Word of the (whenever):
Why dou u keep changing Orissa into Odisha again and again??? I belong to Orissa and it's now renamed. Orissa is renamed from 4th Nov 2011 into Odisha.
I may or may not be dealing with a nationalist editor trying to enforce the fact that the Treaty of San Francisco mentions the "Nansei Islands" and excludes Amami and north from the Ryukyus and I cannot seem to communicate with this person/there is an absolute refusal to acknowledge our previous consensus.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 14:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi
you are repeatedly changing the edits of these two dialects of Punjabi, i can speak both of them along with standard punjabi because i am native speaker of these dialects. u keep classifing them as Lehnda instead of my continous edits as Punjabi..for your kind information Lehnda is Punjabi word for westeren dialects of Punjabi...How can any forigner language expert who cant speak these dialects can classify them as an separate language only on the basis of 200 to 300 word comparison..there is only 10% minor changes in between and each dialect speaker can very easily communicate with other dialect speaker...these all dialects are mutually understandable...i have put a table in the support which is only high lighting the few differences in words in these 3 dialects....IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER OBJECTION THEN EITHER learn these dialects then challenge my edits OR classify AUSTRAILIAN, US , BRTISH, South African english as different languages...GOD HELP YOU — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanguageXpert ( talk • contribs) 17:13, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Reply to KWAMI....wt is the authencity of a reference if i provide...a book then wt is the dame guarentee that book is a true reflection of reality..STILL i m providing u reference....Book name: 3 HINDUSTANI LANGUAGES Page 99 Author: Doctor K S BEDI...Book name: PUNJABI LISANIYAT (LANGUISTIST) Page 142 Author: Shehbaz Malik...Book name: SHORT HISTORY OF PUNJABI LITERATURE Page 17 Author: Qureshi Ahmed Hussain..Book name: URDU IN PUNJAB Page 76 Author: Hafiz Mehmood Shirani....i challenge u to research by learning these dialects (NOT LANGUAGES) and then analyse my claim...Problem wid 1920 research by geirison (A FOREIGN WHO CANT SPEAK THESE) were that he compared 200 words list of EASTEREN punjab's (INDIAN PUNJAB) punjabi which is full of SANSIKRAT with.... ARABIC PERSION MIXED SAREIKI and HINKO...bt reality has changed after india pakistan creation....now LAHORE's STANDARD punjabi is full of ARABIC PERSION WORDS so if we compare all three dialects then only difference is future tense....so sir,dialects exist for every languages... as i mentioned AUSTRAILIAN, US , BRTISH, South African english so dont classify a dialect as an language......THANX
5261 Eureka. -- JorisvS ( talk) 17:34, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Could you suggest something better in this discussion? I mean grammar-wise. I don't want to drag you into that content. Thanks, Tijfo098 ( talk) 21:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
You may be interested in this discussion that mentions an article you have edited. [1] Neotarf ( talk) 02:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
You know the proper procedure to get Medebur language deleted. Your current edit warring on that article is disruptive and if you continue I will block you. If you want the redirect deleted take it to WP:RFD. If you don't want to spend the time doing the paperwork, then drop it. If you continue the way you are going I will block you. GB fan 13:53, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
IPA is not used for Japanese language words, which despite whatever you believe, "Ryukyu" is one of them. Just because it isn't the name of the island chain in Japan does not mean that the word itself is not Japanese, for which only the Hepburn system is used and no IPA system.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 12:37, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
lead=yes
parameter, it's not really used anywhere so why start with this page?).—
Ryulong (
琉竜)
09:07, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
I also don't feel like starting a new thread, but I've brought you up in the discussion I started concerning Masanori Asami on ANI. He's pushing an agenda to change the English and Chinese definitions of what constitutes the Ryukyus all over the net (he admitted to going to some other Wiki and changing things himself).— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 13:20, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
@ kwami ( talk) Thanks for your information. However we have discussed these issues extensively with Aflis (talk). There is nothing like plagiarism here, who stops me from cuttting and pasting my own works and the works of the Association I lead? Logon to Bantu-Languages.com you prove the fact which agrees with our research. Research contained in the "History and Cultural Life of The Mbunda Speaking People", published by Cheke Cultural Writers Association 1994, now called Cheke Cha Mbunda Cultural and Writers Association of which I am the National Chairman, and widely referred to by researchers gives evidence that thise languages are branches or dialects of Mbunda Language. This is an indigenous Mbunda Writers Association who have interviewed, the Mbunda forefathers, some of whom were there in Mbundaland which is now part of Angola. This book was Published under the auspices of The Zambia Journal of History, University of Zambia, ISBN: 998203006X and Edited by Robert Papstein, Central African Oral History Project. The unfortunate part of our (Mbunda) history is that it has been decimated by the Wars in Angola and a deliberate Colonialist policy of divide and rule. Despite the wars our History is still there for those who genuinely seek it from those who genuinely possess it. The onus is on ourselves to research and tell the world about ourselves. We should unshackle the syndrome of accepting and legitimizing anything given and seen through the eyes of foreigners as "our history". We are the only ones better placed to write about ourselves. Foreigners will distort our history to serve their own endeavors as has been the case with the Portuguese. Imagine a Chokwe writing Mbunda history; it will be a complete distortion and misrepresentation of facts as passed on to us from our ancestors. Of course subjectivity is an issue. But it is subjectivity that makes history dynamic that one source is not regarded as a complete and absolute authority. Therefore history is there to be researched. Rich narratives still exists in many forms among our people despite the traumatic turmoil and displacements. The research, publication and cultural preservation efforts done by the Cheke cha Mbunda is highly commendable and significant to our cultural identity. The challenge on us whether we see ourselves as Mbunda or Nyemba or Ngangela is to emancipate ourselves from the colonial mindset of seeing ourselves as different to each other and rise up and complement the efforts of Cheke cha Mbunda by adding new narratives to the rich repository of our history it has given us". Yes Chokwe is a Bantu group like a Mbunda Group, but Mbunda has never been under Chokwe or Luchazi. Infact when you reflect on the same Mbunda History Book research, Luchazi is a Mbunda descendant group. I don't know what goes on at Wikipedia, it is amazing that anybody can delete or anyone's contribution at will or threaten to block. If this is a closed group, please do not allow free editing. Look at your understanding of Ngangela, it is different from our research. Let us be open and let the owners help you. Libingi ( talk) 19:03, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
@( talk) Thanks. However, I don't know exactly how the Wikipedia editing works. But, I still don't understand what you mean by "It is still unsourced". I have given you http://www.bantu-languages.com/fr/zonek.html as a source which corresponds with the research in the Mbunda History Book. I have also given you the Mbunda History Book which is found in some UK University libralies as a source, if this is what you mean by unsourced. Or is it only a white man's research which is a "respected linguistic source"? There are many Bantu languages, but not grouped together, why is it that Chokwe-Luchazi are grouped together with Mbunda? And now at Wikipedia you group all southeast Angola ethnic groups under Ngangela, and I repeat ""Nganguela" is one of these ethnographical classification categories invented during colonial times (in a series of African countries) which do not correspond to one people held together by a common social identity", even substuting Mbunda! What is the source for this? It is not true that Mbunda is part of the Chokwe-Luchazi branch of Bantu, it is a creation. Please check the Mbunda history carefully, unless you have another Mbunda/Chokwe-Luchazi history from your so called "respected linguistic sources". I believe language should correspond with the people's history or origin. I have written to ethnologue.com, querrying them on certain issues. I am still awaiting their responce. Libingi ( talk) 22:05, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks @ Neotarf. Let us continue researching on this important subject. We believe we are a credible source because we have interacted with our people who were there physically, including King Mbandu II Shanda Kazungo, who was imposed on the Mbunda by the Portuguese colonialists during the Mbunda/Portuguese war of 1914-1920s. We expect something substential from your sources. Frankly speaking we need very little input from any other source, if any because that source has to contact us the Mbunda ethnic group if he it has to come up with anything credible about the Mbunda.
Libingi (
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07:20, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
I will get to this, though maybe not today. Both of you have made substantial improvements to the article, though it sounds like Libingi could write a lot more. Libingi, if you click on this red link to Mbunda people, you'll be able to start a new article, and make it as detailed as you like, though I would recommend listing your sources explicitly, paragraph by paragraph. (That makes it less likely something will get removed later.) Also, the language article will link to it automatically. — kwami ( talk) 16:48, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, to me the article looks reasonably balanced. However, the Mbunda coding as a subgroup of Chokwe-Luchazi is erroneous. On 11 November 2011, @Kwamikagami edited it to "Chokwe-Luchazi. At Chokwe–Luchazi, it clearly shows that "With the exception of Chokwe, the Angolan government refers to these languages as Mbunda or Ngangela". Why then, not edting it as Chokwe-Mbunda or simply Mbunda, since "Nganguela" is one of these ethnographical classification categories invented during colonial times (in a series of African countries) which do not correspond to one people held together by a common social identity?". Libingi ( talk) 17:38, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, kwami. Someone on FB is asking, "Anybody know anybody who's doing / done any work on Choco languages?" He is a linguist from Slovakia, fluent in English and several others, does work in Semitic languages, and will be involved with a company doing business with Embera-Wounaanhas. He has seen the Wikipedia article, but it didn't give him the background he was looking for. I suggested your talk page, and he wants me to ask on his behalf. Any ideas? Neotarf ( talk) 21:13, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Have you seen Talk:South Gyeongsang Province#Requested move? DrKiernan ( talk) 07:50, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi i m not adding a dictionary but pin pointing the very few differences of all punjabi dialects (which only we locals of these dialects can speak) which you foriegners impose as a language under a political agenda of DIVIDE AND RULE. you first declare english of US and Austrailia and South Africa as a different language then try it here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanguageXpert ( talk • contribs) 08:01, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
I am a native potowari speaker....check Pakistan Census 1998 for rawalpindi division language distribution for your kind information...i had already provided you refrences on Saraiki page but your action speaks louder then words that you guys are biased and your agenda is to divide and rule.. u take challenge and learn these dialects and then challenge if i was wrong or right in posting the 30-50 words are only different and those are only due to minor vowel adjustments (U CAN RECHECK IT WITH ANY OTHER NATIVE SPEAKERS)...WE ALL ARE PUNJABI AND NOT EVEN A CHILD HAS LISTENED A WORD LEHNDA LANGUAGE...at a joke u make if u try to proof it a different language...you guys have double standards for english ...you guys have different agenda of spreading voilence instead of unity among people of pakistan and specially province punjab — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanguageXpert ( talk • contribs) 09:47, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi kwami, if u feel blocking is the solution then you can go ahead, but you forgot the end objectivity of WIKIPEDIA is to provide true and honest facts.....you answer me what is the difference between a language and a dialect?????? LANGUAGE means totally un comprehensible and not mutually intelligible ...while dialect means mutually intelligible and communicate able because there is a difference of vowels few or slight gramical variations and regional influenced words... Potowari is perfectly communicatable and mutually intelligible with very few different words...potowari elected PUNJABI as there mother tongue in 1998 Pakistan census...u can check it by searching on net...Hopefully u will now better able to understand my point of view...i have a lot of references from various authors...But question remains that aint they human like us...the only difference is that they have written book....Written book can be untrue or true WHO KNOWS...bt i challenge you to proof my research wrong...sorry for harsh words but REMEMBER end objectivity is to present a true reflection.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanguageXpert ( talk • contribs) 16:22, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 146.90.43.8 ( talk) 13:27, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Your edit summary "at least have the integrity to sign in" is totally inappropriate. It is long standing Wikipedia policy than an account is not required to edit. Please refrain from making similar comments in the future. Nobody Ent 17:47, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
This is unrelated, but please feel free to refract "Non-admin closure by a former admin." to "Non-admin closure." (see Wikipedia talk:MOS) Either is appropriate, and I did not know which you would prefer. I did not check to see if you were involved in the RfC. Apteva ( talk) 20:59, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
User talk:Delphi234#Sock Case -- Neotarf ( talk) 22:19, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
In
Talk:Ryukyu Islands, you wrote as follows:
>地理用語集 (2007) says that 琉球列島 (Ryukyu Archipelago) and 南西諸島 (Nansei Islands) are synonymous.
>Biogeographically, the 琉球列島 (Ryukyu Archipelago) encompasses the entire chain.
The book entitled "地理用語集" is only published by Yamakawa-Shuppan(山川出版社). But there is no such a description in 地理用語集(2002) and 地理用語集(2011). Moreover, in 地理用語集(2011), there is a quite different explanation of "南西諸島(Nansei Islands)" as "北の薩南諸島と南の琉球諸島に大別される。" i.e. "Nansei Islands(南西諸島)" is classified roughly into "Satsunan Islands(薩南諸島)" of north part and "Ryukyu Islands(琉球諸島)" of south part.
So, would you please quote 地理用語集 (2007) as Japanese precisely? -(
112.70.7.67 (
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07:58, 15 October 2012 (UTC))
You have done at least two moves of language articles to [[foo ()]]. What purpose is the () supposed to serve? — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 21:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I ran across Lofoi, to which you gave indefinite full protection more than a year ago, and I've asked at RFPP that protection be lifted. I could do it myself, but I'm loth to unprotect without input from others. Would you mind commenting at RFPP? Nyttend ( talk) 00:11, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
On April 16, 2012, you moved page Juliá-Colonna epoxidation to Juliá–Colonna epoxidation. But throughout the article, the en dash version of the name appears only once, while the hyphen version of the name appears many times. I would think that the article should consistently use the same name as the article title. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 08:11, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
I just wonder what is bad with the added sentence or/and what Wiki's rules it's broken. A question has risen about this digraph in Old French, so this information is quite useful, I think.-- Lüboslóv Yęzýkin ( talk) 08:00, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Sanskrit & Science Edit: My friend : It is not the question of it being bullshit, it has been proved scientifically after research and the related information for the same is provided in the request. I don't understand how you can refute a research finding which has been published.Title: Physiological patterns during practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique compared with patterns while reading Sanskrit and a modern language. Source: Travis F; Olson T; Egenes T; Gupta HK; The International Journal Of Neuroscience, 2001, vol. 109, issue 1-2, p 71, ISSN 00207454. ISBN 00207454. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockthemind ( talk • contribs) 19:16, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Thought you would enjoy the name of Wikipedia's newest vandal: User:KwamiFKu -- Taivo ( talk) 11:22, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
This guy showed up within minutes of my last revert of User:LanguageXpert's latest baloney on the Saraiki language page, so its obviously a sock of that user. -- Taivo ( talk) 11:25, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
In this edit, you've removed mention of Candoshi, Harakmbut and Puquina. It's not immediately clear to me why. Has the Macro-Arawakan proposal been reduced?
Also, in this edit, you've added a dialect "KadaupuritanaGuarú". I suspect that this is a copying error and only Guarú was intended. Is that correct? -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 20:15, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I saw that you created the page Guaycura people. You write for this people as alternative writing of their name the word Waicura. I'm not sure of the source that use the word Waicura instead of Guaycura is Gursky (1966) ? (as he wrote Waikuri ).
What are the differences ? I'm biologist and i need to justify the etymology of the term i might use (and Waicura sounds better than Guaycura). It's to define a new variety of organism, which was found in this area of the Baja California (and the ICZN is more and more annoying on this point !).
Thanks for your help :-)
-- Ndiverprime ( talk) 17:09, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing contradictions. Art LaPella ( talk) 17:46, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Question - what was the reason for this edit? [2] Thanks. Apteva ( talk) 04:24, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
but did you intend to remove the uncommented portion as well? What is the reason for removing the pronunciation, particularly with no discussion on the talk page? Apteva ( talk) 13:09, 23 October 2012 (UTC)<!-- ({{pron-en|ˈzɛnɒn}}<ref>Xenon, entry in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner, vol. 20, second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. ISBN 0-19-861232-X (vol. 20), ISBN 0-19-861186-2 (set.)</ref> {{respell|ZEN|on}} or {{IPA-en|ˈziːnɒn|}}<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/xenon Xenon], entry in Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1), accessed on line February 19, 2001. Transcribed into IPA.</ref> {{respell|ZEE|non}}) -->
Shouldn't be there? Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of article that include the pronunciation of odd words. It both should be there and is there. Other than of course the edit war to remove it from this specific article. When someone reverts something the second step in BRD is not another R but D - take it to the talk page. There is nothing on the talk page about this other than an old discussion which concluded that the pronunciation was appropriate. And if you follow that discussion to the MOS discussion you end with the horrendous suggestion that maybe "links to Wiktionary from the bolded title word is the way to fix this". No, the way to "fix this" is to leave it alone. What editors have done a hundred thousand times is just fine. Apteva ( talk) 18:00, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
I appreciate your help maintaining NPOV in the article. A heads up, I've recently rewritten the section in question to (hopefully) further improve WP:NPOV compliance.
Cheers,
-- Rawlangs ( talk) 23:38, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Please. Both of us have indicated our disagreement with each other quite enough on this subject.
[3] I would recommend moving on to another topic and bringing the topic of airports and hyphens up at a later time. Time to move on.
Apteva (
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11:53, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Uto-Aztecan languages#Extinct languages also needs some linking. :) — Stevey7788 ( talk) 04:06, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi K, I do not understand the reason for your revert. My modifications did not state anything factually different from what the introduction previously did, but rather had it re-phrased to more elegantly present the complex relationship. There is no consensus as far as I can tell between the "five" as you describe them, each article seems to have a slightly different introduction. Unless you have a better suggestion on how to put an end to incessant IP edits to the article (which quite frankly occur because of the blunt opening of the intro) do not revert the edits the first thing you do. I think we should give the re-phrasing a chance, and of course if you feel we should discuss any matter I am always at your disposal. Best, Praxis Icosahedron ( talk) 06:01, 26 October 2012 (UTC).
Taivo, if you insist on reverting the really insignificant edits I made please motivate it here, and why you think they're detrimental to the article. Obviously this is a touchy subject for you, more so on the Bosnian than Croatian article it appears. My take is that the intro is currently too blunt and needs to be clarified. Praxis Icosahedron ( talk) 06:23, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I thought I should let you know that I have just reverted a couple of your edits to automatic taxobox templates. I don't know how or why, but one or other of them was causing Category:Taxoboxes with an invalid color to fill with hundreds of pages – mostly other automatic taxobox templates, but also a few dozen pages in the article namespace. If you can find a way to make your edit without that side-effect, then please go ahead and do it. If I had known how to do that, I'd have done it myself. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 17:24, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Apparently not. The category was starting to fill up again, so I restored Avialae/skip. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 17:55, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I don't think it's a rank issue. The automatic taxobox system doesn't really care what rank something's at; it's just a label to stick beside the taxon name. I did wonder whether it was because of the large number of extra templates involved in Avialae above those used by Avialae/skip (perhaps related to the template depth limits that the automatic taxoboxes often exceed), but it should affect all the subordinate taxa equally, as you pointed out. I still don't understand it, but at least we've pinpointed the cause! -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:01, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
See Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded – it seems to be 40 at the moment. The odd thing is that many (most? all?) pages with automatic taxoboxes appear in the category, even though the articles display perfectly well. Picinae is one example; it transcludes 60 separate taxon-hierarchy templates, but the taxobox shows just fine. I think some people are still looking into the situation. I'm not sure anyone quite understands it; I'm sure I don't. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:08, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I stiǁ do not understand why you create these titles with () in them. I have just dealt with ǂAkhoe dialect. Why did that have to moved to a () title? Why could you not request a direct move from Haiǁom people? — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 09:31, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Meixian is geographically a hundred and fifty plus kilometers removed from Raoping. Raoping is coastal whilst Meixian is an inland city. From a language point of view, Raoping's rising and departing tones have merged, making it distinct from Meixian dialect.... The Ping or level tones show pitch contours where Yin is a low level and Yang a high level contour, the exact opposite of Meixian. These several points alone make the two already phonologically different without getting into the specifics of the consonant and rime descriptions.
Please can you remove the re-direct of Raoping dialect to the Meixian dialect. I shall move the sentence "Ethnologue calls it Yue-Tai, and it also goes by the name Raoping." to the Talk page if anyone want to substantiate specifically the claim that it is Yue-Tai. I don't think Ethnologue's groupings are helpful at all. Dylanwhs ( talk) 22:44, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I've seen that you're reverting edits of the page when they are fully backed by sources. Please don't do it. Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 09:39, 30 October 2012 (UTC).
" What a terrible joke they have made of the religion" does not necessarily mean Islam. Besides, if you read this carefully, you will find the removed text actually acknowledges liberal Pakistani attitude which a single person like you would like to see it removed from the article. Sad! Terrorist are honored and liberals are penalised on Wikipedia!!
Hindustanilanguage (
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12:25, 31 October 2012 (UTC).
BTW, blogpost is quoted not as a historically significant fact but rather showing existence of liberals in a society supposedly dominated by hardliners. This quote can be replaced by any other quote to show the same. Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 12:30, 31 October 2012 (UTC).
MOS:NDASH recommends using an n-dash for date ranges. MOS:SLASH says avoid using slashes. You are making changes that conflict with those sections of the MOS stating that your changes conform to the MOS. I can't see how this is so. Geraldo Perez ( talk) 01:47, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, when was the MOS:SLASH guideline updated? We've been using the n-dash format for years. Not that I object to the change. I will, however, have to change some FAs/GAs which currently use the n-dash format. Firsfron of Ronchester 04:23, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
You replaced full links in List of A.N.T. Farm episodes with relative links in a section of an episode article that is transcluded into the main article. Those links will not work in the main article. You may wish to check this in other edits you have done. Geraldo Perez ( talk) 02:19, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! The template Template:Infobox language/ref has a reference error and is appearing on Category:Pages with broken reference names. As you have been the primary editor of the template, could you have a look at it? The code for "e16" is complex and I do not see what could be causing the error. Thanks! (The Documentation for the template is what is actually showing the error, but I believe fixing the template will solve the problem.) - Salamurai ( talk) 03:06, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I'd appreciate it if you could check my recent edits; I think they're all improvements, but I'd like your view. I think the lead of the Khoisan languages article needs some more work. 203.118.187.196 ( talk) 08:52, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
I suspect that that user is a sock of some of our previous troublemakers at the Saraiki language, Hindko language, etc. complex. I've already reverted him three times today at Saraiki language and he just keeps on going. -- Taivo ( talk) 17:53, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
kwami I have reinstated the previous version of Mbunda language which was a contribution of Aflis ( talk). It has all the references and I do not think there was need to revise it the way you did without a consensus Libingi ( talk) Libingi ( talk) 20:31, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
You may or may not care about this, but I know that you do careful work here, so I thought I'd ask your opinion. I'm alarmed by the number of GA reviews launched on articles that are nothing of the sort. They often pass the review, and then Wikipedia looks stupid. I'm asking a few editors to recommend the best place to open a discussion of how to strengthen the process. My chief concern is that some editors are evaluating articles on topics about which they know too little to make an informed judgment about coverage gaps. I think I see a way to address this without fundamentally altering the process, but the discussion should probably not be confined to editors already vested in the process. Cynwolfe ( talk) 12:14, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
I see elsewhere you noted that "point 4" covers this. However, there's nothing like that in the instructions at Wikipedia:Good article nominations. Could this be the problem? Could you link me to point 4? — kwami ( talk) 18:03, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Please, see Talk:Esperanto phonology#English approximation as you requested me to discuss it. -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 22:06, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
جناب والا! میں نے آپکے جذبات کااحترام کرتے ہوئے ایک مخصوص فقرے کو یونہی چھوڑ دینے کا فیصلہ کیا. پھر بھی آپکا اعترض برقرار ہے؟ تعجّب ہے! Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 05:26, 3 November 2012 (UTC).
People who speak Afrikaans pronounce the letter "w" as the letter "v" sounds in English. This has brought about the common (but incorrect) pronunciation in an English sentence of "vambo" rather than "wambo." In any of the Oshiwambo dialects, "wambo" sounds like "wambo" and not "vambo." Additionally, "vambo" is occasionally used in a derogatory way to insult. I can find no appropriate reason to use "vambo" over "wambo." Thus, I would agree with the previous person suggesting to change all occurrences of "vambo" to "wambo." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oshihuna ( talk • contribs) 10:41, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
I laughed out loud when I saw this posted on my Talk Page. -- Taivo ( talk) 02:47, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Kwami, thanks for your help at some of the recent airport RMs and such. We didn't get the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport fixed to use en dash, but as you noted there, "the slash isn't too bad." I agree. The bigger problem is the moderate number of airports still titled with odd hyphenated constructions. I'm having trouble figuring out some of these. It seems to be more common in some European languages to do this, hyphenating a city name before an airport name (like Madrid-Barajas Airport was, from Aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas), or an airport name before a town name where it is located (which seems be what Luxembourg - Findel Airport was). The actual names seem to be Barajas Airport and Luxembourg Airport, though our article calls the latter Findel Airport. The hyphenated form seems to be most common in table listings and such, where city name and airport name are combined for disambiguation, tightly to save space. Do these various European languages even use things like en dash that we can use in English to try to make such relationships more clear to readers? And is en dash really the best answer in Madrid–Barajas Airport, where the connected elements aren't parallel city names or people names? Would Madrid Barajas Airport be better? Many of our articles that list flights use short hyphenated forms, like London-Heathrow, even where the article titles use a more conventional style with space, like London Heathrow Airport; I've been changing some from hyphen to space. Any insights you have would be welcome. Dicklyon ( talk) 22:50, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Jetz et al. is just based on the nodes of Ericson et al. (2006) and Hackett et al. (2008). They just assumed that all genera were monophyletic.
-- Ornithodiez ( talk) 02:38, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
It may not be in your interest or work but you seem to be highly educated in linguistics. There is a user who wants to merge the two Punjabi Wikipedias because he wants a unified Punjabi, as you may know Western and Eastern Punjabi have been regognised as separate languages and uniting them just because one is an activist on the topic does not mean one should change wikipedia. Your comments here would be very appreciated. Thanks — VibhasKS ( talk) 14:28, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I've been noticing the edits you've been making to episode lists of various shows regarding how to organize the years of the seasons (for example, 2003-04 to now 2003/04). It's amazing how now all of a sudden that's been an issue considering we've been listing the years the known way for years now. To be honest, I like how the years have usually been listed despite what this says: [8], because they looked better. Now they just look a bit off. I think some one should challenge this. - Jabrona - 16:17, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit you included the words "Thus and actual", which I don't understand. Can the words "and actual" be deleted? – Fayenatic L ondon 08:56, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
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The endonym "Tongva" is only attested from a single source (Merriam), but it has been taken up by several groups of that heritage as an alternative to "Gabrielino", which is an exonym that some of them find offensive because of the California Mission period. Another group is now asserting that "Kizh" (which is also the Gabrielino word for "house") is the correct endonym. The source for that, a German work (along with some anecdotal reports evidently without sources) is no worse than the source for Tongva. All of these tribal groups are in conflict over legitimacy and gambling, so there is a lot of POV pushing, but it seems to me that the NPOV approach is to rename the article Gabrielino people and discuss the two endonyms. You have a lot of experience with this sort of issue; does that approach seem reasonable?-- Curtis Clark ( talk) 03:34, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Please explain why you instantly reverted my new colour scheme on the map as I promised to do. You said you had no objections. Fry1989 eh? 23:34, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
I have proposed that Category:Second language acquisition be renamed to Category:Second-language acquisition, and I am notifying you because you either participated in discussions about the hyphenation of "second(-)language acquisition" on the article's talk page, or because you participated in the previous CfD discussion. I would be grateful if you could give your opinion on the latest discussion, which you can find at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 10#Category:Second language acquisition. Thank you for your time. — Mr. Stradivarius ( have a chat) 03:13, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Kwamikagami, where does it say that Yue Chinese is 59 million in your book? Please provide me with the page link. Sonic99 ( talk) 03:47, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
You seem to know a thing or two about linguistics. I was wondering if you could help with a phonetic transcription. The details are here. If not, do you know someone who could? InedibleHulk ( talk) 18:00, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/13/syria-crisis-france-idUSP6E8KO01V20121113 Add France if you could, thanks Sopher99 ( talk) 18:20, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I would like to inquire after the IPA consonant chart image that's used as part of the main template. I couldn't help noticing that the current image used is not much changed from the original image used as far back as 2005, and so much data is actually missing from the current IPA chart template (which is not at all helpful if most of the letters on the chart are missing to begin with, due to the lack of a usable font). I recently actually got two fonts (Junicode and Thryomanes) that both display most of the letters, so really it is not too much of a problem to me anymore, but I am in fact preparing to exchange some language information with a friend of mine and I decided it would likely be of much benefit to him if he didn't have to download these two fonts to see the information I'm sending over.
So, I devised a new IPA chart image that's more or less a shopped version of the current chart although it displays all of the current letters, and I was then wondering if this might be of use to any others learning the IPA? Here's the image: [9] - Znex ( talk) 02:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Can you please check if I did it right in this edit and fix if not? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
So I saw that Jabiyan was erased and I was wondering why. I posted here but didn't know if you would get a notification, so there's the link. Thanks, Theuglyman ( talk) 01:44, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Kwami. You've helped with the Tib Bsm article in the past. If you have a moment, would you like to check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tibetan_Buddhism.
I've proposed something there that would involve work for me but would improve the Tib Bsm article immensely in my opinion. It's turned out to be contentious. I have something coming up in the new year that would make it hard for me to devote the time to this then, so it is now or never. Your thoughts would be most welcome. Moonsell ( talk) 00:08, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
The interminable era discussion is now at the top of the Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers page, which is autoarchived. What happens, given that the RfC is still open? Cynwolfe ( talk) 15:11, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Can you tell me or help me why you delete "First People", I need some help on editing. Maybe I can work with you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sammei111106 ( talk • contribs) 01:57, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I plan to add IPA support to jquery.ime, a typing tool that my team in Wikimedia is developing.
Do you use any keyboard layout to type IPA, or do you just copy it from somewhere?
Thanks! -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 22:01, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Kwami, I posted the above question on the ny (digraph) talk page and haven't gotten an answer so far. Do you know the answer? DBlomgren ( talk) 12:29, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at Telugu language#Phonology? It badly needed cleanup. I've already taken care of the consonants, but I don't know what to do with the vowels. Furthermore, according to Telugu alphabet, the fricative that has been under "velar" is actually /h/, but I can't (dis)confirm either. -- JorisvS ( talk) 17:44, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
I'm considering doing a revamp of Altaic languages to better reflect the modern outlook on the theory. Do you have any opinions on which sources would be best to use for this?
Regards, Lothar von Richthofen ( talk) 22:00, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
The minor edit tag is only supposed to be used for uncontroversial edits and reverting clear vandalism. You have many times reverted good faith edits to Solar System as part of an edit dispute using the minor edit tag. ( Most recent edit.) There are plenty of other issues with your (and others') behaviour on that article, but using the minor edit tag for edits you know to be controversial is clearly inappropriate. Please stop it now.
—Alex ( ASHill | talk | contribs) 23:38, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
so i havent seen the warning messages, but btw, why do you keep lowering number of serbs and highering up number of croats on english wikipedia? how is it possible that number of serbs in world drasticly dropped from 12-14 million to only 10 million, and number of croats drastically raised from 6,5 or 7 million to up to 9 million all of a sudden?
how is it possible that there are 4,5 million more croats in world besides 4,5 million in balkans, and out of 8,5 million serbs in balkans only 1,5 million serbs in world? as long as i know serbs had more wars, reasons for leaving their lands, but also a large nuber of people makes a large number of people leave lands... so it would be normal and civilized to put these numbers at.... croats around 7 million in world and serbs up to 12 million in world, (as you should know that throughout whole history, the number of serbs was always one time bigger or more, than the number of croats)... figures for macedonians are also massive... there are 1,5 million macedonians in their country.... how can there be exact or even higher number of them in world? while number of serbs is that much lower? ... no. of macedonians worldwide should be put to 2-2,5 million max. in world..... i live in diaspora myself and believe me i can precise very good.... and also by the old datas that were available in past years.... for the number of peoples....
also number of serbian language speakers used to be 11 million few years ago, how can it just fall to up to 9 million suddeny? .... there are almost 9 million native speakers only on balkans... than in diaspora believe me, serbian diaspora is about 4 million strong and out of 4 million between 1,5 and 2 million serbs speak the language..... while there are also second language speakers... atleast half of albanians in kosovo can speak serbian, about 70% of slovenians can speak or understand serbian (or serbo-croatian) and also a couple of hundreds of thousands of macedonian can do it also....
hope you take some of my solutions and check up those things... coz the data is obviously wrong... and btw sorry for intrusion .... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Правичност ( talk • contribs) 05:50, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
i am new to this so i have no knowledge of how to manage texts on wikipedia i can do it only amauterly. i have found a perfect reference to which i have aproof of my data, but i dont know how to add this all on.... i suppose you wrote these texts on wikipedia, i will give you a link to this homepage (its an official page of serbian diaspora) that shows exact estimated numbers of how many serbs live in certain country and how many serbs there are outside the balkans and you can cleary see it mentions that number 4 million should be the maximum, while mor eprecise would be probably 3,5 million... so however we turn it (it is known that there were 8,5 million serbs in former yugoslavia) and that today the number is slightly lower due to moving to other countries and lower birth rate in serbia) if there are 6 million serbs in serbia and about 2.120 000 mor eserbs in neighbouring countries as you wrote yourself (and you forgot to add data for kosovo (130 000 - 140 000) ... then there should be about 8,35 million serbs in the balkans right? .. then add an addititional 3,5 to 4 million serbs in diaspora which is written here http://www.srpskadijaspora.info/vest.asp?id=2056 and we gain a number of about 12 or 12 million + strong in the whole world . right? .... there are also numbers written for number of serbs in usa (about 1 mil.) and germany about 800 000 as i wrote my self when i was editing.... so i would please ask you to use this ref. i gave you http://www.srpskadijaspora.info/vest.asp?id=2056 ... to write the new data on, coz i dont know how to add references or similar things myself on wikipedia, coz i just made account today. would you hange the numbers on those pages now that you have new reliable and correct source please? thank you.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Правичност ( talk • contribs) 06:18, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
hmmm i dont see this website as advocacy though.... its clearly written in serbian, about the reasearches that were made worldwide through different serbian diaspora organisations, media, societies... numbers of them were counted and estimated... it is clearly just showing off the data of the reasarches made, and i dont see where more relialble data can be found but on the official website of serbian diaspora.... nevermind though ... — Preceding
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ok thank you for your info ill see what i can do ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Правичност ( talk • contribs) 06:44, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
yes i can clearly understand wht you mean. but im not a psycho-patriot myself to wanna make my people look like they are counting zillions.... im trying to bring back the realistic numbers .... that used to be.... surely they have changed, in time, but they couldnt have changed, inn millions just in few 5 or 10 years.... while i saw number of croats rising and rising... it looks just so ... (procroat and antiserb) the datas that have been changing for some time i mean.... so ive posted my opinions and my web link on the talk:serbs page... and see what happens, hope changes will occure... i think some nations have their numbers counted way to high while others are being minimized.. like once i saw something that seemed very redicioulus comparing the categories of american serbs and american norwegians ... it is known that at the end of 19th century there were only over 20 000 montenegrin serbs in usa (not counting those from other lands) ... while norwegians had a slightly smaller number (considering also they were much smaller nation) .... then i see data on norwegians today... that there are over 4 or 5 million american norwegians in the us, while there are only 172.000 serbs and i was like wtf.... everyone knows there are 350 000 serbs and ancestral ones in just chicago and illinois area alone.... so these things kinda anger me... such things cant be possible.... sur ethe censuses reveal their numbers, but estimations are more wide , and normally its hard to precise ethnicity ... (for example alot of serbs in usa declare as yugoslavs , slavs or eastern european or just american) ... so its impossible to give out correct number.... but if others can make estimations for themselves i dont see the reason why some cannot.... and they dont even give out the real sources out, it just stays like that on wikipedia and its cool. (btw i cant remember wheter was it the norwegians i checked out or swedes or some else coz it was some time ago but they were clearly smaller than serb nation)... anyway thnx for your good info it will come in handy and it already did for me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Правичност ( talk • contribs) 07:45, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Previously there seemed to be a large consensus that elements higher than Z=173 cannot exist which seemed to be backed by large number of scientific articals. Why is the limit now z=218? Robo37 ( talk) 09:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
-- Redrose64 ( talk) 10:35, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Can you clarify what you were doing with this edit? I think reverting it will address the concerns at Template_talk:Automatic_taxobox#Expansion_depth_again, but I want to make sure whatever you were trying to do here doesn't get wrecked. Thanks! ErikHaugen ( talk | contribs) 18:39, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
You marked Hadoti, language for WP:RfD in August, but I cannot find where it actually was posted into a discussion. I was alerting you because I found it at Wikipedia:Database reports/Old deletion discussions and I'm trying to clean up some unfinished tags. You can do what you wish with this information. It should probably be deleted, but that is just my opinion. -- Тимофей ЛееСуда. 22:28, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Who are you and what are you doing to the Dhivehi pages? There is no such thing recognised as Maldivian language, There is only Dhivehi language. Maldivian is not a word used for a language. -- AtefAadd ( talk) 01:20, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
What does that mean?-- Seonookim ( talk) 08:32, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Looking at Hmong language, I wasn't surprised to see your expert fingerprints on it. Visiting your user page, I'm bummed out at how you've apparently been ground down by the senseless bastards who cause the tragedy of the commons. My sympathy & best wishes to you. -- Thnidu ( talk) 04:30, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
I opened a move request in Talk:79360_Sila–Nunam#Requested_move. You are receiving this notice beause you have made substantial changes to the article. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 15:31, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
nistha 17:20, 19 December 2012 (UTC) Dear editor, (regarding your edited page "fategarh") the state name "orissa" no longer exists oficially. kindly use the name "odisha" .please suggest what can be do for all pages name containing orissa. thanx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nistha.aslp ( talk • contribs)
Hi, Kwami! Just wanted to let you know that while I still have no clue whether it is supposed to be a dash or an en-dash in "Khanty-Mansi", all those moves back and forth really disrupt the normal workflow. Can I please ask you (if you haven't already—in which case I'm a happy camper) to resolve this with the opposing side and to settle it once and forever? There is a good number of template transclusions these moves affect, and I hope you understand that fixing them back and forth every few months is no one's idea of fun. Appreciate your understanding. Best,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); December 20, 2012; 21:20 (UTC)
I am notifying all participants in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Apteva that Dicklyon has moved to close the RFC/U, with a summary on the talkpage. Editors may now support or oppose the motion, or add comments:
Please consider adding your signature, so that the matter can be resolved.
Best wishes,
Noetica Tea? 04:12, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Hangul Cia-Cia primer.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. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 06:45, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
I don't think it needs to be stated that it is the most massive body known orbiting the Sun after the 8 planets, you can just simply say "it is the ninth-most massive body in orbit around the Sun or in the Solar System" or something similar, because people know that the 8 major planets are larger (and I'm sure most people would know the difference between a dwarf planet and a planet). Also I don't think you should use abbreviations in the opening of an article, let alone anywhere else on wikipedia, it makes the article look a bit sloppy.
I don't understand why you had to change it. The old opening sentence was a lot better than the one you had now.
Eris, minor-planet designation 136199 Eris, is the most massive known dwarf planet[i] in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to orbit the Sun directly" <-- Unless you can tell me what is wrong with that opening, then I think it should be reverted back.
Rackshea ( talk) 03:22, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I have been cleaning up old deletion candidates and I have come across one which you have nominated for deletion but you didn't add it to the RfD log. At this time I have removed the deletion tag. I am letting you know so you can re nominate it if you feel it is appropriate.-- Patchy1 09:11, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Kwami, maybe you'd like to do something with these redlinks. Template:IPAsym/check all. - DePiep ( talk) 21:18, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Do you have access to your Dravidian stuff again? [11] -- JorisvS ( talk) 11:49, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Re: [12] do you say that this map is of "Chinese, not Sinitic" just because it excludes Bai? Or is there any other reason? Usually, they are treated synonymously on Wikipedia... Shrigley ( talk) 17:49, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Kwami,
This is a belated to a message you posted on 3 November:
I don't understand "At Monumbo language you ref'd WALS, but they do not support your claim." WALS treats Monumbo as a separate family, not as Torricelli. There is no evidence that Monumbo is a Torricelli language.
The Ethnologue classification is based on a wordlist, while the Ross classification is just a classification of pronouns, which Ross himself says should not be used as a basis for classifying these languages; you are misinterpreting Ross' claim. My edit did not say that Urim is not a Palei language, just that the usual classification treats it as a separate branch, which is accurate. It is misleading for Wikipedia not to include this information. I suspect, on the basis of data I have examined, that Urim is indeed a Palei language, but again, Wikipedia should include the information that the standard classification is that it is not.
People who live in that one village have told me that the language is extinct and that it was originally only spoken in that what one village. The Ethnologue map is not accurate. There are two other villages in that area, one where Lou is spoken, the other where Ulau is spoken. But I have no problem with leaving this entry as is.
Kolinuts68 ( talk) 21:50, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
although officially name of the state Odisha has changed why you change its name from page Government of Odisha ? actually i don't know.-- ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ ( talk) 18:18, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
thanks. -- ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ ( talk) 21:00, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
At least, can i write in infobox that Name of the State is Odisha (formerly spoken as Orissa)? I'm not going to change the name of article.-- ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ ( talk) 21:06, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
thanks again sir.--ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ — Preceding unsigned comment added by ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ ( talk • contribs) 18:26, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Can you try not to make any more edits like this one? Save undo and reverting for vandalism and the like. If you see someone trying to fix poor English and you think it could be improved further, just make the further improvement rather than undoing. Thanks a lot. -- John ( talk) 23:03, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
None of what you just said is true. You reverted three times. My warning was appropriate, as you were on the verge of violating WP:3RR. Reverts can be used for anything, as per WP:BOLD. How in the world did you get to be an admin without understanding even the basics of editing WP? — kwami ( talk) 23:52, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Dear some one is writting wrong information about Saraiki Language. Kindly confirm these.This is pasted in so many pages. What is this?
The article "
Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations" (version of
22:29, 11 December 2012) has a notice questioning its need to remain in Wikipedia, but it is transcluded in the article "
List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names" (version of
19:57, 23 October 2012). I prefer that all those articles remain in Wikipedia, even if one or more of them have been copied to Wiktionary. Are you able and willing to edit the Wikipedia page of the transwikied article so that it qualifies to remain in Wikipedia?
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Kwami, I see you deleted a number of languages that had been listed as isolates. These are outside my area of expertise, so I want to trust you. But when several are deleted at once, it makes me suspect you have access to a new publication or some such reason. Giving a wee bit of reason or evidence would be reasonable when making several changes at once. Keep weeding the Wikipedia garden. Pete unseth ( talk) 16:10, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
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Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! May 2013 bring you rewarding experiences and an abundance of everything you most treasure. Cynwolfe ( talk) 16:59, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your willingness to help. Cynwolfe ( talk) 16:59, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the message on my page. I'm puzzled though; you complained that I didn't have a ref for my addition, and then readded info without a ref! How do we know disfixes are uncommon? And is that in English or in all known languages? Most feminine nouns in Russian and Polish feature it in the genitive plural, so I'd say it's bloody common. Many neuter nouns have it too. Therefore, the claim needs to be a) clarified and b) referenced. My addition was less controversial (that it doesn't feature in all languages!) and patently, obviously true. Would you mind reverting? (Oh, and why highlight the obscure Muskogean language in the intro? It was clearly added by someone interested in that language, but gives undue weight.) Malick78 ( talk) 23:02, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm reasonably happy with the changes you have made to my proposal (although the term referent would not, I believe, be widely recognised beyond those with specialised training in linguistics in UK at least: I don't know whether it would be part of typical educational encounter in the US or other anglophone regions) so I won't revert, but I would ask you not to change words that carry another editor's signature in future. Kevin McE ( talk) 23:55, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I was confused by your edit and edit summary at Vedda people. Before I edited the article, it had inconsistent uses with four references in the BC/AD style and two references in the BCE/CE style. I changed the references in the minority to the style of the majority. Your edit changed them all to the BCE/CE style. Would it be OK with you if I revert your edit? Thanks, SchreiberBike ( talk) 21:30, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
There is no reason to call my edit "nonesense" it is sourced and referenced and you are not an expert on this. You are giving an emotional opinion and not stating why it is nonesense. You are acting like a bully and not sharing the democratic spirit of Wiki because of your personal issues. See edit: The first tablets containing common cuneiform characters are found in Vinca scripts, carbon dated 5,300BC, in the areas of Bulgaria and Romania. [1] Later ceneiform is found in [Sumer]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.83.208.193 ( talk) 08:12, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Word of the (whenever):
Why dou u keep changing Orissa into Odisha again and again??? I belong to Orissa and it's now renamed. Orissa is renamed from 4th Nov 2011 into Odisha.
I may or may not be dealing with a nationalist editor trying to enforce the fact that the Treaty of San Francisco mentions the "Nansei Islands" and excludes Amami and north from the Ryukyus and I cannot seem to communicate with this person/there is an absolute refusal to acknowledge our previous consensus.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 14:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi
you are repeatedly changing the edits of these two dialects of Punjabi, i can speak both of them along with standard punjabi because i am native speaker of these dialects. u keep classifing them as Lehnda instead of my continous edits as Punjabi..for your kind information Lehnda is Punjabi word for westeren dialects of Punjabi...How can any forigner language expert who cant speak these dialects can classify them as an separate language only on the basis of 200 to 300 word comparison..there is only 10% minor changes in between and each dialect speaker can very easily communicate with other dialect speaker...these all dialects are mutually understandable...i have put a table in the support which is only high lighting the few differences in words in these 3 dialects....IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER OBJECTION THEN EITHER learn these dialects then challenge my edits OR classify AUSTRAILIAN, US , BRTISH, South African english as different languages...GOD HELP YOU — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanguageXpert ( talk • contribs) 17:13, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Reply to KWAMI....wt is the authencity of a reference if i provide...a book then wt is the dame guarentee that book is a true reflection of reality..STILL i m providing u reference....Book name: 3 HINDUSTANI LANGUAGES Page 99 Author: Doctor K S BEDI...Book name: PUNJABI LISANIYAT (LANGUISTIST) Page 142 Author: Shehbaz Malik...Book name: SHORT HISTORY OF PUNJABI LITERATURE Page 17 Author: Qureshi Ahmed Hussain..Book name: URDU IN PUNJAB Page 76 Author: Hafiz Mehmood Shirani....i challenge u to research by learning these dialects (NOT LANGUAGES) and then analyse my claim...Problem wid 1920 research by geirison (A FOREIGN WHO CANT SPEAK THESE) were that he compared 200 words list of EASTEREN punjab's (INDIAN PUNJAB) punjabi which is full of SANSIKRAT with.... ARABIC PERSION MIXED SAREIKI and HINKO...bt reality has changed after india pakistan creation....now LAHORE's STANDARD punjabi is full of ARABIC PERSION WORDS so if we compare all three dialects then only difference is future tense....so sir,dialects exist for every languages... as i mentioned AUSTRAILIAN, US , BRTISH, South African english so dont classify a dialect as an language......THANX
5261 Eureka. -- JorisvS ( talk) 17:34, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Could you suggest something better in this discussion? I mean grammar-wise. I don't want to drag you into that content. Thanks, Tijfo098 ( talk) 21:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
You may be interested in this discussion that mentions an article you have edited. [1] Neotarf ( talk) 02:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
You know the proper procedure to get Medebur language deleted. Your current edit warring on that article is disruptive and if you continue I will block you. If you want the redirect deleted take it to WP:RFD. If you don't want to spend the time doing the paperwork, then drop it. If you continue the way you are going I will block you. GB fan 13:53, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
IPA is not used for Japanese language words, which despite whatever you believe, "Ryukyu" is one of them. Just because it isn't the name of the island chain in Japan does not mean that the word itself is not Japanese, for which only the Hepburn system is used and no IPA system.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 12:37, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
lead=yes
parameter, it's not really used anywhere so why start with this page?).—
Ryulong (
琉竜)
09:07, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
I also don't feel like starting a new thread, but I've brought you up in the discussion I started concerning Masanori Asami on ANI. He's pushing an agenda to change the English and Chinese definitions of what constitutes the Ryukyus all over the net (he admitted to going to some other Wiki and changing things himself).— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 13:20, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
@ kwami ( talk) Thanks for your information. However we have discussed these issues extensively with Aflis (talk). There is nothing like plagiarism here, who stops me from cuttting and pasting my own works and the works of the Association I lead? Logon to Bantu-Languages.com you prove the fact which agrees with our research. Research contained in the "History and Cultural Life of The Mbunda Speaking People", published by Cheke Cultural Writers Association 1994, now called Cheke Cha Mbunda Cultural and Writers Association of which I am the National Chairman, and widely referred to by researchers gives evidence that thise languages are branches or dialects of Mbunda Language. This is an indigenous Mbunda Writers Association who have interviewed, the Mbunda forefathers, some of whom were there in Mbundaland which is now part of Angola. This book was Published under the auspices of The Zambia Journal of History, University of Zambia, ISBN: 998203006X and Edited by Robert Papstein, Central African Oral History Project. The unfortunate part of our (Mbunda) history is that it has been decimated by the Wars in Angola and a deliberate Colonialist policy of divide and rule. Despite the wars our History is still there for those who genuinely seek it from those who genuinely possess it. The onus is on ourselves to research and tell the world about ourselves. We should unshackle the syndrome of accepting and legitimizing anything given and seen through the eyes of foreigners as "our history". We are the only ones better placed to write about ourselves. Foreigners will distort our history to serve their own endeavors as has been the case with the Portuguese. Imagine a Chokwe writing Mbunda history; it will be a complete distortion and misrepresentation of facts as passed on to us from our ancestors. Of course subjectivity is an issue. But it is subjectivity that makes history dynamic that one source is not regarded as a complete and absolute authority. Therefore history is there to be researched. Rich narratives still exists in many forms among our people despite the traumatic turmoil and displacements. The research, publication and cultural preservation efforts done by the Cheke cha Mbunda is highly commendable and significant to our cultural identity. The challenge on us whether we see ourselves as Mbunda or Nyemba or Ngangela is to emancipate ourselves from the colonial mindset of seeing ourselves as different to each other and rise up and complement the efforts of Cheke cha Mbunda by adding new narratives to the rich repository of our history it has given us". Yes Chokwe is a Bantu group like a Mbunda Group, but Mbunda has never been under Chokwe or Luchazi. Infact when you reflect on the same Mbunda History Book research, Luchazi is a Mbunda descendant group. I don't know what goes on at Wikipedia, it is amazing that anybody can delete or anyone's contribution at will or threaten to block. If this is a closed group, please do not allow free editing. Look at your understanding of Ngangela, it is different from our research. Let us be open and let the owners help you. Libingi ( talk) 19:03, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
@( talk) Thanks. However, I don't know exactly how the Wikipedia editing works. But, I still don't understand what you mean by "It is still unsourced". I have given you http://www.bantu-languages.com/fr/zonek.html as a source which corresponds with the research in the Mbunda History Book. I have also given you the Mbunda History Book which is found in some UK University libralies as a source, if this is what you mean by unsourced. Or is it only a white man's research which is a "respected linguistic source"? There are many Bantu languages, but not grouped together, why is it that Chokwe-Luchazi are grouped together with Mbunda? And now at Wikipedia you group all southeast Angola ethnic groups under Ngangela, and I repeat ""Nganguela" is one of these ethnographical classification categories invented during colonial times (in a series of African countries) which do not correspond to one people held together by a common social identity", even substuting Mbunda! What is the source for this? It is not true that Mbunda is part of the Chokwe-Luchazi branch of Bantu, it is a creation. Please check the Mbunda history carefully, unless you have another Mbunda/Chokwe-Luchazi history from your so called "respected linguistic sources". I believe language should correspond with the people's history or origin. I have written to ethnologue.com, querrying them on certain issues. I am still awaiting their responce. Libingi ( talk) 22:05, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks @ Neotarf. Let us continue researching on this important subject. We believe we are a credible source because we have interacted with our people who were there physically, including King Mbandu II Shanda Kazungo, who was imposed on the Mbunda by the Portuguese colonialists during the Mbunda/Portuguese war of 1914-1920s. We expect something substential from your sources. Frankly speaking we need very little input from any other source, if any because that source has to contact us the Mbunda ethnic group if he it has to come up with anything credible about the Mbunda.
Libingi (
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07:20, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
I will get to this, though maybe not today. Both of you have made substantial improvements to the article, though it sounds like Libingi could write a lot more. Libingi, if you click on this red link to Mbunda people, you'll be able to start a new article, and make it as detailed as you like, though I would recommend listing your sources explicitly, paragraph by paragraph. (That makes it less likely something will get removed later.) Also, the language article will link to it automatically. — kwami ( talk) 16:48, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, to me the article looks reasonably balanced. However, the Mbunda coding as a subgroup of Chokwe-Luchazi is erroneous. On 11 November 2011, @Kwamikagami edited it to "Chokwe-Luchazi. At Chokwe–Luchazi, it clearly shows that "With the exception of Chokwe, the Angolan government refers to these languages as Mbunda or Ngangela". Why then, not edting it as Chokwe-Mbunda or simply Mbunda, since "Nganguela" is one of these ethnographical classification categories invented during colonial times (in a series of African countries) which do not correspond to one people held together by a common social identity?". Libingi ( talk) 17:38, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, kwami. Someone on FB is asking, "Anybody know anybody who's doing / done any work on Choco languages?" He is a linguist from Slovakia, fluent in English and several others, does work in Semitic languages, and will be involved with a company doing business with Embera-Wounaanhas. He has seen the Wikipedia article, but it didn't give him the background he was looking for. I suggested your talk page, and he wants me to ask on his behalf. Any ideas? Neotarf ( talk) 21:13, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Have you seen Talk:South Gyeongsang Province#Requested move? DrKiernan ( talk) 07:50, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi i m not adding a dictionary but pin pointing the very few differences of all punjabi dialects (which only we locals of these dialects can speak) which you foriegners impose as a language under a political agenda of DIVIDE AND RULE. you first declare english of US and Austrailia and South Africa as a different language then try it here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanguageXpert ( talk • contribs) 08:01, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
I am a native potowari speaker....check Pakistan Census 1998 for rawalpindi division language distribution for your kind information...i had already provided you refrences on Saraiki page but your action speaks louder then words that you guys are biased and your agenda is to divide and rule.. u take challenge and learn these dialects and then challenge if i was wrong or right in posting the 30-50 words are only different and those are only due to minor vowel adjustments (U CAN RECHECK IT WITH ANY OTHER NATIVE SPEAKERS)...WE ALL ARE PUNJABI AND NOT EVEN A CHILD HAS LISTENED A WORD LEHNDA LANGUAGE...at a joke u make if u try to proof it a different language...you guys have double standards for english ...you guys have different agenda of spreading voilence instead of unity among people of pakistan and specially province punjab — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanguageXpert ( talk • contribs) 09:47, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi kwami, if u feel blocking is the solution then you can go ahead, but you forgot the end objectivity of WIKIPEDIA is to provide true and honest facts.....you answer me what is the difference between a language and a dialect?????? LANGUAGE means totally un comprehensible and not mutually intelligible ...while dialect means mutually intelligible and communicate able because there is a difference of vowels few or slight gramical variations and regional influenced words... Potowari is perfectly communicatable and mutually intelligible with very few different words...potowari elected PUNJABI as there mother tongue in 1998 Pakistan census...u can check it by searching on net...Hopefully u will now better able to understand my point of view...i have a lot of references from various authors...But question remains that aint they human like us...the only difference is that they have written book....Written book can be untrue or true WHO KNOWS...bt i challenge you to proof my research wrong...sorry for harsh words but REMEMBER end objectivity is to present a true reflection.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LanguageXpert ( talk • contribs) 16:22, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 146.90.43.8 ( talk) 13:27, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Your edit summary "at least have the integrity to sign in" is totally inappropriate. It is long standing Wikipedia policy than an account is not required to edit. Please refrain from making similar comments in the future. Nobody Ent 17:47, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
This is unrelated, but please feel free to refract "Non-admin closure by a former admin." to "Non-admin closure." (see Wikipedia talk:MOS) Either is appropriate, and I did not know which you would prefer. I did not check to see if you were involved in the RfC. Apteva ( talk) 20:59, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
User talk:Delphi234#Sock Case -- Neotarf ( talk) 22:19, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
In
Talk:Ryukyu Islands, you wrote as follows:
>地理用語集 (2007) says that 琉球列島 (Ryukyu Archipelago) and 南西諸島 (Nansei Islands) are synonymous.
>Biogeographically, the 琉球列島 (Ryukyu Archipelago) encompasses the entire chain.
The book entitled "地理用語集" is only published by Yamakawa-Shuppan(山川出版社). But there is no such a description in 地理用語集(2002) and 地理用語集(2011). Moreover, in 地理用語集(2011), there is a quite different explanation of "南西諸島(Nansei Islands)" as "北の薩南諸島と南の琉球諸島に大別される。" i.e. "Nansei Islands(南西諸島)" is classified roughly into "Satsunan Islands(薩南諸島)" of north part and "Ryukyu Islands(琉球諸島)" of south part.
So, would you please quote 地理用語集 (2007) as Japanese precisely? -(
112.70.7.67 (
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07:58, 15 October 2012 (UTC))
You have done at least two moves of language articles to [[foo ()]]. What purpose is the () supposed to serve? — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 21:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
I ran across Lofoi, to which you gave indefinite full protection more than a year ago, and I've asked at RFPP that protection be lifted. I could do it myself, but I'm loth to unprotect without input from others. Would you mind commenting at RFPP? Nyttend ( talk) 00:11, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
On April 16, 2012, you moved page Juliá-Colonna epoxidation to Juliá–Colonna epoxidation. But throughout the article, the en dash version of the name appears only once, while the hyphen version of the name appears many times. I would think that the article should consistently use the same name as the article title. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 08:11, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
I just wonder what is bad with the added sentence or/and what Wiki's rules it's broken. A question has risen about this digraph in Old French, so this information is quite useful, I think.-- Lüboslóv Yęzýkin ( talk) 08:00, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Sanskrit & Science Edit: My friend : It is not the question of it being bullshit, it has been proved scientifically after research and the related information for the same is provided in the request. I don't understand how you can refute a research finding which has been published.Title: Physiological patterns during practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique compared with patterns while reading Sanskrit and a modern language. Source: Travis F; Olson T; Egenes T; Gupta HK; The International Journal Of Neuroscience, 2001, vol. 109, issue 1-2, p 71, ISSN 00207454. ISBN 00207454. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rockthemind ( talk • contribs) 19:16, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Thought you would enjoy the name of Wikipedia's newest vandal: User:KwamiFKu -- Taivo ( talk) 11:22, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
This guy showed up within minutes of my last revert of User:LanguageXpert's latest baloney on the Saraiki language page, so its obviously a sock of that user. -- Taivo ( talk) 11:25, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
In this edit, you've removed mention of Candoshi, Harakmbut and Puquina. It's not immediately clear to me why. Has the Macro-Arawakan proposal been reduced?
Also, in this edit, you've added a dialect "KadaupuritanaGuarú". I suspect that this is a copying error and only Guarú was intended. Is that correct? -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 20:15, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I saw that you created the page Guaycura people. You write for this people as alternative writing of their name the word Waicura. I'm not sure of the source that use the word Waicura instead of Guaycura is Gursky (1966) ? (as he wrote Waikuri ).
What are the differences ? I'm biologist and i need to justify the etymology of the term i might use (and Waicura sounds better than Guaycura). It's to define a new variety of organism, which was found in this area of the Baja California (and the ICZN is more and more annoying on this point !).
Thanks for your help :-)
-- Ndiverprime ( talk) 17:09, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for fixing contradictions. Art LaPella ( talk) 17:46, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Question - what was the reason for this edit? [2] Thanks. Apteva ( talk) 04:24, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
but did you intend to remove the uncommented portion as well? What is the reason for removing the pronunciation, particularly with no discussion on the talk page? Apteva ( talk) 13:09, 23 October 2012 (UTC)<!-- ({{pron-en|ˈzɛnɒn}}<ref>Xenon, entry in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner, vol. 20, second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. ISBN 0-19-861232-X (vol. 20), ISBN 0-19-861186-2 (set.)</ref> {{respell|ZEN|on}} or {{IPA-en|ˈziːnɒn|}}<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/xenon Xenon], entry in Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1), accessed on line February 19, 2001. Transcribed into IPA.</ref> {{respell|ZEE|non}}) -->
Shouldn't be there? Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of article that include the pronunciation of odd words. It both should be there and is there. Other than of course the edit war to remove it from this specific article. When someone reverts something the second step in BRD is not another R but D - take it to the talk page. There is nothing on the talk page about this other than an old discussion which concluded that the pronunciation was appropriate. And if you follow that discussion to the MOS discussion you end with the horrendous suggestion that maybe "links to Wiktionary from the bolded title word is the way to fix this". No, the way to "fix this" is to leave it alone. What editors have done a hundred thousand times is just fine. Apteva ( talk) 18:00, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
I appreciate your help maintaining NPOV in the article. A heads up, I've recently rewritten the section in question to (hopefully) further improve WP:NPOV compliance.
Cheers,
-- Rawlangs ( talk) 23:38, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Please. Both of us have indicated our disagreement with each other quite enough on this subject.
[3] I would recommend moving on to another topic and bringing the topic of airports and hyphens up at a later time. Time to move on.
Apteva (
talk)
11:53, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Uto-Aztecan languages#Extinct languages also needs some linking. :) — Stevey7788 ( talk) 04:06, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi K, I do not understand the reason for your revert. My modifications did not state anything factually different from what the introduction previously did, but rather had it re-phrased to more elegantly present the complex relationship. There is no consensus as far as I can tell between the "five" as you describe them, each article seems to have a slightly different introduction. Unless you have a better suggestion on how to put an end to incessant IP edits to the article (which quite frankly occur because of the blunt opening of the intro) do not revert the edits the first thing you do. I think we should give the re-phrasing a chance, and of course if you feel we should discuss any matter I am always at your disposal. Best, Praxis Icosahedron ( talk) 06:01, 26 October 2012 (UTC).
Taivo, if you insist on reverting the really insignificant edits I made please motivate it here, and why you think they're detrimental to the article. Obviously this is a touchy subject for you, more so on the Bosnian than Croatian article it appears. My take is that the intro is currently too blunt and needs to be clarified. Praxis Icosahedron ( talk) 06:23, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I thought I should let you know that I have just reverted a couple of your edits to automatic taxobox templates. I don't know how or why, but one or other of them was causing Category:Taxoboxes with an invalid color to fill with hundreds of pages – mostly other automatic taxobox templates, but also a few dozen pages in the article namespace. If you can find a way to make your edit without that side-effect, then please go ahead and do it. If I had known how to do that, I'd have done it myself. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 17:24, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Apparently not. The category was starting to fill up again, so I restored Avialae/skip. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 17:55, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I don't think it's a rank issue. The automatic taxobox system doesn't really care what rank something's at; it's just a label to stick beside the taxon name. I did wonder whether it was because of the large number of extra templates involved in Avialae above those used by Avialae/skip (perhaps related to the template depth limits that the automatic taxoboxes often exceed), but it should affect all the subordinate taxa equally, as you pointed out. I still don't understand it, but at least we've pinpointed the cause! -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:01, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
See Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded – it seems to be 40 at the moment. The odd thing is that many (most? all?) pages with automatic taxoboxes appear in the category, even though the articles display perfectly well. Picinae is one example; it transcludes 60 separate taxon-hierarchy templates, but the taxobox shows just fine. I think some people are still looking into the situation. I'm not sure anyone quite understands it; I'm sure I don't. -- Stemonitis ( talk) 18:08, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
I stiǁ do not understand why you create these titles with () in them. I have just dealt with ǂAkhoe dialect. Why did that have to moved to a () title? Why could you not request a direct move from Haiǁom people? — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 09:31, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Meixian is geographically a hundred and fifty plus kilometers removed from Raoping. Raoping is coastal whilst Meixian is an inland city. From a language point of view, Raoping's rising and departing tones have merged, making it distinct from Meixian dialect.... The Ping or level tones show pitch contours where Yin is a low level and Yang a high level contour, the exact opposite of Meixian. These several points alone make the two already phonologically different without getting into the specifics of the consonant and rime descriptions.
Please can you remove the re-direct of Raoping dialect to the Meixian dialect. I shall move the sentence "Ethnologue calls it Yue-Tai, and it also goes by the name Raoping." to the Talk page if anyone want to substantiate specifically the claim that it is Yue-Tai. I don't think Ethnologue's groupings are helpful at all. Dylanwhs ( talk) 22:44, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I've seen that you're reverting edits of the page when they are fully backed by sources. Please don't do it. Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 09:39, 30 October 2012 (UTC).
" What a terrible joke they have made of the religion" does not necessarily mean Islam. Besides, if you read this carefully, you will find the removed text actually acknowledges liberal Pakistani attitude which a single person like you would like to see it removed from the article. Sad! Terrorist are honored and liberals are penalised on Wikipedia!!
Hindustanilanguage (
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12:25, 31 October 2012 (UTC).
BTW, blogpost is quoted not as a historically significant fact but rather showing existence of liberals in a society supposedly dominated by hardliners. This quote can be replaced by any other quote to show the same. Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 12:30, 31 October 2012 (UTC).
MOS:NDASH recommends using an n-dash for date ranges. MOS:SLASH says avoid using slashes. You are making changes that conflict with those sections of the MOS stating that your changes conform to the MOS. I can't see how this is so. Geraldo Perez ( talk) 01:47, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, when was the MOS:SLASH guideline updated? We've been using the n-dash format for years. Not that I object to the change. I will, however, have to change some FAs/GAs which currently use the n-dash format. Firsfron of Ronchester 04:23, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
You replaced full links in List of A.N.T. Farm episodes with relative links in a section of an episode article that is transcluded into the main article. Those links will not work in the main article. You may wish to check this in other edits you have done. Geraldo Perez ( talk) 02:19, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi! The template Template:Infobox language/ref has a reference error and is appearing on Category:Pages with broken reference names. As you have been the primary editor of the template, could you have a look at it? The code for "e16" is complex and I do not see what could be causing the error. Thanks! (The Documentation for the template is what is actually showing the error, but I believe fixing the template will solve the problem.) - Salamurai ( talk) 03:06, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I'd appreciate it if you could check my recent edits; I think they're all improvements, but I'd like your view. I think the lead of the Khoisan languages article needs some more work. 203.118.187.196 ( talk) 08:52, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
I suspect that that user is a sock of some of our previous troublemakers at the Saraiki language, Hindko language, etc. complex. I've already reverted him three times today at Saraiki language and he just keeps on going. -- Taivo ( talk) 17:53, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
kwami I have reinstated the previous version of Mbunda language which was a contribution of Aflis ( talk). It has all the references and I do not think there was need to revise it the way you did without a consensus Libingi ( talk) Libingi ( talk) 20:31, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
You may or may not care about this, but I know that you do careful work here, so I thought I'd ask your opinion. I'm alarmed by the number of GA reviews launched on articles that are nothing of the sort. They often pass the review, and then Wikipedia looks stupid. I'm asking a few editors to recommend the best place to open a discussion of how to strengthen the process. My chief concern is that some editors are evaluating articles on topics about which they know too little to make an informed judgment about coverage gaps. I think I see a way to address this without fundamentally altering the process, but the discussion should probably not be confined to editors already vested in the process. Cynwolfe ( talk) 12:14, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
I see elsewhere you noted that "point 4" covers this. However, there's nothing like that in the instructions at Wikipedia:Good article nominations. Could this be the problem? Could you link me to point 4? — kwami ( talk) 18:03, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
Please, see Talk:Esperanto phonology#English approximation as you requested me to discuss it. -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 22:06, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
جناب والا! میں نے آپکے جذبات کااحترام کرتے ہوئے ایک مخصوص فقرے کو یونہی چھوڑ دینے کا فیصلہ کیا. پھر بھی آپکا اعترض برقرار ہے؟ تعجّب ہے! Hindustanilanguage ( talk) 05:26, 3 November 2012 (UTC).
People who speak Afrikaans pronounce the letter "w" as the letter "v" sounds in English. This has brought about the common (but incorrect) pronunciation in an English sentence of "vambo" rather than "wambo." In any of the Oshiwambo dialects, "wambo" sounds like "wambo" and not "vambo." Additionally, "vambo" is occasionally used in a derogatory way to insult. I can find no appropriate reason to use "vambo" over "wambo." Thus, I would agree with the previous person suggesting to change all occurrences of "vambo" to "wambo." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oshihuna ( talk • contribs) 10:41, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
I laughed out loud when I saw this posted on my Talk Page. -- Taivo ( talk) 02:47, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Kwami, thanks for your help at some of the recent airport RMs and such. We didn't get the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport fixed to use en dash, but as you noted there, "the slash isn't too bad." I agree. The bigger problem is the moderate number of airports still titled with odd hyphenated constructions. I'm having trouble figuring out some of these. It seems to be more common in some European languages to do this, hyphenating a city name before an airport name (like Madrid-Barajas Airport was, from Aeropuerto de Madrid-Barajas), or an airport name before a town name where it is located (which seems be what Luxembourg - Findel Airport was). The actual names seem to be Barajas Airport and Luxembourg Airport, though our article calls the latter Findel Airport. The hyphenated form seems to be most common in table listings and such, where city name and airport name are combined for disambiguation, tightly to save space. Do these various European languages even use things like en dash that we can use in English to try to make such relationships more clear to readers? And is en dash really the best answer in Madrid–Barajas Airport, where the connected elements aren't parallel city names or people names? Would Madrid Barajas Airport be better? Many of our articles that list flights use short hyphenated forms, like London-Heathrow, even where the article titles use a more conventional style with space, like London Heathrow Airport; I've been changing some from hyphen to space. Any insights you have would be welcome. Dicklyon ( talk) 22:50, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Jetz et al. is just based on the nodes of Ericson et al. (2006) and Hackett et al. (2008). They just assumed that all genera were monophyletic.
-- Ornithodiez ( talk) 02:38, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
It may not be in your interest or work but you seem to be highly educated in linguistics. There is a user who wants to merge the two Punjabi Wikipedias because he wants a unified Punjabi, as you may know Western and Eastern Punjabi have been regognised as separate languages and uniting them just because one is an activist on the topic does not mean one should change wikipedia. Your comments here would be very appreciated. Thanks — VibhasKS ( talk) 14:28, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I've been noticing the edits you've been making to episode lists of various shows regarding how to organize the years of the seasons (for example, 2003-04 to now 2003/04). It's amazing how now all of a sudden that's been an issue considering we've been listing the years the known way for years now. To be honest, I like how the years have usually been listed despite what this says: [8], because they looked better. Now they just look a bit off. I think some one should challenge this. - Jabrona - 16:17, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, in this edit you included the words "Thus and actual", which I don't understand. Can the words "and actual" be deleted? – Fayenatic L ondon 08:56, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
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The endonym "Tongva" is only attested from a single source (Merriam), but it has been taken up by several groups of that heritage as an alternative to "Gabrielino", which is an exonym that some of them find offensive because of the California Mission period. Another group is now asserting that "Kizh" (which is also the Gabrielino word for "house") is the correct endonym. The source for that, a German work (along with some anecdotal reports evidently without sources) is no worse than the source for Tongva. All of these tribal groups are in conflict over legitimacy and gambling, so there is a lot of POV pushing, but it seems to me that the NPOV approach is to rename the article Gabrielino people and discuss the two endonyms. You have a lot of experience with this sort of issue; does that approach seem reasonable?-- Curtis Clark ( talk) 03:34, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Please explain why you instantly reverted my new colour scheme on the map as I promised to do. You said you had no objections. Fry1989 eh? 23:34, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
I have proposed that Category:Second language acquisition be renamed to Category:Second-language acquisition, and I am notifying you because you either participated in discussions about the hyphenation of "second(-)language acquisition" on the article's talk page, or because you participated in the previous CfD discussion. I would be grateful if you could give your opinion on the latest discussion, which you can find at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 10#Category:Second language acquisition. Thank you for your time. — Mr. Stradivarius ( have a chat) 03:13, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Kwamikagami, where does it say that Yue Chinese is 59 million in your book? Please provide me with the page link. Sonic99 ( talk) 03:47, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
You seem to know a thing or two about linguistics. I was wondering if you could help with a phonetic transcription. The details are here. If not, do you know someone who could? InedibleHulk ( talk) 18:00, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/13/syria-crisis-france-idUSP6E8KO01V20121113 Add France if you could, thanks Sopher99 ( talk) 18:20, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I would like to inquire after the IPA consonant chart image that's used as part of the main template. I couldn't help noticing that the current image used is not much changed from the original image used as far back as 2005, and so much data is actually missing from the current IPA chart template (which is not at all helpful if most of the letters on the chart are missing to begin with, due to the lack of a usable font). I recently actually got two fonts (Junicode and Thryomanes) that both display most of the letters, so really it is not too much of a problem to me anymore, but I am in fact preparing to exchange some language information with a friend of mine and I decided it would likely be of much benefit to him if he didn't have to download these two fonts to see the information I'm sending over.
So, I devised a new IPA chart image that's more or less a shopped version of the current chart although it displays all of the current letters, and I was then wondering if this might be of use to any others learning the IPA? Here's the image: [9] - Znex ( talk) 02:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Can you please check if I did it right in this edit and fix if not? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 08:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
So I saw that Jabiyan was erased and I was wondering why. I posted here but didn't know if you would get a notification, so there's the link. Thanks, Theuglyman ( talk) 01:44, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Kwami. You've helped with the Tib Bsm article in the past. If you have a moment, would you like to check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tibetan_Buddhism.
I've proposed something there that would involve work for me but would improve the Tib Bsm article immensely in my opinion. It's turned out to be contentious. I have something coming up in the new year that would make it hard for me to devote the time to this then, so it is now or never. Your thoughts would be most welcome. Moonsell ( talk) 00:08, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
The interminable era discussion is now at the top of the Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers page, which is autoarchived. What happens, given that the RfC is still open? Cynwolfe ( talk) 15:11, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
Can you tell me or help me why you delete "First People", I need some help on editing. Maybe I can work with you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sammei111106 ( talk • contribs) 01:57, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I plan to add IPA support to jquery.ime, a typing tool that my team in Wikimedia is developing.
Do you use any keyboard layout to type IPA, or do you just copy it from somewhere?
Thanks! -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 22:01, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Kwami, I posted the above question on the ny (digraph) talk page and haven't gotten an answer so far. Do you know the answer? DBlomgren ( talk) 12:29, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at Telugu language#Phonology? It badly needed cleanup. I've already taken care of the consonants, but I don't know what to do with the vowels. Furthermore, according to Telugu alphabet, the fricative that has been under "velar" is actually /h/, but I can't (dis)confirm either. -- JorisvS ( talk) 17:44, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
I'm considering doing a revamp of Altaic languages to better reflect the modern outlook on the theory. Do you have any opinions on which sources would be best to use for this?
Regards, Lothar von Richthofen ( talk) 22:00, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
The minor edit tag is only supposed to be used for uncontroversial edits and reverting clear vandalism. You have many times reverted good faith edits to Solar System as part of an edit dispute using the minor edit tag. ( Most recent edit.) There are plenty of other issues with your (and others') behaviour on that article, but using the minor edit tag for edits you know to be controversial is clearly inappropriate. Please stop it now.
—Alex ( ASHill | talk | contribs) 23:38, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
so i havent seen the warning messages, but btw, why do you keep lowering number of serbs and highering up number of croats on english wikipedia? how is it possible that number of serbs in world drasticly dropped from 12-14 million to only 10 million, and number of croats drastically raised from 6,5 or 7 million to up to 9 million all of a sudden?
how is it possible that there are 4,5 million more croats in world besides 4,5 million in balkans, and out of 8,5 million serbs in balkans only 1,5 million serbs in world? as long as i know serbs had more wars, reasons for leaving their lands, but also a large nuber of people makes a large number of people leave lands... so it would be normal and civilized to put these numbers at.... croats around 7 million in world and serbs up to 12 million in world, (as you should know that throughout whole history, the number of serbs was always one time bigger or more, than the number of croats)... figures for macedonians are also massive... there are 1,5 million macedonians in their country.... how can there be exact or even higher number of them in world? while number of serbs is that much lower? ... no. of macedonians worldwide should be put to 2-2,5 million max. in world..... i live in diaspora myself and believe me i can precise very good.... and also by the old datas that were available in past years.... for the number of peoples....
also number of serbian language speakers used to be 11 million few years ago, how can it just fall to up to 9 million suddeny? .... there are almost 9 million native speakers only on balkans... than in diaspora believe me, serbian diaspora is about 4 million strong and out of 4 million between 1,5 and 2 million serbs speak the language..... while there are also second language speakers... atleast half of albanians in kosovo can speak serbian, about 70% of slovenians can speak or understand serbian (or serbo-croatian) and also a couple of hundreds of thousands of macedonian can do it also....
hope you take some of my solutions and check up those things... coz the data is obviously wrong... and btw sorry for intrusion .... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Правичност ( talk • contribs) 05:50, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
i am new to this so i have no knowledge of how to manage texts on wikipedia i can do it only amauterly. i have found a perfect reference to which i have aproof of my data, but i dont know how to add this all on.... i suppose you wrote these texts on wikipedia, i will give you a link to this homepage (its an official page of serbian diaspora) that shows exact estimated numbers of how many serbs live in certain country and how many serbs there are outside the balkans and you can cleary see it mentions that number 4 million should be the maximum, while mor eprecise would be probably 3,5 million... so however we turn it (it is known that there were 8,5 million serbs in former yugoslavia) and that today the number is slightly lower due to moving to other countries and lower birth rate in serbia) if there are 6 million serbs in serbia and about 2.120 000 mor eserbs in neighbouring countries as you wrote yourself (and you forgot to add data for kosovo (130 000 - 140 000) ... then there should be about 8,35 million serbs in the balkans right? .. then add an addititional 3,5 to 4 million serbs in diaspora which is written here http://www.srpskadijaspora.info/vest.asp?id=2056 and we gain a number of about 12 or 12 million + strong in the whole world . right? .... there are also numbers written for number of serbs in usa (about 1 mil.) and germany about 800 000 as i wrote my self when i was editing.... so i would please ask you to use this ref. i gave you http://www.srpskadijaspora.info/vest.asp?id=2056 ... to write the new data on, coz i dont know how to add references or similar things myself on wikipedia, coz i just made account today. would you hange the numbers on those pages now that you have new reliable and correct source please? thank you.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Правичност ( talk • contribs) 06:18, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
hmmm i dont see this website as advocacy though.... its clearly written in serbian, about the reasearches that were made worldwide through different serbian diaspora organisations, media, societies... numbers of them were counted and estimated... it is clearly just showing off the data of the reasarches made, and i dont see where more relialble data can be found but on the official website of serbian diaspora.... nevermind though ... — Preceding
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ok thank you for your info ill see what i can do ! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Правичност ( talk • contribs) 06:44, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
yes i can clearly understand wht you mean. but im not a psycho-patriot myself to wanna make my people look like they are counting zillions.... im trying to bring back the realistic numbers .... that used to be.... surely they have changed, in time, but they couldnt have changed, inn millions just in few 5 or 10 years.... while i saw number of croats rising and rising... it looks just so ... (procroat and antiserb) the datas that have been changing for some time i mean.... so ive posted my opinions and my web link on the talk:serbs page... and see what happens, hope changes will occure... i think some nations have their numbers counted way to high while others are being minimized.. like once i saw something that seemed very redicioulus comparing the categories of american serbs and american norwegians ... it is known that at the end of 19th century there were only over 20 000 montenegrin serbs in usa (not counting those from other lands) ... while norwegians had a slightly smaller number (considering also they were much smaller nation) .... then i see data on norwegians today... that there are over 4 or 5 million american norwegians in the us, while there are only 172.000 serbs and i was like wtf.... everyone knows there are 350 000 serbs and ancestral ones in just chicago and illinois area alone.... so these things kinda anger me... such things cant be possible.... sur ethe censuses reveal their numbers, but estimations are more wide , and normally its hard to precise ethnicity ... (for example alot of serbs in usa declare as yugoslavs , slavs or eastern european or just american) ... so its impossible to give out correct number.... but if others can make estimations for themselves i dont see the reason why some cannot.... and they dont even give out the real sources out, it just stays like that on wikipedia and its cool. (btw i cant remember wheter was it the norwegians i checked out or swedes or some else coz it was some time ago but they were clearly smaller than serb nation)... anyway thnx for your good info it will come in handy and it already did for me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Правичност ( talk • contribs) 07:45, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Previously there seemed to be a large consensus that elements higher than Z=173 cannot exist which seemed to be backed by large number of scientific articals. Why is the limit now z=218? Robo37 ( talk) 09:52, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
-- Redrose64 ( talk) 10:35, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Can you clarify what you were doing with this edit? I think reverting it will address the concerns at Template_talk:Automatic_taxobox#Expansion_depth_again, but I want to make sure whatever you were trying to do here doesn't get wrecked. Thanks! ErikHaugen ( talk | contribs) 18:39, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
You marked Hadoti, language for WP:RfD in August, but I cannot find where it actually was posted into a discussion. I was alerting you because I found it at Wikipedia:Database reports/Old deletion discussions and I'm trying to clean up some unfinished tags. You can do what you wish with this information. It should probably be deleted, but that is just my opinion. -- Тимофей ЛееСуда. 22:28, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
Who are you and what are you doing to the Dhivehi pages? There is no such thing recognised as Maldivian language, There is only Dhivehi language. Maldivian is not a word used for a language. -- AtefAadd ( talk) 01:20, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
What does that mean?-- Seonookim ( talk) 08:32, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
Looking at Hmong language, I wasn't surprised to see your expert fingerprints on it. Visiting your user page, I'm bummed out at how you've apparently been ground down by the senseless bastards who cause the tragedy of the commons. My sympathy & best wishes to you. -- Thnidu ( talk) 04:30, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
I opened a move request in Talk:79360_Sila–Nunam#Requested_move. You are receiving this notice beause you have made substantial changes to the article. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 15:31, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
nistha 17:20, 19 December 2012 (UTC) Dear editor, (regarding your edited page "fategarh") the state name "orissa" no longer exists oficially. kindly use the name "odisha" .please suggest what can be do for all pages name containing orissa. thanx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nistha.aslp ( talk • contribs)
Hi, Kwami! Just wanted to let you know that while I still have no clue whether it is supposed to be a dash or an en-dash in "Khanty-Mansi", all those moves back and forth really disrupt the normal workflow. Can I please ask you (if you haven't already—in which case I'm a happy camper) to resolve this with the opposing side and to settle it once and forever? There is a good number of template transclusions these moves affect, and I hope you understand that fixing them back and forth every few months is no one's idea of fun. Appreciate your understanding. Best,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); December 20, 2012; 21:20 (UTC)
I am notifying all participants in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Apteva that Dicklyon has moved to close the RFC/U, with a summary on the talkpage. Editors may now support or oppose the motion, or add comments:
Please consider adding your signature, so that the matter can be resolved.
Best wishes,
Noetica Tea? 04:12, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Hangul Cia-Cia primer.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. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 06:45, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
I don't think it needs to be stated that it is the most massive body known orbiting the Sun after the 8 planets, you can just simply say "it is the ninth-most massive body in orbit around the Sun or in the Solar System" or something similar, because people know that the 8 major planets are larger (and I'm sure most people would know the difference between a dwarf planet and a planet). Also I don't think you should use abbreviations in the opening of an article, let alone anywhere else on wikipedia, it makes the article look a bit sloppy.
I don't understand why you had to change it. The old opening sentence was a lot better than the one you had now.
Eris, minor-planet designation 136199 Eris, is the most massive known dwarf planet[i] in the Solar System and the ninth most massive body known to orbit the Sun directly" <-- Unless you can tell me what is wrong with that opening, then I think it should be reverted back.
Rackshea ( talk) 03:22, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I have been cleaning up old deletion candidates and I have come across one which you have nominated for deletion but you didn't add it to the RfD log. At this time I have removed the deletion tag. I am letting you know so you can re nominate it if you feel it is appropriate.-- Patchy1 09:11, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Kwami, maybe you'd like to do something with these redlinks. Template:IPAsym/check all. - DePiep ( talk) 21:18, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Do you have access to your Dravidian stuff again? [11] -- JorisvS ( talk) 11:49, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Re: [12] do you say that this map is of "Chinese, not Sinitic" just because it excludes Bai? Or is there any other reason? Usually, they are treated synonymously on Wikipedia... Shrigley ( talk) 17:49, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Kwami,
This is a belated to a message you posted on 3 November:
I don't understand "At Monumbo language you ref'd WALS, but they do not support your claim." WALS treats Monumbo as a separate family, not as Torricelli. There is no evidence that Monumbo is a Torricelli language.
The Ethnologue classification is based on a wordlist, while the Ross classification is just a classification of pronouns, which Ross himself says should not be used as a basis for classifying these languages; you are misinterpreting Ross' claim. My edit did not say that Urim is not a Palei language, just that the usual classification treats it as a separate branch, which is accurate. It is misleading for Wikipedia not to include this information. I suspect, on the basis of data I have examined, that Urim is indeed a Palei language, but again, Wikipedia should include the information that the standard classification is that it is not.
People who live in that one village have told me that the language is extinct and that it was originally only spoken in that what one village. The Ethnologue map is not accurate. There are two other villages in that area, one where Lou is spoken, the other where Ulau is spoken. But I have no problem with leaving this entry as is.
Kolinuts68 ( talk) 21:50, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
although officially name of the state Odisha has changed why you change its name from page Government of Odisha ? actually i don't know.-- ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ ( talk) 18:18, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
thanks. -- ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ ( talk) 21:00, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
At least, can i write in infobox that Name of the State is Odisha (formerly spoken as Orissa)? I'm not going to change the name of article.-- ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ ( talk) 21:06, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
thanks again sir.--ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ — Preceding unsigned comment added by ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ ( talk • contribs) 18:26, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
Can you try not to make any more edits like this one? Save undo and reverting for vandalism and the like. If you see someone trying to fix poor English and you think it could be improved further, just make the further improvement rather than undoing. Thanks a lot. -- John ( talk) 23:03, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
None of what you just said is true. You reverted three times. My warning was appropriate, as you were on the verge of violating WP:3RR. Reverts can be used for anything, as per WP:BOLD. How in the world did you get to be an admin without understanding even the basics of editing WP? — kwami ( talk) 23:52, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Dear some one is writting wrong information about Saraiki Language. Kindly confirm these.This is pasted in so many pages. What is this?
The article "
Adjectivals and demonyms for countries and nations" (version of
22:29, 11 December 2012) has a notice questioning its need to remain in Wikipedia, but it is transcluded in the article "
List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names" (version of
19:57, 23 October 2012). I prefer that all those articles remain in Wikipedia, even if one or more of them have been copied to Wiktionary. Are you able and willing to edit the Wikipedia page of the transwikied article so that it qualifies to remain in Wikipedia?
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Kwami, I see you deleted a number of languages that had been listed as isolates. These are outside my area of expertise, so I want to trust you. But when several are deleted at once, it makes me suspect you have access to a new publication or some such reason. Giving a wee bit of reason or evidence would be reasonable when making several changes at once. Keep weeding the Wikipedia garden. Pete unseth ( talk) 16:10, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
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Best Wishes for a Happy New Year! May 2013 bring you rewarding experiences and an abundance of everything you most treasure. Cynwolfe ( talk) 16:59, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your willingness to help. Cynwolfe ( talk) 16:59, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the message on my page. I'm puzzled though; you complained that I didn't have a ref for my addition, and then readded info without a ref! How do we know disfixes are uncommon? And is that in English or in all known languages? Most feminine nouns in Russian and Polish feature it in the genitive plural, so I'd say it's bloody common. Many neuter nouns have it too. Therefore, the claim needs to be a) clarified and b) referenced. My addition was less controversial (that it doesn't feature in all languages!) and patently, obviously true. Would you mind reverting? (Oh, and why highlight the obscure Muskogean language in the intro? It was clearly added by someone interested in that language, but gives undue weight.) Malick78 ( talk) 23:02, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
I'm reasonably happy with the changes you have made to my proposal (although the term referent would not, I believe, be widely recognised beyond those with specialised training in linguistics in UK at least: I don't know whether it would be part of typical educational encounter in the US or other anglophone regions) so I won't revert, but I would ask you not to change words that carry another editor's signature in future. Kevin McE ( talk) 23:55, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I was confused by your edit and edit summary at Vedda people. Before I edited the article, it had inconsistent uses with four references in the BC/AD style and two references in the BCE/CE style. I changed the references in the minority to the style of the majority. Your edit changed them all to the BCE/CE style. Would it be OK with you if I revert your edit? Thanks, SchreiberBike ( talk) 21:30, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
There is no reason to call my edit "nonesense" it is sourced and referenced and you are not an expert on this. You are giving an emotional opinion and not stating why it is nonesense. You are acting like a bully and not sharing the democratic spirit of Wiki because of your personal issues. See edit: The first tablets containing common cuneiform characters are found in Vinca scripts, carbon dated 5,300BC, in the areas of Bulgaria and Romania. [1] Later ceneiform is found in [Sumer]] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.83.208.193 ( talk) 08:12, 31 December 2012 (UTC)