User talk:Say1988

Welcome!

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Hello there! Your fellow Battle of the Scheldt contributer here. I noticed that your last edit took out the wiki links to Operations Vitality and Switchback. I had intended to leave them in, so as a reminder to eventually start articles for them. What do you think? --Oldsoul July 8, 2005 04:32 (UTC)

I just think it would be better to start small articles for them or leave them empty links instead of redirecting bac to the origional article. I think it would actually be best just to expand in that article until they are large enough for their own and then just transfer the sections and make short summaries.say1988 July 8, 2005 17:02 (UTC)

Yeah, I think you're right. That makes sense. Cheers.--Oldsoul July 8, 2005 17:34 (UTC)

Possible WWI image[edit]

I thank you very much for your suggestions & opinions, say1988! Don't worry about doing a picture - I started on one immediately after I placed the suggestion on the WW1 talk page. Now the fun thing: your suggestions are very similar to the pictures which I have chosen:

Trench warfare (with smoke and exploded trees)
An aircraft in the sky
A zeppelin over a burning warship
A tank moving over a trench
A gas-masked man handling a machinegun, and last:
Gavrillo Princip (the famous picture) which symbolizes the igniting torch

Due to your message, I will try to finish the montage today and publish it. I would really like to hear you opinions on it on the WWI talk page, when it is published. Again, thanks for you message!

Regards, Dennis. Dna-Dennis 22:58, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It is said and done. The WWI page has got itself a new title picture. I'd appreciate your opinions. Regards Dna-Dennis 01:31, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your vote on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Bruno Senna[edit]

Hi Say1988,
Sorry to bother you, but I've updated the captions on the edits to make it perfectly clear which version you support. Please update your vote and state which version you support. Please use the naming located under the main caption in bold, large text. Thanks, --Fir0002 09:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Circles[edit]

Hi there! Would you mind revisiting Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Villarceau circles to see if the new animation is better? Kieff managed to upload a new image a few hours since. Thanks for your comments! --HappyCamper 22:31, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

America or the Americas?[edit]

Hey, I have just seen your response in the article. I agree with you in some aspects (the ones referring to the USA as America). However, they are not as separate as you think they are. If you pay attention, they are historically unified. Columbus discovered America, and not the Americas. He did that in Dominican Republic, Central America. Besides, he was working for the Spanish Crown and his discovery as well as the name America itself do not correspond to the USA but to one whole continent. The fact that they are separated does not mean that they are not subcontinents of the same continent. Indeed, Mexico is for most people located in North America, and for some others, in Central America. Culturally speaking, the USA has more than 40 million of Spanish speakers, without mentioning all the famous Latin people (or latino). For this reason, some southern states such as Texas, California, Florida and New Mexico have a large number of people whose first language is Spanish. I don't see the point there, because I can understand that the word "American" or "America" refer to people born in USA, but I cannot agree with the fact that the Americas are not the same continent, when that is not true. Regarding that point, we can say then that Western Europe and Eastern Europe or Southern Europe are not all part of Europe. Well, this is the opinion among the people whose first language is Spanish, French or Portuguese. In Spanish (considered to be the 2nd or 3rd most spoken language on Earth, if considering the number of native speakers) the people born in the USA are called estadounidenses and not americanos. The latter applies to the whole continental mass. Finally, I study English language and literature at college and I perfectly know how the English speakers are wrongly used to the term. Kind regards, --Gustave - May I help you? 22:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, thank you very much. I was really thinking about doing the same. I hope you don't see it as a fight, but just as a difference of mind. Greetings, --Gustave - May I help you? 22:44, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have already answered to your comments on the subject. Bear in mind that this is just my disagreement with the term in question, and generally the disagreement of most Spanish speakers. It's not my aim to change anything, I just wanna express my point of view. Regards, --Gustave - May I help you? 23:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC) PS: By the way, are you American, Canadian, Australian or British?[reply]

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