User talk:Peterlin

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. Nice work on BBC Microcomputer and other contribs. Cheers! --maveric149

Hi, nice work on the "Siberian" articles. As you may have noticed, I have added redirect pages for the city articles of the form "city, country" (with country Russia here). This is not really a Wikipedia policy, but some (especially Americans) tend to write city names in that way. Making these redirects facilitates that kind of linking. Also, don't forget to write to write in which country the city/region/whatever is located; not everybody knows Siberia is in Russia. Anyway, keep up the good work! -- jheijmans

Actually the [city, nation] format is a policy. See wikipedia:naming conventions. --mav
Actually, Mav is incorrect. We don't actually have a "policy" -- just strongly suggested guidelines and a lot of peer pressure! THe naming conventions are the result of discussion and cooperation by those people who care. As for the Latin names page, I've removed the Slovenia from view by "pipelining" the names. Now, it shows the cities, but links to the "city, country". JHK
If they are only strongly suggested then why does RecentChanges say " Wikipedia policy (especially naming conventions, neutral point of view)"? Peterlin please delete all this rubbish that doesn't actually pertain to you. --mav
I would add here my point of view. I saw someone had changed the article Vipava to Vipava, Slovenia. In this 'policy' it would be preferable for example which geographical terms (in this case towns) should be treated in this way. I do believe that most people from all over the world do not know the town of Vipava. But on the other side I know exactly when I see any kind of small town or even village wherever. So I prefer simply Vipava, Berlin, New York, Moscow and so on. And further on the state is then mentioned onward the article. Names of towns should be alone in the names of the articles. -- XJam [2002.07.23] 2 Tuesday (0).
Well, it seems you are in luck - the policy has been discussed again, and the majority opinion now seems to be to use [[City]] in normal situations, and [[City, Country]] only when needed for disambiguation. Discussion is still ongoing about American and Canadian cities, which might be put in [[City, State]] and [[City, Province]] as a standard.
Cool. What a luck, whah hey Andre. I didn't bet on this :) Futher on a good example for disambiguation might be Springfield. In this 'strange' policy we should write exactly as Springfield, New Hampshire, United States of America. This remainds me on one joke from Alan Ford comic strip, when the members of the most secret group of all groups - the T.N.T group - peculated 'a perfect' US dollar banknote with one exception. They wrote (as stupid as they were) United States of Congo. Ha, ha.

Peterlin, please don't incorporate works of others in Wikipedia unless you have their permission or they are in the public domain. Wikipedia is quite strict on copyright violations. Andre Engels

Hi Peterlin, I see that you originated the Ludwig Boltzmann article. However the text was copied from elsewhere. I wonder if there are other articles that you copied text into. I am trying to track down copyright problems in the math/science biographies. You have made quite a lot of contributions -- terrific! -- I just want to make sure that Wikipedia won't run into copyright problems. You can respond here or on my user talk page. Happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 01:32, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I was sometimes over-eager contributing to Wikipedia. I would say there is a sentence - or at least a part of sentence describing one fact or another - copied from elsewhere in every article I wrote. I don't believe this is worth bothering. Longer texts copied from other sources should be removed, though. These certainly includes articles on Slavko Avsenik (copied from http://www.clevelandstyle.com/phof_051.htm) and Freising manuscripts (http://www.bsi.si/html/eng/banknotes_coins/commemorative/1000-skof_abraham.html) These might also include Academia operosorum Labacensis, Jacobus Gallus, Mel scale, Janez Vajkard Valvasor, but I cannot say for sure, as I didn't keep any personal track. Google is no help here either, being innundated by the numerous copies of Wikipedia articles. Other articles probably contain shorter passages from elsewhere, but have been during the years re-edited numerous times. A recently added article on the Illyrian provinces also started as a plagiarism, but has been expanded with information from various sources. --Peterlin 12:54, 22 Mar 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 1000 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:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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] Pisanski

FYI, trenutno poteka glasovanju o izbrisu članka o prof. Pisanskem. Morda boš želel dodati kaj vzpodbudnega. --romanm (talk) 18:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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