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[edit] Did you know & Signpost
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- ... that Mieszko Bolesławowic could have become a king of Poland, if he had not been poisoned?
- ... that the Hillsboro Central light rail station had the only library located at a mass transit station in the western U.S. when it opened?
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[edit] DYK
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On 7 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Große Freiheit Nr. 7, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
--Royalbroil 05:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] List of 24 Hours of Le Mans winners
I noticed your addition of a second chart to this article, regarding the total number of wins earned by a driver from each country, alongside the existing chart of the total number of drivers from a country which have won. I have to wonder if maybe this second chart isn't a bit redundant? I know the information is a bit different, but it just seems to me that they're similar enough that they could almost be integrated into a single chart with two columns. The359 (talk) 19:19, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
- I've combined some tables now, leaving three, sorted by drivers, by nations, by constructors. -- Matthead Discuß 20:25, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] 6/9 DYK
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On 9 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with facts from the articles Reichsflotte, and Battle of Heligoland (1849), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
--Bedford Pray 01:44, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Paulskirchenverfassung
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On 9 June 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Paulskirchenverfassung, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
--BorgQueen (talk) 19:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Gdańsk (Danzig) Vote
You seem to be misinterpreting the Gdańsk (Danzig) Vote policy. Indicating the country that the city was part of at the time appropriate to the article is most definitely not against that policy. Caerwine Caer’s whines 03:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- I do apply the policy, and leave the (mis)interpretation to others. The vote did not chose "Danzig, Royal Prussia" nor "Gdansk, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth". Calling the city "Danzig (Gdansk)" in biographies of clearly German figures is enough of a hint for readers. Those who want to look up the city's history and political affiliation can do so elsewhere, we don't want every biography on the List of people from Danzig to become an edit war battlefield, too. That's why the wording of the vote has to be applied and enforced. Gabriel Fahrenheit has travelled and worked in many cities, how come that only Danzig is subject to endless editwarring? Could it be because certain editors are desperately trying to push their nationalistic POV into the many biographies of persons who clearly were part of German culture? Also, be warned to to remove sources again, like you did here. -- Matthead Discuß 04:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- You added multiple sources for the uncontroversial fact that Fahrenheit was ethnically German. Maybe one is needed for those who insist that every sentence in an article needs a reference of its own, but five is definitely massive overkill, and I wasn't going to pick which one. If you feel that there must be a reference there, go ahead and place one, but multiple ones are overkill to the point of POV pushing.
- As for the vote, the clear intent of the wording of the vote was to keep people from using Danzig (Gdansk) (or Gdansk (Danzig)) in articles such as Fahrenheit's on every instance of the city in the article. The vote did not address whether or not to add the country the city is in at the time in the places where the country a city belongs to would normally be placed. Cities of birth and death are customarily noted as to which country the city is in. Should Netherlands be removed after The Hague? Caerwine Caer’s whines 17:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
