User talk:Les Meloures

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fr:Sens de circulation des trains verschoben

Hallo Les Meloures! Du hast vor Kurzem den WP-Artikel "Sens de circulation des trains" von right- and left-hand train traffic (Q14747203) nach rail direction (Q17152310) verschoben. auch der lëtzebuergesche Artikel ist dort gelandet. IMHO ist das nicht ganz richtig: right- and left-hand train traffic (Q14747203) behandelt die Fahrordnung, also ob Züge bei mehrgleisigen Strecken in der Regel links oder rechts fahren; genau darum geht es in den beiden genannten Artikeln auch. rail direction (Q17152310) mit dem englischsprachigen WP-Artikel dagegen behandelt etwas anderes, nämlich Fahrtrichtungen, also "up" and "down", Nord und Süd etc. Ich schlage vor, dass wir "Sens de circulation des trains" und "Fuerrichtung (Eisebunn)" (zurück) nach right- and left-hand train traffic (Q14747203) verschieben. Geogast (talk) 02:01, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Hallo Geogast,

Mir soll das Recht sein. Schade auch dass die de:Wiki das nicht gesondert behandelt. MbG --Les Meloures (talk) 09:11, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Finde ich auch schade. Mein Eindruck ist, dass das „typisch de-Wikipedia“ ist. Nunja... Geogast (talk) 18:48, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Wrong calendar

Your edits to the death and birth dates for Elizabeth I of England (Q7207) were incorrect because you falsely claimed the dates were in the Gregorian calendar. virtually all sources, whether written at the time of events, or written recently by historians, use the Julian calendar for events that happened in England while the Julian calendar was in effect there. The Gregorian calendar did not go into effect in England until 1752 in England. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:53, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for information. I would have replaced it but I needed fo test an Infobox where julian dates were not shown. I think there is a general problem or perhaps my script is bad. --Les Meloures (talk) 16:03, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

I don't quite understand "I would have replaced it but I needed fo test an Infobox where julian dates were not shown." Elizabeth I of England (Q7207), after your edits, does not mention any Wikipedia project as a source for the information. If a statement already cites as a reference a source that is better than a Wikimedia project (and Wikimedia projects should be regarded as unreliable sources) it isn't appropriate to any information to that property from a Wikimedia project. So infoboxes shouldn't come into it.

At least in the English Wikipedia, infoboxes do not indicate which calendar the date is stated in. If it has familiar months (January, February...) and years that seem about right, it could be Gregorian, Julian, or Roman Republic. Basically, if you want to add dates before 1923, you should read a book about calendars, such as Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Create the Perfect Calendar by Duncan Steel or Calendrical Calculations by Dershowitz and Reingold. Even then, there are some areas of the world (like Germany, which used to be a bunch of prinipalites, duchies, etc. that adopted the Gregorian calendar at different times) where only a scholar specializing in that area can interpret a date. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:30, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

I don't understand why you don't or won't undertand my simple information, that I did the changes only for test. Julian dates were not shown at all in our biographical infobox and I tried to find out were the problem is. I'm a responsable Wikipedian and I only wanted to find a solution for a problem and to know wether it works or not. Now it works and the julian dates are shown correctly with the information that it is a julian date. This is a very important information in this sense, that now it is easy to compare dates in the article-text and dates in the inobox and so make sure if the dates shall be mentioned as gregorian or julian. B. r. --Les Meloures (talk) 15:57, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Do you mean that an infobox in some Wikipedia in some language does not actually contain the birth or death date, but rather gets it from Wikidata? I was thinking of the other direction, where the information was contained in an infobox and you added it to Wikidata on the basis of what the infobox said. In any case, I have never seen an infobox that displays to the reader whether the date is Gregorian, Julian, or something else. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:05, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Of course, similar to the infoboxes for cycling races we try in the lb:wiki to take a maximum of information from Wikidata and it works very fine. In this article you may see it. By this occasion I also found out that a property for a statement of the coronation-date is missing on Wikidata. As of the lot of articles about monarchs I think it would be usefull. --Les Meloures (talk) 16:23, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Liddermécher/Singer-Songwriter

Hello. As I understand the word of "Liddermécher" describes a person who's writing ("making") songs, for sure, but does this word imply the fact that person also sings? For me "Singer-Songwriter" if not better variant but can be used as a synonym. --Wolverène (talk) 19:17, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Making songs includes writing text, composing and singing. But I thing we shall do the same as the german Wiki and use Singer-Songwriter for english singing people and chansonnier for french singing (Singer-songwriters) and Liddermécher for Luxemburgish, German and others. --Les Meloures (talk) 19:53, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Hello. About the Luxembourgish title for Q1842 (Luxembourg City). I returned "Stad Lëtzebuerg" (unlike ...), because in infoboxes it will be visually different from the (name of) country, in particular in the column of "Gebuer". --Wolverène (talk) 20:24, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

I returned to Lëtzebuerg, because nobody says Stad Lëtzebuerg and as it is linked with the article, everyone has the possibility to check wich Lëtzebuerg is ment. --Les Meloures (talk) 17:16, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Boucles de l'Aulne (Q260161)

Hi. I could see that you were working completing Boucles de l'Aulne (Q260161), maybe to use it at lbwiki. I've been finished the datafill for this race if you want to use it to implement some article calling Wikimedia module: Cycling race/listofwinners. Repf72 (talk) 21:38, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

spouse (P26) and no value

Hi Les Meloures,

Thanks for your note. The current approach is to set no value, if a person never married. Please see the sample on the property. Novalue means there is no spouse.

You need to adjust the infobox that expects something else. --- Jura 17:46, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

So I think that the correct information should be -- not married-- and not --no value-- which is a mathematical or statistical information and not one about relationships or social status. But if there can be changed something in the infoboxes, i ask you friendly if you have an idea how that can be done. We are working here together and so we should try to find solutions together and not say only it is like this and you can get rid with your problem. Thanks in advance --Les Meloures (talk) 18:01, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• Which infobox? --- Jura 18:02, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

For example french Infobox Biographie2 and luxemburgish Infobox Biographie --Les Meloures (talk) 18:57, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

• • It looks ok in the French one, maybe luwiki could use the same? (I pasted your answers above to make it easier to read) --- Jura 05:08, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Did you see that in the french one there is an empty raw with a hyphen and a pencil-sign to change the information. But how can a non-value be changed? I didn' check already who put this as an example in the description of the (P26) but in my eyes its a complete non-sense to fill up raws with no-values when there is never a possibility to have one. Also this was never proposed nor discussed in the (P26)-description. If it is usefull it should be done with every property and the use should be known. So if there a concret idea behind this current approach to set no value, I would like to know it. Where was decided that it should be a current approach and for which properties. As the Wikidata give back-ground information, this iformation must be done a manner to be used without problems in the infobox. If this no-value has any usefull sense I would like to know which one. If it is only to generate empty raws in infoboxes, so there is a big problem that should be discussed in the property discussion. --Les Meloures (talk) 06:47, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

The general explanation about novalue is at Help:Statements#Unknown_or_no_values. If you think the display on frwiki is sub-optimal, you should bring it up there. Personally, I find the hyphen correct. The pencil is there for any information, even if it's unlikely to change, e.g. date of birth. --- Jura 06:50, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

So ok if this seems so important in the sense of wikidata so I don't understand why it's not all the time --no value-- by default, when the property is not filled with a real value. But for the moment we will look to have a solution for the infoboxes. Thanks for your explanations. --Les Meloures (Diskussioun) 07:11, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

"novalue" as a statement means that it's known there isn't one (a statement that should be referencable). It doesn't mean we just don't have it. Similarly, "unknown" means that it exists and one searched for it, but couldn't find it. --- Jura 07:17, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Translation request

Hello.

Can you translate and upload de:Zentralbank der Republik Aserbaidschan, de:Liste der höchsten Berge in Aserbaidschan, de:Aserbaidschanische Nationalbibliothek, de:Nationalversammlung der Republik Aserbaidschan, de:Verfassung der Republik Aserbaidschan, de:Staatliche Universität Baku, de:Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Aserbaidschans and en:Baku Zoo in Luxembourgish Wikipedia?

They should not be long.

Yours sincerely, Matricatria (talk) 17:11, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

Cycling

Text here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Module_talk:Cycling_race#UCI_Pro/World_Tour

And this is an Excel file https://dropmefiles.com/K7io4 . In the topic of discussion of the module, the link is not broken already. I filled everything through https://tools.wmflabs.org/quickstatements/#/batch — GAN (talk) 20:06, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

New Luxembourgish spelling

Gudde Moien. I didn't forget about the Luxembourgish Wikipedia, I just took a Wikibreak.:) I want to clarify: these changes are obligatory only for Schweedesch and Italieenesch, or it's affecting some another geography-related adjectives? And are old spelling forms still valid? Thanks in advance. --Wolverène (talk) 05:14, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Moien och. there are some others two, but for which the impact is less important. We will change step by step, and for words with 2 variants we will decide which one we keep on wikipedia-text, in the sense to do do no encylopedical misch-masch.

The new rules can be find here: https://portal.education.lu/zls/ORTHOGRAFIE but don't worry the impact ist not a big one for wikipedia. --Les Meloures (talk) 08:40, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Good, I'm gonna help you with fixing e->ee here at Wikidata. Except those two there are also: Chileenesch, Chineesesch, Nepaleesesch, Libaneesesch, Sloweenesch, ... which else? Spu(ee)nesch, Indon(ee)sesch, Guatemalt(ee)kesch, San-marin(ee)sesch? These with stressed "e" vowel too (as far as I could've imagined how to prononce them). --Wolverène (talk) 08:56, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Nice but please wait some days. I asked e Bot to it. So i think a maximum will be done automaticaly. Later we can see if hee missed someones. --Les Meloures (talk) 09:40, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Aarbecht fir däi Bot ?

Bonjour,

Du hues jo e Bot, deen heiansdo Ännerunge mécht. Ass deen och hei op Wikidata aktiv ? Ech wollt ufänken, bei all de sëllechen Datumer, déi lëtzebuergesch Beschreiwung dobäizesetzen. Dat misst dach mat engem Bot méiglech sinn ?

Ech muss mer dat mol ukucken. --Les Meloures (talk) 16:17, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Op lb:COVID-19-Pandemie zu Lëtzebuerg steet am Ament 1453 Persoune ware bis zum 26 Mäerz 2020 mam Virus infizéiert. Wann een d'Beschreiwungen op Wikidata à-jour setzt, da stéing do wahrscheinlech 26 . Mäerz, mat engem Punkt hannert der 26 ? Oder wéi fléckt een dee Bobbo ? Bescht Gréiss, —87.240.233.192 16:07, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Dee Problem hu mer schonn zanter datt et Wikidata gëtt, grad wéi de franséischen Affichage an den Etappekëschten. Déi kruten dat bis elo nach net geléist. Ech kucken emol fir bei de kollegen an Däitschland Hëllef ze kréien well déi hunn de Problem anscheinend geléist. --Les Meloures (talk) 16:17, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

OK, Merci fir déi rapid Äntwert ! Bescht Gréiss, —87.240.233.192 16:22, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

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Call for participation in a task-based online experiment

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Automated report of empty item: Q118236640

Hello, an item that you have edited (and you are the only non-bot editor) is considered empty and will be deleted in 72 hours if it doesn't improve. Your automated cleaner, Dexbot (talk) 14:23, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

Meteora as "rock formation"

Hi, I noticed now that in Meteora (Q3125051) you removed back in July the claim for the instance of rock formation (Q631305). This item refers to both the rocks and the monasteries situated on top of those (so it's both a geological and architectural reference). And because there's no separate item for just the rocks, do you have any better idea on what proper instance of (P31) to add (along with monastic community (Q87351459) which currently exists)? Jimkats (talk) 23:10, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Rock

Hi, there is no rock-formation named Meteora. The rocks are sandstone, and as far as i see all the articles in Wikipedias describe principally the monasteries and not the geological situation. Meteora refers only to the monasteries. Without the monasteries, the item meteora doesn't exist. In a large sense it may bee be the region within the monasteries were built, but neveer the name of a geological formation. b.r. --Les Meloures (talk) 07:17, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Merge

Thank you for your work in maintaining Wikidata. I have a small suggestion to improve your future work. If you notice that two items are duplicates, please merge them instead of blanking one of them. External sites use Wikidata identifiers, so it is important that we preserve the chain of references. We do this by making one item a redirect for the other. In particular, item ids are intended to be a permanent identifier, so we never reuse them for another concept. See Help:Merge for more information on how to merge items, and consider installing the Merge Gadget. Thanks!  Madamebiblio (talk) 15:34, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

„Blos“ vs. „Blase“ als Homonymiesäit

Salut, ech hu gesinn, dass du d'Element Q130285214 an d'Element Blase (Q19689286) fusionéiert hues. Dat ass menger Meenung no awer net richteg. Bei enger Homonymiesäit geet et net ëm ee Géigestand oder Konzept, mee ëm d'Wuert selwer. Deemno ass tëschent de Wierder „Blos“ a „Blase“ z'ënnerscheeden. (Dat gesäit een z. B. och un der Säit en:Blase, datt et net ëm de Géigestand Blos (de: Blase, en:bubble) geet, mee ëm d'Wuert „Blase“.)

Hei kann een dat noliesen: Wikidata:WikiProject Disambiguation pages/guidelines#Links.

Deemno hunn ech d'Fusionéierung rëm zeréckgesat.

--Volvox (talk) 18:47, 12 September 2024 (UTC)