User talk:Westermarck

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[edit] Vincent Kompany

Hi and welcome again to wikipedia. Just wanted to say that I reverted your edit on Vincent Kompany as I think there is no reason to change his pob from the French name to the Dutch one, especially since Vincent is French-speaking. Anyway, if you feel bothered by my edit, I propose that you change it again by removing [[Uccle]] and adding [[Uccle|Uccle/Ukkel]] that will appear as Uccle/Ukkel. By the way, there was recently a discussion to decide if we should change the location of the municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region from their French name to a title that contains the Dutch name too. This discussion is now closed but you might be interested in reading it at the relevant talk page and you also may give your opinion even in the discussion even if the vote is now closed. Thanx again for your contributions to wikipedia. Julien Tuerlinckx 22:10, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IJ

The Dutch IJ should always be represented by an I + J on computers, not as the Unicode IJ ligature. Cheers, —Ruud 22:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

So wy there is a unicode caracter?--Westermarck 10:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Because it consered a single letter by most Dutch and it doesn't hurt to include it in Unicode. Historically it has always been written as an I + J on computers, which also has the advantage of being sorted correctly. —Ruud 15:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Honolulu, Hawaiʻi

Ok, Westermarck. While I don't really feel like getting into it with anyone about the rightness or wrongness of spelling Hawaiʻi the way that it is currently generally accepted as the correct way to spell it in the place that the article is about, if you insist on removing the okina, please go through the article word by word and remove all the kahako (the little lines above the vowels) as well. It is very annoying, an eyesore, and frankly nonsensical for you to remove the okina and leave behind all these (excuse my language) half-assed spellings of all the Hawaiian words in the article. It's all or nothing. So if you take it upon yourself to change one part of the article, please do the responsible thing and change the rest of the article to match it.

Westermarck,
Thank you for responding to my suggestion so quickly. I am sorry for my harsh language earlier. I was just a little annoyed that the little bit that I had thought was an improvement was reverted. But you did have a rational argument and it was unfair of me to react negatively to that. You have my apologies. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Viralxtreme14 (talk • contribs) 09:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Bordersville

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This IS a community within the Houston city limits. Therefore, we must have it as "Bordersville, Houston, Texas." WhisperToMe 23:53, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please cite

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[edit] Grand Place

You moved the page back unilaterally even though the current page title is the result of consensus. Please don't do that sort of thing again. -Oreo Priest talk 11:44, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

On further inspection, it was you that moved it in the first place. Seriously, the page title is the result of consensus. Let it be. -Oreo Priest talk 11:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Well it's wrong. Brussels is bilingual, only mentioning the French name does not conform with Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view Plus, Grote Markt is the original name (actualy 'Groote Markt').--Westermarck (talk) 11:49, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Westermarck. I wanted to say a couple things, first, to reinforce what Oreo Priest states above, you must achieve consensus for moves that aren't uncontroversial (and by uncontroversial, I mean correcting typos, capitalization problems, etc.). As for NPOV concerns, they aren't really valid. The only issue that should concern the name of the title is reflecting what name is used in English more frequently. This ensures the page title will fall in line with both WP:UE and WP:NCGN. One last issue is the forward slash in the name, which creates page location issues (i.e, if you look at Talk:Grand Place / Grote Markt, which is now a redirect, you'll see that it's been subordinated to Talk:Grand Place). These situations should be avoided. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me either here or on my talk page. Parsecboy (talk) 14:23, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I know Brussels is bilingual and have been through it a million times, but there was actually a consensus on the talk page. Aside from it being overwhelmingly called Grand Place by English speakers, that's the official UNESCO name. Also, articles should have single titles, so that makes a mess. You'll notice that to try to compensate for the French title, the Flemish name is mentioned first in the first line. -Oreo Priest talk 15:55, 10 June 2008 (UTC)