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I noticed you've been doing some work on the Grey League. I've just finished doing some expansion to Three Leagues, which may have some helpful content for you (though more likely vice versa). Please feel free to cross-pollinate the two articles.
As a result of my improvements to Three Leagues, I've changed the articles League of God's House and League of the Ten Jurisdictions to become redirects to the appropriate sections in Three Leagues — more detailed than the pre-existing articles. If you have the time and inclination to expand the original articles, please do — and add a {{main}} call to point to the more-detailed articles.
Thanks for your great work! — OwenBlacker (Talk) 18:39, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
PS: Please feel free to correct my translations from German — much of my improvements to Swiss articles come either from the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland or the German Wikipedia and it's a long time since I did any German ;o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 18:41, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Awesome, thanks for the heads up about the other two Leagues :o) — OwenBlacker (Talk) 19:09, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
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Cities and municipalities task force
The task force dedicated to creating and improving articles on all German cities and municipalities is happy to announce that there are now (at least) stub articles for all municipalities of Germany. Now the task force is looking for help in fleshing these out a little bit. The current phase of activity for the task force is to copy in infoboxes from the articles in German Wikipedia. If you want to help, even just for a few articles, look at the instructions and links here
Hi Toby. I'm sure you had good intentions, but please note that the article Panzer division is a generic reference to the unit type, and not intended to be the article for reference to Panzer divisions, or their unit histories. Panzer division article will seek to explain the origin, development, organisation and doctrine of their use, and will include the units of the Second World War and the Cold War. Please undo your moves and restore the Panzer Divisions article. Thank you--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 02:54, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Anahí (disambiguation)
Hey, I'm not sure if you realized it or not, but, Anahí (disambiguation), which you tagged under CSD A7, has existed in this form since 2005. I removed the unsourced/misplaced info from the page and removed the CSD tag. If you still think the page should be deleted, you should take it to AFD. Thanks. Thingg⊕⊗ 21:51, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
LDS tabernacles?
Three weeks ago, you helped answer my question on the Reference Desk about why the LDS Church builds more temples. Could you help with another LDS question? As I go through National Register of Historic Places lists for the western USA, I'm constantly running across various LDS tabernacles. However, I'm confused: what makes a tabernacle a tabernacle? In what way is it unique? The relevant section of tabernacle says that it's a local gathering place and a worship center, but I'm unclear, for example, why locals couldn't gather at the meeting house for their ward. Thanks for your help! Nyttend (talk) 03:07, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
On May 9, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Herrengasse (Bern), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
(this one) won't stay on commons for long, because its design is surely original enough to by protected by copyright. Why don't you upload it (or better yet, the actual badge of the unit) on wikipedia as a WP:FUR logo? I can't do it by myself as I'm not a registered user.--93.45.59.12 (talk) 18:40, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Please dont put results of federal articles into article of communes
Hey,
You put into the article of Winterthur the results of the swiss federal elections (i put in my revert comment wrongly cantonal in the results, but that's wrong), so please let that be. Additionally i dont hope that u put this wrong results in every swiss commune article! Additionally I dont know how they come to a party called CSP with 6%, so they have their a mistake to on their site I think. Greetings out of the german Wikipedia from Winterthur --Fundriver (talk) 12:24, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
yes the informations i putted was from the cityelections (Stadt) ifself in 2006. I think its the only information that belongs in such an article about the city or i could put also the cantonal ("Kanton") into the article, but at the end that doesnt make any sense in an article about the city. And yeah i think there is a mistake in the official federal site, there is no party with the mentioned 12.3% and at first no party called CSP. The Next best party would be the FDP, but they got probably around 10-11%. The CSP mentioned in the article in the Wikipedia is a standalone left-wing christian party who is only in Fribourg strong enough to get a seat. In canton Zurich they got a list for the elections too, but they reached only 0.11% (nearly nothing). I got my data about that election from the site of the statistics office of the canton Zurich (http://www.wahlen.zh.ch/07/nr/listen/l_gem_rel.php?si=1). Greets --Fundriver (talk) 06:19, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
Hello,
I dont know about the relevance of things in english wikipedia, but in the german i wouldnt put that in (where I am the main editor of the Winterthur-article). I think there are only belonging local politics and as u see in local politics the people vote completely something else as in national things. But i wouldnt put those at all because that "middle parties" thing is really confusing dont know what they include all in that. I think there is included the glp (greenliberals) with about 7% and also the christian middle-left EVP who had about 5% of the voters. Greets --Fundriver (talk) 13:21, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
List of castles and fortresses in Switzerland
I have noticed your modification to "Grisons". You are aware of the fact that les Grisons is only the French denomination of a canton with a majority of German speakers, thus calling their own canton: Graubünden. Normally in Switzerland, when there is no official translation in English, the name corresponding the to the language majority prevails, thus it should be called "Graubünden". Wouldn't you agree? By the same token Berne should be Bern, etc.
claude (talk) 22:38, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Sumvitg
You added some information about age distribution to Sumvitg, citing the information to be from 2010. Which can not be true. Could you fix that, please. Debresser (talk) 11:50, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
You really picked up that ball and ran with it, it's really a great read now. I feel slightly vindicated in my technique of translating small/easy articles, since you can never tell when it'll excite someone's interest and he'll dive into expanding it out. Great work! MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:18, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
If you'd like another quick-cleanup translation on a short but interesting page (with a cool photo), I did Bavarian People's Survey a few days back. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:21, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
St. Moritz
Please check the figures under "Population". The number of people seems off. For example, 34 children or 10.4% means the total population should be 327 people. Earlier it said the population was around 5000 people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hgnsd (talk • contribs) 16:57, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
If this was always used by the Franciscans and the Poor Clares it can't have been an abbey, can it? The English-language naming conventions for Franciscan friaries are not as clearcut as for some of the other orders, but either "K Friary" or "K Priory" would be correct: and abbey - unless it was also used by another order with abbots which has not been mentioned in the article - cannot be right. HeartofaDog (talk) 12:21, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
English is pedantic about monasteries, and defines them by status: if there's an abbot/abbess, it's an abbey; prior or prioress = priory, regardless of what they might be called in other languages (plus one or two other options: e.g., friars = friary, as well as priory). But you're right with this one: Poor Clares are nuns, and did have abbesses, as here, so K Abbey is right. HeartofaDog (talk) 15:47, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
RE
Ok sure I'll look into it & see what I can do.--2Neuenburg (talk) 16:14, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
oh Toby do you speak German by chance? I want to contact the user who created that series of maps of Switzerland, but I don't speak any German. Thank you in any case!--2Neuenburg (talk) 18:41, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
It's about that template you asked me about, this Template:Infobox Swiss town. I made a few changes to the template so far, you can see a few test cases here, but I'm not completely satisfied because there are some major flaws when two Swiss communes share the same name (and it isn't as rare as it sounds). In the page I linked you there are two communes, both called Villeneuve (one in Vaud and the other in Fribourg). The maps linked at the bottom of the infobox are identical (in fact the same file) because in both cases the 'subject_name' is just Villeneuve. So I thought that the easiest way to solve this was to ask Tschubby (the creator of the maps) to use an unambiguous naming convention for the maps, possibly by using the SFOS number as you did with the population templates (e.g. 'File:Karte_Gemeinde_2047_2008.png' instead of 'File:Karte_Gemeinde_Villeneuve_2008.png'). Thank you for your help Toby!--2Neuenburg (talk) 18:59, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Oh and sorry for the little wall o' text ;)--2Neuenburg (talk) 19:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
That shouldn't be a problem because the template checks if 'Karte Gemeinde {{{subject_name}}} 2010.png' exists, if it doesn't, it checks Karte Gemeinde {{{subject_name}}} 2009.png and so on until 2007 (I didn't find any map dated 2006).--2Neuenburg (talk) 19:33, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
That's awesome mate! I still have to make a few tests but the idea is perfect. You rock!--2Neuenburg (talk) 21:23, 17 April 2010 (UTC) A rock.
Apparently there are still some questions left to ask Tschubby (or to the creator of the SFOS codes list): how did they decide whether to disambiguate a municipality or another? In the case of the two Villeneuve, the SFOS template has 2047 Villeneuve and 5414 Villeneuve VD: in this case the 'real' Villeneuve (the one without abbreviation) is the one in Fribourg. However Tschubby decided that the 'real' Villeneuve is the one in Vaud (File:Karte_Gemeinde_Villeneuve_2008.png), which means that the Test infobox for Villeneuve, Fribourg links the map of Villeneuve, Vaud, and the latter links an inexistant File:Karte Gemeinde Villeneuve VD.png. Is there any way to predict this behaviour? If not, we will have to change either the SFOS list or the name of some maps.--2Neuenburg (talk) 22:01, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
The template I wrote should match how each municipality was disambiguated.
In at least I few cases I checked myself, it doesn't. See this page for the five Rickenbachs, it works for everyone except the Rickenbach in Zurich.--2Neuenburg (talk) 00:32, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
The template is supposed to pick the most recent map available. However this will not happen, other than in the cases I already wrote you about, if the commune has been abolished, since the current SFOS template doesn't include codes of former municipalities. We still have a few issues to solve before we can update the 'live' template.--2Neuenburg (talk) 14:19, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
in which case the map can be turned off
But then it won't show up in the article >_<
Also, we have the same problem for the population figures. No SFOS, no population!--2Neuenburg (talk) 14:31, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
For now it just uses the last population figure available (User:2Neuenburg/TESTCASES). If they're no longer published there's not much we can do about it!--2Neuenburg (talk) 14:42, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Ok cool I saw you corrected the SFOS template! I checked a few communes and they seem ok to me. Think we can edit the live template now?--2Neuenburg (talk) 17:13, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Oh, but before that, could you 'proofread' the new documentation I wrote? User:2Neuenburg/T2--2Neuenburg (talk) 20:27, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Ok Toby! I'm editing the documentation first, and the template itself immediately after. Then I'll check a few communes to see if anything went wrong.--2Neuenburg (talk) 20:43, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Or not. Apparently the template itself is fully protected and we'll have to ask an admin :-| --2Neuenburg (talk) 20:48, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Eh, do you have any idea where I should be asking? (LOLLL)--2Neuenburg (talk) 20:49, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Tobyc75, Thank you for your edit at Bernese Fassnacht (Carnival). I would appreciate more help with the article and with my English, if you have a time. Best wishes.--Mbz1 (talk) 16:14, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Well, it looks like Fribourg, Geneva, Jura, Lucerne, Neuchatel, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Vaud, Zug and Zurich are all included in the Category:Former municipalities of xxx. Also, Bern used to have the strange Category:Former municipalities in Bern using in instead of of. I think that going to Category:Former municipalities of the canton of xxxxxx is a better idea, since many of the municipalities and the cantons share names. Making it clear that the former municipality is part of the canton, not a specific city is a good idea. Tobyc75 (talk) 18:10, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Reply'd ;)--2Neuenburg (talk) 15:44, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Village maps
Seems ok to me, though I would remove that "View map of the former municipality of" and just leave "View map of". Some communes have rather lengthy names. Adding a population of zero is to be avoided as misleading (it would suggest that the village is uninhabited).--2Neuenburg (talk) 19:16, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
SFOS
Did you crack this? If not I have done this sort of thing for other countries. RichFarmbrough, 02:11, 24 April 2010 (UTC).
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I've (a) reverted, and (b) reapplied the change. It looks OK to me (I checked Davos) but I am an idiot (!) so I'll be a lot happier once you say "aye" or "nay". Apologies for that: I'm trying ot get all the newbie-admin mistakes out of my system...
Cheeky follow up question, but since you're a template person I figured I'd ask! Is there any kind of guide to template code you can point to? I can pick most software/scripty stuff up pretty quick, and I only need enough not to make a fool of myself when doing stuff like this ;-) TFOWR 18:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Could you help please
Hello, Tobyc75. I started article Schloss Reichenbach. If you have a time, may I please ask you to help me with sources in German, with fixing my grammar, and with expanding the article? Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 15:50, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for helping with the article! Would you mind, if I am to add you as an author to my DYK nomination?--Mbz1 (talk) 05:11, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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DYK for Schloss Reichenbach
On July 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Schloss Reichenbach, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Hello. Regarding the recent revert you made: you may already know about them, but you might find Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace useful. After a revert, these can be placed on the user's talk page to let them know you considered their edit was inappropriate, and also direct new users towards the sandbox. They can also be used to give a stern warning to a vandal when they've been previously warned. Thank you.
Ironically enough, that's a template! It was made using {{subst:uw-warn}}. Please look at the linked page (shortcut WP:WARN). A few things to know/remember:
All the templates have "uw-" before them, which stands for "user warning".
Always substitute the templates.
Some basic ones:
{{subst:uw-test1}} for an edit that looks like a test edit,
{{subst:uw-del1}} for unexplained (i.e. no edit summary) removal of content,
and {{subst:uw-vandalism1}} for an edit which looks bad, like it could be vandalism.
If the vandal has already been warned, you can step up the warnings by using higher numbers. For example, the uw-vandalism series is this, 1 being the first warning:
After a final warning (4 or 4im), if it vandalizes again, a vandal can be blocked--report them to WP:AIV for this. 4im is only for severe vandalism. For pretty bad, obvious vandalism (e.g. calling a person swear words) you can start with a level 2 (or even 3, I think), but don't normally do that. Happy vandal-fighting! dffgdtalk·edits 02:14, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Bürgergemeinde
Hi Tobyc75; thank you for creating the article Bürgergemeinde :-). However, it seems to me that some of the peculiarities of the Swiss citizenship system got "lost in translation"; I tried now to correct this. For example, the German article de:Bürgergemeinde correctly states "Weiter ist es [the Bürgerrecht] unabhängig von Geburts- oder Wohnort einer Person", i.e. citizenship in a Bürgergemeinde is not connected to where you are born. Myself, I am a Swiss citizen and "Bürger" of a small village in the Jura mountains where neither I nor my parents ever lived, and we were born in different places :-). This may indeed seem very strange and I think Switzerland may be the only country with such a system. The Bürgerrecht (therefore the Bürgergemeinde you "belong" to) for most people is where your ancestors lived in the 19th century, as it's inherited. If you do nothing, you remain Bürger of this and only this inherited place for the rest of your life, and your children too, except:
you are a woman - if you marry, you get additionally the Bürgerort (also called Heimatort) of your husband; formerly, the wife lost her original Bürgerort, now she has double citizenship.
if you live long enough in a particular place, you can apply for citizenship of your local Bürgergemeinde, which is usally granted for a fee. The requirements differ, sometimes there are even "bargain offers" - e.g. due to an anniversary of the village where I live, I was offered citizenship for a reduced fee a few years ago, but wasn't interested. The pros of having citizenship of the place where you live are so small nowadays that most don't care and rather keep their original citizenship. It can, however, be a way to show that you feel particularly beholden to your community or the like.
Swiss passports don't show the place of birth but the Bürgerort. Sometimes this leads to confusion for Swiss travelling abroad - forms require them to fill in their "place of birth" and if they duly do exactly this, they are questioned because their ID or passport doesn't mention this place. As Swiss passports cleverly call the Bürgerort/Heimatort "place of origin" in the English translation, it's wisest and usually creates no problems to fill in this as "place of birth", although it's not :-) Well, I hope you find this interesting. Gestumblindi (talk) 22:59, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Swiss population data
Hi Toby,
Just to let you know (and to thank you obviousely) that I imported on the french Wikipedia your great population's concept for Switzerland.
I made one small enhancement based on a comment made on the local talk page, which allows entering, instead of the SFOS number, the official name of the municipality. The corresponding template is then searching in another data file to retreive back the SFOS number. No clue if this feature could be helpfull for you as well, if it's the case, don't hesitate !
And thanks again for this great idea ! Manoillon (talk) 08:22, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Toby, it looks like you wanted to congratulate Manoillon (on his French talk page) for this improvment, but for some reason, the congratulations landed on my own talk page... Cheers, Schutz (talk) 21:42, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Theatre / Theater in Bern
Hi there. I hope you don't mind but I reverted you on Bern because I thought on that occasion the IP might have it right, in that it is spelt "theatre" elsewhere in the article so their change perhaps did nothing more than make it consistent. I must add that I hate gratuitous, ENGVAR-ignoring AmE < > BrE spelling changes - in either direction - with a passion and would normally be right with you on this but I did wonder if they had a point; of course, if they used edit summaries it would help us all a bit. I have dropped them a note, reverted a change to "theatre" that I found wholly inexplicable, and left alone another one where it seemed again to be an issue of consistency. Again, I hope you don't mind my stepping in here. I will try to keep an eye on their mini-campaign in case I can, er, help in one way or another. Thanks and best wshes, DBaK (talk) 08:47, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! I agree - it does look like that, and it would be really quite helpful if the IP would use edit summaries so that we can try to differentiate silly edits from sensible! It's not a vast number but it does have a couple of the BrE spelling already - otherwise I would, believe me, have been in front of you in the queue to revert it! :) Thanks for being so nice about this, have a great Saturday, cheers, DBaK (talk) 16:02, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
This barnstar is to show you my gratitude for your relentless dedication in expanding countless Switzerland-related articles, many of which remained stubs for years previous to your edits. I was particularly impressed by your work on Monteceneri, an article about a municipality created barely 3 months ago. Cheers!
this WikiAward was given to Tobyc75 by 2Neuenburg (talk) on 00:57, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Monuments
Hi Tobyc75, I noticed your edits on List of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland: Aargau and similar articles. You might be interested in Wiki Loves Monuments. It's a photo scavenger hunt we did in the Netherlands in September 2010. We plan on running an European version in September of this year. One of the requirements for this to be a success in a country is to have a good overview of the monuments in a country. Does this sound like fun to you? multichill (talk) 22:25, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the note, Wiki Loves Monuments sounds really interesting. Unfortunately I'm in the US, so I can't take any pictures, but what else were you looking for? Tobyc75 (talk) 00:57, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Tobyc75, one of the goals of WLM is to give local heritage projects a boost. Last night I created {{SIoCPoNaRS header}} and {{SIoCPoNaRS row}}. I started using these templates on pages linked from {{List of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland}}. I plan on using my bot a bit more to convert existing rows. A lot of information can still be added. You could help with improving this wikiproject if you like, You could help with improving this wikiproject if you like, http://kgs-gis.admin.ch/ contains a lot of information. multichill (talk) 13:53, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Comment on edits of Swiss communes
Hi. First of all, thanks a lot for your very extensive work on Swiss articles, it is very much appreciated! Having said that, there's one small problem, as you have inserted a rather vague and unsourced statement that seems POV in the articles. I've commented on it here Talk:Switzerland/Archive 1#POV_in_most_Swiss_articles and very much welcome your comments. Keep up the good work you're doing!! Jeppiz (talk) 18:17, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi - thanks for the message, but you are mistaken as 'labour' is not British English. Whilst it may be the spelling used in Britain it is also that used in other countries as well, just not the US. The general idea of there being British & American spellings is equally flawed, as it is far more accurate to consider there a group of words used in most countries (for example colour, centre) and the niche variants used in the USA (for example color, center). There is no reason for an article on a Swiss town to use US English because, to use a version your of reason, it has no strong ties to America. However, should you wish to insist on the US spelling because of a Wikipedia policy ... fine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.19.137 (talk) 01:07, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorry...
... if I offended you. I notice that you removed my pointer/question regarding "statistical amassments" without any comment, so I fear that I came across as too harsh. English isn't my first language and I don't always manage to strike the right note, I'm afraid. If you still don't want a discussion on the topic at all, please feel free to remove this comment also, and I will not bother you again. But please allow me a short attempt at further explanation: my intention was a dialogue. It seems that you are a supporter of the approach to enlarge articles about communes/villages by working a lot of statistical data into article text, and that you are also avidly working in this area. Well, I beg to differ and would like to discuss ways of creating more meaningful articles especially for small places. It seems that the discussion I started at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geography#Statistical_amassments may become interesting and I really would be glad if you could voice your opinion there, too. I think that User:Student7's idea to "eliminate census-type statistics for villages of a certain number" may be a step into the right direction; maybe regarding statistical data, less is sometimes more in Wikipedia articles. Gestumblindi (talk) 19:56, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi. I've nominated Morges Castle, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. —Bruce1eetalk 07:09, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Morges Castle
On 23 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Morges Castle, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Morges Castle in Switzerland had a fortified kitchen that was attached to the castle's exterior walls? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Another nomination promoted by the DYK project. Well done. Victuallers (talk) 00:06, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Question
Hi Tobyc75, did you name name this image? Lotje ツ (talk) 09:35, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Lausanne political situation
Good idea to add the results of the federal elections, but what's the point of listing the 2007 results one week after the 2011 election? Pkoppenb (talk) 16:36, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
I found the numbers on vd.ch and updated the wiki page.Pkoppenb (talk) 07:21, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
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there is a problem with the Swiss town template. if "area" is specified, but is blank, then you get an error. if "area" is complete removed, then it displays "0" for the area. we should fix this so it either removes this entry entirely if the "area" parameter is blank or omitted, or replace it with a "?" if the area parameter is blank or omitted. to say it has zero area, if the area is unknown, or to display a bunch of parserfunction errors is bad (see Zinal). thank you. Frietjes (talk) 23:46, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
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Arthur Claud Lisle
I am not quite sure why my proposed entry for my grandfather is not accepted. The principal success of his life was being awarded the OBE for services to Great Britain whilst he was a civilian. Surely the fact that he was mentioned in despatched during the First World War sure not preclude his entry into wikipedia ?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.108.248.186 (talk) 20:02, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/VeteranVoice.info
"While there are citations in the article. None of them are reliable, 3rd-party citations that specifically mention the organization and indicate how it is notable. The citations simply establish that the Canadian military organizations exist and that some of the veterans organizations have linked to it."
I have no idea what you are talking about, nor what you want?
I have linked a few of the Internet sites that refer to VVi as requested in the first review. Now what? Am I to get a Presidential Citation for VVi before the article is accepted?
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Thanks for the tedious work of editing the coordinates of the pile dweller article. GvV (talk) 03:43, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your Decline, But please tell me the reason for that decline. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikon3toum (talk • contribs) 17:49, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there, this article is about me so is definitely verifiable! cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.34.218.77 (talk) 11:42, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
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