User talk:Keinstein

Welcome![edit]

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Again, welcome! Severo^TC 18:03, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Strikethrough[edit]

I saw you mention about striking obsolete text. You can do this by placing strike tags, <s> and </s> either end of what you want to strike. ~~Like this~~. Of course, you wouldn't do that on an article page, but it is a useful technique on talk pages. Regards, Severo^TC 19:48, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some help, please?[edit]

{{helpme}} Hello! I signed in a couple of days ago. I got the e-mail message on which I was asked to click to confirm myself. Now I have done that about as often as my ramshackle e-mail server has permitted, but to no avail. I haven't found the exact remedy on any Wiki page I've found (not being on the easiest of terms with a computer), and the deadline is drawing nearer.

I also have problems with error messages every time I turn pages (with Microsoft Explorer), and with faulty pages (Mozilla firefox). Can there be a connection?

In fact, I don't even know whether the problem is with Wiki or with my computer, and my real-life friends can't attend to me all the time... Could it be possible to have something of this clarified? Thanks beforehand, Keinstein 22:30, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what problems you are having, but no special settings should be needed to browse or edit on wikipedia. If you try asking your question again, we will try to get you some additional help. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 23:38, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

{{helpme}} Thank you very much indeed for trying! I'll try and see if I can clarify myself. I know nothing about computers. I wish I did, because they are so useful, but... When I created my Wiki account, I got a message back to my e-mail address. That mail contained an address, on which I was asked to click to confirm I was not a robot or whatever. If I didn't do so before the (22nd? 23rd? - my e-mail server is presently out of function, so I can't check it), my account would expire. Clicking on that address, I did get to Wikipedia, but only to the page telling me that my confirmation had failed. But I seem to have normal access to the Wiki facilities as long as my unconfirmed account remains valid.

The other problem, of which I don't know if it has anything to do with this at all: When I use Microsoft Internet Explorer, these error message templates pop up every time I turn pages (whether by clicking a link, subpaging with the top flaps or search-and-going). [A typical message reads: "[Error in] Line: 672 / Character: 35 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0".]I click them away, and within the confines of each page, everything seems to work. When I use Mozilla firefox, the page-turning works; instead, some "edit" marks are displaced, and on the "edit" subpage many of the words are underlined in red (some hotchpotch from those changed or added by the last few editors, it seems (??)).

These Microsoft error messages and faulty Mozilla pages only turn up (anywhere near this regularly) when I'm browsing the English Wikipedia - not e. g. on Google, or German, Swedish or other Wikipedias I've peeped into. Keinstein 01:01, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since you are logging on to your account, the account is verified. However, if you switch e-mail addresses the server sends a message to your e-mail account that you want to switch to. You then have to click that link in order to verify your e-mail address. Now, for your technical issue with your browser, please ask the technology question to village pump. Thanks. Miranda 02:10, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Medium Gauge Railways[edit]

Just curious about your recent edit to the Narrow gauge railway article. You appear to have some pretty firm opinions as to whether 36-inch, meter, and 42-inch gauges should be termed "narrow" or "medium". Can you offer a reference citation in support of those definitions?Thewellman (talk) 02:43, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, I haven't (neither pretty firm opinions nor references to support them). I just find that vast and (once-) important metre-gauge networks such as in Thailand-Malaysia, East Africa or parts of old British India must reasonably be said to rule out the Cape gauge as a lower demarcation of "medium gauge", if and when this fourfold distinction (broad - standard - medium - narrow) is deemed appropriate; then you can arguably also find some historical examples of even narrower gauges used for traffic heavy or important enough for the gauge to qualify as "medium" on grounds of task fulfilled and without being overly much narrower, such as the 914-mm. White Pass and Yukon Route or the VGJ 891-mm gauge "secondary mainline" in Sweden. -Keinstein (talk) 11:26, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One more point is that the statement I altered was inconsistent with what the text further down implied. That needn't say much, since neither was verified, so I just added a citation template. I can recall having seen the term used the way I suggest, but searching for examples is unfortunately beyond me at the moment. -Keinstein (talk) 14:09, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Musical form(s)[edit]

Please contribute to discussion at;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_December_21#Category:Musical_forms

Thanks Redheylin (talk) 06:55, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

September 2011[edit]

In a recent edit to the page Cat, you changed one or more words from one international variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

For a subject exclusively related to the United Kingdom (for example, a famous British person), use British English. For something related to the United States in the same way, use American English. For something related to another English-speaking country, such as Canada, Australia, or New Zealand, use the variety of English used there. For an international topic, use the form of English that the original author used.

In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. VMS Mosaic (talk) 13:04, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You have not heeded my second editorial comment either and done the simple check, have you? Please do assume some sense in others before rumbling along. --Keinstein (talk) 13:24, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I made the correct fix which is what you should have done. VMS Mosaic (talk) 13:28, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I see your subsequent edit now. But no, I shouldn't have done it. I know American English from British, but that doesn't mean I'm an expert on possible idiosyncrasies of that particular term. I saw to it that the right article was linked; the rest is better left to the technicians. --Keinstein (talk) 13:42, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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