User talk:Rimshot

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Hello, Rimshot, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia! I hope you will be happy helping here. You should begin by reading these pages: Wikipedia:Useful, Help:Contents, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, and how to write Simple English articles. If you want some ideas of which pages to work on, read Wikipedia:Requested articles or the list of wanted pages.

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Good luck and happy editing! -- Creol(talk) 11:09, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Second person template 2 Friedrich Kellner 3 Cat sorting 4 Speculation 5 BD limitations 6 German cities and towns

[edit] Second person template

Hekllo Rimshot, and welcome to wikipedia; I added the you template there, because I (personally) fell that the "we ..." equally makes an assumption about the reader (than the you does). Perhaps I am wrong about that; a changing of the guide you specify would really need discussion. --Eptalon 10:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I do not think it would be fruitful to seek someone ot blame. Witch hunts rarely solve problems; Remove that tag; a discussion on simple talk, would be better suited to clarify the position.--Eptalon 12:28, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Friedrich Kellner

I took your advice and removed most of the elements about the diary that were in the biographical page. I removed some entire sections. And I took out some of the biographical elements that were in the diary page. On the biography page, though, I did leave the information about the important entry of October 28, 1941, even though this same entry is on the diary page. Thanks for your help with this. I appreciate it. Scott --Rskellner 18:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

The page is definitely improved by your corrections. It's amazing how simplifying sentences, without losing the meaning, can be such a challenge. Thank you. Scott --Rskellner 14:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cat sorting

Just a note; if you use the template {{BD}} with the name included (which is almost always the case), you don't need to add the cat sorting to all the others. BD includes the default sort tag {{DEFAULTSORT:name sorted by}} based on the name it is given. I got tired of always adding it to every cat and just added it to the template to quicken things up some. -- Creol(talk) 14:51, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

That makes sense. I have added it to the template's documentation, as it is not immediately obvious. --rimshot^talk 21:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speculation

If you think it's easy enough now please take the label out. --Cethegus 08:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I simplified it a bit further. Paragraph 3 still isn't simple, though. Someone who does not speak English very well will probably just ignore it because of all the complex words in there. --rimshot^talk 10:06, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BD limitations

I see you noticed the problem with the BD tag. Actually, I will work with a blank sort tag, but I just cant get it to accept a non-existant tag. If no sort is set at all, it uses a bracket to sort, but by using it blank it works fine

• {{ BD | 1023 | 1121 | Name }} works fine
• {{ BD | 1023 | 1121 | }} works fine
• {{ BD | 1023 | 1121 }} doesnt work..

you just have to remember to use the last "|" if there no need to sort it. -- Creol(talk) 16:08, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll try to remember that for the few persons that will need it. Thanks, rimshot^talk 18:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] German cities and towns

I am having a (more than) little problem with categories dealing with German cities and towns and was wondering if you could help out if you get some free time. Many of the articles on these places say a location is a city in one place then later in the article they say it is a town. They categorized the place as both, usually in two different areas (cats: cities in Bavaria and Towns in Germany for example). Any help in figuring out what is a city, what is a town, and getting them categorized (preferably into which state they are in as well as city or town) would be greatly appreciated. No rush on this task though, as there are millions of things to due. Thanks for any help you can provide. -- Creol(talk) 13:29, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

In German, there is really no difference between towns and cities, the translation for both words is Stadt. There is a term Großstadt (literally Big City) for towns with > 100k inhabitants. Differentiating between those >100k (city) and those <100k (town) seems like the only feasible solution if one wants to differentiate. I'll have a look at the necessary changes, when I find the time. --rimshot^talk 23:27, 16 March 2007 (UTC)