User talk:Filsdegilbert

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[edit] Your recent edits

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[edit] Names

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    • Three major encyclopaedia's articles on the city; all begin Szczecin (German: Stettin).
  • Where do Ryanair fly to? [4]
  • Where was the European Cup's combined events competition last year?

[5]

  • Who's Marian Jurczyk? [6]
  • Where are these shipyards? [7]
  • Where's the end of this border? [8]
  • Where does the twice-weekly train to Warsaw go? [9]
  • Where are the Baltic Sea Corps based [10]

So far we've got the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encarta, Columbia Encyclopedia, Europe's larget budget airline, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The New York Times, The Australian and the BBC all using a term you claim English-speaking people don't use.

The results for Gdansk are even more clear.

Can I suggest the following:

  • get yourself an account - it's free, quick and makes it easier to interact with people as your IP may change
  • if your changes are being reverted, discuss it on the talk pages - and bring evidence for your assertions. If you think Stettin is used much more in English, show us the evidence (though I think you'll be hard-pressed to find any)
  • don't change links piecewise - Szczecinek County is an article, New Szczecin County isn't (because no-one calls it that) - changing that link means that readers can't find the information they want. Same for the interwiki links - you changed es:Bismarckturm Szczecin to es:Bismarckturm Stettin, which dooesn't work.
  • www.stettin.de is not a useful website, so why keep trying to add it? Click on it, please and have a look. What's the point of having it there? If you want German language info on Szczecin, try [11].
  • When you write on a talk page, it will make it easier for us to find and answer your comments if you add your comment to the bottom of the page, and then sign your comment by writing ~~~~ at the end before you save, which will include your name and date automatically.

Hope this helps, Knepflerle (talk) 12:55, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

I wrote the above at [12] - I'm guessing your the same user from the pages you edited, but even if not it's directly relevant.

Please be aware of WP:3RR, WP:NC(GN) and WP:UE - we use what names are used in English-speaking texts, and the indigenous names are used increasingly and predominantly in these cases. Check the evidence, and if it shows otherwise please bring the evidence of usage to talk pages. Knepflerle (talk) 23:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 3 revert violation on Szczecin

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. nb You have clearly not violated the letter of the 3 revert rule (3rr), but you clearly have been violating the spirit. Jd2718 (talk) 23:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)