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Hello! I noticed you were on the list of members in the LDS WikiProject, and I was wondering if you were still interested in helping out there. You see, over the past few months, it appears that it has slowly drifted into inactivity. But you CAN help. Please consider doing both of the following:
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Thanks for all that you do - Trevdna 15:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Saludos y shalom, amigo. I notice you put the article Minuteman Project into the Category:Racism. I don't know if you were basing the categorization on the SPLC's declaration or on the theory (I don't recall whose at the moment) that racism is defined by results, regardless of intent, and therefore since the Minuteman Project (and the Border Patrol, for that matter) affect only people of color, this makes them racist. Personally, I believe that the anti-illegal immigration movement in general has a racist tinge to it, but in my experience, this type of categorization, especially without prior discussion on an article's talkpage, only leads to revert- and edit-wars. I have made the same argument for de-categorizing National Council of La Raza from the racism category. There was a lively debate as to whether or not to categorize the group as mere vigilantes! I'm going to revert it for now, but please feel free to plead your case here, on the article's talkpage, or on my talkpage. Gracias,-- Rockero 05:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Note there that you might be interested in. Tom e r talk 06:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Gilgamesh --
User Nobu Sho added some text from the Japonic languages page to the Japanese language page, which seems to have originated with you back around August 2004. The snippet in question is:
As I discuss over on the Talk pages for Japonic languages and Japanese language, I've got some issues with this statement, and I was hoping you or someone else could provide a source citation or two. Would you be so kind as to post on either (or both) of these talk pages with a source? Thank you, Eiríkr Útlendi 23:23, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent note on my talk page. I usually find it best to respond point by point, it's easier for me:
Thank you for your words and also your recommendation of Loolwa Khazzoom. I have often argued that Israelis and Palestinians have at least one thing in common if nothing else: tyranny at the hands of Arab neighbors. One one hand, nobody doubts that had Arabs won the war in 1948, they would have prevented the establishment of an independent Palestine as well. On the other hand, non-Palestinian Arabs have oppressed and humiliated Jews and now Palestinians in their midst, but denied they did either. Funny how things go. Now we Palestinians, being what I consider the most democratic among all Arabic-speaking nations (regarding not just choice of leaders but basic internal freedoms (like press, etc) that make up for the absence of basic external freedoms imposed by the occupation) are about to go through what the rest of those nations will inevitably have to go through - the path of being ruled by religious fundamentalists. And hopefully we'll be the first to emerge from this inevitable situation, and with a strong peace, be a symbol of prosperity and tolerance to those other places which are still in constant denial of their miserable conditions. Thanks again, Ramallite (talk) 20:59, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Gilgamesh - Whatever change you made to the Template:Okina it appears to have defeated the purpose, as it is now appearing as an empty box to most users. I cannot tell if there is a system wide problem or what, but pages like Template:Okina and even Hawaii no longer appear as existing when I try to access them. I can get to them through their history if I can find where I have edited them in the past, but the system tells me the page does not exist if I try to go through a link - Marshman 02:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gilgamesh, maybe you're the hero not only for Uruk but for the poor little ʻokina in the middle of the Pacific as well ... I'm working on the invention of the ʻokina in the German Wikipedia for a while. Trying to rename the article de:Hawaii to de:Hawaiʻi some others claimed to be the Unicode character U+02BB "illegal" to use in article names. Following some of the discussions here I think you're one of the few who understand both sides of the problem (linguistic, technical). When I checked en:Kaua‘i ‘Ō‘ō I realized:
Can you help to clear this for me? Mahalo in advance, ThT 07:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
That is the way that thing ʻ, the Hawaiʻian ʻokina, is called in Tonga and Tahiti. Macintosh users have it already for years, but Windows users only see boxes. Or so I believe. People get frustrated when I talk about it, so I am still not sure, and your discussions did not make me much wiser. Fact is that people complain they cannot read the articles I wrote about Tongan and Tahitian when I use ʻ (unicode 0x02BB). And I would not want to use ‘ (0x2018). Is the { {okina} } template supposed to solve the problem or not. Is it working now or not? The others said that they could read en.wikipedia.org/hawaii but not haw.wikiepedia.org/hawaii. So I am utterly confused now. You seem to be the expert. Please illuminate. -- Tauʻolunga 05:38, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gilgamesh, there are two different issues at stake with the naming of Hawaiian articles. Firstly, the official name of the state of Hawaii does not have an 'okina today, so by Wikipedia style it should be consistently written without one when referring to the state. This guideline has not been enforced particularly strongly, as you may notice; more important atm are article naming guidelines (see below).
Secondly, the guidelines for article titles in particular is to use widely-accepted names when there is a choice between different spellings. So even in cases where there is no official-name issue, if a name is always spelled without an 'okina in most contexts, but with an 'okina by people living in Hawaii, the article title should be without one (though the article text is welcome to use an 'okina). See for instance Kingdom of Hawaii.
Cheers, +sj + 14:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gilgamesh,
You added to the Trabzon article a long time ago that it still has a sizeable Pontian Muslim community. Do you have any sources for this? See Talk:Trabzon for more details. Thanks. -- Khoikhoi 22:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:VEI-8_supervolcanoes_to_Category:VEI-8_volcanoes. Also, these categories are a bit tricky since most volcanoes fall under multiple categories. — jdorje ( talk) 21:17, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Gilgamesh. User:Haldrik is adding transliterations and etymologies of Hebrew/Aramaic words that seem to contradict others I've seen. Since you're an expert in this, I'm hoping you can provide some insight. Would you mind taking a look? You can find them at Jesus#Names and Yeshua. Jayjg (talk) 19:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for working on changing all the unicode to regular Chinese characters!!!!!!!!!!! You rock! Mike 16:30, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
to me, the only disco is the dance music up until 1980 or 1981. "It's Raining Men" is most definitely a club anthem but not disco in my opinion. same with the song "Who Do You Think You Are". however if you feel that the songs qualify as simply another form of the genre, then by all means re-add them as "disco songs." Drmagic 20:59, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Thanks for your contributions to WP. Unfortunately, I nominated the Israel-Palestine article you started for deletion for reasons stated therein. Regards, - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë 17:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that you've created stubs of many Greek Islands. Maybe you should slow down and expand them. Thank you, -- Janarius 17:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hallo, I noticed that you merged my Stub about the Islet of Strongili with yours. Unfortunately, you did not read carefully my stub, so you did not notice that "my" Strongili (where I have been last summer with the sailboat: it is really a beautiful place!) is located east of Kastellórizo: this means in the Dodecanese, and not in the Cyclades. I don't know any Strongili there, but Strongyli ("round", in Greek) is one of the ancient names of Santorini. So I corrected the stub. Anyway, if you find out that another Island with this name does exist, you can add write another stub and a disambiguation about it. Thanks! alex2006 15:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you modified the phonetic transcriptions at Koine Greek. I don't quite agree with some of the changes - in particular, the change from aspirated stops to voiceless fricatives is dated rather late in antiquity, as far as I know, so for the Maccabeans text the plosives were quite appropriate. Would you mind if I changed those back sometime? Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:36, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints.
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Thanks! -- evrik 16:14, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Why did you put a VEI of 11 at Siberian Traps? Isn't the maximum VEI 8? Or did I misinterpret it? -- Hardscarf 22:46, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I asked some questions at Talk:Pangaea about etymology; could you have a look please? I studied Greek once but have forgotten most of it. -- Mathew5000 04:37, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Quick question. Would the rift valley be the largest mainly overland mountain range?
Hi there - as the creator or editor of many of the categories in Category:Cities destroyed during World War II, I thought you might be interested in the discussion here. Thanks. Carcharoth 11:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Just wondering if the statements on your page about Mormon doctrine were yours or official opinion. I'm not Mormon, but they were the most liberal statements I've ever seen, and I commend you! Secos5 02:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the contribution, but could you explain why you changed the 'g' ? I'm probably either forgetting something or just being stupid, but what is the difference between 'g' and 'ɡ'? Is one an IPA symbol and the other not? Feel free to explain either on my usertalk or on the talk page. Thanks :) - FrancisTyers · 15:59, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I just read Voiced velar plosive and now I understand. Thanks again :) - FrancisTyers · 16:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
One of the pictures on the Diamond Head, Hawaii article is up for nomination to become a featured picture! You can see the picture here. Please add a supporting vote on its nomination page here or, more specifically, here, if you feel it's worthy. Thanks for your help! Cathryn 16:13, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
We seem to have things in common. Also, I would like help. User:Johngagon
Is there a font in which that character is expressed in? It may fix some problems for users of IE if there's a font face that utilizes the okina in normal text (although I doubt this will fix everything). Ryūlóng 22:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | → | Archive 15 |
Hello! I noticed you were on the list of members in the LDS WikiProject, and I was wondering if you were still interested in helping out there. You see, over the past few months, it appears that it has slowly drifted into inactivity. But you CAN help. Please consider doing both of the following:
Remember: your involvement in this WikiProject is just that - involvement! Please help us out.
(Note: I'm sending this out to everyone who's name was on the membership list, so I will NOT be watching this page for a response. If you want to contact me, do it on MY talk page, please.)
Thanks for all that you do - Trevdna 15:45, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Saludos y shalom, amigo. I notice you put the article Minuteman Project into the Category:Racism. I don't know if you were basing the categorization on the SPLC's declaration or on the theory (I don't recall whose at the moment) that racism is defined by results, regardless of intent, and therefore since the Minuteman Project (and the Border Patrol, for that matter) affect only people of color, this makes them racist. Personally, I believe that the anti-illegal immigration movement in general has a racist tinge to it, but in my experience, this type of categorization, especially without prior discussion on an article's talkpage, only leads to revert- and edit-wars. I have made the same argument for de-categorizing National Council of La Raza from the racism category. There was a lively debate as to whether or not to categorize the group as mere vigilantes! I'm going to revert it for now, but please feel free to plead your case here, on the article's talkpage, or on my talkpage. Gracias,-- Rockero 05:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Note there that you might be interested in. Tom e r talk 06:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Gilgamesh --
User Nobu Sho added some text from the Japonic languages page to the Japanese language page, which seems to have originated with you back around August 2004. The snippet in question is:
As I discuss over on the Talk pages for Japonic languages and Japanese language, I've got some issues with this statement, and I was hoping you or someone else could provide a source citation or two. Would you be so kind as to post on either (or both) of these talk pages with a source? Thank you, Eiríkr Útlendi 23:23, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent note on my talk page. I usually find it best to respond point by point, it's easier for me:
Thank you for your words and also your recommendation of Loolwa Khazzoom. I have often argued that Israelis and Palestinians have at least one thing in common if nothing else: tyranny at the hands of Arab neighbors. One one hand, nobody doubts that had Arabs won the war in 1948, they would have prevented the establishment of an independent Palestine as well. On the other hand, non-Palestinian Arabs have oppressed and humiliated Jews and now Palestinians in their midst, but denied they did either. Funny how things go. Now we Palestinians, being what I consider the most democratic among all Arabic-speaking nations (regarding not just choice of leaders but basic internal freedoms (like press, etc) that make up for the absence of basic external freedoms imposed by the occupation) are about to go through what the rest of those nations will inevitably have to go through - the path of being ruled by religious fundamentalists. And hopefully we'll be the first to emerge from this inevitable situation, and with a strong peace, be a symbol of prosperity and tolerance to those other places which are still in constant denial of their miserable conditions. Thanks again, Ramallite (talk) 20:59, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Gilgamesh - Whatever change you made to the Template:Okina it appears to have defeated the purpose, as it is now appearing as an empty box to most users. I cannot tell if there is a system wide problem or what, but pages like Template:Okina and even Hawaii no longer appear as existing when I try to access them. I can get to them through their history if I can find where I have edited them in the past, but the system tells me the page does not exist if I try to go through a link - Marshman 02:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gilgamesh, maybe you're the hero not only for Uruk but for the poor little ʻokina in the middle of the Pacific as well ... I'm working on the invention of the ʻokina in the German Wikipedia for a while. Trying to rename the article de:Hawaii to de:Hawaiʻi some others claimed to be the Unicode character U+02BB "illegal" to use in article names. Following some of the discussions here I think you're one of the few who understand both sides of the problem (linguistic, technical). When I checked en:Kaua‘i ‘Ō‘ō I realized:
Can you help to clear this for me? Mahalo in advance, ThT 07:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
That is the way that thing ʻ, the Hawaiʻian ʻokina, is called in Tonga and Tahiti. Macintosh users have it already for years, but Windows users only see boxes. Or so I believe. People get frustrated when I talk about it, so I am still not sure, and your discussions did not make me much wiser. Fact is that people complain they cannot read the articles I wrote about Tongan and Tahitian when I use ʻ (unicode 0x02BB). And I would not want to use ‘ (0x2018). Is the { {okina} } template supposed to solve the problem or not. Is it working now or not? The others said that they could read en.wikipedia.org/hawaii but not haw.wikiepedia.org/hawaii. So I am utterly confused now. You seem to be the expert. Please illuminate. -- Tauʻolunga 05:38, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gilgamesh, there are two different issues at stake with the naming of Hawaiian articles. Firstly, the official name of the state of Hawaii does not have an 'okina today, so by Wikipedia style it should be consistently written without one when referring to the state. This guideline has not been enforced particularly strongly, as you may notice; more important atm are article naming guidelines (see below).
Secondly, the guidelines for article titles in particular is to use widely-accepted names when there is a choice between different spellings. So even in cases where there is no official-name issue, if a name is always spelled without an 'okina in most contexts, but with an 'okina by people living in Hawaii, the article title should be without one (though the article text is welcome to use an 'okina). See for instance Kingdom of Hawaii.
Cheers, +sj + 14:25, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Gilgamesh,
You added to the Trabzon article a long time ago that it still has a sizeable Pontian Muslim community. Do you have any sources for this? See Talk:Trabzon for more details. Thanks. -- Khoikhoi 22:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:VEI-8_supervolcanoes_to_Category:VEI-8_volcanoes. Also, these categories are a bit tricky since most volcanoes fall under multiple categories. — jdorje ( talk) 21:17, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey Gilgamesh. User:Haldrik is adding transliterations and etymologies of Hebrew/Aramaic words that seem to contradict others I've seen. Since you're an expert in this, I'm hoping you can provide some insight. Would you mind taking a look? You can find them at Jesus#Names and Yeshua. Jayjg (talk) 19:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for working on changing all the unicode to regular Chinese characters!!!!!!!!!!! You rock! Mike 16:30, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
to me, the only disco is the dance music up until 1980 or 1981. "It's Raining Men" is most definitely a club anthem but not disco in my opinion. same with the song "Who Do You Think You Are". however if you feel that the songs qualify as simply another form of the genre, then by all means re-add them as "disco songs." Drmagic 20:59, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Thanks for your contributions to WP. Unfortunately, I nominated the Israel-Palestine article you started for deletion for reasons stated therein. Regards, - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë 17:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that you've created stubs of many Greek Islands. Maybe you should slow down and expand them. Thank you, -- Janarius 17:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hallo, I noticed that you merged my Stub about the Islet of Strongili with yours. Unfortunately, you did not read carefully my stub, so you did not notice that "my" Strongili (where I have been last summer with the sailboat: it is really a beautiful place!) is located east of Kastellórizo: this means in the Dodecanese, and not in the Cyclades. I don't know any Strongili there, but Strongyli ("round", in Greek) is one of the ancient names of Santorini. So I corrected the stub. Anyway, if you find out that another Island with this name does exist, you can add write another stub and a disambiguation about it. Thanks! alex2006 15:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you modified the phonetic transcriptions at Koine Greek. I don't quite agree with some of the changes - in particular, the change from aspirated stops to voiceless fricatives is dated rather late in antiquity, as far as I know, so for the Maccabeans text the plosives were quite appropriate. Would you mind if I changed those back sometime? Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:36, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
I noted that you have been contributing to articles about saints. I invite you to join the WikiProject Saints.
You are invited to participate in Saints WikiProject, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about saints. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated! |
Thanks! -- evrik 16:14, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Why did you put a VEI of 11 at Siberian Traps? Isn't the maximum VEI 8? Or did I misinterpret it? -- Hardscarf 22:46, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I asked some questions at Talk:Pangaea about etymology; could you have a look please? I studied Greek once but have forgotten most of it. -- Mathew5000 04:37, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Quick question. Would the rift valley be the largest mainly overland mountain range?
Hi there - as the creator or editor of many of the categories in Category:Cities destroyed during World War II, I thought you might be interested in the discussion here. Thanks. Carcharoth 11:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Just wondering if the statements on your page about Mormon doctrine were yours or official opinion. I'm not Mormon, but they were the most liberal statements I've ever seen, and I commend you! Secos5 02:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the contribution, but could you explain why you changed the 'g' ? I'm probably either forgetting something or just being stupid, but what is the difference between 'g' and 'ɡ'? Is one an IPA symbol and the other not? Feel free to explain either on my usertalk or on the talk page. Thanks :) - FrancisTyers · 15:59, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I just read Voiced velar plosive and now I understand. Thanks again :) - FrancisTyers · 16:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
One of the pictures on the Diamond Head, Hawaii article is up for nomination to become a featured picture! You can see the picture here. Please add a supporting vote on its nomination page here or, more specifically, here, if you feel it's worthy. Thanks for your help! Cathryn 16:13, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
We seem to have things in common. Also, I would like help. User:Johngagon
Is there a font in which that character is expressed in? It may fix some problems for users of IE if there's a font face that utilizes the okina in normal text (although I doubt this will fix everything). Ryūlóng 22:41, 29 July 2006 (UTC)