User talk:Leandrod

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Hello Leandro! Welcome to Wikipedia. It's nice to see somebody here who actually knows something about the relational model. :-) But I also have a critical remark. The term "relational database" is in practice used more loosely than it is defined by E.F. Codd or C.J. Date. That is perhaps unfortunate, but that doesn't make it less true. So that is what should be explained in the article and it should also be mentioned the databases that are not considered really relational by them but in general are called relational anyway. (Actually this is an issue that needs an NPOV approach since not everybody agrees on what "relational" exactly means.) Some of those were mentioned, but you removed them, and this is usually done in Wikipedia with the greatest circumspection. -- Jan Hidders 17:26 Sep 12, 2002 (UTC)

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Sorry for the late reply.

Thanks for the compliments, but I really disagree on NPOV... I do think truth more important than balance.

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Hi. It looks like you're doing good work on Brazil related articles! Note that I made the São Salvador da Bahia article you started a redirect to the larger existing article at Salvador, Brazil. I added some of your text to the "Salvador, Brazil" article, which I'm sure could use further improvements. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 15:53, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

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You are welcome!

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olhe leandro, acho que corência e verdade são importantes, o que elimino é porque não acho coerente, não é realista ou é apenas opinião. Você gosta muito de dar opiniões e é livre (eu gosto de dar opiniões nas talk pages, não nos artigos), uma enciclopedia não é um editorial de jornal. E, não ponho pontos de vista por me agradar, apenas desejo que conheçam melhor (sem os mitos) a lingua Portuguesa e as várias linguas que derivam dela e que é importante de quem fala essas línguas, sei disso muito bem. Fui eu quem pos praticamente tudo sobre os crioulos portugueses no mundo, até com falantes de crioulo falei, aprendi etc. Não quero ser arrogante, mas é a melhor fonte sobre Crioulos Portugueses e não quero que deixe de ser. Mas tudo isso tem base e quero que tudo o que seja inserido seja veridico para que as pessoas acreditem, o que você escreveu não vejo onde está a base. Apenas lhe pedi para colocar mais informação sobre o que escreveu. O Lanc-Patois será um crioulo Português mesmo? E esses crioulos do kilombo? Gostava de links a confirmar isso, mais nada. desculpe, mas continuo a achar que isso é pouco fiável. Quanto ao assunto do que se fala no Brasil: O Brasil merece mais respeito. Os próprios brasileiros (alguns) gostam de piorar a imagem que o país já tem no exterior, tal como isso do "descrioulizado" ou do que falam já ser uma língua, não ajuda em nada o Brasil. Quanto aos Franceses, eles acham, uma boa parte, que os das ex-colonias, não falam linguas correctas, falam todos crioulos, linguas "semi-barbaras" porque só eles sabem falar correctamente. Uma língua não tem dono, é de quem a fala. Se o Brasileiro fosse lingua, seria um crioulo, não seria uma língua como o Português, o Francês, etc. Mas o que se fala no Brasil está muito longe de ser um crioulo. Isto é opinião, agora em artigos há que se rever em factos! E, quanto a crioulos sei do que falo, posso não ser (socio)linguista, mas já uma linguísta Espanhola e outra portuguesa me disseram que estou na profissão errada, e não estou a ser arrogante.-Pedro 00:39, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

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Sinto muito, mas coerência não vem ao caso. A única coerência que conta é a dos fatos.

Por favor escreva mais claramente, é difícil entender o que escreve sem parágrafos.

Aponte onde há opiniões. Relato opiniões, mas dou o que entendo serem os fatos.

Você não pediu mais informações, simplesmente removeu o que escrevi. Isso é desrespeito. Podia questionar, avisar que iria remover, até escrever por correio eletrônico, jamais simplesmente remover a menos que houvesse erro flagrante. Só porque você não conhece não quer dizer que exista ou que seja pouco fiável. Não sou a primeira pessoa a reclamar da sua arrogância em remover informações publicadas por outros.

O Lanc-Patois é uma mistura de Português, Francês e línguas indígenas. Posso verificar se qualifica-se como Crioulo, mas não será para já.

Quanto aos crioulos quilomba, são de conhecimento comum no Brasil, inclusive com reportagens de televisão etc. Posso procurar fontes em outra ocasião.

Agora essa vossa divagação sobre se o Português do Brasil é língua ou crioulo ou o quê é ridícula. Então só é língua o que vem da metrópole? Ora faça-me o favor! És arrogante, sim. O que você tem a dizer sobre a imagem do Brasil? Só diz-que-diz. Essa estória de descrioulizado não vem ao caso, e essas opiniões que você reproduz simplesmente são ignoradas por aqui.

Ora bolas.

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Sorry for the late reply, but I usually check new additions from the bottom of the page, not the top. What is your disappointment regarding? Dysprosia 09:09, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

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Your summary removal of Sacix.

I have not removed Sacix. I never touched the article. Check the edit history. Dysprosia 09:42, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

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I was just copyediting the article Brazilian Expeditionary Force. Do you know what was supposed to have happened at Collechio? I changed it to captured but perhaps it should be surrounded? Rmhermen 19:31, May 20, 2004 (UTC)

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Desculpe ter escrito tudo de uma vez, é hábito e falta de tempo. Estou no emprego.

«Você não pediu mais informações, simplesmente removeu o que escrevi»

Isso é o que se faz normalmente! Eu não me ofendo quando retiram o que escrevi, simplesmente vejo se fica melhor, e a maioria das vezes penso que fica, sim. Gosto muito do rigor ciêntífico. Que, por acaso, é de interesse enciclopédico.

«Não sou a primeira pessoa a reclamar da sua arrogância em remover informações publicadas por outros.»

Está fora de contexto, reclamaram porque removi do Talk mensagens de um lusofóbico, e a opinião de gente com complexos, logo inválida. Quem me gritou, disse que deveria fazer isso no artigo e não em talks. Não removi mais nada, se bem que ache que certos talks estão enormes.

«O Lanc-Patois é uma mistura de Português, Francês e línguas indígenas. Posso verificar se qualifica-se como Crioulo, mas não será para já. Quanto aos crioulos quilomba, são de conhecimento comum no Brasil, inclusive com reportagens de televisão etc. Posso procurar fontes em outra ocasião.»

Isso é bom, gostava mesmo de saber. Apesar de não confiar muito no "rigor" jornalístico, parece credível.

«Agora essa vossa divagação sobre se o Português do Brasil é língua ou crioulo ou o quê é ridícula. Então só é língua o que vem da metrópole?»

Disse o contrário! Claro que não é crioulo. Não tem nada haver com crioulo, é totalmente diferente, são apenas sotaques diferentes, nada mais. Mas há gente na França que não gosta da ideia! E, metropole não existe mais. Leia bem "Uma língua não tem país!".

E; o que se fala no Brasil (em relação ao de Portugal) não chega nem perto da diferença entre os vários dialectos alemães.

Aqui, em Portugal, chamamos ao que vocês chamam de "Português do Brasil", chamamos de "sotaque brasileiro". Ou "brasileiro", não brasileiro como se fosse língua (que não é), mas como se fosse sotaque, tal como chamam ao que falo de nortenho e ao que outros falam de "alentejano", por ex.

"Essa estória de descrioulizado não vem ao caso, e essas opiniões que você reproduz simplesmente são ignoradas por aqui."

Disso já sei eu! O problema do Brasil é ignorar tudo o que interessa. Mas também não vem ao acaso.

Tenho ascêndencia brasileira e família brasileira, e gosto do Brasil, mas gostava que tivessem uma mentalidade mais aberta!

Você chega a tratar o Português do Brasil como se fosse uma língua! Você é que parece ter complexos em relação ao que fala, não eu. Apesar do que falo ser bem diferente do Português "padrão" não sou eu que digo que falo "português da China" ou "do Japão", como se fosse algo totalmente diferente.

«Ora bolas.» Não lhe quero enfurecer, tenha calma.

Abraço. --Pedro 16:46, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Data Management Wiki Committee 2 Ae ligature 3 SI units 4 Feijoada 5 Vasco da Gama 6 SQL and relational DBMS 7 SQL/relational 8 Henry the Navigator 9 Portuguese spelling reform 10 Obrigado 11 Typography 12 Métis Nation — Saskatchewan 13 Leitão 14 Wiki:pt 15 Removing Html codes 16 Preciso de sua ajuda 17 Simca do Brasil 18 Blockquote 19 Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima 20 Thank you for your help 21 Please be cautious when moving articles 22 Strange punctuation 23 Wikipedia:WikiProject Treaties 24 Martin Luther References 25 Thank you for your help 26 Findhorn Ecovillage 27 Change from en to em dashes 28 History of erotic depictions 29 Influenza 30 A request for assistance 31 War in Somalia (2006–present) 32 Alain Prost 33 Regulamentul Organic 34 Biblical Magi 35 Iranian revolution 36 Coastel Offshore Cellular 37 American School POV

[edit] Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:09, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

[edit] Ae ligature

Hi, why did you change all those articles to use the "ae" ligature? I mean, what's the point? English hardly ever uses that ligature anymore, and certainly not in these instances. It's not a Latin letter either so those names and places were not originally spelled that way. I've changed them all back. Adam Bishop 06:47, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SI units

I've noticed you've been changing the SI units in some articles, from "km", "kg" etc, to "Km", "Kg". Unfortunately, your changes are wrong -- the correct forms are the previous ones, which you changed. Please read the SI article to understand how SI units work, and then revert your changes (I've already reverted the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter article for you) -- Cabalamat 00:38, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, you are totally wrong on this. Go undo your damage. Gene Nygaard 20:45, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Leandrod, You just did an SI Units edit that was incorrect ([1]). Are you using a robotic tool for your edits? If so, please give it some more oversight. - Chairboy 18:15, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Likewise, please stop changing articles from using a normal time format - i.e. 5:23 am - to some "SI" format, i.e. 5h23m am. In normal usage, at least in America, xhxmm is taken as a duration, not a time. I appreciate many of your edits, but please don't alter time. Thanks. --Golbez 01:23, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Feijoada

Ola, vi que voce mudou a historia da feijoada recentemente. Confesso que nunca havia lido que a feijoada teria sido criada adptando o cassoulet com ingredientes regionais, embora isso seria bastante logico. Se voce pudesse fornecer algum tipo de referencia (na internet ou nao) de onde esta escrito "sem duvida" que esta e' a verdadeira origem da feijoada, agradeceria.--Vertigo200 16:02, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vasco da Gama

An article that you've edited before (Vasco da Gama) is nominated for Article Improvement Drive. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 02:58, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SQL and relational DBMS

I found that you are trying to move/split list/comparison of RDBMS to SQL DBMS. I'm not sure if it is good or not. I know SQL is just one of the implementation of RDBMS (or in some cases SQL is not relational because it violates some of the relational rules). But SQL implementation is the most well-known and practial implementation of RDBMS. So I don't see the benefit.

Also, SQL is used for not only RDBMS, but also ORDBMS. See also comparison of object-relational database management systems and list of object-relational database management systems. If you are moving, please take care of them as well (ORDBMS is RDBMS, but RDBMS is not necessary ORDBMS). If you are not sure how, I suggest reverting them for a moment. --minghong 15:33, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

You didn't answer my question: ORDBMS is RDBMS, but RDBMS is not necessary ORDBMS. You just move RDBMS to SQL DBMS and left ORDBMS. That's not good. And ORDBMS should NOT be merged into RDBMS. --minghong 00:10, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SQL/relational

Hi, I reverted your changes on OODBMS as both the change and you edit summary didn't make a lot of sense to me. Could you explain it in some greater detail? --R.Koot 19:11, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree that SQL is not equal to relations, realtions refers to a data model and SQL is a query language. However your search/replace changes are incorrect and on the verge of vandalism. I kindly request if you would stop for a moment and discuss your changes in some greater detail than 'SQL != relational'. --R.Koot 19:31, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Object-relational mapping is about Object-relational mapping, not Object-SQL mapping! --R.Koot 19:47, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

While you are probably are right on some deep ideological level, you introduce a lot of neologisms. Even if Object-relational mapping should be called Object-SQL mapping that's not how 99% of the world's populations does it and therefore Wikipedia shouldn't. Also I still consider your search/replace edits as vandalism. --R.Koot 20:00, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

I you insist... --R.Koot 20:06, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

I you want to start arbitration against me there is little I can do about it. --R.Koot 20:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

See WP:NOT, WP:NOR and WP:DR. --R.Koot 20:22, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Henry the Navigator

An article that you've edited before (Henry the Navigator) is nominated for Biography Collaboration of the Week. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 20:44, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Portuguese spelling reform

In the page on spelling reform, you wrote the following:

"All this is moot in Brazil, where apart from some enthusiasts the reform is being thoroughly ignored, as most people do not see any problem with the current orthography and many linguists argue it would enforce uniformity where Brazilian usage is actually more regular or reflects local pronunciation."

I have several problems with these statements. As far as I know, the 1990 spelling reform has not begun to be implemented yet, in any country. But, even if it had, you say that "apart from some enthusiasts the reform is being thoroughly ignored [in Brazil]". Have you done a survey to establish this proposition, or is it just your impression? If it's just a personal impression, it should not be on the page. "Many linguists argue it would enforce uniformity where Brazilian usage is actually more regular" What do you mean by 'enforce uniformity' and 'more regular'? And why should enforcing uniformity be a problem, anyway?

I look forward to your feedback.

Which form would such a survey take?

Something other than a personal impression would be a good start.

Short of something formal, scientific, the reform has been harshly criticized and then promptly forgotten here. It still haunts the Houses of the Congress, but barely merits a note now and then in the newspapers.

As I wrote, the reform isn't supposed to have come into effect yet, so it's not surprising that it's being "forgotten" and "barely merits a note". As for harsh criticism of the reform, there has been a lot of that in Portugal, too. Criticism of public policy is normal in democracies, and it does not mean that such measures will not be implemented.

More regular means that, according to our pronounciation, our spelling is nearly perfect, meaning we have relatively few exceptions and special cases, and it is fairly easy to pronounce a word just by reading it, without ever having to have heard it.

The phrase "more regular" implies a comparison between two things. What two things is your text supposed to be comparing?

This wouldn't be the case with the proposed reform [...]

Why is that? Please be specific.

[...] which would have the sole advantage of uniformising the language to accomodate Portuguese-speaking populations that have an actually quite different pronounciation and who are numerically much inferior.

How is the proposed reform an attempt to "accomodate Portuguese-speaking populations that have an actually quite different pronounciation and who are numerically much inferior"? Please be specific.

If we have a spelling problem, it is not one of adjusting to an wider community, but of accounting for our miriad dialects and accents.

That sounds like mere POV to me.

[edit] Obrigado

Acabo de revitir o erro que você fez no artigo sobre o George W. Bush, eu odeio-o! Eu tive que tocar seu artigo - merda! Nunca quero fazer algo assim uma outra vez. Porem, eu já sei que você somente fez um erro, e não estava tentando vandalisar nada. Tchau, senhor! Estava brincando também! Ainda tenho que melhorar meu português! εγκυκλοπαίδεια* (talk) 21:08, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Você esta lá? εγκυκλοπαίδεια* (talk) 21:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Não, não vejo a minha página de discussões todo dia, nem você me disse qual o erro -- e por algum motivo, não consigo ver o diff que me aparece como index.php.

Tudo bem, apenas posso compreender o português, eu tenho que estudar mais! εγκυκλοπαίδεια* 23:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Typography

I'm not sure if you are familiar with the following from the MoS: "There is currently no consensus whether typographic (“ ” ‘ ’) or typewriter (" ') quotation marks and apostrophe should be preferred." In general, where there is no consensus on something like this, why change articles that are internally consistent? No big deal to me, but it's sort of like where people keep flipping some articles back and forth between US and Commonwealth English: it's just as likely that the next person through will flip it the other way, so it doesn't necessarily lead to any progress. (I mention this because of your recent edits at László Tőkés.) -- Jmabel | Talk 23:29, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Note taken, thanks. I am now changing only where inconsistent, even if I think typewriter conventions obsolete.

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Leandro GFC Dutra 21:13, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Métis Nation — Saskatchewan

I noticed your recent edits throughout Wikipedia changing "Métis Nation - Saskatchewan" to "Métis Nation — Saskatchewan". What are you using as a basis for these changes? Nowhere on the MNS website does it indicate they use an em dash in their title. --Kmsiever 14:40, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

As I indicated in the comments to the edits, it is a simple typograhical change. The - is just a typewriter artifact which makes no sense as a phrase separator.

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Leandro GFC Dutra 21:12, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

When you're discussing prose, not the name of a company or organisation. There are no phrases in Métis Nation - Saskatchewan any more than there is a phrase in your name or mine. Again, please indicate any source that shows the organisation uses an em dash in their name. --Kmsiever 23:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

It doesn’t matter. It matters it is a simple typographical issue, not a feature of the name itself. Revert it if you like, but it is just bad typographical practice.

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Leandro GFC Dutra 16:22, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leitão

What's with the "Leitão" on Morgellons? Why not "Leitao"? It's a persons proper name. She does not use the accent on her own web site [2], so what's it doing here? Herd of Swine 18:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki:pt

[edit] Removing Html codes

Some codes have been superceded by direct entry of Unicode such as the emdash you replaced in Bat bomb, but others such as the no-break-space have no direct equivalent that I am aware of. The no-break-space ( ) prevents line breaks in the middle of compound words or expressions. Thanks. --Blainster 00:17, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

AFAIK the HTML ‘ ’ is the same as the Unicode ‘ ’.

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Leandro GFC Dutra 06:58, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Preciso de sua ajuda

Oi, senhor. Acabo de traduzir o artigo do “Duque de Caxias” da Wikipédia portuguesa, mais eu vejo que temos um problema, pq o artigo foi copiado palavra por palavra de acordacidadao.hpg.ig.com.br. Então, houve uma violação dos direitos autorais na Wikipédia lusófona. Não creio que o artigo no inglês tenha o mesmo problema, devido que eu escrevi cada palavra com minhas próprias idéias e com uma forma diferente. Vc pode me ajudar! O português não é meu idioma materno, então, ainda cometo alguns erros – talvez vc possa buscar erros que eu cometesse no artigo que eu escrevi aqui, se quiser.

Vejo que há muitas violações do direitos autorais na pt.wp. Isto é um problema que os admins. lá têm que eliminar.

Espero que escrevesse tudo bem. Não se ria, ainda estou aprendindo o idioma! :-) NOVO-REI 04:17, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Simca do Brasil

Hi Leandro, thanks for your corrections to the Simca Vedette article. But rather than just change our hyphens to ugly dashes you could help us with your Portuguese and try to translate some content from [3] and [4] to help us extend the Vedette's history further, por favor :D Bravada, talk - 22:08, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blockquote

Why did you remove (in Four Freedoms) a blockquote element (which, among other things, works correctly for voicebrowsers for the blind) and replace it with simple indents? Markup should generally deal with semantics, not presentation. (Also, blockquote typically has better presentation, because on most browsers it indents from both margins.) - Jmabel | Talk 18:55, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, I was under the impression that Wiki would do the right think, and that one should use consistently wiki markup. Do you have any pointers to the difference between wiki indents and blockquotes elements?

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Leandro GFC Dutra 10:44, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

Please note that the footnote comes after the punctuation, eg ".<ref> ... </ref>" and not ""<ref> ... </ref>." Sorry for the brevity, I'm needed elsewhere for 1/2 hour. Regards, Mr Stephen 14:09, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it's at Wikipedia:Footnotes, and I should have said that in my first message. For what it's worth, I think it looks better before the punctuation too, but WP:MOS and all that ... Regards, Mr Stephen 15:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your help

Thank you for your help in the Single-grain experiment article. It earned a DYK on October 12. I really appreciated it. Chris 00:53, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the markup on Sannyasi Rebellion. :-) --Antorjal 19:17, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please be cautious when moving articles

I don't know what you've been doing with Russo-Swedish War (1590-1595), but, following your unexplained move, there are multiple double redirects and the link from Livonian War has suddenly gone read. It's not the first time that I notice disruptive consequences of your moves. Please fix the problems. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 10:01, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

I still fail to understand what you attempt to do. After your moves, a couple of links in Template:Russo-Swedish War Series has gone red. Where did my articles disappear? --Ghirla ^-трёп- 12:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Strange punctuation

Hmm, according to the Chicago Manual of Style, the en-dash is only used in place of the hyphen when one of the components of the compound is itself an open compound, while the hyphen is the correct mark in all other cases. In other words:

Japanese–North Korean War

but

• Japanese-Korean War

Is there some other style guide you're following that uses en-dashes for all hyphenation? Kirill Lokshin 17:03, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah, ok; that explains it. :-) Kirill Lokshin 17:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Treaties

Thanks for contributing to the List of treaties article. I would appreciate any other contributions you might have pertaining to treaties in general. If you want, please sign your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject Treaties if you are interested in writing treaty articles, editing them, etc. If not, thanks anyway for your help. Later. Deucalionite 14:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Martin Luther References

Dear Lean:

I appreciate your interest in the Luther page, but please stop merging notes using named that are not consecutive. This makes it very difficult for people who are working with the notes section directly to find the information. We've been over this on the Luther page and agreed to keep the notes system in compliance with Chicago Manual of Style and with usual practice in the discipline of history.

I also would appreciate having a discussion on the talk page before you make major changes to the article. I have dozens of hours of work in the notes and would like to know why that work is being undone before it happens. --CTSWyneken^(talk) 14:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your help

I just wanted to thank you for your help on the Underwood Canning Company. It earned a DYK yesterday. I greatly appreciated it. Chris 15:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Findhorn Ecovillage

I don't know why you went to the trouble of changing the <ref/>s to <ref name=>s on this page in cases where the citations ony appear once. I thought this was only needed for multiple citations. Can you enlighten me? Thanks. Ben MacDui 17:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC) (Pls reply here).

[edit] Change from en to em dashes

You changed spaced en dashes to dpaced em dashes in Ivan Argunov in instances where both would be correct. It is just a matter of which style you adopt, and Wikipedia has no adopted website wide policy so I believe that the policy is to let the current style be left alone as long as one article just uses one style of dashing, consistency within articles is important. I welcome discussion at Wikipedia:Manual of style (dashes) since discussion there about which styles of dashes Wikipedia should use is mostly dead. The dash policy also seems to be a bit out of date since it mentions html entities. Jeltz talk 12:04, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of erotic depictions

One of your edits was lost when I reverted some vandalism; sorry, but it was the easiest thing to do. Just to let you know so you can redo it if you wish. Anchoress 11:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Influenza

Hi, Leandrod - my computer is slow, and your last two edits were made on top of vandalism that needed to be reverted - I can't tell if I reverted legit changes by you or not? If I did, I'm sorry, can you have a look? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:35, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A request for assistance

Would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 05:02 3 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] War in Somalia (2006–present)

You've moved this article from War in Somalia (2006-present) to War in Somalia (2006–present) with a longer dash, due to typography. Please move it back, because the long dash makes problems in non-US-english Windows installations, e.g. article can't be locally stored w/o renaming, article can't be printed and the like. Thanks. --213.155.224.232 10:32, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

There shouldn't be unicode characters in article names, since it are systems out in the wild which don't use unicode characters. For example you can store it on local HD but when you want to reload the local stored version into Firefox a message occurs, which translated into English means something like "action cannot be proceeded". So indeed, in article names only ascii characters are sure. --213.155.224.232 14:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

First, I can't login here, since my German account name is in use in the English WP by another user and I am hanging around here rather seldom. ;-). I'll try to figure out something. -- I made some experiments today and I would think it's rather a bug within windows itself and rather with the mdash itself, not with unicode, since there's a problem with it even when I use ASCII code 150. Interestingly enough: I tried this also at the very old machine which stands for some reason in a corner in our server room (but don't ask me about that stuff, I have no clue how it works!), on which is still installed some WfW 3.11 -- on that machine I even can't rename or delete files with ASCII-150 in its name though it's possible to create them. Renaming or deleting is only possible using pure DOS and using the wildcarts * or ? Now I am not sure if this is a general bug of some localized versions of Windows or only in the Czech version I am using. Maybe it isn't a reported bug and I am not really sure if it's a bug which can be reproduced. -- I don't know if it's a general policy of WP. I only complain because of own problems. I'll try to find out how it is handled elsewhere. -- Thanks for caring and answering, anyway. You can answer here, I'll check this page. --213.155.224.232 19:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I don't know about US-en keyboards, but at least the Eastern europe keyboards have no possibility to enter the m-dash without ALT+0150. --213.155.224.232 19:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Meanwhile I found the following which should clearify it: At WP:MOSDASH is mentioned at the mentioned: Hyphens and dashes are generally rather avoided in page names (e.g., year of birth and death are generally not used in a page name to disambiguate two people with the same name). (...)If hyphens and dashes are needed to write a page name correctly (e.g., Piano-Rag-Music, Jack-in-the-box, Nineteen Eighty-Four), prefer simple hyphens, and avoid hair spaces, even in the odd case of a range forming part of the title, e.g., History of the Soviet Union (1985-1991). --213.155.224.232 20:34, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I certainly found out the reason. When you save a HTML page by default most browsers use the title tagged name of the page. Windows or even Windows NT however doesn't save the dashes as Unicode characters but as ASCII-150 (for the m-dash). When now loading the file into IE or Firefox the file name is considered an URL to the local HD, but within URLs only lower case characters are allowed. As a result opening it fails. I am not aware if the problem occurs in Latin-1 based languages as well, but at least in every localised Windows/NT version which primarly uses Latin-2 character sets. It's basically a kind of inconsistency between ASCII and ANSI. --213.155.224.232 09:44, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alain Prost

Can I suggest that using headings for individual years on the Alain Prost article is making the table of contents very long? I think that was the reason we originally did it the way it was. I'm not going to revert any more of your changes to them (sorry - I'd already done the early 1980s before I realised you were a serious editor!), but it's something to think about. Cheers for the tidying up work you're doing. 4u1e 00:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regulamentul Organic

Hi. Can you please explain what happened with note 109 in that text? I would also like to point out that you are making further referencing of the text incomparably harder and harder to follow or correct. Dahn 14:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Leandrod, I repeat: your version currently features a note with no content (it keeps moving as you are editing, but it is somewhere in the low 100s). Can you please check what you have lost in the process? Dahn 14:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Obrigado. Dahn 14:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biblical Magi

Your version currently features some notes with no content (it keeps moving as you are editing in 6 January 2007). Can you please check what you have lost in the process? Dietmar 17:20, 10 February 2007

[edit] Iranian revolution

Hello, I Thank you for your attempt but it couses some problems.--Sa.vakilian 07:04, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coastel Offshore Cellular

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Coastel Offshore Cellular, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Agent 86 23:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

• I "prodded" the article because I do not think the topic meets notability criteria; in particular, WP:CORP, the guideline outlining the criteria for companies. If this article is more than spam or advertising for the company, please expand it to include the basis for which it is notable. Otherwise, I will probably nominate it for deletion at Articles for Deletion. Agent 86 00:03, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] American School POV

Just wondering your thoughts on placing POV on the American School (economics) page? --Northmeister 00:28, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Per your response...Thank you. If you wish to rework the article or work with me to do so; in making it detached and straight-forward along with criticism from other School's of economics. I am open to that. Let me know. I will be around for a short time only. I've noticed some of your work thus far and approve. --Northmeister 01:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)