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:BTW: It should be obvious from the above - I reintroduced the courtesy references to the Dutch names: a ''glossary of Dutch terms'' seems to be unnecessary for the Dutch proper names of cities, etc., and anyone looking for a term like '' 's Gravenshage'' would have to take an additional step before reaching the article of the Netherlands which includes the section on The Hague. [[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 19:30, 10 July 2012 (EDT)
:BTW: It should be obvious from the above - I reintroduced the courtesy references to the Dutch names: a ''glossary of Dutch terms'' seems to be unnecessary for the Dutch proper names of cities, etc., and anyone looking for a term like '' 's Gravenshage'' would have to take an additional step before reaching the article of the Netherlands which includes the section on The Hague. [[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 19:30, 10 July 2012 (EDT)
Please use proper indenting standards. Don't edit war with admins. Any more nonsense with Dutch article, and you'll be banned.
::Please use proper indenting standards. Don't edit war with admins. Any more nonsense with Dutch article, and you'll be banned.
I already told you that this is an English language encyclopedia. Like Wikipedia, we follow the principle of least astonishment. Information should be where American readers can find it. If you want to help a few Dutch readers (rare though they surely will be), you are welcome as I said elsewhere to create a [[Glossary of Dutch terms]] as a separate article.
::I already told you that this is an English language encyclopedia. Like Wikipedia, we follow the principle of least astonishment. Information should be where American readers can find it. If you want to help a few Dutch readers (rare though they surely will be), you are welcome as I said elsewhere to create a [[Glossary of Dutch terms]] as a separate article.
Stop pretending you don't understand my instructions, and stop causing trouble, or be elsewhere. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 19:38, 10 July 2012 (EDT)
::Stop pretending you don't understand my instructions, and stop causing trouble, or be elsewhere. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 19:38, 10 July 2012 (EDT)
:::''Please use proper indenting standards.'' Please, could you link me to Conservapedia's ''indenting standards''? I haven't read them until now, I'm afraid, so I generally try to follow a common-sense approach, indenting my answers using one ":" more than in the previous section. I tend to make an exception for enumerations, as those get indented by the "#" or the "*". But in my experience (taken from discussions with other senior admins), the general approach to indenting is quite nonchalant.
:::I don't think that ''native names in brackets'' are ''astonishing'' to our readers - they may suspect that foreigners do not exclusively use English words.
:::I try to be helpful. See e.g., [[List of quotations in templates]]. The constant stream of threads OTOH ("last strike", "be elsewhere", "you'll be banned") is quite off-putting, especially when these threads aren't explained properly.
:::I'd appreciate if you would address my points above. Here a summary:
::#It's helpful to have the native names in the according articles as they can be found by a simple search.
::#It's courteous to the natives to state their names for things you are writing about.
::#Some quirks of languages are interesting in their own right.
:::[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 20:05, 11 July 2012 (EDT)
== Wikipedia ==
== Wikipedia ==