Hi there. I hope you don't mind but I reverted you on [[Bern]] because I thought on that occasion the IP might have it right, in that it is spelt "theatre" elsewhere in the article so [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Bern&diff=prev&oldid=390971918 their change] perhaps did nothing more than make it consistent. I must add that I hate gratuitous, [[WP:ENGVAR|ENGVAR]]-ignoring AmE < > BrE spelling changes - in either direction - with a passion and would normally be right with you on this but I did wonder if they had a point; of course, if they used edit summaries it would help us all a bit. I have [[User talk:69.23.119.8|dropped them a note]], reverted [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Shawnee_Mission_East_High_School&diff=prev&oldid=382989768 a change to "theatre"] that I found wholly inexplicable, and left alone [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Dramaturge&diff=prev&oldid=389807086 another one] where it seemed again to be an issue of consistency. Again, I hope you don't mind my stepping in here. I will try to keep an eye on their mini-campaign in case I can, er, help in one way or another. Thanks and best wshes, [[User:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|DBaK]] ([[User talk:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|talk]]) 08:47, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I hope you don't mind but I reverted you on [[Bern]] because I thought on that occasion the IP might have it right, in that it is spelt "theatre" elsewhere in the article so [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Bern&diff=prev&oldid=390971918 their change] perhaps did nothing more than make it consistent. I must add that I hate gratuitous, [[WP:ENGVAR|ENGVAR]]-ignoring AmE < > BrE spelling changes - in either direction - with a passion and would normally be right with you on this but I did wonder if they had a point; of course, if they used edit summaries it would help us all a bit. I have [[User talk:69.23.119.8|dropped them a note]], reverted [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Shawnee_Mission_East_High_School&diff=prev&oldid=382989768 a change to "theatre"] that I found wholly inexplicable, and left alone [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Dramaturge&diff=prev&oldid=389807086 another one] where it seemed again to be an issue of consistency. Again, I hope you don't mind my stepping in here. I will try to keep an eye on their mini-campaign in case I can, er, help in one way or another. Thanks and best wshes, [[User:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|DBaK]] ([[User talk:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|talk]]) 08:47, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
:Thanks! I agree - it does look like that, and it would be ''really quite helpful'' if the IP would use edit summaries so that we can try to differentiate silly edits from sensible! It's not a vast number but it does have a couple of the BrE spelling already - otherwise I would, believe me, have been in front of you in the queue to revert it! :) Thanks for being so nice about this, have a great Saturday, cheers, [[User:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|DBaK]] ([[User talk:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|talk]]) 16:02, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
:Thanks! I agree - it does look like that, and it would be ''really quite helpful'' if the IP would use edit summaries so that we can try to differentiate silly edits from sensible! It's not a vast number but it does have a couple of the BrE spelling already - otherwise I would, believe me, have been in front of you in the queue to revert it! :) Thanks for being so nice about this, have a great Saturday, cheers, [[User:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|DBaK]] ([[User talk:DisillusionedBitterAndKnackered|talk]]) 16:02, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Toby. I'm sure you had good intentions, but please note that the article Panzer division is a generic reference to the unit type, and not intended to be the article for reference to Panzer divisions, or their unit histories. Panzer division article will seek to explain the origin, development, organisation and doctrine of their use, and will include the units of the Second World War and the Cold War. Please undo your moves and restore the Panzer Divisions article. Thank you--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 02:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Anahí (disambiguation)
Hey, I'm not sure if you realized it or not, but, Anahí (disambiguation), which you tagged under CSD A7, has existed in this form since 2005. I removed the unsourced/misplaced info from the page and removed the CSD tag. If you still think the page should be deleted, you should take it to AFD. Thanks. Thingg⊕⊗21:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
LDS tabernacles?
Three weeks ago, you helped answer my question on the Reference Desk about why the LDS Church builds more temples. Could you help with another LDS question? As I go through National Register of Historic Places lists for the western USA, I'm constantly running across various LDS tabernacles. However, I'm confused: what makes a tabernacle a tabernacle? In what way is it unique? The relevant section of tabernacle says that it's a local gathering place and a worship center, but I'm unclear, for example, why locals couldn't gather at the meeting house for their ward. Thanks for your help! Nyttend (talk) 03:07, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Please dont put results of federal articles into article of communes
Hey,
You put into the article of Winterthur the results of the swiss federal elections (i put in my revert comment wrongly cantonal in the results, but that's wrong), so please let that be. Additionally i dont hope that u put this wrong results in every swiss commune article! Additionally I dont know how they come to a party called CSP with 6%, so they have their a mistake to on their site I think. Greetings out of the german Wikipedia from Winterthur --Fundriver (talk) 12:24, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello,
yes the informations i putted was from the cityelections (Stadt) ifself in 2006. I think its the only information that belongs in such an article about the city or i could put also the cantonal ("Kanton") into the article, but at the end that doesnt make any sense in an article about the city. And yeah i think there is a mistake in the official federal site, there is no party with the mentioned 12.3% and at first no party called CSP. The Next best party would be the FDP, but they got probably around 10-11%. The CSP mentioned in the article in the Wikipedia is a standalone left-wing christian party who is only in Fribourg strong enough to get a seat. In canton Zurich they got a list for the elections too, but they reached only 0.11% (nearly nothing). I got my data about that election from the site of the statistics office of the canton Zurich (http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/07/nr/listen/l_gem_rel.php?si=1). Greets --Fundriver (talk) 06:19, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello,
I dont know about the relevance of things in english wikipedia, but in the german i wouldnt put that in (where I am the main editor of the Winterthur-article). I think there are only belonging local politics and as u see in local politics the people vote completely something else as in national things. But i wouldnt put those at all because that "middle parties" thing is really confusing dont know what they include all in that. I think there is included the glp (greenliberals) with about 7% and also the christian middle-left EVP who had about 5% of the voters. Greets --Fundriver (talk) 13:21, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
List of castles and fortresses in Switzerland
I have noticed your modification to "Grisons". You are aware of the fact that les Grisons is only the French denomination of a canton with a majority of German speakers, thus calling their own canton: Graubünden. Normally in Switzerland, when there is no official translation in English, the name corresponding the to the language majority prevails, thus it should be called "Graubünden". Wouldn't you agree? By the same token Berne should be Bern, etc.
claude (talk) 22:38, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You really picked up that ball and ran with it, it's really a great read now. I feel slightly vindicated in my technique of translating small/easy articles, since you can never tell when it'll excite someone's interest and he'll dive into expanding it out. Great work! MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:18, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please check the figures under "Population". The number of people seems off. For example, 34 children or 10.4% means the total population should be 327 people. Earlier it said the population was around 5000 people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hgnsd (talk • contribs) 16:57, 13 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
If this was always used by the Franciscans and the Poor Clares it can't have been an abbey, can it? The English-language naming conventions for Franciscan friaries are not as clearcut as for some of the other orders, but either "K Friary" or "K Priory" would be correct: and abbey - unless it was also used by another order with abbots which has not been mentioned in the article - cannot be right. HeartofaDog (talk) 12:21, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
English is pedantic about monasteries, and defines them by status: if there's an abbot/abbess, it's an abbey; prior or prioress = priory, regardless of what they might be called in other languages (plus one or two other options: e.g., friars = friary, as well as priory). But you're right with this one: Poor Clares are nuns, and did have abbesses, as here, so K Abbey is right. HeartofaDog (talk) 15:47, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
oh Toby do you speak German by chance? I want to contact the user who created that series of maps of Switzerland, but I don't speak any German. Thank you in any case!--2Neuenburg (talk) 18:41, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It's about that template you asked me about, this Template:Infobox Swiss town. I made a few changes to the template so far, you can see a few test cases here, but I'm not completely satisfied because there are some major flaws when two Swiss communes share the same name (and it isn't as rare as it sounds). In the page I linked you there are two communes, both called Villeneuve (one in Vaud and the other in Fribourg). The maps linked at the bottom of the infobox are identical (in fact the same file) because in both cases the 'subject_name' is just Villeneuve. So I thought that the easiest way to solve this was to ask Tschubby (the creator of the maps) to use an unambiguous naming convention for the maps, possibly by using the SFOS number as you did with the population templates (e.g. 'File:Karte_Gemeinde_2047_2008.png' instead of 'File:Karte_Gemeinde_Villeneuve_2008.png'). Thank you for your help Toby!--2Neuenburg (talk) 18:59, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That shouldn't be a problem because the template checks if 'Karte Gemeinde {{{subject_name}}} 2010.png' exists, if it doesn't, it checks Karte Gemeinde {{{subject_name}}} 2009.png and so on until 2007 (I didn't find any map dated 2006).--2Neuenburg (talk) 19:33, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Apparently there are still some questions left to ask Tschubby (or to the creator of the SFOS codes list): how did they decide whether to disambiguate a municipality or another? In the case of the two Villeneuve, the SFOS template has 2047 Villeneuve and 5414 Villeneuve VD: in this case the 'real' Villeneuve (the one without abbreviation) is the one in Fribourg. However Tschubby decided that the 'real' Villeneuve is the one in Vaud (File:Karte_Gemeinde_Villeneuve_2008.png), which means that the Test infobox for Villeneuve, Fribourg links the map of Villeneuve, Vaud, and the latter links an inexistant File:Karte Gemeinde Villeneuve VD.png. Is there any way to predict this behaviour? If not, we will have to change either the SFOS list or the name of some maps.--2Neuenburg (talk) 22:01, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The template I wrote should match how each municipality was disambiguated.
The template is supposed to pick the most recent map available. However this will not happen, other than in the cases I already wrote you about, if the commune has been abolished, since the current SFOS template doesn't include codes of former municipalities. We still have a few issues to solve before we can update the 'live' template.--2Neuenburg (talk) 14:19, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ok cool I saw you corrected the SFOS template! I checked a few communes and they seem ok to me. Think we can edit the live template now?--2Neuenburg (talk) 17:13, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ok Toby! I'm editing the documentation first, and the template itself immediately after. Then I'll check a few communes to see if anything went wrong.--2Neuenburg (talk) 20:43, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it looks like Fribourg, Geneva, Jura, Lucerne, Neuchatel, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Vaud, Zug and Zurich are all included in the Category:Former municipalities of xxx. Also, Bern used to have the strange Category:Former municipalities in Bern using in instead of of. I think that going to Category:Former municipalities of the canton of xxxxxx is a better idea, since many of the municipalities and the cantons share names. Making it clear that the former municipality is part of the canton, not a specific city is a good idea. Tobyc75 (talk) 18:10, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Seems ok to me, though I would remove that "View map of the former municipality of" and just leave "View map of". Some communes have rather lengthy names. Adding a population of zero is to be avoided as misleading (it would suggest that the village is uninhabited).--2Neuenburg (talk) 19:16, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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I've (a) reverted, and (b) reapplied the change. It looks OK to me (I checked Davos) but I am an idiot (!) so I'll be a lot happier once you say "aye" or "nay". Apologies for that: I'm trying ot get all the newbie-admin mistakes out of my system...
Cheeky follow up question, but since you're a template person I figured I'd ask! Is there any kind of guide to template code you can point to? I can pick most software/scripty stuff up pretty quick, and I only need enough not to make a fool of myself when doing stuff like this ;-) TFOWR18:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Could you help please
Hello, Tobyc75. I started article Schloss Reichenbach. If you have a time, may I please ask you to help me with sources in German, with fixing my grammar, and with expanding the article? Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:50, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for helping with the article! Would you mind, if I am to add you as an author to my DYK nomination?--Mbz1 (talk) 05:11, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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DYK for Schloss Reichenbach
On July 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Schloss Reichenbach, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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Ironically enough, that's a template! It was made using {{subst:uw-warn}}. Please look at the linked page (shortcut WP:WARN). A few things to know/remember:
All the templates have "uw-" before them, which stands for "user warning".
Always substitute the templates.
Some basic ones:
{{subst:uw-test1}} for an edit that looks like a test edit,
{{subst:uw-del1}} for unexplained (i.e. no edit summary) removal of content,
and {{subst:uw-vandalism1}} for an edit which looks bad, like it could be vandalism.
If the vandal has already been warned, you can step up the warnings by using higher numbers. For example, the uw-vandalism series is this, 1 being the first warning:
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Bürgergemeinde
Hi Tobyc75; thank you for creating the article Bürgergemeinde :-). However, it seems to me that some of the peculiarities of the Swiss citizenship system got "lost in translation"; I tried now to correct this. For example, the German article de:Bürgergemeinde correctly states "Weiter ist es [the Bürgerrecht] unabhängig von Geburts- oder Wohnort einer Person", i.e. citizenship in a Bürgergemeinde is not connected to where you are born. Myself, I am a Swiss citizen and "Bürger" of a small village in the Jura mountains where neither I nor my parents ever lived, and we were born in different places :-). This may indeed seem very strange and I think Switzerland may be the only country with such a system. The Bürgerrecht (therefore the Bürgergemeinde you "belong" to) for most people is where your ancestors lived in the 19th century, as it's inherited. If you do nothing, you remain Bürger of this and only this inherited place for the rest of your life, and your children too, except:
you are a woman - if you marry, you get additionally the Bürgerort (also called Heimatort) of your husband; formerly, the wife lost her original Bürgerort, now she has double citizenship.
if you live long enough in a particular place, you can apply for citizenship of your local Bürgergemeinde, which is usally granted for a fee. The requirements differ, sometimes there are even "bargain offers" - e.g. due to an anniversary of the village where I live, I was offered citizenship for a reduced fee a few years ago, but wasn't interested. The pros of having citizenship of the place where you live are so small nowadays that most don't care and rather keep their original citizenship. It can, however, be a way to show that you feel particularly beholden to your community or the like.
Swiss passports don't show the place of birth but the Bürgerort. Sometimes this leads to confusion for Swiss travelling abroad - forms require them to fill in their "place of birth" and if they duly do exactly this, they are questioned because their ID or passport doesn't mention this place. As Swiss passports cleverly call the Bürgerort/Heimatort "place of origin" in the English translation, it's wisest and usually creates no problems to fill in this as "place of birth", although it's not :-) Well, I hope you find this interesting. Gestumblindi (talk) 22:59, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Swiss population data
Hi Toby,
Just to let you know (and to thank you obviousely) that I imported on the french Wikipedia your great population's concept for Switzerland.
I made one small enhancement based on a comment made on the local talk page, which allows entering, instead of the SFOS number, the official name of the municipality. The corresponding template is then searching in another data file to retreive back the SFOS number. No clue if this feature could be helpfull for you as well, if it's the case, don't hesitate !
Hi there. I hope you don't mind but I reverted you on Bern because I thought on that occasion the IP might have it right, in that it is spelt "theatre" elsewhere in the article so their change perhaps did nothing more than make it consistent. I must add that I hate gratuitous, ENGVAR-ignoring AmE < > BrE spelling changes - in either direction - with a passion and would normally be right with you on this but I did wonder if they had a point; of course, if they used edit summaries it would help us all a bit. I have dropped them a note, reverted a change to "theatre" that I found wholly inexplicable, and left alone another one where it seemed again to be an issue of consistency. Again, I hope you don't mind my stepping in here. I will try to keep an eye on their mini-campaign in case I can, er, help in one way or another. Thanks and best wshes, DBaK (talk) 08:47, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I agree - it does look like that, and it would be really quite helpful if the IP would use edit summaries so that we can try to differentiate silly edits from sensible! It's not a vast number but it does have a couple of the BrE spelling already - otherwise I would, believe me, have been in front of you in the queue to revert it! :) Thanks for being so nice about this, have a great Saturday, cheers, DBaK (talk) 16:02, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This barnstar is to show you my gratitude for your relentless dedication in expanding countless Switzerland-related articles, many of which remained stubs for years previous to your edits. I was particularly impressed by your work on Monteceneri, an article about a municipality created barely 3 months ago. Cheers!
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