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Sorry, this is very late — the above links will probably all be be old hat to you. Welcome anyway! Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:04, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. -DePiep 14:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nonsense song titles

Thanks for starting List of English songs whose title includes nonsense-words. I'd been offhandedly collecting some nonsense song titles against the possibility that such a list would spring into being. — Jeff Q (talk) 17:28, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Great. btw: My experience is that just starting a list is a good place to store any beginning collection. Here it grows wonderfully and wikifully. (I also started: List of songs containing the name of a ship, aircraft or spacecraft. With only three entries).
Now I'm gonna take a look. Bye, -DePiep 14:53, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Geoname Songs

Thank you very much for your hard work with the Dutch songs, you've done it much quicker than it would have taken me. Thryduulf 12:11, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to List of songs over fifteen minutes in length

Hi. Your improvement attempts are appreciated, but please see its talk page about the big question of possible formats and further use of this page's raw data. For instance, your deleting the author on the first six entries for Klaus Schulze, or the Zappa entries, doesn't work with the proposal, nor most reuses of the list – even if a different line format is eventually choosen, a consistent list with all data (album, date, author) will be easier to automatically reformat to something else using regular expressions, macros, and/or scripts.

(Furthermore, I found out the list's original 'author' (initiator) User:Matharvest seems to have been on vacation all this time, so no real discussion about format has taken place yet.) ←#6  talk 17:44, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

I'll react on the talk page. Reverting all my edits in the article is OK.-DePiep 17:50, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] James Dignan

Hi De Piep - you wrote: Eh, someone put two songs by James Dignan -you know- in this list ;-). Could you check for the right links etc? btw, I trust your information on the existence of these songs. In 1996 I bought different music. Bye, -DePiep 17:04, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It wasn't me (but I think I can guess who :)! I've removed one (it was an instrumental) and disambiguated the other's location, but I wonder whether it should be there at all - it was released on an album, but wasn't exactly a big-seller. Grutness...wha?
All OK. My background info was scarce, but I'm, eh, proud I found these jewels. btw, the criteria do accept instrumentals, a title can stand by itself. I'm just trying to be correct to the facts & author. And now: shouldn't there be an article about James Dignan ;-)?
Heh. I have a "non-article" as a subpage of my user pages (at User:Grutness/Grutness non-article, which is as close as I feel comfortable with writing about myself in Wikipedia. Maybe someone will someday (This is not a hint! I don't think I'm notable enough yet! :) BTW, if you're putting "Outram no. 1" back on that page, it's about Outram, New Zealand (which is probably just a redlink at the moment). Grutness...wha?
I'll take a read overthere, and first learn something myself about this artist. I understand Outram can be put back, since we were talking a wiki-way. -DePiep 28 June 2005 14:43 (UTC)

[edit] User:Thryduulf/Geonamesongs

Thanks for pointing out it was still in the category - I'm suprised nobody (including me!) has spotted this before. I've removed it from the category:Lists of songs and category:Dynamic lists now. Thryduulf 17:39, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lists of songs

I am writing because you contributed to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Centralized discussion/Lists of songs. I have made a policy proposal at User:Wahoofive/Lists of songs and would welcome your comments. —Wahoofive (talk) 03:39, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of songs with geographical names

Thanks for the heads-up regarding this. Thryduulf 20:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for the tip

Omar's Dance Party
Omar's Dance Party

about the geographical song list. i just voted. When I get a smaller version I'll send you my non-sense song poster, sort of as my version of a Star or something. Carptrash 01:24, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I'd done the radio show before discovering the wikipedia "Nonesense" list - but used my play list to add more songs to it. I would never have found it if it had not been for your directing me to the geographical list vote - where I might have phrased my comment a bit . . differently. So thanks again. Carptrash PS know of a list of automobile songs?

[edit] Category:Unified Modeling Language

Hi DePiep. I noticed your "-cat UML" edit to Class diagram. Is [[Category:Unified Modeling Language]] going away? The Rod 21:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. And: no, it's not going away, as for me. The cat:UML (shortened here) is the supercetagory. Then, this category has articles and subcategories Cat:UML Diagrams and Cat:UML tools. I think that an article should appear only once in such a Cat-tree. So I removed the top-cat from the article you mention. I understand it is policy (but I cannot give a rference; It's common practice on our Dutch wikipedia).
So, if you can agree, I could continu. Or else, I'll learn something. (It's just for lack of time that I did not alter all the UML-diagram articles.) -DePiep 19:33, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
That sounds fine to me. I'm pretty sketchy about how to use categories. The system seems pretty arbitrary, but I am comfortable with your continued pruning. Thanks for the explanation. Peace! The Rod 20:02, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
This internet way of communication is going better and prettier per charchter. I go ahead(this English wikipedia is very fierce indeed, I hope you have another wiki-language too ;-). -DePiep 21:52, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] V-D-E

Is an easy feature. V = view template page, D = view talk page (discuss) and E = edit. This means someone does not have to use the search bar for the template if he uses the template on an article page. I'll put it back if you don't object. Sijo Ripa 22:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I understand (now). Still: only once per template (it was double). Make it nice, please. -DePiep 22:25, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
It's fixed. :-) What still bothers me is the people's and organization's collumns. In my opinion, they are less important than the conflict and diplomacy collumns. Nevertheless, they are considerable larger. We should either expand the last two collumns and/or decrease the first two because it really looks ugly and disproportional now. Sijo Ripa 22:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanx. Shortening columns? I do not agree. 'looking ugly' is no criterium for deleting/adding to a column. But if there are organisartions missing, in your eyes: go aheadd, for the reason of completeness ;-)

-DePiep 16:40, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The point of being ugly is not what I meant. What I meant, is: should all less important actors be added? There are much more and the only thing you get is a link to the country, not an explanation about how they were important. We could do with only the primary actors (Israel, Arab world) The same for people: there are at least a dozen more important people, I think even much more than a dozen. Should they all be added? They don't add much value by themselves - while the last two collums do: you get very clear information about the conflict. Sijo Ripa 12:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AFD discussion on a list of songs

  • List of English songs whose title includes nonsense words (AfD discussion)

You contributed to the discussion when this subject came up at Wikipedia talk:Centralized discussion/Lists of songs. Please contribute to the AFD discussion. Uncle G 15:24, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userspace pages

I moved your copies of deleted song-list pages to your userspace (for example, User:DePiep/Stuff). Please don't forget to include User: before creating such a page, or it becomes a page in the main article space. Thanks, NawlinWiki 17:42, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Think I get it, cannot see the older ones anymore. -DePiep 19:23, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Norman Finkelstein on From Time Immemorial

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norman Finkelstein on From Time Immemorial, regards, Huldra 18:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for translation

Hi, DePiep. The place to request a translation is Wikipedia:Translation. Just follow the instructions. Hope that helps.

Regards, --Carioca 22:44, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UML State Machine Diagram

Hi DePiep. I've started to work through the UML diagram pages adding more detail of the semantics. See Use case diagram which is where I started. The next one I was going to do was State machine, however the inclusion of this inside the more general article, has confused me a bit. I'd really like to have a seperate page for the UML version given the added detail. It would seem right to leave the existing page and create a new one for the detail (cross linking appropreatly) and I'll include the UML templete in it. It would then seem right to remove the template from the existing general page. As you added it what do you think?

regards, FredThwaites 23:52, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Good plan, to separate the UML-specific article. Enjoy the works. And indeed it should take the template with it. The UML template should, preferrably, only use UML-specific articles (and only be used in these articles). I was surprised that most UML articles were very starting level, they really can be improved. But not by me± I started the template to learn UML basics...

-DePiep 11:27, 19 August 2007 (UTC)