User talk:DelftUser

Re: Welcome Message

Hi again DelftUser... I posted the welcome message because as of yesterday no one else had done so and you have not yet received any messages on your talk page. Please don't take it as anything but what it is, a hello greeting to you from me. Enjoy Wikipedia and I hope to see you around! Gblaz 20:11, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Bridge of the Americas / Panama Canal.

Hi,

As you'll notice if you scroll through that list of Panama Canal articles, I've put a huge amount of work into getting the entire Panama Canal series up to a better standard. Making them all look consistent is an ongoing part of this.

As it stands right now, I don't think Bridge of the Americas looks terribly good, because the picture and nav box jammed together at the top take up most of the page. One of them should move down, and if you go to the Talk:Panama Canal page you'll see that I'm open as to which one. But I think the decision should be made across all the Panama Canal articles, not just BofAs.

So, since the the Talk:Panama Canal page is the best place to discuss this (see "Layout"), I'd be grateful if you'd go there and give me your views.

Cheers... Johantheghost 21:40, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

MIA

Are you working on the MIA-projekt too ? If yes, I just want you to know that the works in german language are have a copyright until 70 years after death of the author, but I don't what that means for your english website. -- 141.30.81.154 12:32, 19 December 2005 (UTC) aka de:Amtiss[reply]

I am not involved with the MIA, I only started the article about it in the english Wikipedia. Does the German law state that published works can have copyright until 70 years after death of the author? I think the volunteers of the MIA check all copyright before they put it on the archive, so everything could be distributed leaglly. --130.161.31.21 19:33, 19. Dez 2005 (CET) ( en:DelftUser)

I just saw that there are german texts from Leon Trotzky, and he isn't dead since 70 years, but as I said, I don't know if they have to bother about german copyright, as their server is in the USA.

By the way I wrote you, because I was to lazy to write an email to them, so maybe you can send them this talk. -- 141.30.66.137 22:19, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Tanjung Gemuk

Well done on the rescue work for this article. Dlyons493 Talk 21:41, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Panama Canal

Hi, I thought you might be interested to know that I've put Panama Canal up for FA status. Feel free to comment or vote. — Johantheghost 16:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yay! Thanks for your contributions and support! — Johan the Ghost _seance 20:30, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, ^{the day after} tomorrow's the big day! All hands on deck — prepare to repel vandals! ;-) — Johan the Ghost _seance 12:07, 21 February 2006 (UTC) ^{don't know what day it is...;-)}[reply]

Connor Anderson

Thanks for catching that, I would have never noticed. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:31, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The second dimension

I refer to the above AFD discussion, where you voted speedy delete. You may not be aware of the criteria for speedy deletion and I believe that this may not be a valid vote here. I would appreciate if you could clarify which criterion you feel the site meets, and/or tag The second dimension with the relevant {{db}} tag. Stifle 11:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sock

I bet you that Epic Fantasy etc _is_ a sock puppet, the brilliant thing about them, is that they always deny in the first place :) heheh. A good checkuser would be worth the effort I would say! SatuSuro 05:14, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: coat of arms

I use only Paint and pictures of Blazon Project of Wikipédia FR. For 3D effect, I use Blender. Odejea 23:18, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mijn nier is uw nier

Ik ben voor altijd dankbaar voor uw bericht, DelftUser. Als u een nier nodig hebt, u kunt mijn hebben. Ik ben een bastaardzoon van Koningin Beatrix (Ons geheim). :) --Caponer 04:22, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I hope my bad Dutch and humor didn't offend you! I very much appreciated your message, so I will now leave you two. --Caponer 02:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ME

I just read your comments on the VFD Uncyclopedia page. You are a self-righeous jackass, just thought I should let you know. Stop waving your "1000 edits" around like its a 12 inch cock, and overall just get over yourself. —This unsigned comment was added by 24.7.106.155 (talk • contribs) .

See Articles for deletion/Uncyclopedia for background information. --DelftUser 17:48, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I should have cited WP:DICK. The page you referenced was exactly what I was referring to. Even if you had a point (which I don't think you did), your manner of dealing with others and their opinions struck me as extremely immature. Not that I wasn't being immature writing this on your talk page, but that's another story. 24.7.106.155 01:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

LoCascio

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Le baron

He finally left a message on someone's talk page the other day, User talk:Necrothesp, and sounds more clueless than malicious about the use of honorific styles. (For that matter, it's not entirely clear to me when we should use military ranks; my interpretation of the guidelines was that they shouldn't be used at all, like professional titles, etc., but Necrothesp says that certain people should de facto get them. He's done rather more work in the British military area than I have, so I'm inclined to trust his judgement.) I'm still willing to assume good faith for Le baron, who's also done some good work adding postnominals as he goes. I'm a little pressed for time right now, but I'm going to look through the archives for some of the debates on honorifics when I get a chance and share them with him, to try to make it clear that it took some work to reach this compromise, and it really isn't acceptable to breach it. Choess 18:41, 1 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

Thanks for the contribution to Abu Sufyan ibn Harb. Could you also please provide sources? Thanks! --Striver 20:27, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, sorry, i dont :/ --Striver 18:59, 4 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Cartographers

thanks! Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 15:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roger II of Sicily

Delft, after some work, I am nearing completion on the map for the Roger II of Sicily article. I ended up doing quite a bit of copyediting there as well, to try to make it flow a bit more smoothly -- I think a lot of the Encyclopedia Brit 1911 was still in the article. And a map should help readers understand the unfamiliar places (unfamiliar to most of them at least).

But I'm a bit curious as to how it ended it that you requested a map. I had thought you were something of an "owner" of the article, but I see you aren't. Your decision to request a map was right on target, but I'm puzzled at how you arrived at your decision. Mappily yours, MapMaster 18:59, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delft, I have finally completed this map. While I did not explicitly mention Roger II on the map, I created the map to show the political situation at the start of Roger's reign in 1112 AD as well as, to some extent, at his death in 1154 AD. I also found a number of other articles where the map was useful. I was also able to use the same colours as I had for my map of Italy in 1000 AD. Thanks for the opportunity, MapMaster 15:08, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nile River

You expressed an interest awhile ago in Nile river maps - they have now been made, although not by me - check out Image:Nile_watershed_plain.png and Image:Nile_watershed_topo.png. Kmusser 14:35, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! --DelftUser 12:23, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Noah and Endorheic basins

Hello! I've made two more quick maps: Image:Arabian_endorheic_basins.png and Image:Arabian_drainage.png. Note that the stream courses in the latter image may not be authoritative -- they were computed by the USGS, not measured in the field. I had trouble exporting to SVG, but if I get it to work I'll upload the file and let you know. Also let me know if you're interested in anything else! Citynoise 12:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot! There is no need for the SVG so don't bother yourself. --DelftUser 19:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rashidi

Hi! Thanks a lot for the picture and maps you uploaded to the Rashidi article. The article looks sooooo much nicer with those maps/picture + the Arab script that Anas S. put in.

However; there is one small problem: the numbering. I don´t know if you noticed, but the numbering of the amirs went a bit gaga with the insertion of the picture. Now they go from 1-9 and then from 1-3. Do you know how it is fixed? Regards, Huldra 17:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for fixing the problem...but now it is back. I have no clue about what has happened (now all the amirs are the first!). Perhaps we should just number them the "manual" way; after all the numbers are fixed and will not be changed (?) Regards, Huldra 17:11, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of people executed by the Tudors

I have tried to recreate your list as a category. I have now run into a deletion row re similar categories for other Royal Houses. Your comments would be greatly appreciated82.36.178.185 08:38, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is absolutely no need of such a category! The list should stay as it is. --DelftUser 18:55, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of Cartographers

Thanks for removing my name from the list of Cartographers. :-) Good luck. Electionworld Talk? 18:18, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

While he isn't an original creator of maps - his main effort, the Atlas, is quite an amazing feat that he consistently works on, and in my opinion, is well deserving of being listed in an honorary fashion. Don't attempt to lecture me, DelftUser - and maybe next time YOU discuss it instead. Rarelibra 17:04, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly unfree File:August Willich.gif

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Writing a replacement entry for Real Bills Doctrine

Hi! Andronico here!

As we have both noted, the page for the Real bills doctrine is pretty abysmal. The grotesque errors it still contains reflect badly on the state of economics and on the Wikipedia process. I hinted I might be interested in trying to rewrite the page from scratch. I have not created a Wikipedia page of this complexity before. I'm concerned to get it right and to avoid conflict with other editors.

I started putting in a few ideas here. I don't know whether you would be prepared to help me with the process of developing this and with a view to replacing the existing RBD page? I know other users had indicated their intention to sort out the page at various points in the past, including User:Stirling_Newberry and User:Dtellett, but the basic problems remain.

I hope I won't need a lot of help actually writing the page (I have a Ph.D. and 20 years in business, finance and economics). But the topic can lead to heated debate, particularly as it conflicts with contemporary teaching. So I may need support and backing during the process. If you have time, could you email me (rbdpage (at) adrianwrigley.com)? Thanks! Andronico (talk) 13:33, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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