User:JurgenG/archive 001

Hello, JurgenG, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia! I hope you will be happy helping here. You should begin by reading these pages: Wikipedia:Useful, Help:Contents, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, and how to write Simple English articles. If you want some ideas of which pages to work on, read Wikipedia:Requested articles or the list of wanted pages.

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Good luck and happy editing! -Eptalon 07:08, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!

I'm not entirely new to the Wikipedia-system but I mostly edit on the dutch and sometimes on the french pages. When I come here on simple it is mostly to edit the interlanguage links to the dutch pages. I prefer to let the editing on the english pages to the native english speakers :-) JurgenG 07:28, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki links

Hi Jurgen, how's it going? Just wanted to say that I've been chasing your edits and adding further interwiki links to the articles you've changed. I use the English Wikipedia's list of interwiki links as the basis and, while I'm there, I add the simple link before pasting the interwiki list over here at Simple Wikpedia. Just a thought if you'd like to add more iw links as you go! All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 13:44, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Rambling Man, usually I only put one IW on each page, the robots usually follow in a few days or weeks to add the rest of them. No use to do work a machine can do for you :-) JurgenG (talk) 13:50, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, fair enough! Keep up the good work. All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 13:51, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Do you think you could use an edit summary when you add an interwikilink to a page? It helps other editors understand the changes you are making. A simple thing like +en is sufficient. Cheers, Razorflame 15:48, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok Razorflame will try not to forget. Trying to write a little script to make it a little fasterJurgenG (talk) 19:59, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Just wanted to add my own thanks and well done for the amount of iw en work you've done. I'm really impressed! Scanna (talk) 23:25, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Not really that hard work :-) Just checked them all from Special:WithoutInterwiki and with a smal script in Windows the changes are pretty fast. Now I try to keep up with the new pages JurgenG (talk) 05:59, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Not the biggest deal, but I noticed you added interwiki links that were already located on the page so in essence you duplicated them. Might want to build into your script to watch for that. -Djsasso (talk) 12:49, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Djsasso, thanks for correcting that one. The script is not that automatic, the "operator" (ie me) still has to be awake. Guess I wasn't at that time :-) JurgenG (talk) 12:58, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Haha no worries, like I said it was not that big a deal. Just thought I would mention it. :) -Djsasso (talk) 15:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your hard work adding interwikis to pages.--♠  Lights  talk  11:27, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Lights, don't think I deserve it yet :-) But this star sure encourages me to continue (time permitting of course) JurgenG (talk) 12:11, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Hundred Years' War

Thanks for catching the duplicate page! I've merged the information from Hundred Years War to Hundred Years' War as per the English Wikipedia. Cheers, Razorflame 14:08, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar!

		American Eagle's Barnstar of Excellence
		This is for you having over 95% of your edits to articles! --  ✰AmericanEagle  16:27, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks American Eagle! This is not what most of us do it for but it is encouraging of course!

Vandalism without an admin

Hello. I am a new user here at the Simple English Wikipedia. Although, I am a very experienced user on another wikipedia. Anyway, if there is no admin to look over WP:AIV, (in other words, no active admins to so AIV), when there is repeated vandalism, what do you do? Just revert away?-- RyanCross (talk) 08:27, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi RyanCross, when I see vandalism I revert it but if it keeps going on that's no use. Waiting for half an hour can help, it's no use to play hard to get with the vandals. Usually they leave if you don't pay any attention to them so I come back after a while and revert everything they've done. JurgenG (talk) 08:50, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. -- RyanCross (talk) 08:54, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Warning templates

I was going to create a vandalism warning template, but I just wanted someone's opinion on it. How about something like this, this, this, and [1]? Of course it will be simplified and copyedited, but better yet, it would be a warning template. Thoughts? -- Ryan†Cross (talk) 09:03, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

I didn't know they didn't exist here on Simple, I'm not really using them either because I am mostly making iw-links on new pages. But these look pretty good and not too harsh to start with (we don't want to scare the newbies away). Don't know if they really have to be simplified a lot, it's not because we're on Simple that we have to consider the users as being 'simple' :-) JurgenG (talk) 09:27, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Do you think add that to this notice? I was suggested to add it there after I left you a message here. Thanks, Ryan†Cross (talk) 09:40, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Shiny!

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I hereby award you, JurgenG , the Working Man's Barnstar for the amazing number of iw links you have added to articles! ← κεηηε∂γ (talk) 10:00, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the support Kennedy! I'm only trying to keep up with people creating new pages.JurgenG (talk) 11:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

No worries, happy editing :) ← κεηηε∂γ ^(talk) 12:01, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for all those cities and villages in Belgium

Could we perhaps also get infoboxes, or pictures ot look at? ;) --Eptalon (talk) 16:50, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Eptalon, that's why they are called stubs :-) Maybe the infoboxes are for my next 'run', first I'll try to create all 589 municipalities from Belgium. JurgenG (talk) 16:52, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello there. Also note I know Chimay mainly form the beer they make, not from the village with the two abbeys where it is made. Could you perhaps mention such things? (Also, if you like you can focus on the more notable ones; or are all 598 of them notable?) --Eptalon (talk) 16:55, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that, out of all the debates of notability, the only thing that is quite ironclad 100% notable are municipalities, cities, and towns. Cassandra 16:57, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

For me they are all notable, otherwise I wouldn't create them. Nobody stops you from elaborating the Chimay page :-) Time permitting I'll elaborate the pages of the municipalities I really know.JurgenG (talk) 16:59, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For creating all those stubs today and always doing interwiki work, I award you The Working Man's Barnstar! By the way, I think you hit our 32,000th article mark with one of those stubs, but you created too any to tell which one it is. :P -- RyanCross (talk) 06:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for one more :-) 352 Belgian municipalities to go, and counting JurgenG (talk) 06:03, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Please slow down, so I can calculate the 32,000th article :) Chenzw  Talk  06:06, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

stopping for now, time to do some real-life work. :-) Happy calculating! (I guess I get a €1000 reward for starting number 32000?) JurgenG (talk) 06:08, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations: You have been given a Barnstar! For filling up Recent changes. Chenzw  Talk  06:17, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

hahaha that was because you all were asleep while I was at it :-) JurgenG (talk) 06:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

No, my timezone is GMT +8 :) Chenzw  Talk  07:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

You were also at it about twelve hours ago, and I'm in GMT -9. Cassandra 07:26, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

There are some 36000 Municipalities in France and some 14000 in Germany... so that would get Simple to 80000+ pages ;-) Who has time to start them all?JurgenG (talk) 15:57, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Just to say thanks for the iw links on my articles, i'll add the en and fr links in the next articles. (Yotcmdr (talk) 16:55, 9 September 2008 (UTC))

No, thank you for adding them to the new articles you make. You only need to make one iw link yourself, the rest will be done by the robots. Happy editing! JurgenG (talk) 19:33, 9 September 2008 (UTC)