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Thanks for your speedy welcome! As I've explained on my user page, I'm not new as such, just absent-minded :) But thanks all the same! Knepflerle 21:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

German grammer question

Hi,

I saw that you have contributed to the German language article, so I naturally assumed you are familiar with German. If you would be so kind to answer a question I have, I would be greatly appreciative: is the word Benutzer (the German word for "user") singular or plural? I was thinking that Benutzerin was more accurate for the singular form of "user." Thanks...--_└┘talk  15:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh that's fine, I didn't expect you to reply right away. Thank you so much for your reply, that helped to clarify. --_└┘talk  14:19, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Blocks

No problem. Thanks for letting me know about the second one. Regards, Bencherlite 11:57, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on "Pronunciation of major geographical Japanese names in Chinese", requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you believe that there is a reason to keep the redirect, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Alexf 03:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Gottenburg

Well it was simply that there were over 20,000 hits to it on a Google search and as it was mentioned in some recent professional correspondence about a conference there attended by my colleagues, I thought that it should be stated as common. Maybe it is only commonly spelt that way in Australia. How about simply "(also Gottenburg)" ? PeterChickenCampbell (talk) 12:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Hors d'oeuvre

Based on the overwhelming evidence presented by 2 different users, would you consider stopping by the Talk:Hors d'œuvre to strike or change your vote not to move Talk:Hors d'œuvre to Hors d'oeuvre. Check it out. Nearly all the culinary literature and dictionaries surveyed spelled the term without the œthel. BTW, it appears you were right and I was wrong about the pluralization issue.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 01:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Kosovo

Hi Knepflerle :-) Thank you for bringing this up, I will deal with them. Longer answer in my talk page. - Best regards, Ev (talk) 17:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you :-) Ev (talk) 10:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

lake moves

should I start from the current situation or from the situation before the recent (yesterday and today) moves? I.e. just place the relevant templates, or revert recent moves first? Yaan (talk) 18:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Naming conventions (use English)

I'm curious why you chose to ignore my proposal and start off a separate section? If you had objections, would it not have been better to voice them in the proposal?--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 01:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

My response brought up points to consider relevant to several discussions on the page, so I used the available flexibility of discussion formatting to create a new section as I felt this better served my intentions of highlighting general issues. Knepflerle (talk) 10:58, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Aachen

Please define a science article. You may point me to a discussion and consensus here on Misplaced Pages (preferred), or you may give me your own opinion, with justification. You may also wish to read WP:SULF if you have not already. Thanks in advance. --John (talk) 16:49, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I may take up your suggestion of centralising the debate. I am of course familiar with ENGVAR. --John (talk) 17:04, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

It's kind of a funny one because it is not a simple ENGVAR issue; even in the UK "sulfur" is increasingly used in education. I'll think about the best way to proceed. Thanks for your thoughts and I'll let you know what I decide. --John (talk) 21:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

As it says on the article. I probably added that myself; apologies if you've already seen it. --John (talk) 22:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:CANVASS

I apologize for my comments on canvassing. I have been burned myself by accusations of canvassing (once when I was genuinely ignorant of the prohibition, a second time when I did everything conceivable to be even handed and transparent) and thus I guess I was a bit hypersensitive to someone doing what appears to me to be a way of getting around the policy. I too withdrew from a discussion after the latter incident because I felt I did nothing wrong (and, it turned out, so too did everyone else).

I still feel that such posts are often likely to have the same impact as canvassing, but I believe even more strongly in free speech. I am embarassed to find myself on the opposite side of the fence from the freedom that I hold so dearly. I ask your forgiveness, and will defend to the end your right to participate in the discussion in question. In the meantime, I will go back to my wikibreak. Unschool (talk) 00:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: Request to move article Naval Air Station

Hello, Knepflerle -- Good grief, since when is all of that posting of templates necessary? This is a routine request, like others I've made from time to time, to correct the capitalization. The only problem, as usual, is that I couldn't move it over the redirect. All of my previous similar requests were carried out without a fuss. Has something changed? Cgingold (talk) 12:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I see the problem now -- it's been contested, which wasn't clear from your template/message. Okay, thanks anyway. Cgingold (talk) 13:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Knepflerle - I have made a few additional modifications to cover a situation like this in the future. Any news from the other WP:RM regulars? JPG-GR (talk) 19:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

That-smaller-bit-of-Pomerania-on-the-left-hand-side

I find it difficult to see past Vorpommern. Either its the same as the current article or different. If it's different, we can have a new Vorpommern article and it doesn't matter. If it's the same, then it seems very odd to me to quibble over different prepositional or cardinal prefixes when we have the supremely used Vorpommern. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 16:12, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Template talk:Regions of Europe

I highly recommend you repost this critique to that template talk, and maybe add a link to the discussion we can start there to all existing articles on regions of Europe. I've taken a look myself and yes, it's a mess.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 17:11, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Will do! Knepflerle (talk) 17:13, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree. Too may of the region articles are written country-specific or have names that don't match up to general usage.

Ajh1492 (talk) 11:48, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps of interest

A discussion at Talk:Administrative division of Polish territories after partitions.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 18:17, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Copy-edited and commented. The title does not define the scope of the article unambiguously. Knepflerle (talk) 19:02, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:Naming conventions

If you want the move to take page from WP:Naming conventions please could we consolidate on WP:Naming convention as a compromise? --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 17:15, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

en.Wiktionary

Thanks for giving it a try. Sorry that there was so little return for your efforts. Once more the wagons were circled. I wonder how en.wikt compares to de.wikt or any other wiktionary you have experience with. DCDuring (talk) 00:41, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Serie C / Lega Pro

Sorry about missing the discussion; I simply hadn't checked the talk page. I made the moves based upon the facts that some new links I was adding at Coppa Italia 2008-09 produced redlinks. Feel free to move back while we await consensus. —Ed Cormany (talk) 01:26, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Knepflerle

The move was in the backlog. I understood that you were in favour pending the changes to the article? If not, I'm quite happy to re-open it. Requests which receive no objection are usually moved. Best, PeterSymonds (talk) 13:00, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

RE:Spelling of Maltese towns

Hey Knpeferle, Dreading further mess I did chime in earlier. There must be some binding reference somewhere stating that it's no longer convetion to bend pronunciations so as to fit phonemes in the phonetic system of the Observer's language. It's a tricky subject. --Joelemaltais (talk) 17:20, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Wow Knepferle, that was a tough one. From what I get the issue is resolved - isn't it? Do they have barnstars for patience? :)) cheers and good job --Joelemaltais (talk) 10:45, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Re

Thank you for notifying me. I have replied there. - Darwinek (talk) 09:47, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Ireland 'Package' proposal - your vote

Hi - I noticed that you referred to Scolaire's reasons in you oppose vote. Can you clarify in the poll your reasons for opposing? I ask this as Scolaire made a couple mistakes in his assessment. (which I've address underneath his oppose). --Matt Lewis (talk) 15:47, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Clarified; still cannot support. Knepflerle (talk) 16:04, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

That's a shame. Thanks for clarifying it, though. Would you go for any kind of combined approach by the way, or are you fully happy with ROI? --Matt Lewis (talk) 16:11, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

I've yet to think of a solution that avoids the problems I've laid out, and haven't been convinced by the arguments which state the use of RoI is particularly problematical. It is a shame there are so many "arguments" on that page on both sides of the form "I like it", "it suits me", "no way" that have gone completely unchallenged as yet, so my clarification comes gladly. Best, Knepflerle (talk) 16:39, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Viva la Vida (song)

Thanks for backing me up on that. It's frustrating as a logged-out user, as your words don't always seem to carry as much weight with some people. As you say, WP:ENGVAR is very clear on cases such as Coldplay. I've been logged out for just under a month dealing with wikistress, on a dynamic IP (it resets each time I restart my computer), firstly as 88.104.195.113, then 88.104.206.69, then 88.104.151.185 (edited quite a bit under that, and didn't restart my PC for a while), and now finally 88.104.241.79. I'll probably end up logging back in in the next couple of days, but it's just a little frustrating that had I been logged into my account, which has ~10,000 edits, then the other anon would probably have assumed I had a point, and spent a little longer than a few seconds glancing at the intro to the policy. Thanks again for agreeing with me and backing me up - the frustration was at risk of prolonging my wikibreak by a week further! :) 88.104.241.79 (talk) 07:52, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

(Replying here, as you'll probably be on a different IP by now): No worries; it's the right thing for the article. WP:ENGVAR is an important tool to prevent interminable strife and it's right to use it where necessary. Hope you start enjoying editing again soon! Best, Knepflerle (talk) 19:49, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

re:/Plzeň/Plzen/Pilsen

Hello, Knepflerle, I replied on my talk page, but the "tldr" version is: I've decided to reopen the discussion, and see if we can determine whether English usage is more towards Plzen or Plzeň. Thanks for showing me those other sources. Regards, Parsecboy (talk) 23:35, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Re:Djuric

Thanks, but it helps speaking Swedish in this case, although it was hard even finding sources in Swedish (I've noticed that Swedish clubs rarely provide birthplaces). And sources about football is notoriously unreliable, even big sites like Goal.com can't always be trusted. Cheers! Sebisthlm (talk) 14:58, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

(rugby) suffix

Hi. Remember Talk:Paul Moriarty (rugby)?. They're trying it again here.--Jeff79 (talk) 10:35, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Talk:KitKat Crescent

Could you reconsider your !vote - if you look at the Ghits, Bootham Crescent does actually appear to be the common name. Cheers, пﮟოьεԻ 57 19:02, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Football positions

What positions would you suggest we create articles for? Where do we even draw the line? I was thinking that articles would be necessary for the following positions:

• Goalkeeper
• Full back
• Centre back
• Sweeper (includes liberos)
• Wing back
• Defensive midfielder (includes deep-lying playmakers)
• Central midfielder
• Wide midfielder (i.e. the David Beckham style player)
• Attacking midfielder
• Winger (i.e. the Cristiano Ronaldo style player)
• Second striker
• Striker

Articles for old positions would also be necessary. These would include:

• Goalkeeper
• Full back
• Centre half
• Wing half
• Outside forward
• Inside forward
• Centre forward

I realise that some of the old positions and the current positions overlap, and also that there are already articles for many of the positions. Nevertheless, I felt that a comprehensive list was necessary. Please reply on my talk page with your comments, particularly any positions that you feel should be added or removed from the list. – PeeJay 18:32, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

RfC

I'll respond on my own talk page in a moment.--Tznkai (talk) 19:26, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

polish language change

I don't see how I was vandalising, considering the fact that I deleted an obvious slander to Polish people by removing a section which said that they smelt. Please don't sent me anymore condescending remarks like that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.88.173.208 (talk) 18:48, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Easy mistake to make; that page was kind of a mess. I've taken the liberty of striking your vandalism warning on 130.88's talk page. Hope that's okay! -- Vary Talk 18:56, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

I see what's happened - you cleared the same edit up at the same time I did, but your edit got to the server first and mine wasn't stored. I didn't spot this and so got mixed up as to who had made the vandalistic edit, and left the warning on your page.

Please accept my apologies, it was an oversight on my part. Glad to see other people are keeping their eye on the article and cleaning it up even faster than I can! Sorry about that, Knepflerle (talk) 19:09, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Heh, like I said, it happens. Keep up the good work! :D -- Vary Talk 19:20, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

German language#Cognates with English

Thanks for cleaning up the section! Together with the consonant shift table added by an IP, it now looks so much clearer and much more beautiful and delicate. The "Cognates" table looks still a bit too long to me, but that may be my personal taste... -- megA (talk) 22:57, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Subject Verb Object

I've reverted you as reasons given in the edit summary. 78.149.236.151 (talk) 16:02, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I replied at your talk as to why this is not a reflexive pronoun in this case. Reflexive pronouns always refer back to a preceding noun or pronoun - that is exactly what makes them reflexive. Tu te laves is part of the conjugation of se laver (check here if you like). tu me laves is taken from the conjugation of the non-reflexive verb laver with the addition of a pronoun to function as a direct object which is not reflexive, as me does not refer to tu. Best, Knepflerle (talk) 16:25, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

C ME

I'm overjoyed to be under your keen eye. I wonder what you want. the roof of this court is too high to be yours (talk) 17:10, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Your behaviour has indeed brought attention to yourself. I want the articles to be edited and discussed according to our policies. Knepflerle (talk) 17:41, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

I agree^^ the roof of this court is too high to be yours (talk) 17:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Talk:British Isles

Hi. Compromise offered at Talk:British Isles#Undue weight to this list and now (0009Z) showing at British Isles, failing which, I withdraw. Endrick Shellycoat 00:10, 27 January 2009 (UTC) PS Thanks for your comments at Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard.

Re:Prekmurian

The other alternative name of the Prekmurian is the Pannon Slovenian language (Template:Lang-sl). I wanted write this, because the name Wends (Vend) partlay old traditional, political and polysemous name. This expression is right, but yet not general. Doncsecz 17:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! Doncsecz 17:10, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Baltic Pomerania

That's what I thought, too, but as always it is not easy to exclude something with 100% certainty. That's why I asked someone who might know, maybe you have thoughts on this. Regards Skäpperöd (talk) 16:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your response - the IP's elaboration on the origins of the Vikings are very enlightening. I took this to Talk:Early history of Pomerania, if you are interested to get further into this, you are welcome. Skäpperöd (talk) 10:28, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Ireland naming question

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Re: Editing conduct

I have yet to see that user pay much attention to what I or anybody else have to say to him. I've often been annoyed with how unhelpful his comments are. Although I think he is much less incivil then some other users, I'll leave a note on his talk page (for what good it will be...), and if he keeps escalating, you may consider invoking Digwuren's sanctions on battleground creation on AE.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 19:43, 19 March 2009 (UTC)