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Template:Infobox NS-station has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:27, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]I opened a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Dutch_municipalities#Data_templates_in_infoboxes, feel free to comment in that discussion.
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Main Page appearance
[edit]Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of the article List of municipalities of the Netherlands know that it will be appearing as the main page featured list on September 2, 2013. You can view the TFL blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured list/September 2, 2013. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured list directors The Rambling Man (talk · contribs), Dabomb87 (talk · contribs) or Giants2008 (talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. Thanks! Tbhotch.™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 01:01, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
There are 411 municipalities in the Netherlands: 408 regular municipalities and 3 public bodies. Municipalities are the second-level administrative division in the Netherlands and are subdivisions of their respective provinces. Their duties are delegated to them by the central government and they are ruled by a municipal council that is elected every four years. Municipalities are responsible for a wide variety of public services, which include land-use planning, public housing, management and maintenance of local roads, waste management and social security. Municipal mergers have reduced the total number of municipalities by two-thirds since the first official boundaries were created after a cadastre was formed in the mid-19th century. These municipalities come in a wide range of sizes, from as small as 7 km2 (2.7 sq mi) to 814 km2 (314 sq mi) and with populations ranging from 1,000 to 800,000.
A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Toy Barnstar | |
For creating the page "Toy" however many years ago. It's about time somebody rewarded you for that. --Matthew (talk) 15:19, 2 September 2013 (UTC) |
- Thanks! That's a long time ago I did that. - Patrick (talk) 23:03, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Red linked templates
[edit]Greetings Patrick, I am working to clean up some of the database reports and I noticed that a couple of your subpages have some deleted templates that are appearing on Wikipedia:Database reports/Transclusions of deleted templates/1 and Wikipedia:Database reports/Transclusions of deleted templates/2. Since you are still an active editor I don't want to mess with your subpages but I was wondering if you would mind taking a look and maybe udpating some of the red links or something so they will stop popping on the reports. Thanks and please let me know if you have any questions. Kumioko (talk) 17:50, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- I removed calls to country data templates, which seem to have been the problem. - Patrick (talk) 21:51, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
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Volunteer for translating
[edit]Hi Patrick, I'm JD3rulo. I'd like to collaborate in translating articles from Spanish into English or contrariwise. So if you could assign me some pages, I would be pleased to translate them. You can let me a note in my talk page. Hasta pronto!JD3rulo (talk) 07:12, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Movie theaters in the Netherlands is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Template:Popdens
[edit]Hi. I see that you are the creator of Template:Popdens. Could you please take a look at Template talk:Popdens and comment re my questions there? Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:20, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
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[edit]You may be interested in a proposal to include that article among the 1,000 Wikipedia:Vital articles. The discussion is here. Thewellman (talk) 04:39, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
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[edit]As one of the previous contributors to {{Infobox film}} or as one of the commenters on it's talk page, I would like to inform you that there has been a RfC started on the talk page as to implementation of previously deprecated parameters. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!
- This message was sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of {{U|Technical 13}} (t • e • c) 18:26, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
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Best regards, Rschen7754 22:00, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks. That is not me. - Patrick (talk) 10:59, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
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