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Image copyrights

Thanks for uploading Image:Pallas PS.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, — Edwin Stearns | Talk 21:50, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

White-winged Tit

Yes, that paper would be very helpful. Thank you. Shyamal (talk) 03:55, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

James Bolton

You wrote:

Dear Iss246! You are from New York? Is it possible to provide me with a copy of following? http://clio.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=5082330

   * Anon. (1799): Obituary of James Bolton. Leeds Mercury or General Advertiser, Saturday, january 19th, vol. 32, no. 1668: p. 3

Holding: Butler Library, 535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027 I only need a copy of page 3. If You can help me anyhow, I will be very glad and grateful, Kind regards, Doc Taxon (talk) 05:39, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I would have been able to get what you wanted a month ago but not now. For more than 25 years I taught a biostatistics course for the Dept. of Psychiatry, and by virtue of that appointment had access to all CU's libraries. I took advantage of the library card too. Like Walter Alston of the Dodgers, I had a series of one-year contracts. But alas, I was not renewed on July 1. My library card is no longer operative. I wish I could have helped you.

If you or someone you know knows a Columbia student, that student can have access to the document, and transmit a copy to you. You probably know someone who knows someone who knows someone who is either a student or faculty member at Columbia. I imagine that by the time I have written to you, you will have solved your problem of access. Best wishes. Let me know if you succeeded.Iss246 (talk) 12:27, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

James Bolton

I shall be in Leeds Central Library sometime this week, I'll see what I can find. Regards, Mtaylor848 (talk) 11:33, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Request

I'll see what I can do.--droptone (talk) 20:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

thanks a lot in advance! Doc Taxon (talk) 09:09, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Filled.--droptone (talk) 19:19, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Mariposas de Chiapas

You know those pages refer to the notes and appendix, and that the book is in Spanish, right?--droptone (talk) 17:43, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Here is the file.--droptone (talk) 15:19, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Your offer of help

Hello Doc Taxon, I'd much appreciate any help you can offer! Let me know - thank you. Best, WikiJedits (talk) 18:27, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi Doc Taxon, sorry for the delay. I haven't been on here for a while. Thanks very much for the additions to the article – I think you filled in the name I'd not been able to read, which was what I wanted. Thank you!

I have no idea how to transfer a file – I have never done this on Wikipedia before. Let me see if I can find out. Some of the regulars on the resource exchange desk seem to be uploading them to Windows Live sites http://cid-d7eef6a0e20c1e42.office.live.com/browse.aspx/Wikipedia or Google sites https://sites.google.com/site/droptone/ but I do not know how they set this up. Best, WikiJedits (talk) 18:03, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Dynamo

Thank for the message on my talk page. Yes, it is still open as far as I'm concerned although user:Edison was the primary objector to the article's statements on Jedlik. I see the section has acquired a new reference from Nature 53 1896 since I last looked. However, the insertion is from a now blocked user who was placing a lot of dubious Hungarian related material on Wikipedia. Are you able to obtain a copy of the Nature article? We need to verify that it does contain an article on Jedlik, and if so, that it supports the claim made. SpinningSpark 06:33, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Arroyo toad

Hello, Doc Taxon, and thanks for your note on my talk page. I am not able to scan those articles for you, but you might ask for information at the San Diego Natural History Museum, http://www.sdnhm.org/about/directory.html . Or you could ask the San Diego Public Library directly, http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/services/asksdpl.shtml . Good luck with your research! --MelanieN (talk) 13:12, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Re;739

I've been busy dealing with drama and some other stuff, sorry :| - No I no longer need those. Also, next time, let me reply to someone on my talk page. ;)Mitch32^{(Transportation Historian)} 14:20, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

University of Manchester query

Hi, apologies about the delay - been busy in the past week. I do live in Manchester but I'm not a student at the University of Manchester. Although I'm a college student at a college in Manchester - the problem is that local students (from Greater Manchester colleges) are only allowed to just visit the library for reference (not borrow books). And even then, you have to sign up for access pass, which I am told is an unnecessary long winded process by my college librarian. Sorry, I couldn't be of more help - regards Stevo1000 (talk) 16:37, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

No problem. Thank you anyway, Doc Taxon (talk) 18:03, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Percy Cyril Claude Garnham

The place of death is not clearly stated in doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0010, but he lifed in Farnham Common.--Stone (talk) 09:22, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

thank you! Doc Taxon (talk) 16:14, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

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My friend (who works in the Columbia University Law Library) got me the book today, and I finished scanning it. I need your e-mail and then I can send you the whole shebang. Best regards,  ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃  (talk) 17:57, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Re: Carnegie Library

In regards your request for the article from the Carnegie Library, I'll see what I can do. It may be a week or two. — AlekJDS ^talk 05:50, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Greenwich Japanese School

Hi! That request is now closed. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 20:10, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Reculver

Thank you so much! It was very kind of you to pick this up, I didn't like to ask again so you've done me a big favour! I'll go and update WP:REX now. Cheers. Nortonius (talk) 16:43, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

you're welcome! -- Doc Taxon (talk) 17:20, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

William McCrum resource request

I am unable to access that Evernote notebook now. I don't remember accessing it in 2009 either. JMiall₰ 21:53, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Nihon ishigaku zasshi

Hi Doc Taxon. Thanks for asking, already got it. I've marked the topic as "resolved". Best wishes, Filip em (talk) 15:18, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

George Gould Strong

Hi, Doc, Well, I'm not sure how active the Resource Exchange is, but I doubt I'm going to get any further response. So probably it's fine to archive. - Nunh-huh 13:52, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Jackie Magazine

Hello there - sorry for the delay in reply as I have been really busy. Basically the request has not been solved - I know that it has been some time now since the request was made, but I would still be interested in finding the information some how. I thought it was worth a try there given the collectors status Jackie magazines have.Rain the 1 17:22, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

I'll try to help you getting this interview. -- Doc Taxon (talk) 18:08, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you - I would be really happy for the help. :)Rain the 1 21:00, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Request

Yes, the request is still open. Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 16:45, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much! WhisperToMe (talk) 17:31, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

It would be a copy of the episode so I can watch it and confirm what is stated on it. A transcript would also be good. I do not know if a transcript exists. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

• Yep, it's Undercurrents :) WhisperToMe (talk) 19:45, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Just posted the info on Lead's page WhisperToMe (talk) 18:35, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi! It's still active! Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 15:14, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

WP:REX#The Builder 1948 Vol 175 can be closed, thanks. Bencherlite^Talk 15:37, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

whisper (dot) world (at) yahoo (dot) com :) WhisperToMe (talk) 16:03, 13 November 2012 (UTC) Thank you! WhisperToMe (talk) 16:22, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, Doc! WhisperToMe (talk) 22:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Re: Verification

It's not been satisfactorily resolved since different sources differ on the dates. The article now includes the differences for lack of a better solution. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 12:01, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Not necessarily. It was in the middle of a dispute back then, and hence the over-referencing. In fact the article has quite a substantial amount of over-referencing incidents. Some pruning would be greatly helpful. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 03:51, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

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You recently added a birth year to his article. Any editor can remove this as unsourced but I didn't. Do you have a reliable source for it?--Canoe1967 (talk) 16:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

I have had huge battles over birth dates before. I even emailed Mr. Erickson about his source for Sondra Locke's. I will avoid it with his article though. If he reads the article he may decide whether it is accurate or not properly sourced.--Canoe1967 (talk) 19:17, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

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Yes I got the email - many thanks. I thought I had already replied but clearly my mind is playing tricks on me. Very interesting and useful reading. Thanks very much for your help. Bencherlite^Talk 17:46, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hi. I found your listing at WP:REX and I'm hoping you can help me. I need a very specific piece of information (and, ideally, a quote and page number) from this book:

• Strieder, Peter (2012). Dürer. Langewiesche K.R. ISBN 978-3784591421.

In previous editions of the book (in the 1970s and 1980s), Strieder did not accept Lotte Brand Philip's identification of a picture at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum as being Durer's portrait of his mother and therefore part of a diptych of his parents (see the wikilinked article for background). I need to confirm whether Strieder maintains the same position in the 2012 edition of the book—but it has only been released in German, so it's not very easy to find in the US.

I noticed that WP:REX has a link to de:WP:BIBA; would that be a good place to start? Any advice would be welcome. Maralia (talk) 20:13, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for ordering the book to help me with this—I just couldn't get my hands on it over here in the US. A few notes that may help you find the right passage:

• The information I'm looking for would likely be in a chapter about Dürer's earliest work; he painted these in 1490, when he was 19, and they are his earliest surviving paintings.
• You can see the portraits here: Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents.

Strieder's opinion on this is important because in addition to being a Dürer expert, he was for 25 years the head curator of paintings at GNM (which holds the mother's portrait). Thanks again for looking into this for me. Maralia (talk) 15:10, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you so very much for the quotes! I get the meaning of them, but I would also appreciate a translation to make sure I've not misread anything. Really appreciate your help, and excellent timing: I am working on the article right now. Maralia (talk) 18:39, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

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Hi! You seem to be reverting my changes to Wikipedia entries and MediaWiki Commons items which involve logos of the Namecoin project. Please stop: the purple logo is incorrect and is being pushed by an outsider who goes by the name "Sudo" and "Sudoquai". This person is not an official contributor to the project and these logos have NOT been adopted by the Namecoin project. You can verify this for yourself by checking out Namecoin.org.

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I am afraid it has been sitting in my Sandkiste for a long time. If that were en:wiki I would have opened a sandbox on the article- transferred it over then invited other users to correct it. My written German is not strong enough to do a full copyedit but the facts are fine and referenced. So I have done the next best thing I have copied over the text- and added it in comment brackets on the article page. If you have time- please do use it to replace the stub. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 17:12, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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Books and Bytes - Issue 14

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Dorset, Devon and Cornwall Divisions

Hello there.

I see that you offered your help with this request on the resource exchange. I was wondering which pages you could help the requester with.

The reason why I'm asking is that I can access all of the requested materials except for The History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1939-45. However, it would require me to go to the library and scan the pages.

Please let me know which ones you can do, and I can cover the other ones except for Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Thanks. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:25, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

@MrLinkinPark333: yes, you are right. The only possible thing is to go to the library and to scan the pages, even for me too. Often it's not possible to get the materials by online access. But there are many libraries here, who could help to receive the article. But it takes a little more time than usual. If you want to fetch the materials or if I fetch the materials, it's both the same. Doc Taxon (talk) 07:00, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon: We could divide up the sources. I can't access Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. If you could access that one, that would be great. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:28, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

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Maybe make sure you know the rules before you start telling everyone else what to do

Regarding both your edits at Wikipedia:Requests for page importation and at User talk:Bay Staatsoper, you are basically barging in and telling well-informed people who gave correct answers that they are wrong and you are right and the matter is closed. I don't know if this person is a friend of yours, or you just decided to act as their proxy here for some other reason, but it comes across and imperious and dismissive, while also being incorrect on it's face because you clearly haven't taken the time to be sure you understand how these processes work here, now, on this project. Your OTRS evidence is not only irelevant but actully supports the reasons for issuing block, so making notifications about it won't change well-established policies like WP:ORGNAME and WP:ROLE, both of which I had already referenced and explained what the problem was, twice, before you came along and insisted you'd fixed everything when you haven't at all.

In short, you may think you are doing this person a favor but you are actually just muddying the waters. It's important that they understand these rules if they want to edit here, and they need to make their own request to be unblocked. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:56, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

@Beeblebrox: Please make sure that I am not a friend of this user. I don't know him. I checked the policies you stated above and now I understand. Sorry for the problems. Please note that I'm right because of the request of page importation because the contents of CC licenses are all the same in every Wikipedia project. It also belongs to the threshold of originality. user:Graham87 was right with his statement, I copied the article in the workspace of this user, who also is editor of the article in German wikipedia. Kind regards, Doc Taxon (talk) 00:05, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Doc Taxon, you may like to avoid expressions such as "Please note that I'm right", because there is a possibility that some people may see it as arrogant and imperious. You may find it goes down better to say something such as "I believe that I was right", even if you are in fact absolutely certain in your own mind that you are right. I see that you refer to the relevant Creative Commons licenses (though not the GFDL). Presumably therefore you are aware of the requirement for attribution, which is missing from the copy you have made. Since you are so certain that you are right that you can dismiss Beeblebrox's concerns so forcefully as you have done, you may like to explain what mistake I have made in thinking that the lack of attribution makes the copy a copyright violation, so that I don't make the mistake of deleting it. Or perhaps you could admit that you are wrong, and put your mistake right. (You may also like to re-read the heading of this talk page section.) JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 21:49, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

@JBW: I try to explain: first "Please note that I'm right" has been come from my not so good English speaking. I'm sorry if the words have been chosen wrong.

next: Creative Commons license, attribution BY:

if the author of the text and the translator (or the copying person) of the text are the same person, we don't need to identify the author in the translation's revision history once more. (This is also valid, if there are two different account names of this one author.) The following revisions of the German article done by other persons are so very minor, that they are not within the threshold of originality. So in this case there is no need of an importation of the revisions of this article. Doc Taxon (talk) 10:51, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

So are you saying that Anna (Bay Staatsoper) is another account of yours? JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 12:40, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

No, but I acted on the behalf of this account, as intermediary. Doc Taxon (talk) 13:09, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

And your "help" in this matter has been uniformly unhelpful. Why you again crated the userpage I previously deleted, I can't imagine, except that you once again wanted to show how very right you are. There's no reason for it. Nobody, at any point in this entire affair, has expressed doubt that this account isn't exactly who they say they are, so offering your proof again and again is just meaningless noise. Since you seem determined to keep un-helping in this manner, I have opened a thread about your recent behavior here. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:51, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

• Well, I give up. I drew your attention to your failure to attribute the work you copied, to give you a chance to correct your mistake. It really didn't occur to me that you might not take up that chance, but you didn't; instead you quoted at me a passage which included "if the author of the text and ... the copying person ... are the same person" and "This is also valid, if there are two different account names of this one author" (my emphasis). I was at first somewhat taken aback by your apparent inability to see that the passage you yourself had quoted in defence of your own action actually explained why your action was wrong. There seemed to me to be only one possible rational explanation, and that one seemed extremely unlikely: that the two accounts were in fact both yours. I therefore asked you about that, for two reasons. Firstly, if the accounts actually were both you, you could explain that they were. Secondly if (as seemed much more likely) they weren't both you, but you had somehow failed to notice those words in the passage you quoted, then mentioning it would draw the matter to your attention, and you could deal with your mistake. You appear, however, to have still failed to understand that what you had quoted applied only if the person who did the copying was the same person who had written the material in the first case. Previous things you had said gave the impression that you have significant difficulties understanding what is said to you and what you are doing, but this shows the difficulties are more severe than I realised. I don't think there is any point in further attempts to help you.
• To remove any doubt, none of what I have said about difficulty in understanding relates to English not being your native language. The failures to understand are at a completely different level. JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 22:04, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, Doc Taxon. I'd like to personally thank you for fulfilling the request about Adrienne Boulvin's book. I searched the pages you sent me, and, as a bonus, discovered another variant of The Children with the Golden Locks (a Georgian tale of type ATU 707).KHR FolkMyth (talk) 00:29, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

@KHR FolkMyth: cool, this reads amazing. Your welcome, – Doc Taxon • Talk • 07:24, 16. Jul 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Doc, it's been a while since you fulfilled my resource request for Deutschlands Generale und Admirale about Konrad Haase. I wanted to ask if you might know about the image permissions for the book. Is there an appendix somewhere that lists the image sources? I would like to know when the image of Haase was taken, who holds the copyright, and if I could use it onwiki. I think the terms are life + 70. I have tried to search the Bundesarchiv, but did not find anything online. Toadspike (talk) 14:30, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Toadspike: This will take some days, please be patient. Kind regards, – Doc Taxon • Talk • 14:46, 14. Sep 2022 (UTC)

@Toadspike: sorry for waiting. No, there's no image list. The photograph should be made before 1946. Because the photographer is unknown, the picture is not free yet. You must not use it, sorry. – Doc Taxon • Talk • 13:26, 18. Oct 2022 (UTC)

That’s alright, thank you! Toadspike (talk) 18:38, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks for the page! This was previously deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Torsten Haß. Currently, almost all refs are still retrieved from September 2021, has additional refs emerged allowing WP:GNG, WP:NAUTHOR, or other criteria of WP:NBIO to be passed? Thanks.

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@VickKiang: Thanks for your info! Please let me know: is there any problem with biography guidelines? – Doc Taxon • Talk • 09:07, 11. Nov 2022 (UTC)

Most of the refs are Bibliographic records (non-SIGCOV) or non-independent reviews by Torsten himself. Other refs, e.g., 1, appear also to be trivial mentions (e.g., the one here is a staff listing). I would appreciate if you could list two or three of the best references not previously listed or discussed in the AfD (where the community found consensus that those sources were inadequate) showing a meeting of WP:GNG or WP:BASIC, or alternatively if other criteria of WP:NBIO is met, for instance, demonstrating that one of Torsten's books received multiple independent reliable in-depth reviews. VickKiang (talk) 09:12, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

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Hi Doc Taxon. I remember you showed me what was said of Fritz Neumayr in the book Legenden in Weiß und Blau. 100 Jahre Fußballgeschichte eines Münchner Traditionsvereines - do you think you could also let me know what is said of Fritz Sommer and Otto Oeldenberger (if they are covered)? I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, BeanieFan11 (talk) 19:00, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I have the whole lexicon of most important players and trainers as chapter within the book. Unfortunately it's in German language only. I can send you the whole chapter, and translate the parts of these two footballers (yes, they are covered). Please send me a wikimail to provide you with the chapter. Kind regards, – Doc Taxon • Talk • 19:26, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

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Another Publishers Weekly archive request

Hi Doc, rather than clutter up RX again, I thought I would go straight to the source for the PW review of an earlier book by the same author:

• Whalon, Mark (1933). Rural Peace. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Company. OCLC 6641494

GoogleBooks snippet view is rather confusing, and shows mentions of the book on at least two pages (615 and 617) of PW Volume 124, which it lists as 1934 [2], [3]. This is odd, since local newspaper reviews of the book came out in June and July of 1933, so I suspect there actually may be a review in PW in Q3 or Q4 of 1933, and that the 1934 snippets are just GoogleBooks' stingy way of denying us the real thing.

Anyway, if you have time to check this, that would be great!

My email again is softlavenderwiki@gmail.com

Thanks so much! Softlavender (talk) 03:14, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

@Softlavender: Sent – Doc Taxon • Talk • 11:28, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Ah, Thanks very much!! Two different years for those two different pages. That makes sense now. Softlavender (talk) 00:00, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

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@Doc Taxon Hi dear Doc!

Now that we are on September can you check the article for Tirana, the capital of Albania, which WikiBayer moved it to your user page on Pälzisch Wiki: https://pfl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middawaida:Doc Taxon/Tirane , if is correct than make it an article and add it to Wikidata? Please create also a page for Albania as a country in general with short content, infobox, photos, references, external links and categories. In the case you aren't very fluent to the Palatine German language, you may request the article for Albania to be created and the article for Tirana to be fixed to one of these fluent Palatine German speakers which edit Pälzisch Wiki frequently:

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https://pfl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middawaida:Claus Ableiter

Thanks 141.98.143.64 (talk) 10:05, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon In addition, can you create a infobox for places in Albania on the Palatine German Wiki on this link: https://pfl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlach:Infobox_Gemeinde_in_Albanienin order to work with cities in Albania, for example if an article for the capital city of Albania, Tirana will be created on the Palatine German Wiki. Thanks 141.98.143.64 (talk) 10:12, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Why should the Albania country article be of short content only? – Doc Taxon • Talk • 12:06, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

I try to start the Tirana article at https://pfl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middawaida:Doc_Taxon/Tirane – Doc Taxon • Talk • 12:26, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon OK. Fix the article for Tirana and also create an article for Albania on the Palatine German Wiki with the amount of content you want. Thanks 141.98.143.64 (talk) 15:51, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Hi Doc! I have seen that you have finished the draft for the city of Tirana on your user page. Can you make it an article now? Also start the article for Albania. Thanks 188.172.111.235 (talk) 05:25, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Hi dear Doc! Thank you for completing the draft for Tirana on the Palatine German Wiki. Can you make it an article now and start the draft for Albania: https://pfl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middawaida:Doc_Taxon/Albania in order to make it also an article on the Palatine German Wiki. Thanks 141.98.141.14 (talk) 05:18, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

What is the reason of your so very impatient pressing? – Doc Taxon • Talk • 09:38, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Because I have created these articles before on the Palatine German Wiki and added them to Wikidata but they were deleted more than one time due to the machine translation, so I am waiting so much to see them again on this Wiki, to be correct. Now that you finished the draft for Tirana please make it an article and start the draft for Albania and also when you will finish it make the draft an article too. I will not ask you for other articles to be created. But I wanted just these two articles to be on this Wiki, like there are articles for Albania and Tirana on German Wiki, Alemannic Wiki, Bavarian Wiki, Low German Wiki, North Frisian Wiki, Pennsylvania German Wiki, Luxembourgish Wiki (which Luxembourgish is spoken also in Germany) and Gothic Wiki. Only on the Palatine German Wiki these articles were missing. Thanks for understanding me. 141.98.141.14 (talk) 10:15, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

But you need not to remember me every day, I will not forget it. The article Tirana needs some references and similar, then it's completed. Please tell me, what a machine translation did you use? – Doc Taxon • Talk • 15:13, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon I used https://www.linguee.com/english-german/translation/rhineland+palatine.html which some words can be translated there from English to Palatine German. I used word by word translation, so the translated content wasn't correct 141.98.141.14 (talk) 15:48, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Hi dear Doc!

Now that you completed the article for Tirana, can you start the draft for Albania on this link: https://pfl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middawaida:Doc_Taxon/Albania as is waiting for you to be an article! Complete also this draft and make it an article and nothing else!

Have a nice day... 141.98.140.241 (talk) 12:43, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Hi dear Doc!

You didn't replied to me. Please can you create also the article for Albania which is as a draft on your talk page on the Palatine German Wiki: https://pfl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middawaida:Doc_Taxon/Albania and nothing else!

Thanks 141.98.140.183 (talk) 06:12, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

Maybe a quick "thanks" would've been nice to start with, don't ya think? – Doc Taxon • Talk • 08:22, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Yes, of course. Please start the article if you can... 141.98.140.183 (talk) 08:44, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Hi dear Doc! I know that I have bothered you a bit too much, however I am waiting for you to start the article for Albania on the Palatine German Wiki. Can you start it today? I want from you only this article as the last one, and I will not ask you for more. Please start creating it. Thanks 141.98.140.92 (talk) 12:30, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to start the article this or next week, okay? – Doc Taxon • Talk • 15:49, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Ok. Please start it tomorrow. Thanks 141.98.143.41 (talk) 17:17, 4 October 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Hi dear Doc! Please can you start the article for Albania now, on the Palatine German Wiki? I am waiting so much to see it. Please create only this article and I will not bother you more. Thanks 141.98.140.155 (talk) 15:55, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

I'm just working on another big article these days. I said you, I will start the article for Albania, for sure. Should I read one more word about it from you, I won't start the Albania article. So be patient! – Doc Taxon • Talk • 16:01, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

@Doc Taxon Hi dear Doc! Please can you continue the article for Albania on the Palatine German Wiki as you haven't continued editing it since more than a month. I am waiting from you to finish it as soon as possible. Thanks 141.98.141.99 (talk) 20:04, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I have been in a wiki contest, so there was no time to continue. But now I have more time to continue the article. – Doc Taxon • Talk • 20:13, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

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