User talk:Gijs

06/2010: Your Git related edits/deletions

Hi, why exactly was the paragraph about Tortoise Git removed from the article, without adding it back to the Windows specific article ([1])? Also please note that the windows article that you linked to, is not any longer just about accessing the Git repositories, but specifically about using these together with pre-compiled binaries in order to obtain an updated version of FlightGear: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/FlightGear_Git_on_Windows Even though this page was initially meant to become the equivalent of http://flightgear.org/cvs.html? So the scope of these pages seems either currently somewhat ill-defined or some users are making simply pretty unfortunate edits? --MILSTD 17:22, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Your recent Edits

Hi, I noticed that you undid my edit to the helicopter page. Perhaps you should look at this page: Special:DoubleRedirects I was trying to correct the DoubleRedirct #4. I assumed this would do it but I was apparently wrong. Perhaps you could take a look at it. Thanks for your help

Stepfaw 19:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Stepfaw,

I fixed the double redirect for you. Take a look at the Recent changes to see what I did. I really appreciate the fact that you try to keep the double redirects to a minimum. Well done!

Regards,

Gijs 19:36, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Thank you for formatting my new article on the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. This was my first article and I was having a hard time formating it to look like the others.

Stepfaw

Hi Stepfaw,

Thanks a lot for creating the article ;) By creating articles and looking at other articles you'll soon learn how to create even better articles!

Cheers, Gijs 04:15, 19 August 2009 (EDT)

PS, please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~).

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Hi!

We've talked about this before, however I would like to ask you now clearly to please stop removing boilerplate contents from wiki pages only because they may not yet be sufficiently populated in your opinion (or anyone else's for that matter)!

You are free to remove whatever references to such pages you may consider unnecessary or annoying at this time and add classifying markup, however removing initial contents (structural boilerplate or not) from such pages or possibly removing even complete pages (regardless of whether they contain contents or not) is definitively wrong and could indeed be considered discouraging and hardly constructive.

Please don't get me wrong, as I've said before: your recent wiki contributions are extremely appreciated, however whoever started a page should clearly be considered the "owner" or at least "maintainer" of the page initially, this applies certainly as long as a page must be considered "work in progress".

There is hardly any point in trying to instruct people how to make their contributions as long as they remain self-contained and do not necessarily affect other people. Unreferenced FlightGear-related pages would certainly satisfy these criteria.

Thank you

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Hi,

I don't know why you're so upset. Since the last time we talked to each other I've removed nothing. I just add some of the pages you (and others) created to the Article Considered for Deletion category. I completely understand your feelings when i've did something that you don't agree with, but please take a closer look before you start telling me what I'm doing wrong. I know I removed some of your category's, but I've removed no pages since the last conversation between us.

The webmaster is the only one who's able to remove pages. Users could only remove content, but that could be reset by any user (including you). With the new category (and corresponding template) we could now consider articles for deletion. The webmaster could remove them if it's not needed or if there's something else wrong. If you're not agree with the (upcoming) deletion of an article in this category you could talk about it at it's talk page. The article may be removed from the category (but only by the webmaster!) when someone has edit it, expand it or make it better etc.

Thanks Gijs 06:03, 9 March 2008 (EDT)

Citing Wikipedia?

Hi Giijs,

I saw you used a paragraph from the PBY Catalina Wikipedia entry on the Catalina page here. Normally one should provide the source when quoting like that (I doubt Wikipedia would complain, though). It is better to rewrite the information in your own words. IMHO I also don't find the information about the US military use of the PBY that relevant on our page since the PBY in FlightGear is unarmed, civilian and French.

Cheers, AndersG 10:21, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

I agree Anders. I will stop copying the information. I thought it would be nice to have some info about the real plane to, but we should write our own as you said. Sorry. Gijs 10:59, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

Contacting you via the forum PM function

Hey Gijs,

I sent you a PM three days ago about the ground signs. Did you receive it? I just sent another one to test how I can contact you directly. I'm asking because I contacted you via the PM function about one or two months ago and never got an answer either.

Cheers, David D-79 07:48, 22 August 2009 (EDT)

Well, I did receive your last PM, but the earlier ones I've never seen. Maybey I should clean up my inbox more often? :)

Gijs 06:20, 23 August 2009 (EDT)

You did receive my last PM, as far as I can see. It's the one with the subject "Test PM" and you answered it.

David D-79 13:26, 23 August 2009 (EDT)