Thanks to the talk page of Jack Phoenix on WikiTutorials for most of the source of the handy box above


Kudos and other feedback

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Colbert

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Thanks for the compliment. People don't compliment each other enough on Wikipedia. Given all the arguments I've been in the middle of, it's really nice to hear your kind words.

Excellent rewrite of the intro. It's something we struggled with, when we all were first creating the article, but it never really seemed to gel. You must have some magic writing dust — it's amazing how fast you took a really really degenerated intro and made it shine. Your user page says that you've been a user since June 15, 2006. We could have really used you in May.

It's always nice working with talented contributors. Hopefully, we'll cross wiki-paths again in the future. -- Brian.fsm 05:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Interwikitionary

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Hi/Terve/Hej Ronja!

Interwiki linking is a rather nice feature, and may even be used as a kind of advanced dictionary (as one of my colleagues points out for their students).

I followed the link to your French user page; and after that, I just tested Wikipedia:Interwiki. This soon led me to the French "official" translations Lien interwiki and lien inter-langue for Interwiki link. If you incidently are interested. (Mostly, I was interested in how braver people make French user pages... I've not dared yet...)

Cheers, JoergenB (talk) 15:43, 8 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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  The Editor's Barnstar
Hi!

Thank you for your wonderful work and contributions to Wikipedia! (and to the world of knowledge) Greetings from Aruba :) Monicaua (talk) 05:24, 6 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Why I stopped contributing to Wikipedia

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The below saved messages are just two examples of a trend of USA-centrism that is completely unacceptable for an encyclopedia. This European prefers not to waste her precious time fighting systemic bias in Wikipedia. I wish all the luck to those who can take the time to do so. --Ronja (talk) 12:35, 22 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

A: HERCA, a top European security+safety organization, is "not notable enough" -> speedily deleted

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Thanks for the heads up. I checked Candidates for speedy deletion, and did not find the page listed, and there was no notice on the (moved) page itself, now Heads of European Radiological Protection Competent Authorities, so I guess all is well? --Ronja (talk) 04:59, 18 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
 

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Great! An organization that coordinates much of the radiation and nuclear safety strategy of 300 million people is not notable. Neither convincing, Wikipedia, nor appealing to common sense - nor motivating, for that matter. I thought also other editors could develop stubs - I guess I misunderstood how this community works... --Ronja (talk) 15:21, 20 March 2013 (UTC) ; text color and bolding added 22 July 2019Reply

B: Ken Tipton, a one-time indie film director in the USA, is notable enough to keep

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Article for Deletion Notification

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Hello, This is to notify you that an article you created Ken Tipton has been nominated for Article for Deletion in accordance with Wikipedia rules. You are welcome to vote and provide input on the entry's page but please do not alter, delete or otherwise change the AfD entry from the article's page or the AFD Page and to do so is a violation of Wikipedia policy. Thank you. TheGoofyGolfer (talk) 17:57, 28 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

The Ken Tipton stub still exists. The prosecution rests. --Ronja (talk) 12:04, 22 July 2019 (UTC)Reply


Archives for old messages

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Proofreading translations from Finnish to English?

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Dear Ronja,  
I was so pleased to have discovered your user page via the transclusions of the Finnish   translator icon page, but am now saddened to find that you have decided no longer to contribute here, at the en.wiki. I am nonetheless hopeful that you might still be monitoring this page for new activity, and that you might consider assisting me in a new project, for which I require the occasional proofreading assistance of a native speaker of suomen kieli.  
Here goes: I found that there is a bunch of former municipalities of Finland for which there are no articles here at the en.wiki. So, I first decided to create a stub article for Lauritsala, just to prove to myself that I could do this. I enjoyed it so much that I thought it would be useful to do the same for all the other ones. To this end, I created a project page in my user space.
If/when you have the time (and inclination?), I would be grateful if you could take a look at it, simply to familiarise yourself with my goal and method of approach. I found that the Google Translator is surprisingly good at translating the wikitext at fi.wiki into reasonable English; so, all I need is the collaboration of a native Finnish speaker to proofread the final drafts of each stub after I’ve completed them, and just before I move them in main article space. I imagine this might require up to an hour in each case and, since it took me about 10 days to create the first stub, I would send you a heads up from each talk page when each stub is ready for proofreading. Also, there are about 50 stubs to create, so I dare say it would be a fairly long-running project.
I hope to have whetted your appetite for what I think would be a fun collaboration, and I look forward to receiving a response from you at your convenience. Please know that I would totally respect your decision if you decline but, if I hadn’t asked, I would never have known that you might have said ‘Yes’. 
So, thank you very much for reading all this, and for your consideration.
With kind regards for now;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 12:18, 28 January 2020 (UTC)Reply