User talk:Djmutex

Welcome to my talk page. — djmutex

Attic

Older 1 (before May 2003): use of hyphens/dashes, discussion about Emphasis (typography).
Older 2 (before June 2003): how to not screw up moving pages; pangrams, bicameral parliaments, Harry Potter, and the Franks.
Older 3 (before Dec 2003): German history.

Current stuff

Add it here. :-)

Germans

I've for long (a year, actually) been itched by the way Wikipedia-links are done with often sloppy distinctions between nationality, citizenship and ethnicity (with regard to persons) and also between nations and countries. This is particularly obvious in the case of people or entities that are denoted as German. A link to the Federal Republic of Germany is often outright unhistorical and wrong, but this has until now been the most usual.

Therefore I'm considering an article on Germans, which I've started at User:Ruhrjung/Germans. I would wish to avoid lots of edit wars. In particular, I would not wish to see the current disputes over German-Polish matters automatically extend also to this article, why I kindly ask you for comments now, in advance, in order to try to find wordings acceptable to as many as possible of concerned wikipedians.

I look forward to your comments at User talk:Ruhrjung/Germans.
--Ruhrjung 23:38, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Walbaum-Fraktur

Howdy. With regards to your provided image (fig. 1) on the Fraktur page, you say that you provided the image yourself. I noticed that similar fonts from font companies look fairly different. Can you provide an image of the numbers from the Walbaum-Fraktur set? Danke in advance! -john

Done. I have updated the three sample screenshots on Fraktur. Hope that helps. djmutex 17:41, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the Fraktur examples. I am not an expert, but I think that the "s" in the word "Werbedeutsch" is not correct, it should be a long s. -- Aleph4 20:26, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

I have a longtime amateur interest in history of modern Germany, and want to thank you for your major contributions to Wikipedia, which I have only now discovered.CoppBob 04:09, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I feel honored that somebody is still recognizing that work even though I have been away for most of the last 12 months. Thanks for the kind words. djmutex 17:45, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Die Welt

I see you have Die Welt on your work list - I have just found there was no article on it in the English wikipedia, so I have added one by quick translation from the body of the German version. I may have made some errors, and it is fairly skeletal - if you'd like to improve it that would be welcome. seglea 23:54, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Unverified images

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I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 21:44, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Soviet flag over Reichstag

Hi there, Djmutex! I've just read the article on the Reichstag and noticed that you wrote the passage on the red flag saying it was staged and stuff. I checked with modern Russian sources and they say that the daytime attack on the Reichstag began on April 30, 1945. Indeed, a couple of them say that the attack was unsuccessful, however, most of them say that it did happen and soldiers V.Provotorov and G.Bulatov attached the flag to the pediment at 2:25 pm on April 30. Bulatov's awarding ceremony has been documented (order No.0121/н from June 8, 1945). The sources then say that soldiers M.A.Yegorov and M.V.Kantariya placed the flag on the cupola of the Reichstag at 9:50 pm on April 30 (looks like a few hours later). Some sources say that by early morning of May 1, the flag had already been there. I just wanted to know your opinion on all of this. KNewman 16:28, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

List of Frankish Kings

Hi, at List of Frankish Kings I made some structural changes, also see my revisions (and creation) at Template:Carolingians and Template:Merovingians and Template:Kings of the Western Franks (awkward name but it works). I was having some trouble with the format but I think on balance the changes are good. I'd welcome your input. Kaisershatner 13:23, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Enabling Act

Hi, I come here to you because of your knowledge in the matter of the Fire Decree . Can you tell me when there was a follow up ' further ' decree which legally clarified the arrest/ detention of Deputies following the known Decree. My understanding at present is that Hitler illegally started arrests just prior to the Fire, including Deputies , that the decree did not allow for those or further Deputy arrest, so I am interested to know the relevant specifics and date of the further decree- particluarly if it was in force by 23 March 1933 . Can you answer please on discussion for this Enabling Act and view/ad/correct/suggest etc to what I am currently 9statting now0 going to up-load there , provisionally , as a guide for our understanding of the collapse/seizure/whatever of Power on 23 march ? Thankyou .Famekeeper 10:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Toaster powered by NetBSD

Hi, It's Henry. I found this and I thought you would find it hilarious/interesting. I thought it was so weird I had to tell someone. It actually toasts.

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If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again. --SCEhard T 22:42, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

EffK is forced to Abandon a Corrupted Wikipedia

I refer you to my response of a few moments ago at 15 December [[1]],http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/EffK/Evidence#3_December_2005 EffK 01:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Image:Malcolm-x-small.jpg

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Berlin wiki meeting

Hello, I have been mulling over this for some time (actually at least a year), and would like to propose a meeting of the Berlin-residing Users of the english wiki. Wolud you be interested at all, or do you think this a bad idea ? Thoughts are welcome. Cheers. Lectonar 20:03, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Calling programmers

We need coders for the WikiProject Disambigation fixer. We need to make a program to make faster and easier the fixing of links. We will be happy if you could check the project. You can Help! --Neo139 08:56, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Congratulations!

Congratulations! Your image Image:Berlin-brandenburg-gate.jpg was the random picture of the day for October 23, 2007. It looked like this:

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The Brandenburg Gate

Image credit: Djmutex (talk · contribs)

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copyvio?

fyi: image:Berlin siegessaeule 1603.jpg on [2]. Best Martina Nolte (talk) 20:57, 18 February 2009 (UTC)}}[reply]

WP:Hornbook -- a new WP:Law task force for the J.D. curriculum

Hi Djmutex,

I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in United States legal articles to take a look at WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".

Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.

Each casebook will have a subpage.

Over the course of a semester, each subpage will shift its focus to track the unfolding curriculum(s) for classes using that casebook around the country.
It will also feature an extensive, hyperlinked "index" or "outline" to that casebook, pointing to pages, headers, or {{anchors}} in Wikipedia (example).
Individual law schools can freely adapt our casebook outlines to the idiosyncratic curriculum devised by each individual professor.

I'm encouraging law students around the country to create local chapters of the club I'm starting at my own law school, "Student WP:Hornbook Editors". Using WP:Hornbook as our headquarters, we're hoping to create a study group so inclusive that nobody will dare not join.

What you can do now:

1. Add WP:Hornbook to your watchlist, {{User Hornbook}} to your userpage, and ~~~~ to Wikipedia:Hornbook/participants.

2. If you're a law student,

Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Hornbook to your classmates, and tell them to do the same.
Contact me directly via talk page or email about coordinating a chapter of "Student WP:Hornbook Editors" at your own school.

(You don't have to start the club, or even be involved in it; just help direct me to someone who might.)

3. Introduce yourself to me. Law editors on Wikipedia are a scarce commodity. Do knock on my talk page if there's an article you'd like help on.

Regards, Andrew Gradman ^talk/_WP:Hornbook 20:18, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Djmutex! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 698 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

Mick Pointer - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:53, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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