User talk:Peterlin~enwiki

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. Nice work on BBC Microcomputer and other contribs. Cheers! --maveric149

Hi, nice work on the "Siberian" articles. As you may have noticed, I have added redirect pages for the city articles of the form "city, country" (with country Russia here). This is not really a Wikipedia policy, but some (especially Americans) tend to write city names in that way. Making these redirects facilitates that kind of linking. Also, don't forget to write to write in which country the city/region/whatever is located; not everybody knows Siberia is in Russia. Anyway, keep up the good work! -- jheijmans

Actually the [city, nation] format is a policy. See wikipedia:naming conventions. --mav

Actually, Mav is incorrect. We don't actually have a "policy" -- just strongly suggested guidelines and a lot of peer pressure! THe naming conventions are the result of discussion and cooperation by those people who care. As for the Latin names page, I've removed the Slovenia from view by "pipelining" the names. Now, it shows the cities, but links to the "city, country". JHK

If they are only strongly suggested then why does RecentChanges say " Wikipedia policy (especially naming conventions, neutral point of view)"? Peterlin please delete all this rubbish that doesn't actually pertain to you. --mav

I would add here my point of view. I saw someone had changed the article Vipava to Vipava, Slovenia. In this 'policy' it would be preferable for example which geographical terms (in this case towns) should be treated in this way. I do believe that most people from all over the world do not know the town of Vipava. But on the other side I know exactly when I see any kind of small town or even village wherever. So I prefer simply Vipava, Berlin, New York, Moscow and so on. And further on the state is then mentioned onward the article. Names of towns should be alone in the names of the articles. -- XJam [2002.07.23] 2 Tuesday (0).

Well, it seems you are in luck - the policy has been discussed again, and the majority opinion now seems to be to use [[City]] in normal situations, and [[City, Country]] only when needed for disambiguation. Discussion is still ongoing about American and Canadian cities, which might be put in [[City, State]] and [[City, Province]] as a standard.

Cool. What a luck, whah hey Andre. I didn't bet on this :) Futher on a good example for disambiguation might be Springfield. In this 'strange' policy we should write exactly as Springfield, New Hampshire, United States of America. This remainds me on one joke from Alan Ford comic strip, when the members of the most secret group of all groups - the T.N.T group - peculated 'a perfect' US dollar banknote with one exception. They wrote (as stupid as they were) United States of Congo. Ha, ha.

Peterlin, please don't incorporate works of others in Wikipedia unless you have their permission or they are in the public domain. Wikipedia is quite strict on copyright violations. Andre Engels

Hi Peterlin, I see that you originated the Ludwig Boltzmann article. However the text was copied from elsewhere. I wonder if there are other articles that you copied text into. I am trying to track down copyright problems in the math/science biographies. You have made quite a lot of contributions -- terrific! -- I just want to make sure that Wikipedia won't run into copyright problems. You can respond here or on my user talk page. Happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 01:32, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I was sometimes over-eager contributing to Wikipedia. I would say there is a sentence - or at least a part of sentence describing one fact or another - copied from elsewhere in every article I wrote. I don't believe this is worth bothering. Longer texts copied from other sources should be removed, though. These certainly includes articles on Slavko Avsenik (copied from http://www.clevelandstyle.com/phof_051.htm) and Freising manuscripts (http://www.bsi.si/html/eng/banknotes_coins/commemorative/1000-skof_abraham.html) These might also include Academia operosorum Labacensis, Jacobus Gallus, Mel scale, Janez Vajkard Valvasor, but I cannot say for sure, as I didn't keep any personal track. Google is no help here either, being innundated by the numerous copies of Wikipedia articles. Other articles probably contain shorter passages from elsewhere, but have been during the years re-edited numerous times. A recently added article on the Illyrian provinces also started as a plagiarism, but has been expanded with information from various sources. --Peterlin 12:54, 22 Mar 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
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

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:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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)

Pisanski

FYI, trenutno poteka glasovanju o izbrisu članka o prof. Pisanskem. Morda boš želel dodati kaj vzpodbudnega. --romanm (talk) 18:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Treaty of Nissa

Hi, Peterlin; Can you take time to look at the discussion page of Treaty of Nissa. Have a good day. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 18:22, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Slovenia

Pozdravljen, vabljen, da se pridružiš wikiprojektu Slovenija! --Eleassar ^{my talk} 00:31, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your recent contributions to one of Wikipedia's Slovenia-related articles. Given the interest you've expressed by your edits, have you considered joining WikiProject Slovenia? We are a group of editors dedicated to improving the overall quality of Wikipedia's Slovenia-related content. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants. Please see our list of open tasks for ideas on where to get started.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page. We look forward to working with you in the future! Eleassar ^{my talk} 00:31, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Peterlin. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Peterlin~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

02:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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17:34, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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