User talk:MaiusGermanicus

Neckar map fixed

05-March-2008: I have fixed the Neckar map for spelling of "Tübingen" and moved the images in article Tübingen to avoid text-gaps. Thanks for spotting the extra "r" in the name. I wish the wiki software had a more automatic way to auto-shift images to avoid those large text-gaps around large images, regardless of left/right placement, but I can't yet think how the MediaWiki software could be changed to provide auto-shifting. I finally realized that wiki edit-mode should not wrap brackets or parentheses at all, but just consider all characters as one long unsplit "word" of the form "xxx[[film])yyy" rather than split at "[[" or ")" to separate "xxx" or "yyy": that is an example of how a very trivial change to the MediaWiki software could avoid hours of spacing problems around brackets split between lines. I'm a computer scientist, and I've found that 99.999% of all irksome computer problems can be fixed by a few simple changes, and most computer software could be adjusted to be very easy to use: for example, the whole notion of "computer viruses" is an artificial problem actively allowed or fostered by some computer people, because viruses would be trivial to totally prevent. The computer robber barons realized that viruses killing PCs caused people to buy more of their trashy computers to keep going, hoping a new PC would be safer. However, most wiki-software problems are just accidental design flaws and could be fixed easily. -Wikid77 (talk) 01:31, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, MaiusGermanicus! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 00:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've just joined. --MaiusGermanicus (talk) 09:31, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

March 2008 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter
Issue II - March 2008

From the editor

This is the second issue of WikiProject Germany's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you think anything should be featured in the next issue, please leave a note at the Newsdesk

Other areas where you can help

Assessment requests: Some open Requests for assessment need to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watchlist the assessment page.
More task forces and subprojects: As this WikiProject covers a very large topic area, it is helpful to add more task forces that focus on specific aspects of Germany. Currently, we have a Mainz task force, a Munich subproject and some joint task forces with other WikiProjects. Any project member is invited to start a new task force. Suggestions for possible topics:
- Transportation in Germany
- German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians)
- German Democratic Republic

Be creative! If you have an idea, just suggest it on the project talk page (don't forget to watchlist it).

Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized

Project news

Cities and municipalities task force

The task force dedicated to creating and improving articles on all German cities and municipalities is happy to announce that there are now (at least) stub articles for all municipalities of Germany. Now the task force is looking for help in fleshing these out a little bit. The current phase of activity for the task force is to copy in infoboxes from the articles in German Wikipedia. If you want to help, even just for a few articles, look at the instructions and links here

Article Assessment:

There are now way over 26.000 articles tagged as part of our Wikiproject and many still need either an importance or a quality assessment. Also there are many more out there that do need to be tagged like approx 8000 municipalities. If you would like to help take a browse through Articles needing Importance assessment or Articles needing a basic quality assessment.

- Newsletter Bot Talk 15:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hemmendorf (Rottenburg)

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Hemmendorf (Rottenburg), and it appears to be very similar to another wikipedia page: Dettingen (Rottenburg). It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 21:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Tailfingen

A tag has been placed on Tailfingen, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Moreover, please add more verifiable sources, not only 3rd party sources. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content. You may wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hang on}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Lavalamp from Mars (talk) 11:22, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 10:02, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2017 election voter message

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