User talk:Madcynic

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Striking your vote

Hello Madcynic,

Thank you for your interest in the Wikimedia Board Election. The Election Committee regretfully informs you that your previous vote was received in error and will be struck according to the election rules, described below.

The Election Committee regretfully announces today that we will have to remove approximately 220 votes submitted. These votes were cast by people not entitled to vote. The election rules state that users must have at least 400 edits by June 1 to be eligible to vote.

The voter lists we sent to Software in the Public Interest (our third party election partner) initially were wrong, and one of your account was eventually included to our initial list. There was a bug in the edit counting program and the sent list contained every account with 201 or more edits, instead of 400 or more edits. So large numbers of people were qualified according to the software who shouldn't be. The bug has been fixed and an amended list was sent to SPI already.

Our first (and wrong) list contains 80,458 accounts as qualified. The proper number of qualified voters in the SPI list is now 52,750. As of the morning of July 4 (UTC), there are 2,773 unique voters and 220 people, including you, have voted who are not qualified based upon this identified error.

In accordance with voting regulations the Election Committee will strike those approximately 220 votes due to lack of voting eligibility. The list of struck votes is available at https://wikimedia.spi-inc.org/index.php/List_of_struck_votes.

We are aware of the possibility that some of the people affected may have other accounts with more than 400 edits, and hence may still be eligible to vote. We encourage you to consider voting again from another account, if you have one. If you have no other account eligible to vote, we hope you reach the criteria in the next Election, and expect to see your participation to the future Elections.

Your comments, questions or messages to the Committee would be appreciated, you can make them at m:Talk:Board elections/2007/en. Other language versions are available at m:Translation requests/Eleccom mail, 07-05.

Again, we would like to deeply apologize for any inconvenience.

Sincerely,
Kizu Naoko
Philippe
Jon Harald Søby
Newyorkbrad
Tim Starling

For Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee

Re: Regionalliga Nord template

Oops, forgot the part about your alphabetising the order. But you don't see three lines still at the end? - Dudesleeper · Talk 19:33, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nein. Hier. - Dudesleeper · Talk 19:37, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just realised that the problem can be avoided in Mozilla by decreasing the text size in the browser. It seems Mozilla's default font size is just that little bit larger than that of IE and Opera. - Dudesleeper · Talk 00:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Frauenfußball-Template

I have done a temporary edit so that there are no |s at the end of the lines when I view it, but these templates look different depending on the font size used by the person viewing it. So, I have been looking at other templates. Very few seem to use the nowrap editing option, presumably because of the variable font size. However, the German football team names look much better with nowrap. So, I propose using nowrap for all the team names. Also, very few use fixed line breaks, br, presumably for the same reason. Most of them seem to use • or · instead of |. I think they look better, but it would be very good if one could specify that the character used for separating articles in the list should not appear if they are at the end or beginning of a line. Also, I think the German football templates ought to have a common style. Have you had any further thoughts? Coyets 14:52, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Madcynic! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 02:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Regionalliga Nord

Hey Madcynic,

thanks for your message, I didn't even know about the clubs from Niedersachsen going to Regionalliga West, seems a bit of a wild one to me, they have always been in the Nord and it would isolate Bremen a bit. I will try to clarify the last map straight away, do you know how to align the maps horizontally rather then vertically, I think it would look better? Kind regards, EA210269 (talk) 12:28, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thanks for letting me know, down here in Australia we don't get all that much on German football, only from the internet. But even when I used to live in Bavaria, Niedersachsen seemed a long way away, never been there!!! Can't see any of those clubs liking to have to move across to the West. Anyway, I have tried to make the maps a little clearer and I'm still working on the realignment. See you,EA210269 (talk) 12:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I integrated the maps into the relevant parts of the aricle now, rather then having an extra section. I hope it makes the changes in league structure a little more obvious. If you got any reference about the Niedersachsen controversy, could you let me know? Might be worth adding, too. EA210269 (talk) 13:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]