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Looks like you've been busy and are creating some great articles! With your interest you may want to pop over to Wikipedia:WikiProject Kayaking. Not sure how active they are but should have some good information and contact for other Wikipedians who can help. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Looks like you're doing really well on your own though! Thanks - --Tbennert (talk) 04:20, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Slovakian help needed[edit]

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I'm contacting you because we need some Slovakian translators to help with the deployment of the new VisualEditor on sk.wikipedia. There are help pages, user guides, and description pages that need translating, as well as the interface itself. The translating work is going on over on MediaWiki: Translation Central. I also need help with a personal message for the Slovakian Wikipedians. If you are able to help in any way, either reply here, or head over to TranslationCentral. Thanks for your time, PEarley (WMF) (talk) 16:24, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed[edit]

Hello Vladyreaper,

You and I seem to have similar interests, although your Wikipedia efforts are more productive. I participate in canoe slalom at the geriatric level (70+), and I write articles about canoe slalom venues. I have first-hand experience with the three North American venues, Dickerson ,Charlotte, and Deep Creek, but all my information about other venues comes from the Internet. I am trying to produce an .svg map of each venue, starting with satellite photos. Tacen is my latest map.

Do you live anywhere near Tacen? Have you ever seen a race there? Did you happen to pick up any literature on the course: the vertical drop, methods of regulating the flow (at the spillway or an an upstream dam), the usual streamflow for a race, etc.? Do you have any photos? I figured out the gate positions of the 2010 Championships from YouTube videos, but information in general is hard to find.

Thanks for covering this sport.

HowardMorland (talk) 18:39, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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For people with no date of birth and have had no info in years...[edit]

Put under the category possibly living instead. Yeah it is very likely they are alive-but for some reason people often put them under possibly living. (Which that category even has people who I'm sure are not alive that did stuff in the 1920s!) Anyway good luck editing and have fun! Wgolf (talk) 23:19, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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A style proposal[edit]

Thank you for your work on the 2014 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, which I attended. Were you there? If so, I'm sorry we didn't connect.

Anyway, here is my proposal. Since you are the most frequent contributor to such articles, I wanted your opinion. Canoe slalom venues are usually identified by the nearest local town, with a link to the Wikipedia article about that town. For example, in the article referenced above, the failed bid from Kraków links to an article about the city, which contains no reference to the venue that was the subject of the bid (I will fix that by adding a line in the Sport section). However, since readers are most likely to click on that link looking for information about the venue, the following link might be more helpful: Kraków.

I think that in general, a reference to a canoe slalom venue should be the name of the city, but with the link to the article about the venue. That article always contains a link to the city in the first line, for people who want to know about the city. What do you think?

HowardMorland (talk) 16:13, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks Tony, it's an honor and I appreciate it. Vladyreaper (talk) 07:00, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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request[edit]

ICF World Junior and U23 Canoe sprint Championships................hi please also create canoe sprint hunior and u23 ,,,, and thanks for your edits in slalom. when was held first youth canoe sprint world championships? are you know? Canoevilapark (talk) 07:14, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I am sorry, but I don't know. I don't do canoe sprint articles. Vladyreaper (talk) 09:58, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Medals[edit]

Hey, great work on adding them and even more to the articles. Just a small thing. One link to the event is enough, so when an athlete wins more than one medal at the event it should not be wikilinked again. Example Kante4 (talk) 15:28, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

alright, will do. Thanks for helping out as well. Vladyreaper (talk) 15:36, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. Kante4 (talk) 15:43, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop undoing my edits to this page[edit]

Please stop undoing my edits to this page There are legitimate results

1. you didn't sign your post (although I know who you are)
2. you didn't say which page (although I know which one)
3. the results might be legitimate, but they are hardly worthy of inclusion in medal statistics. Those are reserved for major international competitions and not minor local ones. otherwise the best athletes would have medal lists with hundreds of medals
4. I didn't delete those results, I just moved them to a separate section
5. their veracity is dubious at best, so you can be happy I didn't remove them completely
6. judging by your username, you are the husband of the person that the page refers to and therefore you shouldn't even be allowed to edit that page as per wikipedia guidelines
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Ivrea Whitewater Stadium[edit]

Hello! Thank you very much for your edits on the page! While writing it, I was also realizing that the 2008 caneo slalom world championships never occurred, yet the town definitely hosted a major canoeing event that year. I was planning on asking people I know what the event was in the next days, but maybe could you also help me? Thank you again! Plumbago Capensis (talk) 23:07, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome and thank you for creating that article. Could it be the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships? It says that the 2008 championships were held in Valsesia which is nearby, but I'm not sure if the Ivrea Whitewater Stadium even existed back then.
You should also add some more sources to your article because it's pretty thin in that regard. Vladyreaper (talk) 10:14, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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