User talk:Zickzack
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[edit] Greetings!
Moin Moin, Zickzack, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay, both here at the English version as well as at the German edition. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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You may also be interested in the Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board, a useful community resource. Again, welcome! Tschüß! Olessi 15:01, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Stanislaw Lem
Good articles typically only have their talk pages added to the Good Articles category, the category is added automatically by the {{GA}} template. This is just to prevent category bloat in the article space. There is a program that goes through the GA category every so often and makes sure that the articles referenced are added to the WP:GA list and counted, so even though the talk page is the only one with the category template, the article is still counted. Phidauex 15:10, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Decimation
Although decimation means 'to reduce by one tenth' in Latin, in English it simply means to 'destroy', so your edit in replacing 'decimate' with 'destroy' was redundant. Ameise -- chat 01:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
- I read more than one writer who considered the use of "decimating" for "inflecting severe losses" as bad. Further, a decimated army might still exist. And the coalition army mentioned did not exist anymore - it was effectively destroyed. -- Zz 16:26, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Categories: Polish Jews or Galician Jews
Category:Polish Jews and Category:Galician Jews include persons who (or his parents) were born in Poland or Galicia (Austria-Hungary, Poland/Ukraine), and they or their ancestors had affillation with Jewish religion, ethnicity or culture. For example, count Walenty Potocki who converted to Judaism (Ger Tzedek of Vilna) there is in Category:Polish Jews.
By the way, Stanisław Lem was an atheist. -- Mibelz 16:20, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
The question is his extent of Judaism not whether he practiced the religion. Having a Jewish grandparent in Poland is not noteworthy, however, whats relevant is if an immediate parent was Jewish. In that case, it is ok to list him as such. 141.211.195.186 23:09, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
You placed {{cleanup|February 2007}} tag at the top of Culture of Kraków with the edit summary that said: (The weblinks must be moved to a special paragraph, for a start). — I’d like you to let me know what you meant by that. Please, give me an example. --Poeticbent talk 18:19, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
You're not helping by pasting tags without being descriptive about your intentions. You're just making-work. --Poeticbent talk 22:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
- A wikilink is something that links to something inside wiki, e.g. Wikipedia. A weblink is something that links to something on the web, e.g. Wikipedia. Weblinks should not be inserted into to the main body of an article. It is better to collect them in a special paragraph. -- Zz 15:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Saxons in medieval Southeastern Europe
Did you even read the perfectly referenced paragraph you erased? It has nothing to do with the Transylvanian Saxons, which were in Romania, and which have an article. You should have notified me before removing the paragraph; I've reinserted it now. I'm perfectly aware that the "Saxons" in Southeastern Europe may not have been actually Saxons, but still, they were definitely called that way and the information is valuable to the article. You can edit the paragraph to indicate they may have been of other Germanic tribes (and just called "Saxons") if you want, but don't remove valuable info. Todor→Bozhinov 18:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- Please refer to Talk:Saxons#Paragraph about Saxons in medieval Southeastern Europe. Your article was heavily referenced, yes, which is to be lauded. However, the sources were not that good. -- Zz 15:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- I'd already read your message on the talk page, and that's why I was writing actually. Saxons in Southeastern Europe were a different thing from the Transylvanian Saxons. I already said why I think the article shouldn't be about the tribe, but about all uses covered by the name "Saxons". This means we need a summary paragraph of "Transylvanian Saxons" too. Of course, in the intro we should clarify that some uses of the name may not correctly correspond to tribal origin. I know my sources may have flaws, but that's with all sources basically... Oh, and sorry if I sounded somehow rude, I was in a somewhat filthy mood :) Todor→Bozhinov 17:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
