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[edit] Lakes

Please do not add Canadian lakes to "Lakes of Canada" category, this category has got already a subcategories. Subcategorization is common policy on Wikipedia. -- Darwinek 11:00, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

No. They should be added to apropriate categories. New Brunswick, Nunavut etc. should be created. It's not true that categorization is Wikipedia standard. Subcategorization is Wikipedia rule! Look at category "Explorers", you won't find a single article there. All are in subcategories. Subcategorization is more logical, imagine all rivers in the USA in one category, total chaos. Deal with the Wikipedia's rules or the community will eat you alive. This is what I have learned here for being here almost two years. -- Darwinek 16:33, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] French commune stubs

I've noticed you've made some quick stubs for a number of French communes. Note that most regions of France have their own stub category (see the subcategories at Category:France geography stubs). Also, it is more helpful if you can find some information and put in the infobox {{French commune}}. If the information is not on the corresponding French page, it is often on the Italian, Dutch, or Polish pages for the commune. Finally, I noticed some of them are missing a period (.) at the end of the sentence, a simple grammatical mistake, perhaps from copying text. Please be careful to make them full sentences. You may also want to look at Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes for more help and sympathy. Thanks for your dedication! Rigadoun (talk) 18:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marrakech Enquiry

In repsonse to your question on Marrakech:

Here is Wikipedia's stance on issues such as this: Manual_of_Style: Disputes_over_style_issues

[edit] ...ourist or ...orist?

Fowler says that words ending ...our retain the 'u' when 'ist' is added, but it's not important enough to argue about. And styles have probably changed since Fowler wrote. I give in. CanOfWorms 10:56, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use image use

Recently, you've added a number of copyrighted, fair use images to templates. For example, [1][2]. Please be aware that per Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria item #9, the use of such images on templates is not permitted. Myself and others have gone through and removed these and other additions by you. Please do not put these images or any other fair use images back on the templates. If you have questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. Thanks, --Durin 14:36, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject France

Welcome Tomkeene, 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) 10:33, 25 June 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 (17:21, 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 (18:44, 9 December 2007 (UTC)).

[edit] Matti Rantanen

Another editor has added the {{prod}} template to the article Matti Rantanen, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 14:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Contemporary music

Hi Tomkeene, I wonder if you would be interested in joining the new WikiProject Contemporary music that I helped organize recently? Our goal is to help improve Wikipedia’s coverage of the subject. Best, --S.dedalus (talk) 22:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Christian Urhan

Dear Tomkeene, If you can bear to cast your mind back 9 months, do you remember what your original source was for this violinist's vital details etc and what you wrote about him? (as you originated the article). I have just added the Wirth references, and am looking for more (someone tagged it in September for non-ref), and it would be great if you could point the way to where your first stuff came from. If not, never mind, no problemo! best wishes Eebahgum (talk) 12:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I am very grateful to know that. I should have checked before asking but have mind like sieve. Thankyou! best wishes Eebahgum (talk) 13:50, 13 March 2008 (UTC)