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Hello Frania. Thanks for your note. While I do patrol pages for vandalism, I have not made any protection requests. My best advice would be to go to the Requests for protection page, and put your request there. Let me now how you make out. -- IG (talk) 0001:, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

my dear =] i just copied and pasted bio to previous page; redircts will be fine =] x

On Saturday, My family and I power-boated to an obscure Gaeltacht, relatively near our Barleycove, Cape Clear Island. It's very quiet, and the only place in Ireland where you can see a 10 year-old driving! The cars there don't need to pass their annual National Car Test, so they're pretty bashed up. It is common to see a car without doors. The island is home to a popular Summer Irish college (kinda like summer camp, but you gotta speak Irish!). Framing the bashed up cars is a hilly landscape, topped with a fresh water lake. The island overlooks a beautiful vista, you can see all around the bay. It is the most southerly island in the state. We lunched in a quaint little pub with a view of the South Harbour. The smell of wild foxgloves fills the air, and, if you're lucky, the open air tour bus might be operating. It brings the tourists to every valley & hill top. The population is a meagre 120, and all the families are related *creepy*. The island boasts Ireland's only manned bird observatory. And, of course, the obligitary gallery:

• Looking down on Cape Clear
• The main harbour
• I ate at the yellow building...imagine it being sunny!
• The famous cars:P
• Overlooking main harbour
• This doesn't have anything to do with the island, but it's a famous West Cork landmark!

That sounds far too complicated! My drawing skills are, at best, atrocious. Pehaps a wiki-pop shall suffice? -- Jack1755 (talk) 14:13, 6 September 2009 (U)

No problem. Thanks for helping. Dapi89 (talk) 20:02, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It was left to rot for a long time. User:MWAK did a sterling job first time out (around 5 years ago I think!) to get it to GA. But it had fallen into decay. Hopefully this a shot in the arm. Dapi89 (talk) 20:45, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See here. Bzuk (talk) 04:19, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the greetings! My New Year's resolution is to show you a good article on the March on Versailles! I'm still working on that... :P Anyway, Happy New Year!! - SteveStrummer (talk) 23:47, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Et meilleurs vœux, également, Frania - de l'Australie!! Feux d'artifice à Sydney--Wikiain (talk) 22:59, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merci beaucoup, chere Frania, et meilleurs voeux! FactStraight (talk) 02:06, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Happy new here. A very nice picture! Was it a real photograph? Dapi89 (talk) 12:34, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Frania ! Your contribution on Napoleon I's article reminds me that I haven't wished you yet a happy new year. So Happy New year and thank you for your general contribution to Wikipedia ! Keep up the good work. UltimaRatio (talk) 07:26, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Frania, thanks from me too. Have a wonderful year yourself, with plenty to celebrate about. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 18:21, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bonjour Frania. There is a discussion about the calendar here that might be of interest to you. --Coemgenus 13:37, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bon jour, Mme. Frania! I would very much appreciate it if you would review my expansion of Compiègne Forest which I'm now preparing to post. You can find it at User:SteveStrummer/Sandbox5. I'm confident you can inform me of all its errors and omissions, and I look forward to your criticism! I wish I was able to show you a completed journee article also, but my momentum there seems to have stalled (temporarily). Perhaps if you were to comment on my work thus far, it would provide fresh motivation for me! But please start with le Forêt: your approval is all I am waiting for before posting it :) Thank you for your time and attention! Au revoir, SteveStrummer (talk) 23:11, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Steve,

Madame went through your forest & left a hidden note at the Office of the Grand Veneur, which was not "long-abolished" when Napoléon III came to power. Created in the Ancien Régime, it was abolished at the time of the Revolution & was re-established by Napoléon I, kept during the Bourbon Restoration, and may not have existed during the July Monarchy - Louis-Philippe was not a hunter, and during his reign, the domain of Rambouillet with its great forest, a great hunting ground, was not in his liste civile. If you check the fr:wiki, you will notice no mention of the July Monarchy[1] - but then, that's only eighteen years, which I do not consider "long" as far as the office being "abolished", if it was.

Also, I think the title of the article should be "Forest of Compiègne" instead of "Compiègne F/forest" to keep in style with the other two important former royal then imperial forests near Paris, which in en:wiki have title of "Forest of Fontainebleau" & "Forest of Rambouillet".

Hope this helps. Cordialement,

P.S. I will look at the "marche" some other time & leave notes here & there also - we can't have your "march" stall, but there is so much else to do, specially outside of wikiland.

--Frania W. (talk) 04:13, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This helps greatly, thank you! It's very nice of you to lend your time this way, and I really appreciate the support. I will incorporate all your advice, including the title change. I'm not very clear on the page-moving procedure, but I'll see what I can do. Thank you!!

SteveStrummer (talk) 05:08, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I posted this today at its new name, Forest of Compiègne, with a couple of small new additions since you last read it. Thank you so much for your help!

SteveStrummer (talk) 19:44, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Steve, tout le plaisir était pour moi. À la prochaine !

--Frania W. (talk) 00:53, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Where does the photo/image of the painting come from? Tom B (talk) 16:14, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tom, here is the image, representing a 19th century painting, which is at Versailles. a file from the Wikimedia Commons:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Montfort_-_Adieux_de_Napoleon_a_la_Garde_imperiale.jpg

It says:

• This file is lacking source information. Please edit this file's description and provide a source.

However, the picture was downloaded (up?) by user Frank Schulenburg on 01SEP05, as can be seen in File History:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Montfort_-_Adieux_de_Napoleon_a_la_Garde_imperiale.jpg#filehistory

Are UltimaRatio & myself missing something???

Transferring this to Napoléon talk page & leaving a note at UltimaRatio.

Cordialement, comme toujours !

--Frania W. (talk) 16:40, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The history shows who uploaded it but it doesn't say who took the photo, who owns the photo, where the photo is from Tom B (talk) 16:54, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]