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Sam [Spade] 14:23, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Substubs

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Hello! Please have a look at Wikipedia:Substubs and Wikipedia:Manual of style when you have a moment. Your "Birdy" contribution, while welcome, totally lacks content and therefore qualifies as a speedy delete. Please let me know if I can be of help. - Lucky 6.9 23:21, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you

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No problem; don't worry about it. -- Rmrfstar 21:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

re:cleanup per MoS

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When I say MoS, this is what I'm talking about: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). Extensive dictionary definitions do not belong on disambiguation pages (that's why wiktionary is linked to), and neither do non-notable software applications that don't have articles on Wikipedia. I removed Gravitation (manga) because I converted it into a more general Gravitation under the See also section. Disambiguation pages aren't like articles; there should only be as much information on the page so as to assist the reader in distinguishing between articles which happen to share the same title.—jiy (talk) 22:02, 11 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

TfD nomination of Template:Dmoz

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Template:Dmoz has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Dmoz. Thank you. Adrian Buehlmann 15:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Meyers Lexikon

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Dear friend,

Sorry I only read your contribution just now. You wrote:

"You are implying that after the divide of Germany the Westgerman Meyer is the only legal successor of the Meyers by Bibliographisches Institut? Do you have any hard facts to back your opinion up?"--Hhielscher 21:54, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

(Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Meyers_Konversations-Lexikon)

The answer is: officially yes. I guess you're from Germany, so I don't have to translate the next piece of history, taken from the catalogue of the BI (Mannheim, yes indeed!) in 1972: "1946 wird die Firma in Leipzig widerrechtlich enteignet. 1953 verlegt die Aktiengesellschaft ihren Sitz nach Mannheim, die Stadt Leipzig klagt dagegen, der Prozess zieht sich über Jahre hin, die Klage wird schliesslich vom Landgericht Mannheim und – in zweiter Instanz – vom Oberlandesgericht in Karlsruhe abgewiesen. Zu guter Letzt stellt 1960 ein rechtskräftiges Urteil des Landgerichts Stuttgart fest, dass einzig und allein das Bibliographische Institut in Mannheim berechtigt ist, diesen Firmennamen zu führen und über die bis 1945 erworbenen Urheberrechte zu verfügen. Dazu gehören die Titel "Duden", "Meyer" und "Schlag nach". "

However, that was not my point. I only handled the bibliographical argument, i.e. the VEB BI –Meyers (so to speak) are not a 9th and a 10th edition, according to the title pages of both editions. Paul Drew 14:19, 7 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Answer is at Talk:Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. --Hhielscher 14:41, 7 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Meyers Lexikon revisited

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"1953 verlegt die Aktiengesellschaft ihren Sitz nach Mannheim, die Stadt Leipzig klagt dagegen."
Where did they lodge their complaint?

In the bibliographies I know, the sequence of editions is leading, not the year of publication, e.g. Bibliotheca Lexicorum (Vienna, 2001).

Paul Drew 17:03, 7 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision

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Hello, mate, I see that you are interested in Eurovision. Would you like to be involved in connecting with more eurovision wikipedians to do up the eurovision pages in a more coherent manner? I have come across the Eurovision wikiproject page, which seems to have been dormant for over two years. It may be an idea to have a look there and see how we could improve the eurovision coverage. I have done up the Congratulations (Eurovision) page so far and put notes about it on the pages of those who performed there. Best regards from Australia, Blnguyen 06:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Comparison of layout engines (SVG)

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Hello, I see you are trying to redirect that page to a specific section of an article. Unfortunately, due to a limitation in the MediaWiki software, you cannot redirect to specific sections of an article. See also Wikipedia:Redirect and Meta:Help:Redirect#A redirect to an anchor. --Signed and Sealed, JJJJust (T C) 10:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for fixing the redirect. --Hhielscher 10:48, 12 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Germany Invitation

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Hello, Hhielscher! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.


--Zeitgespenst (talk) 07:08, 10 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

Russian word stress symbol

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Hi Hhielscher, I replied to your question in my talk page. --Anatoli (talk) 21:56, 27 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

Also, I believe, there is no big need for the following symbols in the Russian mode, so their value can be replaced by the stress code: _ (underscore = Shift + -), * (but this is used in wiki syntax, so not a good idea for us).--Imz (talk) 23:03, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Smartfont

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The article Smartfont has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

neologism with no references to establish usage

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:50, 23 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion of Template:Dmoz

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 Template:Dmoz has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer(What did I screw up now?) 03:25, 14 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

 

The article Comparison of layout engines (Scalable Vector Graphics) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Obsolete info - hasn't had meaningful updates in 7 years.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Curlie

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 Template:Curlie has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. DMacks (talk) 03:07, 6 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion of Template:Curlie

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 Template:Curlie has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. 10mmsocket (talk) 07:18, 20 September 2024 (UTC)Reply