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Regarding your response, that was in particular my point. The Ref already in use on the page actually states that outright(iirc it's the first sentence) along with the other ones I linked from the different branches of the military. I just figured I'd bring it up with you so as to avoid potential revisions and re-revisions of revisions but, that source does indeed exist, it's the one actively in use.-- Karek words?! 08:44, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I need some help or advice from an experienced WP Editor who knows about the copyright issues involved in submitting material for WP articles, and I am hoping you might be the right person to approach. I contributed a recording of Received Pronunciation for the WP article on RP, and I have just been told it is going to be deleted in 24 hours because I didn't submit it with the right copyright declarations. I find the rules for such things terribly hard to understand. A friendly editor is trying to help me with this, but I really need some backup from someone who understands how things work. You will find all the relevant discussion on my Talk page. I would be grateful for any help or advice. RoachPeter ( talk) 17:25, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Kwamikagami: Thanks for all of your contributions to improve the encyclopedia for Wikipedia's readers, and have a happy and enjoyable New Year! Cheers, BusterD ( talk) 06:50, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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Happy New Year, Kwami. I have seen you introduced the recent work of Holton et al. (2012), nice piece of work! About your question about the numerals in Alor-Pantar languages, I have found a link of a coworker of Holton, Frankišek Kratochvíl, the document includes the proto-numerals for proto-Alor-Pantor: this link. Some entries in English Wikipedia, need to be updated according the work you introduced of Holton. For example Wersing language says "It is not part of the Alor–Pantar group" in contradiction with the data you introduced in Alor–Pantar languages. -- Davius ( talk) 00:04, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Just a comment about a question you probably know. Some inguistic maps in Wikipedia (and on the internet, in general) depict large areas as "unhabited areas", mainly in the north of New Guinea, but this does not seem to correspond with the reality. The Oak Ridge national Laboratory computed a detailed population density map (you can see here). The problem is that the low populated areas do not match with the common "unhabited areas" of many maps (including the maps we use in wikipedia). I know, it is difficult to correct the maps, it is just a comment noting the difficulty, -- Davius ( talk) 00:59, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello Kwami, what do you think should we move Georgian alphabet and Greek alphabet to Georgian script and Greek script? Jaqeli ( talk) 10:52, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
How do you determine "top importance"? Syriac has no real importance outside of its community, yet you included that. Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, and Korean have no real importance outside their communities either, yet you include them. Yet Hindi is not listed, nor is Bengali, Burmese or Thai. Since you changed it to "major" scripts, I removed minor scripts, defined as scripts used by only one national language. (Maybe Greek should be restored due to its use in science and mathematics.)
Also, what is the purpose of the template? I don't see how it would be an aid in navigation. — kwami ( talk) 17:03, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
You're repeating that Georgian and Armenian are of "top importance". They're not. They're minor scripts of no importance outside of the Caucasus and their ethnic communities in the diaspora. Yet you exclude international scripts used by hundreds of millions of people who are not in your neighborhood. That's quite ethnocentric. — kwami ( talk) 17:15, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
[balɛn], [baleɪ̯n] or [balɐɪ̯n]. Which one is the closest pronunciation ? 162.222.81.148 ( talk) 23:44, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
I answered you on the article's talk page, but I hope you don't mind to put my answer here as well.
Thank you for suggestion to read WP:BOLD, but I would kindly ask you to read the following article: Wikipedia:Don't revert due solely to "no consensus". I will excerpt the first two paragraphs for you:
Sometimes editors will undo a change, justifying their revert merely by saying that there is "no consensus" for the change, or by simply asking the original editor to "first discuss". This is not very helpful or informative, and, except possibly on pages that describe long-standing Wikipedia policy, should probably be avoided. After all, that you reverted the edit already shows that there is no consensus. But you neglected to explain why you personally disagree with the edit, so you haven't given people a handle on how to build the consensus with you that you desire.
Next to that, the behaviour discourages bold contributions, which are essential to building Wikipedia. Moreover, if you can't point out an underlying problem with an edit, there is no good reason to immediately revert it. Finally, there may in fact exist silent consensus to keep the change. Consensus is not unanimity, and is thus not canceled by one editor's objection.
These two quoted paragraphs discredits your stance. They are Wikipedia policy, after all. Regards Klačko ( talk) 21:04, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Firstly, it's pitty to see that you didn't put any argument a propos that Wikipedia article that I reffered to and quoted it which discredits your "getting consensus first" stance.
Secondly, those figures that I putted are not my truth or the Truth, for that matter. They are just the official data coming from respective national statistics offices, all of them being sourced with links pointing to webpages from which they are taken (those webpages are by rule the official websites of statistical offices).
Thirdly, I find it hard to understand that official data would cause another fight. I find it even harder to understand or rather believe that data (those in "Geographical distribution" section, for example) which are complete non-sense and not supported by any source whatsoever were reached by consensus at the first place. After all, it was you who a day ago change by yourself those very same figures in the infobox (which were ridiculously high, something like 13 million in ex-Yugoslavia and another 10 million abroad) and I didn't see that you tried to reach a consensus before, the very one you are insisting now in our discussion.
Regards, Klačko ( talk) 21:32, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Ok, I understand your argument with WP:SYNTH, but I am not sure if it is applicable in this case. Territories of Former Yugoslavia where Serbian language is either official or recognized minortiy language are not countless but only 5 (Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Macedonia). If we have official data for each and every one of those 5 countries, there is no much space for speculation and is, in my opinion, fine to combine those figures and reffered to respective census data.
I find it interesting that you don't have problem with "Geogrpahical distribution" section in that article which is full of non-sense, non-verifiable and non-sourced data. Did you ask yourself are those data reached by consensus?
Well, I have a proposal to make: let those edits of mine stay for a while and see if someone other than you challenge them. I think it's the way we can see are these official census data acceptable to other editors or not. Regards Klačko ( talk) 22:22, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
PS - Still, you didn't make your stance vis-a-vis Wikipedia:Don't revert due solely to "no consensus" since your rationale behind reverts of my edits was "no consensus" argument.
From the tai shogi article. This isn't entirely true of promoted pieces – the free bear is BrlRfA in maka dai dai, but it is BrlRffN in tai. Double sharp ( talk) 01:58, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Are you capable to guess this pronunciation is [sœɡõdɛːχ] or [sœɡõdæːχ] ? 166.48.189.192 ( talk) 21:13, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
You're welcomed to discuss there. I already typed in my questions waiting for your answer. 75.168.189.114 ( talk) 00:20, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
There are, unfortunately, no good sources for this kind of thing. The general article goes by Ethnologue and the Swedish encyclopedia. The India article goes by the national census. But if we start messing with the numbers we know to be wrong, we're left w suggesting the other numbers are correct, when many of them will be wrong too, and there's no end to the potential OR battles. The problem is that no-one has done the necessary survey work in India for maybe half a century. Nigeria's a similar problem. In that case, the govt is afraid to conduct an honest census because it might upset local power balances. And for the rest of the world we often have bad data for a variety of other reasons. The only absolute solution is to delete those articles along with the population figures in the language articles, but people are curious about this kind of thing. — kwami ( talk) 06:19, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
What do you think of having articles a star and its exoplanet at very different locations? -- JorisvS ( talk) 10:36, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, My source did indeed say that YSL is used as the primary language of the local deaf community. I'll clarify that tomorrow, when I have access to that information. According to the article I cited, the current Wikipedia article is wrong in some points. I'll do my best. You and I keep editing so many of the same articles. Pete unseth ( talk) 01:34, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
In editing Languages of Nepal, you say that it is "silly to assign a number" yet the number I used is what is provided in the Ethnologue, and there is nothing silly about providing a relevant fact. (The number on the Ethnologue is not 100% definitive, but it is a good resource.) Then you changed "120-some languages" to "the hundred or so languages" even though "hundred of so" is not equivalent to more than 120, which is the actual number. Can you tell me what your reasons are for changing these items? Cheers. -- BB12 ( talk) 07:41, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for your message on my talk page. I have answered there. JamesBWatson ( talk) 17:40, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Shouldn't we move it? There's Latin-derived alphabet already. Jaqeli ( talk) 17:31, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello :), since you have protected this thread [2], then can you please help in a little dispute? as you can see on the Revision history, this guy removes sourced edits. Thank you :). -- HistoryofIran ( talk) 18:39, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Alright, sorry for bothering, and thanks for at least answering me unlike others who can't even bother to write that they don't have time to do it, or won't. -- HistoryofIran ( talk) 20:07, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
hi, ok thanks for answer in User:Ntennis. yes, for SSL. -- SurdusVII ( talk) 11:17, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
I believe you created most of the lists of numbered minor planet names, and I would like to suggest a small clean-up by deleting duplicate pages. The links are listed below, after a copy of the discussion on my talk page. I suggest using the db-g6 speedy deletion tag on them, as I did before it was reverted. — M3TA info ( view)
Meanings_of_minor_planet_names is the correct category index, but viewing Category:Lists_of_meanings_of_minor_planet_names gave some unnecessary duplication. This Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–3500 now contains the data from pages holding groups of 100 names, to conform to the rest of the pages under 10k that are arranged in similarly sized blocks.
The following pages are the source of that content, and can now be deleted: [correct, or maybe rd'd to preserve histories]
These pages simply included two blocks of 500 and can also be deleted: [no, required for navigation]
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Hello Kwamikagami. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kenyan English, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a recently created redirect - consider WP:RfD. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 13:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
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We obviously have an editor pushing his side of an ethnic conflict here. I've told him I'll block him if this continues. I've added some sources to a few of the articles he's been 'revising'. Dougweller ( talk) 15:14, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Firstly, do not remove sourced content just like that. The formulation/source is lifted directly from the authoritative Britannica encyclopedia. The note does not explain that "SC language" is the name of the language called SC?" but that "SC is an arbitrary term of convenience used to refer to the forms of speech employed by Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs and other South Slavic groups such as Montenegrin." I.e. it explicitly explains the language as shared by several ethnicities. The term is not definite. Praxis Icosahedron ϡ ( TALK) 12:05, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. I've just reverted your redirect of Category:Asian art museums to Category:Asian-art museums because I don't understand the rationale. What is an Asian-art museum? I also re-added the Hong Kong Museum of Art to the category because it certainly does display Asian art. Thanks, Citobun ( talk) 08:09, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
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I've opened up a case the dispute resolution noticeboard which involves you Praxis Icosahedron ϡ ( TALK) 22:55, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
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Have you seen this?— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜) 17:12, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Or rather what it used to be?— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜) 17:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Can you change CAR to indicate the president/head of state is s female and not head of govt. Shes president now.( Lihaas ( talk) 19:35, 20 January 2014 (UTC)).
Apart from the disruptive nature of implementing the hyphen when the discussion about that is still ongoing, I note that you are performing some of those moves rather clumsily. For example, you moved Open-access mandate, but let the connected talk page in place. This makes it impossible for other editors to even be aware that there have been prior discussions. Please revert your moves until the discussion has reached consensus or at least fix the talk page moves. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 23:01, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Just interested if you know when will the Wiki logo be updated? Any time soon? Or in what time the logo is being changed and updated? Jaqeli ( talk) 12:32, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
These two came up in the daily scan. Atleast it is working.
Bgwhite ( talk) 07:12, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, there's an issue around the title of the Silesian language article. I'd appreciate your input at Talk:Silesian language. -- JorisvS ( talk) 19:56, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
It came to my attention through edits by Viller the Great that our current classification of Romance languages is a bit of a mess. For example, in some infoboxes (but not limited to them) Occitano-Romance is Iberian Romance, in others it is not, and do have my doubts about the validity. And do we have sufficient support for Italo-Western to include it in the infoboxes or not. I'm not knowledgeable enough to properly fix this. Could you maybe take a look? -- JorisvS ( talk) 08:23, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Are you handling Talk:Tamil-Brahmi#Break? If so, would you be so kind to change the {{ Help me}} template to {{ Help me-working}} while you work on it? It would be greatly appreciated to get it out of the looking for help category (It will still be in Category:Wikipedians being helped if you forget to watchlist it or lose track of it). Thanks a bunch! Technical 13 ( talk) 03:15, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Your edits on Banana leaf seems to imply your tendency to over-simplify all of Indonesian and Malaysian culture as "Malay". You see the "Malay" identity as the so called race or ethnic groups is perceived differently in Malaysia and Indonesia, and there is complexity in it. You see the examples of banana leaf application in cuisine pepes is more Sundanese, while botok is more Javanese, and why you change the lead to Malay cuisine? Indonesia is much more than Malay identity, here we have Javanese, Sundanese, Minang, Batak, Balinese, Torajan, Dayak, that in Indonesian perspective are not identify themself as "Malay". I suggest you learn more to differentiate this ethnic identity thing and be more sensitive on this cultural delicate differences. Gunkarta ( talk) 06:35, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, can we somehow achieve a consensus in that template? Maybe we could group the Brahmic scripts together? Also the template is removed from all the articles so wanted to ask you what you think about it and doesn't the template itself have any importance at all? Jaqeli ( talk) 07:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
What about states that perform ssm & DPs instead of ssm & CUs..? -- Prcc27 ( talk) 23:31, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
"DP" stands for "Domestic Partnership" -- Prcc27 ( talk) 20:00, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
You changed the "Same-sex marriage status in the United States by state" to "Civil unions in the United States" and then you asked "How's this?" Well, IMO- I like the first one better because it covers DPs.. -- Prcc27 ( talk) 22:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't know if you recall these articles, but I reverted Zomi to Zo after discovering what I thought was copyvio although it turns out the editor had replaced a redirect with material copied from his website. I've been trying to discuss this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Burma (Myanmar)#Zou, Zo, Zomi Kuki with this editor who a major COI. So far I've had no response to the actual issues I've raised although one other editor responded earlier agreeing there's a mess. I can understand if you have no interest, but any comments would be useful. Dougweller ( talk) 12:45, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, could you explain your revert on Wolof language? Thanks Abjiklɐm ( tɐlk) 07:56, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm curious, what do you think about what Mitch Ames said here, especially about Wilkes-Barre vs. Hale–Bopp? -- JorisvS ( talk) 08:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
You might wish to comment at
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I noticed that you reverted my edit on the Devanāgarī page. To be clear the text says:
So, avagraha is "usually transliterated with an apostrophe" (which is entirely accurate) but here you are insisting that it not be transliterated with an apostrophe. Which seems a bit perverse to say the least - to say how it is transliterated and then use an example in which is it not transliterated. Either it is transliterated or it is not. If it is then it is usual, as the article says, to transliterate it as "eko 'yam". Indeed the present transliteration, the one you reverted to, is incorrect and confusing. "ekoyam" could not come about because of ekas + ayam. Up to you really, I'm not going to get into an edit-war over it, but the contradiction is rather glaring. If no one else is allowed to edit the page, then at least chose an example which demonstrates how the avagraha is used in transliteration rather than one which doesn't use it at all! Jayarava ( talk) 08:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami - Don't refer to good faith edits made during a content dispute as 'transparent lies.' Don't refer to warnings given in good faith (and bluntly, in your best interest) as 'idiotic.' Given how heated this area has gotten, I would advise you to not engage in any behavior that could be construed as editwarring, and further to keep in mind that editwarring that necessarily require more than four reverts on the same page in less than twenty four hours - other patterns, including consistently reverting the same editor's edits on the same subject across multiple pages can qualify just as well, especially when an ongoing discussion on a talk page is occurring about appropriate naming. As a heads up: pages related to Silesia fall under at least one set of discretionary sanctions. I won't be taking any action under those sanctions until I've set up the appropriate editnotices etc on the pages and notified involved editors, but it's worth keeping in mind. You've been here long enough that I shouldn't have to tell you that referring to a good faith edit as a transparent lie is not a good idea.
And keep in mind that although a straw poll can be a useful thing to conduct in some circumstances, the ultimate close of the move request will not depend on how many people vote one way and how many people vote another way. The final close of the move request will take in to account which position puts forth the strongest policy-backed arguments that are supported by reliable sources, not how many people doggy-pile on to the same option. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 23:44, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Please familiarise yourself with the information page at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions, with the appropriate sections of Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures, and with the case decision page before making any further edits to the pages in question. This notice is given by an uninvolved administrator and will be logged on the case decision, pursuant to the conditions of the Arbitration Committee's discretionary sanctions system.
Please familiarise yourself with the information page at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions, with the appropriate sections of Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures, and with the case decision page before making any further edits to the pages in question. This notice is given by an uninvolved administrator and will be logged on the case decision, pursuant to the conditions of the Arbitration Committee's discretionary sanctions system. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 05:37, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't know if you are interested in this. I'm trying to improve it but a big problem is that is was created an editor pushing the Zomi nomenclature, and although the clash about about the nomenclature in part at least and the agreement dealt with nomenclature also, sources seem to refer to this as a Zuki-Paite 'clash'. See [4]. Do you see any reason not to rename it? Btw the editor who created this is now resorting to personal attacks, which is why I'm concerned about renaming. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 09:12, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
I apologize if I am using this wrong. I am looking for help which is related to the photo you contributed on the Tuareg Languages page.
I have some symbols that I think might be of this language, but I have no clue where to start to translate them. Could you help? Thank you for your consideration.
YarnDiggity ( talk) 23:28, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
We have endashes in comet names, such as in Comet Hale–Bopp and Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. We do not follow the IAU in the interpunction of these names, because they do not distinguish between hyphens and (en)dashes. To distinguish between codiscovered comets and comets discovered by a person with a hyphenated name, the IAU removes the hyphen in the latter case, such as in 105P/Singer Brewster. Do you think we should follow suit in the latter case? If so, why? I tend to say that because Wikipedia has endashes, keeping the hyphen in the latter case is both appropriate and clear. -- JorisvS ( talk) 15:12, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
You are sure that German [r] is spelled like the "t" in "water" ? Can you please explain this to me or offer a source ? 80.132.119.217 ( talk) 22:41, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Intervocalic /t/ and /d/ do not surface as [ɾ] in all dialects of AmE:
-- Thnidu ( talk) 11:47, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you even know Esperanto?
With reference to your most recent recension of my wiki edits:
-- Thnidu ( talk) 02:42, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
English, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages have a /v/, so Esperanto V must be pronouncable as [ʋ] and [w].-- Thnidu ( talk) 22:31, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
@ Thnidu: Sorry, didn't see your reply.
Germanic alphabets have both V and W, so V is also a Germanic vo. In fact, for most Germanic languages it is V rather than W that is pronounced /v/, assuming the have a W at all. Now, it would make sense to call W the *German* vo, as German W is pronounced /v/, like Esperanto V, while German V is pronounced like Esperanto F, and the only German equivalent of Eo V is W. But in English it is (supposedly) V that in pronounced like Eo V, while W is supposedly pronounced like Ŭ, so saying W is the English equivalent of Esperanto V means that English W is closer to Esperanto V than it is to Ŭ, and moreover implies that Esperanto V is closer to /w/ than it is to /v/. Similarly with Dutch: If W rather than V is the Dutch equivalent of vo, then vo must be pronounceable as /ʋ/. (I mean, imagine if someone said W was the "Welsh vo". Since Welsh W is /u/, that could only mean Esperanto V was pronounceable as /u/, right?) And we do get hints of this divergence of vo from /v/, especially in Slavic sources, but Western sources often try to impose a /v/–/w/ distinction on Esperanto by claiming that Ŭ is pronounced /w/ and that V can only be pronounced /v/. Bertilo is the best Western source I've seen for the pronunciation of V, as he notes that it is pronounced /w/ in the sequences kv and gv.
You said above "he may be counting Dutch [ʋ] as a [v]". If so, then from an Esperanto POV, Dutch W /ʋ~w/ and V /v/ are indistinguishable, again resulting in the conclusion that Esperanto V covers both [v] and [ʋ] or even [v], [ʋ], and [w]. — kwami ( talk) 00:03, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
For what it's worth, from the beginning I understood "gxermana vo" to refer to the origin of the grapheme and not to imply anything about its pronunciation. Compare ⟨Y⟩, called "Greek I" ("i grec", "i griega") in French and Spanish, as well as "Üpsilon" in German. In French and Spanish, the letter isn't pronounced as it was in ancient Greek, though it is pronounced that way in modern Greek—except after another vowel. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 13:43, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
At 03:49, 5 February 2014 (UTC), I
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Don't we need to link it to wiktionary? What was of poor format exactly in my edit? Jaqeli ( talk) 17:23, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
The symbol is hardly seen so better to increase its size, no? Jaqeli ( talk) 17:50, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Following articles had PUAs from February's dump:
Bgwhite ( talk) 04:52, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Your recent val2 updates with AWB also changed mp template numbers. E.g., on 2007 JJ43, { {mp|(278361) 2007 JJ|43} } } } changed to { {mp|({ {val2|278361} }) 2007 JJ|43}}}}. If that's intentional, then okay (it formats the number, so maybe that's what you wanted), but, if it isn't intentional, consider AWBing it back. Tbayboy ( talk) 16:05, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
-- Bejnar ( talk) 03:33, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the info, if both Indian Urdu Braille & Pakistani Urdu Braille point to same article Urdu Braille then why can't we have only Urdu Braille and do away with Indian Urdu Braille & Pakistani Urdu Braille. Also if Bharti Braille is not used for Urdu (because it doesn't have many Urdu sounds) then why it is listed there?-- Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider t c s 05:24, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you have a cite for this? I don't recall ever seeing this one before. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 19:50, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there. I had missed the second measure of the Lake Ontario shoreline at this source [5]. But still, it lists the Lake Ontario shoreline as 726 (length of shoreline in Separate Basin) and 634 (coordinated elements of Great Lakes shoreline). Which of these is correct? Magnolia677 ( talk) 00:31, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I'm not sure I understand your reason for wrapping {{ Unicode}} around {{ lang}} strings in Sampi. What benefit would that have? Fut.Perf. ☼ 00:20, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Infobox seems to suggest Hellenic, the branch, is synonymous with Greek, but that's not mentioned anywhere in the text. 'Hellenic is the branch ...' implies it's pretty widely accepted -- which I don't think it is. As for the tree, what's the source for it? And why can't it go in Greek language (sans Macedonian)? — Lfdder ( talk) 12:52, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi,When i click on Koya people it redirecting to Gyele people,Actually Koya people are from Andhra Pradesh,India. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Will Talk2 ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
hi yes,i am planing to write article on koya people of andhra pradesh.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Will Talk2 ( talk • contribs) 06:55, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
I protected Latin Europe due to an edit war. This turned out to be over various languages as can be seen at Talk:Latin Europe#Rfc: can Romance-speaking Europe be added? and User talk:CambridgeBayWeather#Latin Europe. Just thought that you might know something about this and may be able to assist them. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 16:02, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Kwamikagami, What is your reason for remove the map? I guess, a violation or inaccuracy in question. I don't see anything mistake here. Maurice07 ( talk) 01:19, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for reverting your reversion. I really don't know how it happened. Bevo74 ( talk) 07:12, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Despite a lot of sloppy reporting, it's perfectly clear that the decision in Bourke v. Beshear is about recognizing same-sex marriages, not recognizing same-sex marriages just from other states. Check out the difference between the headline and the first sentence of this article, for example.
The lead plaintiffs were wed in Canada. But I don't think adding a citation to the footnote in question is a good idea. That map with all its notes are already very complicated. Bmclaughlin9 ( talk) 12:27, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I don't think I ever got around to thanking you for your edits to Stapes by inserting the IPA pronunciation. This is something I have never thought about, but very important for many of our anatomy articles (which are often titled from Latin and/or have rather strange pronunciation). I work primarily with anatomy and medical articles under WP:ANATOMY and was wondering if we'd occasionally be able to ping you in the future for similar work on our other articles? -- LT910001 ( talk) 03:47, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I just happened to notice a word spelled "panjengenan" in Javanese_language#Daily_conversation. Since there were 4 other mentions of a word "panjenengan" I just have to wonder - is "panjengenan" a typo? Shenme ( talk) 01:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering what is the reason to remove the IPA of the arabic name? If it is wrong, I think you should correct it, not remove it entirely.
Buhadram ( talk) 05:48, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Buhadram ( talk) 01:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC) Well, according to WP:IPA for Arabic, the representation of arabic pronunciation is as I wrote before, not random symbol.
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I saw your edit at Latin peoples and I'd like to ask you to also comment on the on going discussion at Talk:Latin peoples. Thanks in advance 79.117.160.159 ( talk) 13:14, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
This pronunciation is [t͡ʃɛ] or [t͡ʃæ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 00:03, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, looking at your edits for Si5s and ASL, I see that something is wrong. Si5s is not the handwritten form of SignWriting, although it may look similar. SignWriting has several forms of handwriting including cursive and shorthand. These forms existed decades before Si5s was conceived. Additionally, Si5s claims it was not based on or influenced by SignWriting.
SignWriting includes the block printing mostly seen online and SignWriting includes handwriting. A short essay is available online that explains the differences between the computerized block printing and the handwritten variations. I can understand saying that "Si5s resembles a hand written form of SignWriting". I can maybe understand saying that "Si5s is a handwritten form of SignWriting.", but it is definitely not "the handwritten form of SignWriting". Thanks for you consideration. Slevinski ( talk) 00:50, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This pronunciation is [ɑ̃sɛːtχ], [ɑ̃saɪ̯tχ] or [ɑ̃sɐɪ̯tχ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 00:55, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is [nɐɪ̯ʒ], right ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:02, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is [pœtɑɪ̯tʀ] with an [ɑ] sound ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:14, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
You mean the same diphthong to you ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:27, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is hard to know that it is [sʊŋ], [soŋ] or [sɔŋ]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:45, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you hear the difference, now ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:57, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Look http://www.unpo.org/members/7884
only in iran 30-35 millions Azerbaijani people live there and in Azerbaijan it is 9.2 millions. How native speakers written there 23 millions? there is a proof I have sent.. just u need to simple calculation.
best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azecorrector ( talk • contribs) 11:39, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami please revert this edit it looks to be a pretty clear case of continuing the edit war even though it is currently being discussed in two other places. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 04:38, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Kwami,
Is it possible to nominate the Georgian alphabet for a good article? Can it become one now or what can be done to make the article a good article? Jaqeli ( talk) 10:52, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, did I everything right? Can you please see it on the article's talk page? Jaqeli ( talk) 20:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I think I shouldn't have done what you've said there :( Only reviewers should have had clicked on that and not me :( I received a message from myself on my talk page :( Jaqeli ( talk) 21:05, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I nominated it for the second time now but what would happen to that page I just mistakently created? :( Jaqeli ( talk) 21:14, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I'll leave it as it is now. Hope someone will review it soon. Jaqeli ( talk) 21:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you think this is [tɛɪ̯t] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 22:06, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This song is in F major ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 22:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Because you don't know keys ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 22:55, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you hear [paɛ̯ʃ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 23:42, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, thank you for your edits to Indo-Pacific languages. You seem to be doing a good job of improving that article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.118.187.48 ( talk) 05:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
— kwami ( talk) 06:06, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
There is a requested move going on there in which you may be interested. -- JorisvS ( talk) 09:18, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is hard to know that it is [tãpɐɪ̯t] or [tãpɛɪ̯t]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 18:12, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is [iveːχ] or [iveɪ̯χ] ? But it's certainly not [ivɛːχ]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 23:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
There really has a diphthong in the last syllable ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 02:05, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
[kɛːs pɔpylaɪ̯ʁ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 02:16, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi kwami, is it possible in any way to edit this template? I think it would be better if we add little question mark at the end of the Georgian name (?) linking to the Georgian alphabet like it has in this template. Currently it is blocked and I am unable to edit it. Could you help somehow? Jaqeli ( talk) 18:48, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Here's one example. Just tell me what you think. It would be like this: Jaqeli ( talk) 21:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
I just wrote your name in Georgian :)
Kwami, please see the talk page of Template talk:Lang-ka. I am interested what would be your opinion. Jaqeli ( talk) 13:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, please see the issue I raised just now on Talk:Spurious_languages. AlbertBickford ( talk) 22:27, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Barefact ( talk) 23:52, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
I transcribed [sœɡõdɐɛ̯ʁ̥] in Wiktionnaire. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 02:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you hear [kʲanɐːʁ̥] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 18:31, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
This is the real [æ]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 20:30, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
[kʲɛːs pɔpylɛːʁ̥] is impossible. [kʲɛːs pɔpylaːʁ̥] is it possible ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 20:58, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
[te̞ʁɛ̃] or [te̞ʁẽ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 21:27, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is [ɚ̃ kʰi.lɔ.maɪ̯tʁ̥] or [ɚ̃ ci.lɔ.maɪ̯tʁ̥] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 23:46, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
The latter is possible ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:48, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you hear [ɚ̃ cilɔmaɪ̯tχ] ? Do you know the [c] sound ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 16:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
The word un is really pronounced [ɚ̃] ? Not [œ̃] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 17:25, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
The last vowel is [aɪ̯] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 17:28, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
[œ̃] is a front vowel. I think that it's a rhotic [ɞ̃ɹ]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 17:35, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi kwami, is there any way I can see how many views did "X" article got? How can I do that? Jaqeli ( talk) 21:04, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title= [title here] &action=info#mw-pageinfo-watchers
Thanks :) Jaqeli ( talk) 12:18, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, a couple of days after the last change in your map was approved the civil unions in the state of Campeche. Time to do a new change in your map. Thanks. Hpav7 ( talk) 10:40, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't know why either. I never intended to revert it. Probably a stray click trying to edit things on an iPad. My humble apologies. E x nihil ( talk) 09:34, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh, by the way: I couldn't find any hint, Adabe is a Bunak dialect. There are several Papuan languages in East Timor. Non of these languages are close by geography to Adabe. There are some good scientific papers about Bunak and others, but non of them mention Adabe AFAIsee. Greetings, -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 14:46, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Bunak is close to Atauru (added), which is lumped in with Adabe. Not that that means much, but it would be consistent with them being a Bunak dialect. Hull supposedly explains all this, but I can't really see where. If Adabe and Atauru are the same thing, I can understand the mix-up with Atauro, but why was Adabe thought to be Papuan in the first place? It only makes sense if it's a variety of one of the Papuan languages, or for some reason got mixed up with one of them. — kwami ( talk) 22:03, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't understand your reason for this edit. In my experience, modern Esperanto doesn't usually put a hyphen between "tiun" and "ĉi". Why are you including one here? — Mr. Granger ( talk · contribs) 07:05, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
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Do you hear [sa:ɫ] with "dark L"? Thanks. -- Mirandolese ( talk) 22:31, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I hear [saːl] with a clear /l/. 166.48.192.136 ( talk) 22:03, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello Sir, Thanks for the edit.I do remember about a similar edit in some other wiki page. I would like to place the fact that the word "oriya" has been amended by the 113th amendment bill to Indian constitution, having been passed in both the houses on 6.9.11 . Then, shall it be proper to still continue with "Oriya" in stead of "Odia". with regards; Hpsatapathy ( talk) 04:35, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
This pronunciation is [tχaɪ̯zə] ? 166.48.192.136 ( talk) 22:03, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
The map is incomplete in the sense some groups are absent in te map. It is based on this map WALS of location for some Sepik languages. I have addedd labels in the map here. -- Davius ( talk) 00:45, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami. You removed File:Countries where Hindi is spoken.png article Hindi stating it useless. Why it is useless?-- Wikiuser13 ( talk | contribs) 16:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
[ɑ̃kɛɪ̯t], right ? 166.48.193.31 ( talk) 18:01, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
The diphthong is clear ? 166.48.176.53 ( talk) 20:53, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Here's the link to the news site that states the regional parliament unanimously passed civil unions in December 2013. http://www.sdpnoticias.com/gay/2013/12/23/legalizan-bodas-gays-en-campeche Btw, I wouldn't just change something if I didn't have a source. Just for future reference; I know there are some who do, I can assure I am not one of those people. Also, the source was on same-sex union legislation, and LGBT rights in Mexico. Chase1493 ( talk) 02:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
-- here (not my doing!). On which, see the history, this and this. I see from the article's talk page that you're already familiar with (and I'd guess weary of) the article. Putting aside the (non-) question of "language" versus "dialect", it took me only a very few minutes to see that some earlier editor(s) of the article misrepresented the one spelling of the name as the other; I only looked within the list of "Further reading", and if I had more time and energy to devote to this, I might well find more of the same. -- Hoary ( talk) 11:01, 6 March 2014 (UTC) ....
PS (1) The misrepresentation of book titles seems to date from the addition of these titles on 22 April 2012. (2) Do you see any reason to take seriously a distinction between "dialect" and "language"? I don't; but I suppose that as long as the article conspicuously says it's the one or the other the proponents of the alternative are going to jump up and down and shriek in indignation. -- Hoary ( talk) 14:59, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
I have no background in dialectology or sociolinguistics, and cannot understand (any variety of) "Swiss German", (any but a few words of) standard German, or Czech, or Slovak(ian). But I believe that Swiss German is virtually incomprehensible to somebody who only knows standard German but yet the former is routinely called a dialect of the latter; whereas standard Czech and standard Slovak(ian) are mutually intelligible yet routinely called separate languages. All of this (complete with glaring misunderstandings, perhaps) makes it hard for me to take seriously arguments over whether something is a dialect or a (separate) language, at least until people cite not just authorities but also the reasoning presented by those authorities. OTOH I realize that it's easy for a more or less monoglot L1 speaker of English to belittle the issues triggering all the excitement: the status of English will be unassailable for at least a century (granted that we're not destroyed by a doomsday weapon, giant meteorite, etc); whereas the (non) distinction between language and dialect is taken seriously by legislators; and, however unjust this may be, budgets, rights and so forth may depend on the decision.
But whatever the distinction means (if anything), the article does claim that this or that authority says that this is a dialect or instead that it's a language. Most of these sources are not online. Now that I've noticed that one vigorous contributor to the article misspelled the titles of additional "further reading" so that they'd all read "Saraiki", I don't trust the use made in the article of any source. An editor in good standing should check that every cited source actually says what it's touted as saying. But my own library will have none of this stuff so I can't check for myself. -- Hoary ( talk) 02:42, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Ahem. Yes, standard German is the preferred lingua franca among diverse speakers of Swiss German, and there's a sensible reason quite separate from any desire to appear cosmopolitan. ¶ I'll try to return to the article and its talk page when I have time. -- Hoary ( talk) 04:15, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
An article such as this exerts a terrible fascination for me. A book from the 1880s is presented as a source for the situation today. None of three straightforward references to Ethnologue actually says what it's claimed to say. Two references share the same "name" (in Mediawiki markup terms); one turns out not to say what it's claimed to say (and indeed nothing like it), the other is so very obviously worthless (poorly written, anonymous article by some pressure group, posted on a free hosting service) that one shouldn't care what it says. Et cetera. Well, I really do have WP-irrelevant affairs to attend to so I must take a break. Please don't assume that I've checked and verified the references I've left in: on the contrary, I've only looked at two or three of them, and expect that a lot of crap references remain. -- Hoary ( talk) 09:34, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Apropos of the Question that Never Was: they're references for anything. The printed references may be good, for all I know, but the web "references" I've seen so far have largely been non-references. And the printed references include one (which I'm about to zap) from " Betascript, so I'm doubtful about them too. -- Hoary ( talk) 10:21, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
I raised two questions in Talk:Navarro-Lapurdian dialect about one of your edits [15]. Might you check them? Thanks -- Javierme ( talk) 16:25, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
There is mention of a language called "Doteli" at Nepal#Languages spoken by a few percent of the population, but Doteli language is a redlink. Can you identify it? -- JorisvS ( talk) 11:06, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
You may remember that I deleted this a while back as a result of MarkMysoe's nonsense. A new list has appeared at List of Akan people, while nothing looks untoward at first glance it might need closer attention. The user who created it also immediately made a couple of templates and categories, which reminds me of someone. — Xezbeth ( talk) 20:21, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Only one PUA in this month's dump and the article will be deleted shortly via AfD. Sorry for the lack of articles with fun-filled PUAs. Bgwhite ( talk) 09:06, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, recently you made a change on that page, stating This accepted by hardly any linguists. I guess you missed the auxiliary was, but since I'm not entirely sure of your intentions, I better just make you aware of this, so you can fix it yourself. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 17:49, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
はいさい, Kwamikagami! I've noticed that you've contributed to the subject of Ryukyu. I invite you to join WikiProject Ryūkyū, AKA the Ryukyu task force, a collaborative effort to expand and deepen coverage of subjects pertaining to Ryukyuan geography, history, and culture. Here are a few links to pages to start you off:
I hope you'll take interest and decide to be a part of this project. めんそーれ! ミーラー強斗武 ( talk) 18:47, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami, thanks. The "Zapotec-Mapotec" language names are town-village origin (mostly). The non-common (for English) town-village names are written original orthography (with diacritics). [True or False? I don't know]. Thanks. -- Kmoksy ( talk) 00:23, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
User Raayen constantly adds the Elamites to Iranian peoples although my explanations to revert it. I said to him that Elamites speak a language isolate probably related to Dravidian that has nothing to do with Indo-European-and thus Iranian- and Semitic languages. If he continue to edit-war, could you look at the article? Lamedumal ( talk) 10:55, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
This pronunciation is [ɑ̃sɐɪ̯tχ] or [ɒ̃sɐɪ̯tχ] ? The first syllable is [ɑ̃] or [ɒ̃] ? 198.99.28.211 ( talk) 17:05, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
It's hard to know, because the recording is not clear. 162.222.80.37 ( talk) 20:08, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
You must control the volume in Audacity and upload it in Wikimedia Commons. 162.222.80.37 ( talk) 21:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Someone can modify it and upload a new file. 162.222.80.37 ( talk) 22:33, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
In response to the result of the Requested move at Talk:Jupiter Trojan, Headbomb has started a move request to have the categories moved to his preferred location: Wikipedia:Category deletion policy#Current nominations. -- JorisvS ( talk) 15:33, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. We are planning the first African conference for Wikipedians in South Africa later this year. I would like to know if you are interested in attending and/know of more Nigerian Wikipedians who would love to attend, we will soon opening scholarship application process and I am confident that you meet the activity criteria. Please see our off wiki conference page here.-- Thuvack | talk 14:13, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, English pronunciation of Greek letters, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. אפונה ( talk) 10:11, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. The following discussion might be of interest to you: Talk:Private Use Areas#Requested move. No such user ( talk) 15:11, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
You may be interested in the following: A new map of atheist discrimination was recently added to the top of Discrimination against atheists. I started a discussion on commons:File talk:Discrimination against atheists by country.svg concerning accuracy of the map concerning discrimination against atheists. Jim1138 ( talk) 21:17, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi.
(1) The other user having taken the trouble to make individual proposals these mass-produced oppose cut and pastes do not encourage support for your view. But anyway can you please link "there was a discussion once on whether the ethnicity should have precedence for the name, and it was decided it shouldn't." so other users can see it.
(2) Also in articles where the RM is proposing reverting an undiscussed move you made please explain the rationale for your move, thanks. In ictu oculi ( talk) 14:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, what is a "Hindian"? In ictu oculi ( talk) 15:29, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your edits. Re the 'i' and 'u' pronunciation, I started a discussion at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#rendering OED pronunciation for Latin words in IPA on that point. Would you care to join? humanengr ( talk) 16:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. When you add the "glotto" attribute to language articles, would you mind checking to see if you need to add a ref list as well? Since that attribute contains a ref in at least some case (like here and here), adding it without also adding a reflist causes the article to throw a ref error (as, for example, Betoi language is currently doing). It's a matter of a few seconds to toss in the reflist, but it's easier if you do it when you add the attribute rather than someone else having to spot the error and fix it later. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 15:59, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
If you have time, would you look at the latest edits to Talysh language? While I cannot judge the correctness of the edits, I feel that some changes to the format are questionable. Specifically, one chart fills the entire page from left margin to right margin. Another has a column (for Kurdish) whose cells are filled with a bluish-gray that is too dark (and I don't know why the column for Kurdish words should be so distinctive). I believe you have an interest in linguistics, and perhaps you already have this article on your watch list, but in case you don't, I thought I'd ask you to review the edits. Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:35, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Why did you rm the linglist codes from Greek dialect articles? — Lfdder ( talk) 13:05, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering how Nǁng should be pronounced? -- JorisvS ( talk) 21:56, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Comox people#Moving this article
Thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 09:40, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
You said, "I see no reason to depart from the most common English form, which is Comox." That was in your last comment on the page. The entire thing was,
You appear to be desperate to prove that anyone who disagrees with you is either dishonest or stupid, but how can you possibly say that I misrepresented you? — kwami ( talk) 04:35, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Following up on the 'u' in 'sum'. I had posted on this on Refdesk (in response to one of your posts), and followed up with Lfdder. His suggestion was to include both 'ʊ' and 'ʌ" alternatives. Are you ok with that? I started a discussion on the cogito talk page -- so if you'd care to respond there. Thanks for your help. humanengr ( talk) 07:19, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, with respect to your world marriage equality laws, I was wondering if you might be able to shade the Australian States of South Australia and Queensland to the light blue for 'civil unions'. I ask because 1) I'm not sure how to edit the map myself and 2) because the next lowest colour is for jurisdictions with 'Unregistered cohabitation', something which arguably only the Northern Territory and Western Australia have under their respective state/Territory laws. For what it's worth, SA and QLD don't really have 'civil unions' in the sense of a state-sanctioned ceremony, rather they have registered domestic partnerships. Regards. Jono52795 ( talk) 01:55, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering if you would take a look at the latest edits to Pali. I cannot judge the content, but I have questions about the way it is expressed, particularly this clause:
1) Because it is not a person, it should be "with which", not "with whom"; I would have corrected it myself, but I thought I'd ask you to review the entire paragraph first; and
2) shouldn't it be "similarities", not "familiarities"? I've never heard that before, two languages sharing familiarities. -- CorinneSD ( talk) 16:46, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to know why you undid the content added by me which has few historical quotes on Telugu. All the people who made quotes are historically significant figures in Dravidian studies. I am adding them again with valid reference. Please mention if any kind of objections you want to present. Take care. Bsskchaitanya ( talk) 19:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I just noticed an edit to the article on Tifinagh in which an editor changed the transliteration conventions. What do you suggest? -- Omnipaedista ( talk) 10:04, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Instead of trying to force your change in through edit warring, please discuss at the talk page. Kanguole 11:13, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Please do not edit war. Discuss tags on the talk page when there is disagreement. You removed a refimprove tag on the grounds that a stub only needs one reference. Maybe, maybe not. I noted on the talk page that the one reference appeared to be a manuscript which had not been published, and did not appear to be a reliable source as such, so I tagged the article as having a source which did not satisfy WP:RS. You then removed the tag for the article having a unreliable source with the comment "It's fine." It nay be "fine," but how is it a reliable source? An article cannot go on indefinitely referenced only by some person's manuscript. Please re-read WP:RS and particularly WP:SPS. Hasn't anyone published anything about this sign language used in one village? It really needs multiple instances of significant coverage in reliable sources if it is to be considered notable. Edison ( talk) 22:16, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
as you requested, I created Module:Check for unknown parameters. you simply add to any template code, as
{{#invoke:check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=[[Category:Some tracking category]] |arg1|arg2|...|argN}}
where 'Some tracking category' is the tracking category to use, and arg1, arg2, ..., argN are all the valid parameters. note that this does require listing out all the known parameters, which could be tedious. it will also, currently, view blank parameters the same as non-blank. it has also not been rigorously tested, but you can play around with it in
User:Frietjes/Example,
User:Frietjes/Example1, and
User:Frietjes/Example2. yes, feel free to actually edit those pages to expose any bugs or other issues. you will see there is a '_VALUE_' in the tracking category. by default, _VALUE_ is replaced by the name of the bogus parameter, so the entries in the tracking category are indexed by the parameter name (useful for finding the particular bogus parameter in a sea of other parameters). you could also change the |unknown=
to something else, like unknown = {{error|Found _VALUE_}} for a more obvious error message. let me know if you find any bugs or have any suggested improvements.
Frietjes (
talk)
17:53, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Some of your recent edits to various pages on languages adding the Glottolog citation have resulted in reference errors that have been filling up Category:Pages with missing references list. I've added the reflist template to about fifteen of these, but I'd appreciate your help fixing the rest. Altamel ( talk) 03:18, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bura Sign Language is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bura Sign Language until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Edison ( talk) 21:35, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Is it necessary to remove the flags in the List of languages by number of native speakers? The use of flags should be allowed in the article. AlexTeddy888 ( talk) 11:46, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, I know we both want Wikipedia to work well. I'm not sure how to handle our different approaches to mentioning Chatino village sign language. Your explanation of your last revert mentioned not deleting a link, but that was the result. Should we wait for a more thorough source to be published, or should we use the current preliminary source? Pete unseth ( talk) 12:08, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
I guess it's just a personal analysis. Please see: diff. -- Zyma ( talk) 05:25, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
"... pretty sure ..."?! Pretty sure isn't good enough. Weren't Aristotle and Plato "pretty sure" that the Earth was the center of the universe?. Go look up how many 19th century astronomers were "pretty sure" that the Solar System had another Jupiter-sized planet that was pulling Uranus and Neptune out of their orbits. This is now taught in astronomy classes as a pinnacle of bad science. None of you three have claimed that adding the word "known" is inaccurate. None of you three have complied with my request for some proof that 100% of the Kuiper Belt has been surveyed, thus making your absolute edit accurate. You have given no rationale for this. It's just six bytes, that definitely improves the article. So why are you guys doing this?
I'm required to discuss this with before I list this on the Administrators' noticeboard. So I'm discussing. But listing is my next step. Some day I will find people in Wikipedia who understand the difference between an accurate statement and "pretty sure", and this will be reversed.
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See [17]. Seems very dubious to me, do you know if there's any truth to it? @ Srtª PiriLimPomPom: you might be interested. — Lfdder ( talk) 19:23, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
hi, I'm Deaf sicilian and italian. I invite you on his project in WP Italian. good morning, wiki friend :) -- SurdusVII ( talk) 10:03, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I'm messaging about the articles Remo language (Peru), Kukuini, Cucuini language, Cucuini, Sacuya language, and Sacuya. I see that you have blanked all the articles with a CSD. I have restored all the redirects for now because I'm not really sure what the reason is. If you believe that the redirects should be deleted, then may I suggest WP:RFD? If you believe that the redirects should be nominated under CSD, please choose one of the tags for deletion. If you have any questions or comments, please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks. KJ click here 11:16, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Check your e-mail, thanks. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 17:32, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
I've expanded the article a bit with the mentioning of the telescopes and observatories involved in the observation. I also added some info on the number of people and countries which took part in the research. It might be worth mentioning them on the Lead as well ! Regards, Krenakarore TK 23:41, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, why did you remove the re-spell from the article Date, Hokkaido in October? I'd have thought it was really important, someone who didn't speak Japanese would easily pronounce it in the same way as the "went out on a date" date. -- Prosperosity ( talk) 06:40, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
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Words and quotations:
Regarding your response, that was in particular my point. The Ref already in use on the page actually states that outright(iirc it's the first sentence) along with the other ones I linked from the different branches of the military. I just figured I'd bring it up with you so as to avoid potential revisions and re-revisions of revisions but, that source does indeed exist, it's the one actively in use.-- Karek words?! 08:44, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I need some help or advice from an experienced WP Editor who knows about the copyright issues involved in submitting material for WP articles, and I am hoping you might be the right person to approach. I contributed a recording of Received Pronunciation for the WP article on RP, and I have just been told it is going to be deleted in 24 hours because I didn't submit it with the right copyright declarations. I find the rules for such things terribly hard to understand. A friendly editor is trying to help me with this, but I really need some backup from someone who understands how things work. You will find all the relevant discussion on my Talk page. I would be grateful for any help or advice. RoachPeter ( talk) 17:25, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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Happy New Year, Kwami. I have seen you introduced the recent work of Holton et al. (2012), nice piece of work! About your question about the numerals in Alor-Pantar languages, I have found a link of a coworker of Holton, Frankišek Kratochvíl, the document includes the proto-numerals for proto-Alor-Pantor: this link. Some entries in English Wikipedia, need to be updated according the work you introduced of Holton. For example Wersing language says "It is not part of the Alor–Pantar group" in contradiction with the data you introduced in Alor–Pantar languages. -- Davius ( talk) 00:04, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Just a comment about a question you probably know. Some inguistic maps in Wikipedia (and on the internet, in general) depict large areas as "unhabited areas", mainly in the north of New Guinea, but this does not seem to correspond with the reality. The Oak Ridge national Laboratory computed a detailed population density map (you can see here). The problem is that the low populated areas do not match with the common "unhabited areas" of many maps (including the maps we use in wikipedia). I know, it is difficult to correct the maps, it is just a comment noting the difficulty, -- Davius ( talk) 00:59, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello Kwami, what do you think should we move Georgian alphabet and Greek alphabet to Georgian script and Greek script? Jaqeli ( talk) 10:52, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
How do you determine "top importance"? Syriac has no real importance outside of its community, yet you included that. Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, and Korean have no real importance outside their communities either, yet you include them. Yet Hindi is not listed, nor is Bengali, Burmese or Thai. Since you changed it to "major" scripts, I removed minor scripts, defined as scripts used by only one national language. (Maybe Greek should be restored due to its use in science and mathematics.)
Also, what is the purpose of the template? I don't see how it would be an aid in navigation. — kwami ( talk) 17:03, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
You're repeating that Georgian and Armenian are of "top importance". They're not. They're minor scripts of no importance outside of the Caucasus and their ethnic communities in the diaspora. Yet you exclude international scripts used by hundreds of millions of people who are not in your neighborhood. That's quite ethnocentric. — kwami ( talk) 17:15, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
[balɛn], [baleɪ̯n] or [balɐɪ̯n]. Which one is the closest pronunciation ? 162.222.81.148 ( talk) 23:44, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
I answered you on the article's talk page, but I hope you don't mind to put my answer here as well.
Thank you for suggestion to read WP:BOLD, but I would kindly ask you to read the following article: Wikipedia:Don't revert due solely to "no consensus". I will excerpt the first two paragraphs for you:
Sometimes editors will undo a change, justifying their revert merely by saying that there is "no consensus" for the change, or by simply asking the original editor to "first discuss". This is not very helpful or informative, and, except possibly on pages that describe long-standing Wikipedia policy, should probably be avoided. After all, that you reverted the edit already shows that there is no consensus. But you neglected to explain why you personally disagree with the edit, so you haven't given people a handle on how to build the consensus with you that you desire.
Next to that, the behaviour discourages bold contributions, which are essential to building Wikipedia. Moreover, if you can't point out an underlying problem with an edit, there is no good reason to immediately revert it. Finally, there may in fact exist silent consensus to keep the change. Consensus is not unanimity, and is thus not canceled by one editor's objection.
These two quoted paragraphs discredits your stance. They are Wikipedia policy, after all. Regards Klačko ( talk) 21:04, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Firstly, it's pitty to see that you didn't put any argument a propos that Wikipedia article that I reffered to and quoted it which discredits your "getting consensus first" stance.
Secondly, those figures that I putted are not my truth or the Truth, for that matter. They are just the official data coming from respective national statistics offices, all of them being sourced with links pointing to webpages from which they are taken (those webpages are by rule the official websites of statistical offices).
Thirdly, I find it hard to understand that official data would cause another fight. I find it even harder to understand or rather believe that data (those in "Geographical distribution" section, for example) which are complete non-sense and not supported by any source whatsoever were reached by consensus at the first place. After all, it was you who a day ago change by yourself those very same figures in the infobox (which were ridiculously high, something like 13 million in ex-Yugoslavia and another 10 million abroad) and I didn't see that you tried to reach a consensus before, the very one you are insisting now in our discussion.
Regards, Klačko ( talk) 21:32, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Ok, I understand your argument with WP:SYNTH, but I am not sure if it is applicable in this case. Territories of Former Yugoslavia where Serbian language is either official or recognized minortiy language are not countless but only 5 (Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Macedonia). If we have official data for each and every one of those 5 countries, there is no much space for speculation and is, in my opinion, fine to combine those figures and reffered to respective census data.
I find it interesting that you don't have problem with "Geogrpahical distribution" section in that article which is full of non-sense, non-verifiable and non-sourced data. Did you ask yourself are those data reached by consensus?
Well, I have a proposal to make: let those edits of mine stay for a while and see if someone other than you challenge them. I think it's the way we can see are these official census data acceptable to other editors or not. Regards Klačko ( talk) 22:22, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
PS - Still, you didn't make your stance vis-a-vis Wikipedia:Don't revert due solely to "no consensus" since your rationale behind reverts of my edits was "no consensus" argument.
From the tai shogi article. This isn't entirely true of promoted pieces – the free bear is BrlRfA in maka dai dai, but it is BrlRffN in tai. Double sharp ( talk) 01:58, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
Are you capable to guess this pronunciation is [sœɡõdɛːχ] or [sœɡõdæːχ] ? 166.48.189.192 ( talk) 21:13, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
You're welcomed to discuss there. I already typed in my questions waiting for your answer. 75.168.189.114 ( talk) 00:20, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
There are, unfortunately, no good sources for this kind of thing. The general article goes by Ethnologue and the Swedish encyclopedia. The India article goes by the national census. But if we start messing with the numbers we know to be wrong, we're left w suggesting the other numbers are correct, when many of them will be wrong too, and there's no end to the potential OR battles. The problem is that no-one has done the necessary survey work in India for maybe half a century. Nigeria's a similar problem. In that case, the govt is afraid to conduct an honest census because it might upset local power balances. And for the rest of the world we often have bad data for a variety of other reasons. The only absolute solution is to delete those articles along with the population figures in the language articles, but people are curious about this kind of thing. — kwami ( talk) 06:19, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
What do you think of having articles a star and its exoplanet at very different locations? -- JorisvS ( talk) 10:36, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, My source did indeed say that YSL is used as the primary language of the local deaf community. I'll clarify that tomorrow, when I have access to that information. According to the article I cited, the current Wikipedia article is wrong in some points. I'll do my best. You and I keep editing so many of the same articles. Pete unseth ( talk) 01:34, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
In editing Languages of Nepal, you say that it is "silly to assign a number" yet the number I used is what is provided in the Ethnologue, and there is nothing silly about providing a relevant fact. (The number on the Ethnologue is not 100% definitive, but it is a good resource.) Then you changed "120-some languages" to "the hundred or so languages" even though "hundred of so" is not equivalent to more than 120, which is the actual number. Can you tell me what your reasons are for changing these items? Cheers. -- BB12 ( talk) 07:41, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you for your message on my talk page. I have answered there. JamesBWatson ( talk) 17:40, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Shouldn't we move it? There's Latin-derived alphabet already. Jaqeli ( talk) 17:31, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello :), since you have protected this thread [2], then can you please help in a little dispute? as you can see on the Revision history, this guy removes sourced edits. Thank you :). -- HistoryofIran ( talk) 18:39, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Alright, sorry for bothering, and thanks for at least answering me unlike others who can't even bother to write that they don't have time to do it, or won't. -- HistoryofIran ( talk) 20:07, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
hi, ok thanks for answer in User:Ntennis. yes, for SSL. -- SurdusVII ( talk) 11:17, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
I believe you created most of the lists of numbered minor planet names, and I would like to suggest a small clean-up by deleting duplicate pages. The links are listed below, after a copy of the discussion on my talk page. I suggest using the db-g6 speedy deletion tag on them, as I did before it was reverted. — M3TA info ( view)
Meanings_of_minor_planet_names is the correct category index, but viewing Category:Lists_of_meanings_of_minor_planet_names gave some unnecessary duplication. This Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–3500 now contains the data from pages holding groups of 100 names, to conform to the rest of the pages under 10k that are arranged in similarly sized blocks.
The following pages are the source of that content, and can now be deleted: [correct, or maybe rd'd to preserve histories]
These pages simply included two blocks of 500 and can also be deleted: [no, required for navigation]
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Hello Kwamikagami. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kenyan English, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a recently created redirect - consider WP:RfD. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 13:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
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We obviously have an editor pushing his side of an ethnic conflict here. I've told him I'll block him if this continues. I've added some sources to a few of the articles he's been 'revising'. Dougweller ( talk) 15:14, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Firstly, do not remove sourced content just like that. The formulation/source is lifted directly from the authoritative Britannica encyclopedia. The note does not explain that "SC language" is the name of the language called SC?" but that "SC is an arbitrary term of convenience used to refer to the forms of speech employed by Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs and other South Slavic groups such as Montenegrin." I.e. it explicitly explains the language as shared by several ethnicities. The term is not definite. Praxis Icosahedron ϡ ( TALK) 12:05, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. I've just reverted your redirect of Category:Asian art museums to Category:Asian-art museums because I don't understand the rationale. What is an Asian-art museum? I also re-added the Hong Kong Museum of Art to the category because it certainly does display Asian art. Thanks, Citobun ( talk) 08:09, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
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I've opened up a case the dispute resolution noticeboard which involves you Praxis Icosahedron ϡ ( TALK) 22:55, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
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Have you seen this?— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜) 17:12, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Or rather what it used to be?— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜) 17:22, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Can you change CAR to indicate the president/head of state is s female and not head of govt. Shes president now.( Lihaas ( talk) 19:35, 20 January 2014 (UTC)).
Apart from the disruptive nature of implementing the hyphen when the discussion about that is still ongoing, I note that you are performing some of those moves rather clumsily. For example, you moved Open-access mandate, but let the connected talk page in place. This makes it impossible for other editors to even be aware that there have been prior discussions. Please revert your moves until the discussion has reached consensus or at least fix the talk page moves. Thanks. -- Randykitty ( talk) 23:01, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Just interested if you know when will the Wiki logo be updated? Any time soon? Or in what time the logo is being changed and updated? Jaqeli ( talk) 12:32, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
These two came up in the daily scan. Atleast it is working.
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Hi Kwami, there's an issue around the title of the Silesian language article. I'd appreciate your input at Talk:Silesian language. -- JorisvS ( talk) 19:56, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
It came to my attention through edits by Viller the Great that our current classification of Romance languages is a bit of a mess. For example, in some infoboxes (but not limited to them) Occitano-Romance is Iberian Romance, in others it is not, and do have my doubts about the validity. And do we have sufficient support for Italo-Western to include it in the infoboxes or not. I'm not knowledgeable enough to properly fix this. Could you maybe take a look? -- JorisvS ( talk) 08:23, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Are you handling Talk:Tamil-Brahmi#Break? If so, would you be so kind to change the {{ Help me}} template to {{ Help me-working}} while you work on it? It would be greatly appreciated to get it out of the looking for help category (It will still be in Category:Wikipedians being helped if you forget to watchlist it or lose track of it). Thanks a bunch! Technical 13 ( talk) 03:15, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Your edits on Banana leaf seems to imply your tendency to over-simplify all of Indonesian and Malaysian culture as "Malay". You see the "Malay" identity as the so called race or ethnic groups is perceived differently in Malaysia and Indonesia, and there is complexity in it. You see the examples of banana leaf application in cuisine pepes is more Sundanese, while botok is more Javanese, and why you change the lead to Malay cuisine? Indonesia is much more than Malay identity, here we have Javanese, Sundanese, Minang, Batak, Balinese, Torajan, Dayak, that in Indonesian perspective are not identify themself as "Malay". I suggest you learn more to differentiate this ethnic identity thing and be more sensitive on this cultural delicate differences. Gunkarta ( talk) 06:35, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, can we somehow achieve a consensus in that template? Maybe we could group the Brahmic scripts together? Also the template is removed from all the articles so wanted to ask you what you think about it and doesn't the template itself have any importance at all? Jaqeli ( talk) 07:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
What about states that perform ssm & DPs instead of ssm & CUs..? -- Prcc27 ( talk) 23:31, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
"DP" stands for "Domestic Partnership" -- Prcc27 ( talk) 20:00, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
You changed the "Same-sex marriage status in the United States by state" to "Civil unions in the United States" and then you asked "How's this?" Well, IMO- I like the first one better because it covers DPs.. -- Prcc27 ( talk) 22:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't know if you recall these articles, but I reverted Zomi to Zo after discovering what I thought was copyvio although it turns out the editor had replaced a redirect with material copied from his website. I've been trying to discuss this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Burma (Myanmar)#Zou, Zo, Zomi Kuki with this editor who a major COI. So far I've had no response to the actual issues I've raised although one other editor responded earlier agreeing there's a mess. I can understand if you have no interest, but any comments would be useful. Dougweller ( talk) 12:45, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, could you explain your revert on Wolof language? Thanks Abjiklɐm ( tɐlk) 07:56, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm curious, what do you think about what Mitch Ames said here, especially about Wilkes-Barre vs. Hale–Bopp? -- JorisvS ( talk) 08:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
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I noticed that you reverted my edit on the Devanāgarī page. To be clear the text says:
So, avagraha is "usually transliterated with an apostrophe" (which is entirely accurate) but here you are insisting that it not be transliterated with an apostrophe. Which seems a bit perverse to say the least - to say how it is transliterated and then use an example in which is it not transliterated. Either it is transliterated or it is not. If it is then it is usual, as the article says, to transliterate it as "eko 'yam". Indeed the present transliteration, the one you reverted to, is incorrect and confusing. "ekoyam" could not come about because of ekas + ayam. Up to you really, I'm not going to get into an edit-war over it, but the contradiction is rather glaring. If no one else is allowed to edit the page, then at least chose an example which demonstrates how the avagraha is used in transliteration rather than one which doesn't use it at all! Jayarava ( talk) 08:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami - Don't refer to good faith edits made during a content dispute as 'transparent lies.' Don't refer to warnings given in good faith (and bluntly, in your best interest) as 'idiotic.' Given how heated this area has gotten, I would advise you to not engage in any behavior that could be construed as editwarring, and further to keep in mind that editwarring that necessarily require more than four reverts on the same page in less than twenty four hours - other patterns, including consistently reverting the same editor's edits on the same subject across multiple pages can qualify just as well, especially when an ongoing discussion on a talk page is occurring about appropriate naming. As a heads up: pages related to Silesia fall under at least one set of discretionary sanctions. I won't be taking any action under those sanctions until I've set up the appropriate editnotices etc on the pages and notified involved editors, but it's worth keeping in mind. You've been here long enough that I shouldn't have to tell you that referring to a good faith edit as a transparent lie is not a good idea.
And keep in mind that although a straw poll can be a useful thing to conduct in some circumstances, the ultimate close of the move request will not depend on how many people vote one way and how many people vote another way. The final close of the move request will take in to account which position puts forth the strongest policy-backed arguments that are supported by reliable sources, not how many people doggy-pile on to the same option. Kevin Gorman ( talk) 23:44, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
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I don't know if you are interested in this. I'm trying to improve it but a big problem is that is was created an editor pushing the Zomi nomenclature, and although the clash about about the nomenclature in part at least and the agreement dealt with nomenclature also, sources seem to refer to this as a Zuki-Paite 'clash'. See [4]. Do you see any reason not to rename it? Btw the editor who created this is now resorting to personal attacks, which is why I'm concerned about renaming. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 09:12, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
I apologize if I am using this wrong. I am looking for help which is related to the photo you contributed on the Tuareg Languages page.
I have some symbols that I think might be of this language, but I have no clue where to start to translate them. Could you help? Thank you for your consideration.
YarnDiggity ( talk) 23:28, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
We have endashes in comet names, such as in Comet Hale–Bopp and Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. We do not follow the IAU in the interpunction of these names, because they do not distinguish between hyphens and (en)dashes. To distinguish between codiscovered comets and comets discovered by a person with a hyphenated name, the IAU removes the hyphen in the latter case, such as in 105P/Singer Brewster. Do you think we should follow suit in the latter case? If so, why? I tend to say that because Wikipedia has endashes, keeping the hyphen in the latter case is both appropriate and clear. -- JorisvS ( talk) 15:12, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
You are sure that German [r] is spelled like the "t" in "water" ? Can you please explain this to me or offer a source ? 80.132.119.217 ( talk) 22:41, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Intervocalic /t/ and /d/ do not surface as [ɾ] in all dialects of AmE:
-- Thnidu ( talk) 11:47, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you even know Esperanto?
With reference to your most recent recension of my wiki edits:
-- Thnidu ( talk) 02:42, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
English, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages have a /v/, so Esperanto V must be pronouncable as [ʋ] and [w].-- Thnidu ( talk) 22:31, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
@ Thnidu: Sorry, didn't see your reply.
Germanic alphabets have both V and W, so V is also a Germanic vo. In fact, for most Germanic languages it is V rather than W that is pronounced /v/, assuming the have a W at all. Now, it would make sense to call W the *German* vo, as German W is pronounced /v/, like Esperanto V, while German V is pronounced like Esperanto F, and the only German equivalent of Eo V is W. But in English it is (supposedly) V that in pronounced like Eo V, while W is supposedly pronounced like Ŭ, so saying W is the English equivalent of Esperanto V means that English W is closer to Esperanto V than it is to Ŭ, and moreover implies that Esperanto V is closer to /w/ than it is to /v/. Similarly with Dutch: If W rather than V is the Dutch equivalent of vo, then vo must be pronounceable as /ʋ/. (I mean, imagine if someone said W was the "Welsh vo". Since Welsh W is /u/, that could only mean Esperanto V was pronounceable as /u/, right?) And we do get hints of this divergence of vo from /v/, especially in Slavic sources, but Western sources often try to impose a /v/–/w/ distinction on Esperanto by claiming that Ŭ is pronounced /w/ and that V can only be pronounced /v/. Bertilo is the best Western source I've seen for the pronunciation of V, as he notes that it is pronounced /w/ in the sequences kv and gv.
You said above "he may be counting Dutch [ʋ] as a [v]". If so, then from an Esperanto POV, Dutch W /ʋ~w/ and V /v/ are indistinguishable, again resulting in the conclusion that Esperanto V covers both [v] and [ʋ] or even [v], [ʋ], and [w]. — kwami ( talk) 00:03, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
For what it's worth, from the beginning I understood "gxermana vo" to refer to the origin of the grapheme and not to imply anything about its pronunciation. Compare ⟨Y⟩, called "Greek I" ("i grec", "i griega") in French and Spanish, as well as "Üpsilon" in German. In French and Spanish, the letter isn't pronounced as it was in ancient Greek, though it is pronounced that way in modern Greek—except after another vowel. —Largo Plazo ( talk) 13:43, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
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Don't we need to link it to wiktionary? What was of poor format exactly in my edit? Jaqeli ( talk) 17:23, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
The symbol is hardly seen so better to increase its size, no? Jaqeli ( talk) 17:50, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
Following articles had PUAs from February's dump:
Bgwhite ( talk) 04:52, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
Your recent val2 updates with AWB also changed mp template numbers. E.g., on 2007 JJ43, { {mp|(278361) 2007 JJ|43} } } } changed to { {mp|({ {val2|278361} }) 2007 JJ|43}}}}. If that's intentional, then okay (it formats the number, so maybe that's what you wanted), but, if it isn't intentional, consider AWBing it back. Tbayboy ( talk) 16:05, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
-- Bejnar ( talk) 03:33, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the info, if both Indian Urdu Braille & Pakistani Urdu Braille point to same article Urdu Braille then why can't we have only Urdu Braille and do away with Indian Urdu Braille & Pakistani Urdu Braille. Also if Bharti Braille is not used for Urdu (because it doesn't have many Urdu sounds) then why it is listed there?-- Sayed Mohammad Faiz Haider t c s 05:24, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you have a cite for this? I don't recall ever seeing this one before. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 19:50, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there. I had missed the second measure of the Lake Ontario shoreline at this source [5]. But still, it lists the Lake Ontario shoreline as 726 (length of shoreline in Separate Basin) and 634 (coordinated elements of Great Lakes shoreline). Which of these is correct? Magnolia677 ( talk) 00:31, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I'm not sure I understand your reason for wrapping {{ Unicode}} around {{ lang}} strings in Sampi. What benefit would that have? Fut.Perf. ☼ 00:20, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
Infobox seems to suggest Hellenic, the branch, is synonymous with Greek, but that's not mentioned anywhere in the text. 'Hellenic is the branch ...' implies it's pretty widely accepted -- which I don't think it is. As for the tree, what's the source for it? And why can't it go in Greek language (sans Macedonian)? — Lfdder ( talk) 12:52, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi,When i click on Koya people it redirecting to Gyele people,Actually Koya people are from Andhra Pradesh,India. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Will Talk2 ( talk • contribs) 13:03, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
hi yes,i am planing to write article on koya people of andhra pradesh.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Will Talk2 ( talk • contribs) 06:55, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
I protected Latin Europe due to an edit war. This turned out to be over various languages as can be seen at Talk:Latin Europe#Rfc: can Romance-speaking Europe be added? and User talk:CambridgeBayWeather#Latin Europe. Just thought that you might know something about this and may be able to assist them. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather ( talk) 16:02, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Please familiarise yourself with the information page at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions, with the appropriate sections of Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures, and with the case decision page before making any further edits to the pages in question. This notice is given by an uninvolved administrator and will be logged on the case decision, pursuant to the conditions of the Arbitration Committee's discretionary sanctions system. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 09:02, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, What is your reason for remove the map? I guess, a violation or inaccuracy in question. I don't see anything mistake here. Maurice07 ( talk) 01:19, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Sorry for reverting your reversion. I really don't know how it happened. Bevo74 ( talk) 07:12, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Despite a lot of sloppy reporting, it's perfectly clear that the decision in Bourke v. Beshear is about recognizing same-sex marriages, not recognizing same-sex marriages just from other states. Check out the difference between the headline and the first sentence of this article, for example.
The lead plaintiffs were wed in Canada. But I don't think adding a citation to the footnote in question is a good idea. That map with all its notes are already very complicated. Bmclaughlin9 ( talk) 12:27, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I don't think I ever got around to thanking you for your edits to Stapes by inserting the IPA pronunciation. This is something I have never thought about, but very important for many of our anatomy articles (which are often titled from Latin and/or have rather strange pronunciation). I work primarily with anatomy and medical articles under WP:ANATOMY and was wondering if we'd occasionally be able to ping you in the future for similar work on our other articles? -- LT910001 ( talk) 03:47, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I just happened to notice a word spelled "panjengenan" in Javanese_language#Daily_conversation. Since there were 4 other mentions of a word "panjenengan" I just have to wonder - is "panjengenan" a typo? Shenme ( talk) 01:24, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering what is the reason to remove the IPA of the arabic name? If it is wrong, I think you should correct it, not remove it entirely.
Buhadram ( talk) 05:48, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Buhadram ( talk) 01:57, 17 February 2014 (UTC) Well, according to WP:IPA for Arabic, the representation of arabic pronunciation is as I wrote before, not random symbol.
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I saw your edit at Latin peoples and I'd like to ask you to also comment on the on going discussion at Talk:Latin peoples. Thanks in advance 79.117.160.159 ( talk) 13:14, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
This pronunciation is [t͡ʃɛ] or [t͡ʃæ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 00:03, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, looking at your edits for Si5s and ASL, I see that something is wrong. Si5s is not the handwritten form of SignWriting, although it may look similar. SignWriting has several forms of handwriting including cursive and shorthand. These forms existed decades before Si5s was conceived. Additionally, Si5s claims it was not based on or influenced by SignWriting.
SignWriting includes the block printing mostly seen online and SignWriting includes handwriting. A short essay is available online that explains the differences between the computerized block printing and the handwritten variations. I can understand saying that "Si5s resembles a hand written form of SignWriting". I can maybe understand saying that "Si5s is a handwritten form of SignWriting.", but it is definitely not "the handwritten form of SignWriting". Thanks for you consideration. Slevinski ( talk) 00:50, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This pronunciation is [ɑ̃sɛːtχ], [ɑ̃saɪ̯tχ] or [ɑ̃sɐɪ̯tχ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 00:55, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is [nɐɪ̯ʒ], right ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:02, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is [pœtɑɪ̯tʀ] with an [ɑ] sound ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:14, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
You mean the same diphthong to you ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:27, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is hard to know that it is [sʊŋ], [soŋ] or [sɔŋ]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:45, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you hear the difference, now ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:57, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Look http://www.unpo.org/members/7884
only in iran 30-35 millions Azerbaijani people live there and in Azerbaijan it is 9.2 millions. How native speakers written there 23 millions? there is a proof I have sent.. just u need to simple calculation.
best regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azecorrector ( talk • contribs) 11:39, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami please revert this edit it looks to be a pretty clear case of continuing the edit war even though it is currently being discussed in two other places. Callanecc ( talk • contribs • logs) 04:38, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Kwami,
Is it possible to nominate the Georgian alphabet for a good article? Can it become one now or what can be done to make the article a good article? Jaqeli ( talk) 10:52, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, did I everything right? Can you please see it on the article's talk page? Jaqeli ( talk) 20:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I think I shouldn't have done what you've said there :( Only reviewers should have had clicked on that and not me :( I received a message from myself on my talk page :( Jaqeli ( talk) 21:05, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I nominated it for the second time now but what would happen to that page I just mistakently created? :( Jaqeli ( talk) 21:14, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I'll leave it as it is now. Hope someone will review it soon. Jaqeli ( talk) 21:21, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you think this is [tɛɪ̯t] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 22:06, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
This song is in F major ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 22:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Because you don't know keys ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 22:55, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you hear [paɛ̯ʃ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 23:42, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, thank you for your edits to Indo-Pacific languages. You seem to be doing a good job of improving that article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.118.187.48 ( talk) 05:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
— kwami ( talk) 06:06, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
There is a requested move going on there in which you may be interested. -- JorisvS ( talk) 09:18, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is hard to know that it is [tãpɐɪ̯t] or [tãpɛɪ̯t]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 18:12, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is [iveːχ] or [iveɪ̯χ] ? But it's certainly not [ivɛːχ]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 23:25, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
There really has a diphthong in the last syllable ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 02:05, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
[kɛːs pɔpylaɪ̯ʁ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 02:16, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi kwami, is it possible in any way to edit this template? I think it would be better if we add little question mark at the end of the Georgian name (?) linking to the Georgian alphabet like it has in this template. Currently it is blocked and I am unable to edit it. Could you help somehow? Jaqeli ( talk) 18:48, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Here's one example. Just tell me what you think. It would be like this: Jaqeli ( talk) 21:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
I just wrote your name in Georgian :)
Kwami, please see the talk page of Template talk:Lang-ka. I am interested what would be your opinion. Jaqeli ( talk) 13:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, please see the issue I raised just now on Talk:Spurious_languages. AlbertBickford ( talk) 22:27, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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I transcribed [sœɡõdɐɛ̯ʁ̥] in Wiktionnaire. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 02:45, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you hear [kʲanɐːʁ̥] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 18:31, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
This is the real [æ]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 20:30, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
[kʲɛːs pɔpylɛːʁ̥] is impossible. [kʲɛːs pɔpylaːʁ̥] is it possible ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 20:58, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
[te̞ʁɛ̃] or [te̞ʁẽ] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 21:27, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
This one is [ɚ̃ kʰi.lɔ.maɪ̯tʁ̥] or [ɚ̃ ci.lɔ.maɪ̯tʁ̥] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 23:46, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
The latter is possible ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 01:48, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you hear [ɚ̃ cilɔmaɪ̯tχ] ? Do you know the [c] sound ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 16:20, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
The word un is really pronounced [ɚ̃] ? Not [œ̃] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 17:25, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
The last vowel is [aɪ̯] ? 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 17:28, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
[œ̃] is a front vowel. I think that it's a rhotic [ɞ̃ɹ]. 166.48.189.93 ( talk) 17:35, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi kwami, is there any way I can see how many views did "X" article got? How can I do that? Jaqeli ( talk) 21:04, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title= [title here] &action=info#mw-pageinfo-watchers
Thanks :) Jaqeli ( talk) 12:18, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, a couple of days after the last change in your map was approved the civil unions in the state of Campeche. Time to do a new change in your map. Thanks. Hpav7 ( talk) 10:40, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't know why either. I never intended to revert it. Probably a stray click trying to edit things on an iPad. My humble apologies. E x nihil ( talk) 09:34, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Oh, by the way: I couldn't find any hint, Adabe is a Bunak dialect. There are several Papuan languages in East Timor. Non of these languages are close by geography to Adabe. There are some good scientific papers about Bunak and others, but non of them mention Adabe AFAIsee. Greetings, -- J. Patrick Fischer ( talk) 14:46, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Bunak is close to Atauru (added), which is lumped in with Adabe. Not that that means much, but it would be consistent with them being a Bunak dialect. Hull supposedly explains all this, but I can't really see where. If Adabe and Atauru are the same thing, I can understand the mix-up with Atauro, but why was Adabe thought to be Papuan in the first place? It only makes sense if it's a variety of one of the Papuan languages, or for some reason got mixed up with one of them. — kwami ( talk) 22:03, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't understand your reason for this edit. In my experience, modern Esperanto doesn't usually put a hyphen between "tiun" and "ĉi". Why are you including one here? — Mr. Granger ( talk · contribs) 07:05, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
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Do you hear [sa:ɫ] with "dark L"? Thanks. -- Mirandolese ( talk) 22:31, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I hear [saːl] with a clear /l/. 166.48.192.136 ( talk) 22:03, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello Sir, Thanks for the edit.I do remember about a similar edit in some other wiki page. I would like to place the fact that the word "oriya" has been amended by the 113th amendment bill to Indian constitution, having been passed in both the houses on 6.9.11 . Then, shall it be proper to still continue with "Oriya" in stead of "Odia". with regards; Hpsatapathy ( talk) 04:35, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
This pronunciation is [tχaɪ̯zə] ? 166.48.192.136 ( talk) 22:03, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
The map is incomplete in the sense some groups are absent in te map. It is based on this map WALS of location for some Sepik languages. I have addedd labels in the map here. -- Davius ( talk) 00:45, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami. You removed File:Countries where Hindi is spoken.png article Hindi stating it useless. Why it is useless?-- Wikiuser13 ( talk | contribs) 16:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
[ɑ̃kɛɪ̯t], right ? 166.48.193.31 ( talk) 18:01, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
The diphthong is clear ? 166.48.176.53 ( talk) 20:53, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Here's the link to the news site that states the regional parliament unanimously passed civil unions in December 2013. http://www.sdpnoticias.com/gay/2013/12/23/legalizan-bodas-gays-en-campeche Btw, I wouldn't just change something if I didn't have a source. Just for future reference; I know there are some who do, I can assure I am not one of those people. Also, the source was on same-sex union legislation, and LGBT rights in Mexico. Chase1493 ( talk) 02:42, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
-- here (not my doing!). On which, see the history, this and this. I see from the article's talk page that you're already familiar with (and I'd guess weary of) the article. Putting aside the (non-) question of "language" versus "dialect", it took me only a very few minutes to see that some earlier editor(s) of the article misrepresented the one spelling of the name as the other; I only looked within the list of "Further reading", and if I had more time and energy to devote to this, I might well find more of the same. -- Hoary ( talk) 11:01, 6 March 2014 (UTC) ....
PS (1) The misrepresentation of book titles seems to date from the addition of these titles on 22 April 2012. (2) Do you see any reason to take seriously a distinction between "dialect" and "language"? I don't; but I suppose that as long as the article conspicuously says it's the one or the other the proponents of the alternative are going to jump up and down and shriek in indignation. -- Hoary ( talk) 14:59, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
I have no background in dialectology or sociolinguistics, and cannot understand (any variety of) "Swiss German", (any but a few words of) standard German, or Czech, or Slovak(ian). But I believe that Swiss German is virtually incomprehensible to somebody who only knows standard German but yet the former is routinely called a dialect of the latter; whereas standard Czech and standard Slovak(ian) are mutually intelligible yet routinely called separate languages. All of this (complete with glaring misunderstandings, perhaps) makes it hard for me to take seriously arguments over whether something is a dialect or a (separate) language, at least until people cite not just authorities but also the reasoning presented by those authorities. OTOH I realize that it's easy for a more or less monoglot L1 speaker of English to belittle the issues triggering all the excitement: the status of English will be unassailable for at least a century (granted that we're not destroyed by a doomsday weapon, giant meteorite, etc); whereas the (non) distinction between language and dialect is taken seriously by legislators; and, however unjust this may be, budgets, rights and so forth may depend on the decision.
But whatever the distinction means (if anything), the article does claim that this or that authority says that this is a dialect or instead that it's a language. Most of these sources are not online. Now that I've noticed that one vigorous contributor to the article misspelled the titles of additional "further reading" so that they'd all read "Saraiki", I don't trust the use made in the article of any source. An editor in good standing should check that every cited source actually says what it's touted as saying. But my own library will have none of this stuff so I can't check for myself. -- Hoary ( talk) 02:42, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Ahem. Yes, standard German is the preferred lingua franca among diverse speakers of Swiss German, and there's a sensible reason quite separate from any desire to appear cosmopolitan. ¶ I'll try to return to the article and its talk page when I have time. -- Hoary ( talk) 04:15, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
An article such as this exerts a terrible fascination for me. A book from the 1880s is presented as a source for the situation today. None of three straightforward references to Ethnologue actually says what it's claimed to say. Two references share the same "name" (in Mediawiki markup terms); one turns out not to say what it's claimed to say (and indeed nothing like it), the other is so very obviously worthless (poorly written, anonymous article by some pressure group, posted on a free hosting service) that one shouldn't care what it says. Et cetera. Well, I really do have WP-irrelevant affairs to attend to so I must take a break. Please don't assume that I've checked and verified the references I've left in: on the contrary, I've only looked at two or three of them, and expect that a lot of crap references remain. -- Hoary ( talk) 09:34, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Apropos of the Question that Never Was: they're references for anything. The printed references may be good, for all I know, but the web "references" I've seen so far have largely been non-references. And the printed references include one (which I'm about to zap) from " Betascript, so I'm doubtful about them too. -- Hoary ( talk) 10:21, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
I raised two questions in Talk:Navarro-Lapurdian dialect about one of your edits [15]. Might you check them? Thanks -- Javierme ( talk) 16:25, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
There is mention of a language called "Doteli" at Nepal#Languages spoken by a few percent of the population, but Doteli language is a redlink. Can you identify it? -- JorisvS ( talk) 11:06, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
You may remember that I deleted this a while back as a result of MarkMysoe's nonsense. A new list has appeared at List of Akan people, while nothing looks untoward at first glance it might need closer attention. The user who created it also immediately made a couple of templates and categories, which reminds me of someone. — Xezbeth ( talk) 20:21, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Only one PUA in this month's dump and the article will be deleted shortly via AfD. Sorry for the lack of articles with fun-filled PUAs. Bgwhite ( talk) 09:06, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, recently you made a change on that page, stating This accepted by hardly any linguists. I guess you missed the auxiliary was, but since I'm not entirely sure of your intentions, I better just make you aware of this, so you can fix it yourself. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 17:49, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
はいさい, Kwamikagami! I've noticed that you've contributed to the subject of Ryukyu. I invite you to join WikiProject Ryūkyū, AKA the Ryukyu task force, a collaborative effort to expand and deepen coverage of subjects pertaining to Ryukyuan geography, history, and culture. Here are a few links to pages to start you off:
I hope you'll take interest and decide to be a part of this project. めんそーれ! ミーラー強斗武 ( talk) 18:47, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami, thanks. The "Zapotec-Mapotec" language names are town-village origin (mostly). The non-common (for English) town-village names are written original orthography (with diacritics). [True or False? I don't know]. Thanks. -- Kmoksy ( talk) 00:23, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
User Raayen constantly adds the Elamites to Iranian peoples although my explanations to revert it. I said to him that Elamites speak a language isolate probably related to Dravidian that has nothing to do with Indo-European-and thus Iranian- and Semitic languages. If he continue to edit-war, could you look at the article? Lamedumal ( talk) 10:55, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
This pronunciation is [ɑ̃sɐɪ̯tχ] or [ɒ̃sɐɪ̯tχ] ? The first syllable is [ɑ̃] or [ɒ̃] ? 198.99.28.211 ( talk) 17:05, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
It's hard to know, because the recording is not clear. 162.222.80.37 ( talk) 20:08, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
You must control the volume in Audacity and upload it in Wikimedia Commons. 162.222.80.37 ( talk) 21:20, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Someone can modify it and upload a new file. 162.222.80.37 ( talk) 22:33, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
In response to the result of the Requested move at Talk:Jupiter Trojan, Headbomb has started a move request to have the categories moved to his preferred location: Wikipedia:Category deletion policy#Current nominations. -- JorisvS ( talk) 15:33, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. We are planning the first African conference for Wikipedians in South Africa later this year. I would like to know if you are interested in attending and/know of more Nigerian Wikipedians who would love to attend, we will soon opening scholarship application process and I am confident that you meet the activity criteria. Please see our off wiki conference page here.-- Thuvack | talk 14:13, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, English pronunciation of Greek letters, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. אפונה ( talk) 10:11, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. The following discussion might be of interest to you: Talk:Private Use Areas#Requested move. No such user ( talk) 15:11, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
You may be interested in the following: A new map of atheist discrimination was recently added to the top of Discrimination against atheists. I started a discussion on commons:File talk:Discrimination against atheists by country.svg concerning accuracy of the map concerning discrimination against atheists. Jim1138 ( talk) 21:17, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi.
(1) The other user having taken the trouble to make individual proposals these mass-produced oppose cut and pastes do not encourage support for your view. But anyway can you please link "there was a discussion once on whether the ethnicity should have precedence for the name, and it was decided it shouldn't." so other users can see it.
(2) Also in articles where the RM is proposing reverting an undiscussed move you made please explain the rationale for your move, thanks. In ictu oculi ( talk) 14:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, what is a "Hindian"? In ictu oculi ( talk) 15:29, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your edits. Re the 'i' and 'u' pronunciation, I started a discussion at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#rendering OED pronunciation for Latin words in IPA on that point. Would you care to join? humanengr ( talk) 16:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. When you add the "glotto" attribute to language articles, would you mind checking to see if you need to add a ref list as well? Since that attribute contains a ref in at least some case (like here and here), adding it without also adding a reflist causes the article to throw a ref error (as, for example, Betoi language is currently doing). It's a matter of a few seconds to toss in the reflist, but it's easier if you do it when you add the attribute rather than someone else having to spot the error and fix it later. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 15:59, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
If you have time, would you look at the latest edits to Talysh language? While I cannot judge the correctness of the edits, I feel that some changes to the format are questionable. Specifically, one chart fills the entire page from left margin to right margin. Another has a column (for Kurdish) whose cells are filled with a bluish-gray that is too dark (and I don't know why the column for Kurdish words should be so distinctive). I believe you have an interest in linguistics, and perhaps you already have this article on your watch list, but in case you don't, I thought I'd ask you to review the edits. Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:35, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Why did you rm the linglist codes from Greek dialect articles? — Lfdder ( talk) 13:05, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I was wondering how Nǁng should be pronounced? -- JorisvS ( talk) 21:56, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Comox people#Moving this article
Thanks, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 09:40, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
You said, "I see no reason to depart from the most common English form, which is Comox." That was in your last comment on the page. The entire thing was,
You appear to be desperate to prove that anyone who disagrees with you is either dishonest or stupid, but how can you possibly say that I misrepresented you? — kwami ( talk) 04:35, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Following up on the 'u' in 'sum'. I had posted on this on Refdesk (in response to one of your posts), and followed up with Lfdder. His suggestion was to include both 'ʊ' and 'ʌ" alternatives. Are you ok with that? I started a discussion on the cogito talk page -- so if you'd care to respond there. Thanks for your help. humanengr ( talk) 07:19, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, with respect to your world marriage equality laws, I was wondering if you might be able to shade the Australian States of South Australia and Queensland to the light blue for 'civil unions'. I ask because 1) I'm not sure how to edit the map myself and 2) because the next lowest colour is for jurisdictions with 'Unregistered cohabitation', something which arguably only the Northern Territory and Western Australia have under their respective state/Territory laws. For what it's worth, SA and QLD don't really have 'civil unions' in the sense of a state-sanctioned ceremony, rather they have registered domestic partnerships. Regards. Jono52795 ( talk) 01:55, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering if you would take a look at the latest edits to Pali. I cannot judge the content, but I have questions about the way it is expressed, particularly this clause:
1) Because it is not a person, it should be "with which", not "with whom"; I would have corrected it myself, but I thought I'd ask you to review the entire paragraph first; and
2) shouldn't it be "similarities", not "familiarities"? I've never heard that before, two languages sharing familiarities. -- CorinneSD ( talk) 16:46, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to know why you undid the content added by me which has few historical quotes on Telugu. All the people who made quotes are historically significant figures in Dravidian studies. I am adding them again with valid reference. Please mention if any kind of objections you want to present. Take care. Bsskchaitanya ( talk) 19:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I just noticed an edit to the article on Tifinagh in which an editor changed the transliteration conventions. What do you suggest? -- Omnipaedista ( talk) 10:04, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Instead of trying to force your change in through edit warring, please discuss at the talk page. Kanguole 11:13, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Please do not edit war. Discuss tags on the talk page when there is disagreement. You removed a refimprove tag on the grounds that a stub only needs one reference. Maybe, maybe not. I noted on the talk page that the one reference appeared to be a manuscript which had not been published, and did not appear to be a reliable source as such, so I tagged the article as having a source which did not satisfy WP:RS. You then removed the tag for the article having a unreliable source with the comment "It's fine." It nay be "fine," but how is it a reliable source? An article cannot go on indefinitely referenced only by some person's manuscript. Please re-read WP:RS and particularly WP:SPS. Hasn't anyone published anything about this sign language used in one village? It really needs multiple instances of significant coverage in reliable sources if it is to be considered notable. Edison ( talk) 22:16, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
as you requested, I created Module:Check for unknown parameters. you simply add to any template code, as
{{#invoke:check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=[[Category:Some tracking category]] |arg1|arg2|...|argN}}
where 'Some tracking category' is the tracking category to use, and arg1, arg2, ..., argN are all the valid parameters. note that this does require listing out all the known parameters, which could be tedious. it will also, currently, view blank parameters the same as non-blank. it has also not been rigorously tested, but you can play around with it in
User:Frietjes/Example,
User:Frietjes/Example1, and
User:Frietjes/Example2. yes, feel free to actually edit those pages to expose any bugs or other issues. you will see there is a '_VALUE_' in the tracking category. by default, _VALUE_ is replaced by the name of the bogus parameter, so the entries in the tracking category are indexed by the parameter name (useful for finding the particular bogus parameter in a sea of other parameters). you could also change the |unknown=
to something else, like unknown = {{error|Found _VALUE_}} for a more obvious error message. let me know if you find any bugs or have any suggested improvements.
Frietjes (
talk)
17:53, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Some of your recent edits to various pages on languages adding the Glottolog citation have resulted in reference errors that have been filling up Category:Pages with missing references list. I've added the reflist template to about fifteen of these, but I'd appreciate your help fixing the rest. Altamel ( talk) 03:18, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bura Sign Language is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bura Sign Language until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Edison ( talk) 21:35, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Is it necessary to remove the flags in the List of languages by number of native speakers? The use of flags should be allowed in the article. AlexTeddy888 ( talk) 11:46, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
Kwami, I know we both want Wikipedia to work well. I'm not sure how to handle our different approaches to mentioning Chatino village sign language. Your explanation of your last revert mentioned not deleting a link, but that was the result. Should we wait for a more thorough source to be published, or should we use the current preliminary source? Pete unseth ( talk) 12:08, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
I guess it's just a personal analysis. Please see: diff. -- Zyma ( talk) 05:25, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
"... pretty sure ..."?! Pretty sure isn't good enough. Weren't Aristotle and Plato "pretty sure" that the Earth was the center of the universe?. Go look up how many 19th century astronomers were "pretty sure" that the Solar System had another Jupiter-sized planet that was pulling Uranus and Neptune out of their orbits. This is now taught in astronomy classes as a pinnacle of bad science. None of you three have claimed that adding the word "known" is inaccurate. None of you three have complied with my request for some proof that 100% of the Kuiper Belt has been surveyed, thus making your absolute edit accurate. You have given no rationale for this. It's just six bytes, that definitely improves the article. So why are you guys doing this?
I'm required to discuss this with before I list this on the Administrators' noticeboard. So I'm discussing. But listing is my next step. Some day I will find people in Wikipedia who understand the difference between an accurate statement and "pretty sure", and this will be reversed.
Will102 (
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08:47, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
See [17]. Seems very dubious to me, do you know if there's any truth to it? @ Srtª PiriLimPomPom: you might be interested. — Lfdder ( talk) 19:23, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
hi, I'm Deaf sicilian and italian. I invite you on his project in WP Italian. good morning, wiki friend :) -- SurdusVII ( talk) 10:03, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I'm messaging about the articles Remo language (Peru), Kukuini, Cucuini language, Cucuini, Sacuya language, and Sacuya. I see that you have blanked all the articles with a CSD. I have restored all the redirects for now because I'm not really sure what the reason is. If you believe that the redirects should be deleted, then may I suggest WP:RFD? If you believe that the redirects should be nominated under CSD, please choose one of the tags for deletion. If you have any questions or comments, please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks. KJ click here 11:16, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
Check your e-mail, thanks. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 17:32, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
I've expanded the article a bit with the mentioning of the telescopes and observatories involved in the observation. I also added some info on the number of people and countries which took part in the research. It might be worth mentioning them on the Lead as well ! Regards, Krenakarore TK 23:41, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, why did you remove the re-spell from the article Date, Hokkaido in October? I'd have thought it was really important, someone who didn't speak Japanese would easily pronounce it in the same way as the "went out on a date" date. -- Prosperosity ( talk) 06:40, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
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