to look into this. User:Magnus Manske/GeoTemplate hasn't much expanded. -- User:Docu

I suppose I have to go and collect them once more. -- User:Docu

Holmenkollen medal question

Since you live in Norway and are familiar with the Holmenkollen ski festival, can you please help put some information in the Holmenkollen medal. 1. Are Lauritz Bergendahl & Lars Bergendahl father & son? 2. Are Harald Økern & Olav Økern father & son?

Can you please assist? Chris 14:43, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lars was son of Lauritz's brother [3]. With regards to Harald and Olav I do not have any information, but they were both members of Bærums Skiklubb, fwiw. -- Egil 20:13, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for putting in the information on the Økerns. I just entered into the Holmenkollen medal article with two uncle-nephew combonations winning the medal. The Bergendahls (Lauritz and Lars) and the Økerns (Harald and Olav). Chris 23:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Holmenkollen ski jump GA nomination

FYI. The Holmenkollen ski jump has been submitted for a Good Article nomination. Chris 13:37, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Magcom 3b.jpg

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Leading Edge

I added some substance and references to the Leading Edge (company) article which you very correctly nominated for AfD due to lack of substantiated notability. I found references showing the company's role as a leading PC clone company (their sales were in the top 10 among PC companies at the peak), and some details of their eventual demise. The clones worked well (I fire up one last year which had lived unpowered in the attic for about 8 years, and after a little TLC it worked as well as new). But the price cuts in the 1990s wiped out profitability, and eventually they bit the dust. Regards. Edison 20:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Invite to WikiProject Spam

Hey there! I saw you reverting or removing linkspam. Thanks! If you're interested, come visit us in Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam so we can work together in our efforts to clean spam from Wikipedia. Hu12 21:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal Universalgenius

Universalgenius (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has vandalized the France 24 page, and engaged in name-calling. Please ban. Arbiteroftruth 09:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do not use the term "vandalism" when not called for. Calm down. You, along with other users, are escalating a factual conflict into something silly. I suggest you take a one day wikibreak, research the facts, then come back with the proper references for your facts. -- Egil 09:58, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Egil, it appears Universalgenius IS a vandal afterall. I knew it! However, I do admit I needed to calm down. Arbiteroftruth 14:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unsigned comment

Why did you delete all the info from the Betar Australia page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bslistquestion (talk • contribs)

The reason is that it did not fit within the Wikipedia requirements for notability. See Wikipedia:notability to read more about it. I assume the subject is of interest to you, so I would suggest you find some other website to include this detailled information about Betar Australia. Cheers! -- Egil 16:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image tagging for Image:Vigeland1_small.jpg

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What about a new extension (Special:GeoHackMapsources) ?

Your great tool must be integrate to WP (as Special:Booksources is). You should submit this to bugzilla <STyx 19:17, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

conrad hilton

do you have a reason for your revision>? surely an overt act of racisim or antinorweiganism by a leader lauded for his humanity is worthy of note; it seems well within the scope of the wiki guidliens and follows npov - reporting pertinient facts —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.60.137.141 (talk • contribs)

Please see Talk:Conrad_Hilton#Removed_section -- Egil 16:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you help me?

Hello Egil! I'm Ipintza, from the spanish wikipedia. I work in an Aeronauthical Technologies Center in Spain, and we are looking for information abouth tests on adhesives. Your article "Adhesive" has been very usefull for us. Could you say us (here, in your discussion) where do you has obtained the information abouth tests? Authors, papers,... Thank you!

I am sorry, but I am no expert on adhesives. I did not write the article, I only did some very minor edits. I suggest you may try to ask the question on Talk:Adhesive instead. Egil 21:49, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Geo microformat

Please will you help to implement the Geo microformat in the Coor d template? Thank you. Andy Mabbett 09:16, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox Kommune

Hei! I will be working on brining the list municipalities of Norway to featured status, modelling it on List of municipalities of Portugal. I need to fill in the parameters in the table, and thus I contact you as the creator of Template:Infobox Kommune: Where can I find the sources for area and population ranks? Is there a such thing as population density ranks? Punkmorten 11:27, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Again, what sources did you use? Punkmorten 21:26, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

SSB Norway, e.g. http://www.ssb.no/english/municipalities/1516 -- Egil

Great, but: What about the rankings, how do we know which place a certain municipality has in the rankings? Punkmorten 14:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for my repeated asking, but I need to know how the rankings were compiled. Seeing as I want to bring the list municipalities of Norway to featured status, I need sources (I can't base the list data on the respective infobox of each municipality, out of caution for vandalization/random edits). Cheers, Punkmorten 21:15, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I won't give up... Is there a source for the rankings? Punkmorten 15:51, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The data is official data from SSB, and as far as I can remember I just picked them up and sorted them myself. That was easy enough. Egil 18:56, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Projects by type

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Old Bishop's palace, Oslo

Hi Egil, could you by any chance add any information to this thread here [4] there seems to ne no information available anywhere on the subject. Thanks Giano 12:52, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Old Bishop's Palace, Oslo

Hi there. Following a conversation here, I was told that you might be able to help work out what this "Old Bishop's Palace" is in Oslo? My interest stems from the reference to James I of England marrying his wife (Anne of Denmark/Norway) there. But there is confusion over whether this is an earlier structure (different from the existing one), and when the current building was built. Any help (and links or pictures!) would be much appreciated. Carcharoth 12:55, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. Giano said it much quicker above! :-) Carcharoth 12:56, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My answer is here. -- Egil 20:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've replied briefly there and at more length below. Carcharoth 09:44, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Once again, thanks for your reply over there, it really made things a lot clearer. Here is the bit I'm still puzzling over. Would you be able to explain the references to a mayor called "Christian Mule"? I found the following at this blog:

"Oslo Ladegård was built on top of the old Bishops house from 1579. The site itself, however, contains remnants of buildings going back to around 1200. The medieval buildings were abandoned in 1554, and it rapidly decayed. The mayor Christian Mule took over and built his house over the eastern wing of the medieval structure in 1579. It was in this house that King James I of England married princess Anne of Denmark in 1589. Oslo Ladegård as you see it today is built in 1725. Lately the city of Oslo has reconstructed its baroque gardens."

I'm not sure if you had the time to follow all the links at Giano's talk page, but the key one is this, which has: "On 23rd November the royal couple stood in Christen Mules Gaard, in the great hall". This seems to imply to me that they didn't marry in the Bishop's Old Palace, but rather in the later structure built by this Christian Mule on the ruins of the Old Bishop's Palace? Would the Norwegian (or indeed Danish) sources be able to shed any more light on this? Carcharoth 09:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

no:Christen Mule, born 1525, was mayor in Oslo on and off throughout the 16th century. This webpage says the last bishop moved out of the palace in 1554, that the palace into some state of disrepair, and that it was taken over by Mule in 1579. Mule then built new building in the eastern wing of the "fortress". So by 1589 Mules building should have been finished. Note also the Norwegian sources uses wording that almost suggests a "Bishops Fortress". The current building is from 1725, as mentioned. -- Egil 11:13, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's great, thanks. Interesting bit of history there. I wonder this all relates to the fires and the relocation of Oslo across the bay in around 1624? I also found this website which I found helpful for the history of the St Olav convent. Carcharoth 12:17, 25 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

AHA! :-) Looks good. Thanks for that. Carcharoth 18:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for correcting me here. I (foolishly) mis-read the article Wikipedia has on Oslo Cathedral to mean that Hallvards was an earlier building on the same site. I now see it was at a different location. Apologies for that. Unfortunately, I created Hallvards Cathedral as a redirect to Oslo Cathedral. Um, would you possibly, ever so kindly, be able to do a stub article for Hallvards? Otherwise I should really put that redirect up for deletion. <cringe> Carcharoth 15:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect is to the place in Wikipedia where Halvards Cathedral (sources differ 50-50 on one or two Ls) is mentioned, so IMHO it can stay as is for the time being, until someone makes a decent standalone article. Egil 16:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Political reasons

Thanks for clearing up the mystery of the Bishop's Palace (and the apostrophe, which varies from book to book in English). Re this edit, I feel I must ask you to provide a full reference for it, since the article is otherwise fully referenced, particularly for controversial points. By the way, I am aware of this theory, but since my modern books on the subject do not credit it, I felt it better to leave it out of the article (see my comments on the talk page). However, if you insist on its inclusion, the comment can be accommodated in the article if referenced with publication details (I can't reference it myself, as I don't have Munch, though I have historians who cite him on other points). qp10qp 21:16, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for any confusion, but I read P.A.Muchs comments, and from my experience sailing in the area, the record of the voyage really sounds like being deliberate delay. And I do seem to remember he had a good background as to why a delay would be good, based on the negotiations going on at the time. Let me see what I can find. -- Egil 21:27, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How about dropping it from the article, but putting Munch's website in the external links? Carcharoth 22:20, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A contemporary record of the events, translated to English with P.A.Munchs comments, is here: http://sites.ecosse.net/robsuth/2_History_Wedding%20OfJames&Anna.html

I hope you will forgive me for being a dreary stickler here, but the first thing to say is that the page does not pass wikipedia's guidelines for reliable sources, being an unpublished translation by a self-confessed amateur. Even so, I don't doubt the genuineness of these documents, which have already been researched by historians such as David Harris Willson and used in their accounts of the wedding.

But in any case I'd further point out that the documents, which I read the other day when Carcharoth directed me to them, in themselves give no support at all to the idea that there were political reasons for Anne's delay. That suggestion is to be found in the notes at the end by Sutherland himself, where he quotes one anonymous historian he contacted, who dismisses the opinion of all Scots historians and, it seems to me, all previous mainstream historical analysis. I do not see anywhere Munch himself voicing this argument; we must reference the theory directly to one of his publications (you could perhaps ask at a library).

And I feel there are many flaws in the idea: for example, why not delay by staying at home in the first place? And why go to Flekkerø? According to the contemporary writer Calderwood, Lord Dingwall landed at Leith and reported that "he had come in company with the Queen's fleet three hundred miles, and was separated from them by a great storm: it was feared that the Queen was was in danger upon the seas". What also strikes me is the complete lack in the Scottish sources, even from those who were with Anne, of any mention of diplomatic concerns that the Danes wished to delay the wedding.

I am not against having this theory in the article, especially because it is intriguing and I like complexity. But we must source it properly, so I will endeavour to see if I can do so myself. qp10qp 12:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Appearently there were several forces against this marriage, and witchcraft and a subsequent major witchhunt was involved: http://www.ub.uit.no/fag/historie/halloween.htm (Norwegian). -- Egil 08:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The witchcraft incident is touched on in the article, though I hope to do a full article on James and witchcraft sometime. qp10qp 12:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree Image:Dornier.jpg

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Erickson

I've seen your 'hangon'; I think it's reasonable that the company should have an article, and I strongly suggest you yourself delete the advertising material yourself and very soon, or another admin will probably delete it. DGG 19:42, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can GeoHack be rewritten to function with Mars locations ?

Hello! Thanks for your extension :) Very good. Could it be rewritten to work with NASA WorldWind, Google Mars, and so on ? I am not that familiar with Wikipedia extensions. Maybe the right resource URL's just have to be inserted, I don't know. I have started a Source Forge project http://spacedatawiki.sourceforge.net/ The projects direction is under review, but it will probably write any extra needed extensions for space/Mars pages. DJ Barney 14:06, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Coor dms mountain

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'Greek' Measurements Mess

Hi Egil. I've been going over the article titled Ancient Greek units of measurement. It's plainly a mess and I say so on the discussion page there. I saw your name there. You were complaining about aspects of the page, in particular lengths. I hope you'll check out my comments on the discussion page for that article. The article appears to have been dominated by a contributor called User:Rktect, whose user page is a revelation. His assertions about lengths are quite lunatic and I'm thinking of deleting them. Any support for that? Lucretius 10:47, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have my absolute and full support. You may also want to consider that Rktect was forever banned from editing articles which relate to weights and measures (metrology) by the arbitration comity (see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rktect) in 2005. A number of the pages related to ancient metrology needs considerable work, I am afraid. -- Egil 12:06, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've now revised the page in question. I've based it on Athenian units and I've cleared out the specious knowledge of Mr Rktect (I doubt if he is even a real architect). It's a new start and I hope others will add to it and improve it. I notice there is no section on units of time. Thanks for your encouragement. Lucretius 04:21, 26 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template:GeoTemplate/Lang

Frankly I wasn't sure if I should contact you or Magnus Manske. It says that GeoHack is based on the mapsources extension by you, so maybe you know how to help me. I'm trying to have interwikilinks betwen different translations of the toy. The template is at Template:GeoTemplate/Lang and right now, the only thing missing is type and region. These two do not get transfered from one language to the other. I tried using #ifeq but it gives no resolts (I was so sure this would work: {{#ifeq:{region}|{region}||_region{region} }}{{#ifeq:{type}|{type}||_type:{type} }}). I then tried asking for help on the talk page, but they just got confused what the differences was from this template and the normal interwikilinks on the left hand side. Is it correct to use {region} and {type}? If and when you have time, please help me with this. --Steinn inn 20:31, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Need some help, please

Very Honourable Egil,

May I ask you, please, to help me to fix the GeoTemplate Arabic page of Map sources/GeoHack:

In fact, very Honourable Egil, the Arabic text must be aligned to the right (not to the left) on the Arabic page of Map sources/GeoHack. Would you mind to fix the text to the right. Thank you.
Then, I want to change the letters [(N, S) of latNS and (E, W) of lonEW] to their Arabic equivalents using the #switch function, but with no success. So, would you mind also to help me fixing that --> you may put North instead of N, South instead of S, East instead of E, and West instead of W (and I will change them to Arabic later). Thank you.

While waiting for you favourable response, please accept very Honourable Egil, my profound respect. DrFO.Jr.Tn (talk) 10:17, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Det Danske Luftfartselskab- defunct

please refer to Scandinavian_Airlines_System#History. Technically it still exists, but it's long gone. Merged is definitely considered defunct in wikipedia standards. regards --Ben Stone 00:17, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Battle of Blenheim

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Image:Edvard Munch.jpg listed for deletion

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GeoHack is down

It seems to me that GeoHack is not functioning at the moment. Can you fix it? --VashiDonsk 01:42, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Error on Map sources/GeoHack

I'm not sure you are the one I should tell this to, but I try. I followed the map coordinates references from the Sognsvann article, and on the right side of the Map sources/GeoHack page three Norwegian resources are shown. Two of them, Eniro and Inatur, are not working. __meco (talk) 09:32, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've deleted the Eniro one, but kept the inatur link since it really was a useful one, with topographical maps. There still is a map on inatur, but the interface is different. -- Egil (talk) 12:30, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Parameters for wikimapia in Map sources/GeoHack (French version)

Hi, (in the French version) I thing it should be http://wikimapia.org#lat=...&lon=... (and not 'll=x,y') (in English, it is correct) Thanks! -- Xofc (talk) 03:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Map sources/GeoHack (Japan)

I'm not sure if I should talk this here. Please let me know the place if it should not be here.

I found one site does not work properly in GeoHack. Geographical Survey Institute (in Japan) has parameters b(for latitude) and l(for longitude). The parameter b should be formated like {latdegabs}{latminint}{latsecdec}, but {latminint} and {latsecdec} should be prefixed by 0 when the value < 10. For example, {latminint} in parameter b should be '06' when {latminint} is 6. One Japanese user tried to fix the problem by editing ja:Template:GeoTemplate with {{ifexpr:{latminint}<10|0{latminint} |{latminint} }}, but it doesn't work with toolserver. It's same situation on {lonminint} and {lonsecdec}.

Could you change GeoHack that {latminint}, {latsecdec}, {lonminint} and {lonsecdec} have 0-prefix when the values < 10, or could you make new values like {latminint0}, {latsecdec0}, {lonminint0} and {lonsecdec0} for 0-prefixed ? Thanks, --NISYAN (talk) 07:18, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I heard above problem is talked at Template_talk:GeoTemplate#Geographical Survey Institute Link does not work well. So no answer needs to me. Thanks, --NISYAN (talk) 22:47, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LHC

Hi, I removed the LHC countdown website from the LHC page again as it's wrong, startup is not in four days time as the website states, latest I've heard is first full beam is 17th September. Cheers ^Khukri 19:48, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania 2010 could be coming to Stockholm!

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Angle of view: effective focal length

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No, the original spelling is correct

[5] Philip Trueman (talk) 12:17, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Mobile Network Code

Thanks for creating Template:MNC for Mobile Network Code article. It decreased article size and also its easier to make edits in future.

image loss

Hi,

due to a software problem the following image which you uploaded was lost on Wikimedia Commons (maybe except for a preview image):

Image:Bodo komm.png

I uploaded a low resolution version of this image. If you still have this file on your hard disk or if you can recover it from other sources please upload it again. If this image was transferred from a local Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons it can be even recovered by an admin on the local Wikipedia.

Best regards, -- Ukko (talk) 16:16, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just found one more image:

Image:Finnoy komm.png

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AfD nomination of List of Norwegians

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Getjar

Tagged for Notability since June 2008, Unreferenced since June 2008, Orphaned since September 2008. If it was genuinely notable, some evidence would have been provided in all that time. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:10, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did not, by the way, delete on G11 grounds. Check your facts. If this is notable, then create an article about it; be bold! --Orange Mike | Talk 13:36, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GIS Problem

Hello Egil, I'm not sure this is right venue for this question. If it isn't please lead me to the right place, I just didn't know where to do it. We just installed your extension Gis on the Venciclopedia. It was quite easy, thanks for such great application. The reason I'm writting is because I'm having some very minor problems with it. Those being that {type}, {title} and {region} are not showing up on mapsources even though it shows up on neighbors. You can see an example on this city, Coro (the geolink is on the template to the right, next to the the "world" icon). In the case of {title} the problem is that it shows the actual page (Especial:Geo) instead of the the one linked to the coordinates.

The other minor problem is that I want to change the code so it stops showing W for West and make it show O for Oeste, because my page is in spanish. I found some "W" and 'W's in GeoParam (3 instances), but when I do it the link doesnt render and errors as wrong format. Is there any other page where I should change this?

And that's it. With this the translation will be ready for other users interested in this great extension. Thanks in advance for your help. Gmlegal (talk) 00:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

hallo from Uwe Kils

can you please vote again on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Uwe_Kils_(3rd_nomination). Best wishes Uwe Kils 13:46, 9 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Curriculum vitae

I have started a move discussion about CV, Curriculum vitae and Résumé. You have previously participated in this topic, and I would like your input in this discussion if you are still interested. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 00:58, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:GetJar_logo.jpg

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Open Street Map

Hi Egil. I've done a lot of work to making pin maps on wikipedia from OpenStreetMap, recently I created Template:Location map Norway Oslo actually to display landmarks!! However I just came across the geohack on German wiki. When you click the geo globe on German wiki now it features on the open street map at different zoomable levels without having to leave the site. This would absolustely ideal for english wikipedia and end a long term disagreement over set pin maps and to provide the option for zoomable maps iwthin wikipedia itself. Could you please import the technology they are using on German wikipedia to display open street maps within the wiki site itself. This would be perfect and would mean we could probably not bother with the city pins. Would it be possible to display these zoomable open street maps within article infoboxes themselves? An example. See Harris Theater. If we had the zoomable open street map within the infobox theatre we would not need that pin locator. By default there could be none but a "Click map" option within the infobox. When you click it, it would then display the open street map zoomable as shown here [here. Can you do this? It would be extremely beneficial to us. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:18, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:System_camera#Nikon_F_as_first_system_camera_claim

Hi Egil,

You wrote System camera

Can you please comment on Nikon F as first system camera claim

Thanks, IOOI (talk) 14:15, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

SUL on no-wp

Done. Haros (talk) 09:27, 14 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, appreciated. Egil (talk) 09:06, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Typewriter

Here are the sources that I found demonstrating that typewriters are still being produced. You can also run a Google News search for "typewriter" http://thefranchisehound.com/2011/04/27/the-typewriter-is-not-quite-dead-yet/ http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384394,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384394,00.asp

Titan's Sword (talk) 03:44, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It seems the company in India is the last traditional, mechanical office style typewriter. I believe the article is now corrected to show this. -- Egil (talk) 06:40, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Facel

Hello Egil, just wanted to say that I fully support the move. Figured it could be nice to receive positive support for a change, I know I usually only react when I oppose something. Best, ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃ (talk) 00:21, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bart's Comet

Hi. I totally get your objection. It is a short article and thus it seems strange to repeat information. There are a lot of other users who have been wondering about that too. The reason why it has to be like that is that the lead section is a summary of the whole article (per WP:LEAD) and not just an intro. You should be able to only read the lead section and still get an idea of what the entire article is about. You cannot have information in the lead section, which is not in the rest of the artcle. Cheers --Maitch (talk) 11:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposal to shut down WP Geographic Coordinates & ban coordinates on wikipedia articles

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127 film - relevance of C.F. Foth comment?

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I'm writing to ask about this edit you made over 10 years ago(!!!) because the content is still in the article, but I don't understand its relevance.

The (slightly modified) version currently says;

127 is a film format for still photography. The image format is usually a square 4×4 cm, but rectangular 4×3 cm and 4×6 cm are also standard. Oddly, C. F. Foth & Co. used 36×24 mm (the same size as is standard for 135) for its first “Derby” model.

I don't understand the relevance of the fact that "C. F. Foth" (whoever they are) used 36 x 24 for their first model to what came before. Could you please clarify this? (You can comment at Talk:127_film#C._F._Foth_.26_Co). Much appreciated, thank you! Ubcule (talk) 23:52, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Remember Rktect?

See Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Rktect. Dougweller (talk) 21:56, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Guess which sock

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Odd, not sure why I didn't block at the SPI last year. Doug Weller (talk) 09:42, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks! I guess there was a time where I almost gave up :) Will definitely have a look real soon. There has been quite a bit of cleanup in related articles on weights and measures, so it may be the case that it is better to move any content worth preserving to other article also. -- Egil (talk) 10:55, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding restoring Zi Corporation article

hi Egil, I would rather like to work with you on creating a proper stub (to begin with) on Zi Corporation. I am afraid, in the current form (your draft) it will face similar fate yet again. We would need a little more beyond the patent wars to substantiate the company , so as to disambiguate the article from a news column. Please let me know what you think of it. Devopam (talk) 12:49, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

personally, I feel bad for each article deleted without an attempt being made to really check if it cannot exist. An article is notable based on the notability laws which I am not going to read out to a senior editor like you and make a joke of myself. There is enough information around Zi Corporation available from credible sources that can substantiate the notability aspect. Also, the patent war will be another good section in the same article. And yes, article needs to be cross linked with Nuance (and vice-versa). I guess an infobox and two/three sections will be good enough to populate a stub ? Would you want me to take a stab at it , (more so to compensate for the loss of your article, i will feel good this way). Devopam (talk) 13:33, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

hello @Egil:, please have a look at the article page User:Egil/Zi_Corporation. I made minor contributions to the infobox, added few references and gave some structure to it. Kindly feel free to revert/edit as suitable. Devopam (talk) 07:48, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

hello @Egil:, happy to see that the article is now revamped and is an interesting read . Devopam (talk) 07:04, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Seems someone else created 2019 in Norway already! -- Egil (talk) 17:57, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The WikiEagle

The WikiProject Aviation Newsletter

Volume I — Issue 1

Aviation Project • Project discussion • Members • Assessment • Outreach • The WikiEagle

Announcements

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Luft46.com has been added to the list of problematic sources after this discussion.
The Jim Lovell article was promoted to Featured Article status on 26 December after being nominated by Hawkeye7.
The Raymond Hesselyn article was promoted to Good Article status on 4 December after being nominated by Zawed.
The Supermarine Sea King article was promoted to Good Article status on 22 December after being nominated by Amitchell125.
The William Hodgson (RAF officer) article was promoted to Good Article status on 26 December after being nominated by Zawed.

Members

New Members

KingAviationKid (Joined on 17 December)
PatrickChiao (Joined on 22 December)
Wp9097 (Joined on 16 December)

Number of active members: 386. Total number of members: 921.

Closed Discussions

Featured Article assessment

Jim Lovell (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 26 December 2021

Good Article assessment

HAL Tejas (discussion) – Closed as not promoted on 30 December 2021
William Hodgson (RAF officer) (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 26 December 2021
Supermarine Sea King (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 22 December 2021
Raymond Hesselyn (discussion) – Closed as promoted on 4 December 2021

Deletion

Timeline of Berlin Brandenburg Airport's construction (discussion) – Closed as delete and redirect on 30 December 2021
Evergreen International Airlines Flight 17 (discussion) – Closed as keep on 25 December 2021

Requested moves

Akbarpur (Ambedkar Nagar) Airstrip → Akbarpur Airstrip (discussion) – Closed as moved on 30 December 2021
1983 Avensa Douglas DC-9 crash → Avensa Flight 007 (discussion) – Closed as moved on 30 December 2021
Garuda Indonesia Flight 035 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 035 (discussion) – Withdrawn on 28 December 2021

Article Statistics
This data reflects values from DMY.

Aviation pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	142
FL	15
A	56
GA	505
B	4,573
C	11,878
Start	15,082
Stub	18,754
List	2,539
Category	11,638
Disambig	653
File	2,713
Portal	629
Project	89
Redirect	1,518
Template	2,489
NA	66
Assessed	73,339
Unassessed	1
Total	73,340
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 251,817	Ω = 4.91

New/Ongoing Discussions

Featured Article review

D. B. Cooper (discussion) – Since 14 December 2021

A-class Article assessment

Granville Gee Bee Model A (discussion) – Since 21 April 2020
List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War (discussion) – Since 22 February 2010

Good Article assessment

Romanian Air Corps (discussion) – Since 25 December 2021
Jean Batten (discussion) – Since 2 October 2021

Merger proposals

List of astronauts by name → List of astronauts by year of selection (discussion) – Since 10 August 2021
List of cosmonauts → List of space travelers by nationality (discussion) – Since 10 August 2021
List of space travelers by name → List of space travelers by nationality (discussion) – Since 10 August 2021
Holidays Czech Airlines → Czech Airlines (discussion) – Since 23 June 2021
Bendix Aviation → Bendix Corporation (discussion) – Since 30 May 2021
Airport Movement Area Safety System → Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (discussion) – Since 29 May 2021
ASDE-X → Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (discussion) – Since 28 May 2021

Splitting proposals

Family Airlines (discussion) – Since 23 November 2021
2021 Kabul airport attack (discussion) – Since 24 September 2021
List of military aircraft of the United States (discussion) – Since 16 August 2021
Braniff International Airways (discussion) – Since 8 September 2019

Deletion

List of maiden voyages (discussion) – Since 29 December 2021

Requested moves

Hot-air balloon → Hot air balloon (discussion) – Since 30 December 2021
Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 → Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021
Garuda Indonesia Flight 150 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 150 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021
Garuda Indonesia Flight 206 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 206 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021
Garuda Indonesia Flight 708 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 708 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021
Garuda Indonesia Flight 892 → Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892 (discussion) – Since 28 December 2021
TWA Flight 800 → TWA Flight 800 (1996) (discussion) – Since 27 December 2021
Dynamic Airways Flight 405 → Dynamic International Airways Flight 405 (discussion) – Since 26 December 2021
CommutAir Flight 4281 → CommutAir Flight 4821 (discussion) – Since 25 December 2021
Thai Airways → Thai Airways International (discussion) – Since 13 December 2021
Thai Airways fleet → Thai Airways International fleet (discussion) – Since 13 December 2021
List of Thai Airways destinations → List of Thai Airways International destinations (discussion) – Since 13 December 2021

Did you know

Ravish Malhotra (discussion) – Since 30 December 2021
Alexander Tahy (discussion) – Since 26 December 2021
Veronica Volkersz (discussion) – Since 6 December 2021
Rudolf Szepessy-Sokoll (discussion) – Since 3 December 2021

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You started this one in 2003 and it got turned into a redirect in 2015. I wanted to let you know that I did some work on it today, as I think he clearly passes WP:ANYBIO so I hope it will stay up now. CT55555 (talk) 02:27, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the great work you did. I agree, this is notable. -- Egil (talk) 11:42, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Good catch. This page really should be deleted. It is misleading, the ND 505/CX had a 29 (not 28!) bit address bus, but was otherwise a 32 bit computer. Have cleaned up refs to it. -- Egil (talk) 15:40, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Holmenkollen medal question

Holmenkollen ski jump GA nomination

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Leading Edge

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Vandal Universalgenius

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Image tagging for Image:Vigeland1_small.jpg

What about a new extension (Special:GeoHackMapsources) ?

conrad hilton

Could you help me?

Geo microformat

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Category:Projects by type

Old Bishop's palace, Oslo

Old Bishop's Palace, Oslo

Political reasons

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Spam in Ericsson Mobile Platforms

Erickson

Can GeoHack be rewritten to function with Mars locations ?

Coor dms mountain

TfD nomination of Template:Coor dms mountain

'Greek' Measurements Mess

Fair use rationale for Image:A_part_of_me.jpg

AfD nomination of Land Camera

Need some help, please

Fair use rationale for Image:Referendum Italy.png

Speedy deletion of Indata

Bot activity

Det Danske Luftfartselskab- defunct

We Share Your Pain

Battle of Blenheim

An Invite to join Aviation WikiProject

Image:Edvard Munch.jpg listed for deletion

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Amoi.gif}

GeoHack is down

Error on Map sources/GeoHack

Parameters for wikimapia in Map sources/GeoHack (French version)

Map sources/GeoHack (Japan)

Wikimania 2010 could be coming to Stockholm!

Angle of view: effective focal length

No, the original spelling is correct