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[edit] Welcome template

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[edit] Kia Cerato

Hi! What more can you add about this car? When was it introduced? Engine size? Styling firsts, if any? Transmission options? Dimensions? Horsepower and torque ratings? Anyone who might research this subject already knows that the Cerato is a small Kia.  :) Without the taxobox, this is teetering on speedy deletion status. Hope this helps. Three of my featured articles are about cars; one was an original contribution, so feel free to pick my brain. - Lucky 6.9 16:05, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • Good question regarding the template...I'll have to investigate further. As far as the article is concerned, Kia has a terrific website dedicated to the car. It's www.kia-cerato.com, I believe. First thing that came up on a Google search. The specs and such are all on Macromedia so cutting and pasting is probably out of the question. Interesting thing about the car that I noticed right off was the choice of engines. There are four engine options for European cars, two for the rest of the world. Four engine options from any Asian manufacturer is probably unprecedented; that alone makes this a worthy encyclopedia subject if it's true. There are also two body styles, a sedan and a five-door wagon. They look a bit like upscale versions of the North American Rio and Rio Cinco. Nice lookig ride, actually. The five-door looks like a Mazda 6. I may take a moment later (time allowing since I'm at work) and flesh this out myself, which will help you with style and layout at the same time. Stay in touch, OK? - Lucky 6.9 16:10, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Looking much better. It's now the basis of a good, short article. Thanks for keeping me posted! - Lucky 6.9 17:01, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Usertalk:Charlie123

Hi, Charlie. I noticed that there's a page entitled "Usertalk:Charlie123". Is this possibly a typo for "User talk:Charlie123"? Theo has posted a message there from a link you gave at his talk page. Thanks, Sango123 17:51, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Here is that message for your archive:

Hi Charlie: I have been told that Talkback are making a third series of Monkey Dust for BBC3. There is no sign of Monkey Dust returning to BBC2 in the current season. —Theo (Talk) 14:31, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I will now delete the spurious page. —Theo (Talk) 13:59, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Austria

Hi, Charlie123. I'm not quite sure what exactly you'd like to know about Austria, but browsing through Wikipedia pages will certainly give you some idea.

As far as the weather is concerned, I'd say summers can be a bit hotter than in England (see, for example, this picture I took a few weeks ago) and winters somewhat colder, especially in the mountainous regions. As practically everywhere else, over the past decades food has become very much influenced by the cuisines of other countries. For example, the first McDonald's was opened in Vienna in 1977 or 1978. Up till then hardly anybody knew what a cheeseburger was. There are Chinese and Italian restaurants all over the place, but the traditional Austrian cuisine has been heavily influenced by the countries that formed, until 1918, the Austrio-Hungarian monarchy. Have a look at the menu (also in English) included in this web site to see what I mean.

Statistics tell us that Austria is a wealthy country compared to other nations. It's difficult to describe “the Austrians”. They are certainly not as overtly friendly as the Americans—when I went to the U.S.A. for the first time I thought at first that people I had never met before were making fun of me—but are not too bad either. Life in the cities is certainly a lot different from that in the country.

All the best, <KF> 23:39, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Hi again, there is no way I could take this personally or feel offended in any way, so just keep on asking if you want. The current Bundeskanzler (Chancellor, the equivalent of a Prime Minister), Wolfgang Schüssel, was born in 1945. Although an unpleasant little man, he could never have been a Nazi—he just turned 60 the other day. You are more likely to be referring to either of the following Austrian politicians: Jörg Haider, the current Governor of Carinthia, whose parents were Nazis and who ever so often in the past has made calculated remarks on the former Nazi regime in Germany which secured him the votes for his party of former SS members and some war veterans. Abroad Haider is often described as belonging to the far right of the political spectrum.
The other Austrian politician who used to be associated with Nazism was Kurt Waldheim, the former President of Austria. In the 1980s, he made it to the cover of Time magazine for the way he perfected (as they called it) "the art of forgetting": He claimed he could not remember what he was doing, seeing, or hearing during the Second World War. What it all boils down to is that all his life Waldheim has been a coward rather than a war criminal.
There is a third Austrian politician who was in fact a member of the SS and who later became the leader of the Freedom Party, Friedrich Peter, but at this point he hasn't even got his own Wikipedia article.
Best wishes, <KF> 15:18, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chat

Hi Charlie. Happy to help. Yes, I am an admin. I see that someone has written a talk message to your user page. If you go to Special:Preferences and enter Charlie123]] [[User_talk:Charlie123|(Talk) in the Your nickname (for signatures) box, it will create a signature like mine with a talk button when you use the four tildes (~~~~) to sign. You may also enjoy putting something on your talk page to tell others who you are and why you are here. —Theo (Talk) 14:28, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi Charlie: I am back online. I see that you met my spammer! What do you mean about boilerplate?—Theo (Talk) 16:46, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Another "hi, Charlie."  :) FYI, I'm a native Californian living in Southern California's Coachella Valley east of Palm Springs. Grew up in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. - Lucky 6.9 19:56, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] vandal reverts

That page is only for anon vandal reverts. Although intended as a personal record of such events, since the page is accessible by anyone, I probably should add more documentation.

The phenomenum that you demonstrated is something that does get done occasionally, especially for VFD votes for websites, but the admins who calculate the votes, and often the VFD nominator or other deletionists keep an eye out for such behavior, so its not really that much of a problem. BlankVerse ∅ 8 July 2005 18:10 (UTC)

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