Claude girardin

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List of waterfalls of Switzerland

Good start to an article but you need to expand it and preferably section it (similar to this article). Another note it may be worth editing List of waterfalls#Switzerland to include this article. •xytram•tkcsgy 15:27, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

A time-keeping

I couldn't figure out this article. Is it about an object called a "time-keeping"? We put the subject of the article in the first line in bold type. (which is done like this ''' example ''') Rmhermen 15:30, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)

So sorry, actually it is about horology / watch / clock

mechanism.

Unfortunately I did it wrong on the "mechanism" disambiguation page.

Appreciating your assistance. One day I hope I shall be proficient.

Best regards

Claude Girardin

The Waltham.ch Website

Please refrain from adding links to the waltham.ch set. As per Wikipedia:External links#Links normally to be avoided item 3), you are not supposed to add websites that you are in charge of. There is way too much temptation for people to add links to their own web in places that are not really appropriate and in biased ways, and thus creating link spam. I have replaced many of the links to the waltham.ch website with more appropriate links, such as to articles in the wikipedia or to original sources. Thanks. Wrs1864 03:10, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Please note that I have now not been related with Waltham at all since over 2 years. Appreciating your caution. As my main subject of interest, I shall try step by step to include more informative articles about the Swiss Watch Industry, without further ado. Best regards claude 14:37, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

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Reply to your reply is on my talk page. Schutz 20:30, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

The world to bee

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Speedy deletion nomination of Vacuum Chronometer Corp.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Foundation Quality Fleurier

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Proposed deletion of La Venoge, poem

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Your questions

Hi, I have moved your questions to Category talk:Culinary Heritage of Switzerland and replied there. Discussion belongs on a talk page, not on a category page itself :-)  Sandstein  05:36, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of General Watch Co

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Speedy deletion nomination of Métaux Précieux SA Métalor

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Métaux Précieux SA Métalor Hangon

Firstly I would like to stress out that I am neither personally nor family-wise, nor in any other way connected with the company, neither financially nor in any other possible way.

I have been lately doing my best, mainly on E and F wiki, to give a much clearer and thourough knowledge of the watch industry, in particular the Swiss Watch Industry. Having spent all my managerial career within the industry, I feel that it is necessary that the relaating articles give more knowledge to the people interested in, as has been the case up to now.

I had planned to continue constructing the article with much more technical knowledge of what involves the making of precious metal watch cases, etc.,

I do not feel that this page can be constructed as an advertisement for a company that does business only with manufacturers, who have the knowledge and can decide to place their orders wherever they please (mind you there are not so many refining companies in the field world wide.

At your disposal for further talks.

In any case, my trying to contribute to wikipedia might be somewhat more worthy than a quick deletion. Appreciating your kind cooperation. claude (talk) 23:13, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Century Time Gems Ltd

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AfD nomination of Century Time Gems

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Proposed deletion of Benrus

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Welcome!

I can see you've had a bit of a baptism of fire, but I hope you stick with Wikipedia. I have removed the deletion notice from Benrus; it is immediately apparent from my searches of news stories etc. that this was a significant watch manufacturer. Thank you for helping to improve Wikipedia by starting this article. The next step is to improve the article by adding references to reliable sources to verify the information in the article, and to find some useful external links for readers seeking to learn more about the company and its watches. If you'd like any help with editing, please drop me a note on my talk page. Fences&Windows 22:02, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Jean Villard Gilles

Thank you for correcting that! Until you left a comment to me, I was not aware of the distinction of Swiss people as French Swiss, German Swiss and English Swiss. My husband (who lived in Germany many years before I met him) found my ignorance of that amusing. --Oddharmonic (talk) 22:38, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Abraham-Louis Perrelet

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Hi Claude. I've deleted the article because it used text taken from this website, which doesn't state that it is released under a license compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. As text is automatically copyrighted, we can't use it without permission from the person who wrote it. The subject sounds very notable though and you are welcome to create a new article using your own text, not that taken from elsewhere. Regards, – Toon 23:13, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi, actually I just copied the text from the wiki article automatic watches, an article which has not been queried at all. Any diffrence of application of the wiki rules? Never mind, I'll come up with an article of my own if you help me to wikify it then. claude (talk) 05:06, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, in that case it's possible that the external site copied from us without attribution. I'll have a look, having been previously unaware of the other article. If it was originally on Wikipedia, I'll restore the article, but you should note that even on in-wiki copied our license requires that you link to the original article to preserve the attribution of the original author - see WP:SPLITTING. – Toon 13:35, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that looks like what happened, I've restored the article. I should have noticed your note in the edit summary, apologies for that. – Toon 13:53, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Erare humanum est! Never mind. I am actually translating the wiki fr page into English in my own words. I would then appreciate that you possibly helped me in establishing the sources & references and wikified the whole page.

claude (talk) 18:26, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

I'd be happy to help out where I can — but I'll have to leave the translation to you! – Toon 13:42, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I am working on it and shall revert to you ASAP. :-)

claude (talk) 22:51, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Jacques Brel

Thank you for your comment re my "who" tag on the Brel article.

You seem to have been editing here for at least as long as I have. You must therefore be aware that claims such as "most of the French speaking people over 30-40 years of age" carry no weight unless properly referenced. I invite you to improve the article by providing the appropriate refs.

Your assertions that I am unfamiliar with this artists' work and would benefit from reading lyrics in translation should have been made with greater caution. It may be 15 years since I left France for other climes, but I think I've managed to keep a *fair* grasp on my own culture and language. :)

Chris(tophe) Et bien voilà! Ne soyez donc pas plus royaliste que le roi!

Cordialeent

claude (talk) 11:23, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

List of castles and fortresses in Switzerland

Claude, yes I was aware that Grisons is also Graubunden and that that's what the Canton article is called. I agree that it should be called Graubunden for all the reasons that you mentioned. I just hadn't gotten around to changing it in the List of castles since I was mostly just adding them as placeholders while I was adding information on Swiss heritage sites to the municipalities articles. I'll put a note on the article talk page and change it in a few days if no one complains. Tobyc75 (talk) 22:48, 16 October 2009 (UTC) Appreciating. I am also planning to establish some of the missing articles on the Swiss Castles in French and English. As I am not a wiki pro, perhaps you could ten help me wikifying them (especially ref + images). :-) claude (talk) 09:36, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Williamine

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Best regards

claude (talk) 19:13, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Motorways of Switzerland

Hello Claude!

Good to see your edits to this article, you're keeping it well up to date. That said, there are a few problems with it, and I've tried to clarify what I think they are on the article's talk page. I noticed particularly that you re-worded the sentence about frequent exits - It wasn't that I couldn't understand what was written, but it isn't possible to prove it. Suggest you have a look at what I've written at Talk:Motorways of Switzerland. Thanks. --Peeky44 _{What's on your mind?} 21:31, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

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