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License tagging for Image:Fort barraux.jpg

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Image copyright problem with Image:Plan1692.jpg

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number of departments of France

Why did you make this change? Every other source says there are 100. --Mathew5000 19:09, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

You wrote on my talk page: "I made this change since there are 96 departements in metropolitian france. If you include the DOM/TOM (oversease departements) the total is 102. So at no point is the number 100." According to all the information I can find, there are 96 in metropolitan France but only 4 DOM, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, and Réunion. The other overseas territories of France are not departments but "collectivités d'outre-mer". See fr:Département français. --Mathew5000 18:43, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Gallo in Pays-de-la-Loire

I actually asked if Gallo (not gallois) was spoken at all in Pays-de-la-Loire. I'm assuming by "Welsh" you meant Breton. The Jade Knight 03:08, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

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German userbox solution

i would like to know why you are changing UBX's to GUS??? Chris5897 16:28, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I am simply following the protocol. If you have questions as to the reason for the move, you can read all about it at GUS Basis. Feel free to participate in this yourself! Laurə n^whisper 20:12, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Your VandalProof Application

Dear Chris5897,

Thank you for applying for VandalProof! (VP). As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. The reason for this is that you have less then 250 mainspace edits. This is the same reason you were removed before, but I was to busy to write an explaination since there was such a backlog. Sorry about that, but there don't seem to be enough active moderators, I am on break myself. Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank you for your interest in VandalProof. Prodego ^talk 01:46, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

edit summary

Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Thanks, and happy editing.

Laurə n^whisper

Recreation of userbox

Hello Chris5897. Note that I've deleted userbox as a recreation of deleted content; see the deletion log for more information. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 16:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Help desk

I have responded. Aqua fish talk 14:13, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Chris5897

Sure it would be great of you would fix the infobox. Thanks for the offer. --Sicamous 15:07, 26 October 2006 (UTC) What ever you think is best, thanks again for the service. You could like the incubator to my favorite site, or create a corresponding page for me. --Sicamous 05:58, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Maps of France

Chris - I would love your help with sources. Right now I use INSEE to verify my data - and then various maps of secteurs and quartiers from the various websites of communities that are available. Maybe as I make them I'll have you Q/C the data being that you reside in France. If you would like to learn more about making them, this would be a great learning opportunity for you as well! Rarelibra 12:56, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Copyrights

Among things that you've uploaded, the images on Barraux have been deleted as copyright violations. The article itself is also a major copyright violation. Please read up on copyrights, and try not to keep doing this. Also note that when copying / translating articles from another Wikipedia language or another location on this one, you must make note of the page from which the original text came from in order to keep in line with the GFDL. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 19:50, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Okay, righto. In case you did not notice, I've responded in my talk page with some things you should do. I also recieved the confirmation email (that was fast), and have restored the article. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 21:52, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Demoisel.jpg

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Monmouth

Bonjour. Thanks for undoing the vandalism, but you left a few loose ends (e.g. a section called "Refrences" with no references there, so it seemed best to revert to what looked to me to be an OK article when I left it. Feel free to re-insert any extra contributions of yours that I didn't spot. --GuillaumeTell 15:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

"can't" vs. "cant" on TGV

Just an FYI, the original spelling of "cant" that you replaced in TGV was correct and your change has been rolled back. The word in this case referred to the difference in elevation of the two sides of the track to help the trains go around curves at high speed. The outer rail on a curve is positioned slightly higher than the inner rail, much the same way as the road on a racetrack or major highway is constructed with a higher surface at the outside of a curve, to make negotiating curves easier for vehicles traveling on them. Another term for this is "superelevation." Slambo (Speak) 18:49, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikify your articles!

Your translations of TER related articles are consistently unwikified. when translating articles from one languaged Wikipedia to another, you must wikify articles so they adhere to the ruloes that govern the Wikipedia they are edited in. Here are errors you have consistantly spread and I have repaired, use this list as a help:

Chapter/section naming only bares capital letters on the first common word
localities in need of disambiguation have the departement they are located in added at the end of their name with the use of a comma not a bracket.
Classes of French rolling stock is preceeded by SNCF Class to disambiguate their name with unrelated content of the same or similar name.

Hope this helps and you will adhere to naming concentions and the Manual of Style. Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 19:30, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject France

A proposal has been made for the above WikiProject at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#France. Would you be interested in contributing to it? STTW (talk) 20:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I am not familiar with the other WikiProjects related to France, so your help would be needed in merging the related information. Perhaps you could make some suggestion by editing the User:SlaveToTheWage/WikiProject France page. STTW (talk) 13:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Interesting

I have initiated a move request for an incorrectly named article. If you want to participate, go HERE and check it out. The name in wiki is "Lake Scutari", which is totally incorrect. The name is supposed to be "Lake Skadar". Check out the article I referenced. Rarelibra 16:36, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: ;)

Haha, thanks, that may just be a first ;)

I returned the favour and read yours...so how much is that space being rented for? ;)

-Frazzydee|✍ 07:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

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A heads up

Being non-deletionist at heart and someone who mentors newcomers regularly as a member of WP:Wc/WP:WC, I find I like Template:Work(edit talk links history) a lot, but you will have to defend it versus the current facilities which perform the same task sooner or later. (I categorized it, but am not nominating it for deletion. You snuck one by the system for a while, I guess. Do believe in cats on templates though.)
See for example the ongoing Tfd discussion on Template:Construction(edit talk links history) which will soon loose, unless my tea leaves are out of calibration. Also left you a note on Talk:Spiculum which edit lead me on a series of edits reaching this note, which when I back out of, will have me finish by removing work from that article.
Such long term notices are somewhat frowned upon as going against the five pillars, and the principle that anyone can edit. Suggest you morph this into a Section version of '{{Inuse}}', which is an actual need, insofar as I can see. Sneak that into the Wikipedia Templates page so others begin to use it, and it should be fine. I linked that as well as the editing article where you can also mention it.
Locking a section I think used to be a option, iirc, but that template seems to have gone away. As your work template stands now, it is merely redundant without any distinguishing differences from the stand-point of our society. It is, less ugly by far! Cheers, and if you want additional input, feel free to ask. // FrankB 20:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

English vs. French spelling

Because of your past work on the Wikiprojects for French "régions", "départements" or "communes", I thought you might be interested in contributing to the current discussion over French vs. English spelling of those very words taking place at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_France#Anglicisation. Cheers. --NYArtsnWords 23:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Template:Work

Hi, I nominated Template:work for deletion, a template you created. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Cheers, Garion96 (talk) 01:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

France (my talk page)

Chris - I am a bit confused - do you mean there are no 'breakdown' maps of the regions and departments? I see a lot of maps out there. Could you point me to a page (or two) as an example where there are missing maps? Thanks! R Rarelibra 17:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Image talk:BBC Logo pre 1997.gif

Thanks for deleting - I've just done so again (I have a vested interest as I uploaded the original!) - and added this to the talk page:

"On 22 January 2007 Chris5897:

"removed tag-I have found 2 uses for the image and why should we delete it? Do we delete all the images of old flags? It can also be considered important in its historical content. no copyright violation"

Wikiwoohoo:

"Orphaned - replaced by better version of image"

I agree with Chris5897 and have just removed that tag again. The better version is merely a different version of the logo - there were several - another variation is totally monochrome grey (including where the red, green, blue bars denoting mainland nations appear). The alternative version Image:BBC 1986-1997 logo.jpg is still BBC copyright, even though http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk might have granted permission - so is no better, or worse than this one - just different. Zir 09:02, 24 January 2007 (UTC)"

Thanks again for your support Zir 09:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)