User talk:Princess lily

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Hello, and Welcome to the Wikipedia, Princess lily! Thanks for the contributions to the Lasse Virén article. Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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[edit] Juha Väätäinen

Where in the world did you get the impression that Juha Väätäinen's surname is spelled "Väatäinen"? It is spelled with a double ä in Finnish, and in languages that respect the original Finnish spelling, or without any diacritics if the writer insists that he knows the spelling of his language better. The original Finnish article backs me up on this. Finnish does not use an "äa" combination anywhere. The only place where you would see it would be in compound words, where it would be "ä" followed by "a", not a combination vowel. JIP | Talk 12:56, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Cup

Hi there. It is no trouble to ask. I removed the table due to other editors recently questioning it. All articles here at wikipedia have an associated "talk" page (confusingly called discussion on the tabs at the top). In the world cup talk page, Talk:FIFA World Cup a couple editors there have suggested it shouldn't be there as it is "original research", what that means in effect is that it isn't encyclopaedic work, but newly created ideas by yourself. If the historical rankings table is something which fifa or some other official body has produced then it will be fine and it can go back in, but if it is just something you have created then it isn't really ok. The other issue that the editors raised about it on the talk page was that you were using 3 points for a win - that obviously isn't historically accurate. You are welcome to post your thoughts and reasons why you think the table should be included on the world cup talk page - some discussion might be generated and a compromise might be reached, but for the moment I removed it just to be on the safe side. Best wishes, SFC9394 20:26, 19 January 2007 (UTC)