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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.
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
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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)