User talk:Olivier/Archives 2002

Hello there Olivier, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Welcome, Olivier. Please tell us something about yourself and your interests. There are some very useful pages for newbies, like Naming Conventions and History Standards, as well as the general FAQs at Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers. hope you are enjoying yourself. JHK

et est-ce que tu parles français ? user:anthere

oui oui. -Olivier

when you are done with the department project, wouldnot you transfert them on the french wiki ? There should be too much to translate, so it shouldnot give too much trouble. I am sure some of us would help you.

Welcome to Wikipedia! I found a source for the pisse-froid thing and the negative officer evaluation (see talk:Alfred Dreyfus). --Ed Poor

I see that you have added Gérard Depardieu to the list of producers for the film Camille Claudel at Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. I know that he was an actor in the movie, but I can't find any source for his being a producer. Could you please let us know where this bit of information comes from? I've looked at several sites on the net but none mention this. Eclecticology 07:32 Sep 20, 2002 (UTC)

Ooops my mistake. I have removed him from the list. Since I had seen the name of Isabelle Adjani, I assumed that it was a list of actors. I did not pay enough attention to the fact that it was only a list of producers. Thanks for letting me know! - User:Olivier

Hi Olivier, is the list of streets of each arrondissement of Paris really useful ? It would be better restricted to a very few important streets like the Champs-Elysées or Rue Mouffetard, in my opinion. (That is, streets that are likely to get their own entry in the encyclopedia ?) E.g. the list for the 5th arrondissement is not too bad, but the one for the 6th arrondissement looks definitely too big. -- FvdP 20:18 Sep 25, 2002 (UTC)

Good question. Starting a couple of arrondissement pages was my tentative answer to the discussion of the Talk Page: a page each? I believe so.

Now regarding the content: I would be in favor of actually listing all the streets of Paris (maybe at the bottom of the article rather than at the top, as it is currently the case). Many streets have names, which people (including most Parisians) often do not know what they are related to. Listing the streets gives the opportunity to link many street names to Wikipedia articles, thus demystifying them. Additionally, many streets have an history (especially in the 5th, 6th, and other central arrondissements): former names, located in place of former buildings (convents, medieval towers...), built in place of former fortifications. Many of them have hidden gems: for instance the workshop of Picasso was located in the Rue des Grands Augustins (that's where he panted Guernica or Les demoiselles d'avignon. Not completely sure which one). The action of Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, a novel by Balzac takes place in the same building. I think that this information would be interestingly placed next to the street name in the 6th arrondissement article. Of course such pieces of information might seem minor, but in my experience, they tend to matter to people living in Paris, and to visitors as well.

That being said, I am very open to any suggestion/comment regarding the format of the arrondissement articles. Ultimately, the 'pedia community will decide. - User:Olivier

Maybe at least put the (long) street list at the end of the article: that is a good suggestion; or in a separate article like "List of 5th arrondissement streets". In the latter case the most significant streets should still be referenced in the main article, maybe along the other significant places & monuments. --FvdP 17:49 Oct 1, 2002 (UTC)

Thanks for getting involved in the Zweig page! You are obviously much better up on how to Wikify things than I am! :) I guess one day I might learn the conventions ... Nevilley

No problem, I am a big Stefan Zweig fan. By the way, the edits done by 203.198.23.27 are mine. For some reason, I had been logged out while I was doing them. I hope that this article will continue growing. - User:Olivier

Aha - that explains it! Well done, it's great! Nevilley (Thinking about it I guess it's a bit unlikely that TWO more SZ fans would have suddenly appeared!) :)

Why did you uncomment "nto" from the mispeeling list? Check the three pages: two have the Spanish word "cuánto", and the third mentions some chemical called NTO. No typos of "not". -phma

Since, I assume, most of the users of this maintenance page know quite well what is on the list, keeping "nto" active could help us identifying future typos of "not", as they appear. If you believe that keeping it for the moment is disruptive, please comment it back, it's fine with me. We will just need to uncomment it once in a while to see if new typos have appeared. -olivier 14:55 Oct 24, 2002 (UTC)

Edit conflicts are an unfortunate occurrence. Can you revert the article back to the version prior to my changes? -- Zoe

Thanks for your kindness. I have left your changes, and made a couple of new ones. olivier 02:51 Oct 25, 2002 (UTC)

You added a link to positvism to the Auguste Comte article. I did write that article, but are no expert for Comte, but I'm not so sure if the philosophical position called positivism and Comtes positive philosophy have something in common. Do you know more, or could you please check, if this link is right there? --till we *) 11:54 Oct 25, 2002 (UTC)

I addded the link to positivism, because the name of Auguste Comte is often associated to it. He is even said to be the founder of this philosophical movement. A Google search "Auguste Comte positivism" returns more than 3,000 hits. For instance: http://www.erraticimpact.com/~19thcentury/html/comte.htm

This being said, I am not an expert, and would not be able to write anything interesting about this theory. I am not even sure if the Logical positivism to which positivism redirects at the moment is the same concept or if it has any connection with Comte's theory. Maybe there is a misuse in English of "positivism" instead of "positive philosophy", but his concept is definitely called "positivisme" in French.

So, to answer your question, I would believe that the word "positivism" has its place in an article about Comte, but I would leave the final answer to an expert. -olivier 13:46 Oct 25, 2002 (UTC)

Hello, you may find Wikipedia:Special characters useful also. :-) --KQ

I see you reverted the longest word in the English language page again. I protected it for about half an hour but the idiot was more patient than I thought he'd be! Just leave it next time - I'll fix it tomorrow... this person is either very stupid, or very bored, or both. KJ 07:00 Oct 28, 2002 (UTC)

I have added the IP address on Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress. -olivier 07:05 Oct 28, 2002 (UTC)

Vandalism issue:

I send an email to the main list and tech list. Is there any sysop around ??? user:anthere

Thanks. It looks like the IP address begins to be identified. Some operators are around, I don't know about sysops. olivier 12:54 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)

Thanks for helping with International calling codes on country pages! I thought I was the only person doing it. - User:Mark Ryan

You are welcome! I think that it is a great initiative of yours. See also the related discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries. olivier 03:03 Dec 9, 2002 (UTC)

Bon soir, Olivier. I see you've been helping out in the WikiProject Countries by adding the template to various country articles and thank you for that. However, would you please not include them in the "Done" list, as that list is only meant for those countries whose articles are reasonable finished and have all or most sections filled in. Not all sections have to be filled in (I prefer to leave the culture section to natives), but the others do need more extensive information before we can classify them "Done". Merci. -Scipius 20:13 Dec 10, 2002 (UTC)