User talk:Matt Borak

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Hello Matt, welcome to Wikipedia. Here's some tips:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Angela. 19:38, Feb 21, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Matt, glad to have you here. You mentioned that you're into meteorology and climatology. When you get a chance, you might look at the article on climate. I put a note on its talk page a while ago about how incomplete it was, and some things I thought needed to be in the article, but I don't really have the knowledge to flesh it out myself. If you could, that'd be great. Happy editing, Isomorphic 21:13, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Whenever you decide to tackle the project, I suggest that you start by moving most or all of the material on Koppen classification to a new article, perhaps Köppen classification or climate classification. That way you can write a balanced introduction to the subject without having to worry about how to integrate everything that's there now, and without deleting any useful content. Isomorphic 00:10, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I am also glad to have you here!!)) Anyway nice work on Köppen and climate! When I read this I'm unsure if moved the Köppen scheme to its right place, perhaps it should rather have been Köppen climate classification. Anyway, if you think up a better title/name, it can be easily moved with the "Move this page" link in the left menu. ---Dittaeva 11:50, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)


Ostrava Are you sure that there are some Czechoslovaks?? 217.185.196.74 15:32, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You are probably right that using "Czechoslovakians" is not the best thing to do, as it might lead to a confusion. There indeed was NO official Czechoslovakian nation (and thus no Czechoslovakians either). On the other hand, the term Czechoslovakians was used commonly before, refering to the people living inside the borders of the former Czechoslovakia or originating from it.
The article mentions Czechoslovakians while talking about WWII so the term in the sentence Historically, among the most influencing ethnic groups besides Czechoslovakians in Ostrava were Polish people, Germans and Jews. IMHO should be OK. The sence (in terms of time) of the second sentence in the same paragraph (Thus, the population of the city, has become a mixture of Czechoslovakians and Poles.) continues to present time, which is invalid, though. I changed the second occurence of the word to "Czechs and Slovaks" (the Slovak minority in the town is still important, which is reasonable considering that Ostrava being so close to the Slovak border).
If you or anybody else have any more objections, please feel free to incorporate them in the text. -- Matt Borak 17:27, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi Matt. Thanks for the welcome. I'm in my second year of Czech at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, so that's my little connection to the Czech language. --Bkell 07:52, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. --Bkell 20:14, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Unverified images

Hi. You uploaded Image:Czech Moravia-Silesian region.png but did not list any source and/or copyright information on the image description page. Please mark it either as GFDL or public domain. See Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags for more info. Please note that images without copyright information may be deleted in the future. Thanks. RedWolf 18:26, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Karlstejn

Yes, you are right about source for Karlstejn. Sorry. Thanks for your REAL wiki-work. mikes 06:09, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neni zac

And thanks for fixing the one error I forgot to patch up. Don't worry -- your English is quite good. Mwalcoff 07:58, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ostrava clubs #

I think the edit by 207.200.116.199 was vandalism because history of the guy: he happened to pick better number by chance. Thanks for actually checking this and for reference (something not seen often over here). Pavel Vozenilek 21:31, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Czech dispute

It's perfectly okay to edit someone's grammar and spelling. The messages on a talkpage are for others to read. Fixing minor mistakes is a courtesy, not an insult. Grace Note 23:17, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, you probably should get over that feeling. This is a wiki, not a newsgroup and your comments are liable to be refactored. They are not posts that necessarily stand as a permanent record of what you actually wrote. They are for the interest of people who come afterward as much as for communicating on the spot. Grace Note 07:14, 19 May 2005 (UTC)


[edit] České Budějovice and Plzeň

Nazdar Matt - I'll continue in English since this is an English speaking forum. I have noticed that NoPuzzleStranger initiated changes to both articles. He is pushing a wording change to foreign name references indicating that Pilsen and Budweis are not current English name alternatives.

I have found several examples of current use of both Pilsen and Budweis in English language texts by the local population, including the municipal web site of the City of Pilsen. Obviously, both names are used by foreigners as well - for historical or practical reasons.

I disagree with his changes and have noticed at least one other user who feels the same way. I remember your name from discussions with Juro and would value your opinion. Jbetak 1 July 2005 19:01 (UTC)

[edit] Usercat

You were listed in the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Czech Republic page as living in or being associated with Czech Republic. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Czech Republic for instructions.Rmky87 08:39, 17 August 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Question about climate classification

Hi Matt, I just read your article about climate classification, very informative. But I have one question: If a city (actually, its my home town) has 3 months and 22 days where average 24h temperatures is 10 Centigrades or above, and average temperature the coldest month is -3 centigrades, what climate is that? Precipitation all year, but slighly more in the autumn.

What about a city with 4 months and 20 days with 10 or more centigrades, and the coldest month has an average of 1 centigrade? Again, precipitation pretty much all year, but slightly more in the autumn and winter. This would be cfb in the Köppen classification, right? Orcaborealis, september 10 2005, 12:30 GMT.

[edit] Weather on Article Improvement Drive

Hi Matt,

Based on your edit history, I was wondering if you might be interested in voting for weather on article improvement drive: WP:AID. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 01:35, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Czech Republic

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