User talk:Stefan Olejniczak

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Welcome also from me, Stefan — nice to see you jumping right in. It seems you can find your way here by yourself but in case of problems, feel free to ask anyone you see on Recent Changes. --Daniel Mietchen 18:17, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello Daniel, thanks for welcoming me!! I already feel at home here, the atmosphere is good. Stefan Olejniczak 18:36, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Dear Stefan Olejniczak, thank you for your corrections in "Lifecycle (religion)". My English is really bad, makes me feel quite desperate. Ed Jussen 21:03, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Dear Ed Jussen, you're welcome! Never mind, I like to do it :) Stefan Olejniczak 21:06, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello, of course I try to take advantage of your kindness, because I'm writing a much larger article at the moment. Is it okay that I warn you when it is finished? Regards, Ed Jussen 08:41, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Of course that's OK Ed, I'm glad if I can help. Stefan Olejniczak 08:43, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

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Hi Matt, thank you for telling! I've accepted. Stefan Olejniczak 13:26, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Consonant names

Hello, Stefan. Thanks for your additions to the English irregular noun catalogue. It occurred to me that the consonant names could go in English phonemes as well. But I never used them much & my terminology may well be out of date. I've put in the first one, if you'd like to have a look. Thanks! Ro Thorpe 23:28, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

The Knowledge article needs to be looked at

On our Welcome page, visitors are pointed to the Knowledge article. With that in mind, it is critical that the article be well written and impress them.

Recently, Dmitrii Kouznetsov added a major amount of material to the article which increased the article length fifteen-fold (from 1,565 bytes to 23, 990 bytes). Unfortunately, Dmitrii's command of the English language is not too good. Also, although I am not philosopher, it seems to me that some of his additional material may not be too relevant. I also wonder if some of his references are valid or appropriate.

Since the article is classified as in the Philosophy workgroup .... and there are no active Philosophy editors ... I am asking Philosophy authors like you to take a good look at Dmitrii's additional material and to revise it as appropriate. If nothing else, some of the formatting leaves much to be desired. Milton Beychok 22:23, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello Milton, I did some minor language corrections in the article which indeed has not been written in very good English. However, I do not think I am able to judge all the sources he used on their value. So you should ask someone else to do that, I'm afraid. Stefan Olejniczak 23:13, 6 December 2010 (UTC)