User talk:Jared Preston

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Jared Preston, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --Etimbo | Talk 11:44, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Selam

Selam , Türk karşıtı kullanıcı Khoikhoi ingilizce wikipedia'da adminlik için şansını deniyor.Daha fazla türk gelirse bunu engelleyebiliriz. Oyunu burdan kullanabilirsin Teşekkürler. (85.97.143.5 18:31, 26 March 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Please use article move

Please use article move rather than to create completely new article with right diacritics and then copying the text. Using move preserves the history of the page.

Right now Plzeň's history length is /1/ and all old information is lost. I would like if you can ask some administrator to delete Plzeň page and then move Plzen to new name. Thanks. Pavel Vozenilek 28 June 2005 22:56 (UTC)

It's more about history of the article that is lost, not talk. Plzen is third largest city in the Czech Republic a got quite a few edits in it. An clean move would be much welcomed.. Pavel Vozenilek 30 June 2005 02:08 (UTC)

[edit] Request for collaboration.

Hello,

Thank you for tagging the Bala S. Manian article for wikification. However, if you would, could you please {{wikify-date|April 2006}} tag instead of the {{wikify}} tag? An effort is underway to make it easier to sort through articles that may require wikification, and your assistance with this effort will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers. Folajimi 12:42, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Benno Möhlmann

I have announced your new stub at Portal:Germany/New article announcements#New stubs. Please add all other articles related to Germany that you create there. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 16:54, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit counting

I need help running one of the back-up edit counters since neither Kate's nor Interiot's tools are working these days. I've read stuff about java script but don't know what it is. Is there no simple way of finding out how many edits a user has without counting them all on the contributions page? – Jared Preston 07:35, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello there. There appear to be two main non-toolserver editcounters at the moment: Interiot's Javascript-based tool (User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js) and Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters/Flcelloguy's Tool. The former is easy to install - refer to http://paperlined.org/apps/wikipedia/Tool2/ for full instructions. The latter, I haven't tried, but it's a Java (not Javascript) based solution so it should be easy to install if you have Java already. Hope this helps. If you need any more help, feel free to ask your question again, and add {{helpme}} to this page again so we know to check back. Cheers, Tangotango 07:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that. If you continue to have problems, you might want to contact Interiot, the author of the tool. As for the difference between Javascript and Java, if you're interested, the JavaScript article provides a little insight as to what Javascript is. Java is more like Javascript's big brother, and it can be used to program complete programs that don't necessarily need to run inside a browser, like Javascript. Anyway, apparently the toolserver problem is being fixed, which should mean that the original edit counter will be back online before too long. Good luck, Tangotango 08:29, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! ;) - Tangotango 08:40, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey Jared, many thanks for the barnstar! I'm really flattered, especially since it's the first time I've received one. I'll be sure to proudly display it on my user page :) Once again, thank you, and happy editing!! -- Tangotango 08:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad too :) I'm sorry, I prefer to keep my online identity separate from my real life one. It's nothing personal, I just prefer it that way. But don't let that detract from our acquaintanceship! Cheers, Tangotango 09:12, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I am male, actually. As you point out, the obsession with trains sort of gives it away, doesn't it ;) I am impressed with your language ability, btw. I was quite surprised when you thanked me in Japanese. :) -- Tangotango 09:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football AID 16 April - 22 April

Thank you for participating in the Football AID vote this week.

Ukrainian Premier League has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

[edit] Re: Barnstar

The counter isn't working in IE or Firefox? If it's Firefox, then try pressing cntrl+F5. Can you see the box or just a bunch of code when you view the page? As for the paper, I read a national paper, The Washington Post. I gave up on The New York Times after finding six grammatical errors in the cover story the first time I picked it up. Grr.... --M @th wiz 20 20 20:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Go to the edit tool and push cntrl+F5 to refresh it. Then look. I just added something to warn users of IE. You used to be a proof-reader? I think I would make an excellent editor. The only thing I hate about the Washington Post is that it gives biased coverage to Palestine over Israel. And the only thing I like about Bush is that he's the first President to support Israel. Other than that, I love the Post and hate Bush. --M @th wiz 20 20 21:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Speaking of proof reading, go to this Post article. There's a correction at the top. Guess who submitted it? Yup, me. (I also corrected their figure for one year, but they didn't put that in the correction.) I sent something in to Free for All, the Post's correction column, but they didn't put it there - they just published it online (and without a name, something which is in Free for All columns). I'm not only a math whiz but a science whiz too. Oh, and I made my corrections from background knowledge only, no Internet/Wikipedia help :) --M @th wiz 20 20 22:33, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mozilla Firefox

I can see that you've been reading up on Firefox. In this edit, thank you for formatting that note into a statistic. However, regarding your citation needed note, if you follow the link that says "market adoption" and then click on the "20%", it takes you to a map showing that Finland's Firefox share is 38.4%. Is this enough, or should it be cited anyways? It's your call - either cite it or remove the tag. Happy editing! --M @th wiz 20 20 19:45, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing that! --M @th wiz 20 20 19:56, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I know some French, but I'm too lazy to try to translate it. Enter Google! (Applause.) (By the way, I love Google and hate Microsoft - live with it.) Google's translation of the page can be found here. I'll use Google's translator to try to converse with people on the Finnish wikipedia. --M @th wiz 20 20 20:16, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Where'd you get that? Google doesn't have a Finish translator?!?!? Anyways, I messaged an admin on the Finnish wikipedia who seems to speak English and was active just one hour ago and asked him/her to respond on my talk page. I hope he/she does! I love seeing that new messages indicator, it makes me feel so good. --M @th wiz 20 20 20:24, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Same thing. I just wanted someone else's perspective on the Finnish use of Firefox. --M @th wiz 20 20 20:32, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Cool Cat/In many languages...

Thank you for the German, Hungarian, Lithuanian translations --Cat out 15:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, no problems. I speak German, and the Hungarian and Lithuanian versions I checked with friends. I'll update once I can guarantee what it is in other languages too! Jared Preston 15:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Impresive. Can you also add a litteral translation back to english? --Cat out 15:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

As far as I'm aware, they all mean "cool". At least the German certainly does! *lol* I have another for you to add (I'm not too sure on how you want it all formatted so I'll leave it here at your disposal) and that's Czech: Hustá kočka. That also literally means "cool cat", but hustá, hustý also means "dense". Hustota is Czech for "density". Jared Preston 20:07, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

PS: In Slovak I've been told that "cool cat" is "cool mačka", they don't appear to have their own word for cool... Jared Preston 20:10, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Many languages dont have an equavalent to "cool", so we need aproximations ;). --Cat out 20:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paul Klee

Of course Klee was of German nationality; he even served in the German army during World War I. The anon had it right. I'm not sure about the "lost German citizenship" part, though; he fled Germany after the Nazis came to power, but whether he lost his German citizenship, I don't know. I only know that he applied twice for Swiss citizenship after his return to Berne (first time denied because he didn't fulfill the conditions (at least 5 (I think) years resident in Switzerland), second time would have been granted, but he died before his application had been handled). Check the extlinks, in particular the "Zentrum Paul Klee". Maybe you'd like to correct your edit there yourself? Lupo 08:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

You wrote: However, it is arguable he ever held German citizenship. He would have only had an Aufenthaltserlaubnis, not Bürgerschaft.

Sorry, that doesn't make sense. As the child of a German father, he was German. Why else would he have served in the German army?

Furthermore, you write: He did qualify for German citizenship through parentage, but, as you correctly point out, was handed to him too late. It was granted on July 5, but he had died 6 days previously.

That doesn't make sense at all. He applied for Swiss citizenship after he had returned to Berne in 1933, and his second application there was handled too slowly. As the son of a German father and a Swiss mother, German and Swiss are the only possibilities. If he had been Swiss, he wouldn't have needed to apply for Swiss citizenship. Therefore, he was German. Q.E.D.

Finally, I don't see any vandalism in that IP's contibution. Lupo 18:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Not to continue arguing, but it took me some time to actually find explicit statements about this issue. Here are just two results from a Google search for +"paul klee" +"deutscher staatsbürger": "Max Beckmann ist nicht nur einer der bedeutendsten Zeitgenossen von Paul Klee und wie dieser deutscher Staatsbürger...", Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland, and "...erhält Klee als deutscher Staatsbürger einen Einberufungsbefehl...", Franz-Marc Gymnasium, Markt Schwaben, Germany. Also of interest is Ein Schweizer ohne roten Pass, Scientific archive of the Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland and the Swissinfo Special on Paul Klee. (I agree that in everything but the passport, he was Swiss, even if he deplored the provincial atmosphere in Berne.) Lupo 14:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] page moves

Before you move any more pages, have a look here Wikipedia:Naming conventions (standard letters with diacritics) and feel free to join on the talk page. To sum up the direction of that proposed convention, we are following the MoS which is very clear that the most common English name be used for articles. If the most common name in English publications does not use diacritics, then wikipedia will reflect that. If the most common name in English publications does use diacritics, then wikipedia will follow that. You moved the Marián Gáborík article without discussing it and you did it wrong so that now it can't be moved back to the agreed upon title of Marian Gaborik (see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Player pages format#Use of diacritics and non-English characters). Whether you agree with this or not does not matter. What does matter is that you contribute to the talk pages before making major changes that go against a working consensus in progress. Masterhatch 21:12, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I see from an earlier comment (about Pilsen) that you have been told about proper page moves before. Please keep that in mind. Masterhatch 21:13, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Languages

Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 16:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Franziska Weisz

Hello Jared! I've just noticed that you created an article about Austrian actress Franziska Weisz months before I did. Well, I did this for the German Wikipedia, de:Franziska Weisz. Franziska answered my mail to her two days ago, so I could correct the article and add some missing credits, especially her exact birth date wich I found nowhere registered. So if you are a fan of her and are interested in updating your English article: Be sure that the information in my article is 100 % correct because she had a look over it herself. I would be glad if you do that because my English skills are almost worth to nothing and in no way suitable to write English Wiki-articles. All the best for you and bye --Mutunus.tutunus 11:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC) You can contact me here.

[edit] Please clean up after yourself

I just ran across the mis-sorted article you created last April at Černý most, for which you failed to add the proper sort keys so that it indexed properly. How many more are there like it? Gene Nygaard 02:07, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jinonice (Prague metro)

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Jinonice (Prague metro), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Jinonice (Prague metro). You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Oo7565 05:54, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of The Wire episodes

Noting that you edited List of The Wire episodes within the last few months I wonder if you have an opinion about the use of screenshots in this article and would welcome your opinion here if you have time.--Opark 77 22:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright problems for Alexander Bonde

Hi! You created a page about Alexander Bonde that looks like a blatant copyright violation, as it is copied from his homepage that does not give a free license. What's the deal? --Poeloq 07:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, should have checked first, but it was quite late then already ;) I reverted the article back to your version. --Poeloq 10:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hadjuk Split

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Hadjuk is absolutely wrong name of the club and means nothing, but Hajduk was a warrior warring against Turkish warriors and is only correct club name. I repaired links that led to this article so it can be deleted.

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[edit] GMX

Hi Jared, could you explain your neutrality issues regarding the GMX article to a layman? Thx, Ondundozonananandana, 6 August 2007

[edit] London Meetup - January 12, 2008

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[edit] Lindenpark

Hi,

In order for a business to remain listed at Wikipedia, it must meet the requirements of WP:CORP. This guideline is designed to prevent establishments from using Wikipedia to promote themselves. This particular article fell far short of that guideline, and was deleted speedily for failing to assert notability. Your statement regarding the website of the fine, world-renowned city of Potsdam was not contained in the article, and would help support its notability. In general, if you are interested in the long-term viability of this article, find more sources and add more content. When was the club founded? When has it been mentioned in the news? Why is it famous? These are important questions. Best wishes, Xoloz (talk) 15:23, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Asian Spirit Flight 321

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[edit] Tiger (energy drink)

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[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Jared Preston! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 03:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] yes

		Found it! Way to go!
		You have found Two One Six Five Five 's barnstar and because of such you get this! Enjoy! {{{1}}}

		The Hidden Page Barnstar
		I award you one for finding User:Trekphiler's page for people who always think that "new message" bar is real. Aren't you glad you checked your mail? Trekphiler (talk) 00:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC) (My system's been down, or I'd have given this sooner.) Have two for me, cobber. Trekphiler (talk) 21:59, 9 June 2008 (UTC)