User talk:Roland Rattfink

Extract from 'my'talk page Charles01 (talk) 14:42, 6 August 2009 (UTC):

Thank you for this reaction, Roland R.

I will try and take time with your German entry and steal from it for the English wiki article! Unless you will do it first? I know little about the car. Except that when I was driving along at the enge of Brentwood here in England I saw one, and it was so rare I turned my car, stopped it, got out, and took that picture. The real miracle is that ca. 30-40 years later I still have many of the pictures I took back then when I had no grown up job and much more time for photographing cars: student life was fun back then. Now the students are worried about the future, but back in the early 1970s we still had some of that sense from our parents that we were lucky to be alive at all. Though after the 1973 oil shortages, I guess we all learned the hard way that economic growth was not a one way street after all.

The name I used for this car is one I got from a source, probably (from memory) a journalists' headline. If you think it should be reversed to AC 3000ME, please reverse it. I never changed any page name yet, so I'm not sure I would know what to do. Though no doubt I can learn how to do it if I have to! But now is the time to do it if we will. As far as I know, till now, the only page that links to this entry is the AC (auto-manufacturer page) itself. Otherwise one can simply create a redirect page. The anglophone wiki project automobile page gets very exercised sometimes about how to name car entries where a car has different names in different times in different countries. There are so many names you can use for a single little Mitsubishi depending where or when. But as long as there are redirect pages for all the people who will not agree about the "correct" name, I think that is the more important thing. I think I have four different names for an entry I translated last year on the DKW 3=6.

And thank you for liking some of the other pictures I've uploaded. Many friends - especially but not exclusively female - thought photographing cars a sign of rampant insanity, but then I find some other folks' leisure time activities eccentric. Or worse. So each to his (or her) own pleasures. And wikipedia gives a welcome but till recently unexpected "public interest" justification for some of my old car pictures.

Gruesse Charles01 (talk) 14:42, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

+ Was bedeutet Rattfink, bitte? In Nederland at the Slagerei/Metzgerei a "Fink" is a sort of single portion of meat loaf (Art von Fleishckaese) wrapped around in a thin sheet of beef. It is called Fink, I suppose, because it is the same size and shape as a rather plump Fink/Finch. Maybe also in Koelsch? Aber Rattfink? Is this something people eat in China?

AC

Hi, I think you could just use the move button to rename the page see more details here Wikipedia:How to move a page --Typ932 ^T·C 21:52, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Kaarle Ojanen

Thanks for fixing the date of birth for Kaarle Ojanen. I messed up the date when I created the article. The book I used for the date, Chess Personalia, has the correct 4 December 1918 date. This agrees with your correction. Quale (talk) 02:46, 29 June 2015 (UTC)