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[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Germany

Welcome, 52 Pickup, to the WikiProject Germany! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template {{WikiProject Germany}}. A few features that you might find helpful:

  • The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you.
  • Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to watchlist it.
  • We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful.

Here are some tasks you can do:

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project! -- Kusma (討論) 16:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Former Country

I was wondering if it is possible to give two differnt titles in the "deputy" field. I need to link to both the post of Governor General and Premier for the article Province of Canada, in addition to the Queen. Can this be done? Kevlar67 23:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! That helps a lot. But now I have a problem with New France. New France was governed by the Sovereign Council of New France. It had three senior members, who were each responsible for different jobs in New France. The Govenor, the Bishop, and the Indentant. Would it be possible to list the King of France as the leader of New France and still have room to mention all three of these local positions? Or is it best to simply mention the Govenor, and mention the other positions in the body of the article? Kevlar67 19:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Re: New France -- Yeah, it could get crowded otherwise. I'll just stick with the governor.
Re: French States -- I figure we have the articles anyway, so it's not like I'm creating them. I'll just making sure they have the right info. I hope to start moving the boxes shortly if no one objects.
And thanks for the welcome! Kevlar67 20:37, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Languages and Infobox Former Country

You rock! Thanks so much. :-) Best regards, --Tkynerd 12:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox city update/upgrade

Hello 52,
Just to make you aware, I copied your User:52 Pickup/Template Sandbox2 and saved it to the Infobox city template. So if it is not on your watchlist you may want to put it on there for a few days. —MJCdetroit 03:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] History of Prussia

I noticed on your user page that you have an interest in Prussia. My brother just sent me Iron Kindgom ISBN 978-0674023857. It looks interesting. You might want to check it out. Thanks for your help with the town infobox. I also wanted to say that I like your user name. imars 14:42, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Do I understand correctly that once the info box is complete, I will be able to copy the info box from the German Wikipedia? That seems a little to hopeful to me.imars 17:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cat problem

Hi, your User:52 Pickup/Drafts/SFRY page is showing up in the various categories listed at the bottom of that page. Can you disable this? General Idea 18:00, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article merge

Hey 52 Pickup! Would you mind offering any input you might have at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Prussia#Article merge? Olessi 23:12, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vijayanagara Empire

Hi. I recall you had helped me with the "Infobox Former Country" style of infobox for the Hoysala Empire. I am having a problem with the Vijayanagara Empire infobox. I am not able to get the preceeding and succeeding kingdoms to appear on the top. It seems to have slid to the bottom. How do I resolve this?thanks.Dineshkannambadi 02:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project WikiAtlas

As you are a regular creator and uploader of maps to the commons, you might be interested to join the WikiProject Atlas at commons.wikimedia.org. I would like to invite you to join the project. Electionworld Talk? 08:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox City Location map

Hi 52 Pickup, since you requested this feature, you might like to comment on it here Template_talk:Infobox_City#Proposed_changes_to_support_the_Location_map_template (MichaelJLowe 12:35, 24 January 2007 (UTC))

[edit] World's Smallest Political Quiz userbox

You may be interested in User:Audacity/Userboxes/WSPQ, which is a replacement for the old Political Chart userbox. The new userbox takes the two variables (economic and personal freedom), calculates which political alignment they place you into (Statist, Libertarian, Liberal, Centrist, or Conservative), and links your userpage to the appropriate category.

Please reply to User talk:Audacity, as I will not be watching your talk page. Λυδαcιτγ 07:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help in edit war

Can I ask your help in the poll to dirime this edit war at Castelseprio (see talk:Castelseprio)? I've stumbled in somebody with awful style layout, nad probably one of those guys getting stuck like children in their version of any article. Bye and good work. --Attilios 09:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks very much. Bye and good work. --Attilios 11:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Atlas

Thanks for joining commons:Commons:WikiProject Atlas. Could you please check/add your country of origine and add the tasks/responsibilities you want to take up in the atlas. Electionworld Talk? 12:53, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox German Bundesland

Hey. You might want to tag Infobox German Bundesland with {{db-author}} since it is a cross-namespace redirect you apparently created on accident. Thanks! --- RockMFR 18:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me. - 52 Pickup 18:46, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox request

Please check out my answer and comment on it --The Dark Side 22:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] image:Map-DB-PrussiaProvs-1818.svg

Hi 52 Pickup

This is a very nice image but I am bit puzzled about why you have included Schleswig as a member of the German Confederation. Given the border of Luxembourg, the map looks like the pre-1839 situation to me, but until 1848 it was beyond doubt that Schleswig was not a member of this association. During the First Schleswig War (1848-51), the secessionist government of Schleswig-Holstein secured membership for Schl. in the Confederation but this was never recognized in Copenhagen and it was declared void when peace was concluded in 1851 and Danish rule returned to the provinces. My hunch would say that either the border of Luxembourg must be changed to the post-1839 situation + the image description must be updated; or, alternatively, the colouring of Schleswig must be changed. Just my thoughts and otherwise a very nice image. Happy editing. Valentinian T / C 19:09, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Much better. You probably made the mistake because the original image had it as well. I've seen that error many times before and I don't think it will be the last time :) If you're interested, the frontiers of Schleswig are (at least in Danish historiography) described a bit differently than on the map, see image:Kongerigske-Enklaver.png. The reason is that a few bits of what in geographical terms is part of Schleswig were transferred to the Kingdom during the reign of Queen Margrethe I (very long story). The situation was even worse during the early Middle Ages when all regions inhabited by the Frisians were treated the same way. It was not without reason that Lord Palmerston once stated that the history of Schleswig was so complicated that only three men ever understood it; one was Prince Albert, who was dead; the second, a professor, who had become insane; the third, himself, who had forgot. Anyway, the differences are so small that I doubt anyone will notice. The map looks fine to me now. Valentinian T / C 22:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Map-AustroPrussianWar.svg

Hi - i just found this map as you placed it into de:Deutscher Krieg. Nice work! I think it took quite a while to make this map...

I can't tell exactly which of the small states were allies of Prussia and Austria. But for sure, the Free City of Frankfurt stayed neutral during the conflict (although it was occupied and annexed by the Prussians, however). So this small area should be green. I don't know about the other three city republics, in your map they are marked as prussian allies.

On the post-war map (Image:Map-AustroPrussianWar-annexed.svg), the tiny Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg northwest of Frankfurt must become blue (prussian). It fell to Hesse-Darmstadt in early 1866, after the war they passed it to Prussia in return for the spa town of Nauheim. Thus, the southwestern tip of Oberhessen (the northern portion of Hesse-Darmstadt) must become blue in your post-war map, and the small blue island within Oberhessen (Nauheim) must become pink.

Cheers --Magadan ?! 18:53, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strange

Do you know what this user wants? --Der Eberswalder 18:49, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

No idea. By looking at this user's edit history, he only appears pre-occupied with the content on the Goslar page, and not on any of the other pages that use these navbars. His so-far refusal to elaborate on his claims (apart from comments on your talk-page, and that of Net-net) makes the whole thing very suspicious. - 52 Pickup 10:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Castelseprio

I would signal you the behaviour of user:Johnbod at Castelseprio: another personal attempt to put back the page at his will to a pre-Edir War version, when a large consensus had been reached to keep things as they were. He did an alleged splitting, but not the one discussed there. Bye and thanks --Attilios 01:34, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maps

Hi 52 Pickup, I noticed you've made some maps, and I think they're quite good. How do you make them? Appleseed (Talk) 20:45, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. To make these maps, I used the blank maps available at http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de. Taking a high-resolution no-text PDF files available there, I converted it to a very-high resolution PNG image using GIMP. Then I imported this PNG image into Inkscape and converted it to SVG format. You need a very high-resolution PNG image in order for Inkscape to identify the border divisions correctly. - 52 Pickup 20:20, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move

I think you'll be interested in this:Talk:Historical_Eastern_Germany#Requested_move. -- Hrödberäht (talk) 20:46, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] circles

it does seem problematic to have the circle templates on articles about modern political entities. This anon is clearly off his rocker, but it would seem sound to create specific articles about free cities to avoid this. john k 16:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox city links

Hi - I noticed this edit, which adds an ifdef allowing leader names to be provided "plain" and automatically linked. I'm not sure this is worthwhile, and it seems like it might even introduce a problem. As it was, if you wanted to link the name you provided the linked name as the parameter. Now, you can do either (I initially thought your change might have broken cases where a link was currently provided, but thinking about it some more this is not the case). However, if there are disambiguation problems (say, the leader's name is John Smith but not one with a Wikipedia article) there is now no way to avoid the "automatic" link. Do you agree this might be a problem? -- Rick Block (talk) 15:15, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Historical Eastern Germany

Perhaps you'd be interested in this:Talk:Historical_Eastern_Germany#Requested_move. -- Hrödberäht (gespräch) 04:46, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

For restarting the Wikipedia Project Prussia.I also have interests in geopolitics,and am lookin forward to finishing my geography degree.I'm from Florida and native speacker of English also.look me up,love to talk with ya.Natthegreat 14:11, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] flag, shield, coa, logo links

52 Pickup,

I hope you had a good time on vacation! I was waiting until you got back to ask if you were still interested in changing the flag, shield, COA, logo links at {{Infobox City}} so that they do not display broken links? Also, would it be possible to use AWB to find articles that transcluse to Infobox City and use the |city_logo = parameters and change them to blank fields? There are not too many that use logo so if we could somehow switch that to a blank symbol field that might be better for the future. —MJCdetroit 01:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. I did indeed have a great time! First truly relaxing holiday I've had for ages. I'm still interested in working on this coding problem. Not sure when I can get onto it, since things are getting pretty busy again. The template {{Infobox Former Country}} has a similar problem that I want to work on: when there is no link for Flag or CoA, this template links to Flag or Coat of arms, which is rather redundant. As for AWB, I've never used it, so I can't help you there. If there are not too many affected articles, perhaps instead you could set the template to assign any article that has anything in the city_logo field to a maintenance category. A maintenance category has proven useful for the former country infobox (Category:Former country articles requiring maintenance) so it might be worth setting one up for Infobox City. - 52 Pickup 17:45, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, I will try to toy with the code a little when I get the chance and run it by you first. Vacation/Holiday, that's almost a foreign word to me. :( —MJCdetroit 00:42, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
P.S. If the table on {{Infobox City}} looks familiar to you— it is. I borrowed the code from {{Infobox Former Country}}. Hope that you don't mind. —MJCdetroit 00:52, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok double check this when you get a chance: Template:Infobox City/Test. Thanks, —MJCdetroit 05:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
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