User talk:Jan.Kamenicek

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If you want to leave me a message, you can obviously do it in any language listed in my Babel chart, but I (though a non-native English speaker) strongly prefer English, since this is an international site and I prefer when everybody can understand.

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[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 30 August 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Externism, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Mgm|(talk) 20:37, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On November 11, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Rejvíz, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Hello Jan, and thanks for bring the Czech Republic to the front page. Keep it up! Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Finish the job?

If you are going to be adding Category:People with craters of the Moon named after them to articles such as Vojtěch Šafařík, shouldn't you also make sure that the article to which the category is being added has a reference to the article such as, in this case, Šafařík (crater)? And conversely, that "Šafařík (crater)" has some reference to "Vojtěch Šafařík"? Gene Nygaard 22:43, 9 September 2006 (UTC).

  • Yes, you are right, the job has not been finished yet. I will do it soon. BTW, Šafařík (crater) has reference to Vojtěch Šafařík, but it is true that there could be written more about this eponym. Jan.Kamenicek 08:01, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] C17 Year in Topic

Hi - thanks for pointing out the incorrect link. I've now fixed it. Warofdreams talk 01:55, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Little help

Hi, Jan! Could you help me translating a stub about Spiritism to the Slovak Wikipedia? As far as I'm concerned there's no such an article on that Wiki... Arges 16:50, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Veselé Vánoce

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!
Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Ahoj Honzo! Přeji hezké a klidné Vánoce a šťastný nový rok. :) - Darwinek 19:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] spam

See Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming with bots. So this is your way of having happy holidays? ;-) `'mikka 00:50, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] zablokujes ?

zkus to. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.99.103.192 (talk) 22:33, 5 January 2007 (UTC). Jan.Kamenicek 23:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I can see no reason, why you decided to make troubles or to insult other people here. Please stop. I would appreciate, if you decided to cooperate on writing this encyclopaedia instead.
Because I do not want to feed any troll, I won't answer you here anymore, unless:
- you write your messages in English, so that everybody can understand
- you change your ways of expression
- you change your behaviour when editing Wikipedia articles
Jan.Kamenicek 23:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject

Ahoj Honzo. Možná by tě zajímalo podpořit, účastnit se WikiProjektu Czech Republic. Myslím si, že je hodně potřebný, je to cesta jak zvýšit kvalitu článků o ČR na EN Wiki. Můžeš hlasovat nebo komentovat zde: [1]. Přeji hezký den. :) Jinak mrkni na hlasování u článku Waldemar Matuska, o přesunutí do verze s diakritikou.- Darwinek 10:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your invitation, I will have a look at the project pages soon. Jan.Kamenicek 12:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject

Projekt byl uspesne spusten: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Czech_Republic. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 12:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User wikisk

Thanks for creating Template:User wikisk. Are you aware of some similar userboxes for other wikipedias? (I am interested in Czech and German, but I guess other users would appreciate finding userboxes for other wikipedias, too.) TIA --Kompik 08:20, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I am glad you like it. The complete list of existing templates of this kind can be found at Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia#Wikipedia Foreign Language user pages. The Czech Wikipedia template is Template:User wikics and the German one is Template:User wikide. Jan.Kamenicek 12:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for rememberng me as well, i appreciated it, even though i prefer to contribute to hu.wikipedia :) Nóra 20:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

No, I dont mind it at all (replacing it with the template). :)Nóra 19:14, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vymazani Spacka

To uz vam vsem mladym v Cesku uplne jebe? Ty vase neustale najezdy na emigranty uz nejsou ani ubohe, ani trapne - jsou vyslovene ostudne. Ross.Hedvicek 13:32, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

First of all, I have nothing against people who emigrated from their country. Many of them had good reasons which I respect. I voted for the deletion of the stub on Ivan Špaček simply because he does not seem notable to me. You wrote that he is a "founder of several literary movements". Well, why does no library give any information about him? Not many people can bear such a title. You wrote that he founded Literary Cubism. However, he is not old enough so that his cubistic work (if it exists) could precede the works by Guillaume Apollinaire or Gertrude Stein.
You can speak English very well and therefore I do not understand why you adressed me your vulgar insults in Czech language (despite the fact that our previous discussions used to be in English). Despite the fact that you removed it later, I decided to put it back here, so that at least people who understand Czech could see it. Please, next time follow my request at the top of this page and write your contributions here only in English, so that everybody can understand. Jan.Kamenicek 22:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Šárka Záhrobská: Relationships with the Czech Ski association

I posted a comment for you at Talk:Šárka Záhrobská about referencing this info. Thanks. Seattle Skier 19:15, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Hello. Should Cat:Czechoslovakian footballers etc. be renamed to "Czechoslovak" form ? Thanks. - Darwinek 09:19, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jan, just to let you know I have made the three speedy noms into a full nomination with all the other '-ian' categories at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 February 21#People from Czechoslovakia. Thanks, mattbr30 19:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 20 February 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Šárka Záhrobská, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--ALoan (Talk) 17:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your help

I just wanted to say thanks for your help on the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007. I greatly appreciate it. Chris 00:21, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome :-) Jan.Kamenicek 08:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] KV

You should be interested in this [2], please take a look there ! ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 22:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roman Šebrle on DYK

Updated DYK query On 5 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Roman Šebrle , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thank you for your contribution! — ERcheck (talk) 05:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IPA

Hi, I guess that's a great idea adding the IPA pronunciation to Czech places. Might I suggest adding syllable divisions as well? They may be obvious for a Czech speaker but not so much for a foreigner. – Caroig 20:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I have been thinking about it as well, but I have only rarely seen it at Wikipedia. I think it may not be so necessary, as in IPA one vowel usually means one syllable, and exceptions are marked with non-syllable (such as [ˈolomoʊ̯ts]) and syllable marks (such as [ˈkr̩nof]). I also think that sometimes it would make the transcriptions unnecessarily long, for example [ˈva.laʃ.skɛ: ˈmɛ.zɪ.r̝i:.tʃi:] Jan.Kamenicek 20:57, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
I thought I could read IPA pretty well yet I didn't know about these special tags, thanks. I head those diphtongs or syllables without vowels in mind, this solves the matter. – Caroig 21:14, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cidlina

Hello. Thanks for pointing that out. My big old mistake, it should be moved back as soon as possible. Sorry for that. - Darwinek 22:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hello Jan, thank you very much for the Ribbon. I am happy about it. I really appreciate it. I do not express my feelings as much, but I would like you that you know it.

You are welcome, I was happy to have a chance to award you. The links are very useful, thanks very much. I hope to finish the article on the Siege of Olmütz in a couple of days. Jan.Kamenicek 23:04, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fonts

Hmm, are you using Windows Explorer to browse there? And you should unzip them all, I think they're subsets of the same font type (like for bold and italic use). +Hexagon1 (t) 02:12, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Leoš Janáček

If you listen to the audio file pronunciation of Leoš Janáček's name, the accent is not where you have moved it to. I believe that the accent should go on the second syllable of the surname. If you are sure that this is incorrect then please replace/remove the audio files as well. Thanks. Lesnail 15:52, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I have listened to the file, but it seems to me that the stress is on the first syllable. The impression of a stress on the second syllable may be due to its length. "Janáček" is a Czech surname and the rule says that the stress is always on the first syllable. Jan.Kamenicek 19:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pilsen Region/Plzeň Region

Hi, I've noticed you replaced Pilsen Region with Plzeň Region in the Město Touškov article. Recently, I've either created and extended all articles on administrative units within the Pilsen Region, providing some basic data and location maps. I tried to do that in as much consistent way as possible. Thus I used everywhere Pilsen Region though I'm aware the article is currently named Plzeň Region. I chose this approach as it seems illogical and confusing to anyone not familiar with the Plzeň/Pilsen names, which is most readers who aren't from the Czech Republic, to use Pilsen someplace and Plzeň someplace else. The article on Pilsen is currently under the "Pilsen" name and as the article is much more comprehensive than the Pilsen Region article I think the name Pilsen Region should be used preferably. I didn't want to change the name of that article because there are a lot of users whose only agenda seems to be fighting petty and silly edit/naming wars.

Both names Plzeň and Pilsen have their relevancy on Wikipedia. In my view Pilsen is better as it is easy to pronounce and use for English speaker and it is a valid English name for this city. I put a lot of effort into my edits being consistent. I just don't understand why you're changing the name someplace while leaving it untouched elsewhere. So if you think the name Plzeň Region is better, that's OK, but please be consistent and change it everywhere where both the region or the town are concerned. It's extremely confusing for everyone when there's Plzeň Region and Pilsen as its capital in one sentence. As most towns and administrative units use the Pilsen form, I suggest leaving it as it is. – Caroig (talk) 19:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

The reason why I changed it was the name of the Wikipedia article on Plzeň Region and the fact that, while there are both names of Plzeň and Pilsen used in English, the region is usually referred to as the Plzeň (not Pilsen) Region.
Generally, I have no problem with the name Pilsen. When there was voting on the Plzeň talk page some time ago, I voted for renaming it to Pilsen. However, it is also true that later, after I read arguments that this originally German version of the city's name currently seems to have been abandoned by English writing media, I changed my mind, but the voting was closed before I decided to change my vote.
You are right about my inconsistency. Sometimes I have noticed which version was used and changed it when editing the article, some other times I have not. I will will try to be more consistent.
I do not consider this issue crucial either. I also understand your arguments, so if you feel happier about Pilsen, I can respect it. Jan.Kamenicek 20:51, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
It's not about me being happy with either Pilsen or Plzeň, it's about not confusing the readers. As I wrote before I'm aware the article's currently named Plzeň Region but when there's a sentence saying Pilsen is the capital of the region they both should be named the same way, otherwise the readers don't see the connection between the region's name and its capital.
As of the origin of the name Pilsen, it's obviously German, i.e. a Germanic language, so it's only logical English, another Germanic language, would borrow the name from German, not Czech. I don't think the name Pilsen has been abondoned by English speakers (personal observation) but it's true the media rather avoid it, the reason not being linguistic but rather political over-correctness.
My point was just incosistency within one article. I agree it's nothing substantial; I always try to make my post clear-cut from a general reader's view, a Wikipedia policy many Czech editors, I'm afraid, fail to observe. – Caroig (talk) 19:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jindřichův Hradec

Hi, I saw you tagged this article as part copyvio. Could you give me a better link? Since, even though it's Czech, I don't see that list on the source page. Garion96 (talk) 15:48, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

When you come to the Jindřichův Hradec homepage, you have to click on the link "Naše město" (= Our town) on the left. A list of various links will appear. If you choose e. g. "Založení města" (= Foundation of the town) or "Historické mezníky" (= Historical milestones), lists of dates and events will appear. The History part in the Wikipedia article on Jindřichův Hradec has been directly translated from these lists and therefore I believe that it should be considered copyvio. Jan.Kamenicek 21:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the clarification, it was too much interwoven in the history to do a history purge. But I removed the copyvio. Garion96 (talk) 21:42, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation of "Kaplický"

Hi, just wondering whether "Kaplický" should be pronounced "KAP-lit-sky" with the primary stress on the first syllable (as is currently indicated), or "kap-LIT-sky" which seems more natural? (A copy of this message has been posted in "Talk:Jan Kaplický".) Cheers, Jacklee 11:39, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prague Spring for FA

Dobrý den, Jan! I'm glad you like the Prague Spring idea. Some of my Hungarian friends from the 1956 project might want to join us at some point (I know for 99% sure one guy will want to help, it was actually his suggestion back in August that if we enlisted some Czech help for 1956, we would gladly return the favor and help with Prague Spring. But there wasn't any WP:CZECH back then, so it got nowhere...anyway, I'm pretty sure he'll want to help whenever we get started, though he's on wikibreak right now.) Don't worry that you won't be able to work much on it until July, we'd still have plenty of time. I just wanted to avoid the hectic insanity that was the last few days of the 56 project.

I don't have much time for epic projects like this until mid-June myself, but I'll get some books and start reading up on it as soon as I can. Thanks again! K. Lásztocska 21:56, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] iso 15924

Jan, sorry for my wording, I mean my usage of the word "mess". I will try to explain my thoughts on some convenient place. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 07:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Přehrady

Ahoj Honzo. Do you think categories Cat:Reservoirs in the Czech Republic and Cat:Dams in the Czech Republic should be merged to form "Reservoirs and dams in the Czech Republic"? Category in CS Wikipedia is "Přehrady v Česku". I think that most of přehrady are vodní nádrž (reservoir) and přehrada (dam) at the same time. What do you think? - Darwinek 08:49, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Yes, I also think that most (if not all) Czech dams serve as water reservoirs as well and so merging the categories seems reasonable. Jan.Kamenicek 17:31, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Done. I have also noticed some of ponds (rybníky) were categorized improperly under old "Reservoirs" category. Do you think I should create "Ponds in the Czech Republic" category? CS Wikipedia has "Rybníky v Česku". Ponds issue is quite a Czech phenomenon and I haven't noticed any other categories here named "Ponds in XY". As of now, ponds are categorized under "Geography of the Czech Republic" category. - Darwinek 12:13, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

"Rybník" is usually translated as "pond" into English, which is not very exact. The wikiarticle Pond says that "A pond is typically a man made body of water smaller than a lake. However the difference between a pond and an artificial lake is subjective. They are both formed by ponding water." And later the article even statest that "In earlier times, ponds were man-made and utilitarian; as stew ponds, mill ponds and so on. The significance of this feature seems in some cases, to have been lost when the word was carried abroad with emigrants so that in places like the United States, natural pools are often called ponds." Which is something different from a typical definition of rybník.
Therefore I think that the category should be called more precisely "Fishponds (or fish ponds) in the Czech Republic". Jan.Kamenicek 22:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 12 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jay U. Gunter, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Wizardman 19:21, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 15 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Russell Merle Genet, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 03:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK: Kamil Hornoch

Updated DYK query On 16 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kamil Hornoch, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--PFHLai 18:25, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
A barnstar for you for your fine work with bluelinking Amateur Achievement Award of the ASP,which have resulted in several fine articles. Circeus 15:01, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations

Well done on your FL achievement - but wouldn't "Amateur Achievement Award of THE Astronomical Society of the Pacific" be even better? Just a thought... Regards, BencherliteTalk 23:48, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

I think they're a bit inconsistent: see here for example, where it's "Presidents of the Astronomical...". Using "the" would make more grammatical sense, but I won't interfere! BencherliteTalk 10:47, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 19 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Albert F. A. L. Jones, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 14:04, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On August 20, 2007, a fact from the article Oscar Monnig, which you recently nominated, was featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks again Jan. Happy editing, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:37, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On 21 August 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Michiel Daniel Overbeek, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for the DYK entries!--DarkFalls talk 06:29, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On August 27, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Edward A. Halbach, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for all the stars on DYK Jan, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 08:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Siege

I think that article name Siege of Olomouc could be better than Siege of Olmütz. But I am not expert in terminology of battles. --Snek01 21:40, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

The names of battles used in English often differ from the current names of places where they were fought and those which took place in Central Europe are (quite naturally) based on German. Thus we have e. g. the Battle of Austerlitz instead of the Battle of Slavkov, the Battle of Landeshut instead of the Battle of Kamienna Góra or the Battle of Lobositz instead of the Battle of Lovosice.
Google gives just 8 hits for the Siege of Olomouc, but 158 hits for the Siege of Olmütz and 647 hits for the Siege of Olmutz (however, these seem to include the diacritical version of Olmütz too). Therefore I consider these two last versions - Olmütz and Olmutz. Jan.Kamenicek 22:08, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 20 September 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gregg Thompson (astronomer), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 16:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Slovak Wikipedians' notice board

Hi. You might be interested in checking out the brand new Wikipedia:Slovak Wikipedians' notice board. All Wikipedians interested in Slovakia or subjects somehow related to Slovakia are invited to use this noticeboard as a tool for better organizing their activities, making announcements to others with similar interests, and discussing any actual issues related to their work on Wikipedia. You are welcome to add this notice board to your watchlist, so that you could see when it is updated and thus take part in any projects, initiatives, and improvements relating to articles about Slovakia. Also, you are welcome to report your own articles here so they could be peer-reviewed and expanded by other contributors. Tankred 16:05, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FL Main page proposal

You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination recently. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1, 2007, voting starting December 1, 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1, 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual content will resemble the current content at the featured content page. Such output would probably start at the bottom of the main page. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:47, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Featured List of the Day Experiment

There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 17:40, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two questions in "Astronomical naming conventions"

Dear Mr. Kamenicek: I have posed two questions for whomever on the "discussion" page of Astronomical naming conventions, but thought that you, having taken an interest in the subject, might be willing and able to answer them. Writtenright (talk) 02:34, 7 December 2007 (UTC)Writtenright

[edit] Veselé Vánoce

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!
Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Ahoj Honzo! Přeji šťastné a veselé Vánoce a vše nejlepší v novém roce. - Darwinek (talk) 11:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 28 December 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 23:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007-08 Tour de Ski

Hi,

the stage result in Tour de Ski pursuit events, are based on the time used on the course, regardless of handicap-minutes. Lukáš Bauer won the pursuit race, but his skiing time was 9.6 seconds slower than Emmanuel Jonnier, therefore he is second in the stage. Hope this clarified the issue for you. lil2mas (talk) 13:27, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Campanula gelida, was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On January 1, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Campanula gelida, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 02:49, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

The Czech Barnstar of National Merit 
I award you with our highest star for your continuous efforts in the topics related to the Czech Republic. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 16:17, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Do you have any information on the etymology of the Czech place name, Horovice? I read somewhere that it may derive from "hora", meaning "mountain" but I don't know whether there are mountains or hills in the area. Thank You, Lisa the Sociopath (talk) 04:36, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello. I looked for the information at the Hořovice homepage and found an explanation (in Czech) there. They say that originally it meant "village of the Hoř's people" or "village of the Hora's people" - both "Hoř" or "Hora" would be a name of a person. Unfortunately they do not write anything about roots of this personal name. I think it may not necessarily be directly connected with any real mountain (Czech: hora), it can simply imply that the person (or somebody of his ancestors) was a big man - but that is my speculation. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 20:30, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
That's cool. I'll try to find out more :) Lisa the Sociopath (talk) 20:37, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jack B. Newton Image

I made the effort to update the authored by data for the Jack B. Newton image. It ends up it is a self-portrait made by Jack B. Newton himself. If you would like to verify this you can email him at jack@jacknewton.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meade4m (talk • contribs) 04:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Clint B. Ford Image

Jan, thank you for your concern about Clint's image. We do have specific permission for the image from the copyright holder, and it is an image of an historic person who is now dead so it cannot be easily reproduced. I have edited the photograph page regarding this.

Nicely, since I now work at the AAVSO, I'm in the position to talk to Kate and Dr. Henden about specifically releasing these pictures under the GFDL, which I'll do!

Thanks again! -Richard "Doc" Kinne (talk) 01:36, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] main namespace

A no tak nehledě na to, jak to chodí zde, tak kdybych si dal žádost o správce (a o byrokratovi už nemluvě) na de.wiki a uvedl jako svou produkci sedum pahýlů, tak mi to tam škrtnou ještě než se někdo dostane k hlasování. Ale zdá se, že takovéto věci, ať se to týká volby nových správců/byrokratů nebo jejich vymobovaného desysopu na cs.wiki nehrají tak důležitou roli. S pozdravem, 87.160.210.181 (talk) 17:04, 9 May 2008 (UTC) (-jkb-, asi nejspíš k sehnání ani ne tak na cs.source jako na de.wiki)

Máte pravdu, bohužel nehrají, a zdá se, že na argumenty nikdo neslyší. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 19:50, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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I think that Sinkhole comes closest to the structure that you describe. The article itself is rather unbalanced with most examples coming from the USA. In France I think that this would be called a gouffre, like this one [3], but they all form when the roof of a cavern collapses. I hope that helps a little. Mikenorton (talk) 15:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Looking again at the Sinkhole article it talks about 'removal' rather than erosion and goes on to specifally mention cavern collapse "Mechanisms of formation may include the gradual removal of slightly soluble bedrock (such as limestone) by percolating water, the collapse of a cave roof". Although it includes structures formed by erosion, most of the examples come from areas with Karst development. Chasm unfortunately is not a very precise term. If I get the time , I will try to improve the Sinkhole article to make it clearer that dissolution is the main cause. Mikenorton (talk) 13:45, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
That sounds like a reasonable solution to me. Mikenorton (talk) 07:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)