Freerick

I appreciate all your comments, suggestions, criticisms, curses, confessions, etc. A list of current, recent and future projects is on my user page. Please add your comments on the bottom of this page. If your comment is related to a particular article or project, please leave it underneath the appropriate section below. If your comment does not have a section, please create a new one, or simply leave your comment under "General".

Requests for Review

Please review these articles if you have a chance, and leave your comments here, or make a reference to your comments. These are mostly articles to which I have contributed or am currently contributing

• Strip games - currently under review by User:Saxifrage 25 November 2024 (UTC) waiting for expansion 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Exclusive Mandate - pleave copyedit, review, expand and leave feedback, thanks! complete 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Berlin Border Crossings - please copyedit, review and expand translation complete by User:Chonak, will copyedit 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• ADHD psychosis - please review new content for accurracy, style, etc.
• London Protocol - please copyedit done 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Wish List

Items which I would like reviewed, expanded, have other people contribute to, contribute to myself, etc

• ADHD - unorganized, requires re-structuring; complete disaster, what if someone who doesn't have ADHD sees this??

being worked on, thanks *Kat*

To Do

Please add new items under "New Requests" and I will be happy to contribute if I have time.

Pending

• de:Wende(DDR) ~ German reunification; the German article needs to be translated, starting with the title. See discussion.

• Mental Illness - requires cleanup, any suggestions? (5/12/06)

• Regional vocabularies of American English

see user page

• Instructional Design Coordinator

• Cognitive_advantages_to_bilingualism

needs edit, expansion, possible redirect

In Progress

• ADHD psychosis -requires expansion, review and cleanup - adopted maintenance of article for now

German -> English Translations

see user page

• de:Berliner Grenzübergänge -> Berlin Border Crossings

New Requests

add your requests below if you would like me to review, translate or contribute to an article or if you would like to direct my attention to a particular issue or discussion.

Hello Patrick,

Your wiki article on Cognitive advantages of bilingualism was informative. However, when you discussed the crucial age for learning two languages, it made me think of how the cognitive processes would be for and individual who was learning a different language at an older age. For an improvement of the article, adding more research on that would be beneficial.

Megannd1993 (talk) 17:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC)Megan Negron-DaltonMegannd1993 (talk) 17:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC) [none]

Recent Projects

You may see some or all of the articles listed here on my User Page or in other sections on this page; this is an archive of contributions.

• London Protocol - translated second section from German to English

reviewed copyedits

Of Interest

Things I'm interested in, want to look at -- feel free to add anything to this list

Cool

• Berlin Wall
• de:Berlin

• Drugs (in no particular order)
  • GHB
  • Prozac
  • Seroquel
  • Ibuprofen
  • MDMA
  • Haloperidol
• Paxil

• ADHD
  • Concerta
  • Modafinil
  • Ampakine
  • Adderall

Users

• User:Preslethe - re: London Protocol
• User:Hbackman - cool
• User:Gourneau
• User:Kusma
• User:ProhibitOnions
• User:Saintswithin
• User:Mmounties - bilingual
• User:Saxifrage
• User:Taxwoman

Bookmarks

• Portal:Germany

• Untranslatability

• Wikipedia:Interlanguage_links

• Wikipedia talk:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board

• Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany (Wikisource) - my translation of the German Constitution ("Basic Law")

• List of words having different meanings in British and American English

• Freerick

• California English

Look At

• Thought experiment
• de:Tränenpalast -- Palace of Tears
• de:Vergangenheitsbewältigung -- (German) Historical Reconciliation
• California English
• American English regional differences

Comments

Translations

see user page for current projects; please add comments here

Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung

• I'm a bit busy with other stuff right now, but I will take a look soon. You might want to ask also at Wikipedia talk:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board, where you'll find a larger audience of translators that might know more about the specific terms to use than me. Thanks for starting this project, and happy editing, Kusma (討論) 19:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Bookmarked, thanks (Patrick 01:20, 15 May 2006 (UTC))

Berliner Grenzübergänge

Hi, Patrick.

The source text was copied to the talk page for the English article. Only use that text to continue the translation to ensure consistency. Also, please review each other's translations and try to maintain a uniform style.

Is there some reason for not using the text directly from de:Berliner Grenzübergänge? E.g., has it been in flux? Anyway, I've pushed this along a bit. Chonak 07:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Chonak, thanks for pointing that out, as well as making those additions that were necessary. Technically, the translation can be done straight from the German article, but it could change at any time, which can make a good translation look like a complete mistranslation, that's why I brought that up, but it's not that crucial. Since you've brought this to my attention, though, I'm going to continue working on it. (Patrick 02:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC))

Completed. Chonak 04:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Basic Law (Wikisource)

Got any thoughts on the discussion at the Talk:Basic Law page? Chonak 07:22, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me, I actually have a few things to add, as well as expand the translation, check the talk page shortly, I will make updates. (Patrick 02:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC))

Sorry, I'm bowing out on the Basic Law translation; the existing one really does look good enough to me. If you have any particular questions about some passage, I'd be willing to look it over and offer a second opinion. Anyway, there's plenty of other work to do. Chonak 05:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

General

User:ProhibitOnions

• By accident you put your comments on his user page. I've moved them over to his talk page. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Sin taxes

• Generally speaking, most taxes on illicit drugs involve a stamp duty or something similar, where a stamp must be put on anything being transacted. In most jurisdictions, this is little more than an excuse to slap an additional penalty on persons who have been arrested - that is, someone caught can be charged for both possession and for failing to pay the duty on the transaction and punished for both. A few jurisdictions do allow for anonymous purchasing of the stamps, though. --DMG413 12:22, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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Hi Patrick, I have spent the last two nights re-writing and re-structuring the ADHD article. Please take a minute (or three) and read over it and tell me what you think. Please, post your response on the ADHD talk page. *Kat* 06:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll be happy to take care of this shortly. (Patrick 18:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC))

Go ahead and make any changes you want. I'm done with editing. *Kat* 03:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I copyedited up to "Symptoms"; please review, I will go over the other sections as well. (Patrick 11:57, 5 June 2006 (UTC))

Germany announcement pages

Thank you for announcing your articles! I have just one minor thing to ask you: Could you use {{subst:date}} instead of {{date}}? The latter always displays the date at the time of viewing, not at the time you inserted the template. Thank you, Kusma (討論) 20:41, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, sure, sorry, I wasn't aware of that... I'd like to jump on board the GDR Project though, so let me know when everything's in place (Patrick 20:49, 13 June 2006 (UTC))

Well, I could use some public support for that idea at the talk page of the WP:GSWN. I haven't started yet because nobody seemed to be interested. I'll think about it again, then, if I'm not the only one who thinks that might be a worthy project. I'll keep you informed of any progress I make. Kusma (討論) 21:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Argh, {{subst:date}} has the same problems because we don't have recursive subst'ing :-( I think I'll change the format anyway so you can just sign on the announcement page and the Portal subpage will look like the one on Portal:Germany/Test3 with more space for articles and less for bragging and the dates. If you hate that idea, stop me at Portal talk:Germany. Kusma (討論) 22:21, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

IG Farben Building

Many thanks for your help on it's translation - I was getting really stuck there.--Mcginnly 09:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Sobo has given up!

Yippee! --*Kat* 23:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Really? he told you this, or you're assuming this because he hasn't made any edits in a while? (Patrick 23:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC))

Offensive

I have deleted material you have created as template or category with the message that a user is fuckable. This is not only already offensive [1] but is likely to be sexual harrassment. Please do not recreate this material. The only reason I have not blocked you is because this seems to be an aberration, not a habit. If any of this is recreated, or anything of a similar nature, then you will be blocked. I am also posting this on administrators noticeboard, if you have any dispute to make about my actions. Tyrenius 23:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Needless to say, I disagree with this. My response is on the administrators noticeboard. (Patrick 00:53, 15 July 2006 (UTC))

NOR

Would you mind reverting back to Tom Harrison's version at NOR? You introduced a grammatical error, and then when I reverted to fix it, instead of leaving it, you've made another change, so that the page now talks about descriptive claim in the singular, when the plural is required. The grammar was correct as it was, as was the sense. The "accuracy of which is" .. is correct, because the verb refers to accuracy, not to claims. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 20:32, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

done(Patrick 23:53, 15 July 2006 (UTC))

Thank you. :-) SlimVirgin ^(talk) 00:25, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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Plagiarism (ADHD article)

I see you didn't respond to my last post. Does this mean I have convinced you? Would you revert a deletion of the material? Or has your position simply not changed since your last post, leaving no need for another? William conway bcc 01:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I posted a reply on the article's talk page (Patrick 15:58, 21 July 2006 (UTC))

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I thought you might like to know that IG Farben Building has received Featured article status. Many thanks for your help with the translation. Kind regards, --Mcginnly | Natter 11:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Excellent news, thanks for letting me know. The article turned out really well. --Patrick 23:26, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

ADHD Article

Stabilized and fully referenced.--*Kat* 11:24, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany

Hi Freerick,

User:Badbilltucker has proposed creating a WikiProject for articles related to Germany. Since you seem to speak German pretty well, I was wondering if you would be interested in helping with this project. If you want to know more about the proposal you can check the temporary project page or the List of proposed projects.--Carabinieri^T_T^a_a^l_l^k_k 10:43, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

"Erased irrelevant quote"

In the Chernobyl article you as you put it: "(erased irrelevant quote regarding smoking-related deaths; replaced with new wording)"

That is completely unacceptable, not only did you remove a direct quote, you inserted a completely different statement, and left the reference as if the reference supported your statement. I am 'unhappy' about this.

The statement in no way irrelevant on the contrary you made it irrelevant.

I didn't mean to patently change the content, but I felt that the quote didn't really flow well with the article, so I changed the wording to integrate the contents of the quote into the sentence. As it was written was how I interpreted the meaning of the quote. Don't you think the article would flow better if the quote would at least have a lead-in? (Patrick 07:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC))

Are you a troll or something?WolfKeeper 20:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

If you say so? (Patrick 08:01, 3 November 2006 (UTC))

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