User talk:Pietdesomere/Archive2007

Talk:Belgium national football team

Hmm, the dates got lost somehow, see Talk:Belgium national football team. Greetings from Gent ;-)

Okay, solved now. Piet 10:59, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Dutch Golden Age painting, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Beer

Hi Piet. Thanks for the heads up on the Beer article. No, I haven't got it on my watch list. I don't think I have anything on my watch list! I suppose I should start doing that. Anyway - I put my comment on the peer review. I feel that Beer needs a lot more work. People are still working on it. Give it enough time and it really will be a splendid article. In the meantime - keep drinking! Cheers! SilkTork 13:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

De Vries disambiguation

I just thought I'd take a break from tagging "I am great and the best guy in the world is me" articles on RC patrol :-) ~~192.18.1.9 16:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)~~ Damn thing logged me out... Tonywalton | Talk 16:15, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tallest tree

Thanks for your note. I found a good reference for 114m and put it on the Talk:Thorpdale, Victoria.

I like your list of significant contributions. Refreshingly honest, maybe. :P

See you 'round the 'pedia, pfctdayelise (translate?) 10:52, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VWN en WCN

Beste Pietdesomere,

Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 18:35, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Acoustic cleaning

Many thanks for removing the cleanup tags...the article is not yet fully WFYied but good to know it is improving. I saw in your bio you are a scientist...can i ask if you have done any work with acoustics in this area?

Collieman 18:13, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there

I suppose we don't really know each other, but I just wanted to say thanks for reading my comments on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page#Support_the_proposed_new_design...I was just thinking to myself that nobody will read what I said, but you contradicted that and made me feel warm and fuzzy inside ;) Hopefully the main page won't get changed, but the outlook looks pretty grim. -Frazzydee|✍ 02:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keldermans

Dag Piet, ik ben zo vrij je hier (en in het Nederlands) te contacteren. Ik ben van plan de stamboom van de Keldermansen naar het Nederlands te vertalen, alleen heb ik wat moeite met de typering "Vlaams". In de Engelse versie linkt Flemish naar County of Flanders. Volgens mij ten onrechte, omdat deze familie afkomstig is uit het hertogdom Brabant en ook vooral daar actief was. Groeten, Fnorp 08:21, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your editing and comments on Nicolas de Ovando

Thanks for editing the article. Haven't seen you around in a while. Good to run into you again.

I did run into a couple of copyvio problems based on stuff I did early on in my Wiki life. It took me a while to clean them up.

See you around. Happy editing.

--Richard 08:49, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi back

Yes, lots has happened with Cortes and related articles. Lessee. We started by moving stuff to Spanish conquest of Mexico and some stuff to Siege of Tenochtitlan. You were around for that.

I wound up looking at the Aztec article and, of course, Cortes is mentioned there as well so I started cleaning up that article. Initially, I was just interested in moving stuff out of Aztec and into Spanish conquest of Mexico. However, I wound up getting involved with Aztec in general. I wound up working on Aztec religion and Human sacrifice in Aztec culture in particular.

In the process, I met (via Wikipedia) a Mexican expert on the Aztec civilization (User:Nanahuatzin) who writes a lot but with very poor English so I and some other editors clean up after him. He has been responsible for some of the text added to Spanish conquest of Mexico and Siege of Tenochtitlan.

These articles related to Aztec civilization in the 1500's (time of Hernan Cortes) is one of my two main areas of work in Wikipedia. The other is Global warming.

I'm glad to shorten articles by moving text to subsidiary articles. Just identify for me what you think are the articles that need shortening and give me your ideas of how they should be shortened.

See ya.

--Richard 09:23, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Piet is short for "Pieter", no?

Your user page says that "Piet" is short for "Peter".

Nah, "Piet" is short for "Pieter" and "Pete" is short for "Peter".

Just being picky...

--Richard 20:46, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... OK, you say that "Piet" is short for both "Pieter" and "Peter".

Maybe my problem is that I don't know enough Dutch. I always assumed that "Pieter" was Dutch and "Peter" was English. Are you telling me something different?

Your name is "Peter". Is that an English name or a Dutch name? How can you have a Dutch shortening (i.e. "Piet") of an English name (i.e. "Peter")?

BTW, you're from Ghent, Belgium. What do they speak there? Flemish? Is that relevant to this discussion at all?

I'm sooo confused. Us Americans are so parochial. ;^)

--Richard 21:10, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aztec template

Did you create that the Aztec navbar template? If so, could you tell me how that's done?

I had a picky point about the Cortes article. It struck me as a little weird having the Aztec navigation template on it but I realize now what the problem is and how we could fix it.

The problem, as I see it, is that the Cortes article should have two navbars on it, one for articles about the Spanish colonization of the Americas with asection for conquistadors (e.g. Pizarro, DeSoto, Balboa, etc.) and another for Aztec articles. The Spanish colonization of the Americas navbar should be above the Aztec navbar.

I would be glad to put the Spanish colonization of the Americas navbar together if you could give me a pointer to documentation explaining how it's done.

Thanx.

--Richard 00:16, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind... I figured it out. I just created a template Template:Spanish colonization of the Americas. It probably could use some work and it's only used in the Hernan Cortes article. Feel free to improve the template and copy it to other articles if you wish.

--Richard 06:02, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Take another look at the Hernan Cortes article. There is now a Template:Spanish colonization of the Americas and Template:Aztec lower down. I'm not completely sure about the positioning of these two templates but the idea is that Hernan Cortes is part of both topics whereas the other conquistadors wouldn't be part of the Aztec topic.

I'm not sure what you are thinking should be moved out of the Cortes article. Can you be more specific?

--Richard 15:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: shortening of template name... um, I was aware that the name was kind of long but I couldn't think of a better name. Maybe spanishconquestamericas. There is a pre-existing template {{History of Peru}} so it's questionable whether every template name has to be continguous non-blank characters. My biggest issue with making the change now is that we have to go back and change all the articles with that template (about 10) unless redirect works for templates too.

I've also started a template {{Inca}}. My plan is to add a template {{Maya}}. and then link all of these under another template {{PreColumbian Civilizations}}. .

Happy Wikiing!

--Richard 16:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pre-Columbian template

Moved this discussion to Template talk:Pre-Columbian --Richard 19:02, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits to Maya civilization

Please check out Talk:Maya civilization for discussion of your edits and also a new WikiProject WP:MESO. --Richard 08:13, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

80 yrs test

Oops sorry, missed the tag, I will wait furhter edit till you removed it again. Arnoutf 10:52, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

External link on World Cup poll

Excellent find! Well done for lightening things up. Waggers 10:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Came here to say the same thing! Thanks to you now I am one of the newest contributors to Uncyclopedia. PHF 01:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

lol, thanks for the link. This one is almost as good as the other one, too bad the poll has died, people could have used the extra humor. PHF 16:09, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would you like to join?

Would you like to join the Dutch military history taskforce? Considering your edits to the 80 years war and related articles you would be perfectly able to make a valuable contribution. If you're interested (or not) please drop a note at my talk page or simply add your name to the list on the project page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Dutch military history task force Rex 16:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Early Renaissance

Hi, the afd for the article ended and the result was to not delete it. Since you indicated you'd like to merge it during the discussion, I figured I'd let you know. In my opinion there's no reason to stop it from being merged, but figured it might be better done by someone who might know more than me about the subject. Thanks. - Bobet 13:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify

Hi Pietdesomer. I know that you've been involved in wikifying articles in the past, so I thought I'd draw your attention to this new project. We currently have a backlog of over 6500 articles, so any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated, even if it's only one or two articles! Alternatively, if you know anyone else who might like to help out, please tell them about it. Thanks :) -Ladybirdintheuk 09:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Valley of Mexico map in Aztec article nominated for Featured Picture

Piet, how's it going? Haven't talked to you since things settled down in the Aztec world. I note from your User Contributions that you're still active (which is good for Wikipedia). I myself am still dabbling in the Aztec articles, but have largely returned to my Olmec research.

By the way, I self-nominated the Valley of Mexico map in the Aztec article for Featured Picture. You may vote on it &/or offer your comments here. All for now, Madman 04:09, 10 August 2006 (UTC) [reply]

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Alphabetizing

Troubling As best as I can tell, the standards are inconsistently and inconsistently applied. This has given me more headaches than you can imagine. Thanks for the heads-up. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 22:34, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talk main page template

Dank je wel. I've been thinking about this for a long time. :) --Monotonehell 11:56, 20 August 2006 (UTC) [reply]

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Lesser Antilles

Are you sure Trinidad and Tobago are part of the Lesser Antilles? I've never been quite sure of that one. Do you have a good source that definitively includes them? Guettarda 11:33, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure that the Virgin Islands are not part of the Lesser Antilles. I don't know if TT should be considered part of the LA or not. The truth is I'm not sure I've seen anything definitive ones way or the other, and I think it's important to have a solid source for things like that. For example, at Lesser Antilles, the reference doesn't sound defintive, and there's nothing to say exactly how closely the article follows the reference. Perhaps the reason I am most inclined to distrust the list is the statement "The Lesser Antilles can be divided into the Windward Islands in the south and the Leeward Islands in the north." Since the Virgin Islands aren't part of the Leewards, and Trinidad and Tobago aren't part of the Windwards, I am disinclined to trust that list. There really needs to be a good reference for that list. Guettarda 12:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion copied to Talk:Lesser Antilles. Piet 12:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC) [reply]

RE: Flemish and Dutch Template

Hi Piet, Thanks, I think you make some good points, and I will edit the template as you suggest. Wikipedia is a collaborative process, after all :) If someone helps me put more textual content into the articles, that would be great! so far, I have been mainly concerned with organization, inclusion of painters, and accessibility of these articles. Vlad b 14:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC) [reply]

My god! It's a conspiracy!!

My god! It's a conspiracy!! Piet | Talk 12:04, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've deleted your comments from the main page talk. Don't mock the newcomers. -- Zanimum 15:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Relational Database

Thanks for your suggestions on the Relational Database peer review. If you have further suggestions, they would be welcome. McKay 21:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Wikipedia Diskussion:Statistik der exzellenten Artikel

Hello Piet, I have replied to your comment on the page stated above. Best regards --Marbot 20:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC) [reply]

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Thought you might enjoy this

Quick, check out the Piet (programming language) before it gets AFD'ed.

--Richard 07:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC) [reply]

Thank you for your help

Thank you for your help on the Single-grain experiment article. It was DYK on October 12. I really appreciated it. Chris 01:59, 14 October 2006 (UTC) [reply]

WikiProject Belgium

Hallo,

(ik hoop dat je het niet erg vindt dat ik in het Nederlands op je pagina schrijf, ik kan ook Engels en Frans) WikiProject Belgium is een kersvers project omtrent België en dat nog veel nieuwe leden nodig heeft. Als je zin hebt moet je maar je naam erbij schrijven! Ik denk dat het wel degelijk interessant kan zijn om mekaar daar op problemen en gebreken te wijzen, en ook tips uiteraard. Ik ben net zoals jij een Vlaming, maar het is een Belgisch project, we nodigen ook Franstaligen uit. Veel zijn er echter niet (blijkbaar) op deze Wikipedia, nog geen enkele heeft zichzelf toegevoegd. We zijn van plan om er in het Engels te schrijven. Groeten,Evilbu 18:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo, ik heb gezien dat je het WikiProject Belgium verlaten hebt. Dat is je goed recht, ik zal je niet lastigvallen om terug te keren. Maar is het enkel en alleen omwille van SomeHuman's commentaar? Ik ben zelf ook Vlaming (zoals je ziet), ben ook op mijn hoede als het over zoiets gevoelig gaat, en je zou kunnen zeggen dat ik ook lichtjes flamingant ben. Dat neemt niet weg dat ik SomeHuman ook een beetje extreem vind, en dat ik had gehoopt dat we via dat project vooral gingen kunnen samenwerken, en mekaar eens een paar zaken vragen (zoals dat kaartje waar ik om vroeg), niet dat we mekaar met getrokken messen benaderden. Het staat je vrij om terug te keren wanneer je dat wenst.

Groeten, Evilbu 13:39, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo,

Ik vind het ook erg spijtig dat het zo moet lopen. Ik heb de discussies gearchiveerd en hoop dat er in de toekomst sneller wordt ingegrepen, want je opmerking was zeer terecht, het liep de spuigaten uit. Ik denk dat er geen politieke controverse is, gewoon die ene gebruiker die er een creëert... Van iemand die het maken van een Wikiproject Flanders op zijn To-do list heeft staan hoop ik dat hij ooit nog terugkeert... Maar je moet doen waar je je goed bij voelt, en ik hoop er in de toekomst er beter voor te zorgen dat mensen zich goed voelen in ons project.

veel wikiplezier,

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 10:51, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Je hebt gelijk, maar 't is jammer dat je het kind met het badwater wegsmijt...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:48, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:Uncategorized

Hi Piet,

...someone asked to change the wording of this template, but now it's very confusing. "Should belong in a category" seems redundant, although technically it could be right. What makes it confusing is that belong can indicate where something is but also where something should be (hence redundancy with the first should). I think you better change it to "This article should be in one or more categories". Piet | Talk 13:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was about to use "be" when I thought of "appear"; hope that's okay! Yours, David Kernow (talk) 15:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC) [reply]

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Hi from RichardShuSr

Hi Piet,

Happy New Year. Haven't talked to you in a while. Hope all is well with you. I thought of you because your user page is on my watchlist and I noticed you removed your personal info from it. That is, of course, your prerogative but I wonder if you are concerned about putting personally identifiable information out there for everybody to see. Would you share with me what your concerns are?

--Richard 18:30, 25 January 2007 (UTC) [reply]

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Aztec protection

Hi there Piet, long time no chat, and a belated New Year's greetings. I agree that it's about time to remove the semiprotection at Aztec, so I've now done this. Just for future reference, removing or adding the {{sprotect}} template itself does not change the protection status of a page, the action can only be done by someone with administrative rights. The template is there more so for informational purposes, and to categorise the page as a protected one (the instructions there aren't all that clear). To request a change in protection status, you can go to WP:RFPP, and/or leave a msg on the talk page. Anyways, we'll soon see whether the tedium of schoolyard vandalism returns- cheers, --cjllw | TALK 01:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC) [reply]

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Award

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		In recognition of your efforts to uphold the main page's integrity, I hereby present this barnstar. —David Levy 11:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your userpage/talkpage has been vandalized

Just wanted to warn you. MrMacMan^Talk 17:19, 30 April 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Guild of Romanists

I've started this, but rather run out of material now. Any contributions most welcome. It would be good to have an article on the Antwerp Guild of St Luke one day too. Johnbod 21:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC) [reply]

Jan van Eyck

I will revert you back, as van Eyck is always indexed under E in English, as are most von's and de's indexed under the main surname. See the National Galleries in London or Washington , or EB. Most Dutch historical names with a van are in fact indexed in the "Dutch" way, although Van Gogh seems to be an exception. This is covered in the policy you quoted re Beethoven etc, although I think rather misleadingly. Modern footballers appear to be different. Johnbod 17:59, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Further to this, the Manual of Style page on this has now been changed, to reflect what is in fact normal English practice, in so far as this can be quickly summarized. Many Flemish artists are now therefore incorrectly sorted, which I start correcting. In case of uncertainty, I think the Getty Union List of Artist's Names is a very authoritative resource. [1] Johnbod 21:05, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]