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Replied to your comment on Template talk:Divbox#Content/Fact box. — Xiong熊talk* 2005 June 30 09:51 (UTC)

I see that you are listed as a contributor for this project. Because the project is incomplete, I would like to find out what the current plans are for the project. Much work is still needed, particularly for constellations in the southern sky. I believe we need to do the following:

1. Complete the infobox for each constellation.
2. Standardise the format for each constellation.

On my user page, I have posted a few ideas for standardisation and I would like some feedback. --  B.d.mills  (T, C)

Hallo Sverdrup, da ich hier Deutsch schreiben darf, werde ich das mal machen. Deutsch fällt mir doch wesentlich leichter als Englisch. Ich habe den Artikel de:Rondane gerade nach Deutsch übersetzt. Vielleicht magst Du ihn Dir ja mal anschauen. Weshalb ich Dir schreibe: Noch fehlen die Bilder. Magst Du vielleicht Deine Bilder auf die Wikimedia-Commons hochladen? Ich könnte es zwar auch, aber ich finde es besser, wenn ich mich da nicht mit fremden Federn schmücke. Daher wollte ich es Dir überlassen, auch auf Commons der Hochlader zu sein. Danke, --Elwe 13:31, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so very much for your Wikipreview.html... That seems to be exactly what I'm looking for.  :) You might want to tell Pilaf about it, I'm sure he'd find it useful... Almafeta 10:44, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome; it's really Pilaf's work all of it, the parser being the most important component. I've already told him about it. Please tell me about any problems/bugs there might be, though. It have not exactly tested it thoroughly. — Sverdrup 10:48, 20 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for responding to my request to change the

Denna bild sv:Bild:User-Sverdrup-2004-04.jpg saknar källa och licens. Märk den gärna, då bilder utan märkning kan den komma att raderas. Mvh Elinnea 11:48, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

hej hej jag heter cooper gillan. jag är amerikansk, men jag har studerat svenska. jag skriver bara för att fråga dig om bilden på ikeas sida. var ligger butiken på bilden? det är en fint bild! jag var i jönköping i januari till maj. jag har en kompis som bor i kristianstad och jag har en skåne flag!! hoppas att allt är bra. hejdå. NPPyzixBlan 21:14, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

hej, tack för meddelandet. a, du tänkte rätt, bilden som du hade var bilden jag menade. jag frågade om den bara därför att jag tyckte att det var lite konstigt att se en ikea utan blå och gul, eller hur? jag har mycket ikea på min lägenhet, och det finns mycket ikea på mitt universitet. hej, tycker du om dungen? de är svensk och min kompis frågade mig en gång om jag kunde förstå texter, men....hehe, inte så mycket. jag försöker. jag har en amerikansk kompis som studerade på lunds universitet för tre år sedan, och hon älskade lund. men alla älskar sverige, eller hur?? tack och hejdå. NPPyzixBlan 23:27, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Hej Sverdup Den fina rondanebilden på flakksfjellet, nu har jag försökt göra så att man kan se att det är jag som har tatt den, inte du, men jag fattar inte hur man gör. Inte för att det spelar någon roll eller så, rent licensmässigt är den din. Jag har abra fruktansvärt tråkigt och lång håltimme. // Sverdrup d.y

Jeje, jag har fixat det. On a related note, har jag 100Mbit anslutning nu XD. ❝Sverdrup❞ 14:44, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In your edit summary to Olympus Mons, you said, "226 E?? there are only 180 of those, so the link doesn't work. Fixed to 134 W, verified that the link works and displays olympus mons in the applet." On Mars, longitude ranges from 0° to 360°--eastward or westward, depending on your mood. For instance, see Image:MarsTopoMap-PIA02031 modest.jpg

"You can now view the coordinates for Mars in two different systems: planetographic latitude with longitude increasing to the west, or planetocentric latitude with longitude increasing to the east. Both systems are approved for use on Mars by the International Astronomical Union (Seidelmann and others 2002).

"Planetographic latitude with west longitude is the system that has traditionally been used for Mars, and was previously the only system used on this web site. Planetocentric latitude with east longitude has been adopted for use by the USGS and other organizations for use in making future Mars maps and imagery (Duxbury and others 2002)."

http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/TOCmarsmain.html

—wwoods 17:56, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the clarification! Unfortunately the link didn't work (the link to the kvaleberg map sources) with 226° E, so we had to change it. I hope it's no big deal as both sets of coordinates describe the same spot, with different but accepted standards. — Sverdrup 11:02, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you are categorized as a Wikipedian by alignment. If you are in to userboxes, there are now infoboxes available using a standard template. See the alignment category page for details. This is a copied announcement, please reply on My Talk Page or in the category talk if you have any questions.

Hello -- your image (noted in the header) which is for community use only (see tag {{CommunityUseOnly}} are now being tagged as speedy delete, you might consider removing the image, or relicensing it. --Admrboltz (T | C) 17:28, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your kind words! Absolutely; EVERYONE should share this moment. A millionth article is nothing without 999,999 behind it. Nach0king 09:34, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo fetter! Jeg har vært på Wikipedia en liten stund nå, men det tok meg en liten stund å finne ut hvor brukersiden din var. Tøft å se deg som admin. Vi sees i sommer! --Ludvig 21:39, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that ... LeRoi was right, some red categories ought to stay that way. -- ProveIt ^(talk) 15:40, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Allright, I hear that. I don't have much to add then I guess :) I just wanted to make sure everybody could make new category schemes, regardless of what we already have (well not totally regardless perhaps). ❝Sverdrup❞ 15:43, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

are you the one who made the in flames artical on this web site if so why do you think in flames is a nu romantic pop group

if so messgeage me back with you ansewer

Please restore Barbie Griffin and Adara Michaels, they are seems to be notable. --Haham hanuka 08:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Joe Beaudoin Jr and the discussion here. ❝Sverdrup❞ 13:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I disagree with both of you... --Haham hanuka 14:46, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments. I am, of course, not trying to own articles, and am well aware of the "editing mercilessly" policy. I was thinking merely of maintaining internal stability in an article while I am in the white-hot throes of creation. It was only a hypothetical question anyway!--

Know you will be interested in this. The current content is very USA centric, but can be managed. The project would certainly benefit from your international perspective. -- Paleorthid 06:23, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your support of the status . Hope you can help…

Hei, du har et brukerbilde på no, no:Bilde:User-Sverdrup-2004-04.jpg som er lisensiert med en utfaset lisens, og hvor det står "Do not copy". Kan du være så snill relisensiere det med fri lisens snarest mulig, eller si fra om du vil at det da heller skal slettes. Cnyborg 19:56, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Å ja, det hadde jeg glemt. Fiksa det nå, gjorde denne endringen her på engelske wikipedia for en stund siden. Takk for meldningen uansett. ❝Sverdrup❞ 21:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your support of the status . Hope you can help…

Thank you for your support of the status . Hope you can help…

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Hi, you were a contributor to this article, which is on the verge of being delisted as a FA. Can you return to help? Urgently requires inline citations and enhanced information in a few places. It's been copy-edited nicely by Peirigill. Tony 04:10, 26 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

.. for your

Hello, your page m:User:Sverdrup2/monobook.css at Meta is listed as a double redirect. Can you please change it from #REDIRECT User:Sverdrup/monobook.css to #REDIRECT User:Sverdrup/oldcss .

1. User:Sverdrup2/monobook.css (Edit) →‎ User:Sverdrup/monobook.css →‎ User:Sverdrup/oldcss

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I fixed that now. I can't even remember that I had that extra user on meta and what it was for.. ❝Sverdrup❞ 16:15, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In this edit, you wrote

"any club including one or more colored persons."

Whom were you quoting? Please see talk:baseball color line. Apparently your information contradicts information added later, and the article has been that way for a long time. Michael Hardy 02:12, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's a hard question! I can't remember, but I have searched around now; I can find something like that quoted at [1], where it says "any club which may be composed of one or more colored persons." I can't say for sure if this was my original source and/or if I modified the quote. I don't think the truth of the statement is at risk, but finding sources is always good (as we think now two years later. Sourcing statements wasn't practice at all in 2004). ❝Sverdrup❞ 15:36, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, i just move this image on Commons. Some french user want to create http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cyclohexane.PNG but there are a stupid license incompatibility. What do you think about releasing your image in both GFDL and CC-BY-SA-2.5. Have you a Commons account ? And can you update the image description with it ? Thanks a lot. Please say me what you want to do. ~ fr:user:bayo 193.248.39.8 00:53, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I fixed that. I marked it as PD on commons, since that sounds like the simplest solution for now. ❝Sverdrup❞ 19:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)q[reply]

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Hello, Sverdrup! What do you think of replacing Image:GameOfLife.GIF with Image:Animated glider emblem.gif on the pages where it's used, and then being able to "retire" (i.e., delete) GameOfLife.GIF? (As you can tell, I like to keep things simple. :) --Quuxplusone 07:20, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well I shouldn't be the deciding factor here, but I think your image is much better, particularly for use in articles. While perhaps not as clear, my "clipped" version is a bit confusing. You can delete the old one if you want to, but I see there is one use of it here too: User:Green meklar/Userboxes. Regards, ❝Sverdrup❞ 15:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sverdrup! I just wanted to tell you that I'm translating the article Rondane National Park, and I'm going to postulate it at featured articles. You can see it here. I know that my english is very strange and full of mistakes, so please tell me if you don't understand what I say :) --Alfonso" 00:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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hey, like ur pic : P ElisaEXPLOSiONtalk. 18:04, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

haha no, you look really good ^^. but yeah, thanks, i didnt even make it haha. one of my friends made it for me. : P im reallt boooredd. ElisaEXPLOSiONtalk. 22:58, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Sverdrup,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

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• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
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• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at [email protected] (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

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Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

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Wow thanks, and thank you for creating the illustration in the first place! sverdrup (talk) 00:09, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hej Sverdrup, såg just att du verkade ha lämnat SvWiki 2005, och nu verkar det som att du inte varit aktiv här på ett tag. Allt OK? Mvh Dan Koehl (talk) 17:15, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hejsan. Nej, jag är inte speciellt aktiv. Vad tiden har gått fort dock, jag tänkte att mina senaste edits inte var så länge sedan (Heap's algorithm). sverdrup (talk) 11:46, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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You haven't used the admin tools since 2010, and that was only once. The last time before that was 2008, and even then you only used them 14 times over a 2-week period. Before that, 3 times in 2007. The last time that you used them regularly was in 2006. To sum up, you've used admin tools 18 times in the last decade. You've also barely edited over the same period.

Please do the right thing and resign your admin status rather than making token edits to hang onto it.  — Scott • talk 22:49, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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