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500 mainspace edits exactly! :-) —METS501 (talk) 01:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Does this mean that I have passed??? ChrisDHDR (T@£k) 07:04, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Yep :-). You should be able to use AWB now. —METS501 (talk) 15:27, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

SVGs are not obviously superior to PNGs when viewed on the screen. However, SVGs can be resized with no quality loss, and if the web browser and the web site support sending the SVG itself to the browser, the printout will look very sharp instead of like a pixellated mess. Jesse Viviano 04:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

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Why are you subst'ing signatures that are templates? It mignt be the right thing according to WP:SIG, but have you ever thought that maybe people do it on purpose??? People like me. My Sig is pretty complicated and it looks DISGUSTING in its full form, thats why its A LOT better as a nice, clean, simple template. It also does not prevent you from telling who the writer is since the template its-self is in my name space. Tell me which one you prefer:

 {{User:ChrisDHDR/Sig2}}

OR

 <br><b><span style="background-color: #DFEBFF">— [[Image:Icons-flag-za.png]]<font color="blue">[[User:ChrisDHDR|ChrisDHDR]][[Image:Icons-flag-fr.png]]<sup> <span class="plainlinks"><font color="002bb8"> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ChrisDHDR FøřůM] </font></span> • <span class="plainlinks"><font color="002bb8"> [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=ChrisDHDR&site=en.wikipedia.org €D!†$] </font></span></sup></font></span></b>

Make up your mind, and think about undoing you automatic edits.
— ChrisDHDR ^{FøřůM • €D!†$} 16:24, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Per the developers, who make this site run, the following was added to our signature policy:

Transclusions of templates and parser functions in signatures (like those which appear as {{User:Name/sig}}, for example) are forbidden, because the developers have determined them to be an unnecessary drain on the servers. Transcluded signatures require extra processing--whenever you change your signature source, all talk pages you have posted on must be re-cached.

Signature templates are also vandalism targets, and will be forever, even if the user leaves the project. Simple text signatures, which are stored along with the page content, use no more resources than the comments themselves and avoid these problems.

This cannot be changed: remember that developer statements about technical aspects of the site trump all others. As for the length of your signature, the only thing I can say is that you must remove the images, and should probably consider shortening the code. —METS501 (talk) 16:30, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

P.S. This might be of interest. —METS501 (talk) 16:34, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi - you may or may not be aware that your signature is currently more than 450 characters long. Our signatures guideline says that signatures should be fewer than about 200-250 characters in length. So, could you please reduce the length of your signature? Such a decorative one is out of place on an encyclopedia, and far from impressing users, it more often than not leads them to let out a sigh of exasperation. Thanks, Martinp23 17:50, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

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Between the 23^rd and 28^th, I had this discussion with Captain scarlet. I think it concernes me as much as him and therefore should be availible here.

Why did you undo my edit??? If you go to the official TER site, select a région, and the change région using the scroll down menu at the top-left corner, you will see that all the regions have dashes. Futhermore, on the home page the are dashes for Rhône-Alpes, and for each régions section, there are dashes for:

• Franche-Comté
• Nord-Pas-de-Calais
• Haute-Normandie
• Rhône-Alpes

Moreover, the official INSEE site shows the régions with dashes (here and any other menus) and all I can see are dashes at Wikipedia:WikiProject_French_régions#In_progress, Régions#Regions and fr:Régions_françaises#Liste. So why are you so adament that there be none???

Secondly, why should the régions be arranged from North to South??? There is no logical reason and all it looks like is an unordered mess. And unordered it is! Its very obvious that Alsace IS NOT the Nothernmost département (it is Nord-Pas-de-Calais) and after looking at your list, I would put it in this order:

17, 4, 11, 19, 8, 15, 1, 6, 18, 7, 5, 10, 20, 14, 3, 22, 2, 16, 13, 21, 9 Or just using the northernmost point: 17, 8, 19, 11, 4, 15, 1, 6, 7, 18, 5, 10, 20, 3, 22, 14, 3, 21, 16, 13, 9 Or even using the Southernmost point: 17, 19, 11, 4, 15, 8, 6, 1, 18, 10, 7, 5, 20, 14, 3, 22, 21, 2, 16, 13, 9

You can then see that the order is purely one of personal choice, and therefore a serious infringement of WP:NPOV.
Wating for the reasons for your actions,
--ChrisDHDR ^{( • contrib's)} 12:24, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Having checked this yesterday in anticipation to your response, I can confirm that the TER websites for the concerned regions do not put dashes where I removed yours. Example TER Basse Normandie neither includes a dash on the page name nor the TER section on the top left. This is the second time you've committed this mistake and I've corrected it. The INSEE's notation has no bearing on naming of SNCF regional entity names. This is a simple case of hyphen abuse where there is need for none: it-wouldn't-be-very-clear-if-we-all-spoke-like-this-would-it-?

I agree there might be contingencies regarding the order in which the TER regions are sorted but it certainly does no involve PoV; it seems you've thrown that as a justification to your edits? 17, 19, 11, 4, 15, 8, 6, 1, 18, 10, 7, 5, 20, 14, 3, 22, 21, 2, 16, 13, 9 it is, shall we?

Contrib's you say? Regards, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 12:52, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I do not see why the région's names should change when used by the SNCF, and my case for dashes is supported by the régions respective articles. Also, you did not provide a reason for your order at {{TER}}, just a retort. Could you please give me one using this link, or I will be forced to undo your edits. How is North-South more logical than A-Z any way??

ChrisDHDR ^{( • contrib's)} 17:06, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

PS: The régions are not the same as the SNCF regions, as you said hereabove. The SNCF regions can be found here.

PPS: I-can-understand-you-perfectly-well-when-you-write-like-this.

(Tipping hat to both) Morning, sirs. I know that régions are not ordered as communes, so can't help you there, but as far as location names should go, one should fall back to using correct language whenever possible: The SNCF may extra-hyphenate its placenames (for reasons upon which I can only speculate) on its signs and whatnot, but Wikipedia is neither a sign nor the SNCF, and I'm not sure that most Wikipedia readers are aware of their quite internal system. So, especially when in cases of doubt and conflict, I think it would be best to to use the place/station name in its "closest to reality" form. Cheers. THEPROMENADER 07:35, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

As ThePromenader states, names used on wikipedia are not those preferred but those found on sources. All TER articles were created from information on the TER websites without hyperhyphenation. The original order was chosen as it is because as you've justly pointed out they are not in the correct North to South order. the North-south sorting was chosen as it places continuguous TER regions together and avoids an a-to-z sorting which seperates otherwise neighboring regions. These are TER regions, not SNCF recruitment regions mind you... Please do not engage in warfare and consider the points above, these weren't elaborated arbitrarily and for a reason; Could you please give me one using this link, or I will be forced to undo your edits. How is North-South more logical than A-Z any way?? is not Wikipedianlovable behaviour. Contrib's with an apostrophy S instead of plural did you say? thank you ThePromenader for your input, appreciated as always. Regards, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 14:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Although I strongly disagree with you, I will not take the matter further since it seems to be 2to1 and you are adament that we keep the status quo. I do not want to start an edit war. ChrisDHDR 10:54, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I also wrote this message to ThePromenader:

It seems Captain scarlet and I are at a Stalemate concerning {{TER}} and the respective régions. He insists that the régions must be ordered from North to South (which looks like a complete mess to me, plus it seems obvious Alsace is not the Northernmost région), while I prefer a more soothing Alphabetical list.

Futhermore, He believes there should be no dashes in the naming conventions (ex: TER Rhône Alpes, though surprisingly TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais), though I think that dashes should connect the entities that form the régions name (ex: TER Rhône-Alpes from the Rhône river and the Alps, TER Nord-Pas de Calais from the départements Nord and Pas de Calais).

This argument seems to be going nowhere. Could you please give your opinion on the problem with {{TER}} and specify what you think the "Closest to reality" form is. We could then write this as a convention at WP:FR/CON.Waiting for you reply, ChrisDHDR ^{( • contrib's)} 09:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

PS:With now 108 discussions on your talk page, don't you thing it's the time to Archive???

For sure, it's time to archive. Thanks for the reminder. As for the discussion at hand, I don't think I can make myself much clearer than my earlier comment without repetition: For the better good (and later cross-referencing) of placename articles, I think it best to use the official name, and not the SNCF one. Cheers. THEPROMENADER 21:17, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not so sure your move was warrented - not only does the (official name) Chemin de fer de (Petite) Ceinture no longer exist, it was part of no real réseau while it had that name, and is certainly part of no réseau today, so calling it a simple "line" is not very accurate. Cheers. THEPROMENADER 14:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

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I want to thank you belatedly (wikibreak) for the barnstar you've given me. It means a lot to me. Aec·is·away ^talk 14:49, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

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Good Luck!Renmiri 18:25, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:

• In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
• I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
• I have made a Wikipedia advert for our project, Image:Qxz-ad108.gif, what do you think? Personally I feel the words need improving ...
• There are still map problems at Template:French commune - any help at resolving them would be greatly appreciated.
• What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria.

It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, ChrisDHDR (17:13, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).

Chris-

a note on Portal:France - I just took the portal through portal peer review this summer (see Wikipedia:Portal peer review/France/archive1), so it is nearly ready to go for featured status. There is however one issue that needs to be fixed: the news updates need to be better maintained. Wikinews is hopelessly devoid of France-related articles (very few and far between), so other news sources need to be used. In addition, as sole maintainer of the portal, I don't always have time to update the news feeds. It's all I can do to keep the article, picture and person of the month changing on a regular basis for the past two years. If WikiProject France could help maintain French news briefs on the portal or on wikinews (or both), that would be great. Thanks- NYArtsnWords 17:54, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello Chris, thank you for sending me the France WikiProject newsletter. I'm not certain if I should sign your list, because I am currently only sporadically active with France-related articles. Do you think I should sign your list, or not? Thank you. --Kyoko 23:43, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! --Kyoko 10:33, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

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You and someone else were a bit too quick. I appreciate it but after I have edited it further. the changes should be left alone

if you really want to improve wikipedia then goto spice girls page and find out who has added the word honeysuckel and the fags there. lets see how well you fare there.Nagendrapsingh (talk) 12:02, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Information is displayed at Cinema of Burma#Myanmar film companies. Not adequate for a seperate article you're right -can you redirect to this above and close the afd? Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 12:09, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello, you recently turned my humorous page Dsylexia into a propper redirect, I was just wondering if you could change it back because the only thing that links to the page Dsylexia is my new userbox! PhilB ~ ^T/_C 14:33, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't link to the right page, dyslexia is the correct spelling (dsylexia being the incorrect spelling) It would probably be useful to leave the redirect anyway! PhilB ~ ^T/_C 15:13, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Yea good idea XD PhilB ~ ^T/_C 15:19, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Just wanted your feedback on this- should we get to creating pages for all 577 legislative constituencies like it has been done for the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland? As an election editor, I'd quite like to do so, but I wanted some feedback on this before getting anything underway.

We can more-or-less use some of the Fr.Wikipedia pages on the constituencies as a starter but applying a universal template with 2007 and maybe 2002 results. (Pre-2002 results being very hard to find)--Petrovic-Njegos (talk) 13:00, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the interest. It'd be better to make all 577 articles, as they haven't changed since 1988 at all, and I don't hear much big talk about any redistricting! --Petrovic-Njegos (talk) 18:16, 24 November 2007 (UTC)