Articles of particular interest to me: Anything linguistic, especially Semitic languages and historical linguistics.
Featured articles: Laal language, Algerian Civil War.
Admin since December 3, 2004.
See also:
Portal:Algeria.
Language isolates and unclassified languages: Jalaa language, Laal language, Shabo language, Shabo lexicon, Kujarge language, Oropom language, Weyto language, Bung language, Wutana language, Bete language, Lufu language, Imraguen language, Nemadi language, Mpre language, Kwavi language, ( Oropom, Andamanese languages), Category:Languages whose existence is uncertain.
Other African languages: Fur language, Berber languages, Northern Berber languages, Chenoua language, Soddo language, Korandje language, Gimira language, Tuareg languages, Saho language, Senhaja de Srair language, Tarifit language, Ghomara language, Komuz languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Afro-Asiatic languages, Tifinagh, Old Nubian language, Tagoi language.
Semitic languages: Varieties of Arabic, Samaritan Hebrew, List of Proto-Semitic roots, Soddo language, Moabite language, Phoenician languages, Edomite language, Ammonite language, Canaanite languages, Hebrew names, pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions, PERF 558, Nubi language.
Not necessarily exhaustive...
Articles that I've written lots in: MEMRI, Kingdom of Nekor, al-Fatiha, al-Alaq, Qur'an, Rif, Muqatta'at.
Articles that I've written less in: Abd el-Krim, Palestinian, Ifriqiya, Djerid, Ha-Mim, Banu Isam, Berghouata, Salih ibn Tarif, Darfur, Darfur conflict, sura, Religious significance of Jerusalem#In Mandaeanism.
Due to massive POV attack (not that it was much good to begin with): Jihad. (See also: Template:Timeline of Islamist militancy, Template:Islam.)
Due to incompleteness or inadequacy of Islamic history section: History of Palestine, Galilee, Persecution of Muslims, Martyr, Muhammad as warrior.
I think the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tragic though it is, is massively overhyped - it gets more media coverage than most conflicts ten, or even one hundred, times as lethal (see Congo Civil War), and I'm not an expert on Islamic theology, but the persistent tendency of some people to add Islamophobic and anti-Arab propaganda to articles on both those topics is a real danger, and one I am often forced to respond to. I should add that I am a proud anti-Zionist of the second type: that is, I advocate the quixotic notion that everybody ought to just get along and live together peacefully, or in the article's words, argue for "a state in which Jews and Palestinians live together as equals."
On historical linguistics, I incline much more towards the long-ranger view than the ultra-sceptical positions that seem to be prevalent, which too often strike me as being founded more on a priori objections than on empirical evidence. I firmly support the comparative method, but regard mass lexical comparison as not a competitor but a necessary prelude to it. However, I also consider some long-rangers' work - in particular Merritt Ruhlen's - to suffer from unacceptably large degrees of semantic latitude.
A couple of egregious examples:
Common themes in such cases include vagueness about who holds the alleged views, straw man arguments misrepresenting opponents' views the better to knock them down, and—worst of all—a refusal to address the issue of what actually happened or did not happen, as opposed to what X thinks about it.
Articles of particular interest to me: Anything linguistic, especially Semitic languages and historical linguistics.
Featured articles: Laal language, Algerian Civil War.
Admin since December 3, 2004.
See also:
Portal:Algeria.
Language isolates and unclassified languages: Jalaa language, Laal language, Shabo language, Shabo lexicon, Kujarge language, Oropom language, Weyto language, Bung language, Wutana language, Bete language, Lufu language, Imraguen language, Nemadi language, Mpre language, Kwavi language, ( Oropom, Andamanese languages), Category:Languages whose existence is uncertain.
Other African languages: Fur language, Berber languages, Northern Berber languages, Chenoua language, Soddo language, Korandje language, Gimira language, Tuareg languages, Saho language, Senhaja de Srair language, Tarifit language, Ghomara language, Komuz languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Afro-Asiatic languages, Tifinagh, Old Nubian language, Tagoi language.
Semitic languages: Varieties of Arabic, Samaritan Hebrew, List of Proto-Semitic roots, Soddo language, Moabite language, Phoenician languages, Edomite language, Ammonite language, Canaanite languages, Hebrew names, pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions, PERF 558, Nubi language.
Not necessarily exhaustive...
Articles that I've written lots in: MEMRI, Kingdom of Nekor, al-Fatiha, al-Alaq, Qur'an, Rif, Muqatta'at.
Articles that I've written less in: Abd el-Krim, Palestinian, Ifriqiya, Djerid, Ha-Mim, Banu Isam, Berghouata, Salih ibn Tarif, Darfur, Darfur conflict, sura, Religious significance of Jerusalem#In Mandaeanism.
Due to massive POV attack (not that it was much good to begin with): Jihad. (See also: Template:Timeline of Islamist militancy, Template:Islam.)
Due to incompleteness or inadequacy of Islamic history section: History of Palestine, Galilee, Persecution of Muslims, Martyr, Muhammad as warrior.
I think the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tragic though it is, is massively overhyped - it gets more media coverage than most conflicts ten, or even one hundred, times as lethal (see Congo Civil War), and I'm not an expert on Islamic theology, but the persistent tendency of some people to add Islamophobic and anti-Arab propaganda to articles on both those topics is a real danger, and one I am often forced to respond to. I should add that I am a proud anti-Zionist of the second type: that is, I advocate the quixotic notion that everybody ought to just get along and live together peacefully, or in the article's words, argue for "a state in which Jews and Palestinians live together as equals."
On historical linguistics, I incline much more towards the long-ranger view than the ultra-sceptical positions that seem to be prevalent, which too often strike me as being founded more on a priori objections than on empirical evidence. I firmly support the comparative method, but regard mass lexical comparison as not a competitor but a necessary prelude to it. However, I also consider some long-rangers' work - in particular Merritt Ruhlen's - to suffer from unacceptably large degrees of semantic latitude.
A couple of egregious examples:
Common themes in such cases include vagueness about who holds the alleged views, straw man arguments misrepresenting opponents' views the better to knock them down, and—worst of all—a refusal to address the issue of what actually happened or did not happen, as opposed to what X thinks about it.