User talk:Tschild

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Nobody gave you a welcome yet, a bit late, but here you go: Welcome!

Hello, Tschild, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for registering with us. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!  And thank you for nominating Adolph Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorf for deletion! Kusma (討論) 15:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] DMOZ ELs

I see that you've been adding DMOZ external links to articles. In general, I think these should be avoided in wikipedia given the nature of DMOZ. Please let me know if this has been discussed before and how I might find such discussions. Thanks. --Ronz 16:29, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I have reformatted (not added) a number of existing external links to ODP categories using Template:dmoz which most of the ODP links already use. Links to appropriate web directory categories are specifically mentioned in WP:EL#Links_to_be_considered, so the nature of the Open Directory would recommend rather than preclude such a link (the ODP category in question needs to have enough content, of course.) Tschild 17:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick response. That's fine. I removed it from Scientific_visualization, which needs some serious EL cleanup as is. I can't recall ever seeing another dmoz link, but I'll take them case by case from now on. Thanks again. --Ronz 20:50, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello, are you the ISBN guy?

Are you by any chance Tomas Schild of isbn-check.com? If so I've a couple of questions! Thanks, EdJohnston

Yes, I am Tschild 17:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, glad you're here! You may be aware that our Special:booksources page invokes isbn-check.de, if the reader wants to do a validity check. We are looking at what might be needed to support ISBN-13s on Wikipedia. The current version of your checker only does ISBN-10. Do you have any advice for us? Thanks. EdJohnston 21:26, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
I plan on supporting ISBN-13 on isbn.check.com/.de some time next week - in any case before the end of the year when ISBN-10 become invalid. Something to do over the holidays ;) Tschild 22:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks again Tom (we have jsut had an email exchange to the same effect). Rich Farmbrough, 10:52 20 December 2006 (GMT).
I have now implemented ISBN-13 testing (OK/not OK) but there are still some extensions to be done (Esperanto version not yet updated; ISBN-13 for an ISBN-10; ISBN-10 for a 978... ISBN-13) Tschild 01:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Complex systems

Thank you for your contribution to the complex system article in the past. Currently there is a Call for Deletion for the associated Category:Complex systems covering this interdisplinary scientific field. If you would like to contribute to the discussion, you would be very welcome. Please do this soon if possible since the discussion period is very short. Thank you for your interest if you can contribute. Regards, Jonathan Bowen 14:48, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] books-by-isbn

Many months ago your site, http://www.books-by-isbn.com/, was placed on the Spam blacklist, for reasons that didn't seem to make much sense. Repeatedly, different editors tried to get the decision reversed; at last, we have succeeded. You may find the linked discussion useful, to help you avoid accidentally doing something that gets you on the list, and to help deal with it if it happens.

My request was specific to the one site; others, like isbn-check.com, may still be blacklisted. Note that organizations share lists, so prohibition here propagates outside Wikipedia and other MediaWiki sites. --KSmrqT 21:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello KSmrq - thanks for the information (and for requesting that removal). I wasn't aware of my site being blacklisted but now I understand why I could not edit the page for books-by-isbn.com over at aboutus.org - apparently that site uses not only the MediaWiki software but also the MediaWiki blacklist. Tschild 17:28, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Note: found discussion leading to removal at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist/Archives/2007/10#books-by-isbn.com Tschild (talk) 15:41, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Dmoz

Hello. I see your vote at the Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_15#Template:Dmoz. Can you vote ({{keep}} or {{Удалить}}) on page — ru:Википедия:К_удалению/5_февраля_2008#.D0.A8.D0.B0.D0.B1.D0.BB.D0.BE.D0.BD:Dmoz

Best regards, nejron (talk) 12:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I'd need to justify my vote there, and I cannot do that in Russian. The vote does seem to go towards 'keep' anyway. Thank you for the heads-up, though. Tschild (talk) 13:20, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Ok, thank you for your attention. Best regards, nejron (talk) 15:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)