User talk:Fr33kman/Archive 1

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Welcome to Simple English Wikipedia

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-- Creol(talk) 05:02, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Response

In response to the French/Việtnamese diacritics: there is also no English name for, say, Quốc Ngữ ("National Writing System" conveys the message of "Việtnamese alphabet" about as much as "Cup of the State" does "overthrow of a country's leader"). Either call it Việtnamese alphabet like ENWIKI or use its proper name, but don't replace letters with other letters. For example, ệ is a different letter (in Việtnamese) than e, and the pronunciation is changed. If Erik Möller's name is written with the ö, which is differently pronounced in German than o, with a redir from Moller, why can the same not be done with a non-European language? The only answer, in my opinion, is Eurocentrism, that is, in laypeople terms, racism. — Jonas Rand · ^(talk) 01:42, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Reply

Hi, I replied on my talk page. SF007 (talk) 21:35, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiCup

Hello, Fr33kman. Seeing as you are a participant in the WikiCup, i feel it my duty as a judge to inform you that the Pool Round will begin at 00:00, October 2 (UST). Happy WikiCupping! Sebb ^Talk 00:38, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I have a list of articles I'm going to create taped to my monitor :-) fr33kman ^{t - c} 01:51, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Fr33kman. Seeing as you are a participant in the WikiCup, i feel it my duty as a judge to inform you that the Pool Round's new starting date will be 00:00, November 2 (UST). Happy WikiCupping! Sebb ^Talk 19:23, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

And it's changed again. BTW, Sebb — you really should substitute those templates. Microchip • talk 15:05, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I won't be able to partake since it's going to cut into clinical exam time. :-( fr33kman ^{t - c} 17:26, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Even next year? God, this is a huge hassle. Sebb ^Talk 19:17, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Lenzburg

Great! Thanks for helping with it. I'm hoping to keep it as a good article. All the best. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:57, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I'll look into it further tomorrow after I speak to a mate in Austria and see if he'll do a proper translation of the whole article for us. :-) fr33kman ^{t - c} 20:59, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Your Welcomes

I noticed you've made a lot of welcomes in the past couple of hours...just make sure they make they're first edit to a main article space before you welcome them.--  † ChristianMan16  02:02, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

I thought that we were, as per WP:Simple talk#More editors?, starting to welcome people as soon as they made an account (as long as they had made either no edits or no inappropriate edits) ?? :-) fr33kman ^{t - c} 02:12, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm just telling you what they told me because sometimes they make an account and never make an edit or just make one or two edits to they're user page then disappear forever...we just want to make sure they serious. which is why we wait for they're first main space edit.--  † ChristianMan16  02:16, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

No worries! I was merely reacting to synergy (talk · contribs)'s suggestion that we welcome them immediately so as to encourage them to stick around. Perhaps this would be a good topic for WP:ST? fr33kman ^{t - c} 02:22, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Good point...we should discuss this at WP:ST and come to a consensus.--  † ChristianMan16  02:29, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Have added under the existing discussion although if you'd prefer a new section, go ahead and make the edit. :-) Cheerio, going to bed now, long day in surgery fr33kman ^{t - c} 02:31, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

night.--  † ChristianMan16  02:34, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Topmatter?

What is topmatter? — Jonas (talk · proposal) 05:17, 8 October 2008 (UTC) Nevermind, got it. --JR

:-) Yeah, sorry, I am guilty of too much wikitalk, I'll work on it! fr33kman ^{t - c} 05:26, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much for supporting my successful RfA. I will do my best to fulfil my duties as an administrator and use the tools wisely. If you need any help, or have any feedback on my editing, please contact me on my talk page. Thank you again, - tholly --Talk-- 16:48, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

No problems, those that show good judgement and are trusted and respected by the community, should be admins! Good luck! fr33kman ^{t - c} 17:01, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

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