User talk:Markussep

Intercommunality links in French communes

I have been taking out the links on these and the cantons because I had thought you had tweaked the template to automatically link to the page, if it existed. Is this not right? Ksnow (talk) 15:13, 16 September 2009 (UTC)Ksnow

For the time being, I will stop removing links from interocmmunal entities that have a page, and just shorten the name with a pipe. Let me know what you decide. I'm fine with anything except having only one of the ugly acronyms. Ksnow (talk) 19:25, 16 September 2009 (UTC)Ksnow

Brussels naming conventions

It seems we've almost reached a consensus at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Belgium/Brussels_naming_conventions. Please comment on the proposal for double names and in the poll on which name should be first in the lead and infobox when there is no English name. Cheers, Oreo Priest ^talk 19:55, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Infobox

It's fine to copy the French infoboxes, but I don't see the need to document the field names there. maybe a separate section? incidentally is there a list of outstanding infoboxes to be transferred? Rich Farmbrough, 11:06, 22 September 2009 (UTC).

I have restored them. Rich Farmbrough, 11:15, 22 September 2009 (UTC).

Looks like there's about 13000 to do. Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes/Status/Detail. There are four categories of things to be done to import a box:

1. cut and paste it.
2. do some fixes that I already have scripted (most of the parameter re-names, removing "m" form elevations , removing " " from hectares)
3. do some fixes I haven't got scripted (like removing a second co-ord template)
4. Fix the subdivison redlinks

and of course

5. things we haven't thought of.

I suggest that the redlinks are fixed by creating redirects. this cuts down on the amount of work hugely.
Rich Farmbrough, 17:03, 22 September 2009 (UTC).

OK I'm copying them over 500 at time. I will then run clean-up on them in batches of 500 too. The first 20 or so seem good. the first batfh is listed at User:Rich Farmbrough/temp36, any comments welcome. Rich Farmbrough, 17:07, 22 September 2009 (UTC).

Thanks,. the first 500 were sweet as a nut, then I started to get errors from WP (i.e. I couldn't do any more) - I put it down to server load. Rich Farmbrough, 10:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC).

Infoboxes

Yes I can see. Only sometime its OK and sometimes not. Very odd. Rich Farmbrough, 21:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC).

Magenta, Marne seems fine for example. Rich Farmbrough, 21:12, 23 September 2009 (UTC).

I'll be testing on those few articles until I crack it. I could fix them up when I do the other fixes, but that is a last resort. Rich Farmbrough, 21:22, 23 September 2009 (UTC).

I missed your note yesterday, but I had already spotted the "of" problem, they should all be fixed. And someone else drew my attention to the spaces in the population field, again easy to take care of. The lone "m" in the elevations is I suppose "facultatif" but it too can go. Rich Farmbrough, 09:16, 25 September 2009 (UTC).

I wonder if you can confirm that no regions apart from Lorraine and Auvergne need disambiguation? I noticed also that there are some articles with images appended to the "name" parameter, as well as refs tacked on to various fields. We can pick these up with various methods, maybe after the next database dump. Rich Farmbrough, 15:35, 25 September 2009 (UTC).

There's about 62 61 left, these are mostly islands, some are not communes and need a category fix, some appear to be communes anciens the we unsourcedly state are re-instated and so forth. If you can deal with these and give me a shout if there are any where you have cut and pasted the templates, i can run clean-up/translation on them. My only slight concern at the moment is that there may be some intercommunalities with "Canton d'" in the name that I have replaced with "Canton of". Rich Farmbrough, 12:26, 27 September 2009 (UTC).

Infobox French commune

It would be great if you could comment here. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 00:16, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

I don't know if you like those stars, but I think you definitely need one. Here you are!

		The German Project Barnstar.
		Awarded as a little thank you for your hard work on WP:GER articles, esp. the municipalities and the solutions for the templates. Keep on with your good work. Given by Sebastian scha. (talk) 10:51, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Infobox German location

Hi Markussep! This is Paine Ellsworth. Just to let you know... 2 things.

1. the German location infobox was altered today and the coordinates are now up by the map, and
2. if you'll check out the Essen, Germany article, you can see what can be done if you like to see the coordinates in the title. I entered the {{coord|51|27|3|N|7|0|47|E|display=title}} template near the TOP.

Best of everything to you and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!  —  Ellsworth's Climax  07:26, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi again! Just to illustrate what I talked about on my talk page, I added the "display=it" back into the sandbox of this template. You will be able to see on the testcases page that it doesn't look good across all skins. The coordinates appear twice in the infobox in the MySkin and the Simple skins, they don't show anywhere in the top of the Nostalgia skin version, and the title coordinates conflict with lines in the Modern and the Vector skins. So I'll leave it up to you whether or not to switch back to the "display=it" (inline and title) command. Remember, the most important thing is for the articles to look good in the Monobook skin, which I'll admit, it does look okay in Monobook. Monobook is the skin that all readers use who do not have a Wikipedia account and are not logged in. And once again, HAPPY SINTERKLAAS to you!
 —  Ellsworth's Climax  11:23, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Autoreviewer

Hi Markussep, I just read one of your articles at newpage patrol, and was surprised to see that an editor who has contributed quite so many articles as you over such a long period hadn't already been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that. ϢereSpielChequers 00:30, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

German maps and naming

Hi Markussep, It's good to see that we now have a sensible naming approach for rivers! Thank you for adding local maps to some of the German town and village articles I have been working on. In a couple of templates I see you have changed borough or municipality to town. My original logic was to try and distinguish between the two uses of the word Stadt: 1) when it means the town only, and 2) when it means the administrative area containing the town plus nearby villages (Ortsteile). If we translate both as town, we lose the distinction. So I tend to use "town" for 1) and "borough" for 2), e.g. Bergen. It sounds odd in English to say "villages within the town of Bergen", whereas "villages within the borough of Bergen" makes more sense IMHO because borough is usually an administrative concept. Of course, if a Stadt is responsible for a Kreis, e.g. Celle and Celle district then it's easy we talk about the "towns and villages" within the "district". --Bermicourt (talk) 20:08, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Bermicourt, I changed your "boroughs" and I think also some "parishes" because Wikipedia doesn't use those terms for places in Germany. The standard translation for "Gemeinde" is "municipality", for "Stadt" it's "town", or "city" for towns with over 100,000 inhabitants. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Conventions#Administrative units. I don't think we have satisfactory translations for "Ortsteil" and "Stadtteil" yet. Markussep ^Talk 20:30, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Yes I have tried to follow the convention, but having translated lots of town, village and hamlet articles, I have found it has some shortcomings. Like all translation there is no perfect answer, but in general in English we have names for physical settlements - e.g. city, town, village, hamlet - and names for administrative units - province, county, district, municipality, township and parish. In Germany we need to be able to sort out e.g. Kreis Celle, which contains Stadt Celle which consists of 17 divisions: several urban ones like Westercelle and several separate villages like Scheuen some km to the north. Within Kreis Celle are also other towns, like Bergen which is a Stadt and villages like Unterlüß which is not a Stadt. Stadt Bergen is responsible for itself (the "town" of Bergen) and 11 other villages like Sülze. In turn, Sülze is responsible for an area which includes itself and two small villages or hamlets: Waldhof and Twießelhop. I feel the convention needs extending something like this:

• Kreis Celle - Celle "district" (or "county" would free the word "district" for other uses)
• Stadt Celle - 1) the "town" of Celle (only the main town)
• Stadt Celle - 2) the "borough" of Celle = the whole area with all the villages and town "districts" or "suburbs" or "municipalities"
• Stadt Bergen - 1) the "town" of Bergen (only the main town)
• Stadt Bergen- 2) the "borough" of Bergen = the whole area with all the villages
• Ortschaft or Gemeinde Sülze - "parish" of Sülze with its villages/hamlets; "municipality" also works, but "parish" is better because it is always a small area like a village
• Dorf Sülze - village of Sülze

Of course these are just my initial thoughts; it needs more work. Perhaps I should come up with a better version and we can discuss it on the Project talk page. Gruß. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:59, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

I've seen German wikipedia use "Kernstadt" for a town without its outlying villages and suburbs (that are part of the same town/municipality). A good translation for that? Maybe "central town" or "town proper". For a municipality it's easier, we can use "village" for "Ortsteil" and "Dorf". There are some vague areas, for instance would you call a village that is part of a town (but not physically integrated) a quarter? "borough" is used for the "Bezirke" of Berlin, the "Ortsamtsbereiche" of Dresden, the "Stadtbezirke" of Munich, I think that's OK. "county" is confusing because it's also (and in Germany primarily) the territory of a count. "parish" is also confusing because that's associated with churches, "Pfarrei" in German. There are also (church) parishes in big cities. Markussep ^Talk 12:48, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Verbandsgemeinden

Thanks. Yes, I shall continue. The monthlong hiatus has been due to China's yearly madness known as Spring Festival. I spent most of it in India, though, but I arrived "home" yesterday. A tweak of my "list of bits" will take care of the change for all future articles, but it will be a bit of a chore for all existing articles. Can we get a bot to do it? It would only have to search for the text "– a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality found only in this state –" and remove the bit that I've stricken out there. Unfortunately I know nothing about bots. Perhaps someone else can sort that one out. Kelisi (talk) 12:16, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

I've checked the municipalities in Alzey-Worms and Bad Dürkheim (halfway, I think you came up to Forst) districts because I added maps to them, and removed the "found only in this state" part. Since I'm going to check all municipalities for maps anyway, I can do it, no big deal. Did you expand articles in other districts? Markussep ^Talk 12:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I also did Westerwaldkreis some time ago, and I seem to remember it contained 209 articles. Are you sure it's "no big deal"? Kelisi (talk) 16:56, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Hmmmm, 209 is a bit more ;-) I'll see what I can do with AWB. Markussep ^Talk 17:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Done! Markussep ^Talk 18:14, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

And done Mainz-Bingen too. Markussep ^Talk 17:38, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Your stubs

Funny how many stubs I've come across of yours today!! Whether its Austria, Germany or Greece its a shame more people aren't helping expand them.. Nea Alikarnassos and Dimbach, Austria have been expanded today anyway. See Archanes. Can you please add a image_map parameter to the Greek dimos template so the municpal maps can be displayed inside the infobox? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 00:05, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Sure, I'll give the regional maps a try. I know there are maps for most of the municipalities on Crete, and also for the Chalkidiki prefecture. Probably you'll find many more on Greek wikipedia, I hope they put them all in commons. Markussep ^Talk 01:02, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

I just added an optional prefecture map. They're available for probably all municipalities in Greece, see commons. For the map to show you need to add the field "image_map". Just add the file name, the image is automatically formatted. The standard caption is "Location within the prefecture". If you want something else (e.g. for places other than municipalities), use the "map_caption" field. Don't leave a blank "map_caption" field, because there's no caption then. See Archanes and Acharnes for examples. Maybe you or ElGreco want to modify the format, that's OK with me. I like the "show"/"hide" toggle, that keeps the infobox within a reasonable size. Markussep ^Talk 10:08, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I like it. I think that looks good and saves bloating the infobox. Thanks. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:50, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Excellent work adding those regional maps for France. Super, I see you beat me too it. You missed Vienne and Morbihan though. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:21, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

What's wrong with Vienne and Morbihan? Plasticspork is running a script now to add coordinates (longitude and latitude fields) from French wikipedia, still some 1600 articles to go. We don't have maps for half of the regions yet, we have to wait until the guys at French wikipedia make new ones (they are working on it, they added Haute-Normandie two weeks ago). Markussep ^Talk 16:07, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Not in use. Or is it server lag? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 23:00, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Vienne is not a region, it's a department that's part of the region Poitou-Charentes (that has a map). Markussep ^Talk 09:02, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Would you be interested in helping sort out the infoboxes for Spain. They are in a huge mess. I think a template should be created and the infoboxes copied directly from Spanish wikipedia. Most of the current ones need replacing and there are a large number without infoboxes at all. I was sure PLastikspork created a template for copying but I don't know what happened to it and I don't think it worked. Can you create a Spanish municipality infobox that enables you to copy the infobox directly from spanish wikipedia? If so then I can get on with sorting them out and at a later date they can be converted into english by a bot. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 10:13, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, no. I have enough to do for Germany, France, Austria and Greece already. Markussep ^Talk 10:42, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I understand. Perhaps I can organize Kotbot to do that particular task... Infobox Hohenems like beautiful now... Big improvement, thanks. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 14:31, 24 March 2010 (UTC) I've begun adding maps/photos to the Bludenz district infoboxes. Did you say there was some kind of tick table like with the french communes to tick off a district once it has been attended to? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Austria/Cities, with subpages for all states. BTW, I'll change the automatic district map caption (this one was simple so I could keep track of the "if" loops) so you don't have add them manually. Markussep ^Talk 15:34, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

OK cool. I've nearly done Vorarlberg state. I've created a merged Template:Municipalities in Vorarlberg. I think its small size means they can quite easily be in the same template, hell if we have templates the size of the some of the french commune states this size is tiny anyway! I think its best to organize by state and help consolidate it. It just seems like less articles to have to attend to that way... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 19:19, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Vorarlberg is the smallest state, I think the navbars would get too big for the others. Markussep ^Talk 19:31, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

We'll see how it goes. I've finished Vorarlberg. Just started on Deutsch Jahrndorf for Burgenland. Some problems. There is no district map available in the commons, there is one on German wiki but they haven't been uploaded. Also for Burgenland the template needs programming or if the town is situated beyond a certain eastern point the place marker name needs to be left aligned. I believe there is a similar set up for France so those really eastern towns have automatic left align place markers. What shall we do about the Burgenland maps? Leave them till last?

I'll make a start on Tyrol now, the maps seem uploaded for those. The Burgenland maps will need uploading to the commons sometime though...... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 20:26, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Labels to the left works, I picked 15 degrees longitude as the limit. About Burgenland, I have no experience with mass uploading to commons, others probably have. This server breakdown is really annoying... Markussep ^Talk 20:44, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

See Perpignan. Can you add the blue colour to the head title like the Austria template and it will look better I think. I think a lot of the blue inner headers were redundant. Have a play around with it with a resign. If you disapprove revert. Some things will need tweaking I'd imagine. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Much better!! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:12, 26 March 2010 (UTC) I added a photo to Xirocourt. However, it cancels out th coat of arms. Can you sort the template so it has parmaters for the coat of arms seperate from image. Image should be for photographs.. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:09, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Also. I think we need an infobox for the districts of Paris see Montparnasse etc. I thought we already had one? Something like thr infobox for 15th arrondissement of Paris. How about a Template:Infobox French quartier for neighborhoods of the cities? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 13:13, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

I think the coat of arms in the field "image coat of arms" is only displayed when there's a flag as well. That's not very practical, I guess we should decide whether we want to show the flags at all. It shouldn't be too difficult to display either the flag or the coat of arms if only one of them is available, and both if both are there. But first I want to add an automatic region and department detector, based on the INSEE code. Markussep ^Talk 15:33, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

I was wondering if you could also make a proposal on the talk page of Template:Infobox Swiss town. Just some tweaks. See Oberschrot for example. I'd propose moving the map to the top and creating the show map option like in the Austrian and Greek infoboxes. I think it looks tidier. Also the coat of arms is strangely aligned. The top where the name is could also use a splash of colour. Perhaps make it look more like the way the Austrian ones currently are? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:41, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Please, there's only 24 hours in a day. Can't you find someone else for that? Markussep ^Talk 16:48, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Um, I've proposed something. It took me 2 minutes, not 24 hours. And if I could edit the darn thing I'd fix it in two minutes flat myself. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 16:51, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

French population tables

Is there a way to make Démographie have multiple rows? If not, what table can we use for communes that have populations going way back? Ksnow (talk) 14:02, 24 March 2010 (UTC)Ksnow

I don't know one simple solution. French wikipedia has a template for it (I saw it in the fr:Lille article), fr:Modèle:Démographie2. It looks rather complicated, I'm not sure whether it will work in English wikipedia. You can do it like it was done at Demographics of Bratislava, but it's difficult to add a year. Using {{multicol}}, you can list two or more tables next to each other. Or make a graph of it (see also the French article about Lille, that will work in English wikipedia), too large tables are not very inviting. Markussep ^Talk 14:31, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Hungarian names in Romania

Hello

I would like to ask your opinion about the format that should be used for the localities from Romania with an important Hungarian population

From the Romanian Constitution: http://www.cdep.ro/pls/dic/site.page?den=act2_2&par1=1#t1c0s0a13 "In Romania, the official language is Romanian". Also, According to Local Public Administration Bill (promulgated in 2001): "Where over 20 of the population is of an ethnic minority, all documents of a legal character will be published in the ethnic minorities' mother tongue.".

My opinion is that according to wiki rules Hungarian names should be listed before for example German names, but still in parantheses, in Italics: Romanian_Name (Template:Lang-hu, Template:Lang-de)

We just want to respect the standard naming policy WP:PLACE, Foreign language names and first sentence usage rule

I saw you were involved in a similar discussion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rokarudi#Hungarian_names and I think you could help

Can you please express your opinion here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Hungarian_names_of_Romanian_places or here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rokarudi#Hungarian_names_2

Thanks in advance for your answer and sorry if it wasn't a good idea to post this message here (Umumu (talk) 06:30, 27 March 2010 (UTC))

Hungarian names for Romanian places

Dear Markussep,

As you may noticed, I like to add Hungarian placenames to articles. The naming practice, off course, can give rise to editing conflicts, so I have always tried to solve following compromise and accepting advice.

As you may know, after the Odorhei discussion ([1]) the status quo for Transylvanian places was that the artice name is Romanian, if Hungarian population <20%, in the infobox both Romanian and Hungarian names should be indicated, and also in the lead both Romanian and Hungarian names should be bolded.

About two weeks ago, an editor called User: Iadrian yu supported by absolutely new editors User:Dicocodino, User:Umumu, User:Amon Koth (the latter 3 with zero or close to zero edits) started a campaign against this situation referring to general naming policies.

They were looking for discuss resolution forums trying to find a favourable opinion for them ie. deleting bolded Hungarian names. You and User:Jezhotwells gave them a negative opinion at here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:S%C4%83rma%C5%9Fu (Nagysármás)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests/Archive_73 (Nagysármás)

Then, on 23rd, March User: Iadrian yu started to delete bolded Hungarian names from every settlement of Harghita, Covasna and Mures country making masses of deletes.

Finally, they found an admin User:Mjroots who decided in their favor as a result of a dispute in which a very few people took place (most of them zero a close to zero edits), and neither you nor User:Jezhotwells were notified although I asked the admin to do so. (ruling here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive605)

What do you think about it? How the Odorhei-compromise which worked for 3 years can be overthrown like this. Is this the way of consensus building and dispute resolution?

I always respected your opinion, and I think in this case Myroots made a very big mistake, but, I seem unable to explain the situation it to him as an interested party. I am very dissapointed at how things work now. Kind regards: User:Rokarudi--Rokarudi 17:16, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Rokarudi, I haven't replied lately because frankly I'm becoming a bit tired of all these naming disputes. I've looked at a few of Iadrian yu's edits, and actually I don't see the big problem. He removed the bolded Hungarian name, but the Hungarian name is still in the lead of the article, and I think in most cases he left the Hungarian name in the infobox. He is right, the rules say nothing about which names should be bolded in articles. I'm not familiar with the details of the Odorheiu discussion, as far as I remember the Slovakia-Hungary discussion wasn't about bolded names either. Markussep ^Talk 17:44, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Rokarudi, it is time for you to respect the wiki rules and to understand the difference between Hungarian and English wikipedia. There are clear rules that address this matter and by you, we should use a special rule (for no reason than nostalgic ones, since i can`t see any other reason of your disruptive edits on many Romania related articles ignoring a whole set of rules), just for Romania. I stumbled on some of your edits that clearly shows some unusual problems with Romania`s related articles, i don`t know what to think. It would be nice for you to start to respect the WP:PLACE and the wiki rules that exist and are crystal clear regarding the naming policy of places,rivers and counties in Romania. I hope that it is not a problem for my comment here, if there is, i will erase it. Best wishes. iadrian (talk) 17:53, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello, Markussep. Thank you for the caution on my Japanese talk page. I've reply on his commons page. Thank you. Regards. --QBay (talk) 16:09, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

French maps

Hi. I know you said you preferred the regional maps. But what would you say to using a department maps which also shows arrondisement divisions like the one on the right? Wouldn't it be better to feature a department map if it exists? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 22:20, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

I replied on Template talk:Infobox French commune. Markussep ^Talk 14:20, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Replied. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 15:50, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Cologne revisionism

You are invited to tell the false story about the second world war to- Anna Schwarzberg (30 yo) murdered in Auschwitz, Wolf Dereczynski (4 yo) murdered in Vilnius, Dr. Jur. Leopold Z. oberleutnant in the Austrian army (80+ yo) murdered in Theresienstadt and many other members of my family (and tell them by the way also about your "facts" and the peaceful Klagemauer). Have a nice day. --Olz2110 (talk) 11:36, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

infobox greek dimos

It would be better not to include a limit for the width of the picture. The picture for example at Athens is narrow and it looks ugly and small with the limit. There are no, after all, great problems with other articles, I think. Dimboukas (talk) 11:17, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

What I tried to do is limit the size of vertical pictures, they get huge when the standard width is 270px or 240px. Actually, I would prefer a horizontal skyline picture for Athens, I think we had a nice one of the Acropolis some years ago. Infoboxes shouldn't get too long I think. What we can do is add a field "image_size", so you can set the width manually in cases like this. Markussep ^Talk 15:03, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Could you please help?

I think that your expertise with Geography is needed here regarding the merge. --sulmues talk contributions 00:33, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Algés River - Photo

Thanks, that's what I will do. Still his photo is not in the Wikimedia Commons, otherwise mine had not been acepted with the same name.

JoniFili (talk) 11:05, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Never the less, it's the "wrong" pic that show up.

JoniFili (talk) 11:17, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Just updated a new photo, and its fine. In reality, the article shoud be call Algés Creek, rather than river. In fact in Portugues is a "ribeiro/a" and not a river.

Best, JoniFili (talk) 11:40, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

The gk/ng question

Hello! Transliteration of Greek names is a big and controversial mess, unfortunately. There is no one system that is used throughout, for neither Ancient, Medieval/Byzantine or Modern Greek names. In modern Greek, the general guideline has been to follow the phonetic value, hence for instance Eleftherios instead of Eleutherios. "gk" is a very problematic case, since this cluster is very much un-pronounceable. "ng" on the other hand is being used for this cluster in almost all cases for Ancient Greek and Byzantine names ("nk" is an alternative in some cases), as well as for modern names. For Langadas in particular this is of some importance, since the name is medieval, and is to be found with the "ng" form in much of the relevant historical bibliography. Best regards, Constantine ✍ 13:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Papër

Hello!

We are a group of Peace Corps volunteers currently living in Paper, Albania. We are trying to increase the visibility of Paper, in part through the creating of a Wikipedia page. We were pleasantly surprised to discover that a Wikipedia page for Paper already existed. We have edited the page slightly and may do some more in the future. We would like to add an image to this page as well, but as we are new to Wikipedia we are unable to do so. We saw that you were the original author of the existing page and wondered if you would be able to upload a picture of Paper that we could send to you. Let us know what you think, or if you have any other advice.

Thank you,

Kyle and Sarah in Albania

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pap%C3%ABr

Tsqaltubo

Sorry for my misunderstanding. Geagea (talk) 00:32, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Admin?

By the way, have you ever thought about becoming an admin? You seem to be knowledgeable enough to be able to edit these templates! Of course, having someone else check is always a good thing as well:) Ping me if you are interested and I could potentially nominate you (after a standard check for obvious dark secrets in your past). Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 21:51, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I think he shares my views on adminship, which might explain why he is so experienced and not an admin... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:34, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Sometimes I wish I was an admin, for instance when I want to move an article to a correct spelling, and I can't, and I don't think it's important enough to go through the WP:RM procedure. Or when I want to try something in a protected article or template. Then again, I suppose that's close to abusing admin privileges. The main reason I didn't apply for adminship before is that I'm afraid it will consume a lot of my time. I don't want to be a very active admin, if I become one. If that's OK, why not. I would like to know more about bots, I think that could save me a lot of time. Markussep ^Talk 15:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Mm m that's the only time I wish I had admin tools. It is often quite frustrating not to be able to access templates and move certain pages... Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 21:38, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

File:Peloponnese relief map-blank.svg

Hi. Can you programme the Greek Dimos template to features towns on this map? Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 09:34, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Towns in the Peloponnese have two maps in the infobox now: one of Greece, and one of their prefecture, showing the outline of the municipality. This is a nice map, but I don't think it adds much value. Markussep ^Talk 15:02, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Dresden

Your population update needs a source! --Kgfleischmann (talk) 19:57, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

It's on its way, when my editprotected request for {{Infobox German location}} is granted, the ref will show up. The source is the Statistische Landesamt Sachsen. Markussep ^Talk 20:00, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

German location infobox

Hi Markussep. I see you are doing sterling work amending lots of infoboxes. Would it be helpful to amend the infobox itself so it automatically recognised the German parameters and displayed them in English? That would save you/us a lot of work maybe. --Bermicourt (talk) 17:49, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Do you mean the infoboxes you copied from de:, and that were originally "Infobox Ortsteil einer Gemeinde"? I suppose we could make a customized wrapper for those cases, just like e.g. {{Infobox Province Spain}} is a wrapper for {{Infobox settlement}}. Markussep ^Talk 19:56, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Or make one that could be substituted, and automatically translates the parameters? Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 21:08, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks as ever for your 'tidying-up'. I'm getting there slowly! I can't get a map caption to display at Leybuchtpolder and Norddeich (Norden). Do you know how to do this? --Bermicourt (talk) 11:08, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Brittany

Just came across Plomelin. Dead map. Can you sort this problem? The map you want I presume is File:Bretagne region location map.svg. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 10:55, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Someone's been messing with the template {{Location map France Bretagne}}, I fixed it, and will watch it from now on. You're not User:Moonraker2, are you? Markussep ^Talk 11:11, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Nope, I don't have that level of interest in France! Incidentally I noticed that editor's work for the first time just a few hours ago, Funny, as Moonraker was shot in France and of course Hugo Drax's chateau was supposed to have been bought from there. Another funny thing is that it was actually Drax's beautiful piano playing in Moonraker that originally get me hooked on Chopin!! Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 12:04, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

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Infobox Ortsteil einer Gemeinde

Hi Markussep. I have to confess I'm not sure what you meant. What I do is to copy the German infobox across and just amend the fields that don't seem to work. This is useful because it saves time manually changing stuff. However if this is wrong or there is a better way I'm interested. What I usually try to avoid is having to manually convert all the field names and data into the en.wiki equivalent because that is repetitive, time-consuming work. Some of my other 'German' infoboxes automatically translate the fieldnames and, in some cases, the data too. Gruß. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

P.S. See "Reviewer" above - I seem to be a reviewer as well but didn't get a fancy notice like you! Do we need to do anything proactive or just approve edits on pages we see e.g. on our watchlist? --Bermicourt (talk) 18:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm afraid I do so much translating that I sometimes don't check through the articles as thoroughly as I might, especially if I'm tired! I used to get the {{Coord}} formatting wrong (partly leaving it in German wiki format) and a very patient Wikipedian followed me round tidying it up, until I eventually learned how to get it right - most of the time at least. So thank you for being patient and let me know if I'm making repeat errors. I want to get better! Regards. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:26, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

User:Pumpie translations

Hi: Looking at the Rough Translations category for something easy to fix, I noticed all the Gare de entries that had sprouted there, and so became aware of Pumpie's pattern of posting bad translations. After seeing that he posted more yesterday and today, I have added a message to his talk page. Since you have been painstakingly doing initial cleanup and tagging on his articles, I thought I should make you aware that I have waded in. You might also have more tact than me. It would obviously be best if we could get him to do something more productive or to check his work for accuracy and for correct linkage and categories. I don't think for a minute that his intentions are bad, but he's creating so much work for those few of us both able and willing to do translation cleanup that otherwise I think it will be time for a second RfC. We were finally starting to reduce the backlog in that category and with his output it's growing faster than it can be contained unless we can find several new volunteers in that largely thankless area.Yngvadottir (talk) 18:23, 29 June 2010 (UTC) . . . and as a demonstration and because it needed doing, I've created Gare d'Épinay-sur-Seine, but I don't know how to do the line box at the bottom of the article so would be grateful if you could and would. I also created the TER Haute-Normandie category that he had placed several stations in, and added it and the TER Picardie category to the TER category, so that's a bit more orderly now.Yngvadottir (talk) 00:52, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Hello. Re Pumpie's continuing efforts at bad automated translations, what do you think about opening an RfC? Regards, Constantine ✍ 16:22, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

I certainly intend to move forward, however I have no experience with RfCs and their bureaucratic formalities. I have opened a draft page to prepare the RfC, so any help will be appreciated. Regards, Constantine ✍ 19:49, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello again Markus! Before posting the RfC, there is one issue we should have to resolve: what would be the "desired outcome"? Constantine ✍ 09:33, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

The RfC has been posted. Constantine ✍ 10:23, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Groothusen

Hi Markussep. I can't seem to get the census date to display in the infobox for this article. Can you help? (Stayed there this weekend - nice area!) Gruß, Paul. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:27, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Paul, I fixed it. When you use the Infobox Ortsteil einer Gemeinde, the date field name should be "Einwohner-Stand-Datum", not "Stand". Markussep ^Talk 08:22, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

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Hi. I wondered if you could tweak it a bit, change the pale blue to #ccccff and shrink the width of the column headers a bit? I find them too thick. They could almost be reduced by half, it will look more compact that way. Dr. Blofeld 21:49, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

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Hello! This festival was organised by MAKEDON / ARMAN council. It reprezent the most important festival of Macedonians/Armans/Aromanians/Vlachs culture. They proclaimed there as AUTOCHTONOUS PEOPLE in BALKANS and minority in every place in the world, and also as DESCENDENTS OF ANCIENT MACEDONIANS. (Yioryi (talk) 08:46, 20 August 2010 (UTC))