User talk:Frans Fowler

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Image-problem tag on Detroit

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...which spawned this idea/discussion: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility#Tagging images for color problems. As someone seemingly interested in this issue, I'd welcome your input about it. DMacks (talk) 18:51, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

answer

a) See Template:Whydidyoudothat. b) That said... I've just decided that your article is ready, so I approved it. DS (talk) 11:54, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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See Talk:Quentovic (Mystery Edits)--Frans Fowler (talk) 11:34, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fontainebleau- thank you!

Thank you for catching the typo on the Palace of Fontainebleau. I have fixed it and added a citation. Best wishes. SiefkinDR (talk) 16:55, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

urheimat

Some people may have been trying to apply German capitalization conventions to it as a German word... AnonMoos (talk) 00:14, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Help with small updates to biography article?

Hi Frans Fowler, about a year ago now you helped with fixing some links to the Michael Birkin (executive) article and I'm wondering if you might be able to take a look at a quick edit request for that page? It looks like you tend to focus on small edits and the updates needed here and pretty small; I've laid out the details in a request on the Talk page. I'm working on behalf of Mr. Birkin, so I do have a conflict of interest and am looking for an editor to review these updates and make them in the article if they look ok. Would you have a little time to look at this? Thanks! 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 03:03, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Glenelg Tram

I was interested to read you have fond memories of the tram, and wondered what they were, when they were, what it is/was that led you to mention them, and why. (If you hadn't realised/didn't know, I very deliberately chose to live on the tramline.) If you prefer, reply by email. Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 09:59, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A Barnstar for you

		The Reference Desk Barnstar
		for your in-depth analysis of the Bieber and bach (and Bieberbach) etymology Mdob (talk) 15:18, 28 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Neves pronounciation (European Portuguese pronounciation)

Hello, Frans. You're wellcome.

About Neves pronounciation: since he is a portuguese soccer player (and not a brazilian one) your pronounciation is correct. The final "s" in Portugal is pronounced as in "shame". The final "s" in Brazil is pronounced as in "same". The second "e" is not pronounced at all in Portugal, but in Brazil it is pronounced as in "see". So, thumbs up to you!

Hope this helps. Mdob (talk) 22:47, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

PS. The stress of Neves is on the first syllable: Ne'ves — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdob (talk • contribs) 22:49, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

Regarding your edit at Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, please see: http://www.nmfcgs.com/Casket_vs._Coffin.html for a brief comparision. "Casket" is not an American English equivalent of "coffin", they have a different design for the same purpose. Both terms are actually of Middle English origin. Regards — Marcus^(talk) 20:51, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sporting club names

I've done some work at User:Andrewa/RfC on sporting club names and on its talk page... see what you think. Best not to rush it.

In particular, there's a spot at User talk:Andrewa/RfC on sporting club names#RMs for linking to past RMs where adding or removing fullstops has been an issue. It would be good to look at some examples, and see whether this proposal would have helped. Andrewa (talk) 07:24, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Commons template for colour blindness

Hi there, just for your information, I've localized the template {{Colour blind}} on COmmons and changed its parameters (see the template doc for more information). I hope these changes will help to use this template more widely...

Best regards, -- AlNo (talk) 10:12, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

File:England and Wales population cartogram districts.svg

Hi, I've noticed and answered your questions from 2017 :) on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:England_and_Wales_population_cartogram_districts.svg PawełS (talk) 17:11, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

.~.

lol hello don't ask why im here. Elitematterman (talk) 17:18, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you, Viriditas; it weren't me, honest! But I've gone through the article and removed all the external links I could find in the body, added one of them to the External links, and made a couple of other little changes. Better now? --Frans Fowler (talk) 02:52, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

language precision in names

Thank you for beginning quality articles such as Zwetschge and Havering hoard, for care for precision in names such as Sophia (wisdom) vs. Sophia "(name), for gnomish help such as "Resolved a few Germanisms without affecting the sense or content", for the modest "This user is a minor editor, mainly." and "My pleasure entirely", - Frans, "professional procrastinator", you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2487 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:48, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

WP 20

Thank you for lighting candles ;) - Happy Wikipedia 20, - proud of a little bit on the Main page today, and 5 years ago, and 10 years ago, look: create a new style - revive - complete! I sang in the revival mentioned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:48, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

... today Jerome Kohl, remembered in friendship --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:47, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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AfD Interbrand

Hi Frans Fowler, currently the article Interbrand has been nominated as AfD. I've seen that you have been involved in discussing notability of the topic once before and thought that you might have an opinion on this. Imo notability of the topic is not in doubt, while the article itself needs improvement. I'd be very interested in your opinion. Thank you! --Microhierax (talk) 09:33, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Microhierax. I can't remember being involved in the past (I must be getting old!), but I've added three ha'p'orth to the deletion discussion. Frans Fowler (talk) 07:26, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And while we're on the naming firm subject, check out A Hundred Monkeys. Deleting that article was like erasing dotcom marketing history. JSFarman (talk) 00:10, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of John Murphy (branding consultant) for deletion

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Governing body endorsement (January 7)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Portrait of a Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat has been accepted

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:25, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

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Hairstyle

You've got some nerve, mein Herr! You change, what, 10 BCs & ADs, because there's ONE SINGLE BCE. A gross breach of WP:ERA. Johnbod (talk) 02:35, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vielen Dank, junger Mann. Wir sollten uns aber nicht in die Haare kriegen. -- Frans Fowler (talk) 12:31, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]