User talk:Karl Stas

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[edit] Welcome

Hello there Karl, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice work on Paul Van Zeeland - I formated the date section to conform to our maual of style. Cheers! --maveric149

Hi Karl! Welcome to wiki! Just to let you know that I found a couple of the authors you've written on (Lipius, Campellena) listed in Library of Sir Thomas Browne. I'm always interested in making contact with Euro scholars especially when fields of interest meet. Sir T.B. graduated from Leyden 1637. Norwich in 17th c. shared in trade, culture,migration even dialect with the Low Countries . I've noticed there are several contemporary Flemish authors in Catalogue. May i link titles to Library ? Always good to see serious work from a Euro scholar Norwikian 15:39, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not actually a scholar, I'm more of a dilettante. Feel free to make links. KS

I see where you did the excellent article on Paul-Henri Spaak. I came across Suzanne Spaak, the wife of Paul-Henri Spaak's brother, Claude Spaak. I had a hard time finding much on her background so I did the best biography I could. However, because you live in Belgium I thought you might have library and other sources to search for better information. It would be nice to try to get her full maiden name, plus place and date of birth etc. NightCrawler 16:31, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. KS

Hi Karl,

any article that is to be added to Wikipedia:Featured articles has to undergo approval at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates first. This does not appear to be the case for Ignatius of Loyola, so I removed it from the list again.--Eloquence* 09:38, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your excellent (italicizing) work on the "List of Belgians". --Edcolins 18:51, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)

Hello Karl,

Why have you changed, in List of comic creators, the link of Morris to Maurice de Bévère, while this latter is redirected to Morris (comics) ? Shouldn't we talk about this guy, with always the same name ? Morris is far more familiar to me than Maurice de Bévère, and i have read a couple of Lucky Luke ! Lvr 10:42, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You're right, I have made a direct link to Morris (comics) now. -- KS
I did the same for Lucky Luke. Lvr 14:57, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi Karl, thanks for changing the date of death, they have changed it 3 times so far on the television and I was just about to amend it again.Scraggy4 17:33, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

See Talk:Henri Cartier-Bresson - Karl Stas 22:25, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

  • Image:Lassus.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{PD-self}} if you wish to release your own work to the public domain, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 21:28, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

[edit] Image:MonaLisaCoffeeCup.jpg

Could you please also clarify the source/copyright status of Image:MonaLisaCoffeeCup.jpg? Thanks, nyenyec ☎ 17:01, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of belgians

(→Others - vanity?) --> not really, just wondering how long it would take someone would notice :)

[edit] Sources for Giaches de Wert

Hello, good work on Giaches de Wert, and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. From what websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Giaches de Wert? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? You can simply add links, or see WP:CITET if you wish to review some of the different citation methods. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 03:29, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] queen of singers

Hello. I am the person who put in the "queen of singers," the comment you reverted. Fine, I won't change it back, but I am bilingual in English and Italian and I assure you that the term "voce regina" can indeed be read as an insulting pun--roughly in the modern sense of "queen" especially when applied to a castrato. I might have written "queen of voices" and not "queen of singers", in which case it is the same sort of metonomy as calling Frank Sinatra "the voice". Jeffmatt 18:15, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, "voce regina" can be translated as "queen of voices" (not "queen of singers"). I'm not sure if this is intended as a pun, though. Since "voce" is female, the epithet has to be female as well. Karl Stas 11:17, 25 December 2005 (UTC)


Referring to a castrato as "queen of voices" is probably intentional since Farinelli was commonly called in his lifetime, "singer to the kings". Calling a castrato a "queen of voices" is clearly an attempt to be clever and there are grammatical ways to get around the problem if one chooses to do so. In any event, I did say "read as" (meaning "interpreted"), not "translated", in which case "queen of singers" and "queen of voices" mean pretty much the same thing. Jeffmatt 07:33, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Use of 'Latter' in Countertenor article

Karl,

I'm curious about the reason you say that 'latter' is not correct in the Countertenor article. It seems a proper usage to me, although I think your substitution of 'second' is superior. I'm just wondering why I don't see that it is incorrect. Do you feel it is inferior, or is it solidly wrong? Thanks, Catbar (Brian Rock) 11:03, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I got it wrong there. "Latter" usually means "the second mentioned of two" (as opposed to "former"), but the New Oxford English Dictionary tells me it can also mean "further on in time or order; nearer to the end; arch. belonging to a later or more advanced period (now chiefly w. ref. to a period of the year or its produce)". So "the latter half of the 20th century" is correct, although I suspect this usage is not so common and a bit antiquated. - Karl Stas 12:15, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Early Netherlandish painting

I would suggest a merge between that article, Flemish School, and Flemish painting. The most difficult could be to reconcile points of view about what was Flemish or not in those times. Give me your advice if you please. --DLL 17:49, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I can't say you are wrong, Karl. Go on as you feel it. --DLL 21:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Are you aware of this Wikipedia talk:Censorship ?

For myself, I would like to say that the method is not innocent. The subject is truly important : there is one talk page and twoscore people discussing auto censorship for one million (counting non active users). Will you give your advice ? --DLL 20:09, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Saints Wikiproject

I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints. You can sign up on the page and add the following userbox to your user page.

This user is a member of the Saints WikiProject.


I also invite you to join the discussion on prayers and infoboxes here: Prayers_are_NPOV.

Thanks! --evrik 19:09, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2005 Belgian urban violence

Hi, I've nominated 2005 Belgian urban violence for deletion : Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2005 Belgian urban violence (second nomination). I thought you might be interested. --LucVerhelst 21:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Belgians

Hi, you may wish to participate to this debate: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Belgians. Cheers. --Edcolins 07:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Belgium

Dag Karl,

ik heb momenteel het initiatief genomen voor het nieuwe WikiProject Belgium, neem eens een kijkje en als je geïnteresseerd bent aarzel dan niet om je bij de deelnemers te zetten! Aangezien je degene bent die het artikel over Paul-Henri Spaak is begonnen, denk ik dat dit project op je lijf geschreven is! Natuurlijk zonder verplichtingen...

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 01:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

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