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[edit] WikiProject France

Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk) 17:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject France

Welcome Kraxler, to the WikiProject France! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on France-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template {{WikiProject France}}.

A few features that you might find helpful:

  • The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you.
  • Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to watchlist it.
  • We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful.
Wikipedia:France-related tasks
You can help! Vous pouvez aider!
 Here are some France related tasks you can do:
view • edit • discuss • history • watch

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project!

STTW (talk) 17:50, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Accents on capital letters in French

This is what the Académie française states on their website ( http://www.academie-francaise.fr/langue/questions.html#accentuation ):

« Accentuation des majuscules »
« Quant à l’utilisation des accents sur les majuscules, il est malheureusement manifeste que l’usage est flottant. On observe dans les textes manuscrits une tendance certaine à l’omission des accents. Il en va de même dans les textes dactylographiés, en raison notamment des possibilités limitées qu’offrent les machines traditionnelles. En typographie, enfin, certains suppriment tous les accents sur les capitales sous prétexte de modernisme, en fait pour réduire les frais de composition.
Il convient cependant d’observer qu’en français, l’accent a pleine valeur orthographique. Son absence ralentit la lecture, fait hésiter sur la prononciation, et peut même induire en erreur.
On veille donc, en bonne typographie, à utiliser systématiquement les capitales accentuées, y compris la préposition À, comme le font bien sûr tous les dictionnaires, à commencer par le Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, ou les grammaires, comme le Bon usage de Grevisse, mais aussi l’Imprimerie nationale, la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, etc. Quant aux textes manuscrits ou dactylographiés, il est évident que leurs auteurs, dans un souci de clarté et de correction, auraient tout intérêt à suivre également cette règle, en tirant éventuellement parti des ressources nouvelles que peuvent offrir les traitements de texte modernes.
Il en va de même pour le tréma et la cédille. »

(In English - for others who may not understand the above:)

"Accentuation on capital letters"
"As for the use of accents on the capital letters, it is unfortunately manifest that their use fluctuates. One observes in handwritten texts an unquestionable tendency to omit accents. The same applies to typed texts, because of, in particular, the limited possibilities which are available on traditional machines [i.e., typewriters]. In typography, finally, some [companies] remove all the accents on capitals under the pretext of modernism, but in fact, it is to reduce the expenses of composition.
However, it is advisable to observe that in French, the accent has full orthographical value. Its absence slows down reading, makes [readers] hesitate over the pronunciation, and can even induce errors.
Thus, one takes care in good typography, to use accentuated capitals systematically, including the preposition « À », as of course all dictionaries make it, beginning with the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, or grammars, like Bon usage by Grevisse, and also the Imprimerie nationale, the Pleiad Library, etc. As for handwritten or typed texts, it is obvious that authors, in their preoccupation for clearness and a correction, would have complete interest to also follow this rule, by possibly benefitting from the new resources which can offer modern text processing [i.e., computers].
The same applies to the dieresis and the cedilla." Charvex 10:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Newsletter n°1

Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:

  • In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
  • I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
  • I have made a Wikipedia advert for our project, Image:Qxz-ad108.gif, what do you think? Personally I feel the words need improving ...
  • There are still map problems at Template:French commune - any help at resolving them would be greatly appreciated.
  • What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria.

It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, ChrisDHDR (17:17, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).


[edit] WikiProject Newsletter n°2

It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return!

Well, that's this issue. Au revoir et à bientôt till the next time, ChrisDHDR (18:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)).


[edit] NYS history articles on landmarks

Hi Kraxler -- I noted your history interest stated on the NYS wikiproject page. I wonder, could you take a look at List of National Historic Landmarks in New York, and pick out any one of them to develop somewhat more? I have done a lot of work to link in some good sources to its articles, but then there is so much to write! The main good source i'm referring to is the historical writeup in the nomination of each site for NHL status. I and some others hope for the list page to become a featured list sometime soon. I am afraid that some of its blurbs on the NHLs don't yet capture the most important things to note, so any editing on the list page would be appreciated, too. Anyhow, keep up your good work editing on wikipedia. Cheers, doncram (talk) 02:26, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Robert Pruyn

Thanks for the interesting updates to my stub. I fleshed it out with some refs and sources. You might want to check out The Early Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Japan, 1853-1865, which has forty some odd pages on Pruyn. MrPrada (talk) 17:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)



[edit] WikiCookie

Just stopping by with cookies for those editors who started new articles today. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:03, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Just stopping by with cookies for those editors who started new articles today. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:03, 6 May 2008 (UTC)