An article that you have been involved in editing, Bolivian Sign Language & Nigerian Sign Language & Ghanaian Sign Language , has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Wugapodes ( talk) 18:48, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Could you look at this edit to Cendol? [1] First, is the addition of Malay correct? If so, the link is not like the link to Indonesian, so I don't know if it's right. CorinneSD ( talk) 14:52, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
well. noone gives damn if you don't recognize my map as true. rename back my file now!it is just thesis and there are references in description! you don't have right to be so unfair! keep your opinions in your mind and rename my file back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IrakliGuna ( talk • contribs) 11:12, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
"restore article name after vandal moves to e.g. "T language" and intentional misspellings" - I don't see that the moves were vandal moves, nor that there were intentional misspellings.
Also edit warring about numbers from sources is not justified by policies. Eldizzino ( talk) 00:41, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Again, watch your language and behavior. [2]. Eldizzino ( talk) 15:54, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
The proposal has been open for a while, and I would like your opinion on how to proceed, particularly with the one oppose vote that hasn't addressed my response (and who is now on an indeterminate wikibreak). Should I RfC for more consensus, go ahead with the merge, or not go ahead with the merge? Wugapodes ( talk) 23:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
see Talk:Standard_German#Number_of_speakers -- 37ophiuchi ( talk) 20:28, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, please stop vandalizing my username, nor Zack90 or other users are related to me, I asked Zack90 once, and it turned out we both got busted by a duck test but as you see on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Mjbmr/Archive it says "Inconclusive", also please remove newly content was added to Luri language, Minjai is Northern Luri means Central, which is wrong, please also undo other edits you think are related to me, I'm not responsible for any of them, beside Zack90 is not answering my emails. Mjbmr ( talk) 18:39, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
What is your knowledge about Russian? TimurKirov ( talk) 11:57, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
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Dear Kwamikagami
The Caucasus Greeks page was so called after extensive discussion on how best to translate designations of the community by themselves and others. In English 'Caucasian' is confusing as this is used as a semi- scientific term to designate all so- called 'white' peoples whether or not they have an actual link to the Caucasus. In Turkish, on the other hand, the geographic designation is exactly what is used for both Caucasus Greeks (Kavkaz Rum) and Pontic Greeks (Pontus Rum), and also reflects how other minorities from the Caucasus are referred to, eg Caucasus Jews and Caucasus Germans, again the English adjective 'Caucasian' is not used here so as to avoid confusion. To English speakers Caucasian Greeks suggests that these are the Greeks who are 'white' in contrast to those who are not, rather than that these are the Greeks from the South Caucasus. If possible, can you please therefore revert your edits of the Caucasus Greeks page. Thank you A Gounaris ( talk) 10:13, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
I've left some comments on the Hun-Came and Vucub-Came talk pages. Primefac ( talk) 19:49, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Speaking of Tagalog, do you know why Sanskrit and Pali are not X language as well? I never understood that, especially since Sanskrit is a descriptor, "Perfected", referring to "speech, language" - it's literally missing the language part. Ogress smash! 05:44, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Please remove this personal attack immediately.-- Cúchullain t/ c 18:00, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
For those of you watching this page, this is about a badly closed move of Tagalog language to "Tagalog", which several linguists here have been trying to get reversed. In case you're interested in chiming in. — kwami ( talk) 18:46, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Your comments on French Sign Language family page do not make sense. All languages and relations have been cited to the best of human knowledge, using a heavy reliance on Glottolog and Ethnologue. The updated page not only holds the old page's information but also updates information and clarifies the topic. It is well established that the French Sign Language language family is a language family that exists and is a notable topic, but by your logic, the current page with its citations (of which, the new page uses and then has many more) should be deleted and has no place on Wikipedia.
What sorts of verification are needed at this point? What can be done to resolve this?
- Danachos ( talk) 18:15, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
This is your only warning; if you purposefully and blatantly harass a fellow Wikipedian again, you may be
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Summary for future ref: This was about an (inadvertent) PA that I redacted, at his request, before Cúchullain filed the ANI complaint. WikiLeon appears to agree that the other "PA"s Cúchullain objected to were not. — kwami ( talk) 22:14, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Tigrinya language. -- Taivo ( talk) 00:58, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
DemitreusFrontwest ( talk · contribs) unilaterally moved a significant page without any discussion; they moved Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS from another page as well as moving another page to Falange (political party) and a made a bunch of other, confusing moves. How do I get someone to put it back? This user has a history of this activity, it seems, judging from their userpage. Ogress smash! 02:19, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hello! Can you elaborate on your revert at Four corners of the world? Currently, every incoming link to Four corners of the world (disambiguation) means the four continents. This makes me think it's the primary topic by that name. Furthermore, there is no article for the four rivers that would discuss the four biblical rivers as a group. I think this disambiguation is not needed. Finnusertop ( talk | guestbook | contribs) 22:54, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, what do you think of this edit to Amer Fort? [3] The source is You-tube. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:45, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi kwami, your recent edit maintains that these two characters "have been devised for the IPA," which is untrue. Rather, U+A7B5 was devised for African languages, and U+AB53 for German dialectology. I think that WP should never use them for IPA, for this will lead to reports of "no search results" even when what you are looking for is actually there. It's like reverting to legacy encodings in spite of Unicode, in which only the Greek characters β and χ may be used. LiliCharlie ( talk) 00:04, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
。 阳春雨打芭蕉 ( talk) 02:50, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
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You are edit warring over SSM in the US. I'm reverting your edit. You are not even reading the source, obviously, since you keep changing the number of TX counties to 5 when it is SIX. Please use the talk page if you wish to discuss the changes first. Njsustain ( talk) 00:27, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Click on "local government response by state" and check under the tab for Texas. The total is five. If I link, it just takes you to the main page.
You misunderstand what I wrote. There are five inhabited territories, excluding Wake. In four of those, the inhabitants are US citizens. In those same four, SSM licenses are being issues. It is therefore correct to say that all territories whose residents are US citizens are issuing SSM licenses. That make it easier to remember which is which. I said nothing about the reason for this, nothing about citizenship being required, nothing about visitors from other places, nothing about the territory being incorporated (none of them are officially incorporated). — kwami ( talk) 00:56, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Moving forward, since you are putting updated information in there, the % of the population in or not in counties is not accurate any longer. I don't think it's really necessary anyway. 99.84, 99.90... what difference does it make anyway if we're listing the number of (low populated) counties. I would recommend just removing that number, but won't interfere with your edits in that paragraph at this point. Njsustain ( talk) 01:08, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
According to information collected by Ballotpedia, as of July 24, 2015, 23 total counties in Alabama, Kentucky, and Texas are not yet known to be issuing licenses to same-sex couples for various reasons:
I'm glad the table in my sandbox was useful. Can you please explain the ranges in the total columns? There's no indication in the article why the totals are reported as such rather than the ostensible total. Njsustain ( talk) 19:29, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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I see there was an edit war at Template:C-cmn. I'm here to provide the source so that it doesn't get reverted again. This is also the source I use for the generic a. The source is [4] page 69 - the treatment is the same as wei and you; page 67 for the generic a form. Cheers.-- Officer781 ( talk) 14:55, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
It's not up to me. Whatever people agree on on the IPA key talk page is fine. The key just needs to agree with the output from the template. Also, [a] isn't very close to the 'u' in 'cut'. — kwami ( talk) 17:08, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
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Gatoclass ( talk) 07:13, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
Tunisian Arabic is nominated for GA Status. Please review this work and adjust it if he involves several deficiencies.
Yours Sincerely,
-- Csisc ( talk) 18:29, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
The Planemos category and the Solar System objects in hydrostatic equilibrium category are separate categories. Planemos is for non-planets and non-dwarf planets, as well as planets outside our solar system. The hydrostatic equilibrium category is for all Solar System objects, including planets, in hydrostatic equilibrium. They are separate categories. DN-boards1 ( talk) 19:29, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello admin, as per recent closure of move discussion you decided to move the page to Elara. Is it really possible when there is hardly any clear consensus regarding move. Most of people opposed move, I mean what we look for in such discussion? quantity or quality? I think your decision is really controversial, still I have no more concern regarding this issue. But other people can object the move. I think result should have been "no clear consensus", because we see no consensus for moving the page. Thank you. -- Human3015 Send WikiLove 21:03, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I think you are mistaken. The base name goes to the dabpage. Both the album and the song are equally significant and popular. -- George Ho ( talk) 22:08, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
You closed this discussion as "moved" but the page wasn't moved. I'm not sure if it was an oversight, technical limitation, or you meant "not moved", but regardless just a heads up. Wugapodes ( talk) 00:25, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Kwamikagami. I know Kalenjin is NOT a single language and I never wrote this- instead I wrote that it is a macrolanguage that comprises of nine dialects of varying degrees of mutual intelligibility (note: this means some of them might not even be mutually intelligiible, which I DID say in the "varieties" section, where I presented the results of a study on this - and I included it in the references) and I added a hyperlink to the word macrolanguage. Macrolanguage is a technical term used by ethnologue, it is not a term I invented. There is even a wikipedia article on what macrolanguage codes mean ( /info/en/?search=ISO_639_macrolanguage). If you search for "Kalenjin language" in Ethnologue, the following comes up: https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kln. This, as you can see, includes the 9 dialects that I had in my wikipedia article, and which you removed. By the way, all this information is from the (2015) edition while in your version you cite the (2013) edition of Ethnologue. So, please read those before you write that other people write "nonsense" in your review summaries...
So, from reading Ethnologue, Glottolog, Toweett (1979) and Creider (1989), my understanding is that "Kalenjin languages" (plural) is a genetic classification, which includes the languages of Tanzania, whereas "Kalenjin language" is the name given to the Kenyan dialects only. Since there is already an article on wikipedia on "Kalenjin languages" ( /info/en/?search=Kalenjin_languages), and since in Kenya "Kalenjin language" is seen as a single language (as you yourself wrote in the introduction to the article, it is the use of this term that politically unified the Kalenjin peoples), I thought it was appropriate to include in the article what people mean when they refer to Kalenjin as a single language.
Moreover, you write Nandi is the principal dialect, which is just wrong, since Kipsigis has almost twice as many speakers (see ethnologue if you don't believe me). And you do include Kipsigis in your varieties, so it's not that you think it's not part of "Nandi-Markweta" (which is just an internal genetic subdivision of Kalenjin languages, on which people do not agree. for example, glottolog and ethnologue have a different internal classification of Kalenjin as a branch).
Also, you say that Kalenjin people make up 18% of the population (but you don't have a reference for it). According to the wikipedia page on Kalenjin people, they make up 12% of the population, but I didn't have time to verify it, so I just deleted that part, since I thought it was not essential.
You also say that "The Kenyan conception of Kalenjin includes Kipsigis and Terik but not Markweta, ". I don't know where you got this from since there is no reference but 1) the wikipedia page on Kalenjin peoples does include Markweta, 2) my best friend is a Kipsigis who lives in Kenya and told me that the Markweta (whom they call Marakwet in Kenya) are Kalenjin. I know number (2) is not the best evidence for you, but give me your evidence for writing what you wrote. Also, wikipedia has an article on Marakwet people ( /info/en/?search=Marakwet_people) and says they are Kalenjin.
As for moving the page, "Kalenjin language" actually redirects you to this page, and when I tried to move it I got the message that this page already exists (probably because of the redirect link? I have never moved a page before so I don't know the details).
In sum, since in Kenya "Kalenjin language" refers to 9 very specific dialects/languages, and ethnologue recognizes that and classifies this as a macrolanguage (you like it or not, ethnologgue does), and since there is another page anyway about the GENETIC term "Kalenjin languages", I thought it was appropriate to modify the article in the way I did. To make it clear, my main objective was to include the grammatical features of these languages, and I did my best given the knowledge I have, to present facts from different dialects (so I included Kipsigis, Nandi, and Tugen). I did not want to include this information say in the article about Nandi (which would have been easier because I would have avoided these lengthy discussions about sth that to me doesn't seem controversial given the sources I have cited) is that despite what you think, "Kalenjin language" is used a lot in linguistics to refer to the Kenyan dialects (I am a professional linguist, who has spent quite a lot of time lately reading about and studying this language), and it is more likely for a student interested in the grammatical structure of this language to look up this term instead of Nandi. Moreover, some of the dialects are so close that the general sketch of the grammar (since I only included a very general sketch) applies to all of them.
I am a linguist, whose only goal was to facilitate the access to knowledge about the dialects known as the Kalenjin language. I have given my sources for all my claims (and btw these sources were there in my edits, I don't think such a lengthy response to you should be necessary), unlike some of your claims in the relevant parts (eg. Markweta, or Nandi being the principal dialect...). So I would greatly appreciate it if you restored my edits. ... Maria.kouneli ( talk) 19:09, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Oh, and this discussion should probably be copied to the article talk page for future reference. — kwami ( talk) 21:35, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Ah, I see you were able to move it after all. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:43, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Shouldn't Talk:Śuṅga Empire also be moved to Talk:Shunga Empire? Thank you. -- Cpt.a.haddock ( talk) 10:49, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
So ... Ellalan was moved, and then moved back. Can you explain what is going on? Ogress smash! 04:54, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
I started a new discussion to delete all that nonsense about "primary meaning/topic" here. -- Taivo ( talk) 06:24, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Ejective consonant now contains characters in PUA. What should we do about it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:45, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kwami, and thanks for your contributions. A couple of general editing suggestions for you to consider:
Thanks in advance for considering these suggestions. Eric talk 19:48, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Yikes, that's a high upload failure rate. I have not experienced that--I wonder what's causing it. Do you always edit using the same connection? Not my area of expertise, but I'm wondering if it's a stability issue with your internet connection. Eric talk 21:10, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello - would you please explain your finding of consensus at Talk:Greyshirt_(comics)#Requested_move_20_July_2015. 4-3 seems a bit close for consensus where there are policy arguments on both sides, especially for a non-admin close. Thanks. Dohn joe ( talk) 23:17, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami - I was just looking at the article on the Bronze Age, and I read the section on Pontic-Caspian steppe. I came across this sentence, which did not seem to fit with the other sentences, either in terms of the flow of meaning or in terms of the quality of the writing:
If you think it makes a useful point and should stay there, can you fix the grammar of the sentence? Also, it is not really clear to what the initial "it" refers. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:29, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Your move of Gangsta. to Gangsta (manga) was extremely inappropriate: per WP:RMNAC, for a non-admin to move a page, consensus must be clear, which it was not. Also, while the relevant policies are currently the subject of a discussion, there is currently nothing forbidding the use of a period as disambiguation. I suggest you either revert your move or ask someone who can to do so. Your close essentially amounts to a WP:SUPERVOTE. Also, you failed to move the talk page. G S Palmer ( talk • contribs) 01:34, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a Move review of Gangsta (manga). Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. G S Palmer ( talk • contribs) 17:08, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
Tunisian Arabic is nominated for GA Status. Please review this work and adjust it if it involves several deficiencies.
Yours Sincerely,
-- Csisc ( talk) 15:09, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Kwami - I was looking at the article about the River Exe, and when I read the first sentence in the section River Exe#Topography,
I wondered if the Greek word for fish, something like icthys or ikhthus, were related to the Latin isca, and, if so, why it wouldn't be mentioned here.
Also, when I read the third sentence,
I thought of Latin pisces and wondered why that was not mentioned. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:14, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I suspect the "more exactly" part was added later (maybe even by me!) from the River Usk article. So the "fish" stuff can be removed from the Exe article as SYNTH. The only thing that would required verification then would be Welsh (or Brittonic?) Wysk from ~ pysg. Also, pysg is not plural. Rather, pysgod is singulative. — kwami ( talk) 20:29, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
*fēsko- 'fish' [Noun] GOID: Olr. íasc [o m] PIE: *pi(k')sk'o- 'trout, fish' (IEW: 796) COGN: Lat. piscis, OE fisc ETYM: W river-name Wysg could reflect *fēskā (Sims-Williams 2006: 80). Cf. also Gaul, river-name Isca, which would be from *fiska. The vocalism of Olr. íasc requires that we start from PIE *pey(k')sk'o- (the cluster *ksk may have been dissimilated to *sk as in *prk'sk'-: > PCelt. *farsk- 'ask'). REF: EIEC 604, de Bernardo Stempel 1999: 43, 523, Sims-Williams 2006: 80f.
Corinne, with thousands of words apiece in scores of languages, we're going to see quite frequently resemblances that are merely coincidental. English [tu] and Korean [tul] for "two", for example. Or Latin [turtur] and Hadza [hututu] for "turtle dove" (both presumably onomatopoeia, reanalyzed as "turtle" in English). Take any two languages, and you're going to find words which look like they must be related but aren't. That's why people work out regular sound correspondences. — kwami ( talk) 22:32, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Just read them. They're in different places. But both are just the "water" if the articles are correct. — kwami ( talk) 22:35, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Could I ask you to review your closes of these articles? You are correct identifying that there are plenty of "Results of" articles, but they only exist as a child article of the main election article (the example cited in the RM of Results of the 2013 Malaysian general election by parliamentary constituency is a child of Malaysian general election, 2013). If the state articles are moved to the proposed titles, it creates a child article without a parent. As I stated in my comments, the moves are acceptable as long as a parent is created. Cheers, Number 5 7 08:26, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Can you explain why you removed the text about voice-onset time in stop contrasts from the pre-voicing article? The phenomenon described in pre-voicing, i.e. the relative timing of consonant articulation and the start of voicing (laryngeal pulsing), appears to be the same as that described in voice-onset time. In fact, it's covered more thoroughly in the voice-onset time article, so I'd almost like to propose a merger of the two articles. I don't think it has anything to do with whether the speaker is using modal voice or not, as you can pre-voice (or use any other voice-onset time) in any vocal register. Thanks. Vejlenser ( talk) 15:54, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
I'm now reading and copyediting the article on River Parrett. I have a question about some etymology in River Parrett#History. The second sentence reads,
When I read that, I couldn't help but think of the Spanish word for "wall": pared. Are these cognates? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:17, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
As you edited Serer people quite a bit in the past, there's a tagging issue I brought to RSN concerning Serer history, which I think uses material from that article. See [[WP:RSN#Are dubious – discuss and opinion tags appropriate for these quotes by reliable sources?]] - can't make that link work, so [5]. Doug Weller ( talk) 20:40, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
I agree with you, there are (to the best of my knowledge) no English words that end like this. The closest thing I can think of are adopted French words, such as "passé". But "djembe" is not an English word. It's the French spelling of a Malinke word. I'm concerned that changing the phonetics to {{IPAc-enei}} will perpetuate the mis-pronunciation. Can you comment on Talk:Djembe please, so other people can contribute too? MichiHenning ( talk) 06:08, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages#Amami and Kunigami. -- Nanshu ( talk) 06:57, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, Kwamikagami! I noticed that you'd recently engaged with Fusus over at Kumasi and I was wondering if you might be interested in looking into some of his/her edits. In recent days, Fusus has made a number of really large edits, adding tens of thousands of bites to articles like Kumasi, Ashanti region, and Ashanti people. Frankly, it's a bit difficult to know where to begin wading through all these additions, but I've noticed in them a consistent use of idiosyncratic English, as well as dubious information that looks more like puffery to me than anything else. I'd revert the edits outright, but I'm concerned that (a). they might have substance to them, buried beneath the stylistic issues and (b). they must have taken a heck of a lot of effort to put together. So, as a more experienced Wikipedian than myself, I was wondering what you would advise doing on the matter. I've reached out to Fusus and am awaiting a response from that quarter. One of the things I suggested to him/her was that we could go to WikiProject Ghana and see if we couldn't get a collaborative effort together to clean up the effected articles while retaining valid information added by Fusus. Does this sound like something that would be viable? Or is this a situation where the edits need to just be reverted? I tried going into the Kumasi article by myself to clean it up manually, but the scale of the necessary fixes was overwhelming.
Sorry for the long post here. If you have the time to advise me, I'd greatly appreciate it, but if not, that's fine too; I understand that you are a busy Wikipedian. Best wishes, Tigercompanion25 ( talk) 17:13, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
As provided in your peer review, the Punic Substratum should not be adopted in the work. We have dropped it. As said, the morphology and Domains of Use parts should be written in separate works. We have done that. However, we need your help in summarizing the parts about them in Tunisian Arabic as done in GA works. We apply you to review the scripts part.
Yours Sincerely,
-- Csisc ( talk) 09:37, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami! In Mapidian language and Mawayana language there is a citation "Hicks 2002" but no complete reference and I wasn't able to retrieve it. I acknowledge the author is Richard Hicks (SIL) but I wasn't able to find his bibliography to check for the cited resource. Would you be able to provide the complete reference for me? -- SynConlanger ( talk) 11:57, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Indi language is deleted, please make the move. I could do it myself, but you can give a better move rationale than me. Regards. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 04:30, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kwami. I am extremely concerned by your attempted close of the discussion at Talk:Burkinabé in a way that no contributor of the debate had !voted for. This looks entirely like an attempt at a WP:SUPERVOTE, which is confirmed by the fact that you subsequently !voted for this option after your close was reversed.
Added to my concerns about your close of the discussions on the Malaysian election articles (which you failed to answer), I am afraid that I would like to suggest that you refrain from closing RMs that are not unanimous (or near unanimous) until you become an admin. Number 5 7 18:34, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
1) You are misquoting Ethnologue site in Hindi numbers. The site https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hin shows 260,333,620 total native speakers 2001 and L2 users: 120,000,000 in India (Wiesenfeld 1999). 2) You removed reference to Hindi newspaper readership. Hindi newspapers have 36.5% of daily newspaper circulation in India and 7 Hindi newspapers are in top 20 circulation in India. "Weekly Data". Audit Bureau of Circulations. 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2015. 3) The page Hindi is getting redirect from Hindi language, Modern Standard Hindi, Hindi. Do you know the difference ? What is your suggestion for putting articles about all 3 topics in same page?
PradeepBoston ( talk) 00:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Your RV is unfounded since my edit was following the debate in the talk page. Did you take a look at it, before?-- Dans ( talk) 18:00, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, could you point me to a discussion of the two different pronunciations of the letter "h" in English? House, horse, history vs. honor, hour. Thanks. Corinne ( talk) 17:57, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
This edit summary, describing me as a "POV warrior falsely claiming consensus"
is totally unacceptable, since I'm as far from a "POV-warrior" as anyone can get here. I spend most of my time here on Wikipedia (account since 2006, ~30K edits) fighting POV-pushers, fringe pushers and sneaky vandals, and do not accept being accused of being a POV-warrior, and the consensus i claim exist can be seen on the talk page, where a number of regular editors agreed that it's better to not have any number at all in the article than to have the very dubious Ethnologue number there. For an insult like this I would normally demand an apology, but I don't think you're capable of apologising for the mistakes you make, or even capable of realising that you have made a mistake.
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Ah, my bad. I saw the date "2008" and didn't notice the change after that, as I was skimming the arguments. But it still should be obvious to you that there is no consensus. We have several people making ignorant arguments, based on a misunderstanding of what a dialect or accent even are, and the one professional linguist expecting us to follow sources per WP policy. So no, there is no consensus to delete sourced information that you don't like. — kwami ( talk) 20:15, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
You might have some insight to offer at WT:LING#Help with IPA. Alakzi ( talk) 14:47, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You reverted me on List of tallest mountains in the Solar System. I tried to be more specific than « Maxwell Montes » which is not a mountain but a massif and added « Skadi Mons » which is a moutain. For an example, for Earth, it's not written « Himalayas » (the massif) but « Mount Everest » (the moutain). How should I do it?
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Is this additional pronunciation guide needed at Mount Circeo? [6] Corinne ( talk) 00:43, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. You added info about the right angle ⟨˹⟩ being used as a symbol for release burst in No audible release a while back [7]. Do you have a reference for it? Where kind I find more info on the symbol? -- Moyogo/ (talk)
Hi, Why should i be blocked? Southern Lurish Language is still a living Language and in three wikipedias has page but in this wiki not. Why you dont want that this page being built ? Biramilur ( talk) 08:07, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Re Origin of hangul. I think it is an overreach to put forth the statement "the entering tone is not a tone" as a statement of linguistic ground truth, as opposed to a fact about an analysis. This is one of the star examples in Yuen-Ren Chao's The non-uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems. In the modern Western phonemic analysis, yes, entering tone is conditioned by the coda stop. But in the ancient far Eastern one, as expressed for instance in the rime tables, the stop allophones of the underlying coda nasals are conditioned by the entering tone, which is phonemic; this is structurally equally valid! And the synchronic phonetics little favour one of these over the other. (To me the unquestioning acceptance of the first analysis seems to have a Eurocentric cast to it: how could a mere tone be superordinate to a good ol' segment?) 4pq1injbok ( talk) 20:23, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Instead of issuing threats it is preferable to discuss things on the talk page of the article. In the meantime I reversed your edit because "removed bullshit" is not a satisfactory explanation to removing information from WP. Contact Basemetal here 19:43, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Kwamikagami. What is the purpose of Template:Two-dabs? It isn't transcluded on any pages, and it appears to be a cleanup template that informs the reader that there isn't anything to clean up. If there are only two topics which a term is ambiguous for and neither of the topics is a primary topic, then a disambiguation page is warranted (per WP:TWODABS). By design, cleanup templates should be temporary and be about fixable issues. A disambiguation page having two ambiguous, non-primary topics is not an issue that needs to be fixed. Thanks, Mz7 ( talk) 18:29, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Does the term "pre-palatal" unambiguously refer to alveolo-palatals, or is it also used to describe palato-alveolars? Laver (1994:136) uses "pre-palatal" to describe consonants articulated in the place "between palatal and alveolo-palatal" (are those even possible? I thought it was an either/or distinction.) On the other hand, for both Jensen (2004:30) and Esling (2010:693) "pre-palatal" is synonymous with "alveolo-palatal". I haven't found a source that uses "pre-palatal" as synonymous with "palato-alveolar", but to me, the description of Maastrichtian Limburgish postalveolars sounds somewhat ambiguous; Gussenhoven & Aarts (1999:156) say that "/c, ʃ, ʒ, ɲ/ are pre-palatal, articulated with the tongue against the post-alveolar place of articulation, the tip being held down." Would it be OR to say that these are alveolo-palatal [c͇, ɕ, ʑ, ɲ͇]? Peter238 ( talk) 14:55, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for disturbing you. Perhaps you know whether khira sagara is the same as chhena payesh? If yes, could ou comment on Talk:Khira sagara? -- Off-shell ( talk) 19:51, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, why is there an apostrophe before the initial "A" in 'Acre in the Acre, Israel#Etymology section of Acre, Israel? I believe the apostrophe represents an initial "ain" in Arabic, but why would the Arabic name for the city be used there? Also, you might like to look at two "dubious – discuss" tags in that section. Corinne ( talk) 01:28, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, The name of the page Standard Moroccan Berber should be: Standard Moroccan Amazigh, not Berber neither Tamazight. Thanks. Amara ( talk)
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Hey Kwamikagami, thanks for explaining this. I didn't see an edit summary in the first edit and could not conclude, without additional information, what sort of errors were being caused (I didn't see any on the old version). I understand this now. What I'm not quite sure about is what exactly you mean by an "independent pronunciation" (Wikipedia/Google isn't telling me much). Could you please explain this? Thanks, Airplaneman ✈ 01:30, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I'm trying to improve Black American Sign Language to FA quality and would appreciate your input at the peer review since you not only know a good deal about sign linguistics, but have also been through the FA process before. Thanks. Wugapodes ( talk) 20:44, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, I was just looking at the article on the Telugu language, and in Telugu language#Inflection, it says:
and in Telugu language#Gender, it says:
In the first sentence it has "masculine, feminine, and neuter" and the second one it says, "masculine, feminine, and neutral". Should the third item be the same in both sentences? Corinne ( talk) 16:56, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Are you sure the volume of Charon is just 0.0008 that of Earth? Huritisho 01:39, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Border languages (New Guinea) which claims its a language family. Whether Elseng language is in or out, it is either in the Category:Border languages (New Guinea) or Category:Unclassified languages of New Guinea - it cannot be both, so don't put it in both. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 03:05, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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Arabic language your complining that im being false at what the number I put on Arabic There are 420 million Arabic speakers so stop lying ok dude the article itself says there are 420million Arabic speakers Arabic is one language not many languages im an Arabic speaker and I know the numbers so don't ever correct me ArabAmazigh12 ( talk) 19:34, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the reference to Geoff Lindsey's analysis of cardinal vowels in the Open front unrounded vowel article. On the talk page of the article, I've started a discussion on how appropriate it is to characterize the "extra-open unrounded vowel" as central. – Simo Kaupinmäki ( talk) 12:45, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
No worries. I have not cared to follow that ranty dispute very closely, but was not intending to step on any toes or re-open old wounds. I really have no opinion on the matter, I just don't like it when infoboxes do not agree with article text. If the Altaic hypothesis is considered fringe, it needs to be identified as such more clearly, in all the affected articles, per WP:FRINGE and WP:UNDUE. If it is not actually fringe, but not yet a majority-held theory, then it needs to be properly addressed in the infobox, pretty much exactly the way I did it, because declaration of the proposed Altaic subfamilies as root families of the world's languages if this is not the actual scientific consensus among linguists is a serious WP:POV problem and misleading to readers. I don't care at all which the correct answer is, I only know that the present half-assed situation is not viable. It has to be clarified and normalized in one direction or the other, or we do not have proper agreement between infoboxes and their articles. Actually, I'll just raise this at WT:LING. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 05:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
What should we do with the last 2 pages in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/016 dump? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:38, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes! Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:43, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
The images have not yet been downlinked from the spacecraft, but New Horizons best spatial resolution of Kerberos
Why did you re-add this in the article? The image has already been downlinked, and it is in the article infobox. Also, your other changes seem kind of disruptive Huritisho 05:39, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Sir, This is with regard to your article List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers. In the said article hindi is given 4th place with 290 million people speakinh hindi. This is not correct and data seems to be old as taken from 1991 census. The data from 2001 census coducted by Govt. of India says that hindi is spoken by 422 million people in India alone. I quote the verifiable source " http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement4.aspx". This data is also old as the language data of 2011 census is not disclosed as yet. Further erstwhile India i.e. Pakistan and Bangladesh also have hindi native speakers in huge numbers. Nepal, Bhutan are the similar other countries. Moreover the immigrants from India to U.S., U.K., Saudi Arabia and so many other countries also use hindi as their mother tongue. All these facts need be given recognition to make this article more factual and informative. Request you to do the same. Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 13:20, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
Kwami Sir, Hindi is only hindi and there is no language called hindustani. Nowhere it is taught. The data is about the no. of people who reported their mother tongue as hindi.Here in this article "List of language by number of native speakers" do not differentiate hindi and hindustani as seperate languages. The confusion may arise due to the fact that hindi may be spoken directly as you hear in news, but it is spoken with different accent also. Change of accent and style will not change its basic feature of hindi. I request that census 2001 data may be given credentials. I also submit that the truthfullness of the fact can be verified by anyone by visiting India. Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 13:06, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Please also refer https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80 as verifiable source on wikipedia itself. How can there be two versions on the wikipedia? Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 13:13, 23 October 2015 (UTC) please also refer http://www.britannica.com/topic/Hindi-language Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 14:24, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
A language is a combination of dialect and script spoken in large area having its own text and literature for a large period of time. It has its own grammer and other technical aspects to make it perfect. Sub language is a dialect which is developed through main language and having literature, script and grammer in developing stage. As soon as it will mature it may have a separate status of independent language. A dialect is a speech or speaking language originated from main language having no text, literature or script of its own. Dialect, sub language are all clubbed under language when we speak about term language. Kindly see /info/en/?search=Dialect. Bhojpuri, magadhi, avadhi and other are the dialects of hindi having no independent status. These have originated from hindi as main language. So whenever you will ask a person speaking bhojpuri he will tell you hindi as his native language. Please see /info/en/?search=Bhojpuri_language. Please see this https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size.. here chinese is shown to have a group of 13 languages.Arabic is a language grouping 19 languages.Malay as a group of 9 languages.Even if we take english it is spoken differently in U.K. and U.S.Please also see this http://www.britannica.com/topic/Hindi-language.Hindi in census 2001 is shown as a group of several dialects recognizing hindi as main language. Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 10:46, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
please also see this सन् 1998 के पूर्व, मातृभाषियों की संख्या की दृष्टि से विश्व में सर्वाधिक बोली जाने वाली भाषाओं के जो आँकड़े मिलते थे, उनमें हिन्दी को तीसरा स्थान दिया जाता था। सन् 1997 में सैन्सस ऑफ़ इंडिया का भारतीय भाषाओं के विश्लेषण का ग्रन्थ प्रकाशित होने तथा संसार की भाषाओं की रिपोर्ट तैयार करने के लिए यूनेस्को द्वारा सन् 1998 में भेजी गई यूनेस्को प्रश्नावली के आधार पर उन्हें भारत सरकार के केन्द्रीय हिन्दी संस्थान के तत्कालीन निदेशक प्रोफेसर महावीर सरन जैन द्वारा भेजी गई विस्तृत रिपोर्ट के बाद अब विश्व स्तर पर यह स्वीकृत है कि मातृभाषियों की संख्या की दृष्टि से संसार की भाषाओं में चीनी भाषा के बाद हिन्दी का दूसरा स्थान है। चीनी भाषा के बोलने वालों की संख्या हिन्दी भाषा से अधिक है किन्तु चीनी भाषा का प्रयोग क्षेत्र हिन्दी की अपेक्षा सीमित है। अंग्रेज़ी भाषा का प्रयोग क्षेत्र हिन्दी की अपेक्षा अधिक है किन्तु मातृभाषियों की संख्या अंग्रेज़ी भाषियों से अधिक है। source hindi wikipedia https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80#.E0.A4.87.E0.A4.A4.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.B9.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.B8_.E0.A4.95.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.B0.E0.A4.AE Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 10:58, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Urdu came in India by invasion of Mughals in 1526 A.D. hindi was used in India since time immemorial and specifically there are written proof in 1000 A.D. And if you say that "Hindustani" is a language then fine give "Hindustani" language the status of 2nd largest spoken language in the world. Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 10:58, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
I reverted your change. I deliberately chose 'gh' to emphasize that the 'g' is hard, as the documentation of template:respell suggests. To say that GIF is pronounced GIF (especially in that context) conveys not quite enough information. -- Elphion ( talk) 04:50, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, haven't seen you around fro some time, hope all is well with you. I would really like you to go and think about this.Ngangela is a language continuum, just like German or Serbo-Croat, it was not invented by a missionary. There are maps going back centuries in numerous sources showing the Ganguela/ Ganguella/ Nganguela/ Ngangela and their place in Angola. Emil Pearson translated the Bible into Luchazin in 1963. How could he invent a language to publish a Bible in the 60s, when Domingos Vieira Baião had already published a Nganguela grammar and the Dicionário ganguela-português: língua falada nas regiões Cubango, Nhemba e Luchaze, Provincia de Angola in 1939?. It is only Papstein who maintains that Pearson "created" Ngangela "by mixing elements". Where, besides Papstein do we have corroboration of this information? Also, who is Papstein? The most you will find about him is about his travel book on the Sudan, but where are there references to his work in other researchers' work? Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 07:10, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. In Angola, the national language is Gangela, that is the name used by the Language Institute and the name used by radio and tv for that language during the national languages services. As of Kongo, in Cabinda it would be Western Kongo, H.16d, tradionally known as Fiote, now mostly called Ibinda. Don't know if you want to add more than one code per language, we might create a precedent that could become unmanageable. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 22:46, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
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I have been having such annoying bad luck with my internet it is driving me crazy. Sometimes it works like a jet fighter, at other times like a hot air balloon on a cold day. When it is flying, I quickly open as many tabs as I find relating to a subject, only to discover when I go look at them that the connection slowed to a trickle and all the tabs are ‘dead’. So I leave them there until the connection decides to pick up again.
Anyway, one such tabs was this one, the site of the National Radio of Angola (RNA). It says that “Rádio Ngola Yetu, (one of the RNA channels) transmits in 14 of the main national languages”. Thought you might find this interesting. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 17:50, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Kwami: I have a question about the number of codes reported in ISO 639-3 that I think you may be able to answer. See Talk:ISO_639#How_many_codes_in_ISO_639-3_Comment. Thanks! AlbertBickford ( talk) 21:39, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Dear Kwami, I know you are very busy and do hundreds of edits each day. But Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, and therefore I'd like to urge you take the ten seconds it takes to fill in the explanation line under your edits, so that people get an idea why you are doing them? In particular, in your recent edits on the Dullay languages, I find your questionmarked references to some Gaba language cryptic, to say the least, even more so as you are not referring to any sources. If I don't see more on that soon, I might see myself forced to revert. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 05:31, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Ooops, sorry, I didn't read your edits carefully before I reacted. They are actually not cryptic at all. My apologies. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 05:34, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
I think, although I'm not certain, that this report is about you. BMK ( talk) 20:09, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
I don't think that the Hajong language is an indo-aryan language, because some of the words are completely different from Indo aryan languages. In Hajong language river is gang but in other indo aryan languages its something else, whereas in Korean gang means river. There are more words in Hajong Language that match with Altaic languages especially Koreanic Languages, so why is it considered an Eastern Indo-aryan Language?-- Diarchy Hajong ( talk) 13:45, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
The Hajong word for river is gang pronounced as gaŋ 강. I is moi 머이 similar to Chinese woi. But I don't know why the Hajong language is considered Indo-Aryan, they have mongoloid facial features and the main land Indians call the Hajongs Chinese. Even the patin worn by Hajong women is not like the indian sari but is wrapped around like the Korean Chima. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diarchy Hajong ( talk • contribs) 12:52, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi @ Kwamikagami:, You said, "appears to be another falsified ref. Not a dict anyway." I didn't understand, what should I do? I'm a native speaker of that language! Amara ( talk)
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(First DYK right now). Now there's a name that needs some smart person to add the IPA: Unique pronunciation, not English, not French, not Italian - see House of Broglie. Awien ( talk) 15:16, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, do you agree with this edit to Ethnic group? [8] Corinne ( talk) 18:50, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I need some help in transcribing the pronunciation of scientific names. They are Latin or Latinate Greek names pronounced according to English rules. Unfortunately, a lot of them cannot be found in usual dictionaries (Jones, Kenyon-Knott, Wells and so on). Could you suggest me a reliable textbook? I've found something surfing the web, but that's a complete mess, it's hard to find two sources giving the same transcription, e.g. for Tabebuia chrysotricha.-- Carnby ( talk) 22:07, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Something seems to be happening at Luri language and some related pages again. Editors Shadegan and Gomada seem to be in some kind of dispute. I recall that you were involved in some of the related prior discussions. (It looks like we weren't always agreeing with each other at the time, but I'm not sure that matters at the moment.) Could you please take a look? — BarrelProof ( talk) 07:03, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, do you agree with this edit to Pine? [9] Corinne ( talk) 00:37, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Please have a look at the Lucazi talk page. Thanks, regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 00:13, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
hello. can I have your personal mail? I had a question about my thesis which is about one of nomadic peoples languages. thank you. Bbadree ( talk) 18:39, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 14:02, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
I agree that it can remain one article, just indicating the two distinct historical origins of the current form of the dialect. However, this is something I don't really have time to invest in, right now. Bab-a-lot ( talk) 12:46, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kwami! How are you doing? Wishing you a merry christmas as well as already a happy new year, just in case we might not speak each other after this. :-)
I just wanted to let you know, I added info regarding the Old Persian cuneiform clay tablet found at Gherla, Romania, in 1937 to the page. Odd that it wasnt added already. Should it also be added to the list of countries where Old Persian text was found in general? Im asking this as some nations that are added to the Old Persian cuneiform page, are not mentioned on the Old Persian language page, as well as vice versa. Was there a reason for this? As you're our pro regarding everything related to languages, I thought I'd better hop by, just in case. Let me know your opinion and I'll make sure Gherla, Romania, is added correctly to the other articles as well. Oh, almost forgot, lastly, can we use material from this page as well for this 1937 cuneform as additional info? Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 18:31, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, how are you? I've just noticed you have erased the Catalanic Community. In my opinion you are right about your decision, however I think the Catalan-speaking community should have a neutral term that hasn't been so much politicised. The regionalists (and linguistic separatists) have disconnected many of us from the reality (i.e. the Països Catalans) in the last two decades. I support the concept of Països Catalans, but the new Valencianism is cautious about this subject. They support a re-connection with the rest of Catalan areas, but not a full integration yet. — Jɑuмe ( dis-me) 06:26, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
The issue should be handled via a move request, and the most common term in reliable English sources will usually be chosen. Articles should never be duplicated just because someone objects to their name. — kwami ( talk) 21:41, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, what do you think of this edit to Dravidian languages? [10] Corinne ( talk) 01:17, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Bolivian Sign Language & Nigerian Sign Language & Ghanaian Sign Language , has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Wugapodes ( talk) 18:48, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Could you look at this edit to Cendol? [1] First, is the addition of Malay correct? If so, the link is not like the link to Indonesian, so I don't know if it's right. CorinneSD ( talk) 14:52, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
well. noone gives damn if you don't recognize my map as true. rename back my file now!it is just thesis and there are references in description! you don't have right to be so unfair! keep your opinions in your mind and rename my file back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by IrakliGuna ( talk • contribs) 11:12, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
"restore article name after vandal moves to e.g. "T language" and intentional misspellings" - I don't see that the moves were vandal moves, nor that there were intentional misspellings.
Also edit warring about numbers from sources is not justified by policies. Eldizzino ( talk) 00:41, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Again, watch your language and behavior. [2]. Eldizzino ( talk) 15:54, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
The proposal has been open for a while, and I would like your opinion on how to proceed, particularly with the one oppose vote that hasn't addressed my response (and who is now on an indeterminate wikibreak). Should I RfC for more consensus, go ahead with the merge, or not go ahead with the merge? Wugapodes ( talk) 23:54, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
see Talk:Standard_German#Number_of_speakers -- 37ophiuchi ( talk) 20:28, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, please stop vandalizing my username, nor Zack90 or other users are related to me, I asked Zack90 once, and it turned out we both got busted by a duck test but as you see on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Mjbmr/Archive it says "Inconclusive", also please remove newly content was added to Luri language, Minjai is Northern Luri means Central, which is wrong, please also undo other edits you think are related to me, I'm not responsible for any of them, beside Zack90 is not answering my emails. Mjbmr ( talk) 18:39, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
What is your knowledge about Russian? TimurKirov ( talk) 11:57, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
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Dear Kwamikagami
The Caucasus Greeks page was so called after extensive discussion on how best to translate designations of the community by themselves and others. In English 'Caucasian' is confusing as this is used as a semi- scientific term to designate all so- called 'white' peoples whether or not they have an actual link to the Caucasus. In Turkish, on the other hand, the geographic designation is exactly what is used for both Caucasus Greeks (Kavkaz Rum) and Pontic Greeks (Pontus Rum), and also reflects how other minorities from the Caucasus are referred to, eg Caucasus Jews and Caucasus Germans, again the English adjective 'Caucasian' is not used here so as to avoid confusion. To English speakers Caucasian Greeks suggests that these are the Greeks who are 'white' in contrast to those who are not, rather than that these are the Greeks from the South Caucasus. If possible, can you please therefore revert your edits of the Caucasus Greeks page. Thank you A Gounaris ( talk) 10:13, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
I've left some comments on the Hun-Came and Vucub-Came talk pages. Primefac ( talk) 19:49, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Speaking of Tagalog, do you know why Sanskrit and Pali are not X language as well? I never understood that, especially since Sanskrit is a descriptor, "Perfected", referring to "speech, language" - it's literally missing the language part. Ogress smash! 05:44, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Please remove this personal attack immediately.-- Cúchullain t/ c 18:00, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
For those of you watching this page, this is about a badly closed move of Tagalog language to "Tagalog", which several linguists here have been trying to get reversed. In case you're interested in chiming in. — kwami ( talk) 18:46, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Your comments on French Sign Language family page do not make sense. All languages and relations have been cited to the best of human knowledge, using a heavy reliance on Glottolog and Ethnologue. The updated page not only holds the old page's information but also updates information and clarifies the topic. It is well established that the French Sign Language language family is a language family that exists and is a notable topic, but by your logic, the current page with its citations (of which, the new page uses and then has many more) should be deleted and has no place on Wikipedia.
What sorts of verification are needed at this point? What can be done to resolve this?
- Danachos ( talk) 18:15, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
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Summary for future ref: This was about an (inadvertent) PA that I redacted, at his request, before Cúchullain filed the ANI complaint. WikiLeon appears to agree that the other "PA"s Cúchullain objected to were not. — kwami ( talk) 22:14, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Tigrinya language. -- Taivo ( talk) 00:58, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
DemitreusFrontwest ( talk · contribs) unilaterally moved a significant page without any discussion; they moved Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS from another page as well as moving another page to Falange (political party) and a made a bunch of other, confusing moves. How do I get someone to put it back? This user has a history of this activity, it seems, judging from their userpage. Ogress smash! 02:19, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hello! Can you elaborate on your revert at Four corners of the world? Currently, every incoming link to Four corners of the world (disambiguation) means the four continents. This makes me think it's the primary topic by that name. Furthermore, there is no article for the four rivers that would discuss the four biblical rivers as a group. I think this disambiguation is not needed. Finnusertop ( talk | guestbook | contribs) 22:54, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, what do you think of this edit to Amer Fort? [3] The source is You-tube. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:45, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi kwami, your recent edit maintains that these two characters "have been devised for the IPA," which is untrue. Rather, U+A7B5 was devised for African languages, and U+AB53 for German dialectology. I think that WP should never use them for IPA, for this will lead to reports of "no search results" even when what you are looking for is actually there. It's like reverting to legacy encodings in spite of Unicode, in which only the Greek characters β and χ may be used. LiliCharlie ( talk) 00:04, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
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You are edit warring over SSM in the US. I'm reverting your edit. You are not even reading the source, obviously, since you keep changing the number of TX counties to 5 when it is SIX. Please use the talk page if you wish to discuss the changes first. Njsustain ( talk) 00:27, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Click on "local government response by state" and check under the tab for Texas. The total is five. If I link, it just takes you to the main page.
You misunderstand what I wrote. There are five inhabited territories, excluding Wake. In four of those, the inhabitants are US citizens. In those same four, SSM licenses are being issues. It is therefore correct to say that all territories whose residents are US citizens are issuing SSM licenses. That make it easier to remember which is which. I said nothing about the reason for this, nothing about citizenship being required, nothing about visitors from other places, nothing about the territory being incorporated (none of them are officially incorporated). — kwami ( talk) 00:56, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Moving forward, since you are putting updated information in there, the % of the population in or not in counties is not accurate any longer. I don't think it's really necessary anyway. 99.84, 99.90... what difference does it make anyway if we're listing the number of (low populated) counties. I would recommend just removing that number, but won't interfere with your edits in that paragraph at this point. Njsustain ( talk) 01:08, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
According to information collected by Ballotpedia, as of July 24, 2015, 23 total counties in Alabama, Kentucky, and Texas are not yet known to be issuing licenses to same-sex couples for various reasons:
I'm glad the table in my sandbox was useful. Can you please explain the ranges in the total columns? There's no indication in the article why the totals are reported as such rather than the ostensible total. Njsustain ( talk) 19:29, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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I see there was an edit war at Template:C-cmn. I'm here to provide the source so that it doesn't get reverted again. This is also the source I use for the generic a. The source is [4] page 69 - the treatment is the same as wei and you; page 67 for the generic a form. Cheers.-- Officer781 ( talk) 14:55, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
It's not up to me. Whatever people agree on on the IPA key talk page is fine. The key just needs to agree with the output from the template. Also, [a] isn't very close to the 'u' in 'cut'. — kwami ( talk) 17:08, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
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Gatoclass ( talk) 07:13, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
Tunisian Arabic is nominated for GA Status. Please review this work and adjust it if he involves several deficiencies.
Yours Sincerely,
-- Csisc ( talk) 18:29, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
The Planemos category and the Solar System objects in hydrostatic equilibrium category are separate categories. Planemos is for non-planets and non-dwarf planets, as well as planets outside our solar system. The hydrostatic equilibrium category is for all Solar System objects, including planets, in hydrostatic equilibrium. They are separate categories. DN-boards1 ( talk) 19:29, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello admin, as per recent closure of move discussion you decided to move the page to Elara. Is it really possible when there is hardly any clear consensus regarding move. Most of people opposed move, I mean what we look for in such discussion? quantity or quality? I think your decision is really controversial, still I have no more concern regarding this issue. But other people can object the move. I think result should have been "no clear consensus", because we see no consensus for moving the page. Thank you. -- Human3015 Send WikiLove 21:03, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
I think you are mistaken. The base name goes to the dabpage. Both the album and the song are equally significant and popular. -- George Ho ( talk) 22:08, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
You closed this discussion as "moved" but the page wasn't moved. I'm not sure if it was an oversight, technical limitation, or you meant "not moved", but regardless just a heads up. Wugapodes ( talk) 00:25, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Kwamikagami. I know Kalenjin is NOT a single language and I never wrote this- instead I wrote that it is a macrolanguage that comprises of nine dialects of varying degrees of mutual intelligibility (note: this means some of them might not even be mutually intelligiible, which I DID say in the "varieties" section, where I presented the results of a study on this - and I included it in the references) and I added a hyperlink to the word macrolanguage. Macrolanguage is a technical term used by ethnologue, it is not a term I invented. There is even a wikipedia article on what macrolanguage codes mean ( /info/en/?search=ISO_639_macrolanguage). If you search for "Kalenjin language" in Ethnologue, the following comes up: https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kln. This, as you can see, includes the 9 dialects that I had in my wikipedia article, and which you removed. By the way, all this information is from the (2015) edition while in your version you cite the (2013) edition of Ethnologue. So, please read those before you write that other people write "nonsense" in your review summaries...
So, from reading Ethnologue, Glottolog, Toweett (1979) and Creider (1989), my understanding is that "Kalenjin languages" (plural) is a genetic classification, which includes the languages of Tanzania, whereas "Kalenjin language" is the name given to the Kenyan dialects only. Since there is already an article on wikipedia on "Kalenjin languages" ( /info/en/?search=Kalenjin_languages), and since in Kenya "Kalenjin language" is seen as a single language (as you yourself wrote in the introduction to the article, it is the use of this term that politically unified the Kalenjin peoples), I thought it was appropriate to include in the article what people mean when they refer to Kalenjin as a single language.
Moreover, you write Nandi is the principal dialect, which is just wrong, since Kipsigis has almost twice as many speakers (see ethnologue if you don't believe me). And you do include Kipsigis in your varieties, so it's not that you think it's not part of "Nandi-Markweta" (which is just an internal genetic subdivision of Kalenjin languages, on which people do not agree. for example, glottolog and ethnologue have a different internal classification of Kalenjin as a branch).
Also, you say that Kalenjin people make up 18% of the population (but you don't have a reference for it). According to the wikipedia page on Kalenjin people, they make up 12% of the population, but I didn't have time to verify it, so I just deleted that part, since I thought it was not essential.
You also say that "The Kenyan conception of Kalenjin includes Kipsigis and Terik but not Markweta, ". I don't know where you got this from since there is no reference but 1) the wikipedia page on Kalenjin peoples does include Markweta, 2) my best friend is a Kipsigis who lives in Kenya and told me that the Markweta (whom they call Marakwet in Kenya) are Kalenjin. I know number (2) is not the best evidence for you, but give me your evidence for writing what you wrote. Also, wikipedia has an article on Marakwet people ( /info/en/?search=Marakwet_people) and says they are Kalenjin.
As for moving the page, "Kalenjin language" actually redirects you to this page, and when I tried to move it I got the message that this page already exists (probably because of the redirect link? I have never moved a page before so I don't know the details).
In sum, since in Kenya "Kalenjin language" refers to 9 very specific dialects/languages, and ethnologue recognizes that and classifies this as a macrolanguage (you like it or not, ethnologgue does), and since there is another page anyway about the GENETIC term "Kalenjin languages", I thought it was appropriate to modify the article in the way I did. To make it clear, my main objective was to include the grammatical features of these languages, and I did my best given the knowledge I have, to present facts from different dialects (so I included Kipsigis, Nandi, and Tugen). I did not want to include this information say in the article about Nandi (which would have been easier because I would have avoided these lengthy discussions about sth that to me doesn't seem controversial given the sources I have cited) is that despite what you think, "Kalenjin language" is used a lot in linguistics to refer to the Kenyan dialects (I am a professional linguist, who has spent quite a lot of time lately reading about and studying this language), and it is more likely for a student interested in the grammatical structure of this language to look up this term instead of Nandi. Moreover, some of the dialects are so close that the general sketch of the grammar (since I only included a very general sketch) applies to all of them.
I am a linguist, whose only goal was to facilitate the access to knowledge about the dialects known as the Kalenjin language. I have given my sources for all my claims (and btw these sources were there in my edits, I don't think such a lengthy response to you should be necessary), unlike some of your claims in the relevant parts (eg. Markweta, or Nandi being the principal dialect...). So I would greatly appreciate it if you restored my edits. ... Maria.kouneli ( talk) 19:09, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Oh, and this discussion should probably be copied to the article talk page for future reference. — kwami ( talk) 21:35, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Ah, I see you were able to move it after all. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 09:43, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Shouldn't Talk:Śuṅga Empire also be moved to Talk:Shunga Empire? Thank you. -- Cpt.a.haddock ( talk) 10:49, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
So ... Ellalan was moved, and then moved back. Can you explain what is going on? Ogress smash! 04:54, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
I started a new discussion to delete all that nonsense about "primary meaning/topic" here. -- Taivo ( talk) 06:24, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Ejective consonant now contains characters in PUA. What should we do about it? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 07:45, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kwami, and thanks for your contributions. A couple of general editing suggestions for you to consider:
Thanks in advance for considering these suggestions. Eric talk 19:48, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Yikes, that's a high upload failure rate. I have not experienced that--I wonder what's causing it. Do you always edit using the same connection? Not my area of expertise, but I'm wondering if it's a stability issue with your internet connection. Eric talk 21:10, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello - would you please explain your finding of consensus at Talk:Greyshirt_(comics)#Requested_move_20_July_2015. 4-3 seems a bit close for consensus where there are policy arguments on both sides, especially for a non-admin close. Thanks. Dohn joe ( talk) 23:17, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Kwami - I was just looking at the article on the Bronze Age, and I read the section on Pontic-Caspian steppe. I came across this sentence, which did not seem to fit with the other sentences, either in terms of the flow of meaning or in terms of the quality of the writing:
If you think it makes a useful point and should stay there, can you fix the grammar of the sentence? Also, it is not really clear to what the initial "it" refers. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:29, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Your move of Gangsta. to Gangsta (manga) was extremely inappropriate: per WP:RMNAC, for a non-admin to move a page, consensus must be clear, which it was not. Also, while the relevant policies are currently the subject of a discussion, there is currently nothing forbidding the use of a period as disambiguation. I suggest you either revert your move or ask someone who can to do so. Your close essentially amounts to a WP:SUPERVOTE. Also, you failed to move the talk page. G S Palmer ( talk • contribs) 01:34, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a Move review of Gangsta (manga). Because you closed the move discussion for this page, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the move review. G S Palmer ( talk • contribs) 17:08, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
Tunisian Arabic is nominated for GA Status. Please review this work and adjust it if it involves several deficiencies.
Yours Sincerely,
-- Csisc ( talk) 15:09, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Kwami - I was looking at the article about the River Exe, and when I read the first sentence in the section River Exe#Topography,
I wondered if the Greek word for fish, something like icthys or ikhthus, were related to the Latin isca, and, if so, why it wouldn't be mentioned here.
Also, when I read the third sentence,
I thought of Latin pisces and wondered why that was not mentioned. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:14, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
I suspect the "more exactly" part was added later (maybe even by me!) from the River Usk article. So the "fish" stuff can be removed from the Exe article as SYNTH. The only thing that would required verification then would be Welsh (or Brittonic?) Wysk from ~ pysg. Also, pysg is not plural. Rather, pysgod is singulative. — kwami ( talk) 20:29, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
*fēsko- 'fish' [Noun] GOID: Olr. íasc [o m] PIE: *pi(k')sk'o- 'trout, fish' (IEW: 796) COGN: Lat. piscis, OE fisc ETYM: W river-name Wysg could reflect *fēskā (Sims-Williams 2006: 80). Cf. also Gaul, river-name Isca, which would be from *fiska. The vocalism of Olr. íasc requires that we start from PIE *pey(k')sk'o- (the cluster *ksk may have been dissimilated to *sk as in *prk'sk'-: > PCelt. *farsk- 'ask'). REF: EIEC 604, de Bernardo Stempel 1999: 43, 523, Sims-Williams 2006: 80f.
Corinne, with thousands of words apiece in scores of languages, we're going to see quite frequently resemblances that are merely coincidental. English [tu] and Korean [tul] for "two", for example. Or Latin [turtur] and Hadza [hututu] for "turtle dove" (both presumably onomatopoeia, reanalyzed as "turtle" in English). Take any two languages, and you're going to find words which look like they must be related but aren't. That's why people work out regular sound correspondences. — kwami ( talk) 22:32, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Just read them. They're in different places. But both are just the "water" if the articles are correct. — kwami ( talk) 22:35, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Could I ask you to review your closes of these articles? You are correct identifying that there are plenty of "Results of" articles, but they only exist as a child article of the main election article (the example cited in the RM of Results of the 2013 Malaysian general election by parliamentary constituency is a child of Malaysian general election, 2013). If the state articles are moved to the proposed titles, it creates a child article without a parent. As I stated in my comments, the moves are acceptable as long as a parent is created. Cheers, Number 5 7 08:26, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Can you explain why you removed the text about voice-onset time in stop contrasts from the pre-voicing article? The phenomenon described in pre-voicing, i.e. the relative timing of consonant articulation and the start of voicing (laryngeal pulsing), appears to be the same as that described in voice-onset time. In fact, it's covered more thoroughly in the voice-onset time article, so I'd almost like to propose a merger of the two articles. I don't think it has anything to do with whether the speaker is using modal voice or not, as you can pre-voice (or use any other voice-onset time) in any vocal register. Thanks. Vejlenser ( talk) 15:54, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
I'm now reading and copyediting the article on River Parrett. I have a question about some etymology in River Parrett#History. The second sentence reads,
When I read that, I couldn't help but think of the Spanish word for "wall": pared. Are these cognates? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:17, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
As you edited Serer people quite a bit in the past, there's a tagging issue I brought to RSN concerning Serer history, which I think uses material from that article. See [[WP:RSN#Are dubious – discuss and opinion tags appropriate for these quotes by reliable sources?]] - can't make that link work, so [5]. Doug Weller ( talk) 20:40, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
I agree with you, there are (to the best of my knowledge) no English words that end like this. The closest thing I can think of are adopted French words, such as "passé". But "djembe" is not an English word. It's the French spelling of a Malinke word. I'm concerned that changing the phonetics to {{IPAc-enei}} will perpetuate the mis-pronunciation. Can you comment on Talk:Djembe please, so other people can contribute too? MichiHenning ( talk) 06:08, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages#Amami and Kunigami. -- Nanshu ( talk) 06:57, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, Kwamikagami! I noticed that you'd recently engaged with Fusus over at Kumasi and I was wondering if you might be interested in looking into some of his/her edits. In recent days, Fusus has made a number of really large edits, adding tens of thousands of bites to articles like Kumasi, Ashanti region, and Ashanti people. Frankly, it's a bit difficult to know where to begin wading through all these additions, but I've noticed in them a consistent use of idiosyncratic English, as well as dubious information that looks more like puffery to me than anything else. I'd revert the edits outright, but I'm concerned that (a). they might have substance to them, buried beneath the stylistic issues and (b). they must have taken a heck of a lot of effort to put together. So, as a more experienced Wikipedian than myself, I was wondering what you would advise doing on the matter. I've reached out to Fusus and am awaiting a response from that quarter. One of the things I suggested to him/her was that we could go to WikiProject Ghana and see if we couldn't get a collaborative effort together to clean up the effected articles while retaining valid information added by Fusus. Does this sound like something that would be viable? Or is this a situation where the edits need to just be reverted? I tried going into the Kumasi article by myself to clean it up manually, but the scale of the necessary fixes was overwhelming.
Sorry for the long post here. If you have the time to advise me, I'd greatly appreciate it, but if not, that's fine too; I understand that you are a busy Wikipedian. Best wishes, Tigercompanion25 ( talk) 17:13, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
As provided in your peer review, the Punic Substratum should not be adopted in the work. We have dropped it. As said, the morphology and Domains of Use parts should be written in separate works. We have done that. However, we need your help in summarizing the parts about them in Tunisian Arabic as done in GA works. We apply you to review the scripts part.
Yours Sincerely,
-- Csisc ( talk) 09:37, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami! In Mapidian language and Mawayana language there is a citation "Hicks 2002" but no complete reference and I wasn't able to retrieve it. I acknowledge the author is Richard Hicks (SIL) but I wasn't able to find his bibliography to check for the cited resource. Would you be able to provide the complete reference for me? -- SynConlanger ( talk) 11:57, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Indi language is deleted, please make the move. I could do it myself, but you can give a better move rationale than me. Regards. -- Tito Dutta ( talk) 04:30, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kwami. I am extremely concerned by your attempted close of the discussion at Talk:Burkinabé in a way that no contributor of the debate had !voted for. This looks entirely like an attempt at a WP:SUPERVOTE, which is confirmed by the fact that you subsequently !voted for this option after your close was reversed.
Added to my concerns about your close of the discussions on the Malaysian election articles (which you failed to answer), I am afraid that I would like to suggest that you refrain from closing RMs that are not unanimous (or near unanimous) until you become an admin. Number 5 7 18:34, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
1) You are misquoting Ethnologue site in Hindi numbers. The site https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hin shows 260,333,620 total native speakers 2001 and L2 users: 120,000,000 in India (Wiesenfeld 1999). 2) You removed reference to Hindi newspaper readership. Hindi newspapers have 36.5% of daily newspaper circulation in India and 7 Hindi newspapers are in top 20 circulation in India. "Weekly Data". Audit Bureau of Circulations. 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2015. 3) The page Hindi is getting redirect from Hindi language, Modern Standard Hindi, Hindi. Do you know the difference ? What is your suggestion for putting articles about all 3 topics in same page?
PradeepBoston ( talk) 00:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
Your RV is unfounded since my edit was following the debate in the talk page. Did you take a look at it, before?-- Dans ( talk) 18:00, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, could you point me to a discussion of the two different pronunciations of the letter "h" in English? House, horse, history vs. honor, hour. Thanks. Corinne ( talk) 17:57, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
This edit summary, describing me as a "POV warrior falsely claiming consensus"
is totally unacceptable, since I'm as far from a "POV-warrior" as anyone can get here. I spend most of my time here on Wikipedia (account since 2006, ~30K edits) fighting POV-pushers, fringe pushers and sneaky vandals, and do not accept being accused of being a POV-warrior, and the consensus i claim exist can be seen on the talk page, where a number of regular editors agreed that it's better to not have any number at all in the article than to have the very dubious Ethnologue number there. For an insult like this I would normally demand an apology, but I don't think you're capable of apologising for the mistakes you make, or even capable of realising that you have made a mistake.
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Ah, my bad. I saw the date "2008" and didn't notice the change after that, as I was skimming the arguments. But it still should be obvious to you that there is no consensus. We have several people making ignorant arguments, based on a misunderstanding of what a dialect or accent even are, and the one professional linguist expecting us to follow sources per WP policy. So no, there is no consensus to delete sourced information that you don't like. — kwami ( talk) 20:15, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
You might have some insight to offer at WT:LING#Help with IPA. Alakzi ( talk) 14:47, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
You reverted me on List of tallest mountains in the Solar System. I tried to be more specific than « Maxwell Montes » which is not a mountain but a massif and added « Skadi Mons » which is a moutain. For an example, for Earth, it's not written « Himalayas » (the massif) but « Mount Everest » (the moutain). How should I do it?
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Is this additional pronunciation guide needed at Mount Circeo? [6] Corinne ( talk) 00:43, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. You added info about the right angle ⟨˹⟩ being used as a symbol for release burst in No audible release a while back [7]. Do you have a reference for it? Where kind I find more info on the symbol? -- Moyogo/ (talk)
Hi, Why should i be blocked? Southern Lurish Language is still a living Language and in three wikipedias has page but in this wiki not. Why you dont want that this page being built ? Biramilur ( talk) 08:07, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Re Origin of hangul. I think it is an overreach to put forth the statement "the entering tone is not a tone" as a statement of linguistic ground truth, as opposed to a fact about an analysis. This is one of the star examples in Yuen-Ren Chao's The non-uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems. In the modern Western phonemic analysis, yes, entering tone is conditioned by the coda stop. But in the ancient far Eastern one, as expressed for instance in the rime tables, the stop allophones of the underlying coda nasals are conditioned by the entering tone, which is phonemic; this is structurally equally valid! And the synchronic phonetics little favour one of these over the other. (To me the unquestioning acceptance of the first analysis seems to have a Eurocentric cast to it: how could a mere tone be superordinate to a good ol' segment?) 4pq1injbok ( talk) 20:23, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Instead of issuing threats it is preferable to discuss things on the talk page of the article. In the meantime I reversed your edit because "removed bullshit" is not a satisfactory explanation to removing information from WP. Contact Basemetal here 19:43, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Kwamikagami. What is the purpose of Template:Two-dabs? It isn't transcluded on any pages, and it appears to be a cleanup template that informs the reader that there isn't anything to clean up. If there are only two topics which a term is ambiguous for and neither of the topics is a primary topic, then a disambiguation page is warranted (per WP:TWODABS). By design, cleanup templates should be temporary and be about fixable issues. A disambiguation page having two ambiguous, non-primary topics is not an issue that needs to be fixed. Thanks, Mz7 ( talk) 18:29, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Does the term "pre-palatal" unambiguously refer to alveolo-palatals, or is it also used to describe palato-alveolars? Laver (1994:136) uses "pre-palatal" to describe consonants articulated in the place "between palatal and alveolo-palatal" (are those even possible? I thought it was an either/or distinction.) On the other hand, for both Jensen (2004:30) and Esling (2010:693) "pre-palatal" is synonymous with "alveolo-palatal". I haven't found a source that uses "pre-palatal" as synonymous with "palato-alveolar", but to me, the description of Maastrichtian Limburgish postalveolars sounds somewhat ambiguous; Gussenhoven & Aarts (1999:156) say that "/c, ʃ, ʒ, ɲ/ are pre-palatal, articulated with the tongue against the post-alveolar place of articulation, the tip being held down." Would it be OR to say that these are alveolo-palatal [c͇, ɕ, ʑ, ɲ͇]? Peter238 ( talk) 14:55, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for disturbing you. Perhaps you know whether khira sagara is the same as chhena payesh? If yes, could ou comment on Talk:Khira sagara? -- Off-shell ( talk) 19:51, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, why is there an apostrophe before the initial "A" in 'Acre in the Acre, Israel#Etymology section of Acre, Israel? I believe the apostrophe represents an initial "ain" in Arabic, but why would the Arabic name for the city be used there? Also, you might like to look at two "dubious – discuss" tags in that section. Corinne ( talk) 01:28, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami, The name of the page Standard Moroccan Berber should be: Standard Moroccan Amazigh, not Berber neither Tamazight. Thanks. Amara ( talk)
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Hey Kwamikagami, thanks for explaining this. I didn't see an edit summary in the first edit and could not conclude, without additional information, what sort of errors were being caused (I didn't see any on the old version). I understand this now. What I'm not quite sure about is what exactly you mean by an "independent pronunciation" (Wikipedia/Google isn't telling me much). Could you please explain this? Thanks, Airplaneman ✈ 01:30, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I'm trying to improve Black American Sign Language to FA quality and would appreciate your input at the peer review since you not only know a good deal about sign linguistics, but have also been through the FA process before. Thanks. Wugapodes ( talk) 20:44, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, I was just looking at the article on the Telugu language, and in Telugu language#Inflection, it says:
and in Telugu language#Gender, it says:
In the first sentence it has "masculine, feminine, and neuter" and the second one it says, "masculine, feminine, and neutral". Should the third item be the same in both sentences? Corinne ( talk) 16:56, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Are you sure the volume of Charon is just 0.0008 that of Earth? Huritisho 01:39, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Border languages (New Guinea) which claims its a language family. Whether Elseng language is in or out, it is either in the Category:Border languages (New Guinea) or Category:Unclassified languages of New Guinea - it cannot be both, so don't put it in both. Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 03:05, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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Arabic language your complining that im being false at what the number I put on Arabic There are 420 million Arabic speakers so stop lying ok dude the article itself says there are 420million Arabic speakers Arabic is one language not many languages im an Arabic speaker and I know the numbers so don't ever correct me ArabAmazigh12 ( talk) 19:34, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the reference to Geoff Lindsey's analysis of cardinal vowels in the Open front unrounded vowel article. On the talk page of the article, I've started a discussion on how appropriate it is to characterize the "extra-open unrounded vowel" as central. – Simo Kaupinmäki ( talk) 12:45, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
No worries. I have not cared to follow that ranty dispute very closely, but was not intending to step on any toes or re-open old wounds. I really have no opinion on the matter, I just don't like it when infoboxes do not agree with article text. If the Altaic hypothesis is considered fringe, it needs to be identified as such more clearly, in all the affected articles, per WP:FRINGE and WP:UNDUE. If it is not actually fringe, but not yet a majority-held theory, then it needs to be properly addressed in the infobox, pretty much exactly the way I did it, because declaration of the proposed Altaic subfamilies as root families of the world's languages if this is not the actual scientific consensus among linguists is a serious WP:POV problem and misleading to readers. I don't care at all which the correct answer is, I only know that the present half-assed situation is not viable. It has to be clarified and normalized in one direction or the other, or we do not have proper agreement between infoboxes and their articles. Actually, I'll just raise this at WT:LING. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 05:01, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
What should we do with the last 2 pages in Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/016 dump? -- Magioladitis ( talk) 11:38, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes! Thanks! -- Magioladitis ( talk) 06:43, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
The images have not yet been downlinked from the spacecraft, but New Horizons best spatial resolution of Kerberos
Why did you re-add this in the article? The image has already been downlinked, and it is in the article infobox. Also, your other changes seem kind of disruptive Huritisho 05:39, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Sir, This is with regard to your article List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers. In the said article hindi is given 4th place with 290 million people speakinh hindi. This is not correct and data seems to be old as taken from 1991 census. The data from 2001 census coducted by Govt. of India says that hindi is spoken by 422 million people in India alone. I quote the verifiable source " http://www.censusindia.gov.in/Census_Data_2001/Census_Data_Online/Language/Statement4.aspx". This data is also old as the language data of 2011 census is not disclosed as yet. Further erstwhile India i.e. Pakistan and Bangladesh also have hindi native speakers in huge numbers. Nepal, Bhutan are the similar other countries. Moreover the immigrants from India to U.S., U.K., Saudi Arabia and so many other countries also use hindi as their mother tongue. All these facts need be given recognition to make this article more factual and informative. Request you to do the same. Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 13:20, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
Kwami Sir, Hindi is only hindi and there is no language called hindustani. Nowhere it is taught. The data is about the no. of people who reported their mother tongue as hindi.Here in this article "List of language by number of native speakers" do not differentiate hindi and hindustani as seperate languages. The confusion may arise due to the fact that hindi may be spoken directly as you hear in news, but it is spoken with different accent also. Change of accent and style will not change its basic feature of hindi. I request that census 2001 data may be given credentials. I also submit that the truthfullness of the fact can be verified by anyone by visiting India. Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 13:06, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
Please also refer https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80 as verifiable source on wikipedia itself. How can there be two versions on the wikipedia? Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 13:13, 23 October 2015 (UTC) please also refer http://www.britannica.com/topic/Hindi-language Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 14:24, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
A language is a combination of dialect and script spoken in large area having its own text and literature for a large period of time. It has its own grammer and other technical aspects to make it perfect. Sub language is a dialect which is developed through main language and having literature, script and grammer in developing stage. As soon as it will mature it may have a separate status of independent language. A dialect is a speech or speaking language originated from main language having no text, literature or script of its own. Dialect, sub language are all clubbed under language when we speak about term language. Kindly see /info/en/?search=Dialect. Bhojpuri, magadhi, avadhi and other are the dialects of hindi having no independent status. These have originated from hindi as main language. So whenever you will ask a person speaking bhojpuri he will tell you hindi as his native language. Please see /info/en/?search=Bhojpuri_language. Please see this https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size.. here chinese is shown to have a group of 13 languages.Arabic is a language grouping 19 languages.Malay as a group of 9 languages.Even if we take english it is spoken differently in U.K. and U.S.Please also see this http://www.britannica.com/topic/Hindi-language.Hindi in census 2001 is shown as a group of several dialects recognizing hindi as main language. Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 10:46, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
please also see this सन् 1998 के पूर्व, मातृभाषियों की संख्या की दृष्टि से विश्व में सर्वाधिक बोली जाने वाली भाषाओं के जो आँकड़े मिलते थे, उनमें हिन्दी को तीसरा स्थान दिया जाता था। सन् 1997 में सैन्सस ऑफ़ इंडिया का भारतीय भाषाओं के विश्लेषण का ग्रन्थ प्रकाशित होने तथा संसार की भाषाओं की रिपोर्ट तैयार करने के लिए यूनेस्को द्वारा सन् 1998 में भेजी गई यूनेस्को प्रश्नावली के आधार पर उन्हें भारत सरकार के केन्द्रीय हिन्दी संस्थान के तत्कालीन निदेशक प्रोफेसर महावीर सरन जैन द्वारा भेजी गई विस्तृत रिपोर्ट के बाद अब विश्व स्तर पर यह स्वीकृत है कि मातृभाषियों की संख्या की दृष्टि से संसार की भाषाओं में चीनी भाषा के बाद हिन्दी का दूसरा स्थान है। चीनी भाषा के बोलने वालों की संख्या हिन्दी भाषा से अधिक है किन्तु चीनी भाषा का प्रयोग क्षेत्र हिन्दी की अपेक्षा सीमित है। अंग्रेज़ी भाषा का प्रयोग क्षेत्र हिन्दी की अपेक्षा अधिक है किन्तु मातृभाषियों की संख्या अंग्रेज़ी भाषियों से अधिक है। source hindi wikipedia https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80#.E0.A4.87.E0.A4.A4.E0.A4.BF.E0.A4.B9.E0.A4.BE.E0.A4.B8_.E0.A4.95.E0.A5.8D.E0.A4.B0.E0.A4.AE Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 10:58, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Urdu came in India by invasion of Mughals in 1526 A.D. hindi was used in India since time immemorial and specifically there are written proof in 1000 A.D. And if you say that "Hindustani" is a language then fine give "Hindustani" language the status of 2nd largest spoken language in the world. Rajatbindalbly ( talk) 10:58, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
I reverted your change. I deliberately chose 'gh' to emphasize that the 'g' is hard, as the documentation of template:respell suggests. To say that GIF is pronounced GIF (especially in that context) conveys not quite enough information. -- Elphion ( talk) 04:50, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, haven't seen you around fro some time, hope all is well with you. I would really like you to go and think about this.Ngangela is a language continuum, just like German or Serbo-Croat, it was not invented by a missionary. There are maps going back centuries in numerous sources showing the Ganguela/ Ganguella/ Nganguela/ Ngangela and their place in Angola. Emil Pearson translated the Bible into Luchazin in 1963. How could he invent a language to publish a Bible in the 60s, when Domingos Vieira Baião had already published a Nganguela grammar and the Dicionário ganguela-português: língua falada nas regiões Cubango, Nhemba e Luchaze, Provincia de Angola in 1939?. It is only Papstein who maintains that Pearson "created" Ngangela "by mixing elements". Where, besides Papstein do we have corroboration of this information? Also, who is Papstein? The most you will find about him is about his travel book on the Sudan, but where are there references to his work in other researchers' work? Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 07:10, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. In Angola, the national language is Gangela, that is the name used by the Language Institute and the name used by radio and tv for that language during the national languages services. As of Kongo, in Cabinda it would be Western Kongo, H.16d, tradionally known as Fiote, now mostly called Ibinda. Don't know if you want to add more than one code per language, we might create a precedent that could become unmanageable. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 22:46, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
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I have been having such annoying bad luck with my internet it is driving me crazy. Sometimes it works like a jet fighter, at other times like a hot air balloon on a cold day. When it is flying, I quickly open as many tabs as I find relating to a subject, only to discover when I go look at them that the connection slowed to a trickle and all the tabs are ‘dead’. So I leave them there until the connection decides to pick up again.
Anyway, one such tabs was this one, the site of the National Radio of Angola (RNA). It says that “Rádio Ngola Yetu, (one of the RNA channels) transmits in 14 of the main national languages”. Thought you might find this interesting. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 17:50, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Kwami: I have a question about the number of codes reported in ISO 639-3 that I think you may be able to answer. See Talk:ISO_639#How_many_codes_in_ISO_639-3_Comment. Thanks! AlbertBickford ( talk) 21:39, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
Dear Kwami, I know you are very busy and do hundreds of edits each day. But Wikipedia is a collaborative effort, and therefore I'd like to urge you take the ten seconds it takes to fill in the explanation line under your edits, so that people get an idea why you are doing them? In particular, in your recent edits on the Dullay languages, I find your questionmarked references to some Gaba language cryptic, to say the least, even more so as you are not referring to any sources. If I don't see more on that soon, I might see myself forced to revert. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 05:31, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
Ooops, sorry, I didn't read your edits carefully before I reacted. They are actually not cryptic at all. My apologies. Landroving Linguist ( talk) 05:34, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
I think, although I'm not certain, that this report is about you. BMK ( talk) 20:09, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
I don't think that the Hajong language is an indo-aryan language, because some of the words are completely different from Indo aryan languages. In Hajong language river is gang but in other indo aryan languages its something else, whereas in Korean gang means river. There are more words in Hajong Language that match with Altaic languages especially Koreanic Languages, so why is it considered an Eastern Indo-aryan Language?-- Diarchy Hajong ( talk) 13:45, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
The Hajong word for river is gang pronounced as gaŋ 강. I is moi 머이 similar to Chinese woi. But I don't know why the Hajong language is considered Indo-Aryan, they have mongoloid facial features and the main land Indians call the Hajongs Chinese. Even the patin worn by Hajong women is not like the indian sari but is wrapped around like the Korean Chima. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diarchy Hajong ( talk • contribs) 12:52, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi @ Kwamikagami:, You said, "appears to be another falsified ref. Not a dict anyway." I didn't understand, what should I do? I'm a native speaker of that language! Amara ( talk)
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(First DYK right now). Now there's a name that needs some smart person to add the IPA: Unique pronunciation, not English, not French, not Italian - see House of Broglie. Awien ( talk) 15:16, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, do you agree with this edit to Ethnic group? [8] Corinne ( talk) 18:50, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I need some help in transcribing the pronunciation of scientific names. They are Latin or Latinate Greek names pronounced according to English rules. Unfortunately, a lot of them cannot be found in usual dictionaries (Jones, Kenyon-Knott, Wells and so on). Could you suggest me a reliable textbook? I've found something surfing the web, but that's a complete mess, it's hard to find two sources giving the same transcription, e.g. for Tabebuia chrysotricha.-- Carnby ( talk) 22:07, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
Something seems to be happening at Luri language and some related pages again. Editors Shadegan and Gomada seem to be in some kind of dispute. I recall that you were involved in some of the related prior discussions. (It looks like we weren't always agreeing with each other at the time, but I'm not sure that matters at the moment.) Could you please take a look? — BarrelProof ( talk) 07:03, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, do you agree with this edit to Pine? [9] Corinne ( talk) 00:37, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. Please have a look at the Lucazi talk page. Thanks, regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 00:13, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
hello. can I have your personal mail? I had a question about my thesis which is about one of nomadic peoples languages. thank you. Bbadree ( talk) 18:39, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 14:02, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
I agree that it can remain one article, just indicating the two distinct historical origins of the current form of the dialect. However, this is something I don't really have time to invest in, right now. Bab-a-lot ( talk) 12:46, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Kwami! How are you doing? Wishing you a merry christmas as well as already a happy new year, just in case we might not speak each other after this. :-)
I just wanted to let you know, I added info regarding the Old Persian cuneiform clay tablet found at Gherla, Romania, in 1937 to the page. Odd that it wasnt added already. Should it also be added to the list of countries where Old Persian text was found in general? Im asking this as some nations that are added to the Old Persian cuneiform page, are not mentioned on the Old Persian language page, as well as vice versa. Was there a reason for this? As you're our pro regarding everything related to languages, I thought I'd better hop by, just in case. Let me know your opinion and I'll make sure Gherla, Romania, is added correctly to the other articles as well. Oh, almost forgot, lastly, can we use material from this page as well for this 1937 cuneform as additional info? Bests - LouisAragon ( talk) 18:31, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, how are you? I've just noticed you have erased the Catalanic Community. In my opinion you are right about your decision, however I think the Catalan-speaking community should have a neutral term that hasn't been so much politicised. The regionalists (and linguistic separatists) have disconnected many of us from the reality (i.e. the Països Catalans) in the last two decades. I support the concept of Països Catalans, but the new Valencianism is cautious about this subject. They support a re-connection with the rest of Catalan areas, but not a full integration yet. — Jɑuмe ( dis-me) 06:26, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
The issue should be handled via a move request, and the most common term in reliable English sources will usually be chosen. Articles should never be duplicated just because someone objects to their name. — kwami ( talk) 21:41, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
Kwami, what do you think of this edit to Dravidian languages? [10] Corinne ( talk) 01:17, 28 December 2015 (UTC)