User talk:PaulVIF

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[edit] no:

I noticed that on the Sweet Caroline web page, you put:

no:Sweet Caroline

inside double brackets. I'm still trying to learn the "Wikipedia" language. Can you please explain what this "no:" means, either here or on my Talk page? My preference would be a one- or two-liner that basically explains it, rather than a link to some Wikipedia page where I'll have to search through it. You can then enclose such a link for my further edification. My preference is also for any links left on my Talk page to be their long names rather than the WP short forms.

I know I may be asking a lot of you with this request, so if you think I'm out of line, you can either ignore it completely or just send me to a page where I can search for the reply, with the link to this page being in the WP short form. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. RSLitman 00:28, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

The no:Sweet Caroline is the interwiki link to the Norwegian Wikipedia-page about the song Sweet Caroline (that I wrote). It shows on the article page on the left hand, saying in Norwegian Norsk (bokmål). If you click it, you go to the Norwegian articcle about this song. I put it in the English page, instead of waiting that a robot might chatch it up. On both the Norwegian page and the English page, one can now read that it is in these languages that have an article om this subject. Nice that you are writing about Neil Diamond-related topics! --PaulVIF 12:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prime minister of Italy

Hi Paul,

I see that you added a Norwegian interwiki to the article on the prime minister of Italy. I followed the link and it appeared to me to be essentially the same title and content as our list of prime ministers of Italy article, so I changed the link (in no.wiki as well). The WPs in many languages, unfortunately, have only the list article, not the article on the office; it's always confusing when the matchup is not one-one. I gather that you speak Norwegian; maybe you'd be interested in translating the prime minister article? --Trovatore 09:00, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. It seems right now. The robots don't catch up with article where to whole title is in a foreign language - naturally. --PaulVIF 09:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)