User talk:Tobias Hoevekamp

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! Sorry for the lateness of this welcome -- you somehow slipped pass my radar. Great work on adding info to the day articles! Cheers! --maveric149

Just a friendly note: When you make a disambiguation page you are responsible for redirecting any misdirected links that will result, so that in the end the only page linking to the non-article disambiguation page is wikipedia:disambiguation. It is also not at all necessary to replace a well-known and widely-used term, such as abacus, with a disambiguation page just because there are some minor uses of the term that share the same name. Disambiguation pages are for terms that share the same name and are more or less equally well-known and used. Abacus is by far, mostly known as being a counting frame ? minor uses of the term should be linked at the bottom in a Other less well-known uses of this term include: section. --maveric149

Uppsss. Thanks for the welcome. I guess, I should make this page a 'watch for me' page. Thinking twice about the disambiguation issue and having the discussion on the mailing list in mind makes me more reluctant in disambiguating. It was probably due to the fascination of how to disambiguate rather than to thinking that led me doing so... Adding some info to the day articles is always a good start in the morning. Hope, that thosed pages will be trustworthy in the long run... --Tobias Hövekamp

I've been trying to track authors' years of birth and death for List of novelists. The person that brought me to a halt was Patrick Suesskind (that spelling seems to have more success on the net than Süskind). Is this the same as the person which you included at March 26 as an "actor". For all of the entries that mention him on the net, I've found no biographical data, just many people saying that his novel The Perfume is their favourite book. Perhaps you might be the only person on Wikipedia who is able to write a brief article about him. Eclecticology 11:38 Jul 26, 2002 (PDT)

Thanks for pointing this out. I must have been pretty tired when I introduced two mistakes on one line... There is only one 'famous' Patrick Süskind and that's the author of The Perfume. AFAIK, there should not be unicode in page titles, therefore, I've relinked Patrick Süskind to Patrick Suskind which seems to be the preferred English spelling. --Tobias Hövekamp

I've put the umlauts back; if you reeealy want it without in this case, feel free, but note that you broke the link to Friedrich Dürrenmatt by making it Friedrich Durrenmatt. --Brion VIBBER

If you have a spare moment there is a formatting question at Talk:Historical anniversaries/Example. --mav

Article Licensing[edit]

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

User categorisation[edit]

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Switzerland page as living in or being associated with Switzerland. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Switzerland for instructions. --Army1987 12:33, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your user page[edit]

I have history merged your old user page, formerly at Tobias Hoevekamp, with your current one. Hope you don't mind. Regards, Graham87 07:41, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Colloid page[edit]

Since you create this one, I wanted to suggest the following. Since particle aggregation particle is now substantially expanded, if would make sense to shorten the information on colloid stabilization and destabilization on the colloid page, and refer to the particle aggregation page instead, eventually completing it a bit further. Any opinion? Williams12357 (talk) 11:03, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I dont think Tobias Hoevekamp is still editing, so he probably will not see this message. ☮Soap☮ 12:40, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Logical abacus for deletion[edit]

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ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

Hi,
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Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society[edit]

Dear Tobias Hoevekamp,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more.

Best regards, Urhixidur (talk) 16:49, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Ronald lsаiаh МerkІe II[edit]

Hello Tobias Hoevekamp,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username CollectiveSolidarity, and I thank you for your contributions.

I wanted to let you know, however, that I have tagged an article that you started, Ronald lsаiаh МerkІe II, for deletion, because there's already a page about that topic at Ronald Isaiah MerkIe II. Please don't be discouraged; we appreciate your effort in creating new articles. To avoid this in the future, consider using the search function to find pages that already cover what you want to write about.

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CollectiveSolidarity (talk) 02:11, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, RonaId Isaiаh МerkIe II[edit]

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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, RonaId Isaiаh МerkIe II. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – RonaId Isaiаh Мerkle II. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at RonaId Isaiаh Мerkle II. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.

If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. CollectiveSolidarity (talk) 02:13, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]