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[edit] Welcome!

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[edit] Re:2026 FIFA World Cup

Thanks a lot for the link to the source for the 2026 China stuff. Having read it, it does not change my opinion of the 2026 article. The FIFA vice-president mentioned is clearly talking in a hypothetical; he will probably not even be in FIFA when the decision is made. Accordingly, I have decided not to remove the PROD notice; if you wish to, that is your right and I will take it to AfD instead. With regards to 2022, I am deciding whether or not to keep it; for the moment, I will not PROD it, but if 2026 gets deleted easily I might nominate it. Batmanand | Talk 17:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christian Vandevelde

According to his Team CSC profile, the correct form is Christian Vande Velde. It is the most autoritative source I have found.--Per Abrahamsen 20:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I must admit that I have not found the exact correct spelling myself. Three things make me conclude the spelling is probably without the space:
  • Most official sites mention his name without a space, as for instance letour.fr
  • Google, which automatically searches for errors in queries, always ends up saying: Did you mean: Christian Vandevelde? when I type Vande Velde. This means that Christian Vandevelde is far more used than Christian Vande Velde on the internet.
  • Last but not least, Vandevelde comes undoubtedly from Dutch, if he was Dutch or Flemish, the spelling of his name would be Vandevelde or Van De Velde. Both meaning 'From the fields'. Vande Velde is however an unexistent name as Vande is not a word in Dutch and to put the space there is unnatural.

But all in all, I have no watertight proof that one or the other writing is the correct one. --Pelotastalk 20:35, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

It would be "van de Velde" in Dutch (small caps), I don't see that as an argument that the name is has been Americanized one way or the other. If you quote the name, Google has 60k for "Christian Vande velde" and 100k for "Christian Vandevelde", not exactly decisive. So with regard to the last point, authoritative sources, I'd put his employer at the top of the list of those I have seen. They write his paycheck :-) --Per Abrahamsen 13:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Good point, but also no certainty there, the one 'writing' the paycheck is most of the times not the webmaster and typing errors in foreign names are easily made. For now, I can only say that also the German and Dutch wiki use Vandevelde, not Vande Velde. I'll keep searching for sources. --Pelotastalk 13:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mmm... thanks...

...for the cupcakes! Never feel like you have angered anyone by disagreeing with the rest of the people on an AfD. And even if someone was mad, who cares? It's an AfD, not a life-or-death situation -- no one will die because 2022 FIFA World Cup will get deleted, despite a few people objecting. I was really suprised to find the cupcakes on my user page, but thanks anyway! Keep up the good work, and continue to speak up for what you believe in. Ian Manka Talk to me! 17:47, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Hehe, okido! Enjoy the cupcakes. --Pelotastalk 12:50, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] belgian football

Hi Pelotas,

good work on belgian football. Keep it up, Julien Tuerlinckx 12:19, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I'll try! --Pelotastalk 12:50, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] bribing scandal

Hi, I've just read a bit of the article which seems nice at first sight though if i would have a comment it would be that the article seems to go to deep in the details. Actually I'm not quite sure this topic deserves a full article. Maybe including it into a broader "Bribery in Belgian football" could be an idea. It's been a long time i wanted to write stuff about "what's wrong in Belgian football" (bribery, the weak FA which takes suspicious and weak decisions, the lack of money and modern infrastructures, etc) but right now i think making an article on bribery in belgian football is a good compromise. I'll try to help you on that in the future if you think it's a good idea. Julien Tuerlinckx 22:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I was originally just thinking of translating (from the Dutch wikipedia) the final paragraph I haven't done yet and that was it. I have not thought of the 'deepness' of the article or the fact if the topic deserves a full article, but maybe you're right. However, I don't really know a lot about other facets of gambling and bribing in belgian soccer. --Pelotastalk 23:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

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

Thank you for the Dutch literal translation --Cat out 00:44, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

No Problem, I'm not sure if it is entirely right though, the translation I made from Dutch back to English is correct, but I'm not sure about the original English to Dutch. "Cool" does not in any way resemble "Tight". --Pelotastalk 12:01, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian caper

Updated DYK query Did you know? was updated. On 31 July 2006, a fact from the article Canadian caper, which you recently nominated, has been 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.

Many thanks for the interesting nomination! -- Samir धर्म 00:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jean Rossius

hi, no I made an error with the nationality by forgetting to change from French to Belgium. And I was looking at the stage winner thinking it was overall. He was a Belgian cyclist. my other cyclist-stubs should be ok. Sorry for the mistake James Janderson 20:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok, no problem --Pelotastalk 20:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help editing pages, please

Hi

I am Oliviu. Can you please tell me how can I "close" my page (User: Oliviu), so that nobody can edit it but me, just like it's yours? Or at least I would like this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Oliviu&action=edit) to be replaced by this one (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Oliviu) when someone clicks on it.

Thanks.

Regards Oliviu Hirjan

You can ask for protection of a page but I believe a request for that will probably not be given. Don't worry about other people editing your page, you can always go back through the history to your own version, check out "How to revert a page to an earlier version". Mine is not protected in any way, everyone can edit it.--Pelotastalk 14:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Luxembourg

Hi Pelotas, Welcome, but how come that you are working on the lux Wiki? -- Myriam

Well, I'm not planning on editing much on the lux wiki but I will probably have to add some links to pages in other languages which is why I created an account. Although I know French, German and Dutch, I dont speak the luxembourgish languagemix so probably I will not be creating and major pages soon. --Pelotastalk 23:05, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] salve!

Just welcoming you to the Latin wikipedia, where I am an administrator. Feel free to ask me any questions or problems you might have. Gratus apud nos!--Josh Rocchio 00:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC) or better: la:Usor:Ioshus Rocchio

Well thanks! I do have some problems, I'll mention them on your talkpage there. --Pelotastalk 09:52, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, we have many problems with the vandalism of the America pages and the Peru/Chile pages for some reason. This is why they are protected. But they should only be semi-protected, that is protected to unregistered users, or new users. You should be able to edit it within a day or two. As far as links go, if you see any other wiki, please change the link to Civitates Foederatae Americae, as this is the proper latin name for the US. Anything else?--Ioshus 17:40, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Oh ok I understand, that makes sence. Thanks for the information. --Pelotastalk 17:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Protected page

Hi, the page is just semi-protected. You can edit it, when you are logged in. --Roland2 15:03, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

ok thanks! --Pelotastalk 15:08, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Icons

  1. Second yellow - see {{yel}}.
  2. Penalty goal - adding (pen) is standard on most sports websites - the goal is counted as a normal goal, so the icon need not be differnt.
  3. Missed penalty - these are not included in most match summaries.

As for the alternating grey layout - iut is only your opinion that it looks crappy now, but it is not set to white - it is set to transparent. We shouldn't hard-code background colours outisde of the stylesheet. ed g2s • talk 12:19, 25 August 2006 (UTC) ed g2s • talk 12:17, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

True if you are viewing the article on the Wikipedia website using the default skin. If someone else runs a mirror with a different background - or you customise your skin to use a different background, then there is a big difference between white and transparent. ed g2s • talk 12:52, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Ok I can agree that it is just my opinion, but still between white and transparent is not much difference is there? ;) Thanks for the icons, too bad about the missed penalties. :s --Pelotastalk 14:37, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Copyrighted images cannot be used deocratively, see WP:FUC. Team logos need only be used on an article about the club. We try to keep Fair Use to a minimum. ed g2s • talk 13:38, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Because this is the English Wikipedia. ed g2s • talk 10:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay, calm down.. I thought you were talking about this edit. The capitalisation of "results" is simply wrong. The hyphen is open to debate but article titles tend not to use them. "(... August 2006)" or "August 2006 ..." are much more common ways of date grouping (see here for examples). ed g2s • talk 12:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Samogitian Wikipedia

Hello. I'm from Samogitian Wikipedia. My name is Tadas. If you need help say me o other administrators. (Sorry for me english :) )Tadas12 15:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, Pelotas, to Esperanza! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

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Sasuke-kun27 21:33, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! --Pelotastalk 21:56, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belgian names

Thanks for your info. Honestly I do not know for sure if Belgian names always capitalize "Van" or "De". It just appears to me that they are almost always capitalized from the Belgian names I see. I know that it's different from the Dutch, which always use lowercase "van" and "de". As for why I left the comment, this is in response to the previous edits of Stephan Van Der Heyden and Jelle Van Damme. The editors moved the pages from capital to lowercase letters, and left the comments Interjectives should be written without capitals and 'van' in between names needs to be written small, which are certainly incorrect for Belgian names. I guess the editors confused them with Dutch names. As I'm also not 100% correct, I apologize. But it's much more likely that the capitalized "Van" are used in the two names, so I moved them back to its original pages. If there are evidence that the two people use lowercase "van", sure we should move them back. But there aren't, unless we get to see their identity cards, as you suggest. Chanheigeorge 00:36, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

No need to apologise, at least you care! And indeed it is hard to be sure, one can only hope that the names are correctly spelled in the media and work from there, in this case I can say that I don't really know about Van Der Heyden, but Van Damme is commonly spelled with capital letters as part of Anderlecht and the Red Devils. --Pelotastalk 09:03, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Hi

Hi Pelotas,

Please don't take my user page seriously. I don't really care about those things that much, but I find it a lot better to argue about silly things like soccer and the metric systems than war or terrorism or abortion or other things that people get really upset about. If it offends you, I'll take it down. But since you're a Simpsons fan: Can you tell me where I got the title: "These things I believe?" -- Mwalcoff 00:08, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Nono, leave it, doesn't offend me I just found it quite harsh/bold overall. I totally agree that all in all these are just silly things. About the simpsons thinghy, it's when Homer has the right answer to a radio show question. Is it not the title of a Rory Calhoun (?) album? --Pelotastalk 00:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belgian League Results

Hi Pelotas. I see you're an ardent supporter of Belgian football and have put a fair bit of work on the league here. Just to say that we are using a different template for Serie A results if you want to have a look at it. The 16 team version is being used for Portugese league.

Here's a blank 18 team version of the template

  Atalanta Bologna Brescia Chievo Fiorentina Inter Juventus Lazio Lecce Milan Parma Perugia Piacenza Roma Torino Udinese Venezia Verona
Atalanta  
Bologna  
Brescia  
Chievo  
Fiorentina  
Inter  
Juventus  
Lazio  
Lecce  
Milan  
Parma  
Perugia  
Piacenza  
Roma  
Torino  
Udinese  
Venezia  
Verona  

Just to say aswell, that we have it setup on the Serie A page so that if you click on a result in the table you get taken directly to result on the detailed results page. Handy for picking out one result in particular instead of trawling through pages and pages. Niall123 18:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes I've noticed it already, but I believe that the table can be too wide for the people with smaller screens. I would like to see each teamname in the top bar shortened to three letters max. But good work nonetheless, making the results clickable however is a very good idea. I've already copied the idea of a clickable number of goals per team in the standings table. --Pelotastalk 21:01, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm guessing that you're using Firefox. If you look at the table using IE, the names of the clubs along the top are shown as vertical. I've had this discussion already with another person. Here's a screen shot as how it looks on my screen using IE. Screen Shot. Hopefully they'll sort out firefox to fix this. Niall123 21:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Indeed I am using firefox. Looks nice when it's vertical! --Pelotastalk 21:50, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Albanians and Kosovo

My own beliefs on Kosovo and Albania really have very little to do with what I am doing. I am stub sorting. Because of the Albanian nationality law, any ethnic Albanian from any country can be a citizen of the Republic of Albania. However, it is clear from his birth that he is a Kosovar Albanian. The Albania-bio-stub is for people from the Republic of Albania, not any ethnic Albanian person.--Thomas.macmillan 18:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

The Albanian bio stub is for Albanian or Albanian Related football, which this clearly is. Since he is an Albanian Citizen, he should be in the "Albanian footballers" catergory too then. --Pelotastalk 19:12, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UFWC

As you have been a major contributor, I was wondering what you think of what I've been doing at List of winners of Unofficial Football World Championships. Kevin McE 12:48, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks nice, keep going. :) Maybe the date could be set with a green background when a nation captures the title for the first time and red when they last had it? --Pelotastalk 14:58, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE:Template standardizing

Hi Pelotas. It is very tough to standardize all the Belgian templates, so I have made Jupiler League 2006-07 goalscorers look better. kalaha 13:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Template:2006-07 Football Leagues

Hi I've started a discussion regarding this template you contributed to here.[1] Georgeg 21:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday from the Birthday Committee

Wishing Pelotas a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!

Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

Millancad 08:14, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] And from me!

Have a great day, fellow Wikipedian! All the best! Jackrm (talk) 23:48, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Same here:
Just a happy Birthday message to you, Pelotas, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!
  • FROM YOUR FRIEND:

 ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 00:06, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the cup cake :) It brought some joy to me at a time when I am feeling a bit down. Sorry I didn't notice you'd left me the cupcake until now! Thanks also for putting it in the right place! Thanks alot, and I hope you had a great birthday. -JacќяМ ¿Qué? 14:37, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Your user page

I see you want help with your page, can you tell me what you want doing on my talk page? // Finns 22:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I will give it a go for you. // Finns 18:42, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zheyun Ye

In close connection with that article, maybe we could make an article starting from this about the bribing scandal? --Pelotastalk 16:07, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I want to help, although I might lack a bit of time in the near future (examination + holiday trip). But I'll try my best :-) Karma-AH (talk) 15:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)