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I have this big thing about symmetry!!! Text - left, pics - right. :P Law shoot! 23:09, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

You don't owe me an apology. It's me being a typical tax guy - anal. LOL. Law shoot! 01:55, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

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I saw your recent addition of Image:CFA2008-Siberian.jpg. It looks like it's had some sort of graphic filter applied, perhaps a watercolor or soft focus filter. Do you have an unmodified version you can offer Wikipedia? As it stands, it's hard to make out of the cat's details. — Alan De Smet | Talk 00:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, and no worries. I'm guessing you were shooting under sub-optimal lighting conditions, and I'm guessing from a cell phone. You make do with what you can get! Thanks for sharing the photo with us all! — Alan De Smet | Talk 06:57, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Flatwater vs. sprint

Hi, you changed the Olympic canoeing navigation templates to say "Sprint" instead of "Flatwater", based on a 2008 reference, but at the time, the events were called "Flatwater". I'm not sure those changes should have been made for the 1936–2008 Games. Thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 04:16, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

I came here to say exactly this. Regardless of what the event is called now, there was no 2001 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, and no medals were awarded at the 2008 Olympics for Sprint. Ironfrost (talk) 07:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Liberec 2009 images

Hello Chris, I´ll try to find help on Czech wikipedia. Btw, I´m both active and passive sportsman, although recently I enjoy sports mainly on TV, with glass of beer in the pub :)) Vejvančický (talk) 08:58, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Canoers

Hi Chris! I saw that you have "cleaned up" many bios of canoers. By the way I don't no why... But please allow me to ask you where I can find sources that e.g. József Gurovits only competed in the early 1950s or Willi Horn only competed in the late 1930s? Are this facts? Many thanks and kind regards Doma-w (talk) 15:02, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, don't you think it is better to write e.g. that Horn competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics? Because this is a fact. Isn't it better to give a fact than to give a best guess? Doma-w (talk) 15:17, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Of course I also see your point. It would be much better and more interesting to write the period during they competed, but if we do not know? I think it is no problem to write "competed in the XXXX Summer (Winter) Olympics". Because this was (and is) the highest level in (amateur) sport and I think every(?) athlete is proud to competed at the Olympics even when they also competed at numerous world championships? Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 15:41, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Chris, I know this. I really like your work! If we know more it is perfect to add the period. But if we only know one event, I think it is ok to write only this one event. And if someone find out more it can be easily changed to a period? Kind regards and :) Doma-w (talk) 16:03, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Yes Chris. You can do it like you want. But to replace a fact with a guess... I don't know if this is good... Kind regards Doma-w (talk) 16:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

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Thank you for creating Therese Zenz! Happy editing, Kingturtle (talk) 13:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Self-educated UBX

Thank you for telling me, but "themself" is really improper English. I've changed it to be dependent on a gender parameter, defaulting to "themselves". Octane [improve me?] 31.12.08 1531 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Thomas Zereske

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Yes, I think I will be in Liberec during this event, if I am able to have holidays from work. I plan on watching as many events as possible. Unfortunately I am so cameraless, but maybe the Wikimedia organisation will buy a camera for me, for this purpose ;p? Maybe I will borrow a camera from a friend of mine. I would love to provide for Wikipedia some photographs of this event, and maybe I can take photographs of different things around these areas for Wikipedia too. --VoletyVole (talk) 18:11, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't enjoy so much watching skiing on TV, only maybe in the pub with beers. But I know some people, who will compete these championships, so maybe I will have "insider information". I will try to remind of these events, as they approach closer. --VoletyVole (talk) 18:18, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
I have corrected some things in this event page, especially Czech spelling. Some things I didn't understand - for example in FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009#Organization section there is "The main concern Neumannová was the weather given the problems of the test events in February and ensuring the need of the snow making equipment" - I don't understand this sentence. Can you correct this or clarify to me? --VoletyVole (talk) 18:31, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
Also, in FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009#Competition format changes, I read "The Nordic combined changes were approved at a fall meeting in Zurich" - what is a fall meeting? --VoletyVole (talk) 18:32, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
p.s. Thanks for this hard work with the article, it is very good! --VoletyVole (talk) 18:34, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

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Re:Canoer vs Canoeist

Hi Miller - you wrote: I saw the renaming discussions you had between calling a person who does canoeing as a profession in sport such as the Summer Olympics or the world championships. Even though I am in the minority on this and was not able to participate in the discussion, I look as the name as "canoer" because there can be one person doing the paddling or more than one. To me, "canoeist" sounds superior and also implies that there can only be one person in the world (or country) who can canoe for a living. This may come across as simple-minded, but I would like to know your thoughts on this since I have been doing most of the recent canoeing biographies in Wikipedia.

To be honest, that's the first time I've ever heard such a distinction suggested. We have cyclists, typists, tourists... "-ist" is a standard suffix for someone who does something. I think you're confusing it with the superlative "-est" ending (which is attached to adjectives, not verb stems - e.g., "biggest"), to which it is not in any way related. In any case, as I mentioned in the original nomination, in many countries the term "canoer" does not exist (my google search of New Zealand sites, for instance, found a ratio of over 1000:1 in the uses of the two terms, and half the uses of "canoer" were typos for cancer). In the few countries where it does exist, the term canoeist is also regularly used, so it's not one of those standard US vs UK English things, either. Grutness...wha? 05:54, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

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The link to the pdf file you're using for the canoeists is broken. canoeicf.com appears to have a newer version of it now [1]. THEN WHO WAS PHONE? (talk) 14:40, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I will help, should I just do the same replacement as you have done on Jan Bartunek. THEN WHO WAS PHONE? (talk)
Thank you for the barnstar! I didn't realize how often the link is used, but it's a nice easy task for me that I'm happy to do heh. THEN WHO WAS PHONE? (talk) 16:37, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

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Liberec 2009

Hi Miller. Good news: I have acquired a camera! I'm planning to head off to Liberec, and MS and be snap happy! I also have a kinda "backstage pass", so I can snap the events in both of the main disciplines. Maybe I'll get some behind-the-scenes snap ops. I think, that the majority will also become Flickr photoes as well as Wikicommons snaps, but we have a share policy with flickr, don't we? Anyway, plz msg me if you have some specific requests for some snaps. I'm snappy like a crocodile (and gnash my meat with my fangs)!! --Voletyvole (talk) 22:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, these ideas sound perfect - maybe I can snap some from these events, 100% will be impossible! I have practiced taking "action shots" of skateboarding, but the quality isn't so good. The camera is so good, but I have to play with the buttons, in order to have understood the camera details, then I snap sexy snaps. And maybe I will look for a "Press" pass also, in order to get closeups. Anyway, I will practice more snapping - I would like to succeed with more than just 1% of the snaps!! Practice makes perfect! --Voletyvole (talk) 19:07, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Also, I don't understand my sentence: "I'm snappy like a crocodile (and gnash my meat with my fangs" - this was the monkey on my back, who said this maybe!! It is silly sentence. --Voletyvole (talk) 19:07, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Charles H. Schneer

Thanks for writing, Chris. BTW, if you read this web source and the other sources on the web regarding Charles H. Schneer, the established cause of death is not really mentioned in the narrative. Only when the reader gets to the last paragraph of the article is when one sees the following: "Donations may be made to the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center ..." If this is sufficent for Wikipedia's Established Cause of Death to be listed in Deaths, then leave it; if not, feel free to delete the cause. Ed (talk) 03:57, 29 January 2009 (UTC)