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Weißenburg in Bayern

Hi Markussep!

I've seen your interest in other ß-related votes and thought you might be interested in this one: Talk:Weissenburg in Bayern. Currently there are four votes for moving to Weißenburg in Bayern.

- Haukur Þorgeirsson 22:04, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

List of cities in Germany

Thank you for doing a lot of the work I needed to do after moving this page over (I will still try but it can be a bit time consuming). I hope you agree that the German Wiki's version is better than the incomplete and spread out version we had earlier. I also think it is at the very least important that the German Wikipedia's titles all be redirects on the English Wiki. Best, Tfine80 00:32, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Weißenburg in Bayern

hello there, terribly sorry to disturb you with this topic, but there is a new vote Talk:Weissenburg in Bayern on finally renaming it to Weißenburg in Bayern and since you have shown previous interested, I just thought I'd let you know what is going on... with kind regards. Gryffindor 22:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

German Wikipedians' noticeboard

Hello Markussep! Since you are interested in the Holy Roman Empire, you might be interested in the recently-created noticeboard for articles concerning German-related topics. Feel free to participate with the project if you are interested! Olessi 01:49, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Moving German towns

Hi, I've looked only at German town in the English wiki and they seem to, for the most part follow the "in brackets" convention. That's why I kept with it and changed what I'm working on to that convention. I really don't care one way or the other but if we want to bo with the comma then we should change all the other brackets to that convention and there seem to be a lot of those as well. --Mmounties 19:00, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Wanna help prep Sanssouci for FAC?

Hi Last Malthusian, I've promised User:Trebor27trebor to help him turn the red links in this very good article into blue links. That's pretty much the only thing that's keeping the article from having a chance at becoming a FAC. I've asked him to list the needed articles on the Sanssouci Talk page so that we can share the work. He's completed the list and I thought it would be terrific if you'd decide to take part in the effort and help us with one or two of them. What do you say? --Mmounties (Talk) 04:56, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Rhineland-Palatinate etc.

Just to let you know (and in case you hadn't noticed already) I have just split {{Germany-geo-stub}} into a number of Bundesland-specific tags, including {{RhinelandPalatinate-geo-stub}}. --Stemonitis 16:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Kirchheimbolanden

Hi, I don't understand your change to the Kirchheimbolanden articles. One was about the town, and one was about the Verbandsgemeinde (previously Kirchheimbolanden (region)). I'm not sure why they were merged to one article. Don't you think they are two separate things and should have two separate articles, or am I missing something? Either way, thanks for working to make the Wikipedia better. -- Reinyday, 20:03, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Reinyday, I merged them because they're very much related to each other. I don't think the individual municipalities (Ortsgemeinden) in Rhineland-Palatinate will get their own articles soon (like in German wikipedia). I think it's better to keep information about the settlements within a Verbandsgemeinde together in one article. Of course if one settlement is particularly notable, it deserves a separate article. Markussep 20:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm going to restore them. Many small municipalities have their own articles. -- Reinyday, 05:33, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
If you think 2 is many... Why couldn't the information that's currently in the articles Kirchheimbolanden and Stetten (Kirchheimbolanden) be in one article? Anyway, the term "region" is already in use for the much bigger Regierungsbezirke, if you want to keep a separate article about the Verbandsgemeinde I suggest you move it to "Verbandsgemeinde Kirchheimbolanden" or "Kirchheimbolanden (Verbandsgemeinde)". BTW where did you find the information about Stetten suffering from the 1866 Austro-Prussian war? That's completely new to me, I would expect more from the 1688-1697 Nine Years War. Markussep 10:57, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
There are hundreds or perhaps thousands of small municipalities with their own articles in the Wikipedia. The current information could be in one article, but my hope is that people who know about the region will expand each article to its full capacity. I moved the larger article to Kirchheimbolanden (administrative unit). As for Stetten, all of my notes are packed from when I moved last year, so please feel free to remove the war information if you think it is incorrect. And again, thanks for your efforts to make the Wikipedia a better place. -- Reinyday, 19:54, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Saarland stubs

I don't think there are enough Saarland geographical stubs to reach the threshold for their own stub category yet. However, you seem to be working on a block of them, and I thought you might know if you're likely to reach 60 before you finish. In that case, I think it would be alright for us to create {{Saarland-geo-stub}} straight away. Will you be making another 15 or so? --Stemonitis 09:11, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Weißenburg

I don't mean to be unreasonable, and I certainly wish the anon with his "ß is illegal" would go away. However, I would like to see evidence of Weißenburg in Bayern as French usage; it's Wissembourg in Alsace. Septentrionalis 23:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Really, Markussep, I did not mean to suggest that the Weissenburgs in Alsace and Bavaria were the same place, but they do have the same name.

As for fr:Meißen:

  • I do not regard the French wikipedia as establishing French usage, any more than the English wikipedia necessarily reflects English usage (or, for that matter, English grammar <sigh>).
  • For what it is worth, the article was originally written at Meissen and the article text is still so spelled; it was moved by a user called Kelson, whose real name appears to be Emmanuel Engelhart.
  • I do think that "nationalism" is the right term for the claim that the English WP should use foreign names for foreign places, while no foreign wikipedia uses English names for English-speaking places (see, for example the translations of London and United States).
    • If you can suggest a more civil term, please do.

But I will get back to you when I have found some French books on Germany.

I see we agree on the principles, even if we weight them differently. I think demonstrable English usage should usually be decisive on en.wikipedia; and I happen to disagree about Geissen, a place of some importance in economic history, and therefore often mentioned in English. But I'm not sufficiently concerned about Geißen to make a move proposal. Septentrionalis 22:58, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Town DE

He There. It seams Template:Infobox Town DE is broken, check if you can fix it please. Thnx, Mariano(t/c) 14:08, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I second Marianocecowski's wish! --Ghormax 20:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

well it seams one of the templates used by the Infobox Town DE was corrupted, and has been fixed. If I properly recall, the problem was with the coordinates, that didn't show right. I got part of the URL for kvaleberg a text, but now its OK. Thnx. Mariano(t/c) 05:55, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Meißen

Hi, you just moved Meißen to Meissen. Before you do something like that, you should submit it at Wikipedia:Requested moves. There has been a lot of discussion about replacing characters in proper names, that are part of the extended Latin alphabet, like ß, ð and þ. There is no consensus about that, see Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_English)#Disputed_issues. I suppose that means you shouldn't move this page unilaterally. I'll move it back. Markussep 13:55, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

People who want article names in German can use the German Wikipedia. Piccadilly 23:00, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
What nonsense! Have you read anything I wrote above? 1. Discuss moves like this before you do them. 2. Meißen nor Meissen is English, it's a town in Germany, and you can't decide on your own what the common English name is. Markussep 08:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
What garbage! This is the English Wikipedia and it should be written in English. There is not one English word with that letter in its common name because it is not used in English. It is completely illegitimate to suggest that there is any need to decide on a case by case basis. Non native speakers who try to use Wikipedia to bend the English language should be banned from Wikipedia. You have no more right to tell us how to write English than we have to tell you how to write Dutch. The difference is that there are a lot of non-native speakers trying to manipulate the English wikipedia, but probably very few non-native Dutch speakers on the Dutch one. Piccadilly 15:43, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

New Germany related stubs

If you want, you can announce them at Portal:Germany/New article announcements (I just did so for Staufenberg, Lower Saxony, Rosdorf, Gleichen, Lower Saxony, and Friedland, Lower Saxony). Thank you for adding these articles! Kusma (討論) 14:26, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

And I announced more, now also on Portal:Germany. Thank you for all these stubs! Kusma (討論) 21:45, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Werder (Havel)

Hi. I changed the category back to Cities in Brandenburg. Werder's official website lists itself as a city [1]. If you know of something confirming that it is a town and not a city, of course I will not object. Note that if that change does become necessary, the template {{Germany districts brandenburg}} will also have to be changed.--Fuhghettaboutit 22:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Holzgerlingen

The new infobox you placed at the Holzgerlingen article doens't allow for Imperial units of measure to be used. As a resident of the United States, I am completely unfamiliar with most metric units (I know what they are, but don't have any experience using them). Most US residents share my inability, and I would appreciate if the infobox could be amended. Sorry to cause trouble on behalf of Imperial units, RyanGerbil10 (Drop on in!) 19:45, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. I put the original infobox back, but I eagerly await your version, because it looks better and clutters the page less. Thanks! RyanGerbil10 (Drop on in!) 20:17, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Excellent, I like it very much. Thank you for the quick reply, and civil conduct. I've had to vouch for Imperial unit inclusion before, and I have frequently received an icy reception from high-minded Metric users. Thank you for the excellent template and friendly interaction. Happy to be of help, RyanGerbil10 (Drop on in!) 21:02, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

German places

Thanks for sorting out the table. I didn't realise I'd converted all the Schleswig-Holstein places to Saarland. --Stemonitis 07:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Helmbrechts

Was on my todo list for a long time - thanks Agathoclea 15:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Wassertrüdingen

Are you still working on it? If not I would start it.--Tresckow 04:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Infobox Town DE imp

Template:Infobox Town DE imp has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Bob 22:44, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Seesen

You started Seesen. I just cleared the talk page which was filed with what seems a screen-scrape copy of the article. But the article itself is only a stub. You will need to check the history of the talkpage. Agathoclea 11:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Germany WikiProject

Hi Markussep,

as you are the creator of hundreds of stubs about German towns, I would like to invite you to participate at WikiProject Germany. I think we should have a project subpage with a joint effort to create and expand articles on all German municipalities, and make sure they have infoboxes, coats of arms etc. Perhaps it would be a good idea to create a task force and use special switches in the project template to categorize (and eventually improve) bad articles and track changes. If you would like to participate, please add your name to the list and comment on the possible organization of a municipalities status page at the project talk page. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 23:21, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Germany

Welcome, Markussep, 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) 22:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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