User talk:Geschichte/(March 2005-June 2006)

Welcome!

Hi Punkmorten, and a warm welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have enjoyed editing as much as I did so far and decide to stay. Unfamiliar with the features and workings of Wikipedia? Don't fret! Be Bold! Here's some good links for your reference and that'll get you started in no time!

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- Mailer Diablo 11:06, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Another welcome

Hi there; welcome to Wikipedia! By the way: might you by any chance happen to be a Norwegian? (By guessing after looking at your contributions, I thought perhaps you might be.) If so, consider putting your username alphabetically into the list of Norwegian wikipedians. There's almost 80 of us by now (and counting...). :-) (If you're not a Norwegian, please ignore that stuff, of course.) --Wernher 02:14, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for expanding the list with the people you told me about. Shouldn't be a problem, unless some of them turns out not to be Norwegians after all. :-) I notice we've now passed twice the number of 'list-registered' Swedes---but I do suspect that there's really more Swedish Wikipedians here than Norwegians (or maybe most Swedes with a wikigene are over at the admittedly large Swedish Wikipedia?. --Wernher 19:11, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Good, good. I also checked the "list of Swedes" :). I tend not to care about the Norwegian Wikipedia myself. But more will be added to The List later. Punkmorten 19:15, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Karin Smith

Good call on dealing with the stubby little Karin Smith article. Joyous (talk) 17:48, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

redirects

Hi, it helps if the article you are redirecting to actually exists before you create the redirect - Tero Pitkamaki doesn't point anywhere that exists, so is likely to be deleted. ~~~~ ( ! | ? | * ) 09:51, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Userpage vandalism

Hi Punkmorten, you should probably add your userpage to your watchlist. I've fixed this vandalism: [1] Jayjg ^(talk) 20:45, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks. Punkmorten 20:54, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Userpage vandalism

Hi Punkmorten, you should probably add your userpage to your watchlist. I've fixed this vandalism: [2] Jayjg ^(talk) 20:46, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

• Irrelevant. Punkmorten 20:53, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Serious Business Records

Hm. Thanks for the heads up. Makes me wish I was an admin :) I'm taking a look at it, though.  RasputinAXP  talk * contribs 16:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Phew. Sorry it took so long, but I finally got around to cruising through all of them. It's a shame because the guy who co-founded the label meets WP:MUSIC (he's on Allmusic, as are two of his bands) but everything else is just local NYC bands that I've never even heard of. The Village Voice has, though. I wouldn't consider them particularly notable anymore. But yeah, ready for cleanup detail now.  RasputinAXP  talk * contribs 14:28, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Athletics

Oh, thank you for your "thank you". You welcome. These articles are only brief, but it's better than nothing. Your contributions are very good. Articles such as Iván Pedroso are needed here. - Darwinek 11:46, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Image:Coastal Party logo.GIF

Image deletion warning

Image:Coastal Party logo.GIF has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. If you feel that this image should not be deleted, please go there to voice your opinion.

• Go ahead and delete it. Punkmorten 07:13, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey there

Straight to the point: Ease up on nominating for VfD, please. You appear not to investigate the slightest bit before putting articles up for deletion. I am thinking specifically about the UK Subs article. Punkmorten 19:28, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback; I am listening. I do agree that a couple of the noms were badly researched. However, your broad generalization of my total VfDs is itself poorly researched, as is evident by many of my other noms and votes. Not to worry; we all make mistakes. I intend to learn from mine.

I have only been VfD-ing for a day or two now (had to learn the process), so "we ask that you please bear with us at this time." As I monitor new articles, I am learning more sources for research (in addition to Google), and am also starting to use more clean-up tags (rewrite, context, etc.) I am also learning to anticipate more objections to my VfDs and arm myself with more thoroughly developed arguments for proposing deletion. I intend to challenge some of the Wikithink that inhibits what I believe to be a too-timid disposition toward deleting.

Expect to see great improvement in my mastery of the fine art of deleting. Thanks again. Paul Klenk

Football in Belgium

Hi! Good job. Thanks for improving articles about football in belgium. don't hesitate to go on, there's still a lot to do. Happy edits, Julien Tuerlinckx 11:50, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Really funny...

For Vman the varun, making the reason "you will have to get laid in another way." was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long, long time. LOL ~ Syrae Faileas - «Talk» 21:01, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Athletics

Hi. I am just a fan. I like all events, especially dramatic ones such as long jump at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. Btw. I love the Olympic Games (especially summer) and that Olympic Spirit. And FIFA World Cup is another my favorite event. I am always a fan of teams from Africa, Asia, Central America and other "underdogs". How about you and football? - Darwinek 08:05, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Rather no. I know him only as a director of IAAF, but I think he was in past an athlete, but I agree with you. Lamine Diack article is needed. - Darwinek 11:12, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Pop punk

Hi. :)

I agree with you that there are severe problems with the Pop punk article. It seems that people think that disliking certain bands or the perceived ethics of certain bands is reason enough to remove them from the list - challenge them and you get the tired (and pointless) poseur/sellout arguments which lead nowhere useful. I'd like to see the list remain - I consider it to be a useful resource. However, at the moment it seems to be more trouble than it's worth to maintain as NPOV. I can't see the problems going away with a separate list either. Reluctantly, I agree that the list of bands has to go - do you want to open up discussion on the talk page, or shall I? --Kurt Shaped Box 15:14, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Korean name order

Good morning, and enourmous thanks for your efforts to counter systematic bias. (I mean, what Wikipedian would write about female Azerbaijani sport shooters if you didn't?) I do have a question, though, and it's regarding Korean biographies such as Jong Su Kim. From [3] it is clear that Kim is his family name, which means that by native Korean name order he is Kim Jong Su. Now, I know that some people prefer to reverse name order when the name is used in a Western context (as is done with Hungarian names), but are you sure this is Wikipedia policy when it comes to Koreans? It seems from the Personal name article that it is in a few sports, such as baseball and golf, but I don't really know about shooting. All official documents (results, records etc.) avoid the question by using "KIM, Jong Su", which we really can't do on Wikipedia. In my wikification of such information I have retained the name order for Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese names, and only reversed it for Hungarian and Japanese names. I have not found any solid policy for this, and would be glad to do so if possible. Perhaps it should be discussed att Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles). Med vennlig hilsen, Jao fra Brödrafolket, 08:26, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Tjernsrud

Oops... sorry, I don't know how I managed to overlook that station at List of Oslo T-bane stations while going over the map in the "Rutebok for Oslo". Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:48, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Page moving

When moving page titles, please take care of fixing links (eg Steve Lewis). Thanks! Cheers, -- Infrogmation 21:01, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Athletes

I think we should make a list, but not only for "former Kenyan" athletes. I propose to make a list for all "nationality transfers" in athletics (for example Rashid Ramzi Morocco --> Bahrain), but we should think about proper name for that list. Any ideas? - Darwinek 14:40, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

That's good idea, but we should distinguish from "allegiance transfer" and only nationality transfer such as Rashid Ramzi. I propose we should put link to that list under "See also" to every article about athletes included in that list. - Darwinek 16:34, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

"Allegiance transfer" is that famous-infamous transfer when athlete from poor country changes nationality for rich country and his only motive to do so are money. "Nationality transfer" is common practice in changing nationality. For example Rashid Ramzi was born in Morocco, competed for Morocco. Then he went to Bahrain to join Bahraini army and then (when he lived couple of years in Bahrain, he changed nationality). Kenyan athletes are changing their nationality (allegiance transfer), but they were only once or twice in Bahrain or Qatar, that's all. - Darwinek 17:21, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

That second version without specific reasons is very good. So, go ahead and when you will create it, then inform me. P.S. Athletes like Eunice Barber (born in Sierra Leone, competing for France, but grown up in France) should not be included. - Darwinek 18:02, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Great job Morten! Congratulations. - Darwinek 19:56, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi. Just another idea. Do you think we should create a list of pole vaulters who reached 6 m ? - Darwinek 11:10, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Okay. Do you think List of pole vaulters who reached 6 metres would be good? And how about the table. One thing is clear, athletes should be sorted descending, from best to least best.

Name of athlete	Nation	Result
Sergey Bubka	Ukraine	6.14 m
Brad Walker	United States	5.96 m

Or without "m" ?

Name of athlete	Nation	Result
Sergey Bubka	Ukraine	6.14
Brad Walker	United States	5.96

-- Darwinek 11:50, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Great. I will create it after my dinner and then I'll let you know. :) - Darwinek 11:58, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Done. Feel very free to edit it. - Darwinek 12:56, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

I will also create List of nationality transfers in football soon. - Darwinek 13:40, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Done. This can be a great list in future. - Darwinek 15:01, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Shins changes

I'm sorry, but I don't understand why you've redirrected a number of stubs to The Shins article, effectively removing the articles. If you wish articles to be deleted, you must go through the proper channels, it is not up to you do decide that these articles are not useful, and so redirrect them without any discussion. Please review your wikipedia etiquette. The idea of stubs is that they are expanded over time with helpful contributions, in the long term they will hopefully become better articles. I have reverted your changes to these articles, if you'd like to discuss it, I suggest using The Shins discussion page. Thankyou. --Brendanfox 05:36, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

The thing is the stubs are created with the idea that they are expanded on in the future, and indeed this is something I hope to eventually get around to. When I realised there were 'other reverters' thats when I wrote to the Shins discussion page, I initially wrote to yours because I wanted to make sure we had some discussion, I just don't like it when all the discussion is through edit summaries. I do apologise if I caused you any offense, --Brendanfox 09:50, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Pagename

I redirected pagename to Wikipedia:Dummy target. That should do. --Magnus Manske 09:08, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Ted Snyder

I see you created a stub article for Ted Snyder. I was wondering if this self-published person's career justifies inclusion in an encyclopedia at this time? I've used the space for Hall of Fame songwriter Ted Snyder with all of its existing links but you may create another for Ted Snyder (singer) if you think it is warranted. Thanks. Ted Wilkes 12:04, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Leonard Scott

I had intended to expand this further, but perhaps a merge would be best. You have a wirder range of experience in these matters than I; just let me know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Daemon8666 (talk • contribs)

Vandalism

I have reverted it, but some of the other contributions of this user were OK, so I cannot block him, it would be considered as abuse of power. I have issued a warning to his talk page. - Darwinek 17:14, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Norwegian football

Thanx.. i also got something to put on your to do list: use the Template:Football player infobox or improve it! I began the job but I'm in need of some help so I thought of you. User:Sebastiankessel already used it for Argentine players.. Have fun, Julien Tuerlinckx 12:33, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

More Norwegian football

Hello. Regarding the question you asked me on my (Norwegian) userpage, the six players who have played for the Norwegian national team without ever playing in the Norwegian top division are Hallvar Thoresen, Dan Eggen, Espen Baardsen, John Arne Riise, Alf Inge Håland and Hans Hermann Henriksen. –Beavis 23:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Shortpages

...has been updated, per your request. Enjoy, Beland 14:58, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

...has been updated. Thank you for the reminder. -- Beland 09:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Alphax ^τεχ 10:19, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Michael Palmer

Back on September 13, you redirected Michael Palmer to G. Michael Palmer, but the original Michael Palmer article was about a major poet by that name, which had been inappropriately rewritten to be about a minor poet. I just wanted to let you know. For future reference, it's not a bad idea to check the page history before making something a redirect. Thanks. Chick Bowen 19:50, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for moving Ndonga to Ndonga language. --MissingLinks 15:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Departments of Senegal

• Indeed I did, even as you were posting thto my talk page. (AfD pages i vote on stay in my watch list). I really think this table is worth-while content, but see no need for a separate article for it. Put it in the main Senegal article, is my advice. DES ^(talk) 21:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Golden League

I think your proposition is very good. Just do it! :) - Darwinek 20:03, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Nick Clarke

Just curious, why the redirect of that article with the "" instead of speedy delete? No one is going to search for "nick clarke" instead of just Nick Clarke without "". Garion96 17:07, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, I just thought that redirects are cheap and it would be a good thing to relieve the speedy deleting admins. Punkmorten 07:32, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't thought about the poor admins. :) Just thought it would get rid of a useless article. Oh welll..either way is good I guess. Garion96 10:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Dear Daniel

You tagged thisfor a speedy delete. It seems that this is in fact the name of a character associated with Hello Kitty as that wikipedia article shows. I have converted it to a redirect. Also you tagged this with {{d}}. Please in future use {{db}} and state your mreason for suggestign a speedy delete, or else use one of the many specific db- tags that pre-supply a reason. Thank you. DES ^(talk) 08:40, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I guess I could have tagged it as {{empty}}. Punkmorten 10:21, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

You could have. But it wasn't. It was short, but it had context. i could have expanded it into a full stub about the character. i chose not to, because I don't really approve of stubs for minor fictional characters. Please be careful when tagging speedys that there really is no meanigful context in a short sub-stub. Now I hope this doesn't come across as hostile -- it isn't intended that way. I do thank you for doing RC patrol (or however you found this page) and for tagging speedies when you find them. But speedys unlike AfD depend on only teo sets of eys, so if yours is going to be one set, please take an extra moment to double check. Thanks. DES ^(talk) 10:49, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Regarding how I found the page: From time to time I browse Special:Newpages and look for short (less than 400 bytes) articles. On good days I end up expanding some 50 % of them :) Punkmorten 10:55, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extinction (band)

You are more than welcome to relist this article for deletion. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 21:04, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

nn-bio

I really didn't know that it is not the proper tag for a NN band article. What is? PJM 20:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the info; I guess db|reason would be the best tag for obvious NN band articles. Cheers. PJM 20:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

More Belgian football

Hi. I finished the article for the Belgian players in the 1994, 1998 and 2002 WC + 2000 EC. You can now create the articles Football World Cup 1990 (squads) and so on :) Julien Tuerlinckx 23:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

But before doing this, we should create a template for the representation of the squads, shouldn't we? Julien Tuerlinckx 10:17, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Chindia

Hi Punkmorten, I noticed that the above article was on afd - I've expanded it. Can you have a look and let me know if it is ok? --Gurubrahma 04:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Thank you. Good work. Punkmorten 16:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Heggedal

Finished a rewrite now - at least it's slightly more NPOV. Think there's something rather odd with the categorisation of "small-place" articles, though - Category:Sections of Bærum is in the main Norway category, which seems a bit odd. Oh well, something to do when I've finished Borgen and Vettre... 17:43, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Baster (band)

From my point of view, they should stay. It is one of the top three bands on the island. Yet, if you need some help on some other Réunion-related issues, don't hesitate to call me. Thierry Caro 22:06, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Interwiki

I will keep that in mind; thank you! --Merovingian 10:54, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Villages

You said:

Can we just be bold and move all articles in Category:Centers to Category:Villages? In addition, of course, to other, misplaced articles in Category:Cities in Norway and Category:Towns in Norway such as Koppang. By the way, I think we should keep the distinction between city and town.

Agree on all acounts. Wikiproject Norway needs to be updated accordingly. -- Egil 12:46, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Bands and WP:NMG

Wow. That's a lot of bands, and very little notability. One or two of them seem to have mentioned that they toured outside of their own states, but some of them even border on Speedy (if we had a confirmed A8 for bands and groups). I'll hack my way through them over the next few days as I can. Thanks for the heads up!  RasputinAXP  _{talk contribs} 13:26, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Featured article for December 25th

I noticed that you have listed yourself as an atheist Wikipedian. You will probably be interested to know that Brian0918 has nominated Omnipotence paradox as the front page article for December 25th. You can vote on this matter here. The other suggestion being supported by others for that date is Christmas, although Raul654 has historically been against featuring articles on the same day as their anniversary/holiday. AngryParsley ^{(talk) (contribs)} 08:26, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Bad Liebenzell

As requested, the article on Bad Liebenzell as listed in WP:PNT has been translated from DE:Bad Liebenzell. Please comment or cleanup as necessary; it may need proofreading.

Have a nice day! The Hooded Man 17:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

AFD heads up

Punk, take a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terminus (band), it got extended as a no consensus.  RasputinAXP  _{talk contribs} 17:38, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Newby thanks

Category: Catemaco & Tuxtlas - Thanks for correcting some of my errors Dongringo 01:17, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

switching languages

I would like to integrate spanish and english pages into a category, any idea how that should be done? Thanks Don Gringo 02:32, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

comment on my page

Thanks for the tips, i do try. I was'nt sure wether that was a critisism or not? But thanks Bjrobinson 13:01, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Dorzhsuren Munkhbayar

Hello again, and thanks for yet another sport shooter bio! I won't argue with the spelling here, as I'm not aware of Mongolian spelling rules at all. I've used the Dorjsuren variant because that's what she is called now, as a German citizen, but of course, she accomplished many of her best results as a Mongolian, so it probably makes sense to have her at the original spelling. What I'm wondering is what your sources are for her being retired. This must have happened very recently then, as she was present at the 2005 ISSF World Cup Final in August this year (finishing 9th in 25 m Pistol). See [4] -- Jao 11:36, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

WTD

Good thinking with that disambig.Bjones 22:12, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

The Virus

The page's currently listed on afd, and I saw you created the page on Mike Virus, who is mentioned on the page. So instead of voting on something I know nothing about, I figured I'd bring it to the attention to someone who might know enough about the subject to make an educated judgement. Sorry if it's something you don't care about. - Bobet 21:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the rewrite, I voted keep on it. - Bobet 22:24, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Delron Buckley

Hello. I know you created this article, maybe you could help me to work out the right thing to do. On the English Wikipedia, Delron Buckley is indicated as being a South African soccer player. But on the German Wikipedia, it appears to imply that he is also a German soccer player. I was just going to translate the article through from the German Wikipedia, and thought this might pose a problem.

Does this indicate that he is of dual nationality, or is this merely a mistake on the English Wikipedia? Thank you. Bobo192 07:38, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, Punk, I just came back from wikibreak and saw this...Buckley's South African, see Yahoo's profile on him. He's a German soccer player inasmuch as that he's playing for Borussia Dortmund right now, but he played for South Africa in WC2002.  RasputinAXP  _{talk contribs} 12:24, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Punkmorten said:

As far as I know there are no mistakes in the English version. I think he is categorized as "Fußballspieler (Deutschland)" because he, having lived in Germany since 1994 or so, is not counted as a foreign player anymore. On consideration I decided not to include him in the German footballers category. He's not quite Otto Addo, if you know what I mean.

The article is already translated from the German version, so there's not really much important to add I reckon. Instead check out the stubby Christian Wörns, and Sebastian Kehl who doesn't even have an article :)

This sorts the issue. Thank you very much. I think we'll leave him as a South African footballer as per his international loyalty. If my plans come to fruition the German footballers category will be far too crowded anyway :D. Wörns and Kehl are coming in due course, I'm steadily going through the list. Bobo192 18:25, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Punkmorten said:

Many thanks for your contributions, Bobo!

Thank you very much. I hope to be able to add more of these very soon, and with the weekend approaching I have more time to do so. This is a good project I'm working on, and I should have it somewhat under control by the new year. Bobo192 18:32, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Cat: Wikipedians in Norway

Done, added self to cat. Bjelleklang 13:56, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

RE: Your comment on my talk page

Thank you very much for your kind comment on my talk page regarding my work on Kalnoky and RISC Group articles. They are my main focus of work on Wikipedia, and I am particularly proud of my work on the Streetlight Manifesto article. Your comment also encouraged me to finally finish writing the new sections for the Streetlight article that I had started ages ago and not worked on for a while. I have now put it up for a second peer review, and hope to take it to FAC. — Ian Moody ^(talk) 14:07, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me about that commented section, I completely forgot about it. — Ian Moody ^(talk) 20:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I have submitted the Streetlight Manifesto article to FAC if you wish to support it. — Ian Moody ^(talk) 19:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

K.R.C. Harelbeke

Hi! You're totally right. I added this redirect page to point to the right article. Actually my point is to have an article for every "matricule" (club) who played in the first division. The name of each article is the last name the matricule bore before its liquidation, or the current name. I sometimes do make mistakes about this as the club history in Belgium is quite large for a small country!

But as I was saying to me before you sent me your message we should have for each matricule a number of pages equal to the number of different names the matricule bore, each page redirecting to the actual article. This is far from being done but it will come one day. Furthermore I was thinking of putting every name the matricule bore in bold in the article...

Thanx for your attention to my work. See you, Julien Tuerlinckx 21:10, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of 'green wikipedians' category

Hi. I saw you're (like me) listed in this category which is up for deletion. Hoped you'd like to vote in favor of keeping it... Thanks! Larix 02:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Darwinek wishes you a Merry Christmas!

Hi Morten! I just want to say Merry Christmas to you! Have a nice holiday time in, I believe, snowy Norway. - Darwinek 12:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Cele Kula

Checked it out and voted. I also left a note about WP:MUSIC on the author's page in case he doesn't see your comment on the AfD. Merry Christmas to you too!! :)  RasputinAXP  _{talk contribs} 19:16, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Nice fixup of Halvard Lange

Wow; three minutes after I wrote the first draft, you found the Norwegian labor party link(which I thought there probably would be one, somewhere) and fixed it up. Wow, I say again. I'm curious; did you find it via the stub-cat, or some other method? Thanks for your work on the 'pedia! JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:58, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

May I ask...

How did you find the article to make this edit? --HappyCamper 22:13, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I was doing Newpages patrol and came across this page. Why? Punkmorten 22:15, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Just curious, as that page was made quite recently. --HappyCamper 22:16, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Article improvement drive

Hi Punkmorten,

The Football AID is restarting. The next project article is to be selected on January 1, 2006. Please look at the nominations and take part actively. Thanks. -Aabha (talk) 10:44, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

		An Award
		I, User:Alex Bakharev award this Gold Run Barnstar to Punkmorten in recognition of his articles on Russian and Soviet athletes

Adminship?

Hi Punkmorten! I have in one sense been "stalking" your edits because I think you are an excellent contributor. I was about to ask if you would like to be nominated some months back, but then I saw that you were planning on leaving us... Glad to see that you have not left :-) Anyway, I think that your work here is so good that you definitely ought to have the admin tools, so I have set up a request for adminship for you, and hope that you'll accept it. If you do, you'll need to answer the questions and add it to the top of the main Wikipedia:Requests for adminship page. At any rate, Godt nytt år! Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Your acceptance looks good and your answers to the questions are good as well. I am listing your RFA nomination on the main RFA page now. Good luck! Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:24, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

G'Day

Hey mate, thanks for the welcome. Jabso 11:47, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Foo at the 1964 Summer Olympics

This is an exciting project you're embarking on. Thank you, and good luck! Punkmorten 10:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I tried starting with 1896 Summer Olympics and going through chronologically, but when I'm not at school (that is, right now), I don't have access to detailed results of them. 1964 is the first Olympiad with an official report that contains full names of all competitors. Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics went so much quicker than the 1964 one ;). -- Jonel | Speak 19:21, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Speaking of the 1900 Olympics, shouldn't Norway have the same flag as Sweden, i.e. the Union Flag? Punkmorten 19:29, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I originally thought so, too. However, according to Flag of Norway#History,

"But as the union with Sweden became increasingly less popular, the Norwegian parliament abolished the union badge from the national (merchant) and state flags in 1899. At the dissolution of the union in 1905, the badge was removed from the navy flag as well. Sweden kept it in all flags until 1905."

I took that to mean that Norwegian athletes would have used the flag without the union badge, though I'm not entirely certain. Did I read that right? -- Jonel | Speak 19:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thanks! It's a great honour. Regards, Darius Dhlomo

Thankies ^_^ --Admrb♉ltz (T | C) 23:06, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Olympic Athletes

http://www.olympic-medallists.com/AUS.html

Thanks for filling the redlinks at Olympic medalists in athletics (men)

Gh 12:05, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia 09:57, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations Punkmorten! Enjoy your mop, bucket and shotgun! Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:01, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Congrats, Punk!!! I know you'll be a great admin. Enjoy!  RasputinAXP  _{talk contribs} 12:20, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!!! Sue Anne 00:07, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the support everyone!! Punkmorten 11:48, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

DYK

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Great work! (Also, congrats on the adminship!) -- Jonel | Speak 19:34, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Region?

We need to review the terms used for various types of regions of Norway, esp. the current erroneous term "landscape", but also landsdel and tettsted. See for instance Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Norway#.22Landscape.22. -- Egil 16:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Keep an eye out for vandalism

Punk, if you could give me a hand, there's a troll who has twice mildly vandalized Nicole duFresne. If you could add it to your watchlist, that'd be great. This is an article I'd like not to get polluted with POV-pushing. Thanks.  RasputinAXP  _{talk contribs} 18:56, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Tom Ingebrigtsen

• It has been speedy deleted twice, and in a couple of seconds thrice. Punkmorten 16:27, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

As the folk song says: "how many times must an article be speedied, before it gets {{deletedpage}}"...  :-) Segv11 ^{(talk/contribs)} 21:30, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

• A good thing can't be done too often...;) vidarlo 12:22, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

The article Tom Ingebrigtsen has been listed on Articles for Deletion. Could you provide some evidence of the subject's notability? Thatcher131 15:47, 7 April 2006 (UTC) never mind, I was looking at the wrong history. Thatcher131 15:48, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright: Newbie question: See what you think please

Punk, if you have time I'd like you to have a look at the recent work I've done. I'm particularly interested in what you think of the copyright status of the images I've uploaded. In spite of having read the policy on copyright of images several times, I'm still a bit unsure about copyright tags.

Obviously the ones I have made myself like Modernartificialgrass2.png and PortugalAF2.png are mine to post, even when derived from or inspired by other images.

I think the two other photos on the Portuguese Air Force page are in the clear too, as see the copyright info referred from the image pages.

I am a bit uneasy about 2pula.png and 2pulab.png. The rules on money seem unclear, seem to vary from country to country, and I was unable to find specific information about the rules for the specific country in question. On a common-sense basis that the image of the currency is public-domain and that the particular note is no longer in circulation, I think it qualifies as fair use. What do you think? Would adding a 'Specimen' text over the image be advisable?

In the case of Botswanasskairport.jpg I understand the use of the image here to be in keeping with the copyright owner's wishes and have emailed him to confirm he agrees with this.

As a photographer myself I am keen to avoid infringing on anybody's rights or on any Wiki policies, which is why I'm asking you to have a look.

If there is anything I can do to help you in return, please say so. Thanks Guinnog 18:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for Jan Stanisławski's dates

and congratulations on your adminship! logologist|Talk 11:44, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

List of medals in the first All-Africa Games

I suppose that if the article changes its character, a rename would be OK; at the moment, though, it's just a list. Perhaps a separate article giving details of the games would be a better idea, leaving this as a list? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:19, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I've changed the article's name in line with your point about including the year. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:57, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard lehoux

Hi Punkmorten,

Apologies for the mistake. It's now been fixed. :) - Mailer Diablo 07:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Best regards, Mailer Diablo 07:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Great

Great that you created Abir. Though I am an Indian I was just thinking to create at least a stub. --Bhadani 15:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! It has potential for expansion, and you could always create an entry for gulal :) Punkmorten 15:53, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Dates in baseball

Thanks for your support. It could be a bad precedent for future projects. Cheers – MusiCitizen 21:16, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

please Delete Saint +&&Gabriel Lallemant

sorry. can you remove these 2 pages so that Gabriel Lalemant can be moved to Gabriel Lallemant (w/ assoc. comments, history)

Thanks so much

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Gordon Lish

I removed your speedy tag from this article. I thought the external link to audio interviews on CBS Radio constituted a claim of notability and a quick Google search confirmed it. I've stubbified it instead. Regards, howcheng {chat} 17:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

OK. I could have deleted it myself, but since I was unsure I tagged it instead. Punkmorten 17:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

AfD

<whiny voice>I don't know how to close an AfD discussion.</whiny voice>. User:Zoe|^(talk) 17:47, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

'K, thanks, I'll try it next time. User:Zoe|^(talk) 17:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

I appreciate the help about that template. Kaisershatner 15:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Chris Armas

He was twice there. So I removed his clon from there. He's still on that list - Darwinek 16:17, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Why??

I wanted to know why you deleted the deletion page from Wihelm Roentgen? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.198.48.71 (talk • contribs)

Because I decided to keep the article, along with the voices in the AFD discussion. Punkmorten 15:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Svatopluk Pluskal

I translated article about Svatopluk Pluskal (cs:Svatopluk Pluskal) as you requested. I would really appreciate your help with wikifying. --Jan Smolik 20:21, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for copyediting the article. Anyway, I have got a problem with one of your changes. You changed the name of the city (Plzeň) in which Pluskal worked as coach to the name of football club FC Viktoria Plzeň. I checked it and found out that Pluskal was coach of Škoda Plzeň and Slovan Plzeň. For more complications, Škoda Plzeň is former name of Viktoria Plzeň. So now there are more options and I am not sure which is more usual in wikipedia. Either use name Plzeň as name of the city (he was without any doubt coach there). Or write Škoda Plzeň (as more famous of those tho Plzeň clubs). Or leave there Viktora as it is the same club as Škoda. Or write there all clubs he coached, making it a complicated list. What do you think is the best? --Jan Smolik 23:57, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Jan and Punk, I've added some more info about the 1958 WC and some other little edits. Guinnog 00:48, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Bjarne Brustad.jpg

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Can you help?

69.218.202.201 keeps reverting my edits on List of countries with nuclear weapons. See the article's talk page and history for my attempts to compromise and discuss. Is there anything you can do to help? Guinnog 21:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I took your advice Guinnog 21:44, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Translation stuff

Let me know if you have any more German athlete bios to translate, they are quick and easy. Cheers, --Easter Monkey 00:36, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Like I said, bring 'em on. I have some traveling to do, but I'll get started as soon as I can. --Easter Monkey 07:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar...I haven't done any in a while, but will transfer what you put onto my "to do" listing. --Easter Monkey 07:00, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Talysh-Mughan

Ooh, I love mapping assignments. Whipped it up just now before heading to work. :) I put it in the article, tell me what you think. --Golbez 16:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

FC MTZ-RIPO cleanup

Hello, I am just wondering when will you be able to remove cleanup notice from this page? Do you still want someone to work on it?

thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trimmer56 (talk • contribs)

Replied on your talk page. Punkmorten 15:34, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Olympics again

Hi again! I just came across Iran at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Shouldn't that page be named Persia at the 1900 Summer Olympics? In any case, that flag wasn't used back then. Regards, Punkmorten 21:34, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey there. All the sources I've seen (and have belatedly added to the article) have used Iran, so I went with that. It is, of course, an anachronism and I would have absolutely no problem with the page being moved. Also, I couldn't find a historically accurate flag—do you know if there's one around somewhere? Thanks! -- Jonel | Speak 01:33, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Prodding

Hi, when you tag articles with {{prod}}, you shouldn't subst the template. The toolserver listing of the articles doesn't like that, and the proposed deletion reason doesn't get shown on the list (it just says "(reason not found)"). Thanks. - Bobet 12:32, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Alex Popov

What did you do to the Bio I wrote for Alex Popov? He is not listed under any of those links of the disambiguation page. I am concerned as I spent some time on compiling the information. Headsinger 18:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia in Tetum

• Help building a Wikipedia in Tetum, the national language of East Timor. Give your contribution to the improvement of its test page -- Regards, 195.23.53.121 11:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC) Manuel de Sousa
  • A respectable project, but unfortunately I don't know a word of Tetum. Punkmorten 16:06, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Turkey's districts

Hi Punkmorten! I saw the pages you created for Turkey's districts and the templates you have added. I wanted to thank you. I was going to do it (and I am still going to do it), but couldn't find the time. Thanks again. --Cretanforever 03:48, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks Punkmorten, I will create all the Turkish district stubs. Leave this job to me ;), and if you have any databae of other countries districts, show me them and I will handle them too --Alperen 09:22, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello again, there're a few comprehensive articles compared to thes stubs in Turkish Wikipedia, for now I don't have any plans to translate them all. Maybe some time in the future ;) --Alperen 09:45, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

RFA thanks

Hi Punkmorten, thanks for your support in my RFA, which succeeded. If I can ever improve or help in any way, please let me know! :) —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-02-16 11:57Z

Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:34, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Bless you, and your indefatigability, which has motivated me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Avé (talk • contribs) .

Congrats

I, Matt White, award this Barnstar to Punkmorten for his great efforts in creating a ton of articles on cities and towns in Norway Matt White 20:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC).

You deserve it. I was sorting through new articles and found at least 15 or so that you wrote on Norway. Keep up the good work. Matt White 20:57, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Rui Xiang, Tan

There are heaps of newbies who happen to 'stumble' across this page, who vote keep with their first ever edits.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 07:07, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Re:Vandal

Hi! I have a question about blocking, as I'm inexperienced in this field. User:Ravithisis made a grave personal attack here, [5], may he be blocked now? Punkmorten 17:05, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Punkmorten! Sorry about not being logged in for a few days. THat kind of edit is definitely either vandalism or a personal attack so blatant that it easily qualifies as disruption. Since he had been warned twice about vandalism and removal of AFD notices before, I dont think that a block would have been out of line. Personally, I am a bit conservative with blocking people under the "disruption" clause, and probably would have warned with a {{{subst:attack}}- or {{subst:Npa3}}-template, as Mangojuice now has done, and then blocked if there were more trouble. At any rate, if you are unsure whether you should warn or block, go with the warning. The effect of warning someone who should have been blocked is usually less serious than the effect of blocking someone who should only have been warned. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:10, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Olympic conventions

Hey Punkmorten, I know you're interested in Olympic coverage. Some people have started a discussion on conventions at Wikipedia:Olympic conventions. Just letting you know. -- Jonel | Speak 01:32, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

The Golden Sabre of Muji

After Simon Cursitor asked me to list this article for AfD rather than a speedy deletion, I was going to do so, but you'd proded it. I'm curious as to why you proded it? Schizombie 16:56, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Because proposed deletion is encouraged for non-controversial issues. Does Simon Cursitor dispute the prod tag? I'm sure his point was to avoid a speedy tag, because it didn't fit any speedy criteria. Punkmorten 17:01, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Interwiki

Hi! Thanks for creating articles about Slovenian municipalities. Unfortunately you forgot to include interwiki links... see for instance my edit to Žetale. Thanks, Punkmorten 14:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Aww - I'm sorry dude. I thought it was some sort of incredible and magical bot which did that. I'll be happy to go over the articles and add the links if you could tell me a little more about the procedure. How do you ascertain which Wikis have a similar page? Celcius ^(Talk) Wiki be With us! 14:31, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

It's true that bots do it to a certain extent, but to get the job done I (for one) prefer to include them manually when creating an article. My general rule of thumb is this: Write a link to the "native" language Wikipedia (in this case: [[sl:Žetale]]) and check if it exists. Usually the article will exist at least in the "native" language, if anywhere. If it does exist, copy the rest of the interwiki links stated in that article (in this case, it ja nl ro & sv). Again many thanks for creating the articles :) -- Punkmorten 14:39, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

The deed is done dude - they're all interwiki'ed. Thanks for your pointers and advice. Celcius 10:47, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:MaltaCGA.gif

Why do you want this image deleted? It is a scan of a logo badge in my collection - there is nothing wrong with the license for this image. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rhyddfrydol (talk • contribs) .

As stated at WP:IFD, the image is orphaned. In other words the image is not used in Wikipedia, and this is grounds for deletion. In addition it's almost impossible to see what the picture resembles. Punkmorten 21:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Australia cat

Just doing them now, had to make new cat thats why i didnt do it strait away. Regards Hossens27 13:54, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Bilde:Ogna sandstrand.JPG

Hi! The picture Ogna sandstrand.JPG is now uploaded to commons. I will in time being upload some other pictures from Rogaland fylke and Vestlandet. --Gunnernett 11:53, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Villages in Norway

Hello. Thank you for your message. Proposal B seems better to me. Keep up the good work. - Darwinek 11:52, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Espa

Antar at du ville ha svar her? Innbyggertallene ligger på SSB sine sider: Norsk og engelsk. --torstein 16:38, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Nei, den lå ikke der gitt. Etter litt om og men kom jeg på hvor jeg hadde funnet den: Velg grunnkretser i denne tabellen hos SSB, trykk på "Velg via søk", søk på Espa, velg den øverste av de to alternativene, gå tilbake til Min tabell og velg "Vis tabell". Ganske tungvint, og det er sortert etter grunnkrets.

Slemsrud ligger (/er) vel forøvrig i Øvre Vang, det vi kjentfolk kaller Wik. --torstein 22:05, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Jeg kjenner ikke umiddelbart igjen noen av de du nevner, men det er vel diverse boligfelt. Google har nok svarene, evt. Store Norske på Internett ;-) Ser at Sørbygdafeltet ligger 13 km sør for Hamar, ved riksvei 24. Det kan virke som det ligger for langt unna selve Stange sentrum til å være tatt med der etter SSBs regler for urbane områder, selv om vi kanskje oppfatter det som en del av tettstedet. Men jeg er forsåvidt ikke sikker på om det er det stedet jeg tror det er. --torstein 22:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

IF he does it again, we should discuss a ban, mabie 2 days, or so. Whopper 21:44, 9 March 2006 (UTC) (I'll give him a LAST warning)

2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships

Hi there! Well... 2005 World Championships in Athletics generally looks very good to me - everything, not just the medals table. If there's anything better, I haven't seen it... GregorB 23:30, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Summaries might be somewhat problematic... I think summaries are a good idea, and they're valuable to the article, but I dislike the feeling that they sometimes read like a newspaper article, rather than an encyclopedia. Still, any kind of summary is better than none, so I would say yes. GregorB 11:17, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...

Thanks for the barnstar, it's appreciated. If you've any more requests, just keep them coming, I'll probably work on them sooner or later, when I'm not busy writing about obscure Korean films or something else. (I might eventually get to the ones on WP:TIE too) - Bobet 11:54, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Narcosis (band)

Cheers for your comments, Narcosis are most definitely a noteable band as you probably know, but yes the article as it stood was eligible for Speedy Deletion. I've added a bit more text (need to source it, granted) and hopefully the external links will prove that they are indeed noteable. --PopUpPirate 23:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Tursunzade on Did you know?

Thanks for the nomination! I didn't know unti it showed up, but I appreciate it. GRuban 14:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Edit summaries

Hey thanks! Recently I've been getting lazy and just saying "del" for all of them, but I can throw in an "adios" every now and then. ;) --Khoikhoi 18:32, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Regarding AfD

Hi, I've been fairly active on AfD lately, and I wondered if you could teach me how to close a nomination (when it turns out non-delete, ofcourse). I had a look at the source code at the pages but it seem to be done by magic :) Correct me if I'm wrong but non-admin are alowed to this right? Thanks. Eivind^t@c 22:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• Hi, thanks for the help. After reading the page, I realised that I probably shouldn't do it, not very often any way. Saw some other editor do it and figured it was common practice, guess I was wrong. Takk for hjelpen :) Eivind^t@c 17:47, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Suleimanoglu

Weighlifting is part of the athletics, therefore Suleimanoglu does belong in this category.

Norum 24 March, 2006 12:16

No. Punkmorten 19:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Kielland Flotel Disaster

Hi I appreciate the redirect from the stub I just wrote but, excuse me, wasn't the proper name for that platform the Alexander L. Keilland?

The redirect makes sense, if one has searched from the 'correct' name but the article itself now has an unwieldy title. Eddie.willers 03:13, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

• No, not Keilland. Kielland is the correct name of the platform, derived from its namesake Alexander Lange Kielland. Google test it if you like: [6] [7] Punkmorten 10:56, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Map assignment

HiI saw your map assignment for Globez so I figured I'd help out, is this what you wanted? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tolga_kart_combined.png Mike _{(T C)} 23:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fron_kart.png Done! Mike _{(T C)} 18:32, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Heh, he stole my work :( But that's okay, I'll be around for the next one. --Golbez 01:53, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Done those other 2 for you! Mike _{(T C)} 16:18, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Oops uploaded one as Land_kart_copy.png. Mike _{(T C)} 16:19, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

REDIRECT

Thanks for fixing the redirect. The problem is I was editing the two pages at the same time and the destination had not been saved yet. Regards, Asterion 18:51, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Josefa Idem, 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.

--Cactus.man ✍ 16:38, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi! I'm trying to get four-time Olympic medalist Josefa Idem fetured in Did you know. Please feel free to improve the article, especially the preamble. Thanks, Punkmorten 13:45, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Congrats on the DYK! It was featured there before I got a chance to look at it, and was already excellent. Am I reading the image description on it: correctly to guess that the image's copyright status is incompatible with en: policy? -- Jonel | Speak 20:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Category:Australian football (soccer) clubs

Hello Punkmorten - I'm wondering what you thought of some of the clubs in this category. Some of them are B-grade state league teams - meaning that they are 2 divisions below first-class level in a country where we have only qualified for the FIFA world cup in 1974 and 2006. They are amateur clubs. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! 07:16, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Translations

Hey. I translated this article into English as you requested: The Kråkerøy Speech. Maybe you could have a look at it for me? I'm not sure how to hook up links between the pages properly, or how to remove the translation request or put it in completed translations or whatever it is you're supposed to do. But if you think it's ok i'll have a look at putting more of your ideas into English. Thanks, Paul. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Forgot2follow (talk • contribs) .

Vang, Hedmark is completed and ready for review. Williamborg 18:52, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Ashish

You prodded this page. I just wanted to let you know I've removed the prod and rewritten the page, using Adriano as a model. Steve block The wikipedian meme 13:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Fine, thanks. Punkmorten 13:59, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Decimal point

I see you've been doing some lake translations from no: to en: - thanks, I've done quite a few, but there are ever so many to go! One thing you ought to know: on en: the decimal separator is always "." not the Continental "," so you have to convert the number formats too. There's something to explain this in the Manual of Style. Hope that helps! TheGrappler 12:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Kjetil r as admin on commons

Hi! The norwegians have put foreward an admin request on commons, commons:Template:Administrators/Requests and votes/Kjetil r. It would be nice to have your votes! — John Erling Blad (no) 21:39, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I am not familiar with this user. Punkmorten 19:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Dutch footballers

Hi, I'll try and get started on translating some of those articles later today, or otherwise this week. Cheers, jaco♫plane 14:57, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Some of them aren't very long, but I don't really know any Dutch :) I can read some of it though. Punkmorten 18:24, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Maarten Stekelenburg - I've created this footballer's article which you requested. However, it's just a stub, nor is it translated directly from the Dutch article. But I thought I'd let you know. Mark272 22:23, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

FIFA Pro Licence

Just to say thanks for tidying up my first attempt at starting an article. Robertsteadman 13:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for the thanks :) It was a great first article. Punkmorten 11:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I began a new article Cawdor Quarry but WP labelled it Cawdor quarry so I have set up two - how do I either have a redirect to Cawdor Quarry from the other or siomply delete Cawdor quarry?

Thanks. Robertsteadman 18:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Desp[ite seeing it reffered to as the FIFA PRo Licence in several places (and hence the title of the article I started) I have since discovered it should be the EUFA Pro Licence - how can the article be renamed? Thanks. Robertsteadman 06:37, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm getting very confused about this - several things refer to it as FIFA, several others as UEFA. The WP article about Glenn Roeder says FIFA - shall we leave it as that for the moment? Robertsteadman 19:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Bjorli

Hi! Someone moved Bjorli to Bjørli. This doesn't seem right. See User talk:Arctic hobo. Punkmorten 11:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for flagging this change. I researched the official Lesja site and then reverted. Interesting change—usually folks' instinct is to change it in the opposite direction. Williamborg 15:33, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Riksforsamlingen

Hello Punkmorten; I have had a go at translating the Riksforsamlingen page that you requested. Please review it for me - I have added some background and etymology, to help English readers. I have kept the title in Norwegian, since there is no accurate English translation that I know of - if you know of one, a REDIRECT page could be made from that to Riksforsamlingen. All good wishes Ballista 05:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Second message: I have not researched the Categories properly, for the English Wikipedia - sorry Ballista 05:53, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello again I considered doing no.Liste over medlemmer av Den Grunnlovgivende Forsamling and may still do so, time allowing. However, I am not certain that translation is really necessary - what do you think? Cheers Ballista 05:57, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Ballista. Punkmorten 11:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello again, again! Thank you for replying. Was the translation of Riksforsamlingen good enough or do you have suggestions for improvement?

OK - we'll add the no.Liste over medlemmer av Den Grunnlovgivende Forsamling to the list for translation - ONE DAY! Best wishes :-) Ballista 20:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Riksforsamlingen translation

Hi - I'm contacting you, as this was your 'baby' originally. Please can you visit User talk:Pilotguy and look at my message about Riksforsamlingen edit. A change has been made to the text of the article, which changes the sense. It is important to know which is correct, as they are so different, despite only one tiny word having been added. Can you help with the history? Can you let us both know your verdict? Please respond on my User talk:Ballista page and on User talk:Pilotguy. THANKS :-) Ballista 04:42, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Kew Jaliens and his place of birth vs. birth/death date MoS

Hi there. I too instinctively would prefer to include the person's birthplace in the initial birthdate parentheses, but I have since learned that this counterdicts the English Wikipedia's Manual of Style. See here: [8]. So we should separate birthplaces from the parenthesized birth/death dates, as I did initially in this article, but which you changed. -- Mareklug ^talk 18:12, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't know that. It seems meaningless for short stubs though. But that is just my personal opinion. Punkmorten 20:02, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK!

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Agony of Doha, which you recently nominated, 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.

Thanks for your contributions! ++Lar: t/c 21:55, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Anton Pfeffer page

I'm trying to get rid of the red links in the Austria national football team page. You can vote for it at [9] Kingjeff 21:41, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Getting rid of red links is good, but I still think those articles could have been a bit longer.. Punkmorten 21:45, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

My intention is to get them started and let others expand because as soon as the red links are gone then I've essentially acomplished what I wanted. Kingjeff 21:47, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

iw links

Hi, I noticed you told me to include the int wiki links in the articles I just created. Is there an easy way to know they exist in other languages other that checking one by one in each international wikipedia? Bruno18 21:50, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I see. The thing is that I didn't copy from the french wikipedia, I was doing the articles "manually" using the format from the Peruvian football federation and adding the right info (like foundation, affiliation, etc.) from CONMEBOL's site. I will take a look at that IW link checker. Thanks. Bruno18 21:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Kurt Jara

Do you know what years he played for those clubs? I would like to but a stats table in for his career. Kingjeff 22:02, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

I lifted the information from the Swedish Wikipedia. The German Wikipedia goes somewhat more in detail and provide this external link: http://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil.php?id=2123. Punkmorten 22:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Do you want to come work on the FAID with some others? Kingjeff 16:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Not at the moment, sorry. Punkmorten 14:01, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK!

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Clemens Westerhof, which you recently nominated, 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.

Thanks for your efforts! ++Lar: t/c 05:10, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Award

I, Darwinek hereby award you this Working Man's Barnstar for your tireless creating of Olympic medalists and footballers at World Cups articles. Darwinek

Keep up the great work! -- Darwinek 12:18, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Norwegian footballers

Hello. Can you check spelling of Norwegian names in this article, please. Thank you. - Darwinek 17:43, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

footy-stub

Hi. When I created new footballer articles recently, I copied and pasted the stub types and categories from the one I created previously and then changed them accordingly for the new article. At some point, (possibly Ivan Leko) I had accidentally added an extra stub that wasn't needed and it went undetected for quite a few articles. But I think they've mostly been removed now. Mark272 11:35, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Football AID 28 May - 3 June

Thank you for participating in the Football AID vote this week.

Football in Norway has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

Blnguyen's RfA

File:Atlanticpuffin4.jpg

Hello Punkmorten. Thank you for your support at request for adminship which ended at the overwhelming and flattering result of (160/1/0), and leaves me in a position of having to live up to a high standard of community expectation. Thankyou for helping me in the past, and naturally, if I make any procedural mistakes, feel free to point them out and I look forward to working with you in the future, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 06:50, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Overdabbing

Hi, thanks for your comment and concerns. I don't want to overexplain this, but the bottom line is that this overdisambiguation is extremely useful to me while I am working on this project. There are literally hundreds of names to track, and spelling everything out helps me to create disambiguation pages properly, as well as cross-reference the articles and collect the links in a more effective manner. All raions currently have a disambiguator added to their names, even when it seems to be unnecessary—this way I don't have to re-check every single edit I make within the project, thus speeding things up overall. Rest assured, I will be removing the redundant portions once the project is completed, but right now it is still too early. Thanks again for your interest and please let me know if you have further questions.—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 16:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice answer! I want to help out; are there any English-language sources for this? Punkmorten 16:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Umm, I don't really know—for obvious reasons I prefer using Russian sources. My guess would be that whatever English sources you find are not going to be completely up-to-date. I usually update information in existing articles within a week after the Russian government publishes a list of changes (and they do it more or less on the monthly basis); I wouldn't suppose anyone out there is so interested in the topic as to provide a translation just as fast. However, if you wish to help, I may have something in stock that you would be able to do, if you are interested. Take a look at this project, for example. I kind of abandonded it in the middle, and other participants do not seem to be very active either. Whatever interests you there, feel free to dive in. It is a lot easier to find reliable and accurate English sources on Russian federal subjects than it is on smaller administrative divisions. Another task is creating city/town templates for the oblasts already covered here (the republics and most of the krais are already done; see {{Cities and towns in Krasnodar Krai}} for an example). Again, thanks for your interest, I much appreciate it!—Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 16:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

AP German Language

Why did you delete the AP German Language article? Ng iman@USA 00:02, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

It had no content whatsoever, except for the templates. It thus fell under the Criteria for speedy deletion, point A3. And I see that it had been recreated, still without content, so unless expanded it will be deleted again. Punkmorten 08:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Riksmål

Hi, I was wondering if you could take a look at Riksmål, recently USER:ALDRI MER 1814! made an edit comparing the the removal of riksmål as a national language too ethnic cleansing, a bit far out I thought, but he provided a reference to a Dagbladet article. But the article doesn't mention riksmål nor Norwegian language history, so I removed the edit as unsourced. But Aldri mer 1814 reinstated his edit, and left what I though has an insulting remark on the talk page. I though about listing the article on RFC, but since most Wikipedians can't read Norwegian it would be difficult for them to give a third opinion on the reference, so I though I would ask you first. På forhånd takk --Eivind^t@c 03:58, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Stub-sorting

Hello. Please support proposal for "Czech-footy-bio-stub" at WP:WSS/P. Thank you. - Darwinek 18:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Sogndal

Hi! I wonder if you could be interested in the article Sogndal, Rogaland. It seems that you have a liking for historical articles, and I think this article has potential for expansion. Regards, Punkmorten 09:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi!

Found a little bit about Sogndal, Rogaland but not much. The web is quite thin. Only one of my history texts mentions it. And I don't have any of the bygdeboker from the area, so did the best I could with what's available. Will keep an eye out for more information.

Cheers - Williamborg 17:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Aker, Norway

Aker, Norway is ready for proofing. Williamborg 15:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

László Szalma

Hey, Punkmorten! Let's work together to make László Szalma a better article!

RelentlessRouge 19:19, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Karin Hänel

Thank you for contributing this stub! It is now announced at Portal:Germany/New article announcements and Portal:Germany. Feel free to add any other related articles you create. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 00:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Translation of article Dainis Kūla

I have begun translating the article Dainis Kūla from the finnish article fi:Dainis Kūla, but as this is my first real article I am not sure how I should go about it. Should I post incomplete translation to the article page or should I wait until I have translated the whole article? I came to you because you requested the translation. I hope this was the right thing to do. Thanks in advance. Uwilldrop 21:11, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Exclusive Mandate

Thanks for fixing the redirect from "Claim to sole representation". I meant to link that page to the article, but I wasn't sure how to do that; I tried moving the page, but that didn't seem to work, since the target already exists... thanks again (Patrick 22:47, 27 June 2006 (UTC))

A suggestion

I saw you edited some Chilean footballer articles (well actually you made them) you might wanna use the infobox for football players in those articles (I would but I know nothing about them). Yonatanh 07:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I would if reliable information was available. Alas... Punkmorten 10:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Also, you might wanna archive your talk page. Yonatanh 07:21, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I was thinking about that as well. Punkmorten 10:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)