User talk:Aschmidt/2014

JSTOR Survey (and an update)

Hi! Just a quick update that while JSTOR and The Wikipedia Library discuss expanding the partnership, they've gone ahead and extended the pilot access again, until May 31st. Thanks, JSTOR!

It would be really helpful for growing the program if you would fill out this short survey about your usage and experience with JSTOR:

SURVEY

Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:47, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Alice Esther Glen

Redirects like this don't usually get deleted. It's possible that someone looking for the article on this person might type "Alice Esther Glen" into the search box, and anyone who does that should be sent to Esther Glen. Hut 8.5 21:52, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for notifying me, Hut 8.5. I asked for deletion of this redirect in good faith because on German Wikipedia we always delete redirects that are no longer used by any other page. It is part of the usual cleanup. If someone is looking for Alice Esther Glen he will find her over full text search, even if he is not logged in because her complete name is part of the introduction of the article about her. Indeed, I am somewhat surprised that practice on enwiki should be that different?--Aschmidt (talk) 22:18, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, such a person would be able to find the article through the search tool, but a redirect is quicker and more convenient. By deleting the redirect we are going out of our way to make that person's life slightly harder. We don't usually delete redirects here unless they are misleading or otherwise harmful (see WP:CSD#Redirects and WP:R#DELETE for valid reasons). Hut 8.5 06:40, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's interesting. Thanks for explaining, Hut 8.5. In German Wikipedia, when we have moved a page we usually fix the wikilinks to the redirect created when the page was moved and delete the redirect because we aim to have unique encyclopedic lemmas as page names. The user can still use full-text search. I had already realised that English Wikipedia is full of redirects, but I thought that was due to a lack of maintanance, users chosing non-canonical page names, etc. Looks like uncontrolled growth of articles, page names, redirects and so on. So, it's even done on purpose. Thanks, again. I'll consider this next time.--Aschmidt (talk) 10:36, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Yes humans are animals.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 07:04, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting, indeed. I had never come across this usage in English before. In German, we make a difference between man and animal, as we do between medicine (for men) and veterenary medicine (for animals). We are all living beings, of course. Thanks, again, for the hint, Doc James. And Happy Easter to you.--Aschmidt (talk) 10:58, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes in English there is a fairly strong anti evolution community. Thus probably why the difference. Happy Easter. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 13:31, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Michael Wesely

On 5 May 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Michael Wesely, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that German art photographer Michael Wesely recorded the reconstruction of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz and New York's MoMA using exposures of up to three years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Michael Wesely. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:33, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Precious again

German people making history
Thank you for introducing influential German people who made history, such as the Mitscherlichs, to the English project, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:28, 5 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, you were the 172nd recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:09, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Gerda, this is really nice of you reminding me of the PumpkinSky Prize you awarded me two years ago. And I still remember it! BTW, I have some more well-known Germans on my list for enwiki, but I'll only dig it out when I feel like writing an article in English again. Not yet. ;) Have a nice rest of this weekend!--Aschmidt (talk) 00:26, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]