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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Zonk43, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! JoaoRicardotalk 20:13, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] German churches series

Hi Zonk43, I notices your article series about German churches. Certainly a nice idea, but I'm sure you are aware this is pretty awful English. Machine translation? - Anyway, I've started putting up some warning notices, for others to come in and help out with the English. Also, one more thing you should do: provide sources! At least a link to the German texts you translated these from, so that helpers can go back to check with the original. I do hope these texts weren't translated from a copyrighted source? Lukas 20:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm not planning to do anything about these articles, but if I would, I would prefer to translate directly from German than to have to clean up these machine translations. Anyone doing it will need to know German anyway to see through the absurdities which result from automatic translations. Tupsharru 22:30, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Zonk43, I've added some cleanup tags to the articles you've started, mostly Template:Wikify and Template:RoughTranslation. I really urge you to browse Wikipedia:Manual of Style and Wikipedia:Translation into English. In particular, as the latter page states,

  • Machine translation is much much worse [than even amateur translation by hand]. Never use machine translation to create an article! (This doesn't mean you can't use machine translation as a tool, but it does mean that machine-translated material dumped into the English-language Wikipedia is worse than nothing.)

Happy editing, Melchoir 08:09, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Aspects"

hi -- could you provide a reference to where you're getting your data from? Either as a reference at the bottom of the page, or maybe even on the Talk page for the article... as a former astronomer I appreciate the additions! thanks a lot. bikeable (talk) 19:10, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

I calculated them by my ephemeris program. For the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptun and Pluto they are n separate articles.

[edit] Towers

I assume you are the user who created three articles about towers on it.wiki the last night. Please do not use automatic translation tools because the result is...ahem...not understandable. Many thanks :-) it:utente:Civvi

[edit] Theodor-Heuss-Rhine River Bridge

Please stop adding machine-translated articles to Wikipedia. If you think an article should be translated, say so at e.g. Wikipedia:German-English translation requests. Since it is easier to translate from scratch than to cleanup a machine "translation", I will nominate pages like this for deletion. Kusma (討論) 21:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Blosenbergturm.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Brueck_messturm2.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Brueck_messturm3.jpg

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I am the copyright holder of the pictures Brueck_messturm2.jpg and Brueck_messturm3.jpg.

  1. sign your comments with ~~~~
  2. don't tell us here - put the right tag on the image description
-- RHaworth 23:03, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi at last

I was amused at the welcome message above - surely you have been contributing since 2005 March or earlier? Your handwriting seems to be the same as the person who brought us Pillar of third section of Gletscherbahn Kaprun (I spotted that one because I have been to Kaprun) and countless other anonymous tower articles. If so:

  • welcome indeed - at last you have a User Id so we can talk to you
  • I hate to be critical, but considering how long you have been contributing, you still seem to making some basic mistakes - do you ever check to see what others do to your articles after you have left them? You have a watchlist now!

But let me be specific and constructive - look at my edits to Nebraska Educational Telecommunication Tower Carroll and note the following:

  • we give a title of "Orfordness Transmitter" not "Transmitter Orfordness" (which is German usage) - actually you are now getting that one right
  • we embolden the title (once) when we repeat it in the article
  • we do not keep repeating the full title - "it" or "the tower" can be used in later sentences
  • we create a wikilink to the article about the location
  • we create the lat/long as a link (using a template) and include region:US. Look at some of your articles about British towers such as Orfordness Transmitter - here will you see I have used {{gbmapping}} with a grid ref - which you can usually get from Mike Brown's pages.
  • we put "See also" before ...
  • we say "External links" (always plural and always lower case on links) - again, "weblinks" is German not English!
  • we do not use naked URL's in external links but "pipe" them
  • we put the article in a category.

Sorry to throw it all at you in one go but I have been waiting nine months to say this! Above all we do welcome your contributions in whatever state they come - after all, all the things I have listed above can be put in by other editors who come after you.

Incidentally, I was amused to see an article about Woofferton transmitting station pop up, created by someone else - that's a British one you missed! And why not create your user page to tell us about yourself - you are German? Where do you live? How old (very roughly)?

Well done. Keep up the good work and don't mind me! -- RHaworth 23:03, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Gaussturm.jpg

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Lakihegy1.jpg

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[edit] formatting

Thank you for your new articles. However, it would be better if you formatted them properly, instead of just adding the raw text. See Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Thanks. --W.marsh 20:35, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Machine translations

Please do not submit machine translations, especially not if they contain complete nonsense like the translation of "Mittenwald" as "center forest" or "resin" for the Harz mountains - I have suggested the deletion of the really bad ones. If you would like Wikipedia to have good articles about these topics, please submit a translation request at WP:TIE. Translating from scratch is easier than machine translation, and as it says on WP:TIE, machine translation is worse than nothing. Thank you, Kusma (討論) 20:52, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Lübeck Cathedral, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 04:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Translations

Please stop adding machine-translated articles to Wikipedia. If you think an article should be translated, say so at e.g. Wikipedia:German-English translation requests. Since it is easier to translate from scratch than to cleanup a machine "translation", I will nominate pages like Ruetli-School for deletion. Cheers, --unforgettableid | talk to me 11:10, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Czech Articles

Just so you know, Czech in English refers to the language. The Country is referred to as the Czech Republic. I have updated your recent series of articles to reflect this. --Spartaz 17:49, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Rhoenraddenkmal.jpg

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[edit] Wil tower

I suspect that this miight be a machine translation. I regret to say that it makes no sense, and I have marked it for speedy deletion.--Anthony.bradbury 22:42, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disappearing rocket

I've updated the Disappearing rocket article which you created but I'm not sure that this is actually a term anyone uses. Is this just your translation of the german name or do you know for a fact that this term is used in rocketry? Pascal.Tesson 23:30, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Remarkable chimneys

Could you tell me why you've re-added the long list of remarkable chimneys to the Chimney article? There is a discussion about this on the article's talk page. Please join the discussion there rather than reverting back the list without comment or discussion. Thanks, Gwernol 14:11, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of medium wave transmitters in Germany / List of European medium wave transmitters

Please do not use cut-and-paste in order to carry out a move. Read Help:Moving a page for more details. Thank you. Owen× ☎ 22:19, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Towers

Please stop adding all kinds of references to tall structures to the list of towers article. It is way too long and unfocussed already. The cleanup tag on top is there for a reason; it means the article should be focused before adding new content. Thanks Arnoutf 17:54, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding edits made during October 11, 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Marina Gardens

A tag has been placed on Marina Gardens, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to provide more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately, and also put a note on Talk:Marina Gardens. An administrator should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 1 under Articles. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and then immediately add such material. Calton | Talk 15:10, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BDNI Center 1

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[edit] Tianlong Hotel

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[edit] Empty articles

Guy, creating a couple of dozen essentially content-free stubs using only a few numbers lifted from skyscraperpage.com plugged into a template isn't sufficient. This isn't a race, and quality is valued over quantity here. --Calton | Talk 00:07, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

And yet, I fail to see how deleting stubs, with enough content to be expanded, improves anything. -- SCZenz 01:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, you may want to comment on "deletion review" here: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2006 November 25#Supertall skyscraper stubs
Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:47, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Liberman Broadcasting Tower Devers

This needs to be redirected to List of masts per Wikipedia:Deletion_policy/Masts

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Lahti1.jpg

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[edit] Longwave amateur radio link

On the Longwave article you set the amateur radio link to point at LOFAR but I am not sure that this is the correct thing. LOFAR is the LOw Frequency ARray for radio astronomy in Europe not an amateur radio system in the USA as the link text imples. I did a quick Google to see if there is anything else called LOFAR but didn't find anything. Can you have another look at it and make sure that the link is correct? Thanks. --DanielRigal 22:18, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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