User talk:Van der Hoorn

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If you have any stars to give me, please do so at User talk:Van der Hoorn/Star. That will keep this page clean for conversation. Thanks! Van der Hoorn (talk) 22:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] National Variants of English

Hi and welcome (or should I say G'day mate). Can you please use the appropriate spelling of words for the region the article is about. In Australia we have barbeques and spell it that way. I've reverted a number of edits you made to articles about Australia using WP:ENGVAR (Articles that focus on a topic specific to a particular English-speaking country should generally conform to the usage and spelling of that country) as the basis for doing so. Alex Sims 06:38, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. The correct spelling of the word (even in Australian English) is barbecue, not barbeque. That some folks spell it differently, doesn't mean it's correct. Van der Hoorn 15:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
According to the Macquarie Dictionary 4th ed 2005 "The alternative spelling barbeque is much more widely used in Australia than in the US or UK". The dictionary marks barbecue as the head entry and more common and thus you should find this used exclusively on the ABC (although google shows 1980 for barbecue but still 1080 for barbeque). Nevertheless in Australian English barbeque is perfectly acceptable and in the article on Glover Playgrounds the local council used this spelling on their material which I cited. As to the Oxford Dictionary it doesn't even mention barbeque. Alex Sims 10:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

"The Dictionary of American English shows that the word [barbeque] was used in America at least by 1655, when it first appeared in print, and by 1733 it had taken on the implications of a social gathering. By 1836 barbeques were popular in Texas...” The Encyclopedia of American Food, John Mariani [Lebhar-Friedman:New York] 1999pg1Osakadan 14:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I see you also were 'Barbequed' and thought I'd extend my support. I put a fact or two about the spellings on my user page if you want to argue back. Good luck. Ewen 14:49, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HDJ High School

I wanted to take this time to thank you for your contribution to the Harry D. Jacobs High School article. I appreciate your reading over everything and correcting my typo.

By the way, you seem more than qualified as a WikiGnome. You might consider adding it to your userpage. Limp Trizkit 05:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the spelling help

Thanks for the spelling edits on the "Seconds" article - I tend to fly too fast sometimes - or is it "tend too fly to fast?" I'm pretty sure its the first one.

I'd be interested in knowing what led you to read the "Seconds" article?

todd@idratherdirect.com

[edit] Redirects

Hi, I noticed you were editing lots of links. Just wanted to make sure you're aware of the recommendations at Wikipedia:Redirect#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken. Cheers, Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually I wasnt :S Thanks for the hint, I'll be more careful in the future. Van der Hoorn 20:42, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Western Sahara

Hi, you have reverted my edits to WS as vandalism. You do better familiarize yourself with the meaning of vandalism and its use. I removed three categories that do not apply to Western Sahara: it is not a AU member state (it is different from the SADR which is a member), it is not a spanish speaking "country". you will hardly find anyone less than 40 years old who can speak spanish. Finally, it is not under military occupation because it is a disputed territory and not occupied. Saying it is a military occupation is dismissing the claim of one of the parties to the conflict which the UN has not done. Cheers. --A Jalil 12:52, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

According to the AU page it is a member state (see the colored picture), therefore I assumed your edits were vandalism. If you watch the Western Sahara page, you know that a lot of vandalism takes place, so please do not feel offended, it was not my intention. Also, it might be wise to put your motivations in the discussion thread, so others will understand them. Greets. Van der Hoorn 12:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sheerness FAC

Hi. I'm sorry to bother you, but as a Wikiproject Grammar member, I just wondered if you would be willing to have a look through the Sheerness article. It is currently a Featured Article Candidate and needs a copy-edit for grammar by someone who hasn't yet seen it. Any other ways to improve the article would also be welcome. Thank you very much, if you can. Epbr123 23:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Viking picture

Hoi, de bron van de viking foto is [1]. Groeten, 80.100.145.237 16:21, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hoi Van der Hoorn

Dear Van der Hoorn,

Hi! First of all, I want to congratulate you for your great work on Wikipedia.

I would like to know if you could please help with adding a brief NL translation of the PIP-English Wikipedia article or a translation (to the Dutch language) from the Lingua Latina shorter-version of the Independentiae Portus Divitis article.

If you could help with that, that would be great and I would be very grateful!

Anticipated thanks,

Boricua janitoress (talk) 03:18, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Explorer program

Thanks for sorting this out; I'd come to the same conclusion about the names. Sardanaphalus (talk) 15:10, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "indirect link -> direct link" - some good edits, but a bad reason...

Hi,

I notice you've been making several edits with the above comment. Some of them are good edits, such as "Mariner I" to its correct name, "Mariner 1", but the reason it's a good edit is not because it's no longer an indirect link; it's because you corrected the content of the article.

Please see Wikipedia:Redirect#Do not change links to redirects that are not broken. There is no benefit to changing a link just because it is to a redirect; redirects perform useful purposes. For example, there's no particular benefit to changing Ruby to Ruby, as you did on Talk:Interpreted language; it doesn't change the reader's experience in any way. Mostly, it's just churn in the change log. Regards, NapoliRoma (talk) 03:56, 10 March 2008 (UTC)