User talk:Tropical wind

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BelovedFreak 11:45, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Translation of Kalisalz

Well, there was no article for ""potash salt" (I instead created a redirect), but potash pretty much describes de:Kalisalz. If you have a better solution... Lars T. (talk) 21:14, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

The better solution would be to use "potash salt", as this is more specific and yet has a link to an existing article. Tropical wind (talk) 06:25, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Minoan civilization

Hello! In the article Minoan civilization that you're currently editing, you added a reference named "welwei", but subsequently are sometimes noting a ref name of "welvei", which I assume is a typo (I've fixed two instances), because there isn't a ref named "welvei" (so it kicks out on the list at Category:Pages with broken reference names). Could you address? Thanks! - Salamurai (talk) 08:09, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Apologies, the correct ref name is "welwei". Tropical wind (talk) 08:12, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

hey

I mention you here [1]. Radeksz

hey again

I filed an SPI regarding you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Matthead Radeksz

Bruckner

Thanks for improving! You changed "rural" to "provincial", the German word I heard is "bäuerlich", literally "like a peasant", I don't know how to say that best. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:16, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

I had some difficulty finding the right word myself. Previously, the article claimed biographers thought Bruckner was a "very simple man" - which, at least, according to the biography I read, is not really true. Here, I believe, "simple" was used to create a contrast between "complex" city dwellers and "simple" provincial people, which is why I changed the adjective to "provincial". Presumably, all biographers agree that he was not a simple personality, but, in fact, a rather complex one. Tropical wind (talk) 20:52, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

I agree, a complex man and matter. I assume the term describes his manners rather than his spirit. If I had a solution, I would offer it, so let's keep thinking. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:17, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Great minds think alike, in respect to you talk page comment in 2010 on Renewable energy in Germany

I noticed the hype too friend, and spurred on by the hype I looked up the OECD statistics that tell us just what percentage of Germany's total energy demands does it get from renewable energy- Turns out, according to the OECD, that its actually considerably less than the world average. Less than even China! Have a look at the updated article when you get the time.

Let me know what you think

Boundarylayer (talk) 19:55, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:10, 7 November 2016 (UTC)