User talk:Lucius1976

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Contents 1 Welcome! 1.1 Additional tips 1.2 Be Bold!! 2 Thanks 3 French People 4 Poles 5 Definition of Origin 6 Decimal points, commas and other devices 7 Operation Barbarossa 8 Einstein's citizenship 9 "Language skills of European citizens"

[edit] Welcome!

Joe I 02:30, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for all your great work. I hope you continue to contribute knowledge regularly! --Dpr 08:00, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] French People

Hello. Regardless of your opinion as to the appropriateness of official figures for French nationals in Switzerland, Belgium, &c, appearing in this article, they are figures supported by references and are thus verifiable. Likewise the US and Canadian self-identified ancestry numbers from 2000 and 2001 are verifiable. There are no figures for Belgium or Switzerland which are comparable to those for the US and Canada, leaving a choice between no data and the incommensurable numbers I have given. If you wish to argue that no data should be shown for Belgium and Switzerland, you will have my full support. Angus McLellan 20:05, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, sorry didn't see that revert. Only saw someone deleted all of them and mistakenly rv to my version.

Hallo Lucius; ich schreibe Dir in bezug auf die englische Seite der "Sprachen in der Europaeischen Union" (Absatz Arbeitssprachen): Ich hab die Schweiz und Liechtenstein von der Liste fuer Deutsch als EU-Amtsprachen genommen; Ausserdem habe ich die 3 Amtsprachen wieder alphabetisch nach E F G geordnet und etwas Salz aus dem Artikel genommen. Die deutsche und franzoesische Regierung haben sich (mit gutem Grund) fuer eine gegenseitige Unterstuezung ihrer beiden Sprachen verstaendigt damit sich die 3 Sprachen in Bruessel gleichwertig entwickeln. Franzoesisch kann Englisch oft wesentlich besser Paroli bieten womit sich Deutsch dann auch besser entwickeln kann. Ich weiss nicht wieviel Einfluss wir - als Interessenvertreter der deutschen Sprachpolitik - haben, jedoch denke ich ein hohes Mass an kooperativen Respekt fuer die franzoesische Sprachpolitik ist eine gute Basis. Es freut mich auch gleichgesinnte hier zu treffen und hoffe von Dir zu lesen. Gruesse 28 Februar 2006

[edit] Poles

Hi Lucius, I am glad you are providing important information to our page, but due to a recent wave of bloated population number contributions, a specified section for "estimates" outside of the census reports has been put in the article, here: Poles#Statistics. Feel free to put your numbers there. The population box is meant for census report figures, so if you have any of those for the sources we're missing, feel free to add it there too. Antidote 23:41, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

There is greater support for a number around the "200,000" mark than the "2 million" mark - but that is not to say 2 million isnt plausible. It is, but given this it is safe to only do the following:

• A) Put it here: Poles#Statistics
• B) Create a range in the population box, like the ones seen in Romanians.

Antidote 23:45, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the contribution. I see you know German, if you ever have time and find an article thats on the German wikipedia but not on here, translate it (as roughly as you can) and leave the rump version on my talk page. I will gladly fix up the grammar/look etc. Later. Antidote 23:59, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Actually, today I have extended the Battle of Kiev page considerably. Believe didń't turn out badly, but the grammar could need some improvement I guess. --Lucius1976 00:02, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Your information on the source of Germany in Poles is slightly misleading, because the information doesn't seem to specify when Polish ancestry is significant in the German population. It is very plausible that up to 2 million Germans have Polish anacestry, but that in no way makes them Polish. I pruned your message to only include the source stating the 2 million, but nothing more. This way it presents the idea of a larger number but doesn't explain (as there is no way to explain). Take for example that nearly 30% of modern day Poles in Poland have German last names, ofcourse, that does not make them Germans (nor to be on the Germans box). Anyway, thanks for the source. Antidote 05:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Definition of Origin

From a perspective of television production, the Country of Origin is always the country where the production company has its registered offices. In the case of Battlestar Galactica (any version, in fact), the country of origin is therefore the USA, regardless of where it was shot or who was in it. -- Scjessey 19:07, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Decimal points, commas and other devices

Yeah, I know that using a demical comma an SI-approved method, and I didn't mean anything negative by it when I said "habit". I discuss my motives for the change I made on my talk page. Thanks! —Felix the Cassowary 09:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Operation Barbarossa

They started with 2.6 million but they reinforced thier numbers during the battle that is the STARTER number same goes for the Axis number it is the STARTER number the number they began with (Deng 04:06, 3 April 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Einstein's citizenship

Before getting into a heated argument about this: please go to THE WORLD AS I SEE IT, in that document search for "The Academy's declaration". What should pop up is the correspondence between de Prussian Academy and Albert Einstein, April 1933. In the first paragraph of that document is says the following "Being a Swiss citizen, he also, it seems, intends to resign the Prussian nationality which he acquired in 1913 simply by becoming a full member of the Academy". So if we can trust this document (which I will, unless you come up with the original German document) there clearly was such a thing as "Prussian nationality". While I am not responsible for that "Württemberg citizenship" remark (somebody else put that in), I thought that if there was such a thing as "Prussian nationality" that by analogy there should have been a "Württemberg nationality" as well. Or? JdH 15:12, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Apparently there was a dual citizenship in the German Empire unitl 1914. But no single prussian citizenship. Every prussian citizen was also a german citizen. Same with württemberg etc. In 1914 that changed that the dual citzenship was dropped in favour of a single one. If the würtemberg or prussian citizenship is mentioned, it must be also the german citizenship. Because the German Empire had many small countries beside the larger ones, it doesn't make sense to me to include this for the time after 1871. Seems to me it is a rare case in some articles. --Lucius1976 20:33, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

My understanding is that the countries that made up the German Empire were only dissolved by the Nazi regime. The letter from the Prussian Academy was written in 1933, so it appears that at that point in time Prussia still existed as a separate entity. But your point about dual citizenship is well taken; if you scan that correspondence it appears that "Prussian" and "German" citizenship are used interchangebly. So we might keep it that way as well JdH 22:26, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

http://www.verfassungen.de/de/de67-18/verfassung71-i.htm. But it is in German. Of course the countries of the German Empire had a significant autonomy, but they weren't seperate entities according to international standards. They had neither a independent foreign policy, defense or currency. So, according to that they weren't seperate entities. --Lucius1976 07:06, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Language skills of European citizens"

At "Language skills of European citizens" of Languages of the European Union there seems to be a mistake in the first table: it mentions Russian, not an official language of the EU. What is more, it mentions only 12 out of the 20 official languages of the EU, without explaining why.--Michkalas 14:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)