Rex Sueciæ

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Re: Harassment

I have taken care of the issue; thank you for letting me know. If there are other further issues, feel free to let me know on my talk page (like you did for this). Best, Spencer^T♦C 19:20, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

I've also watchlisted the user and usertalk pages of several of the people affected; hopefully I'll be able to see it faster in the future. Spencer^T♦C 19:26, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the prompt action! Rex Sueciæ ✎ 19:40, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Svenska Wikipedia

The Swedish verson of WP has this:

Pesach (hebr. פֶּסַח), den judiska högtiden, det osyrade brödets högtid, firas till minne av uttåget ur Egypten och är en av de viktigaste judiska högtiderna. Det firas samma dag varje år i den judiska kalendern, nämligen den 15:e Nisan (se Andra Mosebok 12:6).

What this says, essentially, is that the Jewish festival of Pesach is celebrated on one day, the 15th of Nisan. It is basically wrong, as the Jewilsh Passover is, for Jews resident in Israel. a seven day festival as well as for Reform Jews living in the diaspora, and an eight day festival for orthodox Jews resident in the diaspora. Elsewhere in the Swedish article is another error: it says that the festival is observed from sunset to sunset, but, in fact, the observance is the same as any sabbath which is from sunset to nightfall - calculated as when, good visibility prevailing, three stars are visible in the sky. These times are calculated astronomically and published in Jewish calendars on the internet and elsewhere.

The Swedish article is misleading because whereas the Christian festival of Easter (Påsk) is a one day festival, the Jewish festival is seven or eight days. Similarly, Christian festivals are celebrated from sunseet to sunset whereas Jewish observance of sabbaths and festivals ends at nightfall. Consult the articles in the English WP for the correct information. RPSM (talk) 18:18, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

horn

Regarding your revert of item "horn" on Wikidata: the entry description is misleading, horn is NOT known as French horn, but French horn is one of many horn (instrument), which is the proper target of "horn". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:44, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

I know the difference between horn and French horn and I might have made something wrong on Wikidata. What I tried to do was to have the interwiki links correct between enwiki and svwiki French horn --> Valthorn, and horn (instrument) --> Horn (musikinstrument)! Regards, Rex Sueciæ ✎ 18:19, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

You know better about the difference then than those who moved horn (instrument) to French horn, as if it was the same. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:14, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

German should also be changed to the general. Actually I think wherever there is only one article in the other language it should go to horn (instrument), that's why I moved the whole bunch. What do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:19, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I do agree on that, but I'm not sure I can manage the eastern European languages. I can check the Roman languages and the Scandinavian. Rex Sueciæ ✎ 20:18, 18 June 2015 (UTC) 

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