User talk:Ahoerstemeier/Archive 4

Portal Physik

Hallo Andy,

vielleicht hast Du es schon gesehen: ich hab ein Portal Physik aufgesetzt. Vielleicht hast Du gelegentlich Zeit und Lust, da mal ein Auge - und ein paar Tastenanschläge - draufzuwerfen. (Noch vier Wochen, dann gehts nach LOS). --Media_lib (Michael)

English poetry

Thanks for catching that vandalism. I was actually editing the page further down at the time so had no idea it was happening. I find it really hard to understand why people do that stuff. Bmills 15:44, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

List of places in Germany

Hi, I would appreciate your input on Talk:List_of_places_in_Germany. Thank you. -- Baldhur 17:26, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Districts quick link at bottom of district pages

Hi, why should a pattern that works perfectly for other Swedish, Dutch, Italian places not work for German places? Greetz, Sunny.

Maybe this is best discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject German districts. I just think they are not really needed, and especially in Bavaria with 80 districts they are way too big to be useful. andy 22:12, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Nena

If Nena was an unique name that only one individual possessed I believe I would agree with the word linking simply to her but it doesn't take long to find more people with the name, and even reading the original article itself states that her original name was not Nena. I'm sorry if my major edits caused any of an uproar but I do believe it's unfair to other individuals that have the same name to have the name link straight to her. Daniel

But if 99% of the times someone says Nena means the singer, then it is enough to guide to the alternative meanings as it was done originally. I have no idea how much well-known these two organizations are, at least for me I have never heard of them. But we best continue the discussion at Talk:Nena. andy 19:29, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks a lot for moving my "Interesting" subpage. I hadn't realized my mistake. Wikikiwi 12:50, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

216.124.53.114

Are you blocking this idiot? I reverted some stuff he added to Britney Spears Bmills 15:20, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It were just two edits so far. Normally the first bad edit I revert without comment, the second I write a warning on the talk page, and only if the vandal continues thereafter I step forward to block him. andy 15:38, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I blocked after the 2nd Ms Spears thing, which was his/her 3rd rape-centred contribution. Bmills 15:41, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User page on Wikinfo

You asked to have your user page deleted at Wikinfo. But that page did not actually exist there until you edited it. When you went there, it presented you with a copy of the Wikipedia user page that is provided by Wikipedia in XML format. That page did not actually exist in the Wikinfo database until you changed it and saved it there.24.144.15.243 13:55, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Well, but it looked like it existed there, so I haven't checked in depth why it may not be really there. Having such a copy I could accept/expect for articles, but not for user pages. And I only stumbled upon it as it was linked from google, so that even more made it look like I am a contributor to WikInfo. andy 14:01, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

When you edit your user page on Wikipedia it says right under the save page button that it is released under the GFDL and in bold letters says DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION. If its released under GFDL its fair game. Even so, its not a habit of anyone to copy useless Wikipedia user pages over to Wikinfo. I think Fred Bauder has copied a couple to get some text out of them but its not a real big practice to copy Wikipedia user pages since they serve no real purpose there.

If it is the opinion of most Wikipedia folks that user pages should not be released under GFDL then Wikipedia should remove the notice from the page, remove the notice under the save page button, and stop exporting user pages via XML. Wikinfo would not have been able to import the article if Wikipedia were not exporting it. The XML import/export was done by MRM Parrott as a convenience. It does not discriminate between any Wikipedia articles, it only checks to see if Wikipedia offers them up or not. If not, no import.

Holocaust denial

You MUST KNOW the auschwitz facility tour is a total lie. Has it not been debunked?

cmon... I stopped editing the other page just so you wouldn't have to argue me there.

I only know there are few who believe it is a lie. The vast majority believe it is the truth - and I belong to that majority. Thus as long as you modify the article to state only the minority view it will get changed back - but as we have the Wikipedia:NPOV policy there is absolutely no problem with adding descriptions about the Holocaust denials, as long as it stays neutral and not claims that the Holocaust did not happen. Thus "Auschwitz is a lie" is unacceptable, however "A minority around of people Zündel deny the Holocaust" is no problem. You might have noticed that I wasn't the only one who reverted your changes, or tried to make them NPOV.

BTW: Discussions about articles belong into the talk pages associated with the articles, not into the article themself. You can use the link "Discuss with article". Discussion in the article will get deleted. andy 23:03, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Deleted test

Hi Andy, [[Mediawiki:Dtest]] is now [[Mediawiki:Delete]]. I'm just telling you because {{msg:dtest}} appears on this page. Angela. 13:27, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

Hi would you mind if the above link to MediaWiki:delete were not a link? I'm trying to clean up the number of pages linking to that page to make it easier to spot real candidates. thanks, Dori | Talk 15:14, Feb 25, 2004 (UTC)

Done andy 15:16, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Message from 65.125.10.66

Moved from your user page to this talk page (from 65.125.10.66, not from me):

STOP VANDALIZING THIS ARTICLE AND REVERTING and RE-DIRECTING IT!!!:

"A supremacist -- of whatever race -- is distinct from a 'separatist.' A separatist may believe that his race is superior to other races in some or all characteristics, but this is not his essential belief. The separatist is defined by his wish for freedom and independence for his people. He wishes them to have their own society, to be led by their own kind, to have a government which looks out for their interests alone. The separatist does not wish to live in a multiracial society at all, so he naturally has no desire to rule over other races -- since such rule necessitates the multiracial society the separatist wants to avoid at all costs.

A supremacist, in contrast, demands a multiracial society, since it is the supremacist's express wish that he dominate or rule over other races in such a society, such rule often being justified by a doctrine of racial superiority."

Thanks! :D

I will revert every time you blank a page, or add discussion into the article, or your addition looks POV at first sight. Please discuss in talk pages! andy 16:20, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

You really do have no business "mis-re-directing" any NPOV article to only a POV one, whatsoever!

I have stated my position about insisting upon the Wiki NPOV in many "talk pages", and you and your own biased POV ilk always still mis-re-direct or you revert, and always without any rational nor any truthful rationale, whatsoever!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:National_Alliance&action=history

Enough already!

Thanks! :D

Yes, enough cluttering the editing history with reverts and back-reverts. If you don't see the pattern that the majority here thinks your addition is POV then I cannot help you. Maybe you should take a look at http://wikinfo.org, which is similar to wikipedia but which less focus on NPOV. Maybe you can get your changes alive there. andy 16:05, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The "pattern" here is only that the Wiki NPOV is actually NOT being upheld by either the likes of you or by your "minority" or Marxist-PC "majority" ilk of POV dogmatic censors and POV bigots. How, specifically, is that article NOT any NPOV verses any POV that is non-factual? Curious.

Lebach

Darn -- you beat me! And I only had Saarland, not the Saarlouis dist. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 22:44, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

But you beat me by speed - darn laptop, with my desktop PC I could've typed faster :-) Hope you don't mind I pasted my version over yours... andy 22:48, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Two editors are better than one ! :) BCorr ¤ Брайен 22:51, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sorry

That I didn't come back to you yet on the statistics. I am editing in an internetcafe and I need to bring the book with me. Out of the top of my head it is published by Alpha Research. I will try not to forget it next time. Waerth 15:20, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

No problem - I doubt that book is available here anyway (or if it is then it'll be much more expensive than in BKK), so I have to wait till my next trip to BKK anyway. And that'll be sometime near the end of this year. Only other use is to give a reference for the numbers here. I am not sure if I asked it before - does that book have any historic population numbers as well - I could find some at the census website, but they are incomplete, and to make it worse are not the same I have in a book on country subdivision in general (ISBN 0786407298). andy 15:28, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

If you come to Thailand send me a message, maybe we could have a drink somewhere. I have written the national statistics service people about this, no answer yet. Waerth 15:33, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Here are the details:

Pocket Thailand in figures

6th edition, 2003

Alpha Research Co. Ltd.

ISBN 9749099052

Waerth 15:35, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. And I will for sure send you a note when I will be in BKK next time. andy 15:51, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Transliteration issues

Hi Andy,

I want to invite you to weigh in at the new discussion of related matters that have come up in the last few days at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(places)#Transliteration_of_Russian_place_names. Please see the intro paragraph of Boris Yeltsin to see an example of what's been going on with articles on Russians and places in Russia....

Also, if you haven't already do so, you might want to take a look through Cantus's contributions.

Right now, the main participants in the discussion are the two people who've been changing the formats of intro paragraphs of articles -- both of whom have been here for less than a month and seem rather uninterested in other people's points of view. Many thanks, BCorr ¤ Брайен 13:43, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

Isaan

Hi, thanks for noticing the Isaan article (I didn't create it- just tinkered). I'll keep working away on Thailand- there's plenty more to be done. :) Markalexander100 03:19, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Long Crendon

Thank you for your revert of the Long Crendon talk page. This user has been vandalising this and other pages I've written since October 2003, and is impossible to block because they have a non-static IP. See report under "Various IP's" on Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress. -- Graham  :) 15:35, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I know - I have Long Crendon in my watchlist, so I can revert his vandalism even if it went unnoticed on the recent changes. This vandal is quite persistent. andy 15:37, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It's in my watchlist too, partly for the same reason, although all the places in Bucks are in my watchlist because I wrote most of them... Anyway as long as there's two of us watching out for this idiot we should be alright. Graham  :) 15:42, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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I saw your revert on the Problems of land distribution in Zimbabwe page. That anon's been trolling and vandalizing the Zimbabwe-related articles with for weeks. Could you ban the IP address next time (there will be a next time) the page is vandalized? Since I made some comments on the talk page, I don't want to be the one forced to ban the IP. 172 13:15, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Brazil

Hi. I made a States of Brazil map in about 30 minutes ;) I noticed only a few of the states have locator maps, though.... :( Morwen 19:02, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

Simply because I prefer to have more than just a stub "xxx is a state of yyy" - thus when I added a state map I also wrote a good article with at least some history, geography, the flag description. And lately I haven't found the time to work on Brazil, so much other cleaning up to do... But good work with the map with all the states. andy 19:42, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This is true, but why not upload the maps even if there are no stubs to hold them? But no matter, I will do them myself (and keep the colours to match with the olders ones) Morwen 19:46, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

That's why I uploaded that "empty map", so someone who wants to create them can do so. But feel free to create them - I doubt I can catch up with subdivision maps with you anymore anyway, you have created so many lately :-) As for the colors it's good to have at least one country in the same style - we can reupload a new version later once we established the Wikipedia map color standard. andy 19:52, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, and yeah. By the way, do you know where the source maps are for the States of Germany? The one on that page comes out pretty badly, i'm not quite sure why... Morwen 20:10, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

Not really. But you're right, the gray pixels around the black borders don't look that good. But at least that one would be easy to recreate, for example I have it as vector data for PanMap - and then the neighbor countries can be included easily. The countries which changed their subdivision lately are more difficult - e.g. I am no really sure if the maps I made for Laos have the boundary of the new special zone at least approximately correct. andy 20:15, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:Bird

I would appreciate if you would not interfere with communications. It appears you were born into a country where interfering with the rights of others is a long tradition, and it is evident you are not equipped to make reliable judgments about the boundaries of your personal authority.

As I guess you are User:Bird - why don't you just accept that you are not welcome here anymore? Noone wants to fight anyone, but your actions aren't peaceful as well. If your local pub owner does not allow you to enter you cannot force entry with any free speech legislation. andy 09:09, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thai provinces and Saisombun special zone

Hello Andy, I finally finished with all of the Thai provinces on the Dutch wiki. So you can take current population from there and put them on the en wiki. Saisombun is not a special zone anymore, according to ISO updates it is now a province. Sawasdee kap, Waerth 09:21, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. But are you sure about Saisombun - the last of the ISO3166-2 updates which mentions Laos is issue 4, and in that it corrects a mistake in update 2, where Saisombun was first announced, but as a province. BTW: can you check if I did the drawing of the boundary of Saisombun correctly? My base map did not include it, and on the web there were only contradicting or bad maps with it. andy 09:37, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

==What I have heard now here in Laos is that the previous saisombun special area has been devided into two parts: the west belongs now to vientiane province and the east to the province where Phonsavanh is the capital (forgot its name)

Maps x 2

You might be interested in a list at Wikipedia:Requested_articles/subdivisions I've started about the current states of country subdivisions articles. Morwen 21:43, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)

Good idea, I'll add it to my watchlist. I already added three more finished ones, even though you haven't reached them my alphabet yet. Now we just need to make sure we avoid the duplicate work we did with the States of Germany - maybe by a kind of adopting of subdivision on that list. But now back to Argentina :-) andy 21:51, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Just curious about the fifth color you added for maps - could you show me an example of a situation in which a fifth color would be needed? I'm not too clear on what it's there for. Thanks! -- Wapcaplet 20:00, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Sure - it's at Provinces of Thailand. Of course I am aware of the four-color theorem, but as it has five regions in Thailand IMHO five colors are better than one color repeated. andy 20:01, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

OK, that makes sense. I have a feeling we'll be adding even more colors along those lines, anyway (as long as we don't get carried away :-) -- Wapcaplet 00:52, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Pictures

You have some great photos displayed on your album page. I've been working on the German-English textbook at Wikibooks and would like to use somne over there. Also, I identified your unknown "Thailand" snail for you. I have a similar picture that is just slightly better focused. I may swap it for yours at snail or save mine for the Achatina family or genus page. I'll let you know where it is when I get it uploaded and you can see the great "similarity" - Marshman 20:14, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC) - My photo is HERE.

Feel free to use those photos, just keeping the reference is all I ask for. As for the identification of the snail species - thanks, but are you sure it has a African snail in Thailand? Was it introduced there, or is it just a bad common name? At least the giant is correct - it was quite a huge one, otherwise I wouldn't have considered to take a photo of it. andy 20:26, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Oh yea, it is Achatina (see my picture). I'm sure it was introduced (is non-native) to Thailand. It is a significant pest species now widely distributed in the world tropics. - Marshman

Thai provinces and cities

Hi, any thoughts on the best way of linking from each Thai province to its capital? A reference in the text, or a disambiguation notice at the top of the page? Markalexander100 08:28, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I am not sure myself. The link from the province to the city is rather clear - it has the link in the fact box, and it also can have another link in the Amphoe list for the Amphoe Mueang. However it is a bit more difficult for the city - e.g. when Kalasin is said without changwat or mueang before it can both mean the province or the city, but in most case it doesn't matter as especially historically both were essentially the same. In Kalasin you can find a small disambiguation header guiding to the province, for other cities, e.g. Surat Thani I skipped it - as at least for me the bare name more refers to the city. Only for Ayutthaya and Sukhothai I made a real disambiguation page, as those names also refer to the periods of thai history.

We just should try to keep it consistant. How about having the small disambiguation header for the small provincial cities, but skip it for the bigger ones more well-known outside Thailand? Those will have the link to the province in the text anyway. andy 08:44, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• That sounds reasonable- thanks. Markalexander100 02:51, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Donard Park

I think it is very sad that you can't accept the fact that there is a child prostitution problem in Donard Park. Wake up to the world.

217.33.82.4 11:09, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Copying my comment I just posted to your talk:

Granted, there may be prostitution in that park, maybe even by underaged prostitutes, but that isn't the most defining fact about that park for sure. There are many more appropiate topic - when was it established, now big is it, does it have any noteworthy plants only present there and nowhere else in Ireland. If that article grew beyond stub level even a short sentence like "Prostitution is a problem in the park, making it an unsafe place at night" would be much more fitting then making a kind of ad where to find underaged prostitutes. andy 11:11, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Thank you for your advice, I never meant it to be an advertisment for child prostitution, in fact i wanted it to be the exact opposite, to warn people that there are dangers of this park. This was mearly meant to be an addition of facts about Donard Park, for example you want want to point out the dangers of climbing Mount Everest but you would still be advertising to masochists, it is impossible not to make something an advantage or an attraction to someone in the world. 217.33.82.4 13:12, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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I do not agree. I feel it is sad that you still do not want to highlight the problem of child prostitution scine it is a far more serious matter than prostitution by adults. Children in many cases are forced into doing it and are unable to escape the trap. By just saying to people 'Prostitution' they will just think it is another sleazy area but infact a far bigger problem needs to be tackled. One that includes capturing paedophilles and the runners of the illegal trade of children. 217.33.82.4 13:28, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It's a thin line. In my perception mentioning "child" in that article will make it sound like an ad for pedophiles, while if it is just meant to be a warning for tourists "prostitution" would be more than enough. And don't forget this is an encyclopedia, so we cannot solve the problem of child abuse, that is the responsibility of the law enforcement. Instead of argueing about that part, you should better focus on improving that stub into a better article, in its current state it is nearly worthless. andy 13:37, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Test removed message

Hi Andy, quick question: you seem to have placed the "Thanks for testing, your test worked, has been removed" boilerplate message on the talk page for 12.159.57.2 (the address of the gateway box at an educational institution). However, inspection of [1] reveals no such test edits. What specifically were you referring to? Cheers, User:Ike (currently not logged in, but usually editing NAT'd behind this gateway)

It was something which qualified for speedy deletion, but as contributions to deleted pages don't show in the editing history, so it's no longer visible there. But with the deletion log I could find that someone at your site added an article Ralph 'Sonny' Barger containing haha i have created a page. HO HO HO!. andy 21:02, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Fair enough, I was just curious. Thanks for the effort, though. Cheers, -Ike 02:07, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)

Thailand again

I put those pages on my watchlist, I try to check every time I get on Wikipedia if you have changed something. If Khon Kaen doesn't fall under Udon then were else?? You clearly put it on your map! I love your maps btw! Did you already have time t adjust the population on the province pages??? I do not only translate btw. I also write a lot of original stuff. My goal is to have all off the English wiki pages and more! Here you can see which articles I add and which ones I changed, I am keeping this record for myself. I finished all 32 kings from Lan Xang and am now busy with the kings of Vientianne, Luang Prabang and Champassak. After that I want to do the same with all kings from Ayutthaya, Lanna, Nan etc. etc. Waerth 13:13, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Of course, in the map it is present - but I made up the table from a table in the book, while the map is from the map on the first page of the book. But as the table lists the provinces which were present at the creation of the monthon, it might be possible that Khon Kaen was split off from another one before 1915 - but I doubt it as provinces were merged at that time. BTW: that is one of the missing facts I mentioned, as I still don't have the complete overview of provinces present around 1900. Of course I saw a lot of stuff you created yourself, but sadly my dutch isn't good enough to translate it to english - usually I can guess the topic and the main points, but not enough details to trust my translation. The kings of Thailand are also on my list of topic I can write something about, but maybe the next bigger thing I will do is to continue with the national and historical parks. There are sooo many open things in this topic I am sure we both won't run out of topics for some years. andy 13:24, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Maybe we can do some cross fertilization. I am good with kings ..... . But natural and historic parks ...... nah anything biological or cultural are my weak points. I will start on the Thai kings eventually, I will do them in English and Dutch, you can then format/spellcheck them and translate them to German. If you concentrate on other subjects we do not have to do double work. Only thing is I cannot guarentee when I will start with the Thai kings as I am still busy sorting out Laotian ones. Some had only 2 or 3 day reigns! But I put all of them in there as I like to be as precise as possible. We can also split up the list of kings. I am really looking for the official reign names. I have finally found the ones for Rama I till Rama IV and I have the ones for all of the Laotian kings. But the Thai ones..... I have searched geanology sites and found reign names for many kings and queens in the region, but none for Thai kings. And yes only on Thailand we can probably create 100.000+ topics. The country has 76.XXX villages if I am not mistaken. Waerth 14:06, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

That are some good ideas on how we can get more effective on covering the Thai topics multilingual. Maybe we should include the german user Media_lib who did most of the Thailand articles in the german wikipedia - did you know he's in Thailand now as well? So far I haven't written much on the german wikipedia, nor did I translate much from there - I most like to create articles by researching them myself. But of course some translation, cleanup and spellcheck is fine as well.

I am sorry I cannot help you with the royal names of the thai kings, the only book on Thai history I have so far lacks tables, and uses only the short names for the kings. I have to look for a second such book next time I visit there - maybe the one by Wyatt should be good source? Do you know the Siam Society - they have a big library where you'd quite certainly find what you search. I haven't been there yet, I just noticed their existance when I out of curiosity bought a reprint of a 1904 book made by them.

For the 76.xxx villages - did you notice I already started with one very minor town when I created an article about Chaiya? Luckily it has a lot of history, otherwise I would have had problems writing something about the hometown of my mother-in-law :-)

And of course it was my mistake that Khon Kaen was missing in that monthon... andy 23:35, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Well I am still thinking what to write about my gf's village: Baan Nam Sum noi, small village of about 500 inhabitants in nam som district of Udon thani, the population consists mainly of farmers ..... I wanna make a bet if I put that on the English wikipedia as my first full article here it will be deleted in no time. They are very very picky here. That is why I choose to work on the Dutch one only. Maybe I'll give it a try ..... Waerth 19:02, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I kinda mix my contributions btw, depending on my mood. I do not have a phone line at home, so I write the articles mainly at my home, I keep copies of the most current versions at my pc at home, and then I go to the internetcafe to upload them. It just depends on my mood, sometimes I copy 20 pages from the english wiki, or German (i translated all the Luxemburg entries in Dutch) and just translate them. More often I type in a search word on google, take all the text from the webpages, look for a corresponding book or 2 on the topic and start writing down all the facts (they are free of copyright!) and voila I have a whole string of new articles, I found reignnames of different kings that way. Especially the genealogy sites are great.

I pass the Siam society almost every day, I still want to go there. It is a short busride, but somehow I never get around to go there . Waerth 19:08, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

If you happen to visit Siam Society tell me if it's worth - I plan to visit on my next stay in Thailand, but then time always runs so fast and so much things to visit. For the Lanna kings the Chiang Mai chronicles (have to look for ISBN at home) might be interesting, but maybe just the two tables listing the kings are the ones you want to have. andy 12:49, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Cop?

are you a cop?

No, I am a administrator who can delete stuff which is not a valid article. andy 14:01, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Who decides what is a valid article?

The community. But you link list qualifies for speedy deletion as of Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not. If you think I deleted in error you can use Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion, but I doubt that you will find much support for your contribution. andy 14:10, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Map colours

Could I suggest use of a brighter colour for highlighting areas? I find the use of dark colours on light ones for highlighting rather confusing. Morwen 20:38, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

I am using the one suggested in the palette at Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps. For marking cities it is IMHO a good color, for areas it feels a bit dark for me as well - but maybe we better discuss it in the Wikiproject. But changing the color again would be a bit annoying, I was just preparing most of the provinces of Thailand for upload... andy 20:44, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

And I'm using the one shown in the sample maps on that page. I'm not asking you to change any existing ones - obviously mapping new areas is a far greater priority, but I was wondering if this dark-on-bright to highlight was a particular preference of yours (cf the maps of Brazil etc). However it is a bit silly we are uploading maps that are in a nearly identical colour scheme but not quite. Morwen 20:48, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

I haven't much discussed about the colors, I think they were picked from Seav's maps in most cases. However we should not make the contrast between highlight color and background too small, as then the maps will be useless for color-blind people. andy 20:56, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Duangchalerm

You probably heard it already but *** Duangchalerm Yubamrung got acquitted friday. A sad day. Waerth 09:44, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I didn't hear about that case before, but from what I found with google now I have to agree with you that it's not a good news. andy 20:11, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Huh .... you had never heard about the Yubamrung family?? Especially the three sons are very well known ..... . Waerth 09:35, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I guess they are well known in Thai media, but that one not that easy to follow here - especially without being able to read Thai. I usually read the 2bangkok.com website, however that one focuses mostly on BKK politics, especially on mass transit. And it's just 4 years now I learn about Thailand, but focusing on history and culture so far. If I were living there it'd be different for sure, then I'd be much more up-to-date with current politics as well as some gossip.

Something unrelated: I finished with copying the population data into my big excel sheet, but noticed that for Bangkok you still used a 2001 number. And do you have the number for the complete country, so I can check at least that the sum of all provinces is the correct, to spot any obvious typos by you or me. andy 15:12, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I also read 2bangkok.com daily, it is an infrastructuresite though. start reading the nation at: nationmultimedia.com the last of the independent english language papers now that Thaksin has had the post editor removed! I will give you the number next time since I am in the inetcafe and the book is at home. Waerth 07:38, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Do you know the copyright info of Mecklenburg wp rueg.png ?

Hi,

Do you know the copyright info of Image:Mecklenburg wp rueg.png ? Wilinckx 19:40, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It (like all the german district maps) was created from these map templates. While those have no copyright info (I haven't created them), I doubt that such simple maps can be copyrighted anyway. andy 20:03, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Wilinckx 14:49, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User talk: Stefan

I just wanted to say, I think you misunderstood Stefan in your comment on his talk page. He didn't mean to suggest that Roxette were the only Swedish act who sang in English, but rather that only the Swedish acts who sing in English get famous outside of Sweden. Just a quibble. Carry on. Bearcat 10:26, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Not sure about outside Europe, but Ace of Base and especially Abba have been quite successful outside Sweden as well. But it's just a minor sentence in the Roxette article, which don't need to be preserved anyway. andy 10:33, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey, thanks for reinstating all my edits that User:Fuck you Very Much reverted. He's a User:Bird reincarnation who I assume was annoyed at me for my comment at Wikipedia talk:Schools FAQ. Bird is getting increasingly puerile. Isomorphic 16:07, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)