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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Hello Kurt, the reason I thought that the article at Brief Encounter was from a research paper was that it compared the play and movie at some length, and also had some non-standard characters in it. Some of your hyphens are coming over as ?- instead of --. I changed your ("fancy") apostraphes because I thought they were non-standarad characters (maybe they display fine for everyone; I don't know. I can't find on my keyboard where to make them that way). Anyway, thanks for your work, and welcome to wikipedia. :-) --KQ 09:46 Aug 23, 2002 (PDT)

Hallo Kurt, wie schoen, noch einen Deutschsprachler hier zu finden! Ich bin aus Koeln, aber schon 26 Jahre in England. Like you, I am also experiencing the true meaning of addiction. Long may it last! Perhaps we could collaborate on some entries with a Germanic bias? Renata

Hallo Kurt, vielen dank fuer Ihren Beitrag zum This Perfect Day-Artikel. You write that the programmers' idea of a world government basically seems to be communist. I always get a little suspicious when I read a statement like that, because it often seems to reflect more the political stance of the contributor than that of the subject. For instance, there are people that are constantly trying to make nazism and communism out to be close brothers (which I am sure a lot of communists would have vehemently disagreed with).

So my question to you is: could you elaborate (in the article of course) on why the basic idea seems communist? Something that might speak against that, is the chant "Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei led us to this perfect day". Not just Marx, but Christ and Wood and Wei too.

Also, the fact that it is the programmers who rule the word is a spoiler. Could you please prefix spoilers with a spoiler notice next time? I am sure people who have not yet read the book will appreciate that. A link to Wikipedia contains spoilers should suffice.

Again, many thanks for your contribution. branko

Thanks for the much more readable translation at Millennialism! — Mkmcconn

Kurt, I fixed the "horse" experiment (see A Man Called Horse (1970)). --Ed Poor

OK, Entschuldigung.

Nur hat 'Point of no return' fast keinen Bezug auf 'Aviation', ausser z.B. wenn man in kompletter Elektronikstoerung in einem Sauwetter ist, keinen Treibstoff mehr hat und auf irgendetwas sanftem landen muss :D. Sonst kann ich keine Situation vorstellen in der es so was geben koennte, ausser in einem wirklich extremen Notfall, und ich habe beinahe zehn Jahre Erfahrung in Luftfahrt. Jedoch habe ich mir das irgendwo notiert und werde es auf irgendeine Unter-seite schreiben, wie z.B. ILS oder PAR.

Naja, ich werde irgendeine Seite kreiern und den Link da reinquetschen, falls das OK ist, wie zum Beispiel eine Emergencies in Aviation Seite, zu der ich auch zu Unfaellen und so linken koennte.

Gut dass es immerhin weitergeht.

Schoener gruss, Qwitchibo

Thanks for the fix of names on the Austrian stamps. "Dolfuss" was a typo - aging eyes often don't see double l's properly. I'm one of those who thinks that the article should be under Franz Josef rather than Francis Joseph. Some people mix up what is most commonly used by English speakers, and what they think the English should be. Most historical English language texts that I have seen tend to use Franz Josef. Eclecticology

Yes, it's the same Goya! When I'm putting things onto one of these lists I often need to guess just how we would write a name up. If I checked them all as I proceeded I'd never accomplish much at all - so I'm happy when somebody is interested enough to do a little housekeeping. If I agree with your correction there's nothing that I need to say. Eclecticology 23:04 Dec 2, 2002 (UTC)

Hi, KF. Thank you for quite nice (but short) editing of the article Carinthia. I am glad that you have changed just grammar misspellings and such. I have changed a version from 2002-10-16, because it did not explain the term as it should. I still do believe that this current version is good enough. An specially because it is good that it is written by the peoples from both sides of Austrian-Slovene border, where Carinthia in fact resides. If you have any other changes in mind, please do so. I am convinced that we are on the right way. Best regards. --XJamRastafire 23:06 Dec 30, 2002 (UTC)

As part of the incidentalist nature of the Wikipedia, I saw the name in recent changes and popped through immediately. Do you know how to eat a poem?

KF you are certainly right about how petty some Wikipedians are. Just look @ their commentary in the talk. That won't last too much longer:

Lockdown Sv Rule.

In any case I have made this page safe through through my post I hope you like it.

Authority through command of the English language

Earlier that day I had written a scathing poem against tyrants, in the style of John Robert Columbo because of incidents in a talk page. Some time later I posted it as part of my campagn to restore NPOV. That what Lockdown Sv Rulenames. Its purpose has been filled. I advertized it in my summaries because I wanted a lot of traffic here. The poem which I had written as a satirical attack against the stupidity of tyrants saltute to the unstopabble pover of truth. Its now gone: you can read it in the histories. I hope that you like my comments. :-)) They are honest and heartfelt: it almost brought tears to my cheeks when I saw vulgarians gathering to stomp on this page.

What a fantastic idea for an article!

It will probably become the most beautiful how to's in the wikipedia.

How could it not?

I'm watch this kernal grow.

It's already a top three hit in the search engine. :-)

If it said 'poetry' it might rank high there too.

What a wonderful birthday present.

Truth is the enemy of power,

power is the enemy of Truth,

Writers and Artists can vanquish lies.

Against lies, Art has always won.

Two16 : childern should eat poems. so too should dictators.

Two16 From the wikipedia:

A how-to is a simple set of instructions needed to complete a task or build something.

A how-to on Wikipedia should include:

A brief overview of the project being built or end result of the instructions.
A list of materials, tools or prerequisites (if needed).
Time needed.
Appropriate safety warnings (if needed).
Instructions for the project.
What to do after the project is finished (cleanup).
How to use the result or object constructed.

A how-to will almost always contain some degree of personal opinion in the form of helpful suggestions. This is acceptable within reasonable bounds. In the context of an encyclopedia, however, it is best if you try to fairly represent any reasonable disagreements that exist about how to do the task, in light of our neutral point of view policy. For example, there are various methods of long division[?]; on how to do long division[?], it would be an excellent idea to include these different methods.

See how-tos for a list of Wikipedia how-tos.

Hi Kurt. About the W. Ryder photo: it's highly unlikely that it's actually in the public domain. The website says, "All pictures contained on pages herein were collected freely from the internet and are believed to be public domain." In other words, it was lifted off another website. All photographs are automatically protected by copyright; unless the copyright holder specifically places it in the public domain, it's off-limits for us (unfortunately!). -- Stephen Gilbert 12:56 Feb 6, 2003 (UTC)

KF - nice work on the Crime fiction article. Atorpen

Hi KF. I've responded to your question on the "What wikipedia thinks it is" article at m:Talk:What wikipedia thinks it is.Enchanter

Hi KF - thanks for clearing that up (about Wikipedia talk:What it thinks it is) - I've briefly responded, but I agree with you that it isn't really worth arguing about too much. --Camembert

Hi Kurt,

thank you for your warm welcome on my talk page! I am rather new to Wikipedia -- and have to try things out. Also -- as you have seen -- my English is far from perfect -- but I try. I was very surprised, that my editions were corrected so rapidly -- and good. I appreciate your work!

I am actually reading a book about Heinz Guderian and reading in Wikipedia I stumpled over the dead link and so I decided ad-hoc to jump into Wikipedia -- after that I decided to start an account ... I also don't know how to use this talk-page "the right way" hope you see my remarks. Best regards --Juergen

I'm sick and tired of the "Americocentrism" being thrown around here all the time. It seems to be that if Americans write about America, it's Americocentrism, but if other countries write about their countries, it's somehow okay. If you think an article has only American sensibilities about, what's stopping you from changing it? The people like you who throw the term "Americocentrism" around somehow expect those of us who are Americans to write about everything in the whole world except America. -- Zoe

What is stopping me? The fact that I know nothing about the separation of church and state in Japan, Switzerland, or Mexico -- it's as simple as that. What I do know is that the title of that article is misleading, and I mentioned this fact on the talk page -- that's what they're there for. If, for some strange reason, you consider the term "Americocentrism" insulting, call it POV then. --KF 00:45 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)

So, since you know nothing about the separation of church and state in Japan, Switzerland, or Mexico, Americans shouldn't be allowed to write about separation of church and state at all? -- Zoe

I suggest you go out and have some fun or watch one of your favourite movies or whatever. I'll catch up on my sleep in the meantime, and I'm positive that tomorrow we'll be able to discuss this matter in a serious manner. I've known you for several months now as an intelligent and committed woman, and I'd be very reluctant to change my mind, but this is ridiculous. --KF 01:05 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)

What do you suggest we do about your supposed Americocentrism on the Wikipedia? Kick all the Americans off, or make them stop writing about what they know? -- Zoe

No, sorry, no more of this tonight. --KF 01:19 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)

Concerning the picture of Sisi, I said at Image talk:Sisi.JPG:

As it clearly says at the bottom of this picture, this picture comes from http://www.kaiserin-elisabeth.net (http://www.kaiserin-elisabeth.net). The "References" page says that pictures are :Copyright of the original pictures by the respective owner." Did the original uploader of this picture get the permission of the owner to put it on the Wikipedia? -- Zoe

Hi. I like the photos on your user page. Deb 22:57 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)

Hallo Kurt,

danke fuer Deine erweiterungen auf der Longevity page. Hoffe, dass noch viele Leute aus allen "Ecken" des Lebens dazu beitragen. Wundere mich, dass vorher noch nichts zu diesem spannenden Thema auf Wikipedia war.

     Michael User:MichaelJanich

Hi: About My Night with Reg, I havent seen the movie, but your article was so good that it made me want to see it, despirte the fact I had never heard about it before. You said someone described it as poignant... and other things. You forgot to say who was it that called it that. I wrote a message to that respect on the article's talk page.

Thanks and God bless you

Sincerely yours, Antonio Spin The Bottle Martin

We came across your user page by chance and we like it a lot, especially of course the sections about books and films. Maybe you remember us (it's been a while...). We are still very fond of the English language and Great Britain. Greetings, Heidi und Matthias

Hi, Heidi and Matthias! I must say I'm not quite sure I know who you are. Did we meet there (http://www.schweizerhaus.at/index.htm)? Please write me an e-mail (see "E-mail this user" to the left of this text)! --KF 21:15 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)

Hi, Kurt. I notice you complained on your user page on about not getting many comments on your talk page -- I used to feel the same way up until recently. I guess that's something we have in common other than the first five letters of our country of origin :) Make lots of really stupid errors, or pick fights over controversial subjects and you'll soon have a few archives full. As for the trouble we have to go through to get something deleted: the difficulty to delete (and the ease with which we can revert) is central to the nature of Wikipedia. The theory is that as long as we don't delete anything, the information content of Wikipedia can only increase :) -- Tim Starling 14:22 May 1, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer. By the way, I'm not complaining. :-)

I'm slightly confused by your labeling Heinzendorf, Czech Republic as ominous. Is there a better place for the article (just Heinzendorf, maybe)? -- Notheruser 21:35 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

Hmmm, it looks like you already answered that :). -- Notheruser 21:36 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

Or if someone started an article called New Amsterdam or Londinium, maybe? ;) -- John Owens 21:51 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

You know, you can move pages just as well as I can, as long as there isn't already an existing page at Hyncice, Czech Republic or wherever it goes after that. The only time it's a problem is when there's already a page at the name where it needs to go, that's when you need Sysop Super Powers[?] to clear out what's there, and what's left behind if you move it. -- John Owens 22:15 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

I just had an extra thought about the table experimentation: Did you know you can make your very own sandbox to play in? Just use User:KF:Sandbox[?], User:KF/Sandbox[?], or something like that, according to your preference, and you can have your very own place to experiment with such things. Can come in useful if/when (wenn can be so much more appropriate, nicht wahr?) you have something you want to keep around a while without random strangers messing with it. -- John Owens 04:59 20 May 2003 (UTC)

The merge on SI prefix -- where did the new material come from? -- Tarquin 08:10 20 May 2003 (UTC)

Hi KF,

I'm certain that User:24.130.213.242[?] is User:Michael. It's an IP address he's used before (look at the contributions), they edited 1991 in music and then 2 minutes later User:Michael/Crass did the same and the edits are on Michael's pet subjects. The IP has just been banned, see Vandalism in progress. The issue of what to do with Michael's contributions has been debated at length and I'm sure will continue to be, I'm in the revert on sight camp. Not wanting to sound too self-important, with my finals fast approaching, I can't afford to spend time cross-checking everything Michael adds with other sites on the internet before deciding whether or not it is accurate. He has a history of adding incorrect information and I hate the thought of leaving incorrect information on here. So, for me, reversion is the only choice. Please feel free to go and revert me if you wish but please check the information against something. Anyway, I must sleep now, have fun -- Ams80 22:57 31 May 2003 (UTC)

"One of the tough guys"? Sehe ich nicht so. Gerade bei Urheberrecht bin ich eher relaxed. Egal, ich bin vom 4.-8. Juni in Wien auf der Open Cultures (http://opencultures.t0.or.at/) Konferenz, hast Du Lust auf ein Treffen? --Eloquence 14:08 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hat mich gefreut, Dich kennen zu lernen! Das Nat.-Hist. Museum war interessant, der Rest von Wien auch. Wikipedia scheint noch heil zu sein, was für ein Glück. Dann kann ich ja beruhigt schlafen gehen .. --Eloquence 22:38 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

The difference is just that it's treated (& highlighted) as an internal link by Wikipedia instead of an external one, and your page now shows up on the list of pages that link to :Image:Aesculus hippocastanum.jpg. It's just tidier this way, certainly preferred for use within articles, but of course I wouldn't make a fuss if someone wanted it that way on their own User: page. I just thought I'd let you know there's another, maybe better, way, in case you didn't already. -- John Owens 22:03 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Okay, this was my first year. Now it's time for a break -- I'll be spending some time there in that country near that ancient Roman town. I'll be back on 5 July, and I do hope that Zoe will have returned by then. Keep up the good work! --KF 16:18 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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