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Somewhat belated welcome and query

As a member of WP:Wc, feel free to contact me for any assistance you may require in your wikipedia begining. But I have a question for you on this edit — what more do you know about the area and the run. And are you local, or just put two and two together (that's somewhat a specialized distinction you made).

  There are several facts I would like to have checked in the article as I rewrote it last week, and I haven't had time (To start) to locate someone in the Swiss, Italian, or Austrian wikiprojects who may be able to confirm a few things easily being somewhat local.

  Just as an example, I infer from club literature that the track is never used for bobsledding, and wrote it that way. It may not be used for luge practicing either. Then again, there is some distinction made between skeleton and cresta EQUIPMENT, or that may be a myth. Others also make 'cresta' into the name of a seperate sport, which I suspect is more a colloquialism, or club-term than a use widely observed world wide. I have established that skeleton, luge and bobsled use the same track, ideally holding 15-17 turns as defined for the various associations and the international olympic committee. So the questions devolve to why hasn't the SMTC evolved their run to follow suit, and such related matters. Apparently, they are content to have their ten turn track as a seperate 'sport' very related to 'skeleton', but not compliant with the olympics grade event of that name. Thanks for your time. // FrankB 14:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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July 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to John Harrison has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thanks. — Insanity Incarnate 21:41, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Message to Isanity Incarnate: I do not understand your objection to my adding a reference to the "recent history" section of the article : John Harrison , none of the other books cited cover the recent history of the Harrison clocks, and the Book by Jonathan Betts is considered the ;leading scholarly work describing the restoraution of the machines in the second quarter of the 20th century.I believe I did add a edit summary explaining what I did , please clarify.

I am a bit unexperienced in using the format tools for references and may have inadvertently saved a less than final version at one time. July 5, 22.26 Horology (talk) 22:27, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Zytglogge

Hello, and thanks for contributing your image to the Zytglogge article! (I live in Berne, but never got around to actually taking part in a tour and shooting photos of the interior.) You might want to consider uploading any future images to the Wikimedia Commons, though. This would allow every version of Wikipedia to use them in their articles, not just the English language Wikipedia. Best,  Sandstein  22:21, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

So as not to overload the Zytglogge article with images, I've moved the Brunner nameplate photo to Kaspar Brunner, where I think it is more appropriate. If you move your images to the Commons and place them in the Zytglogge category, they will be visible through the gallery link at the bottom as well. Thanks again,  Sandstein  22:37, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I have spent an hour trying to move the image to the commons but have not succeeded. In the process I discovered that several of my photos I had put on the commons months ago were deleted weeks ago because I made some mistake in choosing the

license. I know alot about clocks and clockmaking and have tried to contribute to many related site but I find many of the processes most confusing for a casual user who only occasionally is willing to spend an hour to contribute his expertise. Horology (talk) 00:49, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for the copyright warning, the image has been reposted with the approriate attribution and licese Horology (talk) 09:32, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Mentorenübernahme in deutscher Wikipedia

Hallo Horology, ich habe dich als Mentoren übernommen. Für Fragen kannst du dich gerne an mich wenden (lieber im deutschen Projekt). Falls es dir lieber sein sollte, könnten wir uns natürlich auch auf englisch verständigen. Gruss--Zenit (talk) 22:51, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Horology – brauchst du mich noch als Mentoren? Wenn nicht, hinterlass mir bitte eine kurze Notiz auf meiner deutschen Diskussion. Gruss--Zenit (talk) 22:06, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Zenith - Watch Brand or Manufacturer

Zenith manufacture their own movements instead of using ETA generic movements therefore they are a manufacturer Racklever (talk) 11:38, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Invitation

Hallo, ich möchte Dich als Uhrenfachmann herzlich einladen, hin und wieder mal unverbindlich im WikiProjekt Uhren vorbei zu schauen. Bestimmt kannst Du uns wertvolle Tipps geben! Grüße --Luekk (talk) 14:49, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Stop!

Hallo, bitte Änderungen und Neuanlegen von Kategorie erst diskutieren und einen Konsens suchen. Die de:Kategorie:Uhrenmarke (Schweiz,aktiv) enthält gleich mehrere Fehler: 1. sie ist nicht richtig eingebunden, die einsortierten Aritkel verschwinden aus der de:Kategorie:Uhr, 2. sie ist typografisch falsch und 3. halte ich sie nicht für sinnvoll. Grüße --Luekk (talk) 19:59, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Photographs

Hello Horology, I have uploaded a lot of photographs regarding cocks, clockworks and horology to Wiki-Commons. As you say you publish a lot in English Wikipedia, maybe some of these photographes are useful. If you like, you can find them on the page http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Uhren . Best regards. Klaus --84.56.100.78 (talk) 20:46, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Glashütte

Hallo Fortunat,

mein Name ist Torsten und ich komme aus Sachsen. Den Artikel über das Deutsche Uhrenmuseum Glashütte in der deutschen WP hab ich geschrieben. Ich hab gesehen, daß du auch schon an diesem Artikel gearbeitet hast. Das Original findest du hier: Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Glashütte. Mein Englisch ist nicht besonders gut. Würdest du mir helfen, diesen Artikel für die englische WP zu übersetzen?

--Torsten1963 (talk) 00:14, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

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