User talk:Agathoclea

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Question

You recently deleted an entry for lookanshop, it would appear before the explanation could have been reaad. I have to explain this article is being watched by a journalist in the Uk so any comments may be used in a documentary being created. Should you not wish to comment we will understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aptnicola (talk • contribs) 08:46, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

just wondering

Excuse me...but i don't understand why my page was deleted...it's not an attack on anyone...it's my page about myself....i don't intend to attack myself...that's a bit silly. i just want to know why it was deleted.

Bottleofsunshine13 (talk) 08:06, 29 July 2008 (UTC)Joel Rivenburg

1) An article about yourself can only stay if it is relevant or "notable" and "verifiable". If you want people to get to know you I suggest one of the many Social Network sites. 2) While you claim that this is you this can at this stage not be proven. The kind of comments you made can therefore not even stand on a userpage. Agathoclea (talk) 14:14, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

why do you keep deleting my page???? it's my page!!!! i am not attacking anyone!!! it's about meee!!!!! why is it keep getting deleted????? why???????????????????????????????????????????

Bottleofsunshine13 (talk) 07:45, 30 July 2008 (UTC)joel rivenburg

How kind to welcome me

Thank you for welcoming me. I feel special. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GUID-FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF (talk • contribs) 07:48, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Tampa Tony

An article that you have been involved in editing, Tampa Tony, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tampa Tony. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Donald Albury 16:35, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Ogwen

Hi, just wanted to clarify my edit to the Ogwen talk page. The reason I removed the "WP Wales" tag was that I'd just turned the article about the supposed village of Ogwen (complete with huge UK place infobox!) into a disambiguation page. If it's normal for a disambiguation page to be in WP Wales that's fine by me, just wondered maybe you'd missed the main edit? Cheers, Enaidmawr (talk) 18:40, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

nope - disambigs are borderline as far as WP's are concerned but in this case it is an all Welsh topic so I wanted to keep the marker albeit with a Class=NA. Agathoclea (talk) 19:13, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem, makes sense. Enaidmawr (talk) 19:17, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Lily - the novel

A tag has been placed on Lily - the novel, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to a nonexistent page.

If you can fix this redirect to point to an existing Wikipedia page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you also fix the redirect. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Jordan Timmins (talk) 20:26, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

WP:WALES contact

Enaidmawr (talk · contribs) is quite active, though I think he says he tends to stick to the Welsh-language 'pedia. He'd be my suggestion. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 06:14, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Rp Welcome

Thank you very much. That's nice. Sebastian scha. (talk) 16:44, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

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Civility

Your comments directed to me in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Gottlieb_Agnethler were rude and uncalled for. --RandomHumanoid^(⇒) 22:14, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Have you ever heard the story of the boy who cried wolf? It is not just yourself - it seems a common problem that by constantly restating their position against a large number of opposing opinions they can actually change public opinion. The opposite actually happens and should you actually have something of merit to say it will not be listened to due to the "tiring" effect I made reference to. Agathoclea (talk) 22:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

You are making a category error. Discussion and crying wolf are not comparable. Regardless, lead by example, not by being rude. You'll notice that I insulted no one in my comments.--RandomHumanoid^(⇒) 22:29, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Parishes, civil parishes, communities, etc: a taskforce

Hello, I've seen your comments on the category renaming discussions, and I think you've made some very good points. For quite a while, I and a few others on WP:UKGEO have thought we need a longer, more detailed look at this tier of local government and how it is described and organised on wikipedia for the UK, but possibly restricted to England and Wales for now. There seem to be a few problems, not least of which is the Infobox, which needs a lot of work doing to it including to the name, which is not neutral at all. We've tought of setting up a specific taskforce to deal with the issues and make suggestions which people can dicsuss in more formal ways, and which we think may be better done in a unified way than the piecemeal changes that often get proposed (as is the case with these current category proposals) and which may have undesired side-effects and consequences (as I think we can see if the proposals for Wales go through). So, I'm wondering if you would think such a taskforce would be at all useful, and, if so, if we set one up, whether you would be interested in contributing to it: such a taskforce would probably be assisted greatly by your knowledge of how things are done in Wales.  DDStretch  (talk) 12:19, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Certainly. I can also bring in some ideas from WP Germany where the infobox has dealt with this situation. Agathoclea (talk) 13:06, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

re: MfD nomination of User:Ched Davis/archive/sg1-1x3

Hi Agathoclea, thanks for the tip on a better way to delete excess pages. I'm all for less red tape, in fact I'd do it myself if it were allowed, and wasn't considered bad form. I'll use that tag from now on. I'll assume that I just copy the {{}} and text inside, then paste at the top of the page, unless otherwise notified. Thanks again, and have a good one. Ched (talk) 09:27, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Real Radio (Scotland)

Hi Agathoclea, thanks for the temporary semi-protection to the Glasvegas article. Can you have a look at Real Radio (Scotland), it looks like it's having the same problem from the same sock puppet vandals. Thanks, --JD554 (talk) 08:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done. When I have a bit more time I will take a closer look at your SSP report. I would appreciate if you would add the already blocked users for completion - mark them as blocked - in order to get the fuller picture. Also has RabAllan (talk · contribs) been clearly identified as the Rab Allan that is mentioned in the article? Agathoclea (talk) 09:18, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll have a look at seeing which users have already been blocked for similar vandalism to the two articles. I don't think I have a feeling that RabAllan isn't the Rab Allan from the band, it was probably just an edit summary to throw more confusion into the pot. Thanks again, --JD554 (talk) 09:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

 Done. I've gone through the histories of Glasvegas and Real Radio (Scotland), which has shown up a lot more than I originally thought. I've added them to the report. Thanks, --JD554 (talk) 10:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Dyfodwg

Completely agree, it is not a community of Wales but it was a parish of sorts as far as I can tell. A parish is a subdivision of of a doicese, but Wales tended to use clasau which were often built around a cantref. But these categories don't exist, not sure why not. I hate to see any article without a category, maybe it should be placed under Category:Geography of Wales until something more suitable could be decided upon? Cheers for ther input. FruitMonkey (talk) 01:16, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I see you finally got your rename of the category sneaked through. Could you now spend some time filling Category:Communities in Ceredigion with some content as I had to remove the previous content as not fitting the category as the articles were about former church parishes. Agathoclea (talk) 16:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I am not sure what you mean by "finally... sneaked through" since this rename, "Communities" was someone else idea.

As best I recall and looked at them the articles in Category:Parishes in Ceredigion were civil parishes. Please note that a lot of civil parishes are based on former (or even ongoing) church parishes.

If you really think the current articles do not fit you should have brought that up in the discussion. Maybe you did. The library I typically use to access the web with would filter-block that discussion page, so after the first couple days I never looked at it again.

I cannot really talk much about it now either since all the articles are now removed. --Carlaude ^(talk) 23:05, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Just a bit frustrated at the time because I did mention in the December CFD that most articles were not about communities. The name communities is right as the welsh version of civil parishes. Just the articles in the categories weren't about that. In fact the headline of the category pointed to Church parishes. Anyway I am trying to fill these categories (and I added the other counties for good measure). The whole UK category system needs a bit of an overhaul. But just throwing CfD's at it won't do the trick. Agathoclea (talk) 23:15, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

1. I now see it was the Dec 28 CfD that I had trouble reading. (Trouble passing any also.)

2. Looking at all your comments then-- I do not see what you wanted to say. You did not vote and were not clear in other ways, right down to the end. E.g. what does "So rather than renaming I suggest to take a good look at the needed category tree and establish a functioning system and move articles which wrongly are in Category:Parishes of Wales to where they should be" mean?

3. Even if had wanted to and had planned to empty and refill the category with new articles-- others would not have let the CfD go forward-- because that is not how we change categories. We make categories fit the articles in them at that time. --Carlaude ^(talk) 23:52, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Höchstädt

OK, obviously you did not like the idea of a disambiguation page Höchstädt. Can I ask why not?imars (talk) 22:31, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, I understand. I knew I could not move the content so I was taking a short cut. Now I know why I can't do that. Lesson learned. :-( imars (talk) 22:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

It looks like Template:Cities and towns in Dillingen (district) still links to Höchstädt. When I go to Höchstädt and look at "What links here," those cities are still listed. I think because the template exists on all those pages. But when I look at the template I only find Höchstädt. Am I missing something?imars (talk) 09:20, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Hundreds in Wales

You commented on another talk page: "In Wales though I find a lot of articles placing villages in parishes of certain "hundreds" - entities long gone." Could you give some examples? I've had a quick look, and couldn't find any such mentions - and it would be a shame if other editors were distracted by thinking that a problem exists when, in fact, it doesn't. Thanks. Ghmyrtle (talk) 12:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Nolton and Roch, Camrose, Pembrokeshire, Johnston, Pembrokeshire, and Dale, Pembrokeshire. To a lesser degree Llangwm, Pembrokeshire. Just following the backlinks from one Hundred in Pembrokehire, where I already tidied a number of other articles. You will find the town or otherwise more prominent articles to be fine but the more obscure places are based on some 1870's topographical dictionary. Agathoclea (talk) 15:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Those edits were all done some time ago by an editor in California, who probably isn't particularly aware of current local government arrangements. I would have been more concerned if it was a local editor making those changes! I've pretty much steered clear of Pembrokeshire in my edits, but if you want help cleaning those articles up, let me know. Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Either way. My first priority is to categorize the Communities in XXX within Wales. Then I will look at the whole parish situation again. Agathoclea (talk) 16:42, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

OK. I've commented on your other suggestion here. Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:07, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

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Real Radio (Scotland)

Please consider protecting Real Radio (Scotland) as vandalism is constantly being introduced about a specific DJ on the station. Some of the users who are relentlessly vandalising the article are even using usernames related to the DJ. Screaming Treeman (talk) 20:57, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

So far the user in question has been warned - monitoring. Agathoclea (talk) 21:03, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. The individual being abused will surely succeed should he take legal action against Wikipedia and the users making the edits, however? Screaming Treeman (talk) 21:17, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes I'm aware that there's nowhere near enough material here to take legal action, but the edits are becoming more prevalent. Should they become more aggressive and persist over time, I wouldn't be surprised if the subject didn't go about seeking to have the individuals responsible officially warned by police for their conduct. Thanks for your time. Screaming Treeman (talk) 22:48, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Sure, if you let me know what's needed, I'll help as best I can. --JD554 (talk) 07:38, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I think the only one that might be missing is RonnieCocozza (I think the "Chad Kroeger" edit summary is a give away). Wow that list is getting long. --JD554 (talk) 09:33, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

That's great, hopefully it will be the end of it. Thanks very much for your help. --JD554 (talk) 08:56, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Just noticed Screaming Treeman there (WP:GHBH). Why doesn't that surprise me? Thanks again --JD554 (talk) 09:04, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. I've left a comment (basically in agreement) at Nishkid64's talk page. --JD554 (talk) 09:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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Vandalism on Real Radio (Scotland) and Glasvegas

I am responsible for much of the vandalism on these pages, most notably the shocking recent edits to Glasvegas. My friend and I are two college kids who thought it would be funny to vandalise wiki - we didn't actually realise that it was causing people genuine work. He was the other "puttetfarm" and has been banned. I see there's still some kind of case open to chase and ban me. Why is this the case? I've admitted on the SSP investigation page and to NishKid64 personally, yet never been acknowledged. Am I receiving an "overall" ban or what? I want to straighten up my act on WIki and make good edits (which some of those usernames listed were used for despite what some admins are saying). I want to contribute good work to Wiki and put this in the past. If you're trying to prevent vandalism, then why am I having such a hard time trying to make amends with the admins? I've yet to receive any acknowledgement from anyone. I'm free to edit as I please currently, but have refrained from vandalism, although when I don't receive the time of day from any of the admins it makes me wonder why. What's happening now? And why is the "case" still open? Let's put this in the past, then? I've learned my lesson... if there's a ban coming I will readily accept it and make constructive edits on return. I simply see no need for an ongoing "chase". Damone Rhodes (talk) 17:47, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

I appreciate the forgive and forget attitude. I genuinely feel that I have done a lot of good work on WIkipedia, but myself and a number of friends found it amusing also to vandalise, without fully realising that it's a genuine taboo and people are working hard to eradicate it. On the SSP investigation page, I believe the chief account was DerrikLounds. The other is was the work of a chum. I plan to use a final username to continue on Wiki, as this one has been used to essentially ask for a new start, and I want to avoid bias. Damone Rhodes (talk) 23:07, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

The vandalism has returned[1]. I've left a message on Niskhid64's talk page. --JD554 (talk) 11:22, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

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Deletion of user talk pages

Replied on my talk page. Cunard (talk) 05:52, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Replied again. Cunard (talk) 22:00, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks...

♠For the welcome to Wikipedia!!♠ SixBlueFish (talk) 17:15, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Spam

I found the pages Validation Data Repository (VDR) and Roznama Siolkot, they were complete advertisements and have been tagged under the criteria for speedy deletion. :)I Grave Rob (talk) 11:58, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

• Sorry, deleted already. I Grave Rob (talk) 11:59, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, Roznama Sialkot hasn't been deleted yet, I misspelt it the first time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by I Grave Rob (talk • contribs) 12:04, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done, although tagging them as speedy is normally good enough. Plenty of admins check the categories. Agathoclea (talk) 12:13, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Usurping

Even though you don't handle usurpations, do you know what happens to the block log of an account if you usurp a previously blocked account with no contributions that show up on the bots? Can they be suppressed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by I Grave Rob (talk • contribs) 12:22, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Footnotes

Well, I thought I had the footnoting method down cold, as I've been making them without problem for some time. Now I've done something catty-whompus...Guess I didn't quite crack footnotes yet. I'll study up on it in the next couple of days.SixBlueFish (talk) 13:47, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

♠Hey, thanks for the help; I've got footnotes down now I think, and am studying up on all the alternative "reference methods" in use in Wikipedia. And thanks also for the editing in Barmat; helps me to watch and get some pointers. I'll probably pick that up again in earnest on Thursday.

The scandal itself is actually most interesting from the viewpoint of what the right-wing (and, by way of counter-attack, the left-wing and moderate) press did with it (not i.e. for what it really was but what it was made to appear to be).

It became a model for how the Nazis would take something with a little bit of truth in it and inflate it hyperbolically to Armageddon-like proportions (Reichstag fire another good example -- find one deranged Dutch communist who went crazy with matches and turn it into a Moscow-inspired Red conspiracy to destroy Germany). Yea, Barmat wasn't the most sympathetic guy in the world: buy up food in Holland and sell it to starving children in Germany and make a lot of bucks, but hey -- that's capitalism for you. Find an ex-Chancellor and pay him a "commission" to exploit his political connections to bestow commercial favors on Barmat: yes, pretty seedy, but interestingly, Bauer was never charged with a crime.

Barmat was a Jew -- an "Eastern" one --and a rich one, and that was grist to the volkisch propaganda mill. SixBlueFish (talk) 18:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)♠

Re: Images moving to commons when image already exists there.

I agree fully :) You should ask Sfan00_IMG who uploaded it under that name to commons though. Apparently both versions differ (they don't share the same hash, hence the "The Wikimedia Commons has another file with the same name" warning). This is why the bot only detected the renamed version and not the original one. I don't see any visible difference though so I guess it should be easily deletable on Commons as a duplicate. -- lucasbfr ^talk 10:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Actually on second look, both images do differ. Can you check which one is correct and nominate the other one for deletion on Commons? -- lucasbfr ^talk 12:08, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Bauer

♠ He was indeed reinstated to party membership, and did serve again in Parliament (I guess Social Democrats have short memories and they all kissed and made up :-)) ), but the source in question does state that he resigned as a result of the Barmat Scandal.

Another interesting point in the source (this is Fulda, which is by far the best on the Barmat incident and which is mainly directed to the Power of the Press in this period) is that Bauer was sort of an ingenue in dealing with the press. Well, it was the 1920s and way before TV and spin doctors and so on, so maybe that's understandable. But they really did hoist Bauer with his own petard. Even the hot shot Weimar pols were not media-savvy.

The right-wing manipulated Bauer like a little rag doll, by asking him point-blank "Do you have anything at all to do with this mess?" and he lied and said "Absolutely not!"

At this point the right-wing Berlin paper (supplied with good leaks from the friendly right-wing prosecutor) whipped out the letter from Barmat to Bauer about the commission dispute (ye olde Smoking Gun - ooooppps!!!) and Bauer was, surely at this point, entirely mortified. Well, it could have been worse: these days, they would call him before the Committee, put him under oath, let him lie in that forum, and then indict him for perjury.

I'll check Fulda again in the next couple of days anyway, as I'm going through the sources again to generate ver 2.0 of the Barmat article.

And --Thanks for the tip on looking at Night of the Long Knives and will do it later on this week!! ♠ SixBlueFish (talk) 21:58, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

++++ ♣Oh cool, I didn't know about DYK )). Not sure I can beat the 5-day clock but there's a chance!! ♣SixBlueFish (talk) 22:28, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Bauer's career & the Barmat Scandal

Here's the "final" word on our friend Mr. Bauer, who despite his probable good intentions did not exactly help the forces for republicanism and democracy in Weimar Germany:

The first climax of Prussian investigating commission took place in late January 1925, with Gustav Bauer, a prominent Social Democrat, giving evidence. He was an SPD member of the Reichstag at the time of his testimony and had previously served in various roles in the Weimar government.

He served as Minister of Labor in the period October 1918- August 1919. Thereafter, Bauer succeeded Philipp Scheidemann as Chancellor. Scheidemann had refused to support any decision to sign the Treaty of Versailles; he resigned a few days before its signature on 28 June 1919. Bauer's new government eventually formed on 14 August 1919; he then served as Chancellor until 26 March 1920.

He then served in the next government (the first Mueller cabinet), as Minister of Finance from March to June 1920 and as Minister of Transportation in May-June 1920.

Bauer later played a dual role as Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister in the Wirth government, from May 1921 until November 1922.

During his period of government service, he had helped Barmat win food supply contracts with various Reich departments. After leaving office he helped Barmat one time with a Government scrap-metal deal; Bauer was to receive a commission from Barmat for this help. p. 95

He attempted to conceal his involvement with Barmat, denying to the press in early January 1925 (after the arrest of the Barmat brothers) that he served on any Barmat supervisory board. p. 95. This was a lie, and he was forced to admit as much under the cross-examination by the Commission.

He was also forced to admit that his actions in helping Barmat win government contracts were considerably more frequent and more involved that his previous statements to the press had indicated.

However, he steadfastly and repeatedly denied to the Commission that he had received any financial compensation from Barmat. However, a few days later in early February, the Lokal-Anzeiger reprinted a letter from Barmat to Bauer as a part of an article on the scandal. This letter was written during the period of their 1923 commission dispute over the scrap-metal deal, and identified the occasions on which Bauer had received money from Barmat.

Bauer was caught in a bald-faced lie and, it would appear, had committed perjury in denying any receipt of compensation. The SPD promptly asked Bauer to resign from the party and the Reichstag, and he did so on 6 February 1925. p. 95-98. He regained admission to the party, having fought to re-establish his blemished reputation, in May 1926.SixBlueFish (talk) 16:51, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Now all we need is the details of him getting back into the Reichstag, where he apparently was until 1928 Agathoclea (talk) 17:03, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

♠Yea, and this part is really interesting (and so far, mysterious). He must have been a huge embarrassment to the party, yet he finagled his way back in within just over a year and got back into parliament. Did he say "Well, yea, I lied under oath, but you know... it was just to a bunch of Prussian right-wingers, and they deserved it anyway because it was just a political witch-hunt"? Or did he try a Bill Clinton and say "Well, they just misinterpreted what I said." (Fulda is quite clear that Bauer was asked repeatedly if he got any compensation and that he steadfastly denied it).

I'll see what if anything I can find out.

I checked "history" and the article was created on 15 February. When does 5 days run out? No way I can get finished today (the 19th)...♠SixBlueFish (talk) 17:19, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Erna Hanfstaengl

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Rollback

Hi, If you think I'd be suitable for then yeah I think that would be useful - Twinkle can be so s-l-o-w at times. Thanks, --JD554 (talk) 13:11, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Will do, thanks again. --JD554 (talk) 13:27, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks. I hate those hyphens. α§ʈάt̪íňέ-210 ^{discovered elements ∞ what am I?} 22:23, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Germany → Template:WPGERMANY(?)

I'm curious about your use of AWB to replace instances of Template:WPGERMANY (a valid redirect) with its target, Template:WikiProject Germany (one recent example). It seems to me that this sort of edit goes counter to both editing guidelines regarding working redirects and the AWB rules of use ("Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits…"). Is there some compelling reason for this that trumps both of these guidelines? — Bellhalla (talk) 15:27, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

There are scripts available dealing with article assessment on the article page. When a banner template is used on the talkpage that is not the main banner it will make it appear, that there was no article assessment for that particular project. Therefore it has a significant effect and while the redirect is not broken per se - the effect is broken. Agathoclea (talk) 18:29, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

That's what I suspected it might be. I'll be sure to tag with the full template in the future and save you the extra work :) — Bellhalla (talk) 18:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

A-Class discussion

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Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 10:20, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

kamag.jpg

Hi,

I answered on my talk page. regards, Broccoli (talk) 13:37, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

German municipalities

Hi, what do you want to use that WP-Germany switch for? Updating population figures etc.? Might be a good idea, I've never used anything like that. Markussep ^Talk 10:36, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1990-0526-003,_Chemnitzer_FC_-_1._FC_Magdeburg_1:0.jpg

Wow, I am truly puzzled. I've checked that picture by hand, and the CheckUsage tool reported it wasn't used anywhere and that's why I've deleted it. The replacement for that picture is File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1990-0526-003, Chemnitzer FC - 1. FC Magdeburg 1-0.jpg, as given at the Commons. Anyway, thanks a lot for the information. Tomasz W. Kozłowski (talk) 11:54, 8 March 2009 (UTC)