User talk:Theo F

Hey there. I noticed that you moved French Wikipedia to French Language Wikipedia. I reverted that move, not solely because I don't agree with it, but because there are many other articles about the different wikipedias - as you can see by the corresponding category - and they are all namend in the same way. So I think it would be better to propose a name change for all of these articles instead of just renaming one. --Conti|✉ 17:12, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

Yes but what do you think is better? "French Wikipedia" as it was, "French speaking Wikipedia", "Francophone Wikipedia", or as I suggested, "French Language Wikipedia"?--Theo F 18:06, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Personally, I prefer "French Wikipedia". I think it's the most commonly used term, and to me it's also the best sounding of the selection. --Conti|✉ 18:53, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

Although it might be the most commonly used, this term unfortunately implies a francocentric ideology and for that reason is not quite NPOV. In the articles of the French language Wikipédia, we try as far as possible to provide the relevent information for readers from France, but also from Belgium, Switzerland, Québec, and I wish in the future there could be more information for users form the French-speaking African countries. There might not be the same problem for - say - the Japanese Wikipedia, because most Japanese speakers are indeed Japanese. --Theo F 15:06, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, I now understand why you changed the article name. But doesn't "French Wikipedia" mean "Wikipedia for the French language", and not "for the French people"? True, it's not really clear, but if the page should be moved to a more clear and NPOV article name, all the other articles should also be moved, and therefore I think you should propose the move one a talk page (I'm not really sure which one is the best to be honest), to gather some consensus on this. --Conti|✉ 22:35, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

On fr.wikipedia.org, I think there is a genuine intention to make the articles friendly for people from outside France. So I suppose that if a poll was organized most people on fr.wikipedia.org would be in favour of stressing the francophone character of the project in a way or other. The reaction in an other language community might be different. May be we could keep things as they are now. Time will tell if more people here on en.wikipedia.org share views similar to mine. Theo F 14:38, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have a little maisonette in France (no article about it) and you'r welcome. I would be happy you accept my invitation. If you are from Paris it's easy to come: it's in Merry-sur-Yonne and you can find a train station Châtel-Censoir (no articles). I'm sure we can have have fun and you will be friendly with some friends I have. I will show you the wonderful litlle Churh from Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines and more.My phone is 0666264732. If you have no enouth money tu use a phone you can find my email. Petrusbarbygere 06:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Commons:Template:PD-Flag

Hello

You wrote : update: Images with this tag will eventually have to be deleted http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3APD-Flag&diff=264894&oldid=258296

I am considering using commons:Image:Kentucky state flag.png on the French Language Wikipedia. Do you think it is not a wise thing to do?--Theo F 18:21, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, I don't think the flag will get deleted any time soon. dbenbenn | talk 20:56, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Noinclude on Milestone statistics page

Can you please explain the purpose of the "noinclude" part of this line

<noinclude>[[fr:modèle:Statistiques des Wikipédias]]</noinclude>

which you added to Wikipedia:Milestone statistics? - dcljr (talk) 06:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hakura Tsunenaga

Hi Theo F. The quotes are from the book "Marcouin, Francis and Keiko Omoto. Quand le Japon s'ouvrit au monde. Paris: Découvertes Gallimard, 1990. ISBN 207053118X." (pages 114-116). Best regards PHG 12:36, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Allegations of Northern Irish apartheid

Good job on the new article, perhaps you would like to see the new one I created Allegations of Puerto Rican apartheid, maybe we can help improve both of these articles Bleh999 10:47, 22 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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List of cities in the Americas with alternative names

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Image:Pomodorovaticansphere.jpg nominated for speedy deletion

WTF?! I didn't realise you needed copyright to take a photo of a public sculpture. Surely Pomodoro's getting free publicity to sell his identical sculptures for ridiculous amounts of money but then i guess that's not the point... Anyway, will you give me a link to where on Wikipedia it says you can't take pics of public sculptures (I couldn't find anything myself on the image policy pages - maybe something needs to be added) and then do whatever you gotta do. Cheers. extraordinary (talk) 22:53, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:Social structure by country

Hakalau, Hawaii

I really like the picture; good job :-) Nyttend (talk) 16:07, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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French Prisoners of War at Agincourt

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Thank you, that was information of which I was not aware. Cheers, --4wajzkd02 (talk) 16:15, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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