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Your edit "cleaning up" the pronunciations removed them entirely. WTF. -- Cybercobra (talk) 09:42, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Does this outing justify a block? ( Taivo ( talk) 22:17, 2 May 2010 (UTC))
As you'd pointed out, simplified characters shouldn't come first by default as a result of this template. Would you want to share your views and ideas at Template talk:Zh? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.237.153.52 ( talk) 01:32, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
i just can't pronounce this. are you sure it's right?-- camr nag 17:01, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
--pl.note:i'v[[RSI]]>typin=v.v.hard4me!>contactme thruMSNpl.if unclear[sven70=alias ( talk) 05:24, 5 May 2010 (UTC) ps wel,stil there[c history pl],i blokd'gen4wot,si
this page has an IPA issue that someone put in a template, and it's throwing off the layout; I was just about to de-watchlist it in fact, when I noticed this; apparently the IPA has a vowel in it that's just not used in Icelandic (the second 'a') and so, to me, shouldn't be used in English either, given the exotic nature of this name. Skookum1 ( talk) 18:58, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations mate, well done! My own contributions are pretty low key these days, but I'm glad people like you are doing your bit to make Wikipedia one of the Wonders of the Internet Age. -- Ngio ( talk) 19:09, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
The tags that you added to that article were completely unnecessary, and are not in most articles, please stop adding them. The pronunciation of the town name is correct. Please stop changing this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 00:09, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
It is pronounced as it is spelled Chi (with a long I) Chester —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 00:45, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
It is not pronounced the same way as it is in England it is spelled the same way, but not pronounced the same way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 00:46, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
The stress is on the first syllable, CHI-ches-ter Please never do this again, you are incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 00:48, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Please stop acting inappropriately. I know how this town name is pronounced and every time you change it, it is different. Every time I change it, I revert it back to the same pronunciation. Please don't go around changing things unless you are absolutely sure that they are true. You also messed up the formatting. I have never seen an article where citation was needed. Please stop this. MarcusHookPa ( talk) 00:57, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
This is not dubious, nor will it ever be. Words are pronounced differently in the United States than they are in England This town name has the American Pronunciation, not the English Pronunciation —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 01:11, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
OK, i am becoming extremely impatient with your actions. I know how the town name is pronounced, please stop doing this —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 03:19, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
/ˈtʃaɪ ˈtʃɛs.tər/ is the correct pronunciation I am going to revert it back to that now, thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 03:21, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
both syllables are stressed, the first and the second, that is the way it is pronounced, the first is just stressed more than the second. I hope never to discuss further on this issue. Please never edit the pronunciation of this town's article again. Thank You MarcusHookPa ( talk) 03:23, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Just so that you know, you were the subject of a discussion at
my talk page. Best,
Knepflerle (
talk)
14:44, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I apologize for my actions, but my pronunciation is correct. I do not appreciate threats from Wikipedia users who are not involved in this issue. The Pronunciation has stress on the first two syllables. I would kindly ask that you change it back to the original pronunciation. I do not wish to continue in this edit war. Thank You MarcusHookPa ( talk) 18:54, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I was confused by what you were saying. BOTH the first and second syllables are stressed. I am sorry for confusing you, please revert the pronunciation back to the way it was originally ˈtʃaɪˈtʃɛs.tər or CHI-CHES-ter I am sorry for confusing you and contradicting myself, but there was no need to report me over this small issue. Please change it back. The pronunciation that I put was correct. I apologize, but yours was incorrect. MarcusHookPa ( talk) 20:17, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
[I've restored this thread from last month's archive so I could continue it]
Why did you remove the syllable separators from /ˈwɛlɪŋtən/ yesterday? You forgot to leave an explanation in the edit summary. Ben Arnold ( talk) 08:29, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
You cared about the pronounciation of the German-Danish composer. To my knowledge the vowel in Bux is a clear "u" in German as in Danish - I don't know the one shown now. Hard to write about, speaking would be easier ... -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. On April 26, you modified the IPA for Gettysburg and I am having difficulty understanding the third IPA character you used. It looks like the "Flapped R" character, but that portion of the word should have a T sound. Can you clarify? Thanks. Hal Jespersen ( talk) 15:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
I am sorry to say that you have me completely confused. Most Americans would pronounce it GET-ease-burg (like "at ease"), but the sound file (recorded by me) is attempting to show that the local pronunciation is GETTIS-burg (like lettuce). Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:24, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
This shows how American-centric I am. :-) I'm not sure the "with an ss sound" you added is needed, but I think it's OK now. Thanks, Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:52, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Ping User_talk:Rursus#moribund. Rursus dixit. ( mbork3!) 19:28, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
What's the base of this edit? The word rhymes with the English word coin, so why the ʏ? -- ::Slomox:: >< 21:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
You reverted my editing of the pronunciation key in that article. However, the English R sounds nothing like an alveolar trill (according to that article, it's only present in the Scottish accent). The English R is most frequently an approximant. Missionary ( talk) 05:56, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I was wrong, there are 5 Swedish typologies, and there is a fat book in my bookshelf containing it,
More about the stress/tone in the Swedish accent:
Rursus dixit. ( mbork3!) 06:59, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
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A WikiProject of this nature is very broad. Munich has a rich history in sports, culture, politics along with many more topics. Feel free to help out in your area of interest.
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Kingjeff ( talk) 15:18, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I see how you are using the format of "X language" for language articles and seeing as the (i)ki- prefix is a language marker in Kinyarwanda, you are simply calling it Rwanda language, but i would like to point out that this is inconsistent with the article on Lingala. In Lingala, the li- serves the same purpose as (i)ki- in Kinyarwanda, and so if you follow your standard model, it should be moved to Ngala language. I personally am not in favour of this model, however, as the Kinyarwanda language is almost never referred to as "Rwanda language", but almost universally Kinyarwanda and sometimes Ikinyarwanda. Incidentally, in Kinyarwanda, one can say ururimi rw'ikinyarwanda, which means 'language of ikinyarwanda'. 128.220.6.42 ( talk) 23:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Yes, work on that then we can look at something smarter if they get database dumps working again. Rich Farmbrough, 10:45, 14 May 2010 (UTC).
Good catch on the diphthongs, but I've seen inconsistency about syllable separation in previous entries so I decided to not separate it at all. What gives about [r]? I know that it's done for convenience, but I think we really think we should stick to [r] as the transcription for alveolar trill and not use it not alveolar approximant. Tenza ( talk) 22:32, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
At first I assumed good faith on the part of this Jembana character because he's new to Wikipedia. But now it looks as if he's a totally obsessed J T Koch/Atlantic Celt fanboy who can't quite get his head round the notion of NPOV. Koch's theories on Tartessian being Celtic came to light a couple of years ago, and although he's reasonably well respected as a Celticist, the theory of origins in Spain and Portugal rather than with the Hallstatt culture and classification of Tartessian as Celtic, would be classified as fringe. While the idea of Lusitanian being Celtic isn't popular now, I'm less sure if it's fair to call that fringe... I've just had to revert a load of changes Jembana has made to the Lusitanian language page, which turned it into pure advocacy of his pet theory. Would if be fair to add this to the Fringe Theories list in your opinion? Paul S ( talk) 20:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I am a Malaysian Wikipedian participating in WikiProject Malaysia.
Recently I noticed you made an IPA cleanup using AWB to Sarawak. I would like to point out that in the Malay language, all words ending with a 'K' are pronounced with a glottal stop. So changing the IPA consonant from ʔ to k clearly states that you don't speak Malay.
I have reverted your edit. In future, please do consult a native speaker of a certain language before making IPA changes (you can check from the history or talk page). Making IPA changes without knowledge of that language is an irresponsible and disrespectful act. Thank You. -- CoolCityCat ( talk) 09:05, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bother you - someone added a non-standard one to Mandurah, Western Australia so I changed it to IPA. Can you check that I've got it right? This Youtube video (a government one) has it pronounced - there's a very subtle ə after the "j" sound in the correct pronunciation, which is skipped entirely by less educated speakers. Orderinchaos 11:31, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
While you are checking pronunciation of Australian towns, someone has added a non-standard transcription of Breadalbane, New South Wales. Could you be so kind as to take a look at it please. -- Mattinbgn\ talk 09:45, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Language families (Ethnologue). Since you had some involvement with the Language families (Ethnologue) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bridgeplayer ( talk) 14:20, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Actually, the pronunciation /nju:/ is practically unheard in North America, including in New Orleans (viz., e.g., this), ... but I digress... :-p Tomer talk 18:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, I see you're doing fixes to pronunciation in Basque culture and geography related articles, which are most welcome. As it turns out, after your amendments some letters don't show properly in my computer at least (e.g. Donostia/San Sebastián article). Other IPA related issues include the way typical Basque sounds are given in IPA for articles in English (English IPA?), e.g. the d, b, g between vowels, and sibilants (s, z, x, ts, tz, ts). Regards! Iñaki LL ( talk) 12:05, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Are you serious
[1]? Man, have you ever been living in Croatia? You think that that's not an insult for Croats and that that name doesn't carry negative conotations for Croats?
Maybe you or your family wasn't persecuted and imprisoned for opposing to so-called Serbo-Croatian.
Permanent reverting is not the solution. We have to seriously discuss and solve this.
Budući da se smatraš autoritetom za područje hrvatskog jezika, onda moraš znati govoriti i pisati taj jezik, njegovu povijest te političke progone i pokušaje zatiranja hrvatskog jezika, pa možeš razgovarati sa mnom na hrvatskom jeziku. Kad si već toliki stručnjak za hrvatski, moraš ga i znati. Znaš li kad se prvi put spominje ime hrvatskog jezika i u kojem obliku? Tko je otac hrvatske književnosti? Kako se hrvatski jezik zvao kroz povijest? Znaš li na kojem su jeziku pisali AVNOJ-eve dokumente? Koje se jezike izričito navelo da se na njima mora pisati AVNOJ-eve dokumente? Znaš li zašto su hrvatski kulturni djelatnici donijeli Deklaraciju o Deklaracija o nazivu i položaju hrvatskog književnog jezika? Znaš li kakvim su pritiscima bili izloženi ti ljudi od strane vlastiju? Je li ti poznato hrvatsko jezikoslovno nazivlje? Znaš li kad je i zašto je uvedena nagrada dr Ivan Šreter i zašto ta nagrada nosi to ime?
Kubura (
talk)
03:06, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Kwami, I hope we're getting somewhere.
Can you give me the answer on the questions I gave you above? Thank you in advance,
Kubura (
talk)
03:29, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I need a help here, it seems a member that have argued for a move in Gan Chinese have been randomly changing all the Jiangxi related articles without any or reliable sources. He kept on reverting my reverts, such as [2] , [3], -- LLTimes ( talk) 23:15, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
You have twice now removed information from this article, once before it was sourced, and once after I provided a source, with the comment that you didn't care if it was sourced or not, it was wrong. Please be aware that removal of sourced information is not allowed, unless you have an alternate and better source to support your claim. If your claim is based on your own experiences, that is original research and is not allowed. (As an editor with almost 100,000 edits, you certainly know all this.)
The source in this case is a book by an established historian, Barbara W. Ruchman, First Salute, which takes as its starting point the "First Salute" given to an American ship by the governor of Sint Eustatius during the American revolution. This is an impeccably reliably source. Please no not revert this information again unless you have a better source to offer. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 01:21, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Here is the actual quote from the source (p.14):
If you revert again, I will report you for a 3rr violation. It's your choice. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 05:27, 29 May 2010 (UTC)His [de Graff's] domain -- little Eustatius, or Statia, as it was familarially called in the region..."
In any case, I hope this incident is over, and we can meet again, if we do, as compatriots. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 06:25, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
I appreciate your work on List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies. Congratulations! -- Wavelength ( talk) 19:31, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I find value in the articles List of languages by name: A and so forth. If you click on "history" and then on "Page view statistics", you can see how many times they have been visited in May 2010. Please check before the month ends; otherwise, you can edit the date in the address bar. -- Wavelength ( talk) 19:31, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Would you take a look at the Pat Metheny article, and see if you can put in the IPA pronunciation for his name? Also, I believe Jaco Pastorius may also need help of the same kind. (It never ends, does it?) Thanks. -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 15:32, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've left you a response at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ethnic_groups#article_dabs. Thanks -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:52, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Stop vandalism articles about the Croatian language, and do not threaten me. -- Sokac121 ( talk) 16:11, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
First at all, where did you ask for citation? Did you know for template {{ Citation needed}}? Instead reverting my edits, you should use that template. Secondly, did you read something of stuff provided on talk page? And please don't threat me with blocks, please read Wikipedia:Blocking policy, and please assume my good faith.-- Ex13 ( talk) 20:53, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I am more than happy to discuss whether or not the comments on 白话 should stay in the Yue Chinese article, and sure we can reach agreement. My change was in fact primarily to illustrate that linking to wiktionary is at times better than giving an in text English gloss of a Chinese word. Johnkn63 ( talk) 08:06, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed you've been moving a number of articles such as Hutu, Tutsi and Twa with an edit summary "MOS". These moves are unnecessary disambiguation in my opinion (see WP:PRECISION), and I'm not sure what part of the MOS recommends this. But the most important thing is that you haven't been moving the associated talk pages. It looks like the new titles have no talk page, and once a new talk page is created and these old ones are left behind at the redirect, the discussions there may be virtually impossible to find again. Station1 ( talk) 09:40, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
kwami, Thanks for moving the talk pages. I've responded to your post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups. Station1 ( talk) 05:35, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you're doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. I've just read your profile and you seemed a very learned person and interested in (small) languages so maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... By the way your picture is great! I'm part of an association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this hasn't been approved up to that moment. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! Capsot ( talk) 07:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Bonjour,
Je ne comprends pas ce
diff qui altère la prononciation de vingt-quatre en supprimant le t sonore. Le chiffre 20 est prononcé /vɛ̃/ mais le t final devient sonore devant une voyelle ou devant les nombres de 21 à 29 : /vɛ̃t dø/ par exemple. Voir
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/vingt.
Mro (
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20:02, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Why did you move Nahuatl? Nahuatl is only the name of the language so there is no ambiguity and hence no need to include "language". ·Maunus·ƛ· 08:16, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Not sure it's a "writing system" in any very meaningful sense of the phrase... AnonMoos ( talk) 10:19, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
WP:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-06-06/Jiangxi. {{ Sonia| ping| enlist}} 11:13, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, kwami. I would like to note to you that the Torlakian dialects article and its talk page have different locations, I can't fix that. And, I'm curious, could you tell me your reasons for moving it to Torlakian dialects and not to Torlakian dialect? -- JorisvS ( talk) 11:42, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, are you sure you have consensus for all those moves from "X" to "X dialect"? Personally, I'm not quite happy with such a systematicity. In the case of "X language", it has AFAIK always been the consensus that the qualified form should only be used if "X" alone is ambiguous (which for language names is often, but not always the case). With dialects, there are cases like " Arvanitika", which is quite unambiguous. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:40, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, that was me being not so clear... you moved Finnish Kalo, Kalderash Romani and Welsh Romani (and I sort of see the sense in that) but there is Bohemian Romani and a number of Para-Romanis which you didn't move. It's difficult though to distuinguish which are considered languages and which are dialects. I think Kalderash was probably safe to move but one the Romani page most varieties are currently listed as dialects rather than languages but I think the debate on that topic hasn't even started yet. I would say all the Para-Romani varieties are safe to move because of them being contact induced and thus mostly incomprehensible to other groups but I wouldn't move any of the others on the Romani language page without debate. Akerbeltz ( talk) 08:36, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted your move of Gronings to Gronings dialect, partly because it isn't unambiguously "only" a dialect (it has its own ISO 639-3 code) and partly because I'm not convinced that "X dialect" is really the de facto standard for naming dialect articles at Wikipedia. I think a requested comment or requested move may be required to decide whether we want to call it Gronings (skirting the issue of language or dialect, and unambiguous since there's no distinct ethnicity of Gronings people to worry about), Gronings dialect, Gronings Low Saxon, or Gronings language. + An gr 15:11, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I see you moved the other varieties of Dutch Low Saxon to "X dialect" too. (Gronings is the only one on my watchlist, so it's the only one I noticed at first.) I won't move them all back, but I do think that's going to be controversial. + An gr 15:15, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
In fact, looking at your messages above, I think a lot of moves to "X dialect" are proving to be controversial. Maybe you should simply make redirects from "X dialect" to the existing name rather than moving the pages. That way, the articles are still findable under the consistent name, and people are less likely to get pissed off about moves made without discussion. + An gr 15:19, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand why all these ARBITRARY UNNECESSARY moves? I don't see that they are necessary and there are no rationales provided in the corresponding talk pages so a discussion or healthy exchange can take place prior to the moves...Perhaps, if u can write it in the talk page/s , i can be convinced, as the case, i don;t see any merit for these moves at this time...please help me understand. Pinay ( talk• email) 15:57, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I kindly ask you to restore the articles "Shanghainese" and "Taishanese", which were recently moved by you without any consensus to "Shanghainese dialect" and "Taishanese dialect". These names are awkward, unwieldy, not in common use, nor conformative to any existing WP standards. No attempts at discussion were made. Given your history in the Chinese linguistics scene (and even if that is notwithstanding), this is most certainly an inappropriate action, if not on procedural grounds alone. Please revert it at your first opportunity. Thanks. Colipon+( Talk) 00:05, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Howdy! I have a similar concern about your move of the Kwak'wala article to Kwak'wala language. My understanding was that "X language" should generally be used when the same word can refer to the language or its speakers. However, this is not the case with Kwak'wala. There is no such thing as the Kwak'wala people; the speakers of Kwak'wala are the Kwakwaka'wakw. So I would suggest reverting that change, unless you had another reason for moving that article? Jiashudiwanjin ( talk) 03:20, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
you recently changed something in an article from 2006 about Berti Language on wiki.
I need to get in contact with someone who has knowledge about the Berti extinct language.
Can you help?
When did the Berti loose their language, and start using Arab with an accent?
Some places I read centuries ago, but in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berti_language it mentions 1990 ? I think thats very strange.
Do you have information? And out of what sources? Do you know someone who has studied on these matters?
Thanks! Kind regards,Monike —Preceding unsigned comment added by MonikeMMPA ( talk • contribs) 15:20, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Got a question. I don't recall anything in the IPA that distinguishes between [w] and [u] with a non-syllabic mark. [w] is a non-syllabic [u] after all and as far as I've ever read the two are interchangeable. At Kiev and Lviv there is an anon IP who is pushing the latter. The former is the accepted IPA transcription by all other editors. But has the teaching of phonetics changed to the point that [w] is no longer considered a nonsyllabic [u]? -- Taivo ( talk) 14:41, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Why you have deleted hole section? Based on what? can You please let me know what is your relation to Serbian chapter? Thank you. -- 76.114.213.50 ( talk) 21:30, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
I happened to notice what has been happening at User_talk:76.114.213.50. I read Talk:Montenegrin_language and I support what you have done in response. Blue Rasberry 00:08, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
ynotcal'm aLECTS?-- ---Please note, I have [[Repetitive Strain Injury]] and find typing very hard. I use a form of shorthand, which may be difficult to understand. I can be contacted through MSN (sven70) or Skype (sven0921) if my meaning is unclear. ( talk) 02:12, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I notice a whole bunch of these pages on my watchlist have suddenly sprouted adjectives. I tend to think these are a bad idea because such terms, while technically correct for the classical forms of the names, are almost never in use by people in the field. Finding citations for them will be a body-by-body battle. Rare exceptions are where the bodies are heavily studied. These edits are duplicating and extending the list of such adjectival forms that used to be at planetary science, which I pruned out for exactly this reason. Iridia ( talk) 14:25, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements#Merger of period elements. DMacks ( talk) 15:50, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I guess you have a message here. Tbhotch Talk C. 00:22, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Left you a note. Thanks, - Stevertigo ( w | t | e) 01:34, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. It is not my intention to engage in an edit war on the page, however there are a few things you need to realise before you insist upon one particular revision. My original edit was merely presentational in that it wasn't only Macedonian that was using the digraph in its Romanised form but Serbian also; previously it was constructed as if to classify Serbian along with Croatian as Roman alphabet only languages and that is not the case. The Roman alphabet is so popular in Serbian that its speakers (or writers) take it for granted and treat the language as if the Cyrillic is not there. That was the reason I played with the syntax. Now although you did not technically revert my contribution, you did shake the foundation of the entire passage. The term Serbo-Croat does exist and there is indeed a time that its usage is wholly adequate. I too also am for the language and not against it as my editing may suggest to you. There are two things you must realise however: firstly, Macedonian (which you deleted) is not and never has been within the scope of SC. During the time of Communist Yugoslavia, Macedonian stood alongside Serbo-Croat and Slovene (also outside of SC) as official languages, so that if anything warrants its return to the section; we can't sideline Macedonian and welcome other language with open arms when the detail applies to every one equally; secondly, insisting upon the term SC can be seen as POV-pushing, impolite and unrealistic to the millions of individuals who call their language by the name of their own demonym (eg. Bosnian, Serbian, etc.) and it does not end there, you have Croatian, Bunjev and now even Montenegrin. Now you may feel that a full list of languages here on what is purely a reference page more than a subject article is overkill and painful for the eyes and people's concentration. If this is so, we can work out a plan and circumvent Serbo-Croat at the same time, such as by displaying "the Slavic languages of the former Yugoslavia"; or you could mention SC by stating, "languages formerly within the SC category/SC's successors, etc.". The risk of leaving it in its present form is that it will in time provoke certain editors and they will try to recreate a revision similar to the version unfavourable to you. I suggest an amendment to the current format. Evlekis (Евлекис) 01:47, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you moved this page to "Fering dialect" per MOS, as you said in the edit summary. I wonder though if that is really necessary. The only related policy I could find is Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages) where it says that unique names normally go without a suffix. Also I've never seen the use of "Fering dialect" as a general referrer, only Fering or maybe Foehr Frisian, so I'd really be willing to move the title back. The same goes for Öömrang and Sölring. De728631 ( talk) 18:44, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm really f**king sick of having to repeat myself on talk:AAH. Can you put up an edit notice indicating this is not the place to discuss the AAH, we should only use source that are explicit about it? I know we've got the {{ talkheader}} up, but no-one reads it and a bright friggin' red box while editing might dissuade people more.
I feel like I'm editing talk:creationism or something. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules: simple/ complex 12:45, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Wow, you are right. You know, I speak it and learnt since I was a kid that Portuguese had 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u). God, was I wrong. Thanks for letting me know. Pikolas ( talk) 20:46, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
I have been making comments about the change of the name of Herschel (Mimantean crater) from [[Herschel (crater on Mimas)]] on the talk page. There has been no response. No response is a reasonable response, but I want to make sure that no response is not the simple result of not noticing the discussion. I do not add all of the pages I edit to my watch list. -- Fartherred ( talk) 23:52, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you moved Paisaci to Paisaci language with just the edit summary "MOS". I've moved it back since in this case there are no articles on "Paisaci people" or "Paisaci grammar" or "Paisaci literature" (and for a near-mythical language there aren't going to be), so there's no reason for such a move. Shreevatsa ( talk) 19:25, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I continued the Talk on the template layout at Template talk:CSS IPA consonant chart#Layout improvement here is harmless. I'd like you to take a look. - DePiep ( talk) 13:58, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
I've added an audio file to the article, but am not certain how to combine the contents of the IPA template that I added with the other IPA template that was already present. Can you help sort this out? It will give me a model I can use when any future such occasions arise. -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 05:09, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations is about to be copied to Wiktionary, but apparently not List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names and not List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies. There is transclusion involved in the Wikipedia articles, and I do not know how that would/will be affected by such a change. This message is to advise you of the situation.— Wavelength ( talk) 06:01, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm new here... do you have any advice? ~ Nao Ichibana ( talk) 06:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Well thanks for the warm welcome! I shall now get started with being a Wikipedian. ~ Nao ( talk) 06:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I just noticed you changed Australia to light orange following Julia Gillard's appointment as PM. Unless I'm mistaken, it should actually be yellow as with the UK and NZ because while Australia now has both a female head of state and government, the Queen as a monarch is excluded per the article – orange should only be used for republics which have had both female Presidents and Prime Ministers such as Finland. Canada should also be yellow by my reasoning, unless I'm missing something. 84.92.117.93 ( talk) 16:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Kwamikagami, you've reverted the article 3 times today, so WP:3RR is becoming an issue. Rather than edit-warring on this, let's work it out on the article's Talk: page, ok? Jayjg (talk) 02:41, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I've been going through my old talk page and I realized I never gave you a proper thank you for the the help you gave at the top of the year during my block debacle. So consider this that thank you and an apology for taking so long to do so! Therequiembellishere ( talk) 10:44, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, I removed an inaccurate statement from the SignWriting page and moved it to the SignWriting talk page. You just added the information back. I was not trying to scrub the article, just improve it. I will be adding a more detailed section on collation later.
The first sentence...
SignWriting has had computerized collation since 1998. The idea that SignWriting collation is difficult is simply untrue.
The second sentence...
From a SignWriting perspective, different hands make for different signs. Different signs with the same meaning are synonyms. This makes for a interesting correlation that every sign has an automatic mirrored synonym. This isn't difficult. For sorting, write from a common right-handed or left-handed perspective, or tell the sorting routine to ignore handed-ness when sorting (like sorting without regards to capitalization).
Regards, Slevinski ( talk) 22:19, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
dude, the word IS Slovak and it DOES mean field. Don't be lazy and google it for yourself if you don't believe it. You're just doing this because this is an anonymous account. Ridiculous. The source stated that roľa has a synonym "pole". You know what, I just googled it for you :S I have no idea why I did it for you, just look at this source and then go think about your behavior against people with good intentions. 81.68.255.36 ( talk) 22:49, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Do you realize just how lazy you are making me do simple searches that you could have done just as easily? That is so annoying. Google can really help you out. Just type: "roľa pronunciation" or "veľký" or "moľa" :D and there you go! And besides, other google searches show many more mentions of wikipedia and wiktionary showing it is not a palatalized el. Perhaps it IS the palatal lateral approximant that it claims to be in that article :D anyway, perhaps you have a wrong font, and see it as the l + '. In transliteration from (Russian that I know of) Cyrillic that is often used to show the Ь. However, I noticed you editing more in linguistic articles, so I suppose you already know that. Once again, why are you just being lazy when it was so easy? :S a great way to keep people with good intentions away from editing :) 81.68.255.36 ( talk) 10:51, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Finally, I should have thought of UCLA..they are masters. About the tongue, it is the same as Italian "gl" in "gli" for example. That's the only other language I know that uses it as well. It's where you have the tip of your tongue behind the lower teeth. Ciao e grazie, zbohom i vďaka Akerbeltz. 81.68.255.36 ( talk) 18:41, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Okay wait, regarding your earlier post: I think I get it now. It sounds more like "ль" in Russian, rather than the Italian. Making it a what..palatal and nothing more L? Also, the capital of Slovenia is written with the hacek L and I noticed the Italians don't write the same capital with gli. That's when I thought of Russian, they write it like Любляна. So, it can be removed I suppose from the article. Sorry for the inconvenience hehe, I thought I was being picked on and didn´t work correctly. Also, as you might have guessed± I´m not a native speaker of English. Please be gentle on my grammar etc. Bye §§§§ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.68.255.36 ( talk) 21:22, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I think this revert was very unwise. CIreland ( talk) 00:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Please do NOT insult. If you follow procedure, and nobody objects to merging of some articles, that does not mean merging is justified, that only means nobody objected.
Please respect facts, and tend to regard other users with respect. I didn't write that you are nationalist, so please do not use such qualification if you do not have arguments. It is foul play. SpeedyGonsales ( talk) 13:38, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
I think Meänkieli dialects should be changed back to 'Meänkieli' or 'Meänkieli language' because Swedish language legislation treats Meänkieli as a language. Meänkieli (lit. 'our language') is solely name of the language, so I think that the shorter article name 'Meänkieli' can be used.
More about Meänkieli and other minor Finno-Ugric languages in Europe: ELDIA project - Meankieli
More about the language legislation of Sweden: Language for All
Maksamakkara ( talk) 15:50, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I will not revert you, but I do not think your response was appropriate. It seems clear to me from the talk that Wellhausen's theory is too tangential. I agree that this does not mean it should be deleted entirely from the article. But I do not think that the introduction is the place to bring it up. The introduction should introduce all significant contents of the article, not a tangent. My understanding of the discussion is that there should be a section in the article - I would think at the end - saying that Wellhausen proposed that these verses be considered an "ethical decalogue" by the E author, which he contrasted to the Ritual decalogue authored by J. This is one theory by one scholar, and as everyone in the discussion has pointed out, is not referring to what the article is about, namely the "ten commandments." In fact, I personally think just having a link to the article on the "ritual decalogue" under "see also" is enough. But the discussion consensus seems to be for a section and I see no reason why it should be a major part of the article. It is a misrepresentation of Wellhausen to say that this is another version of the ten commandments; he is saying it is another important text written by a different author and edited into the larger narrative. In any event it remains a tangent and should not be mentioned in the introduction as if it were a significant part of the discussion on "the ten commandments." It isn't. That is not what Wellhausen is saying. Or do you interpret Wellhausen differently? Slrubenstein | Talk 17:37, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Ten Commandments. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:29, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Re: {{
Vowels}} and {{
IPA vowel chart}}, {{
Consonants}} and {{
IPA consonant chart}}.
Hi, I´m developing these four templates, as you might have seen. ([|here]). Since today they are a set.
It all could go via some Talk:page. - DePiep ( talk) 23:57, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Lutetia closest approach (Rosetta).jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kam Solusar ( talk) 15:48, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Your editsummary here says they "are defined" in IPA, but the charts Media:IPA_vowel_chart_2005.png and Media:Extended IPA chart 2005.png show different (show them not or in grey). To me this looks like a contradiction, or is it more complicated? I am not an IPA-scholar, but this is a first thing I ran into. - DePiep ( talk) 09:44, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
{{{shownonIPA|yes}}}|yes={{IPA|[[epiglottal flap|ʡ̯]]}}}}
. So the symbol is IPA, but why keep using the switch then still? That would create (some) confusion: it is not marked with a *-footnote, but it does disappear in an pure IPA-article (editor will set the switch to "=no"). The way I understand your description above, it is irrelevant if a character appears on the chart or not. My intention & suggestion with the switch is to give it one meaning only, so as to help the editors. Given your answer and the various(!) IPA-2005-charts, I'd suggest to drop the "not on the IPA-chart"-meaning completely. (More surprises for me: there are multiple versions around of the "(c) IPA 2005" consonant chart, like at the
official IPA-site. Even the sequence of the rows is not stable. How can anyone work with that? ;-)) -
DePiep (
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07:55, 13 July 2010 (UTC)A nice plan to take step by step. Any objections to the proposed Template:IPA consonant chart/sandbox first? Can only sandbox one step at a time. - DePiep ( talk) 21:22, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Discussion continues here from now - DePiep ( talk) 23:26, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, this weekend I did not log and did not see your message. If you wish I can afford you references on the case in newspapers (there are several references). The section as it stands now, looks acceptable, even if somewhat confusing. Maybe it could be interereting to show that the main problem arose when a countable inspection found unexplained expenses (some sources claimed that 3,91 million € [13] "En el primer año investigado, las presuntas irregularidades ascienden a 860.000 euros, y, en el total del periodo sometido a inspección, el desfase, según estas fuentes, podría llegar a los 3,91 millones."; some bit more that the 300.000 € in false bills) in the section of the hospital that Arnaiz directed, and that he was also accused for working behaviour (probably there is a much better way to call it). Dumu Eduba ( talk) 10:49, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Reminding you of this, if you could be kind to create it. I want to first wikify all the terms and create them on wiktionary if they don't exist. Thanks. -- Ivan Štambuk ( talk) 22:02, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
A true Navbox is never send to a "print this page". So if any article is to show the tables in-line (as part of the text, and possibly so into print), it needs to be the bare table (Consonants and Vowels alike). That is why I added the bare tables to Consonants. Having noted this, I won't contest your rv. - DePiep ( talk) 23:18, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that you undid my update to the page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_Decalogue
I am not sure why my update was undid. I replaced it back on that page.
If there was some particular reason why you did (for example, if I did not provide appropriate reference for my contribution), I would be happy to hear your reasons.
If you disagree with the statement, feel free to add something afterwards saying that you disagree with it. But, as far as I'm aware, I am using established source material to quote a substantiated claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.15.221.207 ( talk) 07:48, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Please stop rv-warring on a developing thing. I'm spending too much time on restoring good versions now. Re {{ IPA consonant chart}}, that version from a few days ago is stable, and has a lot of edits that are useful (e.g. more affricates). For sure, the edits (like the split into 3 tables) is exactly within the preferred view you pointed out. Also, noone, including you, has pointed to any disturbance of pages with that version. If you have problems with individual edits - go ahead. That there is an older stable version would mean we cannot improve? Is wikipedia finished? For sure, our current joint development in the sandbox & talk is based on that recent stable version, and goes ahead from that version. There's no need or reason to throw away all those earlier in between edits. - DePiep ( talk) 11:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, I think you might be interested in what's going on at Uralic languages. -- JorisvS ( talk) 09:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I wonder if its possible to unprotect Template:Country data Yugoslavia & Template:Country data Serbia and Montenegro for 24 hours or so? The templates are very crude with respect to the numerous Yugoslav and Serbia-Montenegrin flags, and I want to get some work done there expanding them. I admit, though, that I'm not very familiar with the "procedure" regarding editing the perpetually full-protected country data templates. -- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 22:38, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
If you research you'll find out that until late 1990's many countries (especially in West) used to include Urdu speaking population under Hindi, so when they seperated two languages officially there is a but-obvious boom in number of speakers of Urdu. I'm providing one such link, i.e. Tower Of Babel. -- Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider t c s 11:38, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Why did you move the Ovambo people's article? What sources told you the Ambo people is more common in English? A simple google search provides many examples where Ovambo is used in English. This move is also frustrating because you moved it with no discussion whatsoever. I ask you to take the necessary measures to have it moved back.-- TM 09:53, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I just noticed you blocked Finn Diesel ( talk · contribs) for, among other things, block evasion. Did you mean the edits from 79.191.101.61 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS)? If that's what you meant, I actually believe these were not really F.D., but unrelated banned troll Wikinger ( talk · contribs) piggy-backing. He often does these kinds of things, just to create confusion, and it was his known IP range. Or were there other edits that I missed? No objections against other block reasons, such as general disruptive editing and edit-warring, of course. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:12, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Sources for Croatian Grammar:
Bartol Kašić is Croatian cleric, name in Latin language is Cassius, Cassio. Born: Pag 15. VIII. 1575. - † Roma 28. XII. 1650.
see:
-- Dmitar Zvonimir ( talk) 12:11, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I know you're interested in scripts - I went to look up something and came across the Rohonc Codex whihc looks a bit like it's turned into someones sandbox for fanciful deciperments; I'm not that grand on scripts so thought you might want to take a look. Akerbeltz ( talk) 10:04, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Kwamikagami: "Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Vandalism cannot and will not be tolerated. Common types of vandalism are the addition of obscenities or crude humor, page blanking, and the insertion of nonsense into articles."... "Committing vandalism violates Wikipedia policy. If you find that another user has vandalized Wikipedia you should revert these changes; you may also warn the user (see below for specific instructions). Users who vandalize Wikipedia repeatedly, despite warnings to stop, should be reported to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, and administrators may block them." Sorry, but this is a vandalism. And please, do not attack me ( No personal attacks). Have a Nice Day -- Roberta F. ( talk) 15:28, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Ten Commandments. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Tbhotch Talk C. 17:59, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Odd that you didn't warn the other editors engaged in the edit war. Why is that?
The edit war has no moved on to deleting an NPOV tag. As vandalism, reverting that is not subject to 3RR. — kwami ( talk) 18:02, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Posting POV tags because you disagree with the consensus, and throwing around cries of "censorship" because your low level of scholarship and unwillingness to edit in a collaborative spirit, will not be tollerated. Slrubenstein | Talk 18:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
You are right, you are a POV warrior and not a troll. As to consensus, there was a discussion for over two weeks and all editors who regularly work on the article, indeed everyone but you, is in agreement. But when you are asked to make sense of your edits, you claim I am asking too high a standard of you. Well, if Wikipedia is going to be the first-use encyclopedia for the world, it should have the highest standards. I am not even holding you to the highest standards of our best articles, just to basic standards. You cannot even do that. You subvert the integrity of the project. And when someone asks for integrity, you protest you are being censored. Hah. Slrubenstein | Talk 18:12, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
TFOWR 18:16, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Dialect should be in plural in that article, so please chance it to "Jamtlandic dialects". Jamtlandic is a group of dialects not one dialect.
Pilisbo ( talk) 17:16, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Regarding your edit [14], since the pronunciation given is phonetic and not phonemic, the original postalveolar fricative [ʒ] should stand. There's no [ʎ] in River Plate Spanish, as the wikipedia article clearly states. The subject himself pronounces his own name with [ʒ], as can be heard here (50 seconds into the clip) [15]. Martin Hausen ( talk) 04:56, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Someone has posted a complaint about me on the admin noticeboard, and accused you of abusing admin powers. [18] Still not sure how the whole thing works, so can you tell me if I'm at fault? (Watching this talk page if you want to reply here) Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 19:56, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, here User:Aeusoes1 reports undesired behaviour of the Consonant template(s) in IE. I put up a solution in the sandboxes. Could you take a checking look, i.e. whether behavior indeed would improve? Talk in the report-thread I suggest. - DePiep ( talk) 13:47, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Could You look over this discussion and express Your opinion of that problem? Thank You very much! -- Iaroslavvs ( talk) 21:58, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, maybe you could move Andi (people) and Inari Sami (people) to "X people" (without the parentheses) for naming consistency? -- JorisvS ( talk) 16:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Please, could you take a look at the page Etruscan language, there is someone making absurd comparisons and every time I undo them, there come again. (S)he adds no explanation and no source (looking as original "research") in spite of the fact that I had added comments and even the explanation in the talk page. Regards. Dumu Eduba ( talk) 14:12, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, I see you moved Auvergnat (dialect) to Auvergnat dialects. I'm curious, did you have a specific reason to use the plural instead of the singular? -- JorisvS ( talk) 15:21, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
I believe you; I never had the impression you assumed bad faith. You did nothing that violated any policy or guideline. It was just that, like any other well-intended editor here, I would like my fellow editors to consider the possibility that I may have used my brain before I edited. (At least when an edit is as carefully worded as that one; I've contributed my fair share of stupid errors, too.)
For some time now I have been trying to act that way here. Maybe we could call it "RRE" - respect the reason for an edit. I've learned this the hard way, as a mediator in ethnic conflicts (e.g. here), but I also found it useful in less emotionally charged situations. Granted, this consideration takes a couple of minutes, but it has several advantages: (1) It shows respect to the other editor. This contributes to a welcoming mood, which is necessary in a volunteer project like ours. (2) You can improve Wikipedia. Sometimes an editor is trying to solve a problem with an article, but just doesn't do it right, because she doesn't know any better. In those cases, you can help everyone to focus on the underlying problem, instead of on the wrong solution. This is the most direct way to reach an outcome that is better than both versions. (3) It's fun. In a case like this, where it touches your hobby, it's fun to think about it from a new angle, isn't it? I at least thought it was fun to think about words containing "cz". — Sebastian 01:11, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've converted Ovambo into a disambig. Per WP:FIXDABLINKS, could you help fix the links that now point to a disambig? Thanks, -- JaGa talk 11:27, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, I see you've moved this back saying "grammar fix". I'd dispute that, as the Admiralties are a group of islands not a single island, after which the family is named and hence the plural. Correct me if I don't see something. -- JorisvS ( talk) 13:27, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Let's review the refs I've given: 1) Hamel, the Admiralties specialist, from the '90s; 2) Bright, in the Encyclopedia, from the '90s; 3) Wurm, from the Routledge Atlas, from 1994; 4) Blust, an article on one of the Admiralties languages, from '08. All show the usage "X Islands group" or "X Islands languages". Hamel, Wurm, and Blust are all Admiralties or Austronesian specialists. And your comment about considering history doesn't seem to apply to "Burushaski", which you changed to "Burusho" (wherever that came from), despite the overwhelming English usage of "Burushaski". -- Taivo ( talk) 05:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey! I provided plenty of contemporary linguistic evidence that Admiralty Islands languages was the usage prevalent in the specialist literature. You should not have moved those articles back without actually providing evidence to the contrary. JorisvS and I agree that these should be at Admiralty Islands languages. You have moved them against the evidence and against consensus based only on your view of English grammar. The contemporary, recent evidence is conclusive. Your evidence is 40 years old. Please move them back. -- Taivo ( talk) 21:09, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
(outdent) I have never claimed this for Oceanic languages in general, it is specific to Admiralty Islands languages and the usages I have cited have all only specifically been tied to Admiralty Islands languages. What I have shown you is crystal clear usage among Austronesian specialists on how they treat the word "Islands" among the Admiralty Islands languages. You are ignoring WP:NCON and pushing your own grammatical usage despite the common usage among Austronesianists which I have clearly demonstrated. There's no "cherry-picking" going on. There are four solid linguistic sources that show that in contemporary usage among the Admiralty Islands language nodes specialists use the plural "islands" in attributive position. You have offered no contemporary counterevidence, just your own WP:OR opinions about English grammar. -- Taivo ( talk) 03:41, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
A request for move has been initiated at Admiralty Island languages. -- Taivo ( talk) 13:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
I was already twice on short hollidays, so that is why I haven´t noteced your responce to a question I posted at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Serbia#Serbian_Cyrillic. I apologise for not having noteced it and thank you for your input. I beleave you and Timbouctou understood perfectly the issue I exposed there. :) Best regards, FkpCascais ( talk) 04:40, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
User:Stevertigo has offered a great deal of advice on my talk page regarding the pages Code-switching and Code-mixing. The editor appears to have a great deal of interest, but not a great deal of academic background in linguistics or sociolinguistics. I have suggested that the discussion move to the articles' talk pages. Any comments you might make at Talk:Code-switching#Field template would be appreciated. Cnilep ( talk) 15:11, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
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Your repeated conversion of Proto-Canaanite alphabet into a redirect is little better than vandalism. If you disagree with the article, seek consensus on its talk page in the first instance. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:09, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
I thank you for the edits on Tahash: Proto-Canaanite→Phoenician, et cetera. I have enjoyed reading your talk page, and I am refreshed by your expertise, your passion for accuracy and your scholastic/academic/professorial integrity. Pax. Hermitstudy ( talk) 19:14, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
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Problems are still continuing at Croatian language - any suggestions? According to User:Sandstein, poor behaviour at this article comes under the ArbCom sanctions of WP:ARBMAC, and I think this may be the best route in the long term. Knepflerle ( talk) 22:09, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Croatian language. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Tbhotch Talk C. 19:55, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I may be, new. But your reedits of Berber languages and renaming the articles do not have any support of (citations, footnotes, sources and references). as you already know the the Wikipedia roles. leave the accurate and most used names as they are. and just use the discussion form for your preferences .
I restate, again a message in (Talk: Tachelhit Language) info ( Uchronicle ( talk) 09:50, 26 August 2010 (UTC))
See Talk:Aorist#Perfect tense vs Perfect aspect. -- Radagast 3 ( talk) 22:50, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
The article for Susan Tedeschi needs an IPA rendering of her name rather than the pronounciation which is there: Susan Tedeschi (pronounced te-DES-ki). It would be great if you can help with this. -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 03:06, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami, I was just visiting the Naming conventions (Chinese) talk page, where the discussion of renaming or not Standard Mandarin is going on, and I see that there have been previous discussions about whether or not to rename Hokkien. Hokkien comes up because that is tagged for copyediting during September's Copyediting Backlog Elimination Drive, and I thought I would try to work on that article. You have been on Wikipedia longer than I have, and I wonder what you think about various approaches to naming various Sinitic languages. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk) 01:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Template:Consonants has been nominated for merging with Template:IPA navigation. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Actually, a redirect is proposed. See also: {{ IPA consonant chart}}. Discussion is here. DePiep ( talk) 12:21, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Template:Vowels has been nominated for merging with Template:IPA navigation. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Actually, a redirect is proposed. See also: {{ IPA vowel chart}}. Discussion is here. DePiep ( talk) 12:21, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello! May I ask what's the reasoning behind name changes like Uropi > Uropi (artificial language), and what does the somewhat enigmatic addition "per others" mean? Cheers, — IJzeren Jan Uszkiełtu? 13:36, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
kwami do you know that what happens here in en.wikipedia is gradually becoming a serious political problem in Croatia? Do you know that now we have headlines in newspapers about this anti Croatian special war? Do you know that what I.Š. and few others are doing is nothing but special war against Croatia and Croatian culture and people? Do you know that what they are doing (and you support them) is something that Serbian nationalists are trying to do for decencies? Are you sure you want to be a part of that? 78.3.120.82 ( talk) 12:29, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Pick your brains? We're having a recurring problem on Spain, but in particular Basque related pages that contain maps with drive by map reverters. The consensus on these pages is to use the original green maps for clarity (which indicentally were widely used until some crusaders from the Spanish wiki spilled over and changed them wholesale) but we're having a real problem with IP editors who drift by regularly and revert to the non-consensus maps. Given it's affecting 4 pages in our case ( Basque Country (autonomous community), Gipuzkoa, Álava and Biscay) is there a standard way of getting IP editors blocked from changing the maps or do we have to take it somehwere for each map individually? Thanks. Akerbeltz ( talk) 15:44, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm going to put together a prototype Aorist article at User talk:Taivo/Aorist. Any comments you might have would be most welcome. -- Taivo ( talk) 00:54, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
The page has <ref name=Ethnologue/>, apparently added by you. It is incomplete and causing a cite error. Could you add the full reference? ClamDip ( talk) 10:16, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami. I apologize for intrusion on your talk page, but this concerns you. While reading Village pump comment on Croatian language wikipedia, I found some very bad comments about you and Mr. Stambuk here: [19] made by user Mir Harven. You can use Google translator to check the meaning. I will just say it mentions pigs, sick people, mafia, manipulators and vandals. It appears that his open insults are simply ignored by administrators. -- Mike1975 ( talk) 23:10, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, could you point me to the discussion that took place prior to your protecting this page? Cheers. Weakopedia ( talk) 07:33, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the appreciation! The remaining ones were beyond my powers...
Now, a request: try as I might, I cannot get {{ IPA-xx}} to include the remaining tagged pages in CAT:NSP. I tried a simple <includeonly>, then plagiarizing what seemed to me like relevant code from {{ Cleanup-IPA}}—to no avail. Do you have what it takes? This would keep these pages front-and-center, at least for someone like me who compulsively checks that cat...
Thanks for whatever you can do. — ˈzɪzɨvə ( talk) 10:06, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
As you seem to know your linguistics quite well, I was wondering if you any good sources or information about the Malay language? A page for two standardizations have been created, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia. If you could provide help with these it may be useful. Thanks. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 06:11, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Please stop changing the first vowel. -- Trovatore ( talk) 05:35, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I noticed that you reverted the change again on the pronunciation of this word. Did you not see my comment at Talk:Chamois#Pronunciation? From the sources I've been able to find, it seems our disagreement is from a difference between American and British English, and that neither of us was fully correct. Please see my suggested wording. Regards, Richard New Forest ( talk) 09:38, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Mister Kwamikagami, thisis a not really ?????????
[numerous links to Croatian grammars deleted as clutter] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.168.102.48 ( talk) 20:15, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ivan_%C5%A0tambuk —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.168.102.48 ( talk) 21:27, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Aorist. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. - FASTILY (TALK) 23:10, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Do you mind if I delete Pyrostegia? It's evidently a genus of its own, so redirecting to the dab page flame tree isn't very useful. Ucucha 00:39, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami! I was read the page of Banat Bulgarians: 1. The author father Jáni Vasilčin wrote, that the Banat Bulgarians also known as his tongue, that language. In the Bulgarian wikipedia also the thing is, that the Banat Bulgarian second standard Bulgarian norm. Bulgaria and Romania also warrant the Banat Bulgarian in the schools. In Austria the Burgeland Croatian also language. In our midst not yet the Prekmurian, but few authority have in idea that the Prekmurian also regional language, not simply dialect. Doncsecz talk 08:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Kwami, when you moved "Aorist (linguistics)" to Aorist, the Talk page stayed stranded at Talk:Aorist (linguistics). :) -- Taivo ( talk) 04:03, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Your edits are mentioned here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Aorist - Off2riorob ( talk) 18:59, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you recently removed the pronounciation of the word " Hilal-i-Ju'rat". I want to let you know that I know it's not English or Urdu. It's about how you say the word, ie how you say the name of the medal phonectically. NarSakSasLee ( talk) 22:27, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
You may defend your revert warring at WP:AN3. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:58, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Can I ask what state you consider the article to be in? Whether it looks good enough to become a good article or even featured? NarSakSasLee ( talk) 01:20, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Revision history of Serbo-Croatian language. No comment. -- Roberta F. ( talk) 01:46, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
OK, I did. Happy trails, -- ArielGlenn ( talk) 16:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
No, not yours ;) Someone unilaterally moved Romano-Greek language to Hellenoromani language and Romano-Serbian language to Serbian Romani language citing "remove confusion" in the move summary. I've asked him ( User_talk:Nergaal#Romani) to revert for two reasons (1) it wasn't debated, 2) the second name in particular is invented and adds to the confusion as it suggests a Romani derived language rather than a Serbian based language with Romani admix) but (s)he isn't responsive to arguments at all. I'm not averse to debating a move on either but not in the way Nergaal did it. Akerbeltz ( talk) 11:35, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Hopefully in future he'll debate before he moves! Akerbeltz ( talk) 21:33, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, could you move Seri (disambiguation) to Seri? I recently moved Seri to Seri people for the same reason you moved Tongva to Tongva people. However, I can't move the disambig page that already exists. -- JorisvS ( talk) 21:44, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I'd prefer this title to Ain't and related contractions because amn't is a good deal older than ain't, and has had independent existence all the while ain't and its friends were fluctuating.... -- Evertype· ✆ 09:03, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
You are receiving this message because you participated in discussions about Template:zh.
As you probably know, currently if you want traditional characters to display before simplified characters when using this template, you have to write |first=t
every time you use the template, which can be a pain in long articles, and which raises complaints about political and practical problems with making simplified characters the "default".
So I am trying to write up a version of the template in which you set a traditional/simplified choice setting just once (specifically, on a subpage of the article where you're using the template), and then every instance of the template on that article uses the ordering you set. Further details about the new setup are here; if you have a moment I would very much appreciate your input, specifically about any potential problems you can imagine or any ways this can be made better.
Thank you, rʨanaɢ ( talk) 01:24, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
Some of your recent changes have to been to Native American tribes and places, was wondering what they have to dow ith changing the IPA to a Semitic transcription? He iro 00:10, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I'd hope this was an accident, but if it was intentional this is misuse of rollback. At best, it is extremely discourteous. Please see the discussion at Talk:IPA_chart_for_English_dialects#CN_Tags instead. Cheers, Deacon of Pndapetzim ( Talk) 02:49, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Kwamikagami, I don't really know if you are the right person to ask, but I wonder if you known enough Malay to be able to let us at Project Gastropods know if the words "siput gonggong", which seem to mean howling or barking snail, really sort-of mean "dog snail"? It's for the article Dog conch which we are trying to get up to GA. Thanks so much. If on the other hand you have no idea about this, maybe you know someone on the 'pedia who speaks Malay and English? Many thanks, Invertzoo ( talk) 20:49, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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Your edit "cleaning up" the pronunciations removed them entirely. WTF. -- Cybercobra (talk) 09:42, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Does this outing justify a block? ( Taivo ( talk) 22:17, 2 May 2010 (UTC))
As you'd pointed out, simplified characters shouldn't come first by default as a result of this template. Would you want to share your views and ideas at Template talk:Zh? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.237.153.52 ( talk) 01:32, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
i just can't pronounce this. are you sure it's right?-- camr nag 17:01, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
--pl.note:i'v[[RSI]]>typin=v.v.hard4me!>contactme thruMSNpl.if unclear[sven70=alias ( talk) 05:24, 5 May 2010 (UTC) ps wel,stil there[c history pl],i blokd'gen4wot,si
this page has an IPA issue that someone put in a template, and it's throwing off the layout; I was just about to de-watchlist it in fact, when I noticed this; apparently the IPA has a vowel in it that's just not used in Icelandic (the second 'a') and so, to me, shouldn't be used in English either, given the exotic nature of this name. Skookum1 ( talk) 18:58, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations mate, well done! My own contributions are pretty low key these days, but I'm glad people like you are doing your bit to make Wikipedia one of the Wonders of the Internet Age. -- Ngio ( talk) 19:09, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
The tags that you added to that article were completely unnecessary, and are not in most articles, please stop adding them. The pronunciation of the town name is correct. Please stop changing this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 00:09, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
It is pronounced as it is spelled Chi (with a long I) Chester —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 00:45, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
It is not pronounced the same way as it is in England it is spelled the same way, but not pronounced the same way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 00:46, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
The stress is on the first syllable, CHI-ches-ter Please never do this again, you are incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 00:48, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Please stop acting inappropriately. I know how this town name is pronounced and every time you change it, it is different. Every time I change it, I revert it back to the same pronunciation. Please don't go around changing things unless you are absolutely sure that they are true. You also messed up the formatting. I have never seen an article where citation was needed. Please stop this. MarcusHookPa ( talk) 00:57, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
This is not dubious, nor will it ever be. Words are pronounced differently in the United States than they are in England This town name has the American Pronunciation, not the English Pronunciation —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 01:11, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
OK, i am becoming extremely impatient with your actions. I know how the town name is pronounced, please stop doing this —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 03:19, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
/ˈtʃaɪ ˈtʃɛs.tər/ is the correct pronunciation I am going to revert it back to that now, thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarcusHookPa ( talk • contribs) 03:21, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
both syllables are stressed, the first and the second, that is the way it is pronounced, the first is just stressed more than the second. I hope never to discuss further on this issue. Please never edit the pronunciation of this town's article again. Thank You MarcusHookPa ( talk) 03:23, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
Just so that you know, you were the subject of a discussion at
my talk page. Best,
Knepflerle (
talk)
14:44, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I apologize for my actions, but my pronunciation is correct. I do not appreciate threats from Wikipedia users who are not involved in this issue. The Pronunciation has stress on the first two syllables. I would kindly ask that you change it back to the original pronunciation. I do not wish to continue in this edit war. Thank You MarcusHookPa ( talk) 18:54, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I was confused by what you were saying. BOTH the first and second syllables are stressed. I am sorry for confusing you, please revert the pronunciation back to the way it was originally ˈtʃaɪˈtʃɛs.tər or CHI-CHES-ter I am sorry for confusing you and contradicting myself, but there was no need to report me over this small issue. Please change it back. The pronunciation that I put was correct. I apologize, but yours was incorrect. MarcusHookPa ( talk) 20:17, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
[I've restored this thread from last month's archive so I could continue it]
Why did you remove the syllable separators from /ˈwɛlɪŋtən/ yesterday? You forgot to leave an explanation in the edit summary. Ben Arnold ( talk) 08:29, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
You cared about the pronounciation of the German-Danish composer. To my knowledge the vowel in Bux is a clear "u" in German as in Danish - I don't know the one shown now. Hard to write about, speaking would be easier ... -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:29, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. On April 26, you modified the IPA for Gettysburg and I am having difficulty understanding the third IPA character you used. It looks like the "Flapped R" character, but that portion of the word should have a T sound. Can you clarify? Thanks. Hal Jespersen ( talk) 15:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
I am sorry to say that you have me completely confused. Most Americans would pronounce it GET-ease-burg (like "at ease"), but the sound file (recorded by me) is attempting to show that the local pronunciation is GETTIS-burg (like lettuce). Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:24, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
This shows how American-centric I am. :-) I'm not sure the "with an ss sound" you added is needed, but I think it's OK now. Thanks, Hal Jespersen ( talk) 16:52, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Ping User_talk:Rursus#moribund. Rursus dixit. ( mbork3!) 19:28, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
What's the base of this edit? The word rhymes with the English word coin, so why the ʏ? -- ::Slomox:: >< 21:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
You reverted my editing of the pronunciation key in that article. However, the English R sounds nothing like an alveolar trill (according to that article, it's only present in the Scottish accent). The English R is most frequently an approximant. Missionary ( talk) 05:56, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
I was wrong, there are 5 Swedish typologies, and there is a fat book in my bookshelf containing it,
More about the stress/tone in the Swedish accent:
Rursus dixit. ( mbork3!) 06:59, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
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I see how you are using the format of "X language" for language articles and seeing as the (i)ki- prefix is a language marker in Kinyarwanda, you are simply calling it Rwanda language, but i would like to point out that this is inconsistent with the article on Lingala. In Lingala, the li- serves the same purpose as (i)ki- in Kinyarwanda, and so if you follow your standard model, it should be moved to Ngala language. I personally am not in favour of this model, however, as the Kinyarwanda language is almost never referred to as "Rwanda language", but almost universally Kinyarwanda and sometimes Ikinyarwanda. Incidentally, in Kinyarwanda, one can say ururimi rw'ikinyarwanda, which means 'language of ikinyarwanda'. 128.220.6.42 ( talk) 23:14, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Yes, work on that then we can look at something smarter if they get database dumps working again. Rich Farmbrough, 10:45, 14 May 2010 (UTC).
Good catch on the diphthongs, but I've seen inconsistency about syllable separation in previous entries so I decided to not separate it at all. What gives about [r]? I know that it's done for convenience, but I think we really think we should stick to [r] as the transcription for alveolar trill and not use it not alveolar approximant. Tenza ( talk) 22:32, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
At first I assumed good faith on the part of this Jembana character because he's new to Wikipedia. But now it looks as if he's a totally obsessed J T Koch/Atlantic Celt fanboy who can't quite get his head round the notion of NPOV. Koch's theories on Tartessian being Celtic came to light a couple of years ago, and although he's reasonably well respected as a Celticist, the theory of origins in Spain and Portugal rather than with the Hallstatt culture and classification of Tartessian as Celtic, would be classified as fringe. While the idea of Lusitanian being Celtic isn't popular now, I'm less sure if it's fair to call that fringe... I've just had to revert a load of changes Jembana has made to the Lusitanian language page, which turned it into pure advocacy of his pet theory. Would if be fair to add this to the Fringe Theories list in your opinion? Paul S ( talk) 20:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I am a Malaysian Wikipedian participating in WikiProject Malaysia.
Recently I noticed you made an IPA cleanup using AWB to Sarawak. I would like to point out that in the Malay language, all words ending with a 'K' are pronounced with a glottal stop. So changing the IPA consonant from ʔ to k clearly states that you don't speak Malay.
I have reverted your edit. In future, please do consult a native speaker of a certain language before making IPA changes (you can check from the history or talk page). Making IPA changes without knowledge of that language is an irresponsible and disrespectful act. Thank You. -- CoolCityCat ( talk) 09:05, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to bother you - someone added a non-standard one to Mandurah, Western Australia so I changed it to IPA. Can you check that I've got it right? This Youtube video (a government one) has it pronounced - there's a very subtle ə after the "j" sound in the correct pronunciation, which is skipped entirely by less educated speakers. Orderinchaos 11:31, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
While you are checking pronunciation of Australian towns, someone has added a non-standard transcription of Breadalbane, New South Wales. Could you be so kind as to take a look at it please. -- Mattinbgn\ talk 09:45, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Language families (Ethnologue). Since you had some involvement with the Language families (Ethnologue) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Bridgeplayer ( talk) 14:20, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Actually, the pronunciation /nju:/ is practically unheard in North America, including in New Orleans (viz., e.g., this), ... but I digress... :-p Tomer talk 18:09, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, I see you're doing fixes to pronunciation in Basque culture and geography related articles, which are most welcome. As it turns out, after your amendments some letters don't show properly in my computer at least (e.g. Donostia/San Sebastián article). Other IPA related issues include the way typical Basque sounds are given in IPA for articles in English (English IPA?), e.g. the d, b, g between vowels, and sibilants (s, z, x, ts, tz, ts). Regards! Iñaki LL ( talk) 12:05, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Are you serious
[1]? Man, have you ever been living in Croatia? You think that that's not an insult for Croats and that that name doesn't carry negative conotations for Croats?
Maybe you or your family wasn't persecuted and imprisoned for opposing to so-called Serbo-Croatian.
Permanent reverting is not the solution. We have to seriously discuss and solve this.
Budući da se smatraš autoritetom za područje hrvatskog jezika, onda moraš znati govoriti i pisati taj jezik, njegovu povijest te političke progone i pokušaje zatiranja hrvatskog jezika, pa možeš razgovarati sa mnom na hrvatskom jeziku. Kad si već toliki stručnjak za hrvatski, moraš ga i znati. Znaš li kad se prvi put spominje ime hrvatskog jezika i u kojem obliku? Tko je otac hrvatske književnosti? Kako se hrvatski jezik zvao kroz povijest? Znaš li na kojem su jeziku pisali AVNOJ-eve dokumente? Koje se jezike izričito navelo da se na njima mora pisati AVNOJ-eve dokumente? Znaš li zašto su hrvatski kulturni djelatnici donijeli Deklaraciju o Deklaracija o nazivu i položaju hrvatskog književnog jezika? Znaš li kakvim su pritiscima bili izloženi ti ljudi od strane vlastiju? Je li ti poznato hrvatsko jezikoslovno nazivlje? Znaš li kad je i zašto je uvedena nagrada dr Ivan Šreter i zašto ta nagrada nosi to ime?
Kubura (
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03:06, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Kwami, I hope we're getting somewhere.
Can you give me the answer on the questions I gave you above? Thank you in advance,
Kubura (
talk)
03:29, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I need a help here, it seems a member that have argued for a move in Gan Chinese have been randomly changing all the Jiangxi related articles without any or reliable sources. He kept on reverting my reverts, such as [2] , [3], -- LLTimes ( talk) 23:15, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
You have twice now removed information from this article, once before it was sourced, and once after I provided a source, with the comment that you didn't care if it was sourced or not, it was wrong. Please be aware that removal of sourced information is not allowed, unless you have an alternate and better source to support your claim. If your claim is based on your own experiences, that is original research and is not allowed. (As an editor with almost 100,000 edits, you certainly know all this.)
The source in this case is a book by an established historian, Barbara W. Ruchman, First Salute, which takes as its starting point the "First Salute" given to an American ship by the governor of Sint Eustatius during the American revolution. This is an impeccably reliably source. Please no not revert this information again unless you have a better source to offer. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 01:21, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Here is the actual quote from the source (p.14):
If you revert again, I will report you for a 3rr violation. It's your choice. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 05:27, 29 May 2010 (UTC)His [de Graff's] domain -- little Eustatius, or Statia, as it was familarially called in the region..."
In any case, I hope this incident is over, and we can meet again, if we do, as compatriots. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 06:25, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
I appreciate your work on List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies. Congratulations! -- Wavelength ( talk) 19:31, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I find value in the articles List of languages by name: A and so forth. If you click on "history" and then on "Page view statistics", you can see how many times they have been visited in May 2010. Please check before the month ends; otherwise, you can edit the date in the address bar. -- Wavelength ( talk) 19:31, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Would you take a look at the Pat Metheny article, and see if you can put in the IPA pronunciation for his name? Also, I believe Jaco Pastorius may also need help of the same kind. (It never ends, does it?) Thanks. -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 15:32, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've left you a response at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ethnic_groups#article_dabs. Thanks -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:52, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Stop vandalism articles about the Croatian language, and do not threaten me. -- Sokac121 ( talk) 16:11, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
First at all, where did you ask for citation? Did you know for template {{ Citation needed}}? Instead reverting my edits, you should use that template. Secondly, did you read something of stuff provided on talk page? And please don't threat me with blocks, please read Wikipedia:Blocking policy, and please assume my good faith.-- Ex13 ( talk) 20:53, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I am more than happy to discuss whether or not the comments on 白话 should stay in the Yue Chinese article, and sure we can reach agreement. My change was in fact primarily to illustrate that linking to wiktionary is at times better than giving an in text English gloss of a Chinese word. Johnkn63 ( talk) 08:06, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed you've been moving a number of articles such as Hutu, Tutsi and Twa with an edit summary "MOS". These moves are unnecessary disambiguation in my opinion (see WP:PRECISION), and I'm not sure what part of the MOS recommends this. But the most important thing is that you haven't been moving the associated talk pages. It looks like the new titles have no talk page, and once a new talk page is created and these old ones are left behind at the redirect, the discussions there may be virtually impossible to find again. Station1 ( talk) 09:40, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
kwami, Thanks for moving the talk pages. I've responded to your post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups. Station1 ( talk) 05:35, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you're doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. I've just read your profile and you seemed a very learned person and interested in (small) languages so maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... By the way your picture is great! I'm part of an association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this hasn't been approved up to that moment. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! Capsot ( talk) 07:24, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Bonjour,
Je ne comprends pas ce
diff qui altère la prononciation de vingt-quatre en supprimant le t sonore. Le chiffre 20 est prononcé /vɛ̃/ mais le t final devient sonore devant une voyelle ou devant les nombres de 21 à 29 : /vɛ̃t dø/ par exemple. Voir
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/vingt.
Mro (
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20:02, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Why did you move Nahuatl? Nahuatl is only the name of the language so there is no ambiguity and hence no need to include "language". ·Maunus·ƛ· 08:16, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Not sure it's a "writing system" in any very meaningful sense of the phrase... AnonMoos ( talk) 10:19, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
WP:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2010-06-06/Jiangxi. {{ Sonia| ping| enlist}} 11:13, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, kwami. I would like to note to you that the Torlakian dialects article and its talk page have different locations, I can't fix that. And, I'm curious, could you tell me your reasons for moving it to Torlakian dialects and not to Torlakian dialect? -- JorisvS ( talk) 11:42, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, are you sure you have consensus for all those moves from "X" to "X dialect"? Personally, I'm not quite happy with such a systematicity. In the case of "X language", it has AFAIK always been the consensus that the qualified form should only be used if "X" alone is ambiguous (which for language names is often, but not always the case). With dialects, there are cases like " Arvanitika", which is quite unambiguous. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:40, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, that was me being not so clear... you moved Finnish Kalo, Kalderash Romani and Welsh Romani (and I sort of see the sense in that) but there is Bohemian Romani and a number of Para-Romanis which you didn't move. It's difficult though to distuinguish which are considered languages and which are dialects. I think Kalderash was probably safe to move but one the Romani page most varieties are currently listed as dialects rather than languages but I think the debate on that topic hasn't even started yet. I would say all the Para-Romani varieties are safe to move because of them being contact induced and thus mostly incomprehensible to other groups but I wouldn't move any of the others on the Romani language page without debate. Akerbeltz ( talk) 08:36, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I reverted your move of Gronings to Gronings dialect, partly because it isn't unambiguously "only" a dialect (it has its own ISO 639-3 code) and partly because I'm not convinced that "X dialect" is really the de facto standard for naming dialect articles at Wikipedia. I think a requested comment or requested move may be required to decide whether we want to call it Gronings (skirting the issue of language or dialect, and unambiguous since there's no distinct ethnicity of Gronings people to worry about), Gronings dialect, Gronings Low Saxon, or Gronings language. + An gr 15:11, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I see you moved the other varieties of Dutch Low Saxon to "X dialect" too. (Gronings is the only one on my watchlist, so it's the only one I noticed at first.) I won't move them all back, but I do think that's going to be controversial. + An gr 15:15, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
In fact, looking at your messages above, I think a lot of moves to "X dialect" are proving to be controversial. Maybe you should simply make redirects from "X dialect" to the existing name rather than moving the pages. That way, the articles are still findable under the consistent name, and people are less likely to get pissed off about moves made without discussion. + An gr 15:19, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't understand why all these ARBITRARY UNNECESSARY moves? I don't see that they are necessary and there are no rationales provided in the corresponding talk pages so a discussion or healthy exchange can take place prior to the moves...Perhaps, if u can write it in the talk page/s , i can be convinced, as the case, i don;t see any merit for these moves at this time...please help me understand. Pinay ( talk• email) 15:57, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I kindly ask you to restore the articles "Shanghainese" and "Taishanese", which were recently moved by you without any consensus to "Shanghainese dialect" and "Taishanese dialect". These names are awkward, unwieldy, not in common use, nor conformative to any existing WP standards. No attempts at discussion were made. Given your history in the Chinese linguistics scene (and even if that is notwithstanding), this is most certainly an inappropriate action, if not on procedural grounds alone. Please revert it at your first opportunity. Thanks. Colipon+( Talk) 00:05, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Howdy! I have a similar concern about your move of the Kwak'wala article to Kwak'wala language. My understanding was that "X language" should generally be used when the same word can refer to the language or its speakers. However, this is not the case with Kwak'wala. There is no such thing as the Kwak'wala people; the speakers of Kwak'wala are the Kwakwaka'wakw. So I would suggest reverting that change, unless you had another reason for moving that article? Jiashudiwanjin ( talk) 03:20, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
you recently changed something in an article from 2006 about Berti Language on wiki.
I need to get in contact with someone who has knowledge about the Berti extinct language.
Can you help?
When did the Berti loose their language, and start using Arab with an accent?
Some places I read centuries ago, but in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berti_language it mentions 1990 ? I think thats very strange.
Do you have information? And out of what sources? Do you know someone who has studied on these matters?
Thanks! Kind regards,Monike —Preceding unsigned comment added by MonikeMMPA ( talk • contribs) 15:20, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Got a question. I don't recall anything in the IPA that distinguishes between [w] and [u] with a non-syllabic mark. [w] is a non-syllabic [u] after all and as far as I've ever read the two are interchangeable. At Kiev and Lviv there is an anon IP who is pushing the latter. The former is the accepted IPA transcription by all other editors. But has the teaching of phonetics changed to the point that [w] is no longer considered a nonsyllabic [u]? -- Taivo ( talk) 14:41, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Why you have deleted hole section? Based on what? can You please let me know what is your relation to Serbian chapter? Thank you. -- 76.114.213.50 ( talk) 21:30, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
I happened to notice what has been happening at User_talk:76.114.213.50. I read Talk:Montenegrin_language and I support what you have done in response. Blue Rasberry 00:08, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
ynotcal'm aLECTS?-- ---Please note, I have [[Repetitive Strain Injury]] and find typing very hard. I use a form of shorthand, which may be difficult to understand. I can be contacted through MSN (sven70) or Skype (sven0921) if my meaning is unclear. ( talk) 02:12, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I notice a whole bunch of these pages on my watchlist have suddenly sprouted adjectives. I tend to think these are a bad idea because such terms, while technically correct for the classical forms of the names, are almost never in use by people in the field. Finding citations for them will be a body-by-body battle. Rare exceptions are where the bodies are heavily studied. These edits are duplicating and extending the list of such adjectival forms that used to be at planetary science, which I pruned out for exactly this reason. Iridia ( talk) 14:25, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements#Merger of period elements. DMacks ( talk) 15:50, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
I guess you have a message here. Tbhotch Talk C. 00:22, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Left you a note. Thanks, - Stevertigo ( w | t | e) 01:34, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. It is not my intention to engage in an edit war on the page, however there are a few things you need to realise before you insist upon one particular revision. My original edit was merely presentational in that it wasn't only Macedonian that was using the digraph in its Romanised form but Serbian also; previously it was constructed as if to classify Serbian along with Croatian as Roman alphabet only languages and that is not the case. The Roman alphabet is so popular in Serbian that its speakers (or writers) take it for granted and treat the language as if the Cyrillic is not there. That was the reason I played with the syntax. Now although you did not technically revert my contribution, you did shake the foundation of the entire passage. The term Serbo-Croat does exist and there is indeed a time that its usage is wholly adequate. I too also am for the language and not against it as my editing may suggest to you. There are two things you must realise however: firstly, Macedonian (which you deleted) is not and never has been within the scope of SC. During the time of Communist Yugoslavia, Macedonian stood alongside Serbo-Croat and Slovene (also outside of SC) as official languages, so that if anything warrants its return to the section; we can't sideline Macedonian and welcome other language with open arms when the detail applies to every one equally; secondly, insisting upon the term SC can be seen as POV-pushing, impolite and unrealistic to the millions of individuals who call their language by the name of their own demonym (eg. Bosnian, Serbian, etc.) and it does not end there, you have Croatian, Bunjev and now even Montenegrin. Now you may feel that a full list of languages here on what is purely a reference page more than a subject article is overkill and painful for the eyes and people's concentration. If this is so, we can work out a plan and circumvent Serbo-Croat at the same time, such as by displaying "the Slavic languages of the former Yugoslavia"; or you could mention SC by stating, "languages formerly within the SC category/SC's successors, etc.". The risk of leaving it in its present form is that it will in time provoke certain editors and they will try to recreate a revision similar to the version unfavourable to you. I suggest an amendment to the current format. Evlekis (Евлекис) 01:47, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you moved this page to "Fering dialect" per MOS, as you said in the edit summary. I wonder though if that is really necessary. The only related policy I could find is Wikipedia:Naming conventions (languages) where it says that unique names normally go without a suffix. Also I've never seen the use of "Fering dialect" as a general referrer, only Fering or maybe Foehr Frisian, so I'd really be willing to move the title back. The same goes for Öömrang and Sölring. De728631 ( talk) 18:44, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm really f**king sick of having to repeat myself on talk:AAH. Can you put up an edit notice indicating this is not the place to discuss the AAH, we should only use source that are explicit about it? I know we've got the {{ talkheader}} up, but no-one reads it and a bright friggin' red box while editing might dissuade people more.
I feel like I'm editing talk:creationism or something. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules: simple/ complex 12:45, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Wow, you are right. You know, I speak it and learnt since I was a kid that Portuguese had 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u). God, was I wrong. Thanks for letting me know. Pikolas ( talk) 20:46, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
I have been making comments about the change of the name of Herschel (Mimantean crater) from [[Herschel (crater on Mimas)]] on the talk page. There has been no response. No response is a reasonable response, but I want to make sure that no response is not the simple result of not noticing the discussion. I do not add all of the pages I edit to my watch list. -- Fartherred ( talk) 23:52, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you moved Paisaci to Paisaci language with just the edit summary "MOS". I've moved it back since in this case there are no articles on "Paisaci people" or "Paisaci grammar" or "Paisaci literature" (and for a near-mythical language there aren't going to be), so there's no reason for such a move. Shreevatsa ( talk) 19:25, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I continued the Talk on the template layout at Template talk:CSS IPA consonant chart#Layout improvement here is harmless. I'd like you to take a look. - DePiep ( talk) 13:58, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
I've added an audio file to the article, but am not certain how to combine the contents of the IPA template that I added with the other IPA template that was already present. Can you help sort this out? It will give me a model I can use when any future such occasions arise. -- EncycloPetey ( talk) 05:09, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations is about to be copied to Wiktionary, but apparently not List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names and not List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies. There is transclusion involved in the Wikipedia articles, and I do not know how that would/will be affected by such a change. This message is to advise you of the situation.— Wavelength ( talk) 06:01, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm new here... do you have any advice? ~ Nao Ichibana ( talk) 06:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Well thanks for the warm welcome! I shall now get started with being a Wikipedian. ~ Nao ( talk) 06:04, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I just noticed you changed Australia to light orange following Julia Gillard's appointment as PM. Unless I'm mistaken, it should actually be yellow as with the UK and NZ because while Australia now has both a female head of state and government, the Queen as a monarch is excluded per the article – orange should only be used for republics which have had both female Presidents and Prime Ministers such as Finland. Canada should also be yellow by my reasoning, unless I'm missing something. 84.92.117.93 ( talk) 16:48, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Kwamikagami, you've reverted the article 3 times today, so WP:3RR is becoming an issue. Rather than edit-warring on this, let's work it out on the article's Talk: page, ok? Jayjg (talk) 02:41, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I've been going through my old talk page and I realized I never gave you a proper thank you for the the help you gave at the top of the year during my block debacle. So consider this that thank you and an apology for taking so long to do so! Therequiembellishere ( talk) 10:44, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, I removed an inaccurate statement from the SignWriting page and moved it to the SignWriting talk page. You just added the information back. I was not trying to scrub the article, just improve it. I will be adding a more detailed section on collation later.
The first sentence...
SignWriting has had computerized collation since 1998. The idea that SignWriting collation is difficult is simply untrue.
The second sentence...
From a SignWriting perspective, different hands make for different signs. Different signs with the same meaning are synonyms. This makes for a interesting correlation that every sign has an automatic mirrored synonym. This isn't difficult. For sorting, write from a common right-handed or left-handed perspective, or tell the sorting routine to ignore handed-ness when sorting (like sorting without regards to capitalization).
Regards, Slevinski ( talk) 22:19, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
dude, the word IS Slovak and it DOES mean field. Don't be lazy and google it for yourself if you don't believe it. You're just doing this because this is an anonymous account. Ridiculous. The source stated that roľa has a synonym "pole". You know what, I just googled it for you :S I have no idea why I did it for you, just look at this source and then go think about your behavior against people with good intentions. 81.68.255.36 ( talk) 22:49, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Do you realize just how lazy you are making me do simple searches that you could have done just as easily? That is so annoying. Google can really help you out. Just type: "roľa pronunciation" or "veľký" or "moľa" :D and there you go! And besides, other google searches show many more mentions of wikipedia and wiktionary showing it is not a palatalized el. Perhaps it IS the palatal lateral approximant that it claims to be in that article :D anyway, perhaps you have a wrong font, and see it as the l + '. In transliteration from (Russian that I know of) Cyrillic that is often used to show the Ь. However, I noticed you editing more in linguistic articles, so I suppose you already know that. Once again, why are you just being lazy when it was so easy? :S a great way to keep people with good intentions away from editing :) 81.68.255.36 ( talk) 10:51, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Finally, I should have thought of UCLA..they are masters. About the tongue, it is the same as Italian "gl" in "gli" for example. That's the only other language I know that uses it as well. It's where you have the tip of your tongue behind the lower teeth. Ciao e grazie, zbohom i vďaka Akerbeltz. 81.68.255.36 ( talk) 18:41, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Okay wait, regarding your earlier post: I think I get it now. It sounds more like "ль" in Russian, rather than the Italian. Making it a what..palatal and nothing more L? Also, the capital of Slovenia is written with the hacek L and I noticed the Italians don't write the same capital with gli. That's when I thought of Russian, they write it like Любляна. So, it can be removed I suppose from the article. Sorry for the inconvenience hehe, I thought I was being picked on and didn´t work correctly. Also, as you might have guessed± I´m not a native speaker of English. Please be gentle on my grammar etc. Bye §§§§ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.68.255.36 ( talk) 21:22, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I think this revert was very unwise. CIreland ( talk) 00:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Please do NOT insult. If you follow procedure, and nobody objects to merging of some articles, that does not mean merging is justified, that only means nobody objected.
Please respect facts, and tend to regard other users with respect. I didn't write that you are nationalist, so please do not use such qualification if you do not have arguments. It is foul play. SpeedyGonsales ( talk) 13:38, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
I think Meänkieli dialects should be changed back to 'Meänkieli' or 'Meänkieli language' because Swedish language legislation treats Meänkieli as a language. Meänkieli (lit. 'our language') is solely name of the language, so I think that the shorter article name 'Meänkieli' can be used.
More about Meänkieli and other minor Finno-Ugric languages in Europe: ELDIA project - Meankieli
More about the language legislation of Sweden: Language for All
Maksamakkara ( talk) 15:50, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I will not revert you, but I do not think your response was appropriate. It seems clear to me from the talk that Wellhausen's theory is too tangential. I agree that this does not mean it should be deleted entirely from the article. But I do not think that the introduction is the place to bring it up. The introduction should introduce all significant contents of the article, not a tangent. My understanding of the discussion is that there should be a section in the article - I would think at the end - saying that Wellhausen proposed that these verses be considered an "ethical decalogue" by the E author, which he contrasted to the Ritual decalogue authored by J. This is one theory by one scholar, and as everyone in the discussion has pointed out, is not referring to what the article is about, namely the "ten commandments." In fact, I personally think just having a link to the article on the "ritual decalogue" under "see also" is enough. But the discussion consensus seems to be for a section and I see no reason why it should be a major part of the article. It is a misrepresentation of Wellhausen to say that this is another version of the ten commandments; he is saying it is another important text written by a different author and edited into the larger narrative. In any event it remains a tangent and should not be mentioned in the introduction as if it were a significant part of the discussion on "the ten commandments." It isn't. That is not what Wellhausen is saying. Or do you interpret Wellhausen differently? Slrubenstein | Talk 17:37, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Ten Commandments. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:29, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Re: {{
Vowels}} and {{
IPA vowel chart}}, {{
Consonants}} and {{
IPA consonant chart}}.
Hi, I´m developing these four templates, as you might have seen. ([|here]). Since today they are a set.
It all could go via some Talk:page. - DePiep ( talk) 23:57, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Lutetia closest approach (Rosetta).jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kam Solusar ( talk) 15:48, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Your editsummary here says they "are defined" in IPA, but the charts Media:IPA_vowel_chart_2005.png and Media:Extended IPA chart 2005.png show different (show them not or in grey). To me this looks like a contradiction, or is it more complicated? I am not an IPA-scholar, but this is a first thing I ran into. - DePiep ( talk) 09:44, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
{{{shownonIPA|yes}}}|yes={{IPA|[[epiglottal flap|ʡ̯]]}}}}
. So the symbol is IPA, but why keep using the switch then still? That would create (some) confusion: it is not marked with a *-footnote, but it does disappear in an pure IPA-article (editor will set the switch to "=no"). The way I understand your description above, it is irrelevant if a character appears on the chart or not. My intention & suggestion with the switch is to give it one meaning only, so as to help the editors. Given your answer and the various(!) IPA-2005-charts, I'd suggest to drop the "not on the IPA-chart"-meaning completely. (More surprises for me: there are multiple versions around of the "(c) IPA 2005" consonant chart, like at the
official IPA-site. Even the sequence of the rows is not stable. How can anyone work with that? ;-)) -
DePiep (
talk)
07:55, 13 July 2010 (UTC)A nice plan to take step by step. Any objections to the proposed Template:IPA consonant chart/sandbox first? Can only sandbox one step at a time. - DePiep ( talk) 21:22, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Discussion continues here from now - DePiep ( talk) 23:26, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, this weekend I did not log and did not see your message. If you wish I can afford you references on the case in newspapers (there are several references). The section as it stands now, looks acceptable, even if somewhat confusing. Maybe it could be interereting to show that the main problem arose when a countable inspection found unexplained expenses (some sources claimed that 3,91 million € [13] "En el primer año investigado, las presuntas irregularidades ascienden a 860.000 euros, y, en el total del periodo sometido a inspección, el desfase, según estas fuentes, podría llegar a los 3,91 millones."; some bit more that the 300.000 € in false bills) in the section of the hospital that Arnaiz directed, and that he was also accused for working behaviour (probably there is a much better way to call it). Dumu Eduba ( talk) 10:49, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Reminding you of this, if you could be kind to create it. I want to first wikify all the terms and create them on wiktionary if they don't exist. Thanks. -- Ivan Štambuk ( talk) 22:02, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
A true Navbox is never send to a "print this page". So if any article is to show the tables in-line (as part of the text, and possibly so into print), it needs to be the bare table (Consonants and Vowels alike). That is why I added the bare tables to Consonants. Having noted this, I won't contest your rv. - DePiep ( talk) 23:18, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that you undid my update to the page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_Decalogue
I am not sure why my update was undid. I replaced it back on that page.
If there was some particular reason why you did (for example, if I did not provide appropriate reference for my contribution), I would be happy to hear your reasons.
If you disagree with the statement, feel free to add something afterwards saying that you disagree with it. But, as far as I'm aware, I am using established source material to quote a substantiated claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.15.221.207 ( talk) 07:48, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Please stop rv-warring on a developing thing. I'm spending too much time on restoring good versions now. Re {{ IPA consonant chart}}, that version from a few days ago is stable, and has a lot of edits that are useful (e.g. more affricates). For sure, the edits (like the split into 3 tables) is exactly within the preferred view you pointed out. Also, noone, including you, has pointed to any disturbance of pages with that version. If you have problems with individual edits - go ahead. That there is an older stable version would mean we cannot improve? Is wikipedia finished? For sure, our current joint development in the sandbox & talk is based on that recent stable version, and goes ahead from that version. There's no need or reason to throw away all those earlier in between edits. - DePiep ( talk) 11:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, I think you might be interested in what's going on at Uralic languages. -- JorisvS ( talk) 09:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I wonder if its possible to unprotect Template:Country data Yugoslavia & Template:Country data Serbia and Montenegro for 24 hours or so? The templates are very crude with respect to the numerous Yugoslav and Serbia-Montenegrin flags, and I want to get some work done there expanding them. I admit, though, that I'm not very familiar with the "procedure" regarding editing the perpetually full-protected country data templates. -- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 22:38, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
If you research you'll find out that until late 1990's many countries (especially in West) used to include Urdu speaking population under Hindi, so when they seperated two languages officially there is a but-obvious boom in number of speakers of Urdu. I'm providing one such link, i.e. Tower Of Babel. -- Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider t c s 11:38, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Why did you move the Ovambo people's article? What sources told you the Ambo people is more common in English? A simple google search provides many examples where Ovambo is used in English. This move is also frustrating because you moved it with no discussion whatsoever. I ask you to take the necessary measures to have it moved back.-- TM 09:53, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I just noticed you blocked Finn Diesel ( talk · contribs) for, among other things, block evasion. Did you mean the edits from 79.191.101.61 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS)? If that's what you meant, I actually believe these were not really F.D., but unrelated banned troll Wikinger ( talk · contribs) piggy-backing. He often does these kinds of things, just to create confusion, and it was his known IP range. Or were there other edits that I missed? No objections against other block reasons, such as general disruptive editing and edit-warring, of course. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:12, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Sources for Croatian Grammar:
Bartol Kašić is Croatian cleric, name in Latin language is Cassius, Cassio. Born: Pag 15. VIII. 1575. - † Roma 28. XII. 1650.
see:
-- Dmitar Zvonimir ( talk) 12:11, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I know you're interested in scripts - I went to look up something and came across the Rohonc Codex whihc looks a bit like it's turned into someones sandbox for fanciful deciperments; I'm not that grand on scripts so thought you might want to take a look. Akerbeltz ( talk) 10:04, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Kwamikagami: "Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Vandalism cannot and will not be tolerated. Common types of vandalism are the addition of obscenities or crude humor, page blanking, and the insertion of nonsense into articles."... "Committing vandalism violates Wikipedia policy. If you find that another user has vandalized Wikipedia you should revert these changes; you may also warn the user (see below for specific instructions). Users who vandalize Wikipedia repeatedly, despite warnings to stop, should be reported to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, and administrators may block them." Sorry, but this is a vandalism. And please, do not attack me ( No personal attacks). Have a Nice Day -- Roberta F. ( talk) 15:28, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Ten Commandments. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Tbhotch Talk C. 17:59, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Odd that you didn't warn the other editors engaged in the edit war. Why is that?
The edit war has no moved on to deleting an NPOV tag. As vandalism, reverting that is not subject to 3RR. — kwami ( talk) 18:02, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Posting POV tags because you disagree with the consensus, and throwing around cries of "censorship" because your low level of scholarship and unwillingness to edit in a collaborative spirit, will not be tollerated. Slrubenstein | Talk 18:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
You are right, you are a POV warrior and not a troll. As to consensus, there was a discussion for over two weeks and all editors who regularly work on the article, indeed everyone but you, is in agreement. But when you are asked to make sense of your edits, you claim I am asking too high a standard of you. Well, if Wikipedia is going to be the first-use encyclopedia for the world, it should have the highest standards. I am not even holding you to the highest standards of our best articles, just to basic standards. You cannot even do that. You subvert the integrity of the project. And when someone asks for integrity, you protest you are being censored. Hah. Slrubenstein | Talk 18:12, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
TFOWR 18:16, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Dialect should be in plural in that article, so please chance it to "Jamtlandic dialects". Jamtlandic is a group of dialects not one dialect.
Pilisbo ( talk) 17:16, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Regarding your edit [14], since the pronunciation given is phonetic and not phonemic, the original postalveolar fricative [ʒ] should stand. There's no [ʎ] in River Plate Spanish, as the wikipedia article clearly states. The subject himself pronounces his own name with [ʒ], as can be heard here (50 seconds into the clip) [15]. Martin Hausen ( talk) 04:56, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Someone has posted a complaint about me on the admin noticeboard, and accused you of abusing admin powers. [18] Still not sure how the whole thing works, so can you tell me if I'm at fault? (Watching this talk page if you want to reply here) Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 19:56, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, here User:Aeusoes1 reports undesired behaviour of the Consonant template(s) in IE. I put up a solution in the sandboxes. Could you take a checking look, i.e. whether behavior indeed would improve? Talk in the report-thread I suggest. - DePiep ( talk) 13:47, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Could You look over this discussion and express Your opinion of that problem? Thank You very much! -- Iaroslavvs ( talk) 21:58, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, maybe you could move Andi (people) and Inari Sami (people) to "X people" (without the parentheses) for naming consistency? -- JorisvS ( talk) 16:04, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Please, could you take a look at the page Etruscan language, there is someone making absurd comparisons and every time I undo them, there come again. (S)he adds no explanation and no source (looking as original "research") in spite of the fact that I had added comments and even the explanation in the talk page. Regards. Dumu Eduba ( talk) 14:12, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, I see you moved Auvergnat (dialect) to Auvergnat dialects. I'm curious, did you have a specific reason to use the plural instead of the singular? -- JorisvS ( talk) 15:21, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
I believe you; I never had the impression you assumed bad faith. You did nothing that violated any policy or guideline. It was just that, like any other well-intended editor here, I would like my fellow editors to consider the possibility that I may have used my brain before I edited. (At least when an edit is as carefully worded as that one; I've contributed my fair share of stupid errors, too.)
For some time now I have been trying to act that way here. Maybe we could call it "RRE" - respect the reason for an edit. I've learned this the hard way, as a mediator in ethnic conflicts (e.g. here), but I also found it useful in less emotionally charged situations. Granted, this consideration takes a couple of minutes, but it has several advantages: (1) It shows respect to the other editor. This contributes to a welcoming mood, which is necessary in a volunteer project like ours. (2) You can improve Wikipedia. Sometimes an editor is trying to solve a problem with an article, but just doesn't do it right, because she doesn't know any better. In those cases, you can help everyone to focus on the underlying problem, instead of on the wrong solution. This is the most direct way to reach an outcome that is better than both versions. (3) It's fun. In a case like this, where it touches your hobby, it's fun to think about it from a new angle, isn't it? I at least thought it was fun to think about words containing "cz". — Sebastian 01:11, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've converted Ovambo into a disambig. Per WP:FIXDABLINKS, could you help fix the links that now point to a disambig? Thanks, -- JaGa talk 11:27, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, I see you've moved this back saying "grammar fix". I'd dispute that, as the Admiralties are a group of islands not a single island, after which the family is named and hence the plural. Correct me if I don't see something. -- JorisvS ( talk) 13:27, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Let's review the refs I've given: 1) Hamel, the Admiralties specialist, from the '90s; 2) Bright, in the Encyclopedia, from the '90s; 3) Wurm, from the Routledge Atlas, from 1994; 4) Blust, an article on one of the Admiralties languages, from '08. All show the usage "X Islands group" or "X Islands languages". Hamel, Wurm, and Blust are all Admiralties or Austronesian specialists. And your comment about considering history doesn't seem to apply to "Burushaski", which you changed to "Burusho" (wherever that came from), despite the overwhelming English usage of "Burushaski". -- Taivo ( talk) 05:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey! I provided plenty of contemporary linguistic evidence that Admiralty Islands languages was the usage prevalent in the specialist literature. You should not have moved those articles back without actually providing evidence to the contrary. JorisvS and I agree that these should be at Admiralty Islands languages. You have moved them against the evidence and against consensus based only on your view of English grammar. The contemporary, recent evidence is conclusive. Your evidence is 40 years old. Please move them back. -- Taivo ( talk) 21:09, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
(outdent) I have never claimed this for Oceanic languages in general, it is specific to Admiralty Islands languages and the usages I have cited have all only specifically been tied to Admiralty Islands languages. What I have shown you is crystal clear usage among Austronesian specialists on how they treat the word "Islands" among the Admiralty Islands languages. You are ignoring WP:NCON and pushing your own grammatical usage despite the common usage among Austronesianists which I have clearly demonstrated. There's no "cherry-picking" going on. There are four solid linguistic sources that show that in contemporary usage among the Admiralty Islands language nodes specialists use the plural "islands" in attributive position. You have offered no contemporary counterevidence, just your own WP:OR opinions about English grammar. -- Taivo ( talk) 03:41, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
A request for move has been initiated at Admiralty Island languages. -- Taivo ( talk) 13:11, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
I was already twice on short hollidays, so that is why I haven´t noteced your responce to a question I posted at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Serbia#Serbian_Cyrillic. I apologise for not having noteced it and thank you for your input. I beleave you and Timbouctou understood perfectly the issue I exposed there. :) Best regards, FkpCascais ( talk) 04:40, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
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Your repeated conversion of Proto-Canaanite alphabet into a redirect is little better than vandalism. If you disagree with the article, seek consensus on its talk page in the first instance. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 17:09, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
I thank you for the edits on Tahash: Proto-Canaanite→Phoenician, et cetera. I have enjoyed reading your talk page, and I am refreshed by your expertise, your passion for accuracy and your scholastic/academic/professorial integrity. Pax. Hermitstudy ( talk) 19:14, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
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Problems are still continuing at Croatian language - any suggestions? According to User:Sandstein, poor behaviour at this article comes under the ArbCom sanctions of WP:ARBMAC, and I think this may be the best route in the long term. Knepflerle ( talk) 22:09, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Croatian language. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Tbhotch Talk C. 19:55, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I may be, new. But your reedits of Berber languages and renaming the articles do not have any support of (citations, footnotes, sources and references). as you already know the the Wikipedia roles. leave the accurate and most used names as they are. and just use the discussion form for your preferences .
I restate, again a message in (Talk: Tachelhit Language) info ( Uchronicle ( talk) 09:50, 26 August 2010 (UTC))
See Talk:Aorist#Perfect tense vs Perfect aspect. -- Radagast 3 ( talk) 22:50, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
The article for Susan Tedeschi needs an IPA rendering of her name rather than the pronounciation which is there: Susan Tedeschi (pronounced te-DES-ki). It would be great if you can help with this. -- Leahtwosaints ( talk) 03:06, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami, I was just visiting the Naming conventions (Chinese) talk page, where the discussion of renaming or not Standard Mandarin is going on, and I see that there have been previous discussions about whether or not to rename Hokkien. Hokkien comes up because that is tagged for copyediting during September's Copyediting Backlog Elimination Drive, and I thought I would try to work on that article. You have been on Wikipedia longer than I have, and I wonder what you think about various approaches to naming various Sinitic languages. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk) 01:18, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Template:Consonants has been nominated for merging with Template:IPA navigation. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Actually, a redirect is proposed. See also: {{ IPA consonant chart}}. Discussion is here. DePiep ( talk) 12:21, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hello! May I ask what's the reasoning behind name changes like Uropi > Uropi (artificial language), and what does the somewhat enigmatic addition "per others" mean? Cheers, — IJzeren Jan Uszkiełtu? 13:36, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
kwami do you know that what happens here in en.wikipedia is gradually becoming a serious political problem in Croatia? Do you know that now we have headlines in newspapers about this anti Croatian special war? Do you know that what I.Š. and few others are doing is nothing but special war against Croatia and Croatian culture and people? Do you know that what they are doing (and you support them) is something that Serbian nationalists are trying to do for decencies? Are you sure you want to be a part of that? 78.3.120.82 ( talk) 12:29, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Pick your brains? We're having a recurring problem on Spain, but in particular Basque related pages that contain maps with drive by map reverters. The consensus on these pages is to use the original green maps for clarity (which indicentally were widely used until some crusaders from the Spanish wiki spilled over and changed them wholesale) but we're having a real problem with IP editors who drift by regularly and revert to the non-consensus maps. Given it's affecting 4 pages in our case ( Basque Country (autonomous community), Gipuzkoa, Álava and Biscay) is there a standard way of getting IP editors blocked from changing the maps or do we have to take it somehwere for each map individually? Thanks. Akerbeltz ( talk) 15:44, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm going to put together a prototype Aorist article at User talk:Taivo/Aorist. Any comments you might have would be most welcome. -- Taivo ( talk) 00:54, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
The page has <ref name=Ethnologue/>, apparently added by you. It is incomplete and causing a cite error. Could you add the full reference? ClamDip ( talk) 10:16, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami. I apologize for intrusion on your talk page, but this concerns you. While reading Village pump comment on Croatian language wikipedia, I found some very bad comments about you and Mr. Stambuk here: [19] made by user Mir Harven. You can use Google translator to check the meaning. I will just say it mentions pigs, sick people, mafia, manipulators and vandals. It appears that his open insults are simply ignored by administrators. -- Mike1975 ( talk) 23:10, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, could you point me to the discussion that took place prior to your protecting this page? Cheers. Weakopedia ( talk) 07:33, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the appreciation! The remaining ones were beyond my powers...
Now, a request: try as I might, I cannot get {{ IPA-xx}} to include the remaining tagged pages in CAT:NSP. I tried a simple <includeonly>, then plagiarizing what seemed to me like relevant code from {{ Cleanup-IPA}}—to no avail. Do you have what it takes? This would keep these pages front-and-center, at least for someone like me who compulsively checks that cat...
Thanks for whatever you can do. — ˈzɪzɨvə ( talk) 10:06, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
As you seem to know your linguistics quite well, I was wondering if you any good sources or information about the Malay language? A page for two standardizations have been created, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia. If you could provide help with these it may be useful. Thanks. Chipmunkdavis ( talk) 06:11, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Please stop changing the first vowel. -- Trovatore ( talk) 05:35, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I noticed that you reverted the change again on the pronunciation of this word. Did you not see my comment at Talk:Chamois#Pronunciation? From the sources I've been able to find, it seems our disagreement is from a difference between American and British English, and that neither of us was fully correct. Please see my suggested wording. Regards, Richard New Forest ( talk) 09:38, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Mister Kwamikagami, thisis a not really ?????????
[numerous links to Croatian grammars deleted as clutter] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.168.102.48 ( talk) 20:15, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ivan_%C5%A0tambuk —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.168.102.48 ( talk) 21:27, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Aorist. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If the edit warring continues, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. - FASTILY (TALK) 23:10, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Do you mind if I delete Pyrostegia? It's evidently a genus of its own, so redirecting to the dab page flame tree isn't very useful. Ucucha 00:39, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami! I was read the page of Banat Bulgarians: 1. The author father Jáni Vasilčin wrote, that the Banat Bulgarians also known as his tongue, that language. In the Bulgarian wikipedia also the thing is, that the Banat Bulgarian second standard Bulgarian norm. Bulgaria and Romania also warrant the Banat Bulgarian in the schools. In Austria the Burgeland Croatian also language. In our midst not yet the Prekmurian, but few authority have in idea that the Prekmurian also regional language, not simply dialect. Doncsecz talk 08:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Kwami, when you moved "Aorist (linguistics)" to Aorist, the Talk page stayed stranded at Talk:Aorist (linguistics). :) -- Taivo ( talk) 04:03, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Your edits are mentioned here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Aorist - Off2riorob ( talk) 18:59, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you recently removed the pronounciation of the word " Hilal-i-Ju'rat". I want to let you know that I know it's not English or Urdu. It's about how you say the word, ie how you say the name of the medal phonectically. NarSakSasLee ( talk) 22:27, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
You may defend your revert warring at WP:AN3. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:58, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Can I ask what state you consider the article to be in? Whether it looks good enough to become a good article or even featured? NarSakSasLee ( talk) 01:20, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Revision history of Serbo-Croatian language. No comment. -- Roberta F. ( talk) 01:46, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
OK, I did. Happy trails, -- ArielGlenn ( talk) 16:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
No, not yours ;) Someone unilaterally moved Romano-Greek language to Hellenoromani language and Romano-Serbian language to Serbian Romani language citing "remove confusion" in the move summary. I've asked him ( User_talk:Nergaal#Romani) to revert for two reasons (1) it wasn't debated, 2) the second name in particular is invented and adds to the confusion as it suggests a Romani derived language rather than a Serbian based language with Romani admix) but (s)he isn't responsive to arguments at all. I'm not averse to debating a move on either but not in the way Nergaal did it. Akerbeltz ( talk) 11:35, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. Hopefully in future he'll debate before he moves! Akerbeltz ( talk) 21:33, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi kwami, could you move Seri (disambiguation) to Seri? I recently moved Seri to Seri people for the same reason you moved Tongva to Tongva people. However, I can't move the disambig page that already exists. -- JorisvS ( talk) 21:44, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
I'd prefer this title to Ain't and related contractions because amn't is a good deal older than ain't, and has had independent existence all the while ain't and its friends were fluctuating.... -- Evertype· ✆ 09:03, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
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Some of your recent changes have to been to Native American tribes and places, was wondering what they have to dow ith changing the IPA to a Semitic transcription? He iro 00:10, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Kwamikagami, I don't really know if you are the right person to ask, but I wonder if you known enough Malay to be able to let us at Project Gastropods know if the words "siput gonggong", which seem to mean howling or barking snail, really sort-of mean "dog snail"? It's for the article Dog conch which we are trying to get up to GA. Thanks so much. If on the other hand you have no idea about this, maybe you know someone on the 'pedia who speaks Malay and English? Many thanks, Invertzoo ( talk) 20:49, 30 September 2010 (UTC)