User talk:Fdewaele

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Contents 1 Bill Nelson (politician) 2 James Doohan 3 Wikiproject Consulate and Empire 4 Article removal 5 Hello 6 Discussion on José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero 7 Edit summary 8 Jan van Eyck 9 Brooke Burns 10 VWN en WCN 11 Cool UserBox Template 12 Yeah, Conrad Burns isn't Montgomery Burns... 13 British Grand Fleet 14 Elisabeth of Bavaria (1876-1965) - thanks! 15 WikiProject Belgium 16 Colorado gubernatorial election, 2006 -- vandalism?! 17 The article on Quintus Tullius Cicero 18 Battle of Eylau or Battle of Preussich Eylau 19 Sulla - Edit conflict

[edit] Bill Nelson (politician)

Hi, a quick google (I didn't go past the first page) could not find anything to support your edit where you've inserted a passage that Bill Nelson is the most vulnerable Democratic senator. Would you please support this assertion with a link on the page? Thanks Flawiki 00:34, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC)

[edit] James Doohan

Please do not copy and paste content from news reports. AlistairMcMillan 17:30, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Consulate and Empire

Hello Fdewaele,

first, let me introduce myself. My name is Frank Schulenburg, I come from Germany and have been contributing to the German Wikipedia since February 2005. My special field of interest is early modern history, especially economic and world history. You'll find more information on my german userpage.

I'm currently working on a project at the french wikipedia, which I've started a few days ago. You can find it at Wikipédia:Projet/Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire. The main goal of this project is the collaboration between the different Wikipedias on the topic of the French Consulate and First French Empire (1799–1815).

I would like to invite you to contribute or just to take a look at it. If you want to take part in this project, please put your name in the list of participants.

Greetings from Goettingen to Ninove, --Frank Schulenburg 10:59, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article removal

I had no way whatsoever of knowing that you were working on the article. It was in the main article space, it was a single sentence...criterion A1. Sorry about the inconvenience. Looks great now. - Lucky 6.9 18:37, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

• Warning taken.  :) Thanks for the chuckle. - Lucky 6.9 18:41, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hello Fred :) [ I'm assuming you are the person I think you are, given your name, your country, your qualifications - basically everything on your user page ;) ] --TheParanoidOne 21:30, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Small world, indeed. You made a comment on the talk page of a user who is on my watchlist. I was pretty confident that it was you, so I just thought I'd say Hi :) --TheParanoidOne 22:15, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

You mean Lucky 6.9? BTW does this mean I now am on your watch list as well? :D --fdewaele 23:20 24 November 2005 (CET)

Yes, and yes. ;) --TheParanoidOne 23:16, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion on José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Hello, you have posted the following recently in the talk page of Zapatero:

"You two guys are becoming EQUALLY ANNOYING. You two both made one fine mess out of this once great article. The blame goes to both sides. - fdewaele 25 November 2005, 15:30 CET"

I am interested in your honest opinion about when the article was great and why. (I promise I ask this out of curiosity not because I am going to use it with any purpose, sincerely) Zapatancas 09:36, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

The time before all the badgering between you and Squeak started. yes, it could be improved - which article couldn't? - but the discussion about what "English" to use was surreal and has now degraded to a vendetta between you two... fdewaele, 28 November 2005 11:55 CET

[edit] Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy editing. JoaoRicardo^talk 14:39, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jan van Eyck

As his name indicates, van Eyck was probably originary from the medieval town of Eyck, i.e. Maaseik. So it is debatable whether he was "Flemish". Karl Stas 22:07, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

That certainly doesn't make him Dutch either. But in nowadays geographical and territorial descriptions, he would be a Fleming, as Fleming is used for all Dutch speaking inhabitants of Belgium. Couple this to the fact he spend most of his working time in the County of Flanders justifies calling him a Fleming. -- fdewaele 12:40 29 December 2005 (CET)

Not wholly unjustified, but still debatable. Current geographical designations are not very relevant for a painter who lived in the 15th century. "Netherlandish" seems a good compromise, also because art historians use the term "early Netherlandish painting" to describe the "Vlaamse Primitieven". - Karl Stas 18:40, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Brooke Burns

Please don't add copyvio content to this article, especially when I've just removed it. If you'd like to re-create this article with the information it used to have, please contact User:Andman8 as he told me that he intends to do precisely that and could probably use the help. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 02:28, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

completely rewording an article - as I did - is NOT a copyright violation. If you follow your logic, all newspapers, etc would be copyright violations because they cover the same content and facts. It's not because it partly has the same facts, that it's an infringement of copyright. I wonder what'd you do with history books (sarcasm) -- fdewaele.

[edit] VWN en WCN

Beste allemaal Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 13:46, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cool UserBox Template

Cool UserBox Template. One of your Userboxes have been deleted. I am pasting the Code back onto the page but yours is a little special--E-Bod 01:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yeah, Conrad Burns isn't Montgomery Burns...

He's much worse!--75.31.212.5 03:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British Grand Fleet

Hello. I made some changes to the British Grand Fleet order of battle, but as I am not sure about them (only following logic there) and as you seem to have worked quite a bit on the article, could you please confirm ? Thanks, and best regards. Tovarich1917 01:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Elisabeth of Bavaria (1876-1965) - thanks!

Your explanation and the information you provided on my query are most useful. I'll rewrite the photo caption accordingly; hopefully we'll eventually identify the gentleman at her side in the archival photograph.

Meanwhile, I'm glad to have had the opportunity to learn of Queen Elisabeth. I'll be sure to mention her in my writing about Belgium under Nazi occupation, and at my first opportunity shall expand this article noting her intercession with Hitler (!) on behalf of Belgian Jewry. -- Thanks so much, Deborahjay 05:47, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Belgium

Hallo,

ik heb momenteel het initiatief genomen voor het nieuwe WikiProject Belgium, neem eens een kijkje en als je geïnteresseerd bent aarzel dan niet om je bij de deelnemers te zetten!

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colorado gubernatorial election, 2006 -- vandalism?!

Regarding this edit, I'd appreciate it if you didn't refer to my edits as 'vandalism'. Massive, unexplained text removal by anonymous editors are usually either a mistake or a deliberate act of vandalism, and I reverted this one as such, albeit without digging any deeper into the actual contents. I clearly indicated my action in the edit summary, so your rude comment in your edit summary was uncalled for. If you disagree with my actions as an admin you are welcome to question them, but you will not gain much support here by referring to my actions as 'vandalism'. Owen× ☎ 18:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

adding such a large passage for a totally unknown write in candidate is either spamming or vandalism of the article. Plus it was added at a place in the article where adding it is very suspicious. I saw this large ad on to the article and suspected it to be as such, if I have offended you with this I'm sorry but you should have checked the content of what you added back... -- fdewaele, 1 November 2006, 23:00

[edit] The article on Quintus Tullius Cicero

Hello fdewaele! I have been working on the article on Q. Tullius Cicero. I am worried about the problem you mentioned on the discussion page 3.1.07: part of the article does not show. Would you kindly ask somebody to help us with this weird thing? I am just a novice in the "business", and would probably just get lost and confused going from one help page to another. By the way, thank you for rearranging the article to nice subcategories! It looks far better that way! Greetings from Finland!Tellervo 12:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Eylau or Battle of Preussich Eylau

Well yes this would be alright in my opinion, if english historiography use name Eylau (which is wrong). Try to see translation of the text on Deutsch Wikipedia (Schlacht bei Preußisch Eylau). It's not my personal idea I just want to help you a little bit becouse your text is translated in several languages (english is common language)and those translations don't have redirect: Battle of Preussisch Eylau (in italian for example). So... little mistake makes many huge mistakes on many wikipedias... Unfortunetly there is a second reason why your Article should be changed, try to see articles on english wiki 1. - Ilawa (Deutsch Eylau) and 2. - Bagrationowsk (Preussich Eylau). As I understand name Eylau is refering to both this towns? as well as your Battle of Eylau? If I were you (but I'm not) I would copy the article Battle of Eylau to Redirect Battle of Preussich Eylau and create redirect: Battle of Eylau. Belive me I have read a lot of books from many sources about this battles and one very big compendium 93 pages in polish called "Bitwa pod Pruską Iławą" (Bitwa pod Preussisch Eylau)writen by Tomasz Rogacki ISBN 83-11-09807-7, en: Battle of Preussich Eylau. It uses many Sources from all involved and not involved nations:

• • Bogdanovic M.J., Istoria carstvowanija Imperatora Aleksandra I i Rossiii w ego vremenji, S. Petersburg 1869.
  • Bourdeau E., Campagnes modernes, t. 2, Paris 1916.
  • Camon J., Napoleoński system prowadzenia wojny, Warszawa 1926.
  • Campagne des armes francaises en Prusie, en Saxe, en Polotne sous commendament de S.M. l’Empereur et roi 1806 – 1807.
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  • Correspodance de Napoleon I.
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I can only mention that I have created the article Battle of Pruska Iława in Polish and i have used from your article one information that marshal Ney said after battle "What a masacre! And for no outcome." You can use my images to make your article better, they are in public domain and I have exported them on Commons server (copy names of images on polish wiki and find them on commons). You should find more informations about this battle. It is one of very big importance. After this battle both armies were almost destroyed and soldiers faith in victory on both sides have disapired... This was the only reason why Napoleon was seeking on spring final victory to persuade Russia to peace table. After this Battle Napoleons soldiers were screaming Viva le Paix(Long live the Peace) instead of Viva l'Emperour(Long Live Imperor) as they usuall were doing. You must understand that every commander tried to find safe quaters for winter. In the time of Napoleonic Wars to lead an army in the middle of winter in -15 Degress was like Suicide that's why Benigsen has made huge strategical mistake trying to engage Napoleon in this time. If he would wait till spring when he was joined by reinforcments he would have some chances to win Battle of Friedland instead of this he has lost half of his men at Preussich Eylau. Yours Greatfully Azglahal 18:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC) CYA.

[edit] Sulla - Edit conflict

Hi you very sensibly suggested mediation on the Sulla article, which I requested a couple of days ago from an arbitrator. Vfp15 continues to edit despite your suggestions, any help or advice would be appreciated 207.172.223.214 15:17, 27 February 2007 (UTC)Sulla16 2-27-07