User talk:TeunSpaans/archive 1
I've started a box at Battle of Lützen (1632) with your data. Let me know what you think. Eclecticology
Hi, are you interested in Wikiproject Battles?
It can also solve the problem on sorting the battles chronologically, geographically alphabetically or on any other criteria have not been thought of yet. If we have all information about a battle oragnizeg properly on its page, creating sorted lists is simply checking watch links and look for the specific criterion. Say one wants to sort by the alphabetical order on the first alphabet of the battle sites. One can copy-paste all geographically names, sort them and saving them on [[List of battles (geographical order)/A]], [[List of battles (geographical order)/B]] etc. The parent page of List of battles became linking page of all sorted lists. eg. [[List of battles (geographical order)]], [[List of battles (alphabetical order)]], [[List of battles (chronological order)]], etc.
A primitive prototype can be seen here Ktsquare Oct 19 2002
I think the project box looks pretty good. I hope to take a list at the wiki project battles soon - judging from the list of battles there is still a lot of work to do in this area. I wondered if there isn't a free military encyclopedia we could borrow from - with permission of course. TeunSpaans
On reflection, I would like to extend the project box with a brief summary of the forces involved.
TeunSpaans
Please take a moment if you have time, to adjust the comments on calvinism under Predestination. Thanks. Mkmcconn
Yes, I will, but it will be wednesday or thursday before I can give some serious comments. TeunSpaans
Hi Teun,
again regarding the uploading of the Dutch municipalities to nl.wikipedia: I have my data available again, so that could be arranged, if necessary. The data I have is now:
- name municipality
- province
- area
- population (+ water, for most)
- towns/villages/townships incluced
- website (if existing)
If you'd like more data, please let me know. Otherwise I'll try to upload the stuff. Regards, Jeronimo
Looks like a sufficient set of data to me. My suggestion for a dutch text would be:
Middelburg (45.716 inwoners per 2002) is een stad in het zuid-westen van Nederland in de provincie Zeeland, waarvan het de hoofdstad is, op het schiereiland Walcheren.
Middelburg kreegt stadsrechten in 1217. De gemeente Middelburg heeft een oppervlakte van 53,04 km² (4,81 km² water), en omvat de volgende plaatsen: Arnemuiden, Kleverskerke, Nieuw- en Sint Joosland, Sint Laurens.
External Links
edit- Middelburg (Officiële website)
Imho it would be great to have this elementary information on every municipality - 496 of them, I think?
- OK, I made a test run for Groningen (as you'll have noticed); didn't do Groningen (already existed). I could give you the statistics for these municipalities, so you can update these manually, if you want. Let me know if this is allright, then I'll take on the other provinces as well. Jeronimo
- Aaargh, must have been fast asleep. Left in some English, Zuid-Holland in stead of Groningen...Sorry! I check the first two articles if the were OK, but missed those...stupid...
- Yes, I did notice! There are some things I would like you to change/check:
- "provincie of" pls change to "provincie" without "of";
- As you noticed yourself: All towns have been listed as Zuid Holland, while they are in Groningen;
- "The gemeente" pls change to "De gemeente".
- It probably is a matter of taste, but I am not happy with the heading "External Links". "Externe Links" would be half dutch / half english, perhaps "Externe informatie" would be best.
For Groningen, I changed most of the towns by hand. As for the rest: it looks very good!
Please wait a two days for other visitors to voice their opinion. TeunSpaans 22:25 Oct 29, 2002 (UTC)
Very nice. One comment: could you please reduce the font size for 'Externe informatie'. It is now the most prominent text on the page. Compare e.g. Groningen (city) on this site. Erik Zachte
Not (yet) very impressed, partly due to bad translation. Several tiny places are called stad (e.g. Scheemda, Bedum, Winsum), which they aren't. These sould be called dorp or plaats (I am not the one who is going to check them all and make the corrections). Then: 10,500 is in Dutch 10.500 and 10.50 is 10,50. Wrong on all pages. The information on the population is only useful, if provided with a year. Fransvannes
Some reactions:
- once again sorry, I've done this waaaay to quickly, should have taken more time
- The problem stad/gemeente can be solved by just writing gemeente everywhere (the difference I make if the gemeente is composed of several towns, with a generic name, or named after the main town in that municipality. That's confusing, I agree).
- The heading for the links is the default (in en.wiki) for headings. I don't know about the Dutch wiki, so I could resize it if desired
One more comment: why is km² a link? I saw several formulas like these in the chemical elements section presented as a link. I left those out in the translation. It may be useful to present a link to unit, like km² (although km is probably too obvious). There are zillions of different formulas possible with a few units. Erik Zachte
This morning I worked myself through Groningen to:
- change stad into gemeente everywhere;
- change . into , and vv in alle numbers (population and surface)
- add year 2002 to population census.
These are points I agree with. I hope to add update some headings soon - maybe tonight. What do you think of the Appingedam headers? TeunSpaans 03:51 Oct 31, 2002 (UTC)
Ah, someone took up the stub/article on Appingedam and expanded it with its history. Bedum is a better example of what I have in mind.
Jeronimo, is it hard to change the program in such a way as bedum or one of the other Groninger municipalities? TeunSpaans 18:34 Oct 31, 2002 (UTC)
A link to the web page of kerngegevens (if the bot can do that)
would be useful for the map and for convenient updating.
Words that are not article names, proper names or first word of a full sentence need not be written with a capital, I would prefer:
Externe informatie
editPatrick 00:57 Nov 1, 2002 (UTC)
The watchlist error on edit should be fixed now. --Brion 18:28 Nov 27, 2002 (UTC)
- It is indeed, Brion! Well done! TeunSpaans 21:33 Nov 27, 2002 (UTC)
Hi Teunspaans, are you sure about the link from the swedish word Ester, to the Book of Ester? The article takes up the folks from Estland, who we call Ester in pluralis, as well as the name Ester, which is rather common. However, an article "the book of Ester" is not present, at least not presently. Dan Koehl 22:11 Dec 26, 2002 (UTC)
You might be interested in some current activity at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Battles --mav 21:09, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hi, I could try to do some more Byzantine battles, although for some of the earlier ones it's hard to find numbers of men, casualties, and names of leaders. I've been meaning to do the Battle of Kleidion, I'll try to work on that next. Adam Bishop 17:38, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- There, Battle of Kleidion is done :) Adam Bishop 06:37, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Thanks! I was planning on going through the List of battles and writing about all the ancient ones I had info for, but unfortunately I didn't even have time to finish all the Peloponnesian War battles. Well, maybe someday! Adam Bishop 16:24, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
My apologies if my responses to you on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Battles seemed obnoxious. Also sorry if I seemed to be usurping control of the battles project. That wasn't my intention. I only edited the main project page because Wikipedia:Infobox was looking for standard samples of project infoboxes so I used what I believed to be the accepted standard. At least it's where the discussion on the infobox seemed to end and consequently it is what I had started using when I came looking for guidance on writing battle entries. None of my changes to the main project page (header, colour scheme or infobox) should remain if they don't have the agreement of the other participants so please edit them or demote them to the talk page if you are not in agreement. In particular, if you don't agree with the picture in the standard infobox, then I think it should be removed. As you mention, it is rare that there is an appropriate picture to go with a battle. Anyway, sorry once again if I've caused offence. Geoff 00:35, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
hello :-) I thank you for the steward vote. Even though you mention it... I will try not to be too hot on the button :-) SweetLittleFluffyThing
Hi, did you mean to blank all the previous discussion on Wikipedia talk:Administrators? I didn't understand why you thought it was not applicable. Angela. 19:50, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- No problem. I've done the same sort of thing myself when I forget which Wikipedia I'm at. See the history of Template:Fromwikipedia last December for example. :) Angela. 12:40, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the reponse. I'm glad all is OK. Geoff/Gsl 03:48, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)
License
editHi, I'm from fr: wp and would like to know which is the license of Image:AgincourtMap.jpg as we use it on the french version. Thanks in advance. fr:Utilisateur:Tipiac
License
editHi, the image of Lunaria, like all the images I upload, is under GFDL. User:Ramin_Nakisa
Yes, I took the image myself (with the "help" of my 2 year-old daughter).
Ericales
editHi! Please see my note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants Iorsh 07:29, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Article Licensing
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
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The 
photos you took are amazingly detailed and beautiful! --Menchi 16:25, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thx for the compliment - always nice to get 1 TeunSpaans 18:10, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi Teun, Thanks for your nice comment on the Coprinus article, and also that you don't mind me cannabalising your material - I suppose that that is in line with the philosophy of Wikipedia.
I find it difficult to know if I am going in the right direction - whether the articles should be at species, genus, or family level, how much prominence to give to common names (very patchy in English), whether a total North European bias is OK, how to deal with alternative names and classifications, etc. The Dutch, German & French mushroom pages are much better than the English ones, but still not always coherent, either. Coprinus is easier than most fungus genera. I hope that somehow a useful mycology section will emerge, and that it will not just get more chaotic. Strobilomyces 15:25, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
- hm, which languages do you read? TeunSpaans 20:03, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
- About the level: the general trend is to describe species at the lowest level. The only exception is when there is a genus with only one species, then they are combined and described at either the genus or the species level.
- As a private note: there are some other cases when I put species stuff at the genus level. For plants, many cultivars exists, and usuallly i have only very limited info on these cultivars. Sometimes I have only a vague reference on a species: has green flowers 3-5cm. Instead of creating stubs I list them with what I know about them in the genus article.
- About the bias: I wouldnt worry to much about it. When a USA-citizen complains about it, kindly explain that you would love to write about them, but that alas you dont live there and invite him / her to add his / her knowledge and photos. Another thing you could do is to add empty headings:
- ==A selection of well-known American species==
- ==A selection of well-known Asian species==
- ==A selection of well-known Australian species==
- ==A selection of well-known African species==
- By adding these headings, you show you are conscious of the lack of balance.
- TeunSpaans 20:43, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
Abies
editHi Teun - I've not finished working on English versions of the Abies maps yet; my updates of Orjen's originals are at de:Tannen (de:Bild:Abies eurasien.gif and de:Bild:Abies amerika.gif). I've got a pic of Abies grandis bark (a tree about 50m tall and 1.2m diameter; impossible to get a pic of the whole tree!) which I've not uploaded yet, I'll put it on my list of priorities and let you know when it is done. Difficult to get pics of the cones, it is a poor cone year here this year (and it is a telescope job anyway!) - MPF 18:07, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
- Here it is: Image:Abies grandis bark.jpg - MPF 21:38, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
- Super! I've added the bark to nl:Reuzenzilverspar and the maps to nl:zilverspar TeunSpaans 19:26, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
I don't know. I will have made the article because of other information in the wikipedia at the time. I'm not a botanist I'm sorry :( I guess part of the motivation was having lobelia in my garden that year! We need to find out for sure which family it is in. Secretlondon 01:53, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
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