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[edit] Getting in Touch

[edit] DC Meetup notice

Greetings. There is going to be a Washington DC Wikipedia meetup on next Saturday, July 21st at 5pm in DC. Since you are listed in Category:Wikipedians_in_Maryland, I thought I'd invite you to come. I'm sorry about the short notice for the meeting. Hopefully we'll do somewhat better in that regard next time. If you can't come but want to make sure that you are informed of future meetings be sure to list yourself under "but let me know about future events", and if you don't want to get any future direct notices \(like this one\), you can list yourself under "I'm not interested in attending any others either" on the DC meetup page.--Gmaxwell 00:27, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4.

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Brigham Young University

[edit] Brigham Young University Wikiproject

This new wikiproject has been proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Brigham Young University. Please sign up in order to improve the quality of BYU related articles on wikipedia, including BYU-Idaho and BYU-Hawaii. Thanks. Wrad 01:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Brigham Young University people

[edit] Doug Stewart

Same article so I won't start a new one. Doug Stewart is a writer and a playwright apparently (he wrote that horrible musical "Saturday's Warrior"), but the person who added him to the article didn't check to make sure the link went to the right person. There's no article about the Doug Stewart the editor meant to link to, so it's up in the air whether or not he's really that notable to add to the list of alumni/people to begin with. What say you? --ScreaminEagle 07:02, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I see.  Thanks for the information on that.  I've seen Saturday's Warrior a few times (back in the 1980s when it was quite popular in Utah), but had no idea who wrote it, and can't say that I was ever interested in knowing that fact.  Seeing as how Saturday's Warrior has been a rather important part of Mormon pop-culture, I think it could be left there.  If someone puts it back, I won't delete it.  —  John 14:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Page Itself

V-ball, I think it would be better to have a page called "List of Brigham Young University people" instead of one called "List of Brigham Young University alumni." That way, the page could include notable people associated with BYU who are not alumni (current students, dropouts, professors, university presidents, former students who complete their studies elsewhere, etc). Check out the articles for Harvard and Yale Universities; I believe they link to "people" pages rather than "alumni" pages. JackWilliams 01:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC) JackWilliams 01:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I saw the updated page and the link's new description on the BYU page, and I think everything looks good.  Thanks! — John 03:05, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Czech Republic

[edit] Brno

[edit] Etymology of Brno

I changed the text a bit and added one source (not a scholar one). Your wish for sources is very much spot on. Pavel Vozenilek 02:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Germans and their role in Brno's history

Please provide source to these edits otherwise we need to pick up the first sourced one or delete whole paragraph.

Do you really think that this unreferenced unsourced statement:
Thousands of them died on the way (Brünner Todesmarsch, Brünn death march) due to exertion.
fulfils NPOV ?
≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 00:42, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you're quoting here, but the whole paragraph does need to go.  That's what I said on my comments on the talk page for Brno.
I think facts, if that's what they really are, are POV.  If something happened, even if it makes people mad, it's POV.  You're right that it's unsourced, though, and it should go, too.  I'll delete it right now. — John 02:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Cz-coa-Brno.png listed for deletion

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[edit] Sorting external links lexicographically

I'd reverted the edit [1]. The municipal website is the most important here while the locatin on map link already duplicates the map in article, for example.

IMO the links should NOT be sorted lexicographically but by relevance and assesment of relevance is rather easy on such towns. Pavel Vozenilek 21:52, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template: Czech statutory City

Hi, I'm from Brno, and "místní část" isn't administrative unit. "Katastrální území" = Cadastral area. --KirkEN 20:56, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page elements

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[edit] Userboxes

[edit] WikiSk template

Hello,

I have recently created a template which can be used on the user pages of those who contribute to the Slovak Wikipedia as well.  If you do, and if you are interested, you can have a look at Template:User wikisk. Jan.Kamenicek 22:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. — John 16:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wikiru userbox

In an attempt to avert an edit war, I wanted to discuss something about the aforementioned userbox. When a nationality is mentioned as a language, Russians put the prefix "по-" in front. That way, we would avoid confusion and have a little understanding re: this matter.

Thanks for your concern and interest. --J-AyeB(c)82 00:00, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

The part about по- in front is not necessarily true.  The adverb по-русски does not necessarily mean in [the] Russian [language], although it can mean that; it can also mean in a Russian manner or in a Russian style.  Almost any adjective, related to a nationality or not, can be turned into an adverb in Russian by using по- in front and dropping the final й or by putting the adjective in dative case (i.e., по-моему).
A few more examples may be in order here.  По-чешски can mean in [the] Czech [language] as in the sentence я говорю по-чешски (which can also be said я говорю на чешском [языке]), or it can mean in a Czech style as in the sentence они это сделали по-чешски, which means they did that the Czech way.  The adverb по-людски means as others do or in the acceptable way.
So, with that background, we need to look at what we're trying to translate, and that is the phrase, "I support the Russian-language Wikipedia with my contributions."  As with any translation, there are probably 8,000 different ways to render this in idiomatically correct Russian.  There are, of course, just as many possibilities at an incorrect translation.  The most literal approach would be я поддерживаю рускоязычную Википедию моими вкладами.  The box's current translation, я сотрудничаю в русской Википедии isn't bad and would be reverse-rendered as "I contribute to the Russian Wikipedia," which accurately conveys what we're looking for and is idiomatically correct Russian.  Returning to я сотрудничаю в Википедии по-русском leaves us with "I contribute to Wikipedia the Russian way," which isn't really what we're looking for, and the word по-русском is impossible in the Russian language (it's grammatically incorrect).  Russian in our translation is an adjective (русский) and not an adverb (по-русски).
If that doesn't make sense, post again on my talk page or e-mail, I'm happy to help.
John 01:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


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