User talk:Marcus Cyron

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[edit] Bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks

I was looking on the German version of Wikipedia and noticed that there was a listing of the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks (shown as http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Rennrodel-_und_Bobbahnen). I am planning on creating a list of tracks for this on the English version, but I have a question for you. Do you want to include the natural tracks that are currently used (though they are mainly in luge) on this list? Please advise on my user talk page. Thanks. Chris (talk) 20:12, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I created the English version of this article back in January. I also started on each of the tracks, earning nine DYKs so far (10th if Lillehammer get approved.). I will also do the former tracks no longer at the Winter Olympics on the page as well. Right now I am looking at the natural luge tracks as a separate page with a listing which should more than suffice. There is an anonymous IP who is stating that SV Dynamo used Altenberg as training for this, but the link shown is for biathlon and not bobsleigh. You may want to have a look at this. Chris (talk) 21:27, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh. I didn't realize your first quastion, sorry. Artificial and natural tracks are totally different, so we decided in german WP to seperate such lists. But there are some tracks who don't have or had a cooling. Actually it is only Saint Moritz. Now the last and only track who must build every year new. But these are not really natural tracks made for Natural Luge or Natural Bobsleed Events in the modern meaning of this word. There are much more Natural tracks world wide. They will be used for an other kind of Luge sport. The former olympic tracks are more like Saint Moritz. A modern Natural Track is build in a very other way. You understand a little bit german I see on yout User page. So you maybe try to read the article de:Naturbahnrodeln. There I write something about the technics. Maybe I found someone who can translate it in english, but my english isn't good enough for writing articles. Our list at the german WP has growing a bit in a longer discussion. Actually I believe we must have all relevant tracks there. The tracks with grey color are tracks with colling, white is without cooling and the tracks in light red are not longer existing. The olympic runs because they never were made fore eternity before the 1970th. Ofcourse there are made much more tracks in the times before the 1970th, but these tracks are for luge and bobtrack, who isn't really to compare with our modern sport. This was between the actual versions of the sports and the in the 1970th new created natural track sports. I hope I understand your questions correct and had answered to all. If not - please ask again. And I hope, I could help. Marcus Cyron (talk) 18:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your userpage

Guten Tag, lieber Kollege. Ich habe mir die Freiheit genommen, den englischen Text auf deiner Userpage zu korrigieren und zu aktualisieren. Da es aber sicher schlechte Form ist, anderen auf der Userpage herumzupfuschen, ist meine Version hier zu lesen:

I usually contribute to the German language Wikipedia (see my user page there), but occasionally I work here (I apologise that my English is not the best). On English wikipedia, I mostly work for "interwikification" purposes. I rarely try to write long texts (articles) here, because I'm not sure whether it wouldn't cause more work for someone else rewriting them than it would take me to contribute in the first place. Also, I have more than enough to do on de:WP. There, I'm very active as an admin and author, having started nearly 2,000 articles (including some featured and good ones), mainly on topics to do with archaeology, history or sports. My German edit count stands at nearly 70,000.

Stell sie ein oder lösch sie, ganz nach Bedarf oder Belieben. Gruß aus Athen, athinaios (talk) 18:36, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh, danke - ich bin doch nicht doof, klar nehme ich das :). Marcus Cyron (talk) 19:32, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Das freut mich. Gern geschehen! athinaios (talk) 21:20, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Marcus Cyron! 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) 22:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)