User talk:John Quincy Adding Machine/Jan2008

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Eurotel Logo.jpg)

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Language

Ahoj. Well, generally it is much better to hear it in person and feel that language. It is very difficult to give some hints by the internet. When my Czech friends want to learn something, they always invite me to hospoda and I give them some Polish lessons :). It is interesting that Poles from Poland and Czechs from the Czech Rep. have problem communicating with each other with their respective Slavic languages. They usually speak English. I tried to give some hints by just writing it, once to my friend, and it didn't end good. He messed up the language even more, as he was quite confused. Just be careful with some Polish-Czech wording issues, e.g. děvka and dívka in Czech doesn't equal dziewka and dziwka in Polish. In Polish the meaning of both words is exact opposite. :) However I would be glad to give you some help, when it could be done personally. Maybe you will come back to the Czech Rep.. Šťastný nový rok! - Darwinek (talk) 14:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, it is easier than one may think. Try to get in touch with local Polish community in place where you live. This may help a lot. - Darwinek (talk) 15:54, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

You should drink with them, too. That's the traditional Slavic way to make brothers and strengthen friendly bonds. :) - Darwinek (talk) 16:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I bet you are not kidding this time. - Darwinek (talk) 16:20, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Otherland2.png

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Czech Barnstar of National Merit

		The Czech Barnstar of National Merit
		I am giving you this award for substantial and important help in the WikiProject Czech Republic and specifically for its banners. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 12:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International English

As per your request, I have reopened the deletion discussion. I apologise for any inconvienence that I may of caused. Thanks, D.M.N. (talk) 18:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Potter6-Czech.jpg

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International English

Nominating articles for deletion seems rather editorial for one who has decided to retire from editing wikipedia.Zebulin (talk) 21:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Your critique of other users is frankly, irrelevant to me. If you'd bothered to have a look at my account data you'd see I've semi-come back to active editing. Just because you don't like my proposals is not an open ticket to personal attacks. You seem to be under the impression that since I've retired I've somehow mysteriously shed all self-restraint and NPOV-y-ness. Non-regular Wikipedia editors are people too, and in many cases far better contributors than the people with millions of edits and a mop under their belt. :) Good day. Oh, and PS, If I were making a WP:POINT (which, I assume is the policy covering what you have accused me of doing), don't you think I'd be deleting an article with a little more traffic and a little more core and well written than Int Eng? Don't you think I wouldn't have outlined my concerns on the AfD and on the talk page itself? And no offence intended but get some mileage under your belt before throwing accusations left right and centre. Once more, good day. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 04:11, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

fine fine. The real point of my message was that your user page (namely the message that occupies all of it) appears to be out of date in light of your activity here. That is why I mentioned it on your talk page rather than in any particular article.Zebulin (talk) 04:36, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

A little slip in communications, no? Many conflicts arise from misunderstandings and I take my hat off to you for not turning this into an argument. Fair enough, I will update it, good luck with editing! +Hexagon1 ^(t) 06:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

thanks for the heads up

the post i made that you brought up to me was pretty uncivil. i usually try to keep it cleaner than that, but sometimes my tongue gets away on me. heat of the moment and all. anyway, thanks for reminding me of the policies. SECProto (talk) 06:08, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Chronology template

Thanks for wanting to improve the Chronology template. However, removing a link to a useful article defeats the template's purpose: to help locate disparate articles about time and chronology.

Since Anno Domini and Common Era are separate articles, the template is better served by showing both. If you feel that these articles are redundant, by all means request a merge. Cheers, Yamara 04:22, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Higgher-Rez Image Request

Hello. Sorry to bother you, but I posted the following question at Image_talk:BlankMap-World-Subdivisions.PNG and didn't get a response. Since you seem to be the creator of the image I thought I'd re-post the request here: If anyone still has the original source files for this map, is there any way they could render and upload a higher-resolution version? The higher the better, quite frankly. I do a lot of work with wildlife range maps for Wikipedia articles, and I'm trying to create a single template that will allow me to make range maps for everything from a worldwide species to one that only lives in a single region. Because of that, I need something that shows the political subdivisions (US state lines, Canadian provinces, etc.) but is large enough that I can zoom in and save smaller segments that are still acceptably sharp. Obviously an .svg file would be perfect for that due to the scalability, but a .png would work fine too if it was large enough. Thank you. 'Card (talk) 18:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)