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Again, welcome! :) fabiform | talk 14:52, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the warm welcome :) Ferkelparade 17:10, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I hope you enjoy yourself here.  :) fabiform | talk 17:25, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Nice work on Karl Theodor! Catherine - talk 01:02, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

thanks :) Ferkelparade 08:20, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

hi ferkelparade, just wanted to mention, that it is quit difficult with german "slangs". it might be ok with the weisswurst/weisswürscht, cause it was invented in munich. but should the english wikipedia link to the brezel, brezn or breze? you spent time in southern-germany i guess? greetings from munich, Softeis 20:17, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/Talk:Weisswurst btw: I HATE "Weisswürscht"!!!!!! ;-) greetz. Nicky knows e 20:19, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi guys, one could say I spent some time in Southern Germany...was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, grew up in Swabia and have been living in Munich for about 10 years now :P anyway, spellings of German food stuff are always comlicated, see Talk:Weisswurst for the Weisswurst. About Brezen: I once had a long discussion about the correct spelling here. I changed the link to Brezen because there is already an article at Breze, and I don't think we need a second one at Brezen. Maybe we need a couple redirects from Brezel, Brezen etc...?

Was marking the addition of a {{vfd}} here marked minor on purpose? You might want to reconsider that policy, it is after all rather a significant event in an article's life and should definately be noted by everyone watching the article. --fvw 12:34, 2004 Oct 20 (UTC)

Oops, sorry, my mistake...shouldn't edit while I'm on the phone, I guess... -- Ferkelparade π 12:37, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

No problem, mistakes will happen and this wasn't a bad one. Just don't try and pull that sort of stuff with Main Page *grins*. Keep up the good work! --fvw 13:02, 2004 Oct 20 (UTC)

Sant_Cassia You may see that the votes for deletion have come up, many times for the page listed regarding Sant_Cassia, I object to the edit wars which have been placed, and object the pages creation and its links. The information is owned by the Sant Cassia Family, copyvio was added because there is no referencing to any information given or taken from other web sites. There is a difference between knowning what is correct and making things up to discredit people.Ghariexem[[User_talk:Ghariexem|

A couple of points in reply:

• There is nothing wrong with objecting to the contents of a page if it is factually incorrect, misleading, slanderous or whatever - just go ahead and edit it, or place it on VfD if you think there is no merit at all to an article. However, just blanking a page without comment is not acceptable under any circumstances, and I have not seen any real reason why the article in question should be deleted.
• Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the previous VfD history of the artile, but if it survived several times already, it looks like there is in fact no solid reason for deletion.
• Placing an article on VfD and on speedy at the same time does not make any sense and makes you look like you're wildly thrashing around in an attempt to get rid of an article - I removed the speedy delete notice because being listed on VfD is enough.
• And lastly, the copyvio notice was pure nonsense - copyright violation is a rather specific, narrowly-defined term that does not apply in this case.

Cheers, Ferkelparade π 15:26, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Points noted , yes i object to it all, and when i have done in the past, it just gets reverted, or edited again by the same person everytime. Im not a great whizz at wikipedia, sorry for the quick copyvio and quick deletion notices. we object to the person editing and changing the page, the sant_cassia page is fine , just the links out of it. ghariexem

VfD Correction

Thank you for fixing The Ravaged VfD page. I bolded delete because the original author had written it in caps, which appeared to mean that he wanted to highlight it, but in hindsight I do see how that could be misleading. Thanks for the catch. Skyler1534 23:25, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Isbjørnklubbe

Actually, I erred. Isbjørnklubbe has its headquarters in Hammerfest, not Stavanger. The only way I know to join is to go to Hammerfest, which I got to via the Hurtigruten. It is also called "The Royal and Ancient Polar Bear Society". They have a gathering in Hammerfest every September, basically a community fair, I think. The Isbjørnklubbe is devoted to preserving not only the population of polar bears, but also the arts of polar bear hunting. My main activity is wearing the very warm wool baseball cap with earflaps with the society name (in English, alas) and a picture of a polar bear embroidered on it, but I also have a certificate of membership.

From http://www.hammerfest.kommune.no/english.html: "The Royal & Ancient Polar Bear Society Is a museum aiming to show Hammerfest¹s long and proud traditions as an arctic hunting town. A visit here can be concluded with signing an exclusive membership in the club."

To me, the most striking memory I have of the north of Norway is the chronicles of the devastation wrought by the occupying and then retreating German armies in World War 2. Ortolan88 18:07, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

verkerparada

Err... A case of typing quickly and then hitting enter before checking. I hope it does not mean anything... inappropriate... in any other language, especially Deutch :-7 -Skysmith 07:22, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

I've nominated you for adminship on WP:RFA. You can accept or decline the nomination there. Cheers! JOHN COLLISON 18:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sibiu article

hi there Ferkelparade

I'm reverting the article prior to your copyvio warning. you should have discussed with the author of the Sibiu article before issuing the copyvio warning. Criztu 14:50, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, please do not just revert. As I just said at WP:CP, this does not solve the copyvio problem at all - when you just revert over a copyright violation, the copyrighted text still remains in the database (not in the current article, but in the edit history), and all legal problems arising from the copyright violation still exist. It admittedly sucks, but when someone decides to paste copyrighted text into an otherwiese decent article, we can only delete and rewrite to get rid of the copyrighted stuff. And please don't accuse me of ruining the article, I just spotted the copyright violation - blame the anon user who pasted copyrighted text in the first place. -- Ferkelparade π 14:56, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Have you consulted with the author of the SIbiu article, before issuing the copyvio warning ? the article was written in 2003, while the only material susceptible of copyroght violation is the Turism paragraph, which you could have easily erased without compromising the whole Sibiu Misplaced Pages Article Criztu 15:02, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well...that's exactly the problem: you cannot erase material from the edit history without deleting the article. The only solution is to place the last good version of the article at the "Temp" location that is automaticlly created when an article is tagged as a copyvio, and wait for an admin to clean up (delete the oricinal and make the temp page the new article). I admit that the Sibiu article has been sitting on copyvio for too long without anyone taking action - I'd do the cleanup right now, but unfortunately I am not an admin and cannot delete the original article :P -- Ferkelparade π 15:08, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

i see what you mean, but i think you should have consulted the Wikipedian who wrote the article in 2003 prior to anything else. It is perfectly possible that the site you concluded the information was stolen from could have easily copy-pasted from Misplaced Pages Sibiu Article ... what should we do next, erase whole Misplaced Pages because of countless websites that copy-paste from Misplaced Pages without mentioning that ? Criztu 15:14, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

i appologise for reverting the article ... user Icebox seems to have copy-pasted from www.sibiu.ro and providede the link to this official site... what should we do ? we have to put the article online Criztu 15:22, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)