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Hello Wikitravel Sapphire, and welcome to Wikipedia! Here are some recommended guidelines to help you get involved. Please feel free to contact me if you need help with anything. Best of luck and happy editing! WillMak050389 18:49, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Poland contour map

Sure, why not. On the other hand I see no reason to do that as my license is much more free than the CC-by-SA and you are free to make any maps with that one anyway (in fact the set of my blue maps became some sort of a standard on English wiki so there's already a plethora of maps ready, just check what links to the license). But if you believe crediting me and adding CC-by-SA would be in any way better than crediting me and adding GFDL, then go for it. //Halibutt 22:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, it's fine with me. //Halibutt 05:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Great. Thanks. -- Wikitravel Sapphire 05:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] help request

The question: How to I disambiguate Liz Carroll? Currently, the article is about a musician, but I'd like to start an article about one of two suspects in the murder of their foster child, Marcus Fiesel. Help would be appreciated. -- Wikitravel Sapphire 03:07, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Because the person currently at Liz Carroll is likely the predominant use of that name, it should remain at its current title. So, to create a new article of a person with the same name, you would create it at Liz Carroll (SOMETHING), where SOMETHING is usually something like "(author)" or "(politician)". Keep in mind that the new person should independently satisfy the criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (people). It is probably best to integrate the new material you wish to add into the main article on the murder, as this person may only be notable in regard to that murder as a suspect, not in general as a person per se. —Centrxtalk • 03:12, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Would you happen to have an example of the latter (I.e. including the information within the article on Marcus Fiesel? Also, should I add a disambiguator after Marcus' name? -- Wikitravel Sapphire 03:14, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My images and wikitravel

Hi there.. I wasn't aware that wikitravel required the CA-by-SA 1.0 licence. To be entirely honest, I'm not even sure of the differences between the two licences, but I assume the differences are relatively slight. I just had a look at the upload page with available licences and CA-by-SA 1.0, 2.0 and 2.5 are all available to use, but 1.0 is listed as the 'default'... Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:33, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Infobox

Hi Sapphire, thanks for the message you left on my talk page. To answer your question, I suggest you have a good look at Wikipedia:Infobox templates. For the most part everything looks good. I've made some minor changes that utilize the suggested width of 300px, and I have removed the align="left" from all of the sections that don't really need them to cut down on the code involved. Now there are generally two means of implementing this sort of template. You can just post this infobox's code on a page, and then have to copy all of the table code each time you use it, or you can create a infobox in the template name space. Something like Template:Cathedral infobox in which case you would have to change a few things in order to make it work correctly. Have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ships/Tables#Table_of_statistics_for_a_ship for an example of each kind of table. Don't be afraid to change anything I have already changed, and if I can be of more help let me know. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 03:17, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Checkuser request

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[edit] I need your help

Someone has nominated about 20 library articles that I've added for the Libraries in Ohio project to be deleted! I am sick about this. I have spent hours working on these becuase it appears on our project list! Please jump into the discussion here and let them know that this is a Wiki-Ohio project and they should not delete it!!!! delete discussion

I realize that many of these articles are not fully fleshed out. After I have added a few of them as stubs, other people have gone in and added more details. I did my best to make these articles sound from the start, they have references and external links. I don't care if someone wordsmiths what I've added at all, I just hate that all of the hours I've spent on this project is about to be deleted, because I was contributing to a project. If I had come up with the article ideas on my own, and then someone thought they were not notable, I would accept that as part of the community interaction. How can someone just delete articles that are part of a project? I don't understand this, and it has me a bit frustrated. I'm open to any feedback you have.

Thanks!!!!CRKingston 09:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bonn Minster

Thank you for contributing this stub! I will announce it at the announcement page for Germany-related articles. If you write more about Bonn, feel free to announce your articles there yourself and consider joining the WikiProject Germany. Thanks again, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 12:28, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Germany

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

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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! -- Kusma (討論) 06:51, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RC patrol

Hmm... maybe "Überwachung der letzten Änderungen" (supervision/control of most recent changes)? Kusma (討論) 09:09, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. -- Sapphire 19:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Infoboxx

Hello. I saw it used in some artilces about synagogues. It is nice template but notice that there are "minarets", not "minerats" and also it can be more handy, like e.g. {{Infobox mountain}}. - Darwinek 10:42, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Marcus Fiesel nominated for deletion

Since you worked on the Marcus Fiesel article, I thought you might want to know someone has called for its deletion. If this concerns you, please contribute to the deletion discussion. Thanks! Rosemary Amey 16:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Historical Eastern Germany

Perhaps you'd be interested in this:Talk:Historical_Eastern_Germany#Requested_move. -- Hrödberäht (gespräch) 05:07, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Counties maps

Just take this URL, and replace California with the state name of your preference: http://www.fedstats.gov/qf/maps/california_map.html Good luck! jengod 06:26, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox religious building

Hi, I think there is a small problem affecting pages using this template. At the top appears a small line - ; I am not sure how to get rid of it? Chesdovi 13:08, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Do you still see this line? -- Sapphire 18:46, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Relicensing Image:Warszawa_podzial_administracyjny_2002.svg

HI! I would be more than happy to apply a new license to my image but I would very much like to use an up to date license and not a retired one [1] would cc-by-3.0 be acceptable? mfx Q&A 20:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, no. The copyleft for Wikitravel is stuck in the past with the CC-by-SA 1.0 license. It's been a pain for us since a lot of good materials, especially photos, are licensed under the CC-by-SA 2.0 or later. Would is be possible to do CC-by-SA 1.0 and any later? Cheers. -- Sapphire (talk) 04:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
OK. Changed. Hope it helps. mfx Q&A 13:33, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

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Issue II - May 2008
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Here's Issue II of the project newsletter. We're trying to decide if this is sinking or floating. If you would like to contribute to next month's newsletter please jump right in at the News Desk! Have a great May.

The Ohio Portal

The maintainers of the Ohio Portal are looking to get it to featured status. They would like to ask all project members to help improve it any way they can. What needs to be done most is the supplying of selected articles and images.

Selected Article: Indian Head Rock

There is a eight ton rock in Ohio that was removed from the Ohio River. This rock is known as the Indian Head Rock Dating back to the early 1800’s, this rock was seen sticking out of the Ohio River and used as a navigational mark for barges along the river. The names of citizens from the town of Portsmouth, Ohio are carved into the rock from the late nineteenth a early twentieth centuries. Some of the names were of well known families from Ohio. They would swim out to the rock, have their picture taken with it or simply carve their names into it.
With the advent of the Locks and Dams along the Ohio River, the rock eventually was submerged, but the legend lived on. A gentleman from Ironton, Ohio located the rock after searching a very long time for it, and he and a crew of scuba divers recovered the rock and took it to the shore to be donated to Ohio for historical value.
After hearing the news about the rock being removed, Kentucky introduced legislation against the removal of the rock. They also want the diver who found it to be prosecuted for removing the rock. Kentucky owns the greatest part of the land the river runs on. Even the Army Corp. of Engineers got involved as to how to move the rock without damaging it. Kentucky wants to have it returned to the river.
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