Kwamikagami,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
JorisvS (
talk)
16:36, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Please see [ [1]]. Debresser ( talk) 20:43, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I know the language list page List of languages by number of native speakers was vandalized relentlessly and I'm sorry to learn that, but is there a way we could bring back the lesser-spoken languages? the name of the article doesn't specify "top 100 languages," so can't we at least make a valiant effort to put the other languages by number of native speakers back? -- User:Neddy1234
could you explain why the English approximation for the ' e' IPA letter in French is the 'ey' in hey? you dont pronounce clé as clay, you pronounce it cle, as in hey — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nichirob ( talk • contribs) 19:26, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
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The source lists it with pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages. If you have a linguistic ref that it is not one of those, please provide it. — kwami ( talk) 00:53, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
That's not clean-up, and it still contradicts the source. And why remove the info?
Also, "region" should be the region within Cuba, not "Americas". Everyone should know where Cuba is. — kwami ( talk) 01:06, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
What needs to be cleaned up? You say it's a dialect of Kikoongo, which AFAICT is false, that it's spoken in "the Americas", which is at best misleading, and removed the sourced statement that it involves code-switching and is not secret. — kwami ( talk) 01:29, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
In January 2013 there was a " RfC on COMMONSTYLE proposal" at WT:AT in which you expressed an interest. FYI there is a similar debate taking place at the moment, see Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Stylization of the "common name" -- PBS-AWB ( talk) 12:17, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
you may want to check if this is the proper fix for the duplicate args. Frietjes ( talk) 15:25, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
I expect from you some feedback in this discussion about Barranquenho: Talk:Barranquenho#Ridiculous situation. Thank you. -- Jotamar ( talk) 22:58, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami,
I saw that you moved Universal Esperanto Association to World Esperanto Association. The Esperanto name for the organization (Universala Esperanto-Asocio) literally translates to "Universal Esperanto Association". Additionally, "Universal Esperanto Association" has 5x more results than "World Esperanto Association" in a Google Books search, meaning it is also the appropriate name in accordance with WP:UCRN. Do you have another reason why you moved it? I'm just curious.
Thanks,
Sonĝanto ( talk) 14:47, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
We really need to deal with the issue of the infobox in Swedish language, and perhaps the structure of the language infobox itself. Having a detailed discussion in the article with multiple figures and sources in the article is completely negated if the infobox looks like it has The Answer. It's like having the lead and the main body of the article contradicting each other.
Infoboxes are not the place to push particular figures or facts or interpretations. If figures vary or are vague, the infobox shouldn't give the illusion of detailed accuracy.
Peter Isotalo 23:43, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Also Kon Keu language has been merged with Hu language. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 00:20, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Several sources have a "Runic language", and that name rd's to 'runes'. You may be right about this case, but the name in used in Glottolog, where it is not Northern Germanic but outside it. I suspect this is because the elder futhark was used for both Northern and Western Germanic languages. But if you think the ref that Glottolog is based on intended a language we have an article on, by all means correct the link.
I removed the Greenbergian stuff as not worthy of inclusion. But the link was an oversight: I'll rd to our coverage of Greenberg. — kwami ( talk) 00:44, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Why not just request a move at WP:RM/TR? Alakzi ( talk) 19:14, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
OK, I know you said we're supposed to use standard IPA on Wiki, but for languages of southern China, EVERYBODY uses Chao tones (tone numbers) these days. A lot of people who read these articles are people who understand, and prefer to use, Chao tone numbers. I would really prefer to see Chao tones on Wiki. I have had people in real life come up to me saying that they'd also prefer Chao tones rather than tone glyphs.
Similarly, there might be non-standard symbols in African linguistics or Amerindian linguistics (they often use APA), and it would be a better idea to just keep those conventions on Wiki. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 22:28, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami -- If you're not too busy, could you check that this was done correctly and represents an improvement? Thanks. [2] CorinneSD ( talk) 00:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Oryia became odia, orissa became odisha and orissi became odissi in 2011 by the 113th ammendment bill passed in the Sansad of India in 2011. And people will start referring it as Odia only when they'll know about it for which we have wikipedia. SUBHRAJIT ROUT ( talk) 10:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC) Some links for your reference-
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/orissa-now-becomes-odisha-oriya-becomes-odia/199366-3.html
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-09-06/news/30119350_1_odia-amendment-bill-odisha
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Orissa-now-Odisha-Oriya-becomes-Odia/articleshow/5154302.cms
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/orissa-now-becomes-odisha-oriya-becomes-odia/199366-3.html
http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/Orissa-Becomes-Odisha-Oriya-Becomes-Odia/740431
Kwamikagami Excuse me I can not edit English. So that my English is very wrong. I am from Nepal. The Doteli language is difrent language then Nepali language. So that don't redirect them.-- R.P.Joshi talk 06:21, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I am Piotr Konieczny ( User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian, and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:02, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Before you make more modifications, please note how I've modified the format here so we don't repeat the word County over and over. Bmclaughlin9 ( talk) 20:56, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami -- I was just reading the short article on Carib language, and I came across something that puzzles me. It's this sentence, which appears in the section "Names":
I don't see how the pronunciation guide in square brackets can be the pronunciation of either Kalina or Karina. It's got something like "auran" or "aurang" in there. I could understand if that were the guide to pronouncing "Karina auran", which appears later in that sentence. If I'm misunderstanding something, could you please explain this to me? Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:37, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you merged Trukic-Pohnpeic languages with Pohnpeic languages. Pohnpeic languages should have its own page since it is a distinct subgroup of Trukic-Pohnpeic. The Pohnpeic languages page makes sense since it is useful to make linguistic distinctions between Trukic languages, Pohnpeic languages, and the larger subgroup Trukic-Pohnpeic. Pohnpeic languages have unique innovations that make them distinct from Trukic languages in the Trukic-Ponapeic subgroup. Furthermore, Glottolog also makes this distinction of subgroups as does the Oceanic Languages by Malcom Ross and John Lynch (eds.). Other languages such as English and Swahili have pages for minor subgroups (like Anglic and Sabaki languages). Thanks Rentzb0711 ( talk) 03:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
But only in french, you don't need to naturally understand sources, to not make them relevant, translation is easy (google translate for instance or wikipedia). I'm not convinced by your unjustified constant removals, unless your prove otherwise, those researches do affirm a Punic strtatum in Maghrebis languages (that I experience myself) and they are the result of recent official recognized studies. I'm sorry but i'll have to negate your change, you're clearly abusing of your rights. If you want I'd love to discuss the matter furtherly with you, cordially — Preceding unsigned comment added by Exacrion ( talk • contribs) 19:31, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello. You left a message on my talk page but it is empty. I suppose you want me to clarify what comes in the article on Henri Wittmann after: "gives the language an exotic, bantu-like look." After refreshing my memory on the subject (I have been away for a while), it seems to me that the "bantu-like look" can only refer to the examples (7a) and (7b) that follow which are indeed examples from Swahili, a Bantu language. I therefore accept your suggestion to insert after "bantu-like look" the words "Compare Swahili:". I made the changes, many thanks. Novalis69 ( talk) 16:37, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. Thanks for cleaning up the mess created by User:Pagesclo. Valley of Mexico ended up at Valley of Mexico (). Any chance you could get rid of the brackets? Many thanks, Simon Burchell ( talk) 09:28, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
It seems you've stayed away from WT:MOSNUM lately - I should take it off my watchlist too! Anyway, you might not have noticed that there's been fierce discussion, most recently at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 148#WP:DATERANGE problem... new style of using the last two digits of 4-digit year in ranges is a disaster, which ended with some useful summaries and links to the discussions that achieved consensus, or at least brought us to the current situation. Hope this helps. NebY ( talk) 19:47, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. There's a reason why they are named International cricket in 2009–10 and not International cricket in 2009/2010, for example. Please do not move any more pages without raising a WP:RM. For more info, visit WT:CRIC. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 20:05, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, do you have any sources about Liismo that "Li" can be used for a female noun? I could show evidence that Riists call Zamenhof's usage "Liismo". Thank you, -- Salatonbv ( talk) 04:41, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for the edits on 2015 in India. Would you like to join a discussion on the Talk page? We are trying to decide a notability criteria for the entries under the deaths section. The section is growing too big compared to the events sections.
Kenfyre ( talk) 08:16, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
You added a new yellow color on the World same-sex marriage map, but a color key hasn't been added to the legend. Also, is Chile dark yellow because a same-sex marriage bill is being introduced or should it be light yellow instead? Prcc27 ( talk) 08:06, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
To @ Kwami:: in case you haven't seen it yet, Ethnologue 18 is out, with major updates in Europe and Asia, especially in sign languages. AlbertBickford ( talk) 20:06, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey, are you going to add a ring for Texas on the world marriage equality map? Prcc27 ( talk) 23:44, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. Do you have any idea how to force a script to a right-to-left direction? I'd like to add this feature to {{ Script/Phoenician}}. The only workaround I have so far is to insert a rlm mark between each character, but that is not ideal. Abjiklɐm ( tɐlk) 15:19, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: bidi-override;
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Abjiklɐm (
tɐlk)
02:20, 4 March 2015 (UTC)The language is officially spelt as Odia as per Orissa (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2010 and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Bill, 2010. No need to repeatedly revert it. Even the citations used have used the term Odia.
- Kenfyre ( talk) 04:37, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
(A copy of my junk-mail request, for those watching this page.)
Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.
A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.
Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).
Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.
Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the {{ sigfig}} template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)
Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.
If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.
The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.
Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns.
Thanks for any help you can give!
— kwami ( talk) 02:12, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Let's discuss speaker number statistics and other issues on the talk page for English language. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk, how I edit) 23:45, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami -- Do you think this edit [3] is an improvement to Languages of Azerbaijan? The sentence doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, and I don't understand the removal of what looks like a good language map. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. You might remember quite some time back I added "Portuguese" to the langauages spoken as mother language in Cape Verde besides "Creole" and "Cape Verdean Portuguese". I don't have the diff here now, but I don't think it is required. At any rate, you removed "standard Portuguese" on the grounds that it could not be counted as a native language unless there were sources. My question, is it right to list English as a language spoken by the Kikuyu? Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 18:09, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I've noticed you reverted a edit from Dash9Z commenting "pattern of jingoist edits" [4] [5]. I've noticed that lots of the edits of that user are just about the same thing. I reverted some of his/her edits, but that user just reverted back (without even saying it was a revert). As a revert war is not productive at all, is there something can be made about it or we just must let it be? Greetings, MPA Neto ( talk) 01:49, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, do you think the population could double in eleven years? [6] CorinneSD ( talk) 17:03, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, you recently took a look at the number of Isan speakers. The ref given is the 1995 Thai census. FYI, here is a link to an extract from the 2010 census: http://web.nso.go.th/en/census/poph/data/090913_StatisticalTables_10.pdf. In it Table 7 is titled "Population by usual languages spoken at home, sex and area" I can't figure out how to tease Isan speaker numbers from these data. Maybe you can and are inclined to do so. Thanks. Seligne ( talk) 01:28, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Please don't call me jingoistic. It's rude, offensive and for someone who knows three languages and cheers for different national sports teams, untrue. American is used to refer to something from of the United States of America unless it has a modifier such as in Latin American to refer to something from Latin America and South American to refer to South America. If someone types American Spanish, they're looking for the Spanish language in the United States just like if they type American English, they're looking for the English language in the United States. I'm putting in the modifier when needed (example: if it's something pertaining mostly to Latin America, use Latin American). Please don't assume it's jingoistic. I even removed the translations so there wouldn't be a conflict over that. Dash9Z ( talk) 07:55, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hey. I'm Ling.Nut. I did all that lang stuff using Python to generate tables. Can do again if the task is large enough to warrant the effort. Please email new User id; Ling.Nut is very retired, & I check Wikipedia very seldom... Tks! • Serviceable† Villain 12:57, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
What’s the purpose of maintaining a ridiculous low (and clearly untrue) figure in this important page of the Wikipedia? And, above all, what’s the purpose of deleting mi correction, which, apart from prudent and conservative, is shared by many versions of Wikipedia in other languages (German among them, for instance)? Certainly, there are no reliable data about the actual number of speakers of Romani, either in Europe or in other continents, but the most conservative estimate would suggest that there are upwards of 3.5 million speakers only in Europe. The actual number may be much higher, up to 9.300.000. This makes Romani the largest minority language in the EU since its enlargement in May 2007, after Romania and Bulgaria joined the Union. Some 1.5 to 2.0 million for the rest of the world is also a most reasonable estimate.
Of course, Roma are well used to this kind of neglect, end even, contempt, so I do not wonder very much of being amended in such a quick way, without a single word of explanation.
http://www.romaninet.com/ROMANINET_Linguistic_report.pdf
Pica-soques ( talk) 20:41, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Here you are a source, if you consider The University of Manchester reliable enough:
http://romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/whatis/status/numbers.shtml
Pica-soques ( talk) 21:16, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
It is an extremely bad idea to move those Canadian languages to their traditional English names without discussion. The source you are claiming support from also does not in fact seem to support it [7]. Move them back and start move discussions. I really don't understand why you would do this, after being asked soooo many times not to make controversial moves without discussion. It is bound to cause problems. For you most likely. ·maunus · snunɐɯ· 22:17, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I consider this pronunciation is [ˈɑ̃kʲæɪ̯t], do you think so? 138.229.21.81 ( talk) 02:05, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
I have been wondering about the various articles about 'Chinese' we have, specifically " Chinese language", which uses singular 'language', but then (correctly) goes on to tell that it is "a group of related but in many cases mutually unintelligible language varieties", and a separate " varieties of Chinese", which correctly notes the same thing about Chinese and also compares the internal diversity to that of Romance (that of Chinese being greater). What would really be the topic of the latter distinct from that of the former? From how I look at it, despite the sociological situation and common view on this topic, the former should really simply be at " Chinese languages". And then the latter is really an oddity, it's not like we have " varieties of Romance", or " varieties of Germanic". But before I would raise this issue there, I'd like to ask your take on this. -- JorisvS ( talk) 14:38, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
You disambiguated (and thanks for doing so by the way) the "American English" page on the grounds that having United States English at such a page was based on politics rather than linguistics.
But in doing so, you made a blatant political claim regarding General American that is not universally agreed upon by linguists nor general people.
If you don't like my wording, you can use a wording similar to that which we use on our General American page:
"General American (commonly abbreviated as GA or GenAm) is the umbrella term for an American English dialect or accent whose definition, though persistently debated,[1][2] is popularly based upon a perceived lack of any notably regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics.[3] General American has been characterized by an origin and sound system separate from the various dialects of the American South and East Coast, including New York City and New England.[4][5][6]...General American is sometimes, controversially[12] referred to as a de facto standard accent of the United States.[3]"
To be clear, my only issue is with your statement on the disambiguation page about General American. That's all. Tharthandorf Aquanashi ( talk) 23:24, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Due to the disruptive nature of certain of your recent page moves, you are hereby prohibited from moving any pages with incoming links without first obtaining a consensus in accoradance with the procedures set forth at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Please acknowledge that you will conform to this condition, and your block will be lifted immediately. Cheers! bd2412 T 01:43, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Over at WT:ELEMENTS, an IPA topic evolved (warning: barbed posts appear too). The question is: when a pronunciation is clear always (no mistakes, unambiguous), like with tin, can we remove the IPA pron from the article? (from its infobox in this case?). Of course then the {{ Respell}} must go too.
Already, for mercury I found a don't: mercury (element) and mercury (deity) differ by IPA. So, apart from tin, silver, gold, there are not much candidates. Could you contribute an IPA-based reasoning to remove IPA at WT:ELEMENTS?
Note: an different discussion is running in parallel, this one is hotter: "remove {{ respell}} from elements, like from astatine, because it is ugly" (also at astatine FAC). IMO, this is a separate one. - DePiep ( talk) 20:54, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
The list of nations where languages have official status no longer appears in the published infobox, even if it is manually coded into infobox during editing. What happened? How do we fix this? Neddy1234 ( talk) 15:05, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
Primary stress is on the first syllable, and secondary stress is on the second. Antarctic96 ( talk) 23:46, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
If we can have access to the following, then perhaps we can write up an article about it. Looks interesting, thanks for the heads up. http://glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/320721
— Stevey7788 ( talk) 06:28, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, do you agree with these edits to Dari language? [9] CorinneSD ( talk) 19:58, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear User:Kwamikagami, thank you for your message regarding Ethnologue. I will try to look at the project when I get a chance. I appreciate you updating me. With regards, Anupam Talk 20:55, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
You seem to have moved Faetar to Faetar dialect (), with an empty set of parentheses.
Espreon ( talk) 20:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I found a template similar to this one (at the right). I used it to make the Standard Eastern Norwegian vowel chart out of it. I based it on the formant values from Gjert Kristoffersen - The phonology of Norwegian. Could you take a look at the vowel chart I made and see if it's in agreement with the formant values from Kristoffersen (2000)? I'm sure that /øː/ is more or less where it should be, as Kristoffersen himself sometimes uses ⟨ɵː⟩ to transcribe it. The formant values are here and my vowel chart is here (the values at the top are F2-F1.) [I sent the same message to Peter Roach, but it's better to have two points of view, rather than one.] Peter238 ( talk) 12:25, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello
I am sorry if I have violated any guidelines. Still not sure how this works. I wasn't even aware anyone had reverted any of the modifications I had done. Can you please let me know why the change from Oriya to Odia is not correct when the name has been officially changed by the government. Appreciate any help in getting this clarified. Thanks.
Remoonline ( talk) 20:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
I need the page for adding information onto the one in the main namespace. I don't know what are tracking categories but if I need to change the page's name, that's ok for me. Although I definitely don't want to delete the page. Thank you -- Universal Life ( talk) 00:18, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
A Barnstar! | Please participate
There's a voting going on here. It needs to close, but consensus is not certain. We need more participation. The issues can't remain without a resolution. Please, check it out. Closure of the discussion has started. ( refresh) Please, hurry. 78.149.193.255 ( talk) 16:20, 10 April 2015 (UTC) |
Please take a look at the articles Let's Dance 2015, Cissi Forss and Kitty Jutbring. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 17:32, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
How dare you threaten me with warnings. Why should I have to prove my self with evidence, when you claims are completely unfounded. I asked first for evidence, so don't expect me to provide you with evidence. This has become ridiculous and your arrogance is very un-wikipedian. If you keep up this, I shall report you for harassment.
You set a very bad example for editors. Congratulations!
Uamaol ( talk) 04:09, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, there is something wrong in the first line of the Etymology section of the article on Hermes, at Hermes#Etymology. I wonder if you could fix it. It says "italic text" right in the sentence. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:33, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I saw the table you made at Dawn (spacecraft). I wonder if you could please define HAMO and LAMO. Thanks, Cheers, BatteryIncluded ( talk) 22:27, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi there. Thanks for checking the phonetics/pronunciation on Eucteniza. You probably know more about phonetics than I do, but I think the emphasis you added may be incorrect. The only pronunciation I've found online ( here) states yook-ten-IZ-uh, which also seems more inline with how the root Cteniza would be pronounced, i.e. emphasis on the penultimate syllable. Do you have reason for thinking otherwise? Cheers, --Animalparty-- ( talk) 23:39, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
hey, some time in the next week or so I'm gonna update that whole List of endangered languages in Asia. Maybe tomorrow, if I have time. I'm totally out of touch with the way people have been doing things, so have questions:
Hello Kwamikagami. If it was you who sent me the warning I understand the message and I will no longer cause a disruption. I have posted my concern in the talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabatoj ( talk • contribs) 20:17, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami. Having succeeded in forgetting about Jupiter Trojan, I've just noticed you’ve changed it to Jovian trojan. Of course that's good, I've always supported the lower case version. But 'Jovian' sounds very odd. I suppose you had to change it because the other was a redirect; I notice the name in the article itself remains the same. Will it become Jupiter trojan eventually? Rothorpe ( talk) 19:10, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey, thank you for getting in touch. As I see it, the problem with the Ethnologue 'source' ( here it is again) is that it's just citing a 2007 report by the Francophonie. Notice how after the 87 million figure it says 'Francophonie 2007'. But the Francophonie has released other reports since then, including the 2014 report which puts the total number of French speakers at 274 million. So the question is: why would we cite the Francophonie twice, once in 2007 and another time in 2014? Doesn't it make more sense just to cite the 2014 report? Sources and figures change all the time; it's Wikipedia's responsibility to present the latest ones available. UBER (talk) 02:27, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I decided to play safe and make 'normal' formant charts instead. A fuller explanation is here. Thanks for the help anyway! Peter238 ( talk) 17:41, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
I've reverted your removal of the template out of process. Copyright templates are not removed prior to resolution of the issue. If UNESCO grants permission, great. If not, you can make your case for why you think we can copy-paste content from their website on the talk page. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:25, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, if you have time, would you review the latest edit to Nastaʿlīq script? [10] Also, while you're there could you look at all the edits made on 7 April 2015 by an IP editor? Does the format of the beginning of the article look right to you? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:00, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
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This edit needs review and verification, because I think there a lot of errors in spellings and comparison. Thanks. Regards. -- Zyma ( talk) 06:28, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I was just working on responding to a couple bug reports for a script that I worked up as part of a request from this project, and I noticed that only a couple people (who weren't even on this mailing list) are actually using the script. A little history on the script: In March of 2014, Jim Cartar came to my user talk page and said he needed some help in acquiring a script for a backlog drive that he was working on that could keep track of and score deOrphanings for a scored backlog drive. I took that request to the project's talk page ( BackLog Drive "DO" (De-Orphaning) script proposal) and there was near unanimous support for this. I thought about the proposal and decided the best way to do it was to build a new script (which is still no where near as comprehensive as Manishearth's OrphanTabs) and build into it a mechanism that will make BLD scoring easy.
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14:02, 4 May 2015 (UTC)Kwami, could you check this edit to Shetland [11] and the edits right before it by the same editor? Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:48, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, thanks for getting in touch about these links.
I think I should first address the description of the Aboriginal Australia map as ethnic, not linguistic, as this assumption is not accurate. The map is a guide to groups defined by nation and language, the two of which are in many instances the same. See Adnyamathanha language for an example of this. At the link I provided the map is also explained as being based on these factors.
I can definitely see what you mean in instances where the language group and the tribal/nation group are not the same name, and the map shows the latter not the former - the map is not going to provide any value in these cases. And in any future linking I would be making a more comprehensive check to make sure I'm not linking to the map when the language is not represented on the map. However, there are a number of articles on languages where the map shows the area in which that language was/is spoken and can add value to the article. The map is actually better navigated using the Wiki article, as the information in the articles re: location help to identify the location on the map.
I've tested the zoomable functionality of the map and haven't found it hard to locate the language, even though I have very little prior knowledge of the languages and their locations. Using Adnyamathanha language as a test case, I found the language area on the map within a few seconds.
Because of this, I have been adding the link in the belief that (in cases where the language is confirmed as included on the map only) it is consistent with the goals of mutual benefit inherent in the Wikipedia:GLAM movement.
Re: the link from an article on a plant, I believe this link was made in error and was removed last week. LizLou ( talk) 01:40, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Do you remember why Mount Hakone redirects to Lake Ashi. As Mt. Hakone looks like it might erupt, I'm thinking of putting this page up as Mout Hakone which seems like a decent stub and will hopefully will be improved in the next few days. But, as I said, I just want to make sure what the reason was behind the redirect. XinJeisan ( talk) 12:21, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, I just started to read the article Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses. Don't you think the word "with" appears at least once too often in the second sentence of the lede? The sentence is not particularly clear, either. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:03, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
A user made significant movements in the Help:IPA for Kazakh, for example the sound ɣ doesn't exist in Kazakh: Voiced velar fricative see the difference: it was before: [12], it's now: Help:IPA for Kazakh, the article needs reparations.-- Yeyinpe ( talk) 01:08, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Can you please stop changing my Tregami article. I'm doing it for a class assignment and I had to add that specific information because my professor asked for it. After May 15th you can "salvage" the article as much as you want. This is for my final project, so I would really appreciate it if you just allowed it to stay up there until the 15th. I'm not trying to start a "wiki war". Minnie Rahimi ( talk) 05:14, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Please do not delete the text in this article. Look resources-- Meysam ( talk) 06:10, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Ethnologue in the classified wrote:
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Luri
You can prove otherwise classified? You do not censorship?!-- Meysam ( talk) 09:35, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I can't find a trace yet that states that Luri is native to Oman as well, though it is stated there that is is. [13] Iraq and Iran obviously are correct and are easily accessible to see it confirmed per the sources on the article's page.
Any idea about this?
Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 18:55, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Do you have the time to check out Talk:List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers? We could soon be back to the chaos of yesteryears with no source for the ranking, just a load of nationalists cherrypicking sources to suit their POV. Jeppiz ( talk) 13:13, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
The File:Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg does not include the map of New Zealand and other territories where Oceanic languages are spoken. Oceanic languages are included in Malayo-Polynesian group of Austronesian language family. Thus, Oceanic is not a separate group from Malayo-Polynesian. Rather, the former is just a sub-group of the latter.
Fcbelmontejr ( talk) 00:33, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Template:Alphabet claims that Thaana is attested from the 4th century BC on. WTF? That's clearly bullshit, judging from everything I've found on Wikipedia about the history of Thaana and the Maldives. (I mean, that would mean that Thaana is older than Ashoka's inscriptions. There's only some primitive form of Brahmi from Anuradhapura at the time, according to Coningham et al. 1996, although I remain sceptical because it is unclear to me how reliable that dating is.) I'd change it, but it's all incredibly vague about the early history of the writing system and the region, so I don't know what else to put. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 16:43, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
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You have deleted the language boxes Peter238 added to the articles Austrian German, German Standard German and Swiss Standard German. Your edit summary was a mere "box inappropriate and false". May I ask you what was inappropriate and false about these boxes? -- mach 🙈🙉🙊 23:47, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
If WP and Glotto simplify the situation in the same way, then how is Glotto not appropriate as a source for the simplication in WP?
The sources are:
Now, they may be wrong, and Glottolog may be wrong, but as long as they're the best sources we have, they're what we should follow. If you have better sources, of course, then knock yourself out! Meanwhile, leaving Standard German half unclassified does a disservice to our readers. — kwami ( talk) 22:25, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Can you please add in-line references throughout this article you created? Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 18:46, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Please take a look at d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Term#Endangered languages. Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 20:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Are previous same-sex marriages really being recognized in Alabama? Is there a source? Prcc27 ( talk) 02:12, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I did this. But perhaps I did something wrong? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:06, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
"In the early years of the study there were more than 200 speakers of the dialect, including one parrot." -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 23:18, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Did you notice that there is an open move request discussion taking place at Talk:Southern Kurdish dialects? I suggest taking part in that discussion rather than making a unilateral move of the page without participating in that. — BarrelProof ( talk) 01:16, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
There wasn't for "Central Kurdish dialects". There was an older (roughly a month) RM for it to be moved to Sorani, but says nothing about removing "dialects" from the title. -- JorisvS ( talk) 07:54, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
"The Baltic languages are part of ..." is not a (proper) definition. [17] If "group" is no good, what else could we make of it? Something akin to the definition of Tibeto-Burman languages, which has "are the non-Sinitic members of ..."? -- JorisvS ( talk) 12:29, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Do you have any idea what !Xuun is actually pronounced like? And, that said, N!xau ǂToma's name? -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 08:39, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting Mjbr's edits. I've tried to get through him before on his talk page using the exact same rationale you were using, but he subsequently stopped replying, but now seems to be continuing his disruption. I suggest ANI should be the next step.
Regards and bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 18:41, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Guam legalized same-sex marriage so it should be yellow on the world same-sex marriage map, but idk where Guam is... Prcc27 ( talk) 09:57, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
What references do you have for your addition of the layers of purported organization on this language? Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 17:46, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
I've just noticed that in the intro of Meso-Melanesian languages, the family is called a "moderately supported group". Isn't this a vestige from the now-removed calculations from the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database project? The confidence the ABVD assigns to traditional Austronesian subbranches is fairly irrelevant for the reader, especially when all mention of the project is gone from the article. I'm mentioning this here because the problem may be present in other articles too. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 20:06, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. I initiated a discussion in the talk page of Language Isolate. You may remember, just I dont feel comfortable with the language of the article. I want the usage of modal "can be" instead of "is". Also, some minortiy view references could be given. But I cannot talk to, I am not sure they listen.
May I invite you to consider the issue? Just take look. Thank you. Okurogluselo : Blah 00:52, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami. As you seem to be a very knowledgeable and respected editor in the fields of history and linguistics, your thoughts on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uysyn could be helpful. Krakkos ( talk) 21:53, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
I was reading the article on Na-Dene languages, and I saw that half of the article uses "Na-Dene" and the other half uses "Na-Dené" (with the accent on the final "e"). Shouldn't the article be consistent? If so, which should predominate? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:00, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
The scheme has two nodes called "Burmish". It's present in the source (p. 38), I know, but pretty awkward, anyway. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 15:59, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Would it be OR/SYNTH or something to differentiate them somehow? After all, the term "Ugong–Burmish" isn't found in the source, either. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 20:03, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
OK, another dumb question. According to Macro-Arawakan languages, Kaufman (1990) includes Candoshi in the group, but Candoshi-Shapra language does not mention anything, although it has an "Arawakan (Maipurean) languages" template. It also mentions that two other sources, Payne (1991) and Derbyshire (1992), include Puquina and Harákmbut, but again, neither Puquina language nor Harákmbut languages mention Macro-Arawakan. Is that intentional because the sources are outdated, or a mere omission? -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 15:21, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
See Macro-Jibaro languages for another proposal in which Candoshi has been included. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 12:55, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Kwami - I'm reading the article on Dené–Yeniseian languages and I came across something that puzzled me. It's a chart in the section Dené–Yeniseian languages#Ket and Navajo word pairs. I was comparing the words in the different columns, and when comparing the words in the second column ("Ket") with the words in the third column ("Ket Cyrillic"), I saw that the first two words in the "Ket" column end in "s", and the corresponding words in Cyrillic next to them also end in сь. If you look at the third word, next to "old", you'll see in the "Ket" column that the word sīn does not end in "s", and yet there is a сь at the end of the word written in Cyrillic (third column). I'm just wondering if that final сь should be there. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:34, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
d:Q3196320, d:Q4885023 and d:Q11051704 are about some "Bembe language". Do you think that d:Q4885023 and d:Q11051704 should be merged? Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 20:25, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Dear Kwami, you have renamed Suri language to Surma language, without previous discussion, just with the note that this is according to naming guidelines. Could you please elaborate what in these guidelines prompted you to do so? Frankly, I believe this is not a helpful move, as it gets the naming to a misnomer. In any case, this is not the first time I'm asking you to first start a discussion on the talk page of an article before you start messing around with article names. This is not something that should be done unilaterally, and as an administrator you should know this. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 05:51, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Please stop using the rollback feature for edits you disagree with. The feature should only really be used for vandalism and you're abusing it. -- Monochrome_ Monitor 11:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Do you agree with this edit to Richard Francis Burton and the accompanying edit summary? [18]. I don't know whether Neapolitan is a language or a dialect, but a statement early in the lede of the Neapolitan article saying that it has been recognized as a language by UNESCO has a "citation needed" tag. CorinneSD ( talk) 04:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
In Khwe language you changed the reference in the infobox from e18 to Brenzinger, Matthias (2011), leaving the reference in the lead paragraph as a broken reference. Is the new reference also the correct source for that sentence? StarryGrandma ( talk) 20:10, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Can you see what you can do about this? "Kwisi ... along with the Kwadi, the Cimba, and the Damara ... are unlike either the San (Bushmen) or the Bantu". The page on the Kwadi says they could be pafrt of the Khoe group, which are San(??) - or so I would have thought. However, at Khoe, is starts off saying it is not Khoisan, later is says it is. A bit of a mess, I guess. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 23:29, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
I know I've gotten off to a bad start. I'm sorry I've been so militant, and I certainly need to remember to use a talk page. I see that you have strong opinions about this, as do I. I'm not doing it for Zionist purposes, but because it's the mainstream. Also I have a linguist friend who thinks Wexler is a hack, and who has admittedly colored my views on him. -- Monochrome_ Monitor 20:37, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Devopam. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, it's important to be mindful of the feelings of your fellow editors, who may be frustrated by certain types of interaction, such as your addition to
Talk:Oriya language. While you probably didn't intend any offense, please do remember that Wikipedia strives to be an inclusive atmosphere. In light of that, it would be greatly appreciated if you could moderate yourself so as not to offend. I will appreciate if you avoid direct attacks and not repeatedly try to bully your point of view , being a seasoned editor.
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18:06, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
You are way past 3RR on that article, and not for the first time. Take a break. NOW. All Rows4 ( talk) 04:21, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Please see WP:AN3#User:Kwamikagami reported by User:Zack90 (Result: No action on Kwami, concerns about Zack90). Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:12, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Please take a look at this. Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 19:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hey Kwami,
I wrote you some time ago about a common issue we had about user Mjbmr. Now that he's blocked, there's still some of his nuisance left such as here [19]. Are you waiting before reverting this or? Please let me know ;)
- LouisAragon ( talk) 14:38, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Talk:Internment of Japanese Americans/Archive 9. Since you had some involvement with the Talk:Internment of Japanese Americans/Archive 9 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. The Theosophist ( talk) 09:55, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
There is an edit warrior at Valencian (with no activity at other articles), who insists on removing that it is a variety of Catalan from the first sentence, instead calling it "a language spoken in ..." and saying it is a "glossonym for the Catalan of the area" (whatever that is supposed to mean). He refuses to take it to the talk page and just keeps on reverting. What do you think of it? -- JorisvS ( talk) 19:01, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
he went against consensus -> https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Modern_Hebrew&diff=666066897&oldid=666063253 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.170.29.90 ( talk) 20:32, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
As me and another user were puzzled by your reference in the infobox of German language: "L2 speaker: 28 million including the prestige variety of high franconian" I removed that statement from the article. Could you elaborate on what you meant with this? -- 37ophiuchi ( talk) 16:57, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you recently changed some of my changes to the article on Los Banos. I wanted to run a couple things by you as a result: according to Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key, the way to respell the sound "o" of words like "goat" is with the letters "oh" and not just the letter "o" which Respell uses for the sound of the letter "o" in the word "lot" which is the equivalent of the IPA sound /ɒ/, and which is not the sound I meant to be indicated here (do you disagree? Which is fine, just lay it on me as to why if so). Second, you capitalized the BAN part of the respell— the respell template does this automatically, and was already doing it when you changed it (which is neither here nor there, technically, but I wasn't sure you realized this). I did not want to simply undo your edit (which I always consider a rather rude gesture whenever I see it done to anyone) but wanted to ask you to reconsider your changes to the respelling. Thoughts? Let me know. Thanks! KDS4444 Talk 04:43, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello Mr Kwamikagami! Please don't redirect Western Baluchi language in Baluchi language .-- Ibrahim khashrowdi ( talk) 21:36, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, while checking the revision history I realized you had reverted back all the changes I had done in the article yesterday after the movement from Oriya to Odia. Can you let me know why you have reverted back everything? - Remoonline ( talk) 08:40, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
What do you think of this edit to Old Persian? [20] CorinneSD ( talk) 22:52, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
I must admit a close call either way. Was swayed by the more contemporary change to "Odia" and trending more common use than the historical "Oriya". Either way, our readers won't fail to find it. -- Mike Cline ( talk) 14:58, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
As you are one of the contributors to Tunisian Arabic. You are kindly asked to review the part about Domains of Use and adjust it directly or through comments in the talk page of Tunisian Arabic.
Yours Sincerely,
Kwamikagami,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Please see [ [1]]. Debresser ( talk) 20:43, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I know the language list page List of languages by number of native speakers was vandalized relentlessly and I'm sorry to learn that, but is there a way we could bring back the lesser-spoken languages? the name of the article doesn't specify "top 100 languages," so can't we at least make a valiant effort to put the other languages by number of native speakers back? -- User:Neddy1234
could you explain why the English approximation for the ' e' IPA letter in French is the 'ey' in hey? you dont pronounce clé as clay, you pronounce it cle, as in hey — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nichirob ( talk • contribs) 19:26, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
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The source lists it with pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages. If you have a linguistic ref that it is not one of those, please provide it. — kwami ( talk) 00:53, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
That's not clean-up, and it still contradicts the source. And why remove the info?
Also, "region" should be the region within Cuba, not "Americas". Everyone should know where Cuba is. — kwami ( talk) 01:06, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
What needs to be cleaned up? You say it's a dialect of Kikoongo, which AFAICT is false, that it's spoken in "the Americas", which is at best misleading, and removed the sourced statement that it involves code-switching and is not secret. — kwami ( talk) 01:29, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
In January 2013 there was a " RfC on COMMONSTYLE proposal" at WT:AT in which you expressed an interest. FYI there is a similar debate taking place at the moment, see Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Stylization of the "common name" -- PBS-AWB ( talk) 12:17, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
you may want to check if this is the proper fix for the duplicate args. Frietjes ( talk) 15:25, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
I expect from you some feedback in this discussion about Barranquenho: Talk:Barranquenho#Ridiculous situation. Thank you. -- Jotamar ( talk) 22:58, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kwamikagami,
I saw that you moved Universal Esperanto Association to World Esperanto Association. The Esperanto name for the organization (Universala Esperanto-Asocio) literally translates to "Universal Esperanto Association". Additionally, "Universal Esperanto Association" has 5x more results than "World Esperanto Association" in a Google Books search, meaning it is also the appropriate name in accordance with WP:UCRN. Do you have another reason why you moved it? I'm just curious.
Thanks,
Sonĝanto ( talk) 14:47, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
We really need to deal with the issue of the infobox in Swedish language, and perhaps the structure of the language infobox itself. Having a detailed discussion in the article with multiple figures and sources in the article is completely negated if the infobox looks like it has The Answer. It's like having the lead and the main body of the article contradicting each other.
Infoboxes are not the place to push particular figures or facts or interpretations. If figures vary or are vague, the infobox shouldn't give the illusion of detailed accuracy.
Peter Isotalo 23:43, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Also Kon Keu language has been merged with Hu language. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 00:20, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Several sources have a "Runic language", and that name rd's to 'runes'. You may be right about this case, but the name in used in Glottolog, where it is not Northern Germanic but outside it. I suspect this is because the elder futhark was used for both Northern and Western Germanic languages. But if you think the ref that Glottolog is based on intended a language we have an article on, by all means correct the link.
I removed the Greenbergian stuff as not worthy of inclusion. But the link was an oversight: I'll rd to our coverage of Greenberg. — kwami ( talk) 00:44, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Why not just request a move at WP:RM/TR? Alakzi ( talk) 19:14, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
OK, I know you said we're supposed to use standard IPA on Wiki, but for languages of southern China, EVERYBODY uses Chao tones (tone numbers) these days. A lot of people who read these articles are people who understand, and prefer to use, Chao tone numbers. I would really prefer to see Chao tones on Wiki. I have had people in real life come up to me saying that they'd also prefer Chao tones rather than tone glyphs.
Similarly, there might be non-standard symbols in African linguistics or Amerindian linguistics (they often use APA), and it would be a better idea to just keep those conventions on Wiki. — Stevey7788 ( talk) 22:28, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami -- If you're not too busy, could you check that this was done correctly and represents an improvement? Thanks. [2] CorinneSD ( talk) 00:45, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Oryia became odia, orissa became odisha and orissi became odissi in 2011 by the 113th ammendment bill passed in the Sansad of India in 2011. And people will start referring it as Odia only when they'll know about it for which we have wikipedia. SUBHRAJIT ROUT ( talk) 10:00, 6 February 2015 (UTC) Some links for your reference-
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/orissa-now-becomes-odisha-oriya-becomes-odia/199366-3.html
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-09-06/news/30119350_1_odia-amendment-bill-odisha
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Orissa-now-Odisha-Oriya-becomes-Odia/articleshow/5154302.cms
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/orissa-now-becomes-odisha-oriya-becomes-odia/199366-3.html
http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/Orissa-Becomes-Odisha-Oriya-Becomes-Odia/740431
Kwamikagami Excuse me I can not edit English. So that my English is very wrong. I am from Nepal. The Doteli language is difrent language then Nepali language. So that don't redirect them.-- R.P.Joshi talk 06:21, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I am Piotr Konieczny ( User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian, and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:02, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Before you make more modifications, please note how I've modified the format here so we don't repeat the word County over and over. Bmclaughlin9 ( talk) 20:56, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami -- I was just reading the short article on Carib language, and I came across something that puzzles me. It's this sentence, which appears in the section "Names":
I don't see how the pronunciation guide in square brackets can be the pronunciation of either Kalina or Karina. It's got something like "auran" or "aurang" in there. I could understand if that were the guide to pronouncing "Karina auran", which appears later in that sentence. If I'm misunderstanding something, could you please explain this to me? Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:37, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I see that you merged Trukic-Pohnpeic languages with Pohnpeic languages. Pohnpeic languages should have its own page since it is a distinct subgroup of Trukic-Pohnpeic. The Pohnpeic languages page makes sense since it is useful to make linguistic distinctions between Trukic languages, Pohnpeic languages, and the larger subgroup Trukic-Pohnpeic. Pohnpeic languages have unique innovations that make them distinct from Trukic languages in the Trukic-Ponapeic subgroup. Furthermore, Glottolog also makes this distinction of subgroups as does the Oceanic Languages by Malcom Ross and John Lynch (eds.). Other languages such as English and Swahili have pages for minor subgroups (like Anglic and Sabaki languages). Thanks Rentzb0711 ( talk) 03:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
But only in french, you don't need to naturally understand sources, to not make them relevant, translation is easy (google translate for instance or wikipedia). I'm not convinced by your unjustified constant removals, unless your prove otherwise, those researches do affirm a Punic strtatum in Maghrebis languages (that I experience myself) and they are the result of recent official recognized studies. I'm sorry but i'll have to negate your change, you're clearly abusing of your rights. If you want I'd love to discuss the matter furtherly with you, cordially — Preceding unsigned comment added by Exacrion ( talk • contribs) 19:31, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello. You left a message on my talk page but it is empty. I suppose you want me to clarify what comes in the article on Henri Wittmann after: "gives the language an exotic, bantu-like look." After refreshing my memory on the subject (I have been away for a while), it seems to me that the "bantu-like look" can only refer to the examples (7a) and (7b) that follow which are indeed examples from Swahili, a Bantu language. I therefore accept your suggestion to insert after "bantu-like look" the words "Compare Swahili:". I made the changes, many thanks. Novalis69 ( talk) 16:37, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. Thanks for cleaning up the mess created by User:Pagesclo. Valley of Mexico ended up at Valley of Mexico (). Any chance you could get rid of the brackets? Many thanks, Simon Burchell ( talk) 09:28, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
It seems you've stayed away from WT:MOSNUM lately - I should take it off my watchlist too! Anyway, you might not have noticed that there's been fierce discussion, most recently at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 148#WP:DATERANGE problem... new style of using the last two digits of 4-digit year in ranges is a disaster, which ended with some useful summaries and links to the discussions that achieved consensus, or at least brought us to the current situation. Hope this helps. NebY ( talk) 19:47, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. There's a reason why they are named International cricket in 2009–10 and not International cricket in 2009/2010, for example. Please do not move any more pages without raising a WP:RM. For more info, visit WT:CRIC. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 20:05, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, do you have any sources about Liismo that "Li" can be used for a female noun? I could show evidence that Riists call Zamenhof's usage "Liismo". Thank you, -- Salatonbv ( talk) 04:41, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, thank you for the edits on 2015 in India. Would you like to join a discussion on the Talk page? We are trying to decide a notability criteria for the entries under the deaths section. The section is growing too big compared to the events sections.
Kenfyre ( talk) 08:16, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
You added a new yellow color on the World same-sex marriage map, but a color key hasn't been added to the legend. Also, is Chile dark yellow because a same-sex marriage bill is being introduced or should it be light yellow instead? Prcc27 ( talk) 08:06, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
To @ Kwami:: in case you haven't seen it yet, Ethnologue 18 is out, with major updates in Europe and Asia, especially in sign languages. AlbertBickford ( talk) 20:06, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey, are you going to add a ring for Texas on the world marriage equality map? Prcc27 ( talk) 23:44, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. Do you have any idea how to force a script to a right-to-left direction? I'd like to add this feature to {{ Script/Phoenician}}. The only workaround I have so far is to insert a rlm mark between each character, but that is not ideal. Abjiklɐm ( tɐlk) 15:19, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
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02:20, 4 March 2015 (UTC)The language is officially spelt as Odia as per Orissa (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2010 and the Constitution (113th Amendment) Bill, 2010. No need to repeatedly revert it. Even the citations used have used the term Odia.
- Kenfyre ( talk) 04:37, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
(A copy of my junk-mail request, for those watching this page.)
Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.
A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.
Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).
Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.
Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the {{ sigfig}} template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)
Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.
If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.
The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.
Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns.
Thanks for any help you can give!
— kwami ( talk) 02:12, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Let's discuss speaker number statistics and other issues on the talk page for English language. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk, how I edit) 23:45, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami -- Do you think this edit [3] is an improvement to Languages of Azerbaijan? The sentence doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, and I don't understand the removal of what looks like a good language map. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. You might remember quite some time back I added "Portuguese" to the langauages spoken as mother language in Cape Verde besides "Creole" and "Cape Verdean Portuguese". I don't have the diff here now, but I don't think it is required. At any rate, you removed "standard Portuguese" on the grounds that it could not be counted as a native language unless there were sources. My question, is it right to list English as a language spoken by the Kikuyu? Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 18:09, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I've noticed you reverted a edit from Dash9Z commenting "pattern of jingoist edits" [4] [5]. I've noticed that lots of the edits of that user are just about the same thing. I reverted some of his/her edits, but that user just reverted back (without even saying it was a revert). As a revert war is not productive at all, is there something can be made about it or we just must let it be? Greetings, MPA Neto ( talk) 01:49, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, do you think the population could double in eleven years? [6] CorinneSD ( talk) 17:03, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, you recently took a look at the number of Isan speakers. The ref given is the 1995 Thai census. FYI, here is a link to an extract from the 2010 census: http://web.nso.go.th/en/census/poph/data/090913_StatisticalTables_10.pdf. In it Table 7 is titled "Population by usual languages spoken at home, sex and area" I can't figure out how to tease Isan speaker numbers from these data. Maybe you can and are inclined to do so. Thanks. Seligne ( talk) 01:28, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Please don't call me jingoistic. It's rude, offensive and for someone who knows three languages and cheers for different national sports teams, untrue. American is used to refer to something from of the United States of America unless it has a modifier such as in Latin American to refer to something from Latin America and South American to refer to South America. If someone types American Spanish, they're looking for the Spanish language in the United States just like if they type American English, they're looking for the English language in the United States. I'm putting in the modifier when needed (example: if it's something pertaining mostly to Latin America, use Latin American). Please don't assume it's jingoistic. I even removed the translations so there wouldn't be a conflict over that. Dash9Z ( talk) 07:55, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
Hey. I'm Ling.Nut. I did all that lang stuff using Python to generate tables. Can do again if the task is large enough to warrant the effort. Please email new User id; Ling.Nut is very retired, & I check Wikipedia very seldom... Tks! • Serviceable† Villain 12:57, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
What’s the purpose of maintaining a ridiculous low (and clearly untrue) figure in this important page of the Wikipedia? And, above all, what’s the purpose of deleting mi correction, which, apart from prudent and conservative, is shared by many versions of Wikipedia in other languages (German among them, for instance)? Certainly, there are no reliable data about the actual number of speakers of Romani, either in Europe or in other continents, but the most conservative estimate would suggest that there are upwards of 3.5 million speakers only in Europe. The actual number may be much higher, up to 9.300.000. This makes Romani the largest minority language in the EU since its enlargement in May 2007, after Romania and Bulgaria joined the Union. Some 1.5 to 2.0 million for the rest of the world is also a most reasonable estimate.
Of course, Roma are well used to this kind of neglect, end even, contempt, so I do not wonder very much of being amended in such a quick way, without a single word of explanation.
http://www.romaninet.com/ROMANINET_Linguistic_report.pdf
Pica-soques ( talk) 20:41, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
Here you are a source, if you consider The University of Manchester reliable enough:
http://romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/whatis/status/numbers.shtml
Pica-soques ( talk) 21:16, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
It is an extremely bad idea to move those Canadian languages to their traditional English names without discussion. The source you are claiming support from also does not in fact seem to support it [7]. Move them back and start move discussions. I really don't understand why you would do this, after being asked soooo many times not to make controversial moves without discussion. It is bound to cause problems. For you most likely. ·maunus · snunɐɯ· 22:17, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I consider this pronunciation is [ˈɑ̃kʲæɪ̯t], do you think so? 138.229.21.81 ( talk) 02:05, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
I have been wondering about the various articles about 'Chinese' we have, specifically " Chinese language", which uses singular 'language', but then (correctly) goes on to tell that it is "a group of related but in many cases mutually unintelligible language varieties", and a separate " varieties of Chinese", which correctly notes the same thing about Chinese and also compares the internal diversity to that of Romance (that of Chinese being greater). What would really be the topic of the latter distinct from that of the former? From how I look at it, despite the sociological situation and common view on this topic, the former should really simply be at " Chinese languages". And then the latter is really an oddity, it's not like we have " varieties of Romance", or " varieties of Germanic". But before I would raise this issue there, I'd like to ask your take on this. -- JorisvS ( talk) 14:38, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
You disambiguated (and thanks for doing so by the way) the "American English" page on the grounds that having United States English at such a page was based on politics rather than linguistics.
But in doing so, you made a blatant political claim regarding General American that is not universally agreed upon by linguists nor general people.
If you don't like my wording, you can use a wording similar to that which we use on our General American page:
"General American (commonly abbreviated as GA or GenAm) is the umbrella term for an American English dialect or accent whose definition, though persistently debated,[1][2] is popularly based upon a perceived lack of any notably regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics.[3] General American has been characterized by an origin and sound system separate from the various dialects of the American South and East Coast, including New York City and New England.[4][5][6]...General American is sometimes, controversially[12] referred to as a de facto standard accent of the United States.[3]"
To be clear, my only issue is with your statement on the disambiguation page about General American. That's all. Tharthandorf Aquanashi ( talk) 23:24, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Due to the disruptive nature of certain of your recent page moves, you are hereby prohibited from moving any pages with incoming links without first obtaining a consensus in accoradance with the procedures set forth at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Please acknowledge that you will conform to this condition, and your block will be lifted immediately. Cheers! bd2412 T 01:43, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Over at WT:ELEMENTS, an IPA topic evolved (warning: barbed posts appear too). The question is: when a pronunciation is clear always (no mistakes, unambiguous), like with tin, can we remove the IPA pron from the article? (from its infobox in this case?). Of course then the {{ Respell}} must go too.
Already, for mercury I found a don't: mercury (element) and mercury (deity) differ by IPA. So, apart from tin, silver, gold, there are not much candidates. Could you contribute an IPA-based reasoning to remove IPA at WT:ELEMENTS?
Note: an different discussion is running in parallel, this one is hotter: "remove {{ respell}} from elements, like from astatine, because it is ugly" (also at astatine FAC). IMO, this is a separate one. - DePiep ( talk) 20:54, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
The list of nations where languages have official status no longer appears in the published infobox, even if it is manually coded into infobox during editing. What happened? How do we fix this? Neddy1234 ( talk) 15:05, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
Primary stress is on the first syllable, and secondary stress is on the second. Antarctic96 ( talk) 23:46, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
If we can have access to the following, then perhaps we can write up an article about it. Looks interesting, thanks for the heads up. http://glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/320721
— Stevey7788 ( talk) 06:28, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, do you agree with these edits to Dari language? [9] CorinneSD ( talk) 19:58, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
Dear User:Kwamikagami, thank you for your message regarding Ethnologue. I will try to look at the project when I get a chance. I appreciate you updating me. With regards, Anupam Talk 20:55, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
You seem to have moved Faetar to Faetar dialect (), with an empty set of parentheses.
Espreon ( talk) 20:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I found a template similar to this one (at the right). I used it to make the Standard Eastern Norwegian vowel chart out of it. I based it on the formant values from Gjert Kristoffersen - The phonology of Norwegian. Could you take a look at the vowel chart I made and see if it's in agreement with the formant values from Kristoffersen (2000)? I'm sure that /øː/ is more or less where it should be, as Kristoffersen himself sometimes uses ⟨ɵː⟩ to transcribe it. The formant values are here and my vowel chart is here (the values at the top are F2-F1.) [I sent the same message to Peter Roach, but it's better to have two points of view, rather than one.] Peter238 ( talk) 12:25, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello
I am sorry if I have violated any guidelines. Still not sure how this works. I wasn't even aware anyone had reverted any of the modifications I had done. Can you please let me know why the change from Oriya to Odia is not correct when the name has been officially changed by the government. Appreciate any help in getting this clarified. Thanks.
Remoonline ( talk) 20:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
I need the page for adding information onto the one in the main namespace. I don't know what are tracking categories but if I need to change the page's name, that's ok for me. Although I definitely don't want to delete the page. Thank you -- Universal Life ( talk) 00:18, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
A Barnstar! | Please participate
There's a voting going on here. It needs to close, but consensus is not certain. We need more participation. The issues can't remain without a resolution. Please, check it out. Closure of the discussion has started. ( refresh) Please, hurry. 78.149.193.255 ( talk) 16:20, 10 April 2015 (UTC) |
Please take a look at the articles Let's Dance 2015, Cissi Forss and Kitty Jutbring. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 17:32, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
How dare you threaten me with warnings. Why should I have to prove my self with evidence, when you claims are completely unfounded. I asked first for evidence, so don't expect me to provide you with evidence. This has become ridiculous and your arrogance is very un-wikipedian. If you keep up this, I shall report you for harassment.
You set a very bad example for editors. Congratulations!
Uamaol ( talk) 04:09, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, there is something wrong in the first line of the Etymology section of the article on Hermes, at Hermes#Etymology. I wonder if you could fix it. It says "italic text" right in the sentence. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:33, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I saw the table you made at Dawn (spacecraft). I wonder if you could please define HAMO and LAMO. Thanks, Cheers, BatteryIncluded ( talk) 22:27, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi there. Thanks for checking the phonetics/pronunciation on Eucteniza. You probably know more about phonetics than I do, but I think the emphasis you added may be incorrect. The only pronunciation I've found online ( here) states yook-ten-IZ-uh, which also seems more inline with how the root Cteniza would be pronounced, i.e. emphasis on the penultimate syllable. Do you have reason for thinking otherwise? Cheers, --Animalparty-- ( talk) 23:39, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
hey, some time in the next week or so I'm gonna update that whole List of endangered languages in Asia. Maybe tomorrow, if I have time. I'm totally out of touch with the way people have been doing things, so have questions:
Hello Kwamikagami. If it was you who sent me the warning I understand the message and I will no longer cause a disruption. I have posted my concern in the talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabatoj ( talk • contribs) 20:17, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami. Having succeeded in forgetting about Jupiter Trojan, I've just noticed you’ve changed it to Jovian trojan. Of course that's good, I've always supported the lower case version. But 'Jovian' sounds very odd. I suppose you had to change it because the other was a redirect; I notice the name in the article itself remains the same. Will it become Jupiter trojan eventually? Rothorpe ( talk) 19:10, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey, thank you for getting in touch. As I see it, the problem with the Ethnologue 'source' ( here it is again) is that it's just citing a 2007 report by the Francophonie. Notice how after the 87 million figure it says 'Francophonie 2007'. But the Francophonie has released other reports since then, including the 2014 report which puts the total number of French speakers at 274 million. So the question is: why would we cite the Francophonie twice, once in 2007 and another time in 2014? Doesn't it make more sense just to cite the 2014 report? Sources and figures change all the time; it's Wikipedia's responsibility to present the latest ones available. UBER (talk) 02:27, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I decided to play safe and make 'normal' formant charts instead. A fuller explanation is here. Thanks for the help anyway! Peter238 ( talk) 17:41, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
I've reverted your removal of the template out of process. Copyright templates are not removed prior to resolution of the issue. If UNESCO grants permission, great. If not, you can make your case for why you think we can copy-paste content from their website on the talk page. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:25, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, if you have time, would you review the latest edit to Nastaʿlīq script? [10] Also, while you're there could you look at all the edits made on 7 April 2015 by an IP editor? Does the format of the beginning of the article look right to you? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:00, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
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This edit needs review and verification, because I think there a lot of errors in spellings and comparison. Thanks. Regards. -- Zyma ( talk) 06:28, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello everyone! I was just working on responding to a couple bug reports for a script that I worked up as part of a request from this project, and I noticed that only a couple people (who weren't even on this mailing list) are actually using the script. A little history on the script: In March of 2014, Jim Cartar came to my user talk page and said he needed some help in acquiring a script for a backlog drive that he was working on that could keep track of and score deOrphanings for a scored backlog drive. I took that request to the project's talk page ( BackLog Drive "DO" (De-Orphaning) script proposal) and there was near unanimous support for this. I thought about the proposal and decided the best way to do it was to build a new script (which is still no where near as comprehensive as Manishearth's OrphanTabs) and build into it a mechanism that will make BLD scoring easy.
What I'm wondering at this point is, since there appears to be only two people using the script, should I continue to develop this script with a goal of using it for scoring BLDs or just debug the existing script and leave it at that. Thanks for any replies or comments.
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14:02, 4 May 2015 (UTC)Kwami, could you check this edit to Shetland [11] and the edits right before it by the same editor? Thanks. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:48, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, thanks for getting in touch about these links.
I think I should first address the description of the Aboriginal Australia map as ethnic, not linguistic, as this assumption is not accurate. The map is a guide to groups defined by nation and language, the two of which are in many instances the same. See Adnyamathanha language for an example of this. At the link I provided the map is also explained as being based on these factors.
I can definitely see what you mean in instances where the language group and the tribal/nation group are not the same name, and the map shows the latter not the former - the map is not going to provide any value in these cases. And in any future linking I would be making a more comprehensive check to make sure I'm not linking to the map when the language is not represented on the map. However, there are a number of articles on languages where the map shows the area in which that language was/is spoken and can add value to the article. The map is actually better navigated using the Wiki article, as the information in the articles re: location help to identify the location on the map.
I've tested the zoomable functionality of the map and haven't found it hard to locate the language, even though I have very little prior knowledge of the languages and their locations. Using Adnyamathanha language as a test case, I found the language area on the map within a few seconds.
Because of this, I have been adding the link in the belief that (in cases where the language is confirmed as included on the map only) it is consistent with the goals of mutual benefit inherent in the Wikipedia:GLAM movement.
Re: the link from an article on a plant, I believe this link was made in error and was removed last week. LizLou ( talk) 01:40, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Do you remember why Mount Hakone redirects to Lake Ashi. As Mt. Hakone looks like it might erupt, I'm thinking of putting this page up as Mout Hakone which seems like a decent stub and will hopefully will be improved in the next few days. But, as I said, I just want to make sure what the reason was behind the redirect. XinJeisan ( talk) 12:21, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, I just started to read the article Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses. Don't you think the word "with" appears at least once too often in the second sentence of the lede? The sentence is not particularly clear, either. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:03, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
A user made significant movements in the Help:IPA for Kazakh, for example the sound ɣ doesn't exist in Kazakh: Voiced velar fricative see the difference: it was before: [12], it's now: Help:IPA for Kazakh, the article needs reparations.-- Yeyinpe ( talk) 01:08, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Can you please stop changing my Tregami article. I'm doing it for a class assignment and I had to add that specific information because my professor asked for it. After May 15th you can "salvage" the article as much as you want. This is for my final project, so I would really appreciate it if you just allowed it to stay up there until the 15th. I'm not trying to start a "wiki war". Minnie Rahimi ( talk) 05:14, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Please do not delete the text in this article. Look resources-- Meysam ( talk) 06:10, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Ethnologue in the classified wrote:
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Luri
You can prove otherwise classified? You do not censorship?!-- Meysam ( talk) 09:35, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
I can't find a trace yet that states that Luri is native to Oman as well, though it is stated there that is is. [13] Iraq and Iran obviously are correct and are easily accessible to see it confirmed per the sources on the article's page.
Any idea about this?
Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 18:55, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Do you have the time to check out Talk:List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers? We could soon be back to the chaos of yesteryears with no source for the ranking, just a load of nationalists cherrypicking sources to suit their POV. Jeppiz ( talk) 13:13, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
The File:Malayo-Polynesian-en.svg does not include the map of New Zealand and other territories where Oceanic languages are spoken. Oceanic languages are included in Malayo-Polynesian group of Austronesian language family. Thus, Oceanic is not a separate group from Malayo-Polynesian. Rather, the former is just a sub-group of the latter.
Fcbelmontejr ( talk) 00:33, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Template:Alphabet claims that Thaana is attested from the 4th century BC on. WTF? That's clearly bullshit, judging from everything I've found on Wikipedia about the history of Thaana and the Maldives. (I mean, that would mean that Thaana is older than Ashoka's inscriptions. There's only some primitive form of Brahmi from Anuradhapura at the time, according to Coningham et al. 1996, although I remain sceptical because it is unclear to me how reliable that dating is.) I'd change it, but it's all incredibly vague about the early history of the writing system and the region, so I don't know what else to put. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 16:43, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an
edit war according to the reverts you have made on
Swiss Standard German. Users are expected to
collaborate with others, to avoid editing
disruptively, and to
try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:
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Do talk, discuss, communicate instead of behaving like a child! Thx
ZH8000 (
talk)
20:13, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
You have deleted the language boxes Peter238 added to the articles Austrian German, German Standard German and Swiss Standard German. Your edit summary was a mere "box inappropriate and false". May I ask you what was inappropriate and false about these boxes? -- mach 🙈🙉🙊 23:47, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
If WP and Glotto simplify the situation in the same way, then how is Glotto not appropriate as a source for the simplication in WP?
The sources are:
Now, they may be wrong, and Glottolog may be wrong, but as long as they're the best sources we have, they're what we should follow. If you have better sources, of course, then knock yourself out! Meanwhile, leaving Standard German half unclassified does a disservice to our readers. — kwami ( talk) 22:25, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Can you please add in-line references throughout this article you created? Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 18:46, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Please take a look at d:Wikidata:Property proposal/Term#Endangered languages. Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 20:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Are previous same-sex marriages really being recognized in Alabama? Is there a source? Prcc27 ( talk) 02:12, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I did this. But perhaps I did something wrong? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 22:06, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
"In the early years of the study there were more than 200 speakers of the dialect, including one parrot." -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 23:18, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Did you notice that there is an open move request discussion taking place at Talk:Southern Kurdish dialects? I suggest taking part in that discussion rather than making a unilateral move of the page without participating in that. — BarrelProof ( talk) 01:16, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
There wasn't for "Central Kurdish dialects". There was an older (roughly a month) RM for it to be moved to Sorani, but says nothing about removing "dialects" from the title. -- JorisvS ( talk) 07:54, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
"The Baltic languages are part of ..." is not a (proper) definition. [17] If "group" is no good, what else could we make of it? Something akin to the definition of Tibeto-Burman languages, which has "are the non-Sinitic members of ..."? -- JorisvS ( talk) 12:29, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Do you have any idea what !Xuun is actually pronounced like? And, that said, N!xau ǂToma's name? -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 08:39, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting Mjbr's edits. I've tried to get through him before on his talk page using the exact same rationale you were using, but he subsequently stopped replying, but now seems to be continuing his disruption. I suggest ANI should be the next step.
Regards and bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 18:41, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Guam legalized same-sex marriage so it should be yellow on the world same-sex marriage map, but idk where Guam is... Prcc27 ( talk) 09:57, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
What references do you have for your addition of the layers of purported organization on this language? Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 17:46, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
I've just noticed that in the intro of Meso-Melanesian languages, the family is called a "moderately supported group". Isn't this a vestige from the now-removed calculations from the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database project? The confidence the ABVD assigns to traditional Austronesian subbranches is fairly irrelevant for the reader, especially when all mention of the project is gone from the article. I'm mentioning this here because the problem may be present in other articles too. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 20:06, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. I initiated a discussion in the talk page of Language Isolate. You may remember, just I dont feel comfortable with the language of the article. I want the usage of modal "can be" instead of "is". Also, some minortiy view references could be given. But I cannot talk to, I am not sure they listen.
May I invite you to consider the issue? Just take look. Thank you. Okurogluselo : Blah 00:52, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami. As you seem to be a very knowledgeable and respected editor in the fields of history and linguistics, your thoughts on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uysyn could be helpful. Krakkos ( talk) 21:53, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
I was reading the article on Na-Dene languages, and I saw that half of the article uses "Na-Dene" and the other half uses "Na-Dené" (with the accent on the final "e"). Shouldn't the article be consistent? If so, which should predominate? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:00, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
The scheme has two nodes called "Burmish". It's present in the source (p. 38), I know, but pretty awkward, anyway. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 15:59, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Would it be OR/SYNTH or something to differentiate them somehow? After all, the term "Ugong–Burmish" isn't found in the source, either. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 20:03, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
OK, another dumb question. According to Macro-Arawakan languages, Kaufman (1990) includes Candoshi in the group, but Candoshi-Shapra language does not mention anything, although it has an "Arawakan (Maipurean) languages" template. It also mentions that two other sources, Payne (1991) and Derbyshire (1992), include Puquina and Harákmbut, but again, neither Puquina language nor Harákmbut languages mention Macro-Arawakan. Is that intentional because the sources are outdated, or a mere omission? -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 15:21, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
See Macro-Jibaro languages for another proposal in which Candoshi has been included. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 12:55, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Kwami - I'm reading the article on Dené–Yeniseian languages and I came across something that puzzled me. It's a chart in the section Dené–Yeniseian languages#Ket and Navajo word pairs. I was comparing the words in the different columns, and when comparing the words in the second column ("Ket") with the words in the third column ("Ket Cyrillic"), I saw that the first two words in the "Ket" column end in "s", and the corresponding words in Cyrillic next to them also end in сь. If you look at the third word, next to "old", you'll see in the "Ket" column that the word sīn does not end in "s", and yet there is a сь at the end of the word written in Cyrillic (third column). I'm just wondering if that final сь should be there. CorinneSD ( talk) 01:34, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
d:Q3196320, d:Q4885023 and d:Q11051704 are about some "Bembe language". Do you think that d:Q4885023 and d:Q11051704 should be merged? Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 20:25, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Dear Kwami, you have renamed Suri language to Surma language, without previous discussion, just with the note that this is according to naming guidelines. Could you please elaborate what in these guidelines prompted you to do so? Frankly, I believe this is not a helpful move, as it gets the naming to a misnomer. In any case, this is not the first time I'm asking you to first start a discussion on the talk page of an article before you start messing around with article names. This is not something that should be done unilaterally, and as an administrator you should know this. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 05:51, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Please stop using the rollback feature for edits you disagree with. The feature should only really be used for vandalism and you're abusing it. -- Monochrome_ Monitor 11:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Do you agree with this edit to Richard Francis Burton and the accompanying edit summary? [18]. I don't know whether Neapolitan is a language or a dialect, but a statement early in the lede of the Neapolitan article saying that it has been recognized as a language by UNESCO has a "citation needed" tag. CorinneSD ( talk) 04:18, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
In Khwe language you changed the reference in the infobox from e18 to Brenzinger, Matthias (2011), leaving the reference in the lead paragraph as a broken reference. Is the new reference also the correct source for that sentence? StarryGrandma ( talk) 20:10, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Can you see what you can do about this? "Kwisi ... along with the Kwadi, the Cimba, and the Damara ... are unlike either the San (Bushmen) or the Bantu". The page on the Kwadi says they could be pafrt of the Khoe group, which are San(??) - or so I would have thought. However, at Khoe, is starts off saying it is not Khoisan, later is says it is. A bit of a mess, I guess. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 23:29, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
I know I've gotten off to a bad start. I'm sorry I've been so militant, and I certainly need to remember to use a talk page. I see that you have strong opinions about this, as do I. I'm not doing it for Zionist purposes, but because it's the mainstream. Also I have a linguist friend who thinks Wexler is a hack, and who has admittedly colored my views on him. -- Monochrome_ Monitor 20:37, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Devopam. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, it's important to be mindful of the feelings of your fellow editors, who may be frustrated by certain types of interaction, such as your addition to
Talk:Oriya language. While you probably didn't intend any offense, please do remember that Wikipedia strives to be an inclusive atmosphere. In light of that, it would be greatly appreciated if you could moderate yourself so as not to offend. I will appreciate if you avoid direct attacks and not repeatedly try to bully your point of view , being a seasoned editor.
Devopam (
talk)
18:06, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
You are way past 3RR on that article, and not for the first time. Take a break. NOW. All Rows4 ( talk) 04:21, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Please see WP:AN3#User:Kwamikagami reported by User:Zack90 (Result: No action on Kwami, concerns about Zack90). Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 16:12, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Please take a look at this. Visite fortuitement prolongée ( talk) 19:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
Hey Kwami,
I wrote you some time ago about a common issue we had about user Mjbmr. Now that he's blocked, there's still some of his nuisance left such as here [19]. Are you waiting before reverting this or? Please let me know ;)
- LouisAragon ( talk) 14:38, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Talk:Internment of Japanese Americans/Archive 9. Since you had some involvement with the Talk:Internment of Japanese Americans/Archive 9 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. The Theosophist ( talk) 09:55, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
There is an edit warrior at Valencian (with no activity at other articles), who insists on removing that it is a variety of Catalan from the first sentence, instead calling it "a language spoken in ..." and saying it is a "glossonym for the Catalan of the area" (whatever that is supposed to mean). He refuses to take it to the talk page and just keeps on reverting. What do you think of it? -- JorisvS ( talk) 19:01, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
he went against consensus -> https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Modern_Hebrew&diff=666066897&oldid=666063253 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.170.29.90 ( talk) 20:32, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
As me and another user were puzzled by your reference in the infobox of German language: "L2 speaker: 28 million including the prestige variety of high franconian" I removed that statement from the article. Could you elaborate on what you meant with this? -- 37ophiuchi ( talk) 16:57, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you recently changed some of my changes to the article on Los Banos. I wanted to run a couple things by you as a result: according to Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key, the way to respell the sound "o" of words like "goat" is with the letters "oh" and not just the letter "o" which Respell uses for the sound of the letter "o" in the word "lot" which is the equivalent of the IPA sound /ɒ/, and which is not the sound I meant to be indicated here (do you disagree? Which is fine, just lay it on me as to why if so). Second, you capitalized the BAN part of the respell— the respell template does this automatically, and was already doing it when you changed it (which is neither here nor there, technically, but I wasn't sure you realized this). I did not want to simply undo your edit (which I always consider a rather rude gesture whenever I see it done to anyone) but wanted to ask you to reconsider your changes to the respelling. Thoughts? Let me know. Thanks! KDS4444 Talk 04:43, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello Mr Kwamikagami! Please don't redirect Western Baluchi language in Baluchi language .-- Ibrahim khashrowdi ( talk) 21:36, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, while checking the revision history I realized you had reverted back all the changes I had done in the article yesterday after the movement from Oriya to Odia. Can you let me know why you have reverted back everything? - Remoonline ( talk) 08:40, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
What do you think of this edit to Old Persian? [20] CorinneSD ( talk) 22:52, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
I must admit a close call either way. Was swayed by the more contemporary change to "Odia" and trending more common use than the historical "Oriya". Either way, our readers won't fail to find it. -- Mike Cline ( talk) 14:58, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
As you are one of the contributors to Tunisian Arabic. You are kindly asked to review the part about Domains of Use and adjust it directly or through comments in the talk page of Tunisian Arabic.
Yours Sincerely,