User talk:Bermicourt/Archive 2

DYK for Otter Centre

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Thanks ... Do think about one for Halloween! Victuallers (talk) 18:28, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Bermicourt/Archive 1

DFB-Pokal

Precisely why did you move this page to its current location over the consensus reached at its talk page AND agains WP:COMMONNAME? Madcynic (talk) 19:40, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

No worries, I've undone it. Madcynic (talk) 19:46, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Schluchsee

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Wikiproject: Did you know? 20:14, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Dates and spaces

The spaces are just a minor thing, most people don't use them and Wikipedia:How to edit a page illustrates without. The dates are a significant problem, however. For some time linking full dates was the thing to do, because it formatted dates according to user preferences (and despite the fact that it created WP:overlinking. However it was pointed out that while this was great for (some) registered users, mainly editors, others were seeing a mish-mash of date formats in a given article. Therefore after much discussion date formatting of that type was deprecated inWP:MOSNUM about a year ago. Problem being that with about 600,000 pages with linked dates, the culture of linking dates takes on a life of its own. Therefore proactive measures have been taken to delink dates - mainly User:Full-date_unlinking_bot - this has however run into problems so I'm testing some WP:WB regexes to assist. Rich Farmbrough, 20:49, 12 November 2009 (UTC).

Talkback

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Re: Coord corrections

I've got the tools to fix them efficiently, and I don't mind doing it. If you ever have questions about {{Coord}}, feel free to send them my way. --Stepheng3 (talk) 19:05, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Oderteich

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Materialscientist (talk) 13:42, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Re: Redirecting articles

I'm really just trying to fill in as many of the red links on the German version of List of railway museums as I can. For the record, there are quite a few museums missing from both lists. ----DanTD (talk) 16:54, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Well, I obviously can't write them from scratch, so I was originally hoping to link the en:wiki links directly to the de:wiki link. Obviously I forgot about the language barrier. While I was doing this, I found out that the Railroad Museum of South Florida is not the same place as the South Florida Railway Museum. ----DanTD (talk) 19:39, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Geibeltbad Pirna

Hi Andrew. Can I ask your advice? I saw your comments on WProject Germany. I recently put a comment on Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard#Geibeltbad_Pirna which has a large backlog. Perhaps look at Talk:Geibeltbad_Pirna as well. Should this page be marked for deletion? Not reading German I'm not sure whether the page on the German Wikipedia is as "bad" in terms of NPOV ? Thanks.--Lidos (talk) 16:39, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Paltro(c)k mills

I've reverted your GF edit to the Post mill article. In English we use the Dutch spelling of Paltrok, and not the German spelling of Paltrock. Also, your edit broke the section link of the redirect Paltrok mill. I've also explained this on the article talk page. Mjroots (talk) 19:07, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

I've edited the section, clarifying Dutch and German spellings. Mjroots (talk) 19:19, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Of course I'll run my eyes over the article. Let me know when you need help. Mjroots (talk) 19:36, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Wikiproject

Did you know that there is a Wikiproject covering mills - WP:MILLS. If you want to join simply add your name to the members list. Mjroots (talk) 09:58, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Lower Saxon Mill Road

Hello! Your submission of Lower Saxon Mill Road at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Materialscientist (talk) 11:29, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Use of edit summaries

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. When you make a change to an article, please provide an edit summary, which you forgot to do before saving your recent edit to Common Era. Doing so helps everyone to understand the intention of your edit. It is also useful when reading the edit history of the page. Thank you.

Also, your edit to that article seems to be in error, in that there is a citation at the end of the sentence, so {{citation needed}} does not seem to be applicable. One error that has come up before in that article is that editors think the sentence is saying that the phrase "Common Era" is most commonly used world-wide. What the sentence is actually saying is that the numbering system for the year, by whatever name, is the most common system world-wide.

I have reverted the edit. --Jc3s5h (talk) 18:21, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Lower Saxon Mill Road

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Materialscientist (talk) 12:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Boroughs

Hi Bermicourt, I changed your "boroughs" and I think also some "parishes" because Wikipedia doesn't use those terms for places in Germany. The standard translation for "Gemeinde" is "municipality", for "Stadt" it's "town", or "city" for towns with over 100,000 inhabitants. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Conventions#Administrative units. I don't think we have satisfactory translations for "Ortsteil" and "Stadtteil" yet. Markussep ^Talk 20:30, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Housebarn

I've been writing an article about a term for a structure that I heard recently used about a combination house and barn, and you can find it my sandbox here. I did lots of research to find that it had been Common in Germany's Schleswig-Holstein region in the 17th-18th centuries. There are just a few in the U.S. One is near my location, which isn't surprising since my area was settled by German immigrants in the 1800s. Is there an article on the topic yet? One source article talked about a "Bauernhaus" [1] which Wikipedia searches come up as a Low German house. Please let me know if I should stop working on it and create a redirect instead. Please respond on your talk page. Royalbroil 05:51, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Upper Harz Water Regale

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Materialscientist (talk) 18:00, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Map for Karstwanderweg?

Thanks for the Karstwanderweg article. Is there any simple way to get a map for this article? The article is very good as it is, even though it is short, but a map would really improve its usability. -Arch dude (talk)

Thanks! -Arch dude (talk) 11:27, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Hochwanner / Rating

My reasoning was based on an outside view of Germany. I believe it was me who put Hochwanner onto the to-do list but I don't think in terms of an outside view of importance regarding the subject matter it rates very high - maybe low was too low though do I am changing to Mid. IMO Wendelstein although less in height would seem to be of greater importance. As far as a Mountains WP goes totally different criteria apply although I was surprised to see Watzmann given a low rating by WikiProject Mountains. Agathoclea (talk) 11:44, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Vorlageninfo

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Fernsehsendung

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Bausteindesign5

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Very happy for all the above to be deleted in view of the alternative route. --Bermicourt (talk) 14:46, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Ford

Hey. Please be very careful when changing a redirect's target page or turning it into something else. There are a gazillion articles linking to "Ford" and all of them are looking for the car company. Your change created a huge mess. On top of that, the consensus in the last discussion was that the company is the primary meaning for the term. Thanks, Prolog (talk) 20:46, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Hölle Valley Railway

I decided it should be called Hölle Valley Railway, but this is occupied by a redirect which I can't remove. The river is called the Hölle and there is no reason to translate that.--Grahame (talk) 07:07, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

I have moved it, it didn't work before but did this time.--Grahame (talk) 07:14, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

And it's still Höllental, not Hölletal. :) Hi Bermicourt! On another note, while it is nice to see all those minor german lines translated, the illustration on Neuses-Weissenbrunn is not worth the space it takes up. I've no better pic, nor any idea how to do this, but it would seem to me that modifying the pictures in such a manner that it identifies which of the lines is the actual line would be a good idea. Should I run into something, I'll either hand it to you, or attempt and put it in myself. Regards, --G-41614 (talk) 15:44, 15 March 2010 (UTC) I'm putting something onto the Germany/conventions talk, just in case you want to take it up.

Danke schön!

Hi Bermicourt, thanks very much for your kind words. I'll take a closer look at the task force tomorrow. Do you have any tips or requests? When it comes to German railways, I am truly fascinated by the hard work put into both the English and German Wikipedias by diligent editors like yourself. The only thing I can't understand completely is how some of the templates work. But you seem to be a pro, I'll have to get back to you sometime. And you're a Brit living in Germany too? Nice stuff! Take care, Jared Preston (talk) 20:20, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Railway track

Your nice picture of a rail track formation might be improved by:

• showing a slope in the layers to help drainage.

• showing a ventilation pipe used in say Tibet to prevent the permafrost from melting.

• the very thin layer of plastic or rubber might also be shown

Section through railway track and foundation showing the ballast and formation layers. The layers are slightly sloped to help drainage.

Tabletop (talk) 05:26, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Cloppenburg Museum Village

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DYK for Cloppenburg Museum Village

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Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Interest in German railways

I like travelling in Europe; I like trains, but haven't been on as many German trains as I'd like because I'm normally in Europe with car-obsessed or old and immobile people (although I was in Freiburg and the country to its west for a day in November, but I didn't get a chance to investigate the Hölle Valley Railway (Black Forest); and I wasn't aware of its significance for rail electrifications); I'm interested in German history; I like maps; I like cryptic crossword puzzles, so Google translations are an interesting enigma; and there are plenty of German rail articles that need to be translated.--Grahame (talk) 11:03, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Battle of Soltau

Hi you added Battle of Soltau to the wrong page here is the correct page for you.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/Battle of Soltau --Jim Sweeney (talk) 12:32, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Upper Harz Water Regale

Hallo Bermicourt, vielen Dank für die Übersetzungen der vielen Artikel und Nebenartikel zum Thema Oberharzer Wasserregal. Es hilft uns im Oberharz natürlich gewaltig, wenn unsere Anlagen und Schönheiten in der englischsprachigen Wikipedia so gut präsentiert werden. Ein ganz großer Erfolg ist natürlich der Eintrag in der en:Startseite im Januar mit den über 6.000 Artikelaufrufen. Nochmals ganz herzlichen Dank. Wenn ich mal irgendwie helfen kann, dann tue ich das natürlich auch gerne! Grüße aus dem schönen Oberharz, --JuTe CLZ (talk) 20:48, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Translates roughly as "Hallo Bermicourt, many thanks for the translations of the many articles and sub-articles on the subject of the Upper Harz Water Regale. It helps those of us in the Upper Harz enormously when our facilities and attractions are so well presented in the English-language Wikipedia. A very great success was the entry on the English Wikipedia home page in January with over 6,000 hits. Once again, very many thanks. If I can help at any time, I would be glad to. Greetings from the beautiful Upper Harz."

Speedy deletion nomination of Fichtelnaab

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DYK for Battle of Soltau

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Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Sauerbraten category

On the sauerbraten article, you recently changed the category Category:German cuisine to Category:Rhenish cuisine. But the article makes clear that the dish is found in many regions of Germany, not just the Rheinland. Could you please revert or explain? Thanks. --macrakis (talk) 16:58, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, I see what you mean about the de:Sauerbraten article's tags. But, though it does have a long section on Rhenish sauerbraten, it says in its opening paragraph: "...das in vielen Varianten in unterschiedlichen Regionen der deutschsprachigen Länder gekocht und gegessen wird...". --macrakis (talk) 22:40, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

UK vs England

Hi Bermicourt, just a quick question, if you'll indulge me - is there an en:wp convention on how to handle this issue? I certainly may be overreacting, but if both parties keep at it - well, thought I would ask. Regards, --G-41614 (talk) 09:28, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry again. I had the necessary link added in my original message - anyway. Mining is the article in question. When you check the history, you'll see that in a picture description, one user changed United Kingdom to England. Then another user came, reverted, then user No. 1 re-reverted. Ere I go in to tell them to get a grip on themselves, I wanted to do two things - see wether they keep it up (if not, this is merely an exercise), and get an opinion on which to use (I'd think England the better term, since it's geographically more defining than the political term UK, but it does not really matter to me). On another issue - I never thought prams was wrong (sorry if I gave the impression - not my intention Schluchsee), but child carrier a term that would rather be more understandable. If pram or prams is as such normally understood in all english speaking parts of this world, I'll just stand enlighted. If not ... well. Ok - so far all is quiet over at Mining, so perhaps the original reverter didn't feel the need to insist. But if I happen to stumble over them getting at it again, I intend to intervene. Regards, --G-41614 (talk) 11:27, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Ok, the line about England being obscure was you idea, right? Because I do hope I never gave the impression I thought it was! Anyhow, pram, child carrier (about any regional connection of same term I have no idea whatsoever - when thinking of an english word for those things, stroller comes to mind), or whatever - being neither american, english, australian or anything, I don't care too much about any regional preferences. My take was understandability for those unfamiliar with a term. Imagine reading an article and happening over a word you don't know. Pram, for instance - if one doesn't know the term, how likely is one to develop an idea what it is about? Which is why I replaced it with the a bit more self-explanatory, but not perfect child carrier that does suggest children being carried instead of getting pushed along in wheeled contraptions, but at least had the notion of child transport in it. Had no idea, still don't care where it might be used. Just for the fun of it, without having the exact numbers (which I'm sure are available somewhere), I'd assume that most readers on en:wp are more familiar with AE instead of BE - which could just be a point suggesting for en:wp to prefer AE in general ... ok, now I'm just being mean. Rather, just kidding. I would not endorse such a move. Regards, --G-41614 (talk) 12:10, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Good point. Hmmm - how about the spreading of AE by media into BE- and non-E-speaking populations ... not to rise the question how much of the english displayed in the EU is really identifiable as BE, official documents aside. I'm afraid my own english as an americanized bastard with school-conveyed BE roots. Writing of BE - arrived at Heathrow once, held a door for a man rushing up. He said lovely cheers, mate. Never, ever had heard that before. At first I thought he was proposing a toast! - until it dawned on me that this was sort of a thank you, and mate might just be a suitable term to describe me in that situation. ---! --G-41614 (talk) 16:35, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Bavaria

I noticed a while back, you signed up for WikiProject Bavaria. I've done a major upgrade of the WikiProject and is ready to use. Kingjeff (talk) 03:12, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Austrian Federal Railways / ÖBB

Hello Bermicourt, why did you move ÖBB to "Austrian Federal Railways"? I notice that Deutsche Bahn is at Deutsche Bahn rather than German Railway etc. A google search for "Austrian Federal Railways" returns only 35000 hits, "ÖBB" retuns 2000000+, "OBB" returns retuns 1000000+ although of course this is a very crude measurement. English speaking people often just say "OBB" i.e. ignore the umlaut when they refer to ÖBB. Perhaps it should be moved back to ÖBB? Mu2 14:10, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Samson Pit

Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 18:02, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Walking beam

I'm willing to discuss it but I'm sceptical about it. If you look at Google books, about 98% of the entries are for marine engines. I suspect that this is a case where the term "walking beam" was appropriated by a few misguided sources for stationary engines. It doesn't make much sense to call a stationary engine a "walking beam" since it doesn't go anywhere :)

Also, as a general rule, a topic that is overwhelmingly related to one particular use of a term should be directed to that topic, with a hatnote for other uses. I'm not sure about the use of a hatnote for article sections rather than standalone articles, but I think the general principle is a sound one. Gatoclass (talk) 18:27, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

As I said, there are a few references that refer to walking beams as stationary engines, though one or two of your own cited references there do not appear to use the term.

Apart from that, I'm afraid I am going to have to take a raincheck on this discussion as it's very late here and I'm about to log off. I'll take a closer look at your refs tomorrow. Gatoclass (talk) 19:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Re: More vandalism

Thanks for pointing that out. I reported Oatesyrulz @ AIV and the user is now blocked. Thanks Traxs7 07:58, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Lower Saxony

WikiProject Lower Saxony is ready to start. I already tagged Lower Saxony and VfL Wolfsburg. Kingjeff (talk) 17:03, 17 May 2010 (UTC) {{WP Lower Saxony|importance=|class=}} is what you use to tag Lower Saxony-related articles. Kingjeff (talk) 17:05, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of St. Ursula's Day

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It was only a redirect! --Bermicourt (talk) 16:27, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

German railway task force

Hi, just about the xxx station I believe it should be railway station, because it already is in that format in many countries. E.g. England, The Netherlands, France and many more. It would also be really if a list of services in Niedersachsen and those templates of preceding/next station could be made for them?

Thanks Chris0693 (talk) 08:51, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Krupp reversions

My recent edit to “Krupp” were themselves reversions to the August 2009 text, which had been deleted without explaination. So, please explain what you consider unconstructive. As far as I know, those particular adjectives are neither p.o.v. nor disputed. They are what was most prominent in Manchester’s book, and probably most important to Alfried and Arndt themselves. Thanks. --Deelybobber (talk) 16:11, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi, well when edits are added that describe someone as "XXX the Nazi" and his son as a "homosexual playboy", it does look rather like vandalism! If, you intended it in good faith, then I apologise. However, I still don't think the edits are appropriate for the following reasons: First, describing someone as "XXX the Nazi" in the title sounds POV and potentially inflammatory unless they were known by that "title" e.g. "Edward the Confessor" or "William the Victorious". Otherwise they should just be described as a member of the Nazi party in the text. Second, describing someone as a "homosexual playboy" is also potentially inflammatory and should be backed up by reliable citations. Hope this helps. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:47, 5 June 2010 (UTC)