User talk:Knepflerle
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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!
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- Thanks for your speedy welcome! As I've explained on my user page, I'm not new as such, just absent-minded :) But thanks all the same! Knepflerle 21:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] German grammer question
Hi,
I saw that you have contributed to the German language article, so I naturally assumed you are familiar with German. If you would be so kind to answer a question I have, I would be greatly appreciative: is the word Benutzer (the German word for "user") singular or plural? I was thinking that Benutzerin was more accurate for the singular form of "user." Thanks...--└A. Morris┘┌talk┐ 15:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
- Oh that's fine, I didn't expect you to reply right away. Thank you so much for your reply, that helped to clarify. --└A. Morris┘┌talk┐ 14:19, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Blocks
No problem. Thanks for letting me know about the second one. Regards, BencherliteTalk 11:57, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on "Pronunciation of major geographical Japanese names in Chinese", requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo.
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you believe that there is a reason to keep the redirect, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Alexf42 03:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Gottenburg
Well it was simply that there were over 20,000 hits to it on a Google search and as it was mentioned in some recent professional correspondence about a conference there attended by my colleagues, I thought that it should be stated as common. Maybe it is only commonly spelt that way in Australia. How about simply "(also Gottenburg)" ? PeterChickenCampbell (talk) 12:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Hors d'oeuvre
Based on the overwhelming evidence presented by 2 different users, would you consider stopping by the Talk:Hors d'œuvre to strike or change your vote not to move Talk:Hors d'œuvre to Hors d'oeuvre. Check it out. Nearly all the culinary literature and dictionaries surveyed spelled the term without the œthel. BTW, it appears you were right and I was wrong about the pluralization issue.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 01:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Kosovo
Hi Knepflerle :-) Thank you for bringing this up, I will deal with them. Longer answer in my talk page. - Best regards, Ev (talk) 17:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you :-) Ev (talk) 10:35, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] lake moves
should I start from the current situation or from the situation before the recent (yesterday and today) moves? I.e. just place the relevant templates, or revert recent moves first? Yaan (talk) 18:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Naming conventions (use English)
I'm curious why you chose to ignore my proposal and start off a separate section? If you had objections, would it not have been better to voice them in the proposal?--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 01:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- My response brought up points to consider relevant to several discussions on the page, so I used the available flexibility of discussion formatting to create a new section as I felt this better served my intentions of highlighting general issues. Knepflerle (talk) 10:58, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Aachen
Please define a science article. You may point me to a discussion and consensus here on Wikipedia (preferred), or you may give me your own opinion, with justification. You may also wish to read WP:SULF if you have not already. Thanks in advance. --John (talk) 16:49, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. I may take up your suggestion of centralising the debate. I am of course familiar with ENGVAR. --John (talk) 17:04, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- It's kind of a funny one because it is not a simple ENGVAR issue; even in the UK "sulfur" is increasingly used in education. I'll think about the best way to proceed. Thanks for your thoughts and I'll let you know what I decide. --John (talk) 21:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- As it says on the article. I probably added that myself; apologies if you've already seen it. --John (talk) 22:02, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- It's kind of a funny one because it is not a simple ENGVAR issue; even in the UK "sulfur" is increasingly used in education. I'll think about the best way to proceed. Thanks for your thoughts and I'll let you know what I decide. --John (talk) 21:27, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WP:CANVASS
I apologize for my comments on canvassing. I have been burned myself by accusations of canvassing (once when I was genuinely ignorant of the prohibition, a second time when I did everything conceivable to be even handed and transparent) and thus I guess I was a bit hypersensitive to someone doing what appears to me to be a way of getting around the policy. I too withdrew from a discussion after the latter incident because I felt I did nothing wrong (and, it turned out, so too did everyone else).
I still feel that such posts are often likely to have the same impact as canvassing, but I believe even more strongly in free speech. I am embarassed to find myself on the opposite side of the fence from the freedom that I hold so dearly. I ask your forgiveness, and will defend to the end your right to participate in the discussion in question. In the meantime, I will go back to my wikibreak. Unschool (talk) 00:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Request to move article Naval Air Station
Hello, Knepflerle -- Good grief, since when is all of that posting of templates necessary? This is a routine request, like others I've made from time to time, to correct the capitalization. The only problem, as usual, is that I couldn't move it over the redirect. All of my previous similar requests were carried out without a fuss. Has something changed? Cgingold (talk) 12:53, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- I see the problem now -- it's been contested, which wasn't clear from your template/message. Okay, thanks anyway. Cgingold (talk) 13:40, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Knepflerle - I have made a few additional modifications to cover a situation like this in the future. Any news from the other WP:RM regulars? JPG-GR (talk) 19:31, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] That-smaller-bit-of-Pomerania-on-the-left-hand-side
I find it difficult to see past Vorpommern. Either its the same as the current article or different. If it's different, we can have a new Vorpommern article and it doesn't matter. If it's the same, then it seems very odd to me to quibble over different prepositional or cardinal prefixes when we have the supremely used Vorpommern. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 16:12, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
