User talk:Fedor

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Hey Fedor :) I hope you like the place and choose to stay.

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Keep contributing, and don't forget to have fun :) Dysprosia 11:30, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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[edit] Kenneth Alan

Your comments would be very much appreciated at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Kenneth Alan. Thank you. -- Decumanus | Talk 16:42, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Strepsirhini -> Strepsirrhini

Actually, both spellings are correct. However, the single 'r' spelling is about 8 times more common than the double 'rr' spelling. Google give 2410 hits for 'r' and only 354 hits for 'rr'. So I'm reverting your changes. - UtherSRG 13:04, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Dear UtherSRG,
I am not sure how much you know about taxonomy, but there can only be one proper spelling of a given taxon-name and that is the one originally used in the describing publication. Google can therefore not be the arbiter in this only the original description. And as it happens to be, 'Strepsirrhini' is the correct spelling according to Systema Naturae 2000 which is directly based on the authoritative work of McKenna and Bell.
I assume you are going to re-revert your changes again?
Cheers, Fedor 21:15, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I contacted Tree-of-Life about the incorrect spelling of this group on their website and this is the reply I got:
Dear Fedor Steeman,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  We were following the spelling in Walker's Mammals
of the World, which is generally a reliable source for mammalian nomenclature.  In fact, 
Strepsirhini with one "r" is more commonly used in the primatological literature than Saint-
Hilaire's original spelling.  However, there doesn't seem to be a petition before the ICZN to 
adopt the more common spelling, so it looks like Strepsirrhini is still the valid name for the 
group.

I have corrected the name on the relevant Tree of Life pages.  However, I do not expect this to 
have much of an effect on the spelling on other web sites.  Several other web sites which are 
more commonly used as sources of information on mammals use the single "r" spelling, and most 
people still turn to print references as the final taxonomic authority.

Thanks for your interest in the Tree of Life project.

Katja Schulz

You can see the result on: Tree of Life: Strepsirrhini

Cheers, Fedor 07:51, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Kenneth Alan

Kenneth Alan's case is now in arbitration. See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kenneth Alan. You may wish to add comment to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kenneth Alan/Evidence Mintguy (T) 14:11, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR

Please notice that you just violated our WP:3RR policy on the page Netherlands. Any admin may block you for 24 hours. Please comply with our rules in the future. gidonb 06:43, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

No, you started by stepwisely reverting my edit e.g. here. I think it is highly arrogant that you climb up the ivory tower of npov and abiding by the rules, while you keep on pushing pov notions in the article. I rewrote the section (here) to be balanced and include both viewpoints, whilst removing semi-certain claims. Why don't read it first, before blindly reverting it again!? Fedor 09:05, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Which is it, exactly?

Hi. I notice you've been quite, umm...active on the Netherland article! You're a dutchman so I'll ask you: as a dutchman, do you prefer the use of "the Netherlands" or "Netherland" in English? I personally use the latter. heh. -Chef Ketone 00:26, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, I only use "Netherlands" in want for a better word. As far as I know, "Netherland" is non-existing in the English language, and I am do not feel comfortable to use words nobody knows. However, in Danish, that I learned and now master fluently, there is a choice between the singular form ("Nederland") and the plural for ("Nederlandene"). I prefer the singular form in any case, because it is clearer that it refers to the modern nation, and not the historical area, now usually referred to as the "Low Countries". Fedor 19:26, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Cool. In Spanish I encountered something really odd...the nation is referred to (as you would expect) Países Bajos (translated, "Low Countries"), but when referring to the language, the language is called Neerlandés (translated, "Netherlandese", "Netherlandish" or "Netherlandic"). You would think that some group of linguists would get together for each language and decide once and for all what they're going to use. I like the Spanish intiative of using Neerlandés for the language, now just to refer to the country as Neerlandia. Chef Ketone 22:57, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
You have the exact same in French, with the country being called "Pays-Bas" with the adjective "néerlandais". Something like Neerlandia (Néerlandie?) might be even better. On the Latin wikipedia they use Nederlandia!Fedor 19:28, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Rodhocetus.png

Hi Fedor. This image was deleted because it had no copyright status tag, and had been tag as being of unknown copyright status for more than two weeks. I notice that now if has been re-uploaded, it has been tagged {{GFDL}} and has full source details, so there shouldn't be any problems with this image in future. Regards, CLW 13:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

What are you talking about? I had indicated the copyright status on the respective page for the image as early as 25 May 2004 (UTC) !!! So what do you mean that there is no copyright status!? And didn't you even bother to read the discussion page for Rodhocetus before you boldly started deleting things!? Fedor 08:28, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VWN en WCN

Beste allemaal Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 13:46, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hmm...

Ja, dansk er min modersmål men så er engelsk og fransk også. Jeg er ikke fortrolig med den entomologi af "Holland" på dansk. Personlig, jeg tror, at denne er underlig, men hvert sprog had sine ejendommelighede! Så hvad laver du i Danmark? Og hvorfor skriver du i dansk Wikipedia? Ifølge mig, ingen man læser den og det kvalitet niveau er kun middelmådig. Páll (Die pienk olifant) 17:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Cetartiodactyla

Good job!--GRM 15:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DUDE!!!

I enjoyed your little conversation with that guy in the Meganthropus article! You've really put him in his place (some confession chamber for having his faith shooken I guess)! ^^