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While editing my number got mixed up with #130.94.122.

Hey Helga -- I think it may be time for you to move your user page fully over to the user:namespace and turn H. Jonat into a redirect. I'll do this for you in about a week if you don't have time to get around to doing it. Cheers! --maveric149, Thursday, April 25, 2002

Hi maveric149, I do not know anything about this. If you think that it is alright, please go ahead, in a week or so. Maybe you could drop me a line of explanation. Thanks a lot, see you then H. Jonat Fri Apr 26

Hello, Fr. Jonat. Please, comment on the brand new version! I am grateful already.

Space Cadet

No problem on the redirects -- I should have seen it coming when I made a stub article for Karl Scheele that the modern spelling might at least be Carl Scheele (let alone his middle name). That's the problem with using really old dictionaries and encyclopedias for sources -- you have to be careful to modernize the names of people and sometimes things. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. --maveric149

Could you please slow down and make sure the English is right. There is (just for example) no such word in English as "Primas". Presumably you know what you mean in German--I don't, which means you need to be the one to get the word right, rather than leaving everyone guessing. Vicki Rosenzweig

Vicki,

Primas is in Webster dictionary under : primate, M.E. primat,LL. primas (latin primus- first). A person with primacy, an archbishop or the highest ranking bishop in the province.

I will add, highest ranking bishop or archbishop. H. Jonat

For what it is worth, I have never heard or read "Primas" used in the US -- people instead use "Primate" as the title, although very carefully given its other meaning. Slrubenstein

Archbishop is a specific title in the Catholic church; was he an archbishop? A cardinal? Just a bishop in an area with no archbishops? Vicki Rosenzweig

Actually, this form is discussed in English plural as a lost singular replaced by another singular back-formed from the plural. But, it is not correct English any more than termes for termite. Ortolan88

Vicki, Slrubenstein, Ortolan88, I changed it to Primate and added archbishop and places. H. Jonat

you could also just say "head of the church in Poland" or "highest ranking church officer in Poland" -- that says it all, and is equally correct. J Hofmann Kemp

Helga: Borders shift over time. This is not an excuse to insert statements in every article about Poland to the effect that the borders were different before 1945. That information is already in the article on the history of Poland, which is where it belongs. It doesn't belong in a list of Polish cities, any more than a list of German cities should begin with a note that there was no Germany as such before the 19th century. Vicki Rosenzweig

1570 map of Germany with double-headed German imperial eagle and description (click on text) ]

OK, something odd is going on here. On Nov 15, 2002 66.47.62.78 edited this page, Adam Johann von Krusenstern and at about the same time created a user page called user:66.47.62.78 (now deleted). But look at the contribs link here. There are no contribs listed even though it is set to look for 30 day old edits. There is also a link to the now deleted user page under "User contributions" (there should not be any link for IPs - just plain text). The software is confused and needs to be fixed before a vandal finds out this loop-hole. --mav

I've been meaning to fix that, now's my chance, hmm? I deleted the account in the meantime, so the contribs link now works. User names in the form of IP addresses will not be legal in future. --Brion 01:01 Nov 20, 2002 (UTC)

Aha -- usernames that look like IP addresses have been banned since late July, but the check fails if you put some whitespace around it when creating the account. Fixed. (Note that the existence of a page in user space means nothing; the account must be created through login to make a difference to the contribs page.) --Brion 01:19 Nov 20, 2002 (UTC)

Thanks Brian! --mav

Hello Helga, welcome back. :-) Your edits so far seem to be in the spirit of NPOV. Do be careful about place names though -- we needn't go through that again. --mav--

Hi Mav, Thanks! I have been and will continue to occasionally correct a few things here and there, but that's it. I have no intention to get sucked into this too much. H. Jonat

Hi Helga, I almost quit Misplaced Pages for good. It is not really the same without you around. I was making major changes to articles relating to Prussia and nobody even cared! Sometimes I even tried to bluff and place some made up stuff into articles, just to provoke discussion, or any reaction for that matter, still - no response or interest. You say, you "have no intention to get sucked into this too much". Then how about just a little bit - for old times' sake? Welcome back!
SC

Hi SC/Mruk, thanks for your message. It is rather too frustrating to add info to articles over and over again , just to find out, someone has taken it out once more or what is even worse, twisted and turned it into something unrecocnicable. Therefore I will stick to the occasional correction and not add anything new. Why waist the time? )

I agree 100%. Have you checked out the nice maps that I came across lately? I uploaded them on the "Ducal Prussia" and "Royal Prussia" articles. After I already uploaded them I noticed a few incorrect items.

1. The border between Poland and Lithuania should be a dotted line.
2. The Podlasie region (with the city of Tykocin) should belong to Lithuania.
3. Lebork and Bytow should belong to Poland.

See if you can find more and please let me know.
And finally - Mruk don' work here no mo'!
But I have some gossip though! He's a little pregnant (3 months) and he is strongly considering the name Jadwiga! You must have a lot of influence on the poor guy! SC

Space Cadet (AKA Mruk, but not on wiki ?) your cryptic message leaves me a little perplext. Are you spaced out again?? H. Jonat

My pleasure, Helga. Despite our differences, nice to see you back. Danny

Danny, you are a real Mensch and I appreciate your message. I am not sure about being back though. Matter of fact is , that I notice that at wikipedia you are not only putting up with newcomer 'Happy H.', but with the pesky 'everything has always been Polish' boys as well. This does not entice me. User:H. Jonat

Helga, thank you for the kind words on my user page. The pressure was indeed getting to me, for a while, but after reading a sermon entitled "Love Problem People" I changed my mind. After all, it may really be that I am the "problem member" rather than those I think are "problem members". --Ed Poor