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Template talk:World Heritage Sites in Germany

As you seem to be interested in templates, I invite you to comment on this page. I'm concerned that this particular template was changed into something very distinct from related templates, such as Template:World Heritage Sites in Poland, Template:World Heritage Sites in Russia, etc. Should there be some sort of consistency? --Ghirla 16:42, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Mr Lord

je t'ai écrit sur ta page wiki utilisateur française.

12:10, 2 November 2006 (UTC)(alias Mr lord)

Anne Juliana Gonzaga

I've no idea, I'm afraid. I didn't know her from a hole in the ground prior to running across the article on Special:Newpages. It just seemed to be a fairly decent article, so I put forward the nomination. You'd have to talk to the article's creator, Mind Meal for more background information. GeeJo ⁄_(c) • 08:25, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

No worries. I can take a stab at the answers though. Her name change probably took place on joining the Servite Order, and was chosen from Juliana Falconieri. It's quite likely that nothing notable or interesting did happen to her after the death of her husband. The life of someone who joins the Servite Order is not typically very glamorous. These are just guesses though, so I wouldn't add 'em to the article. GeeJo ⁄_(c) • 16:31, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Massachusetts categorizations

Jean-Sebastien: Je suis désolé. J'ai mal interprété vos actions et les conséquences qu'elles auraient sur des sous-catégorisations. HOT L Baltimore 16:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Harpoon reaction

Thank you very much for your edits to the article. It definitly looks better now, and i have learnt how to cite propperly.

Thanks

:-)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Knights who say ni (talk • contribs) 13:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Washington Memorial Chapel

The {{fact}} link was place in the article when the text was copied over not because it isn't true, but it was supposed to be a reminder to another user who was going to place the reference into the article. Thanks for your help in inproving the article. --evrik  20:30, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Lyman Run State Park

I am going to delete the clean up tag that you placed on the Lyman Run State Park article. This article is part of the Pennsylvania Misplaced Pages project. Most of the other articles on the State Parks in PA are written in much the same style. I disagree with the assertion that it reads like an advertisement for the park. It gives the facts about the Recreational Opportunites at Lyman Run State Park. Dincher 17:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

• This is copied from the article talk page to here. Please respond, preferably at the article talk page. Thanks for your cleanup tag on the article. Could you please be more specific as to how to edit the section in question? The information is accurate (taken from the official website for the park) so we are not sure how to edit it to meet your criteria. Also would you please cite the relevant policy on length of subsections (as I do not know that policy)? Perhaps something like the Facilities and recreation section of Little Pine State Park would be more acceptable? Thanks, Ruhrfisch 19:17, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Banksia integrifolia

Would you be interested in giving this your attention? We're ramping up for FA. Hesperian 07:27, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Last chance; we're heading to FAC any minute now ;) Hesperian 01:53, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

{{!Tlx/pt2}}

• Hi, Circeus. In response to the message you left me here, I think that this page should have been deleted a long time ago.

--Meno25 22:27, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

• There are six nonsense templates. I noticed that you deleted four of them. The remaining two are: Template:-locution- and Template:/. I am surprised that these templates weren't deleted a long time ago. The six templates are the first six templates in the Special:Unusedtemplates page. Thank you for your help.

--Meno25 01:00, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

• No problem. Deleting these pages is not an urgent task anyway.

--Meno25 01:12, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Non-U.S. copyrights

Thanks for getting the list mark-up to work: for some reason it didn't seem to work for me which is ahy I changed to the other format. Looks fine now. If you have any comments on the guidelines/policy please leave them on the talk page! Physchim62 (talk) 17:04, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Template coding question

Hi,

sorry to bother you, but your name was one of the few in the "adept template coder" listing linked from the help page. Could you have a look at the question I asked here?

Cheers, TeraBlight 19:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I put up some sample code. Thanks for any suggestions :) TeraBlight 23:30, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

cite book

Could you take another look at the edit you made to {{Cite book}} today? Yesterday, a citation which included single quotes "'" in the title worked fine adding a new reference to Augusta, Maine diff, but today it is putting way too much in bold when I copy/paste the same reference and change only the page numbers to Cony High School diff. Flipping the single quotes to double quotes solved the issue in this case, but the copyright page uses single quotes so I'm misrepresenting the title. GRBerry 20:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I had a look. The template edits to cite book by Circeus look good to me. I removed some erroneous pipes on the articles: , , --Ligulem 23:25, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Cupressus pigmaea

Hi Circeus - can I query why you added all that {cite} stuff? I think it makes the page look a lot worse, particularly with all those awful quote marks round titles. Mind if I change it back to how it was? - MPF 00:34, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I can only assume that he's adding those notes because the alternative is to remove the information altogether, per WP:V. Adding a cite-template gives information a "grace period" so people can add a citation rather than just remove stuff. -- Ned Scott 00:53, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, MPF is referring to Citation templates. Circeus 00:56, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, and for looking up the extra ref info (which I'll not delete!); I'll work on it soon. For Ned, what I was referring to is the way it renders the references on the page with the "Title" in quotes, which is a style never used in scientific publishing (it seems to be an arts and humanities thing, and looks very odd to scientists); also that it makes editing the page more obscure for newbie editors unfamiliar with the cite templates (including me, I've only been here 3 years . . .). - MPF 01:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Circeus - on this one again, why do refs have to be moved out of the sentence they apply to, to the start of the following sentence?? Strikes me as totally illogical, and also very hard to read. Normally when using citations (Bloggs 2006), they don't (Doe et al. 1999). Also, the taxon isn't actually very variable at all, it is quite consistent in its characters, it is just that it is (at least superficially, and probably also genetically) very similar to C. goveniana. - MPF 01:08, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

The tree size isn't due to genetic variation, it is edaphic (caused by environmental conditions); dig up one of the dwarf ones and plant it in good soil, or grow seed from it, and it will grow large. That isn't counted when describing a taxon as 'variable', only genetic variation. - MPF 01:19, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Challenge X copyvio?

FYI, a couple of us are not seeing the copyvio in Challenge X. You might want to see for yourself and consider re-adding it to T:DYK. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

In doubt, I removed it. The lack of any references at all should have prevented it to make it to DYK in the first place. Besides, I was expecting the template to be refreshed anytime when I noticed it turning into a stub link. Circeus 03:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. Thanks. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:51, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge of Misplaced Pages:How to break up a page

Hi there. I'm following up on a merge you performed. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Summary_style#Misplaced Pages:How_to_break_up_a_page_-_redirects_here for details. I'd appreciate any input. Thanks. Carcharoth 14:04, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Vault (architecture)

(cross post) I see you've put a lot of work into this article, but I think quite some amount of content could use transfer to the subarticles (especially the almost inexistent rib vault), who are that developed, if only to check that the entire this consistent with itself (see also WP:SUMMARY). Circeus 22:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

It's in it's infancy - the 1911 source all needs checking and I'd rather get the main article up to scratch first - you'll notice on the talk page I originally suggested merging most of the sub articles into the main article but the consensus was to maintain them. Please let me finish the article first before cutting and pasting into other articles - It's my contention that the main vault article will have sufficient depth to be considered for FAC - what others prefer to do with the content later regarding the sub articles is up to them - but it makes sense to have a good main article first - if it get unwieldy (and it's about the right length now IMHO) we'll fork it. Whay are your plans for Category:architecture? I suggest you discuss it at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Architecture/Categories where the project usually discusses such matters. --Mcginnly | Natter 23:04, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

i decided to comment

on the fact that you seem to have removed the resources from the title of the section Sources and resources at the Mayan Revival architecture article. I feel that it's important to reference significant resources in articles, that the section need not refer to just those used in the creation of the article. Any more thoughts on the topic? Carptrash 00:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me with your insightful reply. I'll check-out, or better, think about, the further reading idea and see how it sits with me. Carptrash 01:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

details2 template

I've reverted your change to a redirect page. It isn't identical as it desn't add a full stop to the end. This is particularly useful for pages that already end in a full stop. SenorKristobbal 10:39, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Japanese Maple

I've expanded the Japanese Maple article. I also made a few more Acer species articles. Give 'em a proof read when you are in the mood. ◄HouseOfScandal►16:02, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Jostaberry

Hi. I see you've carefully deleted the links to the German Misplaced Pages I had carefully and deliberately included in the article on Jostaberry. Why? Is there some policy on this of which I am unaware? RomanSpa 22:07, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

acer leaves

A. griseum and several others have compound leaves, as well as a large number of hybrids that were developed at the Scott Arboretum. I'm not sure exactly how many, but more than a few that I've seen in my travels :). --SB_Johnny||_books 23:22, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Template talk:Current news

Greetings, could you join the the above talk? Thanks. (→Netscott) 00:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'm going to rework the template name... I've {{db-author}}ed it for now... thanks for the input. (→Netscott) 00:16, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

That's fine... cheers again. (→Netscott) 00:19, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Leaf

Hi Circeus - I changed it because when you split the photos apart, the paragraph between them was not long enough to separate them completely, so the following paragraph below the image is forced down to the same level as the top of the image (see screenshot, right). The way I had the pics arranged doesn't do this, and shows correctly without problems. Is it not like this for you? - MPF 16:12, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Yep, I'm using i.e. (dreadful confession!). "What do you think of removing the autumn leaf image from the article to solve that?" - yep, good idea. I'll see if I can think of a context for adding the autumn color link. - MPF 16:27, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

In Russian media the cemetery is regularly referenced in connection with the purported plans of the municipal authorities to close it down. Numerous Russian websites (including the ones linked from the article) deplore its fate, as they do that of Turgenev's estate in Bougival. The Rossiyskaya Gazeta mentions that the cemetery enjoys only minimal legal protection, i.e., like every other municipal cemetery it may be destroyed if the grounds are required for public needs. Perhaps they refer to the pre-2001 situation.

As for the second part of your query, I would like to point out that the original author of the article alluded to an unspecified "English benefectress" who purchased the plot for Princess Vera Kirillovna. I filled in the name, based on the following text:

"Princess Mestchersky, one of the Russian Red Cross directors, founded the home with very generous support from a former pupil, Dorothy Paget. Ms. Paget had been an English student at the princess's finishing school, and she became immensely concerned with the sufferings of many emigres. She inherited great wealth, bought the properties in St. Genevieve-des-Bois, and for a good many years made sustantial donations to the home. She also saw to it that the residents were supplied with turkey and plum pudding at Christmas time". (James E. Hassell. Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars. ISBN 087169817X. Page 68). --Ghirla 17:01, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

new leaf chart appears at leaf

I was wondering if it was possible to separate the stem placement terms (whorled, alternate, opposite, rosette, possibly perfoliate ) from leaf shape, because any shape of leave can be alternate, or whorled... "Disposition" would make a good header for that. Circeus 13:25, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

• Your suggestion for a category split in the leaf chart was a good one. It is implemented at leaf now. Luckily, 12 terms could be used to describe disposition, so the row/column organization worked out. Debivort 17:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

why user:debivort prefers PNG

I've left a response to your question at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Dinosaurs/Image review. Debivort 17:58, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

transwiki stuff

My partial metamorphosis from wikipedian to wikibookian was in large part brought about because of the "how-to" issue... I'm a horticulturist (only a botanist in relation to horticulture), so how-to is kinda my "thing". I've been copying (importing, actually) a lot of WP articles over and making garden book pages out of them lately. --SB_Johnny||_books 15:15, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Are you the same user?

b:User:Circeus had only a few edits to the conworld books, but with the transwikis that account has a lot of contribs. Is that you? (It will all be sorted out when SUL is enabled, but I'm just curious). --SB_Johnny||_books 19:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Verbascum thapsus

Hi Circeus - thanks; I'll take a look at it later tonight. I've got some books that cover it. - MPF 20:20, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

And the other way around...

I just transwikied Corn gluten meal from wikibooks (wrote the how-to first, then copied it to here). Mind having a look and perhaps tweaking? --SB_Johnny||_books 13:42, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

CFR

Hi Circeus. I just noticed that you have tagged several Georgia (country)-related categories for renaming. While I find this to be reasonable in some cases, I think there is no need to disambiguate Georgia in Category:Catholicoses and Patriarchs of Georgia, Category:Monarchs of Georgia, Category:Kings of Georgia and Category:Presidents of Georgia. The US state of Georgia never had either kings or patriarchs, I guess. What do you think about it? Thanks, --Kober 05:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok. Thank you, --Kober 05:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

About the Jyllands Posten Cartoons

Can you please answer my one question? If there are total 100 people around and 80 out of them want to see the naked sisters of remaining 20. Will you show them? Where does this voting issue come about showing cartoons of Jyllands Posten? You are doing that same thing for which Jyllands Posten is being convicted by Muslims. Are you really fair? and why are you linking the cartoons to their huge hight resolution size? VirtualEye 18:43, 10 December 2006 (UTC)