User talk:Fransvannes

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Thank you! I've been active in the Dutch Wikipedia since September 02, and a bit in the German and Estonian ones as well. You'll find me mostly in pages about the geography, history and languages of Central- and Eastern-Europe, and about classical music. But just incidentally in those in English... Fransvannes 09:41 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)

Please update your webbrowser, which is not Unicode-aware. See e.g. [1], the non-standard characters were destroyed. A good free browser is Mozilla Firefox. andy 22:41, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

I know that it isn't Unicode-aware. It's a pity that some users destroy characters, but that's just the consequence of the choice Wikipedia once made to use Unicode (not my choice, of course). So: either Wikipedia is not longer free for everyone (I should just stay away, and so are other users of older equipment), or other users have to repair these destroyed characters. In the Dutch Wikipedia the latter is the case. I hope here as well. Fransvannes 19:11, 3 October 2005 (UTC) (PS: Mozilla Firefox does not work on my iMac).

Adding an interwiki link to a two-line article in Dutch, you made the whole English article on the Uyghur language unreadable. That doesn't make sense to me.

iMacs haven't been around for such a long time, there should be a way to prevent yours from destroying articles like that.

And by the way, what's your proposal for an alternative to Unicode to represent some the world's largest languages such as Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Japanese and Punjabi (with a combined number of 2.6 billion native speakers)? — Babelfisch 02:44, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm afraid there is not, at least until now I did not find any, but it does not really matter: any user should be able to edit any page. Be careful and please read principle no 3 on User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles, which is fundamental. Fransvannes 08:55, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't see the point, to be honest: Jimbo Wales' personal opinion, as stated in his principle no 3: "'You can edit this page right now' is a core guiding check on everything that we do. We must respect this principle as sacred." Good idea, but asking users not to be knowingly destructive is not unreasonable, and it does matter. — Babelfisch 01:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

What you do ask me is to stay away. Given the limitations of my browser that's the only thing I can do (and will do, I'm afraid, at least from the English Wikipedia). To ask people to stay away is an offense to a basic principle of Wikipedia. But that's the choice which seems to have been made over here. That's good to know. Fransvannes 14:51, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Hi! I just wanted to talk to you about the case with nagorno karabakh art article that you deemed in violation of copyright. is not it on public domain already? please also advise as to picture copyright infringement, i do not see any. let's preserve this work together. Yerkatagear (talk) 18:26, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

hi; please could you tell how the article on nagorno karabakh arts/culture that has recently been deleted had been brought to you attention in the first place. would appreaciate that. Yerkatagear (talk) 21:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Still waiting for response; sock activity suspected

Could John Vandenberg or Fransvannes show me a Wikipedia regulation which would state that a copyright permission cannot be granted retroactively. And that the work of banned users should be deleted. Yerkatagear (talk) 02:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

I can't slow you any regulation other than the common sense that permission has to be there before a text is released and that it should not be released as if permission were given. My answer to the second question is no, but irrelevant. Fransvannes (talk) 16:58, 13 January 2008 (UTC)