User talk:LVan

Welcome!

Hey, LVan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions. I hope you like the site and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful (some of them may sound stupid, but I recommend you check them out):

You should introduce yourself here at the new user log. I hope you enjoy editing and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Cbrown1023 01:40, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Cbrown1023, very much appreciated! LVan 00:12, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your experiment

Hello, thank you for experimenting with the sandbox. You did it in the right place, it's just that you deleted the template. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE IT. I'm sorry if I sounded harsh, but we NEED the template. Here's a link to the sandbox for your convenience. Have a nice day! :-) Teletubbie26! 20:20, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your help - shows you how much of a beginner I am (just loged in 5 min. ago). Not sure how I did such a thing though, I thought I just deleted the sentence I just put in. LVan 20:29, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Request for advice

So far, you have made very good contributions. You have added a lot and the articles look nice.

References are normally needed only for direct-copies (or very close copies) from other sources and for controvesial statements. If a user feels that a statement is unsourced or a copy, then they will probably just remove it or, hopefully, put a {{fact}} next to it. For example, the text: "Many people do not like to visit Ronse{{fact}}", yeilds "Many people do not like to visit Ronse^{[citation needed]}".

I should also inform you that Wikipedia:Peer Review reviews articles and gives you pointers on how to expand. That may be more helpful than I am because I do not know much about geographic articles (my speciality is films, novels, and people). Cbrown1023 16:33, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, keep up the good work and don't hesitate to ask me anything else. Cbrown1023 16:49, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Veurne

Please do not remove content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

Sorry about the Veurne delete. The intention was not vandalism, but simply an attempt to keep the article to what might be of interest to anglophone readers. I thought it would be OK to go ahead since you marked your original addition to the Veurne article as a "minor" edit. This being said, I recognize that my judgment on this is subjective and I should have asked you first (thanks for the lesson and sorry again). Just one more thing: You may want to remove the list of 11 deelgemeentes, either in your section (where they are already listed twice) or at the top of the article to avoid duplication. LVan 03:32, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Country specific Google searches

Hi, on Talk:Bruges#Bruges/ Brugge you showed search results for pages located in specific countries. How do you do that? Would be interesting for the Brussels municipalities survey. Markussep 18:06, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the Canadian version of Google (www.google.ca), there is a link just to the right of the search input box entitled Language Tools - it's pretty self-explanatory. I am not sure at how accurate this tool is, but it would probably be helpful for some of the cases under discussion. Thanks by the way for setting up the survey and for posting the individual notices on some of those municipalities' talk pages; I would probably have missed this debate otherwise. LVan 20:07, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article "Ath"

Permettez-moi d'écrire en français (j'ai vu que c'était votre langue maternelle). Après la lecture de l'article "Ath", diverses corrections et rectifications (mineures) s'imposent. Je prendrai donc la liberté de les effectuer et d'ajouter quelques éléments. N'hésitez pas à consulter les articles que j'ai consacrés à "ma" ville. (Par exemples : Saint Julien n'est pas né à Ath. David n'est pas un de nos géants.) Bien à vous. Daniel71953 13:27, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pas de problème - un tout grand merci pour votre contribution! LVan 15:06, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Brussels

Hi LVan, feel free to add your data to the table I started. Could you use a colour to indicate your data, like this? Markussep 15:57, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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