Hello, SGilsdorf, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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Welcome, SGilsdorf, to the WikiProject Germany! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template ((WikiProject Germany)).
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Here are some tasks you can do. Please remove completed tasks from the list.
Requests:
German Archaeological Institute at Rome [de], Deutsche Familienversicherung [de], Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg [de], Hennes Bender [de], Georg Bernhard [de] (1875–1944), Eduard Georg von Bethusy-Huc [de], Rolf Brandt [de] (1886–1953), Jan Philipp Burgard [de], Georg Arbogast von und zu Franckenstein [de], Ferdinand Heribert von Galen [de], Herbert Helmrich [de], Monty Jacobs [de] (1875–1945), Hans Katzer [de], Siegfried Kauder [de], Heide Keller, Matze Knop [de], Isidor Levy [de] (1852–1929), Markus Löning [de], Anke Plättner [de], Hans Heinrich X. Fürst von Pless [de], Gerd Poppe [de], Victor-Emanuel Preusker [de], Hans Sauer (inventor) [de], Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg [de], Paul Schlesinger [de] (1878-1928),Oscar Schneider [de], Hajo Schumacher [de], Otto Theodor von Seydewitz [de], Dorothea Siems [de], Werner Sonne [de], Anton Stark [de], Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode [de], Christoph Strässer [de], Torsten Sträter [de], Joseph von Utzschneider [de], Jürgen Wieshoff [de], Hans Wilhelmi [de],
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project! -- Kusma (talk) 16:53, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have a copy of Ocelli Nominum, (althoughI would like one) nor is one available to me locally. (The curse of living in a town without a university library). However, we get very few disputes over which "nickname' to call a book, and none so far over what shelfmark to use. What is a more usual problem is that editors not familiar with manuscripts look at a title like Gospel Book Fragment (Durham Cathedral Library, A. II. 10.) and think, "that is a horrid article title, let's simplify that to 'Durham Gospel Book Fragment'" not realising that there are three separate fragmetary Insular Gospel Books at Durham. Dsmdgold 23:53, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome SGilsdorf, to the WikiProject France! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on France-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template ((WikiProject France)).
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Wikipedia:France-related tasks
You can help! Vous pouvez aider ! Here are some France related tasks you can do:
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project!
Thanks for your additions to this article. It is a list - ie, a summary: major additions or changes to content would be better at the main articles - and if as in the case of Selz and Quedlinburg these are stil wanting, please do feel free to start them off. HeartofaDog 11:09, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Your notes on Sel(t)z were in fact more than enough to get a stub off the ground straight away, which I have done - but you are clearly in a position to add a lot more information than I am able to access, so please do!HeartofaDog 11:41, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:
In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria.
It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, ChrisDHDR (17:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).[reply]
It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return!
A new page has been setup (WikiProject France/Links) to provide an index of the Projects/Portals pages (as well as helping newbees). When creating any pages in the Project/Portal namespace, please add them to the index page. This page also give WP:FRANCE members a handy watchlist.
This is the second issue of WikiProject Germany's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you think anything should be featured in the next issue, please leave a note at the Newsdesk
Other areas where you can help
Assessment requests: Some open Requests for assessment need to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watchlist the assessment page.
More task forces and subprojects: As this WikiProject covers a very large topic area, it is helpful to add more task forces that focus on specific aspects of Germany. Currently, we have a Mainz task force, a Munich subproject and some joint task forces with other WikiProjects. Any project member is invited to start a new task force. Suggestions for possible topics:
Transportation in Germany
German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians)
Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized
Project news
Cities and municipalities task force
The task force dedicated to creating and improving articles on all German cities and municipalities is happy to announce that there are now (at least) stub articles for all municipalities of Germany. Now the task force is looking for help in fleshing these out a little bit. The current phase of activity for the task force is to copy in infoboxes from the articles in German Wikipedia. If you want to help, even just for a few articles, look at the instructions and links here
The project has recently experienced a complete redesign. The Outreach department has also undergone a major expansion, and this newsletter is the result of that.
The review department is currently under development, with several new proposals underway. Internal peer review had begun on the page of the project's Review Department. The department currently provides a centralized platform off all currently open reviews throughout the project (Featured Articles, Peer Reviews, Good Articles, Articles for Deletion, Categories for Discussion, etc.)
A new task force has been introduced: the Paris task force. Any users interested in contributing to the taskforce can join on the project page.
There is a current discussion about merging the French Communes WikiProject into ours. This communes project will be organised as a task force.
Several new user has joined the project this last month: Jordan Timothy James Busson, Djwilms and Mcewan. Welcome! Please come stop by the talk page to join in our discussions.
This is the new project newsletter, covering months August through to October, which will contain information regarding new Good and Featured articles, recent project changes, general related news, and recent proposals.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject France. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the creation. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!
Articles
Five articles are currently undergoing external peer reviews: