Hello there Cordyph, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice work on the biology articles. Cheers! --maveric149
- Hi there. Welcome to the place. I see you've got the hang of things; good idea making punt into a disambiguation page. -- Tarquin 12:17 Sep 21, 2002 (UTC)
- Hi, I noticed you're uploading some maps for the districts of Schleswig-Holstein. I've been doing similar for some US states (California, Nevada...). Just a couple suggestions: the JPEG compression makes the hard edges a little funky-looking; you'll get a cleaner image if you save the files as PNG, which is better optimized for line-art drawings. Also, the 400-pixel width is perhaps a bit big for users running at low resolutions or with browser windows smaller than their whole screen. I'd recommend shrinking them down to the 200-250 range, maybe 300 at the most; or else un-floating them so the text doesn't have to wrap around the giant picture. In any case, thanks for your work -- a map is worth a thousand words in making articles about geographical locations useful and appealing! --Brion 21:27 Oct 2, 2002 (UTC)
About zero-length uploads... I don't think I've encountered this in particular, but I do know the upload system is a little more fragile than it should be, and tends to tell you "Success!" without really checking. It's possible that your connection got broken somehow, and the whole file didn't get written; just upload it again and it should be okay... --Brion 18:33 Oct 4, 2002 (UTC)
Hello Cordyph, I've seen that you uploaded some coats of arms of German cities. Where have you got them? It would be nice if you could mail them to me (elian (at) gmx.li) as a zip or tar-file, so we can use them in the German wikipedia, too. --Elian
Hi, Cordyph. My name's Ed, and I'm one of the most frequent contributors to Wikipedia. I specialize in acquainting newcomers with our policies and facilitating a collegial atmosphere of cooperation.
I like the way you handled the dispute with Mirsa over History of Israel. You correctly pointed out that my advice wasn't to put the charge of ethnic cleansing into the first sentence of the article although I did suggest that it should be covered in it (somewhere). --Ed Poor
Hi, Cordyph. Just a minute ago I was busy changing names and redirecting the Anderlecht articles. All of a sudden I saw other things change and the recent changes showed you were doing exactly the same thing. Actually I've lost track of what is changed now... I hope things are complete now. And thanks for the help. Dhum Dhum 14:18 Nov 28, 2002 (UTC)
I don't know if you're sympathetic to this cause, but I need support in trying to keep football at football. They want to move it to soccer, please see talk:list of footballers. Mintguy 10:19 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
Hi, Mirko!
(Is this a popular German name? Sounds very Slavonic, Czech, Serbian or maybe Lusatian).
I did my best in convincing Taw. When I was talking about Frankfurt, of course I didn't mean the one in Hessen but the other one, You know, on the that river with two names.
From Rhine to Ural? From Dniestr to Laba (Elbe) would be more like it. And please understand the Polish point of view: the German irredentists - Heimatvertriebene, Jung Landsmannschafte Ostpreussen and other "Teutonic Knights" want to claim from 50 to 80% of current Polish lands. If Poles just stick to reasonable historical arguments and desperately try to convince the world about their rights to the Recovered Lands, then between the lines they acknowledge that the issue is a subject to discussion. It's not! That's why current Polish strategy is to come up with equally absurd and ridiculous claims from their part. "You want Silesia - well, we want Lusatia (Lautzen/Luzice) with the old Polish cities of Misnia (Meissen), Budziszyn (Bautzen) and Chociebuz (Cottbus)! You want Pomerania - well, we want Pomorze Zaodrzanskie (Vorpommern) with the old Polish cities of Wologoszcz (Wolgast) and Strzalowo (Strelitz). You write about Kaliningrad/Koenigsberg - well it's Kaliningrad/Krolewiec for You, You pickelhaube wearing, kulturkampf Preussener, You!"
Me, I don't take any part in it actively. But I see that change as something better than the previuos way of reasoning. I can send You some funny posters and bumper stickers, and we can both laugh about them.
Take care, Mirko!
Space Cadet 14:59 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
Hi Cordyph,
the border did not border the flag only but extended to the right until the edge of the screen:
+-------------------------+ | flag | +-------------------------+
which did not look very nice. I see your point at the moment in the factsheet on Hesse, the table is wider than the flag is. I added a small black border to the image itself, I think this looks better than before. BTW, the flags you upload, do you have them available as PNG or GIF? JPEG looks a little bit ugly when used for flags or maps. -- JeLuF
What platform are you working on? There are simple PNG-aware programs available for free on most platforms. -- JeLuF