User talk:Westermarck
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[edit] Vincent Kompany
Hi and welcome again to wikipedia. Just wanted to say that I reverted your edit on Vincent Kompany as I think there is no reason to change his pob from the French name to the Dutch one, especially since Vincent is French-speaking. Anyway, if you feel bothered by my edit, I propose that you change it again by removing [[Uccle]] and adding [[Uccle|Uccle/Ukkel]] that will appear as Uccle/Ukkel. By the way, there was recently a discussion to decide if we should change the location of the municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region from their French name to a title that contains the Dutch name too. This discussion is now closed but you might be interested in reading it at the relevant talk page and you also may give your opinion even in the discussion even if the vote is now closed. Thanx again for your contributions to wikipedia. Julien Tuerlinckx 22:10, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] IJ
The Dutch IJ should always be represented by an I + J on computers, not as the Unicode IJ ligature. Cheers, —Ruud 22:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
So wy there is a unicode caracter?--Westermarck 10:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- Because it consered a single letter by most Dutch and it doesn't hurt to include it in Unicode. Historically it has always been written as an I + J on computers, which also has the advantage of being sorted correctly. —Ruud 15:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Ok, Westermarck. While I don't really feel like getting into it with anyone about the rightness or wrongness of spelling Hawaiʻi the way that it is currently generally accepted as the correct way to spell it in the place that the article is about, if you insist on removing the okina, please go through the article word by word and remove all the kahako (the little lines above the vowels) as well. It is very annoying, an eyesore, and frankly nonsensical for you to remove the okina and leave behind all these (excuse my language) half-assed spellings of all the Hawaiian words in the article. It's all or nothing. So if you take it upon yourself to change one part of the article, please do the responsible thing and change the rest of the article to match it.
- Westermarck,
- Thank you for responding to my suggestion so quickly. I am sorry for my harsh language earlier. I was just a little annoyed that the little bit that I had thought was an improvement was reverted. But you did have a rational argument and it was unfair of me to react negatively to that. You have my apologies. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Viralxtreme14 (talk • contribs) 09:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC).
