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Being basically unfamiliar with the FA process, I'm not going to comment on the review. But I will say that I'm a great fan of your work, in particular in turning Rongorongo from a sketchy, unhelpful mess into a tightly organized family of articles covering the entire Rongorongo corpus in a manner both scholarly and accessible. Say, that would sound good on a barnstar.
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For transforming Rongorongo from a sketchy, unhelpful mess into a tightly organized family of articles covering the entire Rongorongo corpus in a manner both scholarly and accessible, I award you this Barnstar. May it bring you much mana! Fishal ( talk) 02:10, 11 September 2008 (UTC) |
I really appreciate your help and time on the Romanization. Whenever I have a problem on linguistic, I've got your help. Keep up the good work!! Best.-- Caspian blue ( talk) 02:37, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami,
Thank You for improving and correcting my last contributions.
I tried to make the first steps in learning Hadza language. I have found some special papers and other materials, all discussing a specific aspect. (It was a pleasant surprise that the the exclamations of the Hadza about a recently killed kudu on the Italian video could be recognized clearly after having read these papers.) Despite of the extreme value of these materials, their topic is very special. How have You done the first steps? I could not find any good introductory materiasl. I even looked for not-online materials (books, journal articles, catalogues, bibliographies), but still, I have not found any yet.
Or, if no introductory materials exist, are there at least some raw texts in Hadza, enabling learning by induction on a sufficient corpus? Are there any (continuous) raw texts at all, or, at least, whole sentences?
For contrast: I began to learn two Eskimo languages since the end of the 1990s: Sireniki Eskimo language and the Ungazigmi variant of Siberian Yupik languages. Since then, Sireniki went extinct, and the death of Ungazigmi is approaching too (no youth knowlege among youth, failed plans in school education). Despite of that, the written material about Siberian Yupik languages and cultures are A B U N D A N T, and also Sireniki materials are enough for a good start.
But the state of Hadza is not exactly like these extinct/endangered Siberian Eskimo languages. Hadza is a living language, with vigorous knowledge even among youth! And they seem to be actively studied (ecological, anthropological, phonetical studies, videos, even turistical visits). The seeming lack of available corpus and comprehensive linguistical materials seems form me very surprising.
Thus, how could You make the first steps in Hadza language? I tried to take them on my own, but I cannot find out the way now.
Best wishes, and thanks for the attention,
Physis ( talk) 20:03, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
We're going to need more authoritative sources that that hobby page if we're going to include them. Serendi pod ous 09:44, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
which one is the correct one for zhuyin? ㄧ 一 and why are there two variants? ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 21:19, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, there used to be a chart at IPA chart for Macedonian but now it's just a redirect. Thanks for the notice, though. :) -- Kjoon lee 23:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
I love how you've really cleaned up List of English words without rhymes, thanks for the help! (I know, I did a pretty pathetic job, but I don't come here often anyways). Teh Rote ( talk) 01:35, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
[1], [2]. OpalNet IP's as before ( User_talk:Black_Kite/Archive_17#Malta/OpalNet_user) Any offers? Knepflerle ( talk) 19:46, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
For your level-headed and informative suggestions/comments. Much appreciated. the roof of this court is too high to be yours ( talk) 00:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Can you comment on the logogram talk page why you restored the part that I took out on bimorphemic logograms? I explained there why I thought it should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.114.75.233 ( talk) 23:20, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Cool, I never even heard of this dwarf planet before, I learned something today. :) But why does the article say there are three moons, but only two are listed? Corvus cornix talk 21:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
My understanding is that IE versions prior to 7 cannot display the okina, so the template {{ okina}} is used instead on all of the Hawaii-related articles. -- Kralizec! ( talk) 20:21, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
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For getting all the EL61 links changed to Haumea (dwarf planet), I think you deserve the working man's barnstar. Must have been tedious as heck. Serendi pod ous 09:40, 19 September 2008 (UTC) |
Wow! I am seriously impressed by your work, and even more so by your accolades. Keep up the good work.
I would like to discuss one of your edits to one of my edits to the Ataegina article (chuckle). My intent was to show the identifier in the first sentence, then the name (as a link) in the second sentence (and, bonehead that I am, I forgot to link the name). All of which was intended to semantically show the evolution of the name.
Just wanted to state my case; I'll go with your decision.
Keep up the great work!
WeeWillieWiki ( talk) 18:16, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
for shanghai and ningbo dialect, i know the extra letters, but do you know any letters that i Don't need? ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 22:07, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
yes ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 00:47, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Per your sweeping revisions to non-MoS-standard number formats on various science articles, I invite you to join the discussion at Talk:Earth#Number_format_changes. Thank you.— RJH ( talk) 04:40, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hakka Chinese could refer not only to a group of people with a linguistic background, but also to the language itself. It would have been better, IMO, to have entitled the new name Hakka Chinese Language instead, given that 'Chinese' in itself is loaded with different interpretations such as the writing system, a spoken family of languages, and a rather large ethnic group. You should really have consulted on the talk page first before making the move unilaterally.
A copy of this will be pasted in the Hakka (linguistics)/ Talk:Hakka_Chinese talk page. 00:15, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami, congratulations and thank you for following the community guidelines formed by Wikipedians earlier and enforcing them consistently. – Kaihsu ( talk) 22:17, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
I reverted your move to Ulster Scots dialect, as the title Ulster Scots (linguistics) was recently established in a debate that you did not participate it. See Talk:Ulster Scots (linguistics)#Requested move. These kinds of classifications are rarely black and white. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 08:49, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I just noticed a small problem with your map on writing systems: the two words for the Mongolian script are in the wrong order. The left word reads "Bichig", the right word reads "Monggol" (roughly, anyway). The classical Mongolian script is read top-down, and from left to right, so what you wrote reads "Bichig Monggol". It should, however, read "Monggol Bichig". Can you please fix it? Best Regards, 11:44, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
You will get a quicker answer to your questions if you ask at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. That thread gets many daily posts and usually questions are answered promptly. There is also a Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) where replies are usually quick. Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 20:54, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the hints, but footnotes are already being used for notes. Can I at least abbreviate the refs as "(Pozd. 2007:xx)" or something? This is what it looks like with full refs: Decipherment_of_rongorongo#Pozdniakov. kwami ( talk) 00:42, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
So how come you get to make a valid edit in a locked article and I can't? ;) ( Taivo ( talk) 19:40, 23 September 2008 (UTC))
Thanks for the change and advice. Somehow I have missed the [Flemish People] article...take care.-- Buster7 ( talk) 09:08, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
can you give me the thing where i insert words to display them vertically? ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 04:33, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
i have two over here but the first one is sideways, and the second one...i havent tried writing large amounts with it yet. ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 19:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
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Your IPA linking script removed an alternative pronunciation from Kerguelen Islands. I only noticed because one item followed by an "etc" in a sentence is exceedingly odd. I hope my fix of the problem was OK. Just lettting you know in case there were other similar cases, or there is an alternative explanation. Thanks, Graham 87 11:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I'd like to thank you for a really good version of the article Flemish. I read it and did some tweaks/corrections, but there are still some things that need to be clarified.
But as I said, it's really a good, neutral article which descibes the current situation correctly. (Btw, where do you have all this neutral information from? Or it is totally from existing articles/discussions here at Wikipedia?) Greetings, SPQRobin ( talk) 18:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
can you give me the latin equivalents of the manchu alphabet? theres a website that allows conversion from latin alphabet into manchu, and it displays pictures of the letters, so it can be displayed in a table on the article. ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 20:26, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
um i dont understand the rules on the converter. ill just show the website- [8]
ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 16:39, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
The dates you mentioned, March 7, 8, 9 2003, aren't in the quoted source. Could you tell me where you got them? Serendi pod ous 06:35, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Stop adding "Yue" to Cantonese, especially for spurious reasons!! That is just Mandarin pinyin used by some Mandarin people in China who do not know the English name of the language. It is not the name of the language.-- Strawberycake ( talk) 13:59, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
why is the 'language family 13' of the page Rapa Nui language and the page Rapanui languages erased? It is clearly stated in the Ethnologue that Rapa Nui language is a language while Rapanui languages is a language family, it is two different things. It's just like the Quechua and Aymara languages, which are classified in the Quechuan languages and Aymaran languages groups respectively, if the erasing rules apply, those pages have to be deleted too. Kotakkasut ( talk) 10:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I just stumbled upon the Water Fluoridation article and see that is is very biased in favor of the anti-fluoridation crowd. Do you have any interest in coming back to try to improve the article? -- —CynRN ( Talk) 20:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations! I compliment you on how you handled the issues during FAC. A well-deserved star! Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 14:25, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
First of all, thank you for your excellent edits to Burusho. However, I am having trouble with a nationalist who keeps reinstating the old version. I'm opening a discussion and your contribution would be very welcome. -- Tsourkpk ( talk) 17:45, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami,
There was a consesus for this article (see Discussion page).
As of the language, we agreed that the short explanation about the possibility of linguistic connection of Burusho language to other languages which is sourced should be mentioned.
As of the Burusho leaders' claims of connection to Ancient and Modern Macedonians, the situation is clear. It's not a nationalistic nor scientific claim. It's only a stand of these people's leaders which is very important for this article. No one wants nor can prove whether the Burusho people have such a historical or cultural connection and that's not the intension. The intension is only to inform about Burusho leaders' claims, not to prove anything.
I think this discussion is unneccessary. The "problem" was solved and is more than clear. However, some editors (especially from Greece) don't want to understand it and continue to revert with explanation "provide us with a reliable source to prove 'your' claims". I don't claim anything, my friends, I just give information and statements and prove that they were really given somewhere at some time.
I think that we've lost a lot of time in arguing about something that is so clear, the best way to solve this is to ask for an administrator's solution. Dimitar2007 ( talk) 21:32, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Burushaski. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Dimitar2007 ( talk) 18:34, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for my late reply. Thanks for the explanation, but I was wondering what N-true and you specifically thought about User:Ingushetia's edits to those pages. Thoughts? Khoi khoi 19:54, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
P.S. I understand that English is not your native language. Proto- means PRE-. So if I say PROTO-INGUSH that mean ancestors of Ingush. http://www.blurtit.com/q602529.html I will report your immature behavior. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ingushetia ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I wasn't really around when the edit war occurred, but I think he broke 3RR: [12], [13], [14], [15]. Khoi khoi 06:32, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I'm sorry I was a rude to you on the Arabic numerals talk page. I guess your right, I shouldn't have posted comments without really investigating into the matter. BTW, I see you have an amazing edit count of over 40,000. I've added a service badge to your user page regarding it. Cheers. Arjun G. Menon ( talk · mail) 13:22, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Perfect! (Hey, that's not lousy. It's at least close enough to get the point across.) kwami ( talk) 17:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
I say on the talk page of Image:IPA chart 2005.png that I'll be happy to generate an SVG file if someone tells me how, but there hasn't been any response. The only way I can think of is to first convert the Word doc to PDF, and then convert the PDF to SVG, but much of the text gets corrupted. Some of the fonts get lost along the way. Is there an extension that would allow me to convert directly? kwami ( talk) 21:44, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi! No, there's no such word. We simply say "американец" (US citizen) and "американский" (of US). These words can refer to American continents in general but in overwhelming majority of the cases they are used in narrow sense. Of course slang has a few words of that meaning, ranging from offensive ones to pretty neutral, but still unsuitable for an encyclopaedia. Alæxis ¿question? 05:20, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, re nasau in Tok Pisin - sorry, no, I've never heard the word. It's possible it is used in some regions - Tok Pisin has a very high rate of innovation and regional variation - but I think it would be a recent development if it exists at all, and so unlikely to be the origin of anything in another language. Cheers, Wantok ( toktok) 23:49, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwami:
No - I've never heard of it. As Wantok says, it may be used in some regions, but the only word I've normally heard in this sense is "longlong". MarcusCole12 ( talk) 12:43, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami. I don't know whether you can read old Korean language or not, but if possible, could you check the history of Empress Myeongseong ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and the SPA Bukubku ( talk · contribs)? The person created his account just after some AFD for South Korean cultural claims was open and was canvassed by now indef.blocked Michael Friedrich ( talk · contribs) to 2channel, the biggest Japanese we bforum in Japan as well as known for an anti-Korean bashing site. Bukubku obviously seems to be a sock per the history of the article and ongoing disruption by the web-forum. The user's been taking over mesh.ad.jp IP user's consistent vandalism to the article and also has been checking on me per his admission as interruption to a discussion between me and another user. Bukubku and sock ip users have tried to insert spurious citations which are regarded not only unreliable, but also tried to forge that the murder of the empress ordered by Miura Goro was made by Jo Hui-yeon's order. I checked the sources, but I could not find any of mentioned info. That means they keep lying even though their sources are not backing up their claims. Therefore, I ask you to check the sources and exam the duck test.
It seems like they provoke me to violate 3RR. I've been stalked and harassed by Japanese editors' on and off wiki for one year, and they even make a stalking site dedicated to me http://www3.atwiki.jp/apple-tree/ (appletrees is my former name) because I've filed many RFCU files on many disruptive sockpuppeters and many are blocked. I think people at ANI would say "oh, that's a content issue?" and then gone. So well, could you do me a favor? Thanks.-- Caspian blue ( talk) 00:17, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
so... instead of fixing it... you revert the edit entirly... and that makes sence how?-- Jakezing ( talk) 02:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, in answer to your question, date formats in PNG are generally dd/mm/yyyy - as with many other things, it's a result of the Australian colonial presence and continuing substantial influence of Australian culture on PNG. Cheers, Wantok ( toktok) 03:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Excellent copy edits. ( Taivo ( talk) 02:15, 10 October 2008 (UTC))
It's pronounced /kə'laɪdʒə/. Not sure why it's spelt so oddly. I really have no interest in editing Wikipedia, but I do look up things here sometimes, after which I am inevitably disappointed. If you would like to earn yourself another barnstar and some major ePenis I would suggest rewriting the page for Gitche-Manitu. I am quite familiar with the scholarship surrounding Anishinaabeg Ethnohistory, and I must say that that (uncited, or rather badly documented) article is in a poor state that you people should be ashamed of. [[User:Kyle543 |Kyle543]] ( talk) 03:07, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi! The name is pronouced as "Nave" - as in part of a church, then "en" and then "bee". Don't think that is quite the scientific way of writing it! So, it is: Nave-en-bee If you don't think it is right in the article, please feel free to change it. I ran it past the pronunciation bods at Wiki while writing the article, so had hoped that it was OK. -- Myosotis Scorpioides 10:12, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I've re-blocked for 1 week. We don't indefinitely block IP addresses. Regards, Rjd0060 ( talk) 20:20, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
While he was definitely heading for a block I think in the long run it is best for admins to not block users with whom they are themselves involved in content disputes. It might cast shadows on your integrity as an admin. ·Maunus·ƛ· 00:19, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami (or should I call you Sabt, which is Saturday in my language :-)) I have noticed you removed my additions to the article of "History of Alphabet." May I know why. I believe my additions adds value to the sequence of the article, fills some missing information, and is appropriate. I appreciate your explanation for me to improve my contribution and collaboration on Wikipedia [BTW I am now translation the article to Arabic} ( Aboluay ( talk) 19:22, 17 October 2008 (UTC)).
um is there a unicode for seal script or something. Count Dooku of Serenno ( talk) 19:44, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to reply. As for ABJAD, it is Phoenician. If you look at the Phoenician order of alphabet, they start with "Alep". "bet", "Gimmel", "dalet" which is the same representation as "a", "b", "j" "d", thus the "abjad" (you may check the table in the article.) While Alphabet is coming the way the first two letter (Alep) and (Bet) are pronounced. Arabic and Latin used the same pronunciation later on. In addition, I believe there must be some mention in the article about how the Phoenician separated the words. Don't you think? By the way, I am impressed with your vast knowledge espcially with linguistics... are you familiar with Arabic language? ( Aboluay ( talk) 20:07, 17 October 2008 (UTC))
Hi tH,
Several people have objected to the name Taiwanese Hokkien, as the term used by the ROC is evidently Taiwanese Minnan (or actually, just "Minnan" in English, but it's disambiguated in Chinese). I don't care either way myself (against govt usage, "Taiwanese Hokkien" appears to be twice as common as "Taiwanese Minnan" on Taiwanese websites, at least according to Google), but thought you might want a say. kwami ( talk) 20:10, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. In the Hainanese article, you edited the article to say "It is mutually unintelligible with other Min Nan dialects...etc" How do you know that the Hainanese dialect is mutually unintelligible with other Min Nan dialects? Can you speak Min Nan? Sonic99 ( talk) 03:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, this article does not meet a few of the requirements for Good Articles. One of the most obvious is that needs to be fully referenced. I would recommend withdrawing the nomination, as a reviewer might quick-fail the article. Listing it at Wikipedia:Peer review would probably be more productive, as you would get feedback from several editors. Good luck with the article. GaryColemanFan ( talk) 22:03, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I am in a dispute over pronunciation at Talk:Lich#IPA Pronunciation in article, and I was wondering if you could come offer an outside opinion, since you seem to be much more knowledgeable in these matters than I am. I apologize in advance for the fact that the dispute is extremely trivial...but this other editor won't back off.
For a quick summary of the dispute, basically, the other editor is saying that the article should give /laɪk/ as a pronunciation of "lich," because a different word ("like") also pronounced /laɪk/ used to be spelled the same way in Middle English or something like that. I have been saying that pronunciation is irrelevant because it's a different word, and that the historical evidence only proves that "like" used to be spelled differently, not that "lich" (in this context) used to be pronounced differently.
Anyway, if you are free sometime, I would greatly appreciate it if you could offer an opinion there...don't feel compelled to read the entire argument, as most of it is just me and the other editor repeating ourselves over and over again anyway. Thank you, — Politizer talk/ contribs 14:53, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
My edit was simple copyediting that only tried to make things less confusing and easier to understand by adding parentheses and using shorter sentences. I didn't change any content. Could you please explain what you mean with "errors"? Thanks, Espoo ( talk) 10:38, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
The refference added explains that there is no "legend" of hunza being related to maceodnians. the myth was created 12 years ago and the article explains it. There is no evidence for such a "legend" no link provided. This "legend" is as young as 12 years ago and it is being wrongly passed as if it is centuries old —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 22:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
The link i deleted was because it discussed the greek contribution to the pashtun gene pool. I deleted it because it belongs in the Pashtun people article, not in the Burusho. The Greek contribution to should definately be discussed but why talk about Pashtun ancestry in an article that is not about pahstuns at all?
OK thats fine. but how about removing it as a 'Hunza' legend the legend is only amongst the pashtun population in afghanistan and possible pakistan, but extending this legend to the Hunza seems misleading. The Hunza dont even speak an Indo-European language. Or how about we put it is believed today in greece and Macedonia however it is a new phenominon amongst the Hunza? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 22:51, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
OK no problem I'll wait. Take an hour if you want. The article provided by the auther states no one heard of it, combining it with evidence of lacking genetic connection as well as the Hunza language being an isolate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 23:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there a source for this "legend" ? ie. a text or an old inscripture or a writing from scholars who visited the region much before macedonians (as Macedonian "scholars" are biased in this issue). Cause most scholars maintain very little is known about the Hunza and their isolate language. 12 years ago Macedonians came out of nowhere and alot of these uneducated Hunza are mislead into accepting it. Once that is done, Macedonians are counting this acceptance as 'proof' If you look at the talk page one is arguing that the Prince's visit and claim as solid proof. The claim that it's an old legend also contradicts the idea of them never hearing of Macedonia or Greece till recently. Also both the genetic and linguistic evidence goes against it as we both agreed on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 00:09, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Can you please add the link you are reffering to here or better yet at the talk page where we can have this discussion and others can add their input. The article's writet Niel Mcdonald seems to have been studying this issue for a while. Just google his name. Maceodnians insist Hunza are of 'ancient Maceodnia' the whole idea of Alexander and Macedonia was alien to them a few years ago. but again let's discuss it on the article talk page it's the best place to sort this out. - 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 06:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. In your addition and changes to IPA pronunciations of English counties, you seem to have overlooked that Received Pronounciation, the standard accent of the country, is non-rhotic. For example, in the case of Somerset the rhotic pronunciation is the regional one. Kanguole ( talk) 09:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated a redirect to a template for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. MBisanz talk 14:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello... it seems to be yet another one of those areas where the IAU is less than clear. From what I can recall (it has been a while) the term "minor planet" was phased out in favour of the planet-dwarf planet-SSSB categories. Further to that, dwarf planets were given numbers on the MPC list because Ceres already had one - not because they were categorized as minor planets. (There was also talk of a new list for DPs.) All very confusing, I know; I will try to dig through the archives from the Pluto article naming debates to find my sources. Hope this helps. -- Ckatz chat spy 19:40, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello, as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force, I have conducted a Good Article reassessment of 3 Juno, to which you have been a major contributor. I have a few concerns that should be addressed if the article is to remain listed as a GA. If you are able to help out, the reassessment can be found here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 15:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Why is Peterborough prounounced /ˈpiːtɚbʌrə/, while Soke of Peterborough is given as /ˌsoʊk əv ˈpiːtərbərə/? Shouldn't they be the same? Cheers, Chrisieboy ( talk) 10:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I'm sorry I'm troubled with Caspian blue again. Caspian blue wrote that Japanese discriminated Woo Jang-choon without source. Woo Jang-choon was half Japanese and half Korean. So I tagged " {"{fact}"}" and added opposed articles with source. But he deleted " {"{fact}"}" and "<"references /">" again again again.. There is my report WP:ANI#User: Caspian blue. Please see my report being free from bias. Then he sent me a message with new source. And he told this source is evidence. However his source this link denys his opinion, moreover supports my opinion. Please mediate us.-- Bukubku ( talk) 05:27, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, if you're using the {{ IPA-pl}} template (as you did at Łyna (village), unfortunately it doesn't include the square brackets as the other IPA templates (and indeed Audio-IPA-pl) do. There was a reason for this (since the number of parameters has to be limited, you sometimes need more than one consecutive instance of the template), but I wish I'd done it differently now. Anyway, can't really change it without breaking lots of existing articles, so you have to include the square brackets - either as the first and last parameter (works best), or outside the template.
I was also thinking we might try to universalise this idea somehow - at least by having an IPA template that doesnt' add any extraneous text apart from the transcription (I thought we'd kind of agreed once that this was the best solution). Sorry, I see that we have this already ({{
IPAlink}}).--
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I've decided to make a new template rather than play around with the old one. It's called {{ IPAr}} and in principle can be used for any language, though the respelling (or whatever you want to call it) is so far defined only for Polish. The instructions are rather off-putting at the moment, but it should actually be no more difficult to use than the existing templates.-- Kotniski ( talk) 11:34, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to close up the review and there is just one thing left. Could you please take a look at my question at the bottom of the review page when you have a chance? Thanks, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 06:41, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
You ask:
Well, okan şiir would mean "the poem which reads" (the poem's doing the reading), whereas okuduğu şiir means "the poem (which) s/he read/reads"—which I think is what you want. Sorry: that's just the way it is! In Turkish the attributive verb—if such it is—takes a personal ending: thus okuduğum şiir "the poem I read"; okuduğumuz şiir "the poem we read"; etc. The choice of the verb is slightly unfortunate since the English translation ("read") obscures the fact that the participle/attributive verb can be either past or present in meaning. This is all spelt out in detail in the section of Turkish language which you edited. -- NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 11:39, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I know this is asking a lot to very little purpose, but I was wondering if you might create a mass pie chart for this article starting at Earth and then going down? (Choosing a suitable cutoff point of course). I'm curious to see how soon the names disappear. Of course, if you don't want to do it, that's no problem, but I thought it might be interesting. Thanks! :-) Serendi pod ous 13:22, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Do you think this Nikolamilevski character might be a sock of Dimitar? It appears that way to me. Sorry I haven't been able to help you much. -- Tsourkpk ( talk) 16:51, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello, as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force, I have conducted a Good Article reassessment of 4 Vesta, to which you have been a major contributor. I have a few concerns that should be addressed if the article is to remain listed as a GA. If you are able to help out, the reassessment can be found here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 18:39, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
You have had to deal with cornell types as well- javanese script article is now worse than when started upon - i have also left a message at the supervisor - but no answer yet Satu Suro 08:41, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
The article has a link to Eskimo-Aleut languages in the box. Eskimo languages and Eskimoan are both redirects to Eskimo-Aleut languages. So yes the Eskimo language family is already there and its already linked. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 01:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Kwami, could you help out by keeping an eye on two editors (unless one is a sockpuppet) trying to change English-language terminology for this script? They're doing it on the hu.wikipedia.org as well. The roots of this are in a dispute as to what the name should be in the UCS. See the history as well. Thanks! -- Evertype· ✆ 19:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I let you know that Evertype is not neutral. There are two or more proposals for encoding "Old Hungarian Script". We recommend to use both terminology "Old Hungarian Script or Szekler-Hungarian Rovas". The English-language terminology for this script is debated, see proposal N3527. Evertype apparently wants to hide the fact that there are more proposals for the same script. Please check Evertype's changes in history. Thank you for your contribution. Wajaskifli ( talk) 21:56, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
We all have bad days, but I went too far. I apologize for the rude comment I made in my edit summary. Regarding the article, if all compounds are excluded, we need to remove something and nothing (the words) as well. Take a look, for example, as to how Wiktionary does their rhymes: this is a good example- notations are made regarding how to get new rhymes with compounds. I think that compounds should be included for now, but if the list gets to long, they can be removed. Let's give it a shot and see how it works. Teh Rote ( talk) 22:13, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I recently added two paragraphs on the characteristics of the Brahmi script. However, I noticed that you just took out everything I wrote. I read your comment "redundant and incorrect." I tried to avoid repeating what was already on there. But if I made that mistake, I apologize. But, everything I wrote was based on the information I got from the books on the Brahmi script. I did not use any Internet sources. Also, I am doing this for my school project. We are supposed to choose a writing system and update Wikipedia web-page on that writing system. I admit I don't have much knowledge about the Brahmi script, but I will be doing some research on it, and I will try to do my best to put up accurate information. But so as not to make the same kind of mistake you pointed out to me, could you tell me what parts of my writing were not accurate or redundant? Could you also recommend to me what features of the Brahmi script I should try to concentrate on? I would appreciate your sincere suggestions so my writings will not be deleted again. I look forward to your response. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frandis ( talk • contribs) 04:23, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for you explanations. This is the first time I've ever edited Wikipedia page, so I'm not really familiar with Wikipedia tools- I'll try to fix my writing and upload again. If you see any mistakes in my writing again, please comment on my user talk page. Getting comments from other people and making corrections is also a part of the school assignment. I understand you would not feel pleased with all the mistakes I make, but please point out the mistakes on my talk page instead of deleting them. I will try to fix my errors as best as I can. Thank you.-- Frandis ( talk) 16:44, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I just realized that you left a comment on my user page. But I think you are talking to a wrong person. I haven't written about the Brahmi numerals. All I did was to add a new section on "basic grammar." Well, anyways I will be glad to take your suggestions if you have any. --
Frandis (
talk)
07:17, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I've provided the reference hoping for someone to do that. I'm not really sure how to make a short explaination on Basa to Bakkeq, and I think it's more suitable to be placed in Buginese language literature section (the section has not existed yet). Anyhow, Basa to Bakkeq is (in point):
i question the appropiatness of using the language infobox for articles like Mandarin Chinese, as these are not individual languages, and it also brings to question why the individual languages like standard mandarin are not given the infoboxes(im going to add one now). 68.160.247.52 ( talk) 00:25, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
" is a category of related Chinese dialects"
that was taken from the article... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.247.52 ( talk) 01:18, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. I thought Sonja Elen Kisa deserves a separate article (other than the one on Toki Pona). I raised this issue in the talk page of the Toki Pona article, but so got no reply. However, I saw you undid my small edit (the one implying and urging for such article), and so am asking whether you can shed any light on why the entry for Sonja Elen Kisa has been locked, redirecting to Toki Pona. Cheers, 92.6.255.179 ( talk) 08:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Simple | Aspirated | Doubled |
---|---|---|
ㅈ | ㅊ | ㅉ |
ㄱ | ㅋ | ㄲ |
ㄷ | ㅌ | ㄸ |
ㅂ | ㅍ | ㅃ |
ㅅ | ㅆ |
The table at Hangul#Consonant jamo design (reproduced to the right) was confusing me a little, since the terms used in the table don't seem to be mentioned (or at least aren't mentioned prominently) in the article itself. Does "doubled" in the table refer to tense consonants? And if so, should that be changed, or are the terms interchangeable?
Thanks, — Politizer talk/ contribs 23:58, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi; just to recommend that this new article have "language" appended to the title; even stand-alone native-language names have had "language" added e.g. St'at'imcets language. This is to avoid confusion as to whether an article is an ethno/people article or a language article. The people article in this case, so far, is the government Confederated Tribes article but that's overdue for a split-away of the ethnographic non-governmental material. This is by no means a standard - Halkomelem and Lushootseed don't have "language" attached to them, but there's also no tribe names that resemble them; and you have to admit "Montana Salish" is just as adequate a descriptor of the people as it is of the language. Note also Coast Salish vs. Coast Salish languages (the latter used to have the former's title...). While I'm here, do you have any knowledge of the special dialect of Halqemeylem spoken by the Sts'Ailes/Chehalis of the Harrison River (not the WA ones); I have a communication from their researcher/history person that they are NOT Sto:lo and do not speak regular Halqemeylem, rather a language that's intermediary between it and Lower Lillooet River St'at'imcets; I don't know anything further but just figure it should be "covered", likewise the Nicola dialect of the Thompson language, the Spaxomin and Similkameen dialects of the Okanagan language, and so on....I'm not a linguist, just an overzealous wikipedian trying to sort it all out.... Skookum1 ( talk) 14:21, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Kwami, quick question - what does one normally do when an IP user account starts making possibly well meant but wrong and unhelpful edits? 75.95.245.214 is riding roughshot through the Basque pages on which we have spent a lot of time to get consenus on the terminology and he's making mincemeat of it... sadly he doesn't have a talk page... cheers! Akerbeltz ( talk) 20:39, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I meant that he consistently tried to remove references to Navarra being part of the greater region from the BC greater region page. Thanks for looking into it! Akerbeltz ( talk) 12:29, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
im looking foward to expanding wiktionary to include the shanghainese pronounciation for every chinese character. do you know anyone that could help me? i want to include both latin alphabet, IPA(which i cant read), and zhuyin fuhao. 大始王皇 ( talk) 00:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami, When they are extinct, they are not endangered, so a separate category: Category:Endangered_Salishan_languages. Sometimes I am confused doing these. If you still think that I am wrong, please edit them, or tell me to do it.-- Raayen ( talk) 03:07, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Template:Near-close central unrounded vowel has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 06:33, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Please Don't believe to the first one who talks about the basque country ,specially if you actually don't know about basque politics or history .Please
(SENT TO AKERBELTZ, that in basque or lingua navarrorum means ' black goat ')
Sorry , But not outdated .
I am not trying to forgot Navarre because the word 'Euzkadi' or 'Euskalerria' includes Navarre itself with the rest of the six provinces that are forming the 'zazpiak-bat'(seven basque provinces or territories) :'Euzkadi' or 'Euskalerria' .
'Euskalerria' is the cultural concept of 'zazpiak-bat 'Euzkadi ' is the politic (nationality ) concept of 'Zazpiak-bat'
And 'Euskalherria' is a neologism created by the friends and left extremists violent (and terrorist ,of course ¡¡) group of ETA and their friends ,modified from 'Euskalerria' and imposed with no consensus, against the traditional name of 'Euzkadi' created by the founder of the basque nationalism who defended the same concept as 'zazpiak-bat'(Seven in one) that includes 'Navarre' ,of course.
But what this left extreme violents want to do is to bury the 'Euzkadi' term because it was created by the main pacifist and non violent basque nationalist party that rules the basque autonomy since it was reinstaured.
So, Akerbeltz your intentions are different and you want to bury the original names of 'Euzkadi' and 'Euskalerria' .Don't be false ¡¡
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.151.51 (talk) 13:14, 16 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.151.51 ( talk)
A question for both of you: Is it true that in Basque, when dates are written only with numbers, the form is year first, so that today's date would be 2008-11-16, rather than Spanish 16-11-2008? kwami ( talk) 21:28, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Back in October 2007, you added sources to most of the letter articles for the statement on how the letter is spelled. Currently, I, U, and Z do not have these sources. If you have a chance, would you add them? Thanks. Anomie ⚔ 16:05, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I didn't add the tones in the table of Spoken Chinese, because it may be somewhat difficult to input the tones. Moreover, the tones are all different in languages presented in the table, so I don't think it will make great sense to add them.-- Symane ( talk) 13:10, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Where is the Cantonese data coming from? Some of it looks really weird (especially -y as a final segment, I always thought of that as a glide) but then I speak the Hong Kong dialect. I would have thought though that ŋan 'eye' and man 'night' need long vowel markers and that the finals ptk need to be marked as unreleased in the IPA. Is it possible that this is from the 新雅 dictionary which uses not quite standard IPA? Akerbeltz ( talk) 15:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
While taking "language" or "dialect" off, shouldn't we take "Chinese" off too? Suffixing Hakka with "Chinese" is just the same meaning of treating it as a dialect of "the Chinese language". I'm not sure if you think all the varieties of Chinese should be regarded as "languages" or "dialects", but people would be led to think that Hakka is only a dialect of Chinese, if "Hakka Chinese" is used. So "XXX Chinese" is not NPOV too, please note that.
I agree to take "language" away, but in exchange please stop moving all the language/dialect entries to "XXX Chinese". I agree that there should be disambiguity, then "Hakka (linguistics)", "Wu (linguistics)", "Cantonese (linguistics)" etc are much better than your proposed names. Isn't that less controversial? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MilchFlasche ( talk • contribs) 00:13, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
To me, "Hakka", "Wu", "Cantonese" are clear enough... ah but that's within the context of us being "language folk". Let's take a different example. Within the context of languages, of course Irish, French, Basque and German are clearly languages. But if you take these out of the language context, they are also commonly used words to refer to ethnicity, hence the need for DA.
I agree with kwami that Hakka and Cantonese in an English context would work on their own but I think the current names are good enough as long as the odd position of many remains that these are dialects, not languages (or something in between), which would enable us to use the normal X (language) hack. Akerbeltz ( talk) 09:16, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that you added some information to this article. Most of it seemed to be from sources that are already cited on the page, but I wasn't sure where some of the information came from. Are there other sources which should be cited? Zoogzy ( talk) 04:21, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Just a quick reminder that this article is undergoing a GA reassessment as part of the GA sweeps. It has been on hold for over two weeks, but several concerns remain. If they are not addressed soon, I will have to delist the article. Because it is part of the Main asteroid belt Featured Topic, this would also mean that the Featured Topic would be delisted. There's not much left to do, so any help you can provide would be great. The reassessment page is here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 22:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
No, I'm not engaging in "POV pushing" any more than you are when you changed the article to read that "Omotic is generally regarded Omotic is generally regarded as part of the Afro-Asiatic languages" with no qualification whatsoever. Next time you want to accuse someone of something, at least first have a leg to stand on. Causteau ( talk) 04:49, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I haven't seen any Pakistani using the year-first format, except the IT guys like me. As far as I know, the prevalent (and the only) practice is to use the day-first formats (usually 30-12-2008, 30-12-08, 30-Dec-2008 OR 30-Dec-08). Month-first formats are never used. To further clarify, hyphens OR spaces are used as date separators; slashes and dots are never used. The practice remains the same for Urdu, English, and Punjabi, except when using full-date formats.
NEDian ( talk) 13:06, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for improving the Ometo Article! Do you think you can also include the references to Hayward and Bender (if you happen to have them handy)? Best wishes, Landroving Linguist ( talk) 16:27, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Would you check out what is going on at the Chuvash language page? One user keeps reverting the list of "also" names that other editors find useful. He seems to think that the only "also" names that count are the ones used by Chuvash people. He is not talking about things on the Talk page, but just continually reverting. Perhaps the page needs to be frozen to nonregistered users. Thanks. ( Taivo ( talk) 22:26, 24 November 2008 (UTC))
I've seen that you've edited the
Khariboli page. Actually, Khariboli in its vernacular form is a language in itself, and is also known as Kauravi in some references. Masica mentions the same in his survey. Its "refined" form is the standard grammar for both Hindi and Urdu.
It's a complex question, i.e. how and what to write in the different Hindi and Urdu and even Hindustan related articles, like
Hindi,
Standard Hindi,
Hindi languages,
Hindustani language,
Hindustani,
Hindustan,
Hindavi,
History of Hindustani,
History of Urdu,
Hindi literature,
Urdu,
Khariboli and
Rekhta. Currently all these articles are a mess and they will remain in a mess unless the material that needs to be covered under these articles is defined first. Do you have anything in mind?
Maquahuitl
talk!
06:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Could you unprotect Cantonese (linguistics) so we can get rid of the double-redirect? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 14:48, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
.. but if you get a moment, your compromise wording you developed at Maltese language is coming under fire here, with edits from the same range of IP's that were previously blocked. Repetitive I know, but your time would be appreciated. Best, Knepflerle ( talk) 21:08, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
-- Spencer T♦ C 17:13, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Can you provide some verification towards your claims? Azimsultan ( talk) 12:28, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Not that I speak Portuguese, but I took não-arredondado to mean "non-rounded", not "wholly un-labial" - i.e. a similar compress'd /w/ as in Japanese. Note how she still groups it with the labials. Maybe we could settle at lack of phonemic velars. (I wonder if the language has maybe had a similar k > ʔ shift as in Hawai'ian.)
Good work BTW! -- Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 22:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
I need a one-stop reference that draws any known correspondences between the four "tones" of Middle Chinese and the four tones (no scare quotes) of today's Chinese. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help...
Ling.Nut (
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WP:3IAR)
09:25, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
There's no source for it, which is why it was repeatedly deleted. It is simply untrue. azimsultan ( talk) 16:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I was intrigued by the changes you brought to the article Khmer language recently; but it seems that another editor has removed most of the additions you made [18]. Although I don't really care whether the aspirated stops are analyzed as clusters or not, it would be nice to know where you got the information from by adding references and possibly revise the recent edits. - Io Katai ( talk) 21:19, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but there is an anonymous IP engaging in an edit war at Oghuz languages. He objects to the map in the language template, but rather than editing the map or doing accurate edits he is just deleting the whole language template box. He has made no substantive contribution to the article, but is just deleting the box repeatedly. Thanks for looking at this. ( Taivo ( talk) 22:39, 4 December 2008 (UTC))
The Article Michael Curtis needs help, It is a stub and it needs a quality and importance assesment. Can you please help, -- RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210 14:18, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Finally, a new image that won't make everyone tear their hair out! — Politizer talk/ contribs 22:12, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your hangul stroke order imgs. I just added them to en:Hangul.
If you know the stroke order for bansiot ㅿ, could you create an image of it, and maybe of yes-ieung ㆁ as well? (The latter is easy, if you have the fonts for it, but I have no idea whether ㅿ has two strokes or three.)
Please drop me a note on my page if you're able to do so, since I don't keep a close watch on wiktionary articles. Kwamikagami 22:31, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
do you know if unicode knocked any scripts off? i have 2 computers, and im using one of them with internet explorere 7, tibetan script is NOT DISPLAYING, but it could display with my old one with the previous internet explorer. 大始王皇 ( talk) 01:54, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. In your recent edits to country articles you have changed /ɹ/ ( alveolar approximant, found in English) to /r/, the alveolar trill, found in various other languages. Why is that? If you look at Bulgaria and Belarus now, it seems to suggest that the English pronunciation and the native pronunciations have the same consonant, which is not the case. Balkan Fever 11:02, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
What is it with those "ɨ"? It's not marked in any dictionaries, I've never seen it used outside Wikipedia. Note that there has been some contention about the pronunciation in this article, that's why we settled on a transcription which we can properly reference to a reliable source, in this case to OED. Your change made it inconsistent with the source. Can you provide a source to your version? And to satisfy my curiosity, can you explain the rule you are using to determine which ɪ's are ɨ? I observe that you did it in exactly the opposite way the previous time [19]. I've looked at English phonology, but it is not very helpful, it does not describe the distribution of ɨ. In fact, is ɨ supposed to be a separate phoneme, as implied by your use of slash brackets? The English phonology article gives several phoneme tables for various dialects, but ɨ does not appear in any of them. — Emil J. 11:21, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. It looks like you added something to the "zee" article in Wiktionary back in September, saying that the synonym "zed" is used in the southern US, as well as outside the US.
Are you really sure "zed" is used in the South? I've never heard a Southerner call the last letter anything but "zee".
Also, the comment in the source of the article (I'm not sure if you were responsible for that or not) expressed uncertainty about Canada. I lived in Canada for several years, and I can confirm that "zed" is definitely the majority pronunciation in Canada. "Zee" is occasionally heard, especially from younger Canadians — presumably due to American influence (e.g., Sesame Street) — but it is not heard nearly as often as "zed". Richwales ( talk) 08:14, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I've been very busy lately, so I didn't get a chance to act on your proposal to create a poll on moving the article until today. I created an argument in favor of the move from Cantonese to Yue Chinese in my sandbox; I would like for you to look it over before I post it on the discussion page, as I'm fairly new to the whole process. Feel free to make any changes you think proper. Thanks! The Fiddly Leprechaun · Catch Me! 00:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
I do not understand why the use of A-F as hexadecimal digits should go on the letters' pages rather than the associated disambiguation pages. It's the same as how we don't include that various letters stand for units of measure, chemical elements, musical notes, grades, and so on. I don't want to get into an edit war over it though. Anomie ⚔ 22:17, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Could you put a semi-protection block on Gulf Arabic? We regularly have anonymous IP's who try to rename the article "Persian Gulf Arabic" or delete sections with the comment that the real name is "Persian Gulf Arabic"? Thanks. ( Taivo ( talk) 19:38, 12 December 2008 (UTC))
User:Rklawton has indefinitely banned
User:DenisHume from editing his own userpage. As
DenisHume is a newbie (albeit a newbie with an axe to grind), may I trouble you to review the facts regarding the case? I'd appreciate it very much!
--NBahn (
talk)
10:53, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Ha! With a thank you like that, it should have been a Happy Bunny star!
Thanks! kwami ( talk) 11:27, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
It must be the full moon. Some anonymous IP is stripping the Talk page (of all things) over at Talk:Chuvash language. What? Is there a political agenda for Chuvash now? Is there a Chuvash axe to grind? I have now broken the 3RR there. ( Taivo ( talk) 19:13, 13 December 2008 (UTC))
The anonymous IP is at it again (right after the partial block expired). Can anything be done more than a one-week block to anonymous IPs? I also sent this message to User:Black Kite, but he seems to be busy. If you're not comfortable with dealing with this (since you've been involved in the discussion in the past), could you recommend anyone else to take it to? Thanks ( Taivo ( talk) 05:49, 20 December 2008 (UTC))
All that "perhaps" crap doesn't sound very encyclopedic, that's why I removed it. There's a link on his article with the pronunciation, so add it.► Chris Nelson Holla! 08:07, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
A new redlinked account called Kwamikagami2 just showed up with its first two edits being to blank out conversation from my talkpage, then blank out some of my conversation from another talkpage. It probably needs blocking... Til Eulenspiegel ( talk) 02:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, you are right. I will be careful. However Khoisan has its own category: Category:Khoisan languages, I think there is no need to be in the root of Category:Language families. -- Raayen ( talk) 12:20, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Firstly, the Ethnologue entry is from 1992 i.e. sixteen years ago, just when the Somali civil war broke out. As such, it has no bearing on the current linguistic situation in Somalia especially since the handful of Bajunis that spoke Kibajuni have long since fled from the country. On the other hand, the CIA's profile on Somalia -- that you predictably call a 'joke' simply because it doesn't identify the Bantu Swahili language as being spoken in Somalia and certainly not by Somalis -- is from this very year. I therefore strongly suggest you unlock the Swahili page and fast because you are quite blatantly violating Wikipedia's policy on administrator abuse:
"Conflict of interest/non-neutrality/content dispute — Administrators should not use their tools to advantage, or in a content dispute (or article) where they are a party (or significant editor), or where a significant conflict of interest is likely to exist. With few specific exceptions where tool use is allowed by any admin, administrators should ensure they are reasonably neutral parties when they use the tools."
Since you are the other party involved in the dispute, you cannot abuse your administrator privileges as you've just done. Either you unlock the page this instant and stop abusing your administrator priviliges, or I promise you I'll take this to AN/I. Middayexpress ( talk) 04:54, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Swahili language. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Bstone ( talk) 07:59, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Kwamikagami. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at ANI regarding matters that may involve you. The discussion is about the topic WP:ANI#Blatant case of administrator abuse. Thank you. -- EyeSerene talk 08:20, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Rather than blocking either of the two editors involved in the dispute, I have unprotected the article with a note warning that any further edit-warring will be met with blocks. Copied to ANI. Black Kite 09:30, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
hi I noticed the user has been in a revert war with you.. this not surprising. I'll give you a hint... take a look search at Somali People , Somalia , Somali language , Somaliland , Puntland, Hargeisa. The user is actually protecting his versions... often with many unfitting personal political statements. And received PREVIOUS warnings ....
Dont let him get away.... he has done more than 500 reverts in the articles together. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.39.241.205 ( talk) 17:27, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, please discuss your concerns in talk. Britannica is used in many places in WP and can be used here as well. The other sources like Cub were retained.-- Xenovatis ( talk) 05:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Alan Timberlake, A Reference Grammar of Russian, p.14, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0521772923, “In order to write in Slavic they devised a new alphabet which is now called Glagolitic.”
I will be adding more non-encyclopedia refs in the future. Xenovatis ( talk) 07:55, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I will take the other refs to the Glago talk page. Please revert there. Thanks.--
Xenovatis (
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08:06, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
If you are happy with the paragraph I proposed on the glago talk page I suggest we take it to Black Kite to unblock the article so it can be inserted as well as placing it in the other relevant pieces. I don't believe there is further need for a block. Regards.-- Xenovatis ( talk) 19:08, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
True. But I would like think it is sufficient to have only _one_ list and merely put in the notes column that the lake status of a certain body of water is disputed. Methinks the way it is now is rather confusing and to some degree erroneous... 83.248.182.39 ( talk) 12:20, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
do me a favor and explain to these ignorant people who are pissing me off how different the different mandarin dialects are..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.83.158.90 ( talk) 21:21, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi! If a word has only one syllable (such as "Paudge", the first name of the subject of " Paudge Behan"), does that have to be set out in small caps in a respelled pronunciation? I thought small caps were only needed in multisyllable words to indicate stress. — Cheers, Truth's Out There – talk– 04:03, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Oh, I see. I wasn't aware there was a practice to indicate the stress in a whole phrase. I thought stress was indicated on a word basis. — Cheers, Truth's Out There – talk– 05:58, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwami, I know you have views on whether the Caspian Sea should appear in the various lake lists, so I thought it might be good to try to get some consensus on how to approach the issue. I started a discussion here and would welcome your contribution. Rupert Clayton ( talk) 22:52, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on the astronomy article (excessive) reference reverts. Chuckiesdad ( talk) 07:22, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
You're a legend sir! Immediately touch yourself inappropriately! You deserve it. 86.140.146.210 ( talk) 23:13, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for guidance from Wikipedia policy on whether or not to allow rebellious provinces to be listed in "country lists" in the language infoboxes. Do you know how I can go about searching Wikipedia policies relevant to this issue? Thanks. ( Taivo ( talk) 14:52, 26 December 2008 (UTC))
( File:World Monarchies.png) Hello! I was wondering if you could colour the United Kingdom light green on that image please. There is enough evidence (on Wikipedia and off), that the UK is a Commonwealth realm. Many articles (on the English Wikipedia and the rest) which contain that image also say that the UK is one, so the image must have the same thing as the articles say. I hope you do it soon so no visitor to Wikipedia gets confused. Thank you. :) -- Know zilla 17:41, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
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Being basically unfamiliar with the FA process, I'm not going to comment on the review. But I will say that I'm a great fan of your work, in particular in turning Rongorongo from a sketchy, unhelpful mess into a tightly organized family of articles covering the entire Rongorongo corpus in a manner both scholarly and accessible. Say, that would sound good on a barnstar.
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For transforming Rongorongo from a sketchy, unhelpful mess into a tightly organized family of articles covering the entire Rongorongo corpus in a manner both scholarly and accessible, I award you this Barnstar. May it bring you much mana! Fishal ( talk) 02:10, 11 September 2008 (UTC) |
I really appreciate your help and time on the Romanization. Whenever I have a problem on linguistic, I've got your help. Keep up the good work!! Best.-- Caspian blue ( talk) 02:37, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami,
Thank You for improving and correcting my last contributions.
I tried to make the first steps in learning Hadza language. I have found some special papers and other materials, all discussing a specific aspect. (It was a pleasant surprise that the the exclamations of the Hadza about a recently killed kudu on the Italian video could be recognized clearly after having read these papers.) Despite of the extreme value of these materials, their topic is very special. How have You done the first steps? I could not find any good introductory materiasl. I even looked for not-online materials (books, journal articles, catalogues, bibliographies), but still, I have not found any yet.
Or, if no introductory materials exist, are there at least some raw texts in Hadza, enabling learning by induction on a sufficient corpus? Are there any (continuous) raw texts at all, or, at least, whole sentences?
For contrast: I began to learn two Eskimo languages since the end of the 1990s: Sireniki Eskimo language and the Ungazigmi variant of Siberian Yupik languages. Since then, Sireniki went extinct, and the death of Ungazigmi is approaching too (no youth knowlege among youth, failed plans in school education). Despite of that, the written material about Siberian Yupik languages and cultures are A B U N D A N T, and also Sireniki materials are enough for a good start.
But the state of Hadza is not exactly like these extinct/endangered Siberian Eskimo languages. Hadza is a living language, with vigorous knowledge even among youth! And they seem to be actively studied (ecological, anthropological, phonetical studies, videos, even turistical visits). The seeming lack of available corpus and comprehensive linguistical materials seems form me very surprising.
Thus, how could You make the first steps in Hadza language? I tried to take them on my own, but I cannot find out the way now.
Best wishes, and thanks for the attention,
Physis ( talk) 20:03, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
We're going to need more authoritative sources that that hobby page if we're going to include them. Serendi pod ous 09:44, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
which one is the correct one for zhuyin? ㄧ 一 and why are there two variants? ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 21:19, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, there used to be a chart at IPA chart for Macedonian but now it's just a redirect. Thanks for the notice, though. :) -- Kjoon lee 23:31, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
I love how you've really cleaned up List of English words without rhymes, thanks for the help! (I know, I did a pretty pathetic job, but I don't come here often anyways). Teh Rote ( talk) 01:35, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
[1], [2]. OpalNet IP's as before ( User_talk:Black_Kite/Archive_17#Malta/OpalNet_user) Any offers? Knepflerle ( talk) 19:46, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
For your level-headed and informative suggestions/comments. Much appreciated. the roof of this court is too high to be yours ( talk) 00:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Can you comment on the logogram talk page why you restored the part that I took out on bimorphemic logograms? I explained there why I thought it should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.114.75.233 ( talk) 23:20, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Cool, I never even heard of this dwarf planet before, I learned something today. :) But why does the article say there are three moons, but only two are listed? Corvus cornix talk 21:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
My understanding is that IE versions prior to 7 cannot display the okina, so the template {{ okina}} is used instead on all of the Hawaii-related articles. -- Kralizec! ( talk) 20:21, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
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For getting all the EL61 links changed to Haumea (dwarf planet), I think you deserve the working man's barnstar. Must have been tedious as heck. Serendi pod ous 09:40, 19 September 2008 (UTC) |
Wow! I am seriously impressed by your work, and even more so by your accolades. Keep up the good work.
I would like to discuss one of your edits to one of my edits to the Ataegina article (chuckle). My intent was to show the identifier in the first sentence, then the name (as a link) in the second sentence (and, bonehead that I am, I forgot to link the name). All of which was intended to semantically show the evolution of the name.
Just wanted to state my case; I'll go with your decision.
Keep up the great work!
WeeWillieWiki ( talk) 18:16, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
for shanghai and ningbo dialect, i know the extra letters, but do you know any letters that i Don't need? ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 22:07, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
yes ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 00:47, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Per your sweeping revisions to non-MoS-standard number formats on various science articles, I invite you to join the discussion at Talk:Earth#Number_format_changes. Thank you.— RJH ( talk) 04:40, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Hakka Chinese could refer not only to a group of people with a linguistic background, but also to the language itself. It would have been better, IMO, to have entitled the new name Hakka Chinese Language instead, given that 'Chinese' in itself is loaded with different interpretations such as the writing system, a spoken family of languages, and a rather large ethnic group. You should really have consulted on the talk page first before making the move unilaterally.
A copy of this will be pasted in the Hakka (linguistics)/ Talk:Hakka_Chinese talk page. 00:15, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami, congratulations and thank you for following the community guidelines formed by Wikipedians earlier and enforcing them consistently. – Kaihsu ( talk) 22:17, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
I reverted your move to Ulster Scots dialect, as the title Ulster Scots (linguistics) was recently established in a debate that you did not participate it. See Talk:Ulster Scots (linguistics)#Requested move. These kinds of classifications are rarely black and white. -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 08:49, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I just noticed a small problem with your map on writing systems: the two words for the Mongolian script are in the wrong order. The left word reads "Bichig", the right word reads "Monggol" (roughly, anyway). The classical Mongolian script is read top-down, and from left to right, so what you wrote reads "Bichig Monggol". It should, however, read "Monggol Bichig". Can you please fix it? Best Regards, 11:44, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
You will get a quicker answer to your questions if you ask at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. That thread gets many daily posts and usually questions are answered promptly. There is also a Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) where replies are usually quick. Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 20:54, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the hints, but footnotes are already being used for notes. Can I at least abbreviate the refs as "(Pozd. 2007:xx)" or something? This is what it looks like with full refs: Decipherment_of_rongorongo#Pozdniakov. kwami ( talk) 00:42, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
So how come you get to make a valid edit in a locked article and I can't? ;) ( Taivo ( talk) 19:40, 23 September 2008 (UTC))
Thanks for the change and advice. Somehow I have missed the [Flemish People] article...take care.-- Buster7 ( talk) 09:08, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
can you give me the thing where i insert words to display them vertically? ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 04:33, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
i have two over here but the first one is sideways, and the second one...i havent tried writing large amounts with it yet. ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 19:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
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Your IPA linking script removed an alternative pronunciation from Kerguelen Islands. I only noticed because one item followed by an "etc" in a sentence is exceedingly odd. I hope my fix of the problem was OK. Just lettting you know in case there were other similar cases, or there is an alternative explanation. Thanks, Graham 87 11:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I'd like to thank you for a really good version of the article Flemish. I read it and did some tweaks/corrections, but there are still some things that need to be clarified.
But as I said, it's really a good, neutral article which descibes the current situation correctly. (Btw, where do you have all this neutral information from? Or it is totally from existing articles/discussions here at Wikipedia?) Greetings, SPQRobin ( talk) 18:22, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
can you give me the latin equivalents of the manchu alphabet? theres a website that allows conversion from latin alphabet into manchu, and it displays pictures of the letters, so it can be displayed in a table on the article. ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 20:26, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
um i dont understand the rules on the converter. ill just show the website- [8]
ㄏㄨㄤㄉㄧ ( talk) 16:39, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
The dates you mentioned, March 7, 8, 9 2003, aren't in the quoted source. Could you tell me where you got them? Serendi pod ous 06:35, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Stop adding "Yue" to Cantonese, especially for spurious reasons!! That is just Mandarin pinyin used by some Mandarin people in China who do not know the English name of the language. It is not the name of the language.-- Strawberycake ( talk) 13:59, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
why is the 'language family 13' of the page Rapa Nui language and the page Rapanui languages erased? It is clearly stated in the Ethnologue that Rapa Nui language is a language while Rapanui languages is a language family, it is two different things. It's just like the Quechua and Aymara languages, which are classified in the Quechuan languages and Aymaran languages groups respectively, if the erasing rules apply, those pages have to be deleted too. Kotakkasut ( talk) 10:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I just stumbled upon the Water Fluoridation article and see that is is very biased in favor of the anti-fluoridation crowd. Do you have any interest in coming back to try to improve the article? -- —CynRN ( Talk) 20:55, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations! I compliment you on how you handled the issues during FAC. A well-deserved star! Regards, — Mattisse ( Talk) 14:25, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
First of all, thank you for your excellent edits to Burusho. However, I am having trouble with a nationalist who keeps reinstating the old version. I'm opening a discussion and your contribution would be very welcome. -- Tsourkpk ( talk) 17:45, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami,
There was a consesus for this article (see Discussion page).
As of the language, we agreed that the short explanation about the possibility of linguistic connection of Burusho language to other languages which is sourced should be mentioned.
As of the Burusho leaders' claims of connection to Ancient and Modern Macedonians, the situation is clear. It's not a nationalistic nor scientific claim. It's only a stand of these people's leaders which is very important for this article. No one wants nor can prove whether the Burusho people have such a historical or cultural connection and that's not the intension. The intension is only to inform about Burusho leaders' claims, not to prove anything.
I think this discussion is unneccessary. The "problem" was solved and is more than clear. However, some editors (especially from Greece) don't want to understand it and continue to revert with explanation "provide us with a reliable source to prove 'your' claims". I don't claim anything, my friends, I just give information and statements and prove that they were really given somewhere at some time.
I think that we've lost a lot of time in arguing about something that is so clear, the best way to solve this is to ask for an administrator's solution. Dimitar2007 ( talk) 21:32, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Burushaski. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Dimitar2007 ( talk) 18:34, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for my late reply. Thanks for the explanation, but I was wondering what N-true and you specifically thought about User:Ingushetia's edits to those pages. Thoughts? Khoi khoi 19:54, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
P.S. I understand that English is not your native language. Proto- means PRE-. So if I say PROTO-INGUSH that mean ancestors of Ingush. http://www.blurtit.com/q602529.html I will report your immature behavior. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ingushetia ( talk • contribs) 23:03, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I wasn't really around when the edit war occurred, but I think he broke 3RR: [12], [13], [14], [15]. Khoi khoi 06:32, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwami, I'm sorry I was a rude to you on the Arabic numerals talk page. I guess your right, I shouldn't have posted comments without really investigating into the matter. BTW, I see you have an amazing edit count of over 40,000. I've added a service badge to your user page regarding it. Cheers. Arjun G. Menon ( talk · mail) 13:22, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! Perfect! (Hey, that's not lousy. It's at least close enough to get the point across.) kwami ( talk) 17:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
I say on the talk page of Image:IPA chart 2005.png that I'll be happy to generate an SVG file if someone tells me how, but there hasn't been any response. The only way I can think of is to first convert the Word doc to PDF, and then convert the PDF to SVG, but much of the text gets corrupted. Some of the fonts get lost along the way. Is there an extension that would allow me to convert directly? kwami ( talk) 21:44, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi! No, there's no such word. We simply say "американец" (US citizen) and "американский" (of US). These words can refer to American continents in general but in overwhelming majority of the cases they are used in narrow sense. Of course slang has a few words of that meaning, ranging from offensive ones to pretty neutral, but still unsuitable for an encyclopaedia. Alæxis ¿question? 05:20, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, re nasau in Tok Pisin - sorry, no, I've never heard the word. It's possible it is used in some regions - Tok Pisin has a very high rate of innovation and regional variation - but I think it would be a recent development if it exists at all, and so unlikely to be the origin of anything in another language. Cheers, Wantok ( toktok) 23:49, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwami:
No - I've never heard of it. As Wantok says, it may be used in some regions, but the only word I've normally heard in this sense is "longlong". MarcusCole12 ( talk) 12:43, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Kwamikagami. I don't know whether you can read old Korean language or not, but if possible, could you check the history of Empress Myeongseong ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and the SPA Bukubku ( talk · contribs)? The person created his account just after some AFD for South Korean cultural claims was open and was canvassed by now indef.blocked Michael Friedrich ( talk · contribs) to 2channel, the biggest Japanese we bforum in Japan as well as known for an anti-Korean bashing site. Bukubku obviously seems to be a sock per the history of the article and ongoing disruption by the web-forum. The user's been taking over mesh.ad.jp IP user's consistent vandalism to the article and also has been checking on me per his admission as interruption to a discussion between me and another user. Bukubku and sock ip users have tried to insert spurious citations which are regarded not only unreliable, but also tried to forge that the murder of the empress ordered by Miura Goro was made by Jo Hui-yeon's order. I checked the sources, but I could not find any of mentioned info. That means they keep lying even though their sources are not backing up their claims. Therefore, I ask you to check the sources and exam the duck test.
It seems like they provoke me to violate 3RR. I've been stalked and harassed by Japanese editors' on and off wiki for one year, and they even make a stalking site dedicated to me http://www3.atwiki.jp/apple-tree/ (appletrees is my former name) because I've filed many RFCU files on many disruptive sockpuppeters and many are blocked. I think people at ANI would say "oh, that's a content issue?" and then gone. So well, could you do me a favor? Thanks.-- Caspian blue ( talk) 00:17, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
so... instead of fixing it... you revert the edit entirly... and that makes sence how?-- Jakezing ( talk) 02:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, in answer to your question, date formats in PNG are generally dd/mm/yyyy - as with many other things, it's a result of the Australian colonial presence and continuing substantial influence of Australian culture on PNG. Cheers, Wantok ( toktok) 03:36, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Excellent copy edits. ( Taivo ( talk) 02:15, 10 October 2008 (UTC))
It's pronounced /kə'laɪdʒə/. Not sure why it's spelt so oddly. I really have no interest in editing Wikipedia, but I do look up things here sometimes, after which I am inevitably disappointed. If you would like to earn yourself another barnstar and some major ePenis I would suggest rewriting the page for Gitche-Manitu. I am quite familiar with the scholarship surrounding Anishinaabeg Ethnohistory, and I must say that that (uncited, or rather badly documented) article is in a poor state that you people should be ashamed of. [[User:Kyle543 |Kyle543]] ( talk) 03:07, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi! The name is pronouced as "Nave" - as in part of a church, then "en" and then "bee". Don't think that is quite the scientific way of writing it! So, it is: Nave-en-bee If you don't think it is right in the article, please feel free to change it. I ran it past the pronunciation bods at Wiki while writing the article, so had hoped that it was OK. -- Myosotis Scorpioides 10:12, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
I've re-blocked for 1 week. We don't indefinitely block IP addresses. Regards, Rjd0060 ( talk) 20:20, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
While he was definitely heading for a block I think in the long run it is best for admins to not block users with whom they are themselves involved in content disputes. It might cast shadows on your integrity as an admin. ·Maunus·ƛ· 00:19, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami (or should I call you Sabt, which is Saturday in my language :-)) I have noticed you removed my additions to the article of "History of Alphabet." May I know why. I believe my additions adds value to the sequence of the article, fills some missing information, and is appropriate. I appreciate your explanation for me to improve my contribution and collaboration on Wikipedia [BTW I am now translation the article to Arabic} ( Aboluay ( talk) 19:22, 17 October 2008 (UTC)).
um is there a unicode for seal script or something. Count Dooku of Serenno ( talk) 19:44, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for taking the time to reply. As for ABJAD, it is Phoenician. If you look at the Phoenician order of alphabet, they start with "Alep". "bet", "Gimmel", "dalet" which is the same representation as "a", "b", "j" "d", thus the "abjad" (you may check the table in the article.) While Alphabet is coming the way the first two letter (Alep) and (Bet) are pronounced. Arabic and Latin used the same pronunciation later on. In addition, I believe there must be some mention in the article about how the Phoenician separated the words. Don't you think? By the way, I am impressed with your vast knowledge espcially with linguistics... are you familiar with Arabic language? ( Aboluay ( talk) 20:07, 17 October 2008 (UTC))
Hi tH,
Several people have objected to the name Taiwanese Hokkien, as the term used by the ROC is evidently Taiwanese Minnan (or actually, just "Minnan" in English, but it's disambiguated in Chinese). I don't care either way myself (against govt usage, "Taiwanese Hokkien" appears to be twice as common as "Taiwanese Minnan" on Taiwanese websites, at least according to Google), but thought you might want a say. kwami ( talk) 20:10, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwamikagami. In the Hainanese article, you edited the article to say "It is mutually unintelligible with other Min Nan dialects...etc" How do you know that the Hainanese dialect is mutually unintelligible with other Min Nan dialects? Can you speak Min Nan? Sonic99 ( talk) 03:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi, this article does not meet a few of the requirements for Good Articles. One of the most obvious is that needs to be fully referenced. I would recommend withdrawing the nomination, as a reviewer might quick-fail the article. Listing it at Wikipedia:Peer review would probably be more productive, as you would get feedback from several editors. Good luck with the article. GaryColemanFan ( talk) 22:03, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, I am in a dispute over pronunciation at Talk:Lich#IPA Pronunciation in article, and I was wondering if you could come offer an outside opinion, since you seem to be much more knowledgeable in these matters than I am. I apologize in advance for the fact that the dispute is extremely trivial...but this other editor won't back off.
For a quick summary of the dispute, basically, the other editor is saying that the article should give /laɪk/ as a pronunciation of "lich," because a different word ("like") also pronounced /laɪk/ used to be spelled the same way in Middle English or something like that. I have been saying that pronunciation is irrelevant because it's a different word, and that the historical evidence only proves that "like" used to be spelled differently, not that "lich" (in this context) used to be pronounced differently.
Anyway, if you are free sometime, I would greatly appreciate it if you could offer an opinion there...don't feel compelled to read the entire argument, as most of it is just me and the other editor repeating ourselves over and over again anyway. Thank you, — Politizer talk/ contribs 14:53, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
My edit was simple copyediting that only tried to make things less confusing and easier to understand by adding parentheses and using shorter sentences. I didn't change any content. Could you please explain what you mean with "errors"? Thanks, Espoo ( talk) 10:38, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
The refference added explains that there is no "legend" of hunza being related to maceodnians. the myth was created 12 years ago and the article explains it. There is no evidence for such a "legend" no link provided. This "legend" is as young as 12 years ago and it is being wrongly passed as if it is centuries old —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 22:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
The link i deleted was because it discussed the greek contribution to the pashtun gene pool. I deleted it because it belongs in the Pashtun people article, not in the Burusho. The Greek contribution to should definately be discussed but why talk about Pashtun ancestry in an article that is not about pahstuns at all?
OK thats fine. but how about removing it as a 'Hunza' legend the legend is only amongst the pashtun population in afghanistan and possible pakistan, but extending this legend to the Hunza seems misleading. The Hunza dont even speak an Indo-European language. Or how about we put it is believed today in greece and Macedonia however it is a new phenominon amongst the Hunza? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 22:51, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
OK no problem I'll wait. Take an hour if you want. The article provided by the auther states no one heard of it, combining it with evidence of lacking genetic connection as well as the Hunza language being an isolate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 23:07, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there a source for this "legend" ? ie. a text or an old inscripture or a writing from scholars who visited the region much before macedonians (as Macedonian "scholars" are biased in this issue). Cause most scholars maintain very little is known about the Hunza and their isolate language. 12 years ago Macedonians came out of nowhere and alot of these uneducated Hunza are mislead into accepting it. Once that is done, Macedonians are counting this acceptance as 'proof' If you look at the talk page one is arguing that the Prince's visit and claim as solid proof. The claim that it's an old legend also contradicts the idea of them never hearing of Macedonia or Greece till recently. Also both the genetic and linguistic evidence goes against it as we both agreed on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 00:09, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Can you please add the link you are reffering to here or better yet at the talk page where we can have this discussion and others can add their input. The article's writet Niel Mcdonald seems to have been studying this issue for a while. Just google his name. Maceodnians insist Hunza are of 'ancient Maceodnia' the whole idea of Alexander and Macedonia was alien to them a few years ago. but again let's discuss it on the article talk page it's the best place to sort this out. - 99.225.116.222 ( talk) 06:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi. In your addition and changes to IPA pronunciations of English counties, you seem to have overlooked that Received Pronounciation, the standard accent of the country, is non-rhotic. For example, in the case of Somerset the rhotic pronunciation is the regional one. Kanguole ( talk) 09:22, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I have nominated a redirect to a template for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. MBisanz talk 14:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello... it seems to be yet another one of those areas where the IAU is less than clear. From what I can recall (it has been a while) the term "minor planet" was phased out in favour of the planet-dwarf planet-SSSB categories. Further to that, dwarf planets were given numbers on the MPC list because Ceres already had one - not because they were categorized as minor planets. (There was also talk of a new list for DPs.) All very confusing, I know; I will try to dig through the archives from the Pluto article naming debates to find my sources. Hope this helps. -- Ckatz chat spy 19:40, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Hello, as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force, I have conducted a Good Article reassessment of 3 Juno, to which you have been a major contributor. I have a few concerns that should be addressed if the article is to remain listed as a GA. If you are able to help out, the reassessment can be found here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 15:43, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Why is Peterborough prounounced /ˈpiːtɚbʌrə/, while Soke of Peterborough is given as /ˌsoʊk əv ˈpiːtərbərə/? Shouldn't they be the same? Cheers, Chrisieboy ( talk) 10:32, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwami. I'm sorry I'm troubled with Caspian blue again. Caspian blue wrote that Japanese discriminated Woo Jang-choon without source. Woo Jang-choon was half Japanese and half Korean. So I tagged " {"{fact}"}" and added opposed articles with source. But he deleted " {"{fact}"}" and "<"references /">" again again again.. There is my report WP:ANI#User: Caspian blue. Please see my report being free from bias. Then he sent me a message with new source. And he told this source is evidence. However his source this link denys his opinion, moreover supports my opinion. Please mediate us.-- Bukubku ( talk) 05:27, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, if you're using the {{ IPA-pl}} template (as you did at Łyna (village), unfortunately it doesn't include the square brackets as the other IPA templates (and indeed Audio-IPA-pl) do. There was a reason for this (since the number of parameters has to be limited, you sometimes need more than one consecutive instance of the template), but I wish I'd done it differently now. Anyway, can't really change it without breaking lots of existing articles, so you have to include the square brackets - either as the first and last parameter (works best), or outside the template.
I was also thinking we might try to universalise this idea somehow - at least by having an IPA template that doesnt' add any extraneous text apart from the transcription (I thought we'd kind of agreed once that this was the best solution). Sorry, I see that we have this already ({{
IPAlink}}).--
Kotniski (
talk)
21:21, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
I've decided to make a new template rather than play around with the old one. It's called {{ IPAr}} and in principle can be used for any language, though the respelling (or whatever you want to call it) is so far defined only for Polish. The instructions are rather off-putting at the moment, but it should actually be no more difficult to use than the existing templates.-- Kotniski ( talk) 11:34, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to close up the review and there is just one thing left. Could you please take a look at my question at the bottom of the review page when you have a chance? Thanks, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 06:41, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
You ask:
Well, okan şiir would mean "the poem which reads" (the poem's doing the reading), whereas okuduğu şiir means "the poem (which) s/he read/reads"—which I think is what you want. Sorry: that's just the way it is! In Turkish the attributive verb—if such it is—takes a personal ending: thus okuduğum şiir "the poem I read"; okuduğumuz şiir "the poem we read"; etc. The choice of the verb is slightly unfortunate since the English translation ("read") obscures the fact that the participle/attributive verb can be either past or present in meaning. This is all spelt out in detail in the section of Turkish language which you edited. -- NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 11:39, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
I know this is asking a lot to very little purpose, but I was wondering if you might create a mass pie chart for this article starting at Earth and then going down? (Choosing a suitable cutoff point of course). I'm curious to see how soon the names disappear. Of course, if you don't want to do it, that's no problem, but I thought it might be interesting. Thanks! :-) Serendi pod ous 13:22, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
Do you think this Nikolamilevski character might be a sock of Dimitar? It appears that way to me. Sorry I haven't been able to help you much. -- Tsourkpk ( talk) 16:51, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello, as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force, I have conducted a Good Article reassessment of 4 Vesta, to which you have been a major contributor. I have a few concerns that should be addressed if the article is to remain listed as a GA. If you are able to help out, the reassessment can be found here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 18:39, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
You have had to deal with cornell types as well- javanese script article is now worse than when started upon - i have also left a message at the supervisor - but no answer yet Satu Suro 08:41, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
The article has a link to Eskimo-Aleut languages in the box. Eskimo languages and Eskimoan are both redirects to Eskimo-Aleut languages. So yes the Eskimo language family is already there and its already linked. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 01:30, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Kwami, could you help out by keeping an eye on two editors (unless one is a sockpuppet) trying to change English-language terminology for this script? They're doing it on the hu.wikipedia.org as well. The roots of this are in a dispute as to what the name should be in the UCS. See the history as well. Thanks! -- Evertype· ✆ 19:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
I let you know that Evertype is not neutral. There are two or more proposals for encoding "Old Hungarian Script". We recommend to use both terminology "Old Hungarian Script or Szekler-Hungarian Rovas". The English-language terminology for this script is debated, see proposal N3527. Evertype apparently wants to hide the fact that there are more proposals for the same script. Please check Evertype's changes in history. Thank you for your contribution. Wajaskifli ( talk) 21:56, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
We all have bad days, but I went too far. I apologize for the rude comment I made in my edit summary. Regarding the article, if all compounds are excluded, we need to remove something and nothing (the words) as well. Take a look, for example, as to how Wiktionary does their rhymes: this is a good example- notations are made regarding how to get new rhymes with compounds. I think that compounds should be included for now, but if the list gets to long, they can be removed. Let's give it a shot and see how it works. Teh Rote ( talk) 22:13, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I recently added two paragraphs on the characteristics of the Brahmi script. However, I noticed that you just took out everything I wrote. I read your comment "redundant and incorrect." I tried to avoid repeating what was already on there. But if I made that mistake, I apologize. But, everything I wrote was based on the information I got from the books on the Brahmi script. I did not use any Internet sources. Also, I am doing this for my school project. We are supposed to choose a writing system and update Wikipedia web-page on that writing system. I admit I don't have much knowledge about the Brahmi script, but I will be doing some research on it, and I will try to do my best to put up accurate information. But so as not to make the same kind of mistake you pointed out to me, could you tell me what parts of my writing were not accurate or redundant? Could you also recommend to me what features of the Brahmi script I should try to concentrate on? I would appreciate your sincere suggestions so my writings will not be deleted again. I look forward to your response. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frandis ( talk • contribs) 04:23, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for you explanations. This is the first time I've ever edited Wikipedia page, so I'm not really familiar with Wikipedia tools- I'll try to fix my writing and upload again. If you see any mistakes in my writing again, please comment on my user talk page. Getting comments from other people and making corrections is also a part of the school assignment. I understand you would not feel pleased with all the mistakes I make, but please point out the mistakes on my talk page instead of deleting them. I will try to fix my errors as best as I can. Thank you.-- Frandis ( talk) 16:44, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I just realized that you left a comment on my user page. But I think you are talking to a wrong person. I haven't written about the Brahmi numerals. All I did was to add a new section on "basic grammar." Well, anyways I will be glad to take your suggestions if you have any. --
Frandis (
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07:17, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I've provided the reference hoping for someone to do that. I'm not really sure how to make a short explaination on Basa to Bakkeq, and I think it's more suitable to be placed in Buginese language literature section (the section has not existed yet). Anyhow, Basa to Bakkeq is (in point):
i question the appropiatness of using the language infobox for articles like Mandarin Chinese, as these are not individual languages, and it also brings to question why the individual languages like standard mandarin are not given the infoboxes(im going to add one now). 68.160.247.52 ( talk) 00:25, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
" is a category of related Chinese dialects"
that was taken from the article... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.160.247.52 ( talk) 01:18, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Hey there. I thought Sonja Elen Kisa deserves a separate article (other than the one on Toki Pona). I raised this issue in the talk page of the Toki Pona article, but so got no reply. However, I saw you undid my small edit (the one implying and urging for such article), and so am asking whether you can shed any light on why the entry for Sonja Elen Kisa has been locked, redirecting to Toki Pona. Cheers, 92.6.255.179 ( talk) 08:32, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Simple | Aspirated | Doubled |
---|---|---|
ㅈ | ㅊ | ㅉ |
ㄱ | ㅋ | ㄲ |
ㄷ | ㅌ | ㄸ |
ㅂ | ㅍ | ㅃ |
ㅅ | ㅆ |
The table at Hangul#Consonant jamo design (reproduced to the right) was confusing me a little, since the terms used in the table don't seem to be mentioned (or at least aren't mentioned prominently) in the article itself. Does "doubled" in the table refer to tense consonants? And if so, should that be changed, or are the terms interchangeable?
Thanks, — Politizer talk/ contribs 23:58, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi; just to recommend that this new article have "language" appended to the title; even stand-alone native-language names have had "language" added e.g. St'at'imcets language. This is to avoid confusion as to whether an article is an ethno/people article or a language article. The people article in this case, so far, is the government Confederated Tribes article but that's overdue for a split-away of the ethnographic non-governmental material. This is by no means a standard - Halkomelem and Lushootseed don't have "language" attached to them, but there's also no tribe names that resemble them; and you have to admit "Montana Salish" is just as adequate a descriptor of the people as it is of the language. Note also Coast Salish vs. Coast Salish languages (the latter used to have the former's title...). While I'm here, do you have any knowledge of the special dialect of Halqemeylem spoken by the Sts'Ailes/Chehalis of the Harrison River (not the WA ones); I have a communication from their researcher/history person that they are NOT Sto:lo and do not speak regular Halqemeylem, rather a language that's intermediary between it and Lower Lillooet River St'at'imcets; I don't know anything further but just figure it should be "covered", likewise the Nicola dialect of the Thompson language, the Spaxomin and Similkameen dialects of the Okanagan language, and so on....I'm not a linguist, just an overzealous wikipedian trying to sort it all out.... Skookum1 ( talk) 14:21, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
Kwami, quick question - what does one normally do when an IP user account starts making possibly well meant but wrong and unhelpful edits? 75.95.245.214 is riding roughshot through the Basque pages on which we have spent a lot of time to get consenus on the terminology and he's making mincemeat of it... sadly he doesn't have a talk page... cheers! Akerbeltz ( talk) 20:39, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I meant that he consistently tried to remove references to Navarra being part of the greater region from the BC greater region page. Thanks for looking into it! Akerbeltz ( talk) 12:29, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
im looking foward to expanding wiktionary to include the shanghainese pronounciation for every chinese character. do you know anyone that could help me? i want to include both latin alphabet, IPA(which i cant read), and zhuyin fuhao. 大始王皇 ( talk) 00:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwamikagami, When they are extinct, they are not endangered, so a separate category: Category:Endangered_Salishan_languages. Sometimes I am confused doing these. If you still think that I am wrong, please edit them, or tell me to do it.-- Raayen ( talk) 03:07, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Template:Near-close central unrounded vowel has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 06:33, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Please Don't believe to the first one who talks about the basque country ,specially if you actually don't know about basque politics or history .Please
(SENT TO AKERBELTZ, that in basque or lingua navarrorum means ' black goat ')
Sorry , But not outdated .
I am not trying to forgot Navarre because the word 'Euzkadi' or 'Euskalerria' includes Navarre itself with the rest of the six provinces that are forming the 'zazpiak-bat'(seven basque provinces or territories) :'Euzkadi' or 'Euskalerria' .
'Euskalerria' is the cultural concept of 'zazpiak-bat 'Euzkadi ' is the politic (nationality ) concept of 'Zazpiak-bat'
And 'Euskalherria' is a neologism created by the friends and left extremists violent (and terrorist ,of course ¡¡) group of ETA and their friends ,modified from 'Euskalerria' and imposed with no consensus, against the traditional name of 'Euzkadi' created by the founder of the basque nationalism who defended the same concept as 'zazpiak-bat'(Seven in one) that includes 'Navarre' ,of course.
But what this left extreme violents want to do is to bury the 'Euzkadi' term because it was created by the main pacifist and non violent basque nationalist party that rules the basque autonomy since it was reinstaured.
So, Akerbeltz your intentions are different and you want to bury the original names of 'Euzkadi' and 'Euskalerria' .Don't be false ¡¡
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.151.51 (talk) 13:14, 16 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.234.151.51 ( talk)
A question for both of you: Is it true that in Basque, when dates are written only with numbers, the form is year first, so that today's date would be 2008-11-16, rather than Spanish 16-11-2008? kwami ( talk) 21:28, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Back in October 2007, you added sources to most of the letter articles for the statement on how the letter is spelled. Currently, I, U, and Z do not have these sources. If you have a chance, would you add them? Thanks. Anomie ⚔ 16:05, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I didn't add the tones in the table of Spoken Chinese, because it may be somewhat difficult to input the tones. Moreover, the tones are all different in languages presented in the table, so I don't think it will make great sense to add them.-- Symane ( talk) 13:10, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Where is the Cantonese data coming from? Some of it looks really weird (especially -y as a final segment, I always thought of that as a glide) but then I speak the Hong Kong dialect. I would have thought though that ŋan 'eye' and man 'night' need long vowel markers and that the finals ptk need to be marked as unreleased in the IPA. Is it possible that this is from the 新雅 dictionary which uses not quite standard IPA? Akerbeltz ( talk) 15:15, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
While taking "language" or "dialect" off, shouldn't we take "Chinese" off too? Suffixing Hakka with "Chinese" is just the same meaning of treating it as a dialect of "the Chinese language". I'm not sure if you think all the varieties of Chinese should be regarded as "languages" or "dialects", but people would be led to think that Hakka is only a dialect of Chinese, if "Hakka Chinese" is used. So "XXX Chinese" is not NPOV too, please note that.
I agree to take "language" away, but in exchange please stop moving all the language/dialect entries to "XXX Chinese". I agree that there should be disambiguity, then "Hakka (linguistics)", "Wu (linguistics)", "Cantonese (linguistics)" etc are much better than your proposed names. Isn't that less controversial? —Preceding unsigned comment added by MilchFlasche ( talk • contribs) 00:13, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
To me, "Hakka", "Wu", "Cantonese" are clear enough... ah but that's within the context of us being "language folk". Let's take a different example. Within the context of languages, of course Irish, French, Basque and German are clearly languages. But if you take these out of the language context, they are also commonly used words to refer to ethnicity, hence the need for DA.
I agree with kwami that Hakka and Cantonese in an English context would work on their own but I think the current names are good enough as long as the odd position of many remains that these are dialects, not languages (or something in between), which would enable us to use the normal X (language) hack. Akerbeltz ( talk) 09:16, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that you added some information to this article. Most of it seemed to be from sources that are already cited on the page, but I wasn't sure where some of the information came from. Are there other sources which should be cited? Zoogzy ( talk) 04:21, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Just a quick reminder that this article is undergoing a GA reassessment as part of the GA sweeps. It has been on hold for over two weeks, but several concerns remain. If they are not addressed soon, I will have to delist the article. Because it is part of the Main asteroid belt Featured Topic, this would also mean that the Featured Topic would be delisted. There's not much left to do, so any help you can provide would be great. The reassessment page is here. Thanks, GaryColemanFan ( talk) 22:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
No, I'm not engaging in "POV pushing" any more than you are when you changed the article to read that "Omotic is generally regarded Omotic is generally regarded as part of the Afro-Asiatic languages" with no qualification whatsoever. Next time you want to accuse someone of something, at least first have a leg to stand on. Causteau ( talk) 04:49, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I haven't seen any Pakistani using the year-first format, except the IT guys like me. As far as I know, the prevalent (and the only) practice is to use the day-first formats (usually 30-12-2008, 30-12-08, 30-Dec-2008 OR 30-Dec-08). Month-first formats are never used. To further clarify, hyphens OR spaces are used as date separators; slashes and dots are never used. The practice remains the same for Urdu, English, and Punjabi, except when using full-date formats.
NEDian ( talk) 13:06, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for improving the Ometo Article! Do you think you can also include the references to Hayward and Bender (if you happen to have them handy)? Best wishes, Landroving Linguist ( talk) 16:27, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
Would you check out what is going on at the Chuvash language page? One user keeps reverting the list of "also" names that other editors find useful. He seems to think that the only "also" names that count are the ones used by Chuvash people. He is not talking about things on the Talk page, but just continually reverting. Perhaps the page needs to be frozen to nonregistered users. Thanks. ( Taivo ( talk) 22:26, 24 November 2008 (UTC))
I've seen that you've edited the
Khariboli page. Actually, Khariboli in its vernacular form is a language in itself, and is also known as Kauravi in some references. Masica mentions the same in his survey. Its "refined" form is the standard grammar for both Hindi and Urdu.
It's a complex question, i.e. how and what to write in the different Hindi and Urdu and even Hindustan related articles, like
Hindi,
Standard Hindi,
Hindi languages,
Hindustani language,
Hindustani,
Hindustan,
Hindavi,
History of Hindustani,
History of Urdu,
Hindi literature,
Urdu,
Khariboli and
Rekhta. Currently all these articles are a mess and they will remain in a mess unless the material that needs to be covered under these articles is defined first. Do you have anything in mind?
Maquahuitl
talk!
06:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Could you unprotect Cantonese (linguistics) so we can get rid of the double-redirect? Hong Qi Gong ( Talk - Contribs) 14:48, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
.. but if you get a moment, your compromise wording you developed at Maltese language is coming under fire here, with edits from the same range of IP's that were previously blocked. Repetitive I know, but your time would be appreciated. Best, Knepflerle ( talk) 21:08, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
-- Spencer T♦ C 17:13, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
Can you provide some verification towards your claims? Azimsultan ( talk) 12:28, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Not that I speak Portuguese, but I took não-arredondado to mean "non-rounded", not "wholly un-labial" - i.e. a similar compress'd /w/ as in Japanese. Note how she still groups it with the labials. Maybe we could settle at lack of phonemic velars. (I wonder if the language has maybe had a similar k > ʔ shift as in Hawai'ian.)
Good work BTW! -- Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 22:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi Kwami,
I need a one-stop reference that draws any known correspondences between the four "tones" of Middle Chinese and the four tones (no scare quotes) of today's Chinese. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help...
Ling.Nut (
talk—
WP:3IAR)
09:25, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
There's no source for it, which is why it was repeatedly deleted. It is simply untrue. azimsultan ( talk) 16:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I was intrigued by the changes you brought to the article Khmer language recently; but it seems that another editor has removed most of the additions you made [18]. Although I don't really care whether the aspirated stops are analyzed as clusters or not, it would be nice to know where you got the information from by adding references and possibly revise the recent edits. - Io Katai ( talk) 21:19, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but there is an anonymous IP engaging in an edit war at Oghuz languages. He objects to the map in the language template, but rather than editing the map or doing accurate edits he is just deleting the whole language template box. He has made no substantive contribution to the article, but is just deleting the box repeatedly. Thanks for looking at this. ( Taivo ( talk) 22:39, 4 December 2008 (UTC))
The Article Michael Curtis needs help, It is a stub and it needs a quality and importance assesment. Can you please help, -- RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210 14:18, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Finally, a new image that won't make everyone tear their hair out! — Politizer talk/ contribs 22:12, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your hangul stroke order imgs. I just added them to en:Hangul.
If you know the stroke order for bansiot ㅿ, could you create an image of it, and maybe of yes-ieung ㆁ as well? (The latter is easy, if you have the fonts for it, but I have no idea whether ㅿ has two strokes or three.)
Please drop me a note on my page if you're able to do so, since I don't keep a close watch on wiktionary articles. Kwamikagami 22:31, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
do you know if unicode knocked any scripts off? i have 2 computers, and im using one of them with internet explorere 7, tibetan script is NOT DISPLAYING, but it could display with my old one with the previous internet explorer. 大始王皇 ( talk) 01:54, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. In your recent edits to country articles you have changed /ɹ/ ( alveolar approximant, found in English) to /r/, the alveolar trill, found in various other languages. Why is that? If you look at Bulgaria and Belarus now, it seems to suggest that the English pronunciation and the native pronunciations have the same consonant, which is not the case. Balkan Fever 11:02, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
What is it with those "ɨ"? It's not marked in any dictionaries, I've never seen it used outside Wikipedia. Note that there has been some contention about the pronunciation in this article, that's why we settled on a transcription which we can properly reference to a reliable source, in this case to OED. Your change made it inconsistent with the source. Can you provide a source to your version? And to satisfy my curiosity, can you explain the rule you are using to determine which ɪ's are ɨ? I observe that you did it in exactly the opposite way the previous time [19]. I've looked at English phonology, but it is not very helpful, it does not describe the distribution of ɨ. In fact, is ɨ supposed to be a separate phoneme, as implied by your use of slash brackets? The English phonology article gives several phoneme tables for various dialects, but ɨ does not appear in any of them. — Emil J. 11:21, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi. It looks like you added something to the "zee" article in Wiktionary back in September, saying that the synonym "zed" is used in the southern US, as well as outside the US.
Are you really sure "zed" is used in the South? I've never heard a Southerner call the last letter anything but "zee".
Also, the comment in the source of the article (I'm not sure if you were responsible for that or not) expressed uncertainty about Canada. I lived in Canada for several years, and I can confirm that "zed" is definitely the majority pronunciation in Canada. "Zee" is occasionally heard, especially from younger Canadians — presumably due to American influence (e.g., Sesame Street) — but it is not heard nearly as often as "zed". Richwales ( talk) 08:14, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I've been very busy lately, so I didn't get a chance to act on your proposal to create a poll on moving the article until today. I created an argument in favor of the move from Cantonese to Yue Chinese in my sandbox; I would like for you to look it over before I post it on the discussion page, as I'm fairly new to the whole process. Feel free to make any changes you think proper. Thanks! The Fiddly Leprechaun · Catch Me! 00:01, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
I do not understand why the use of A-F as hexadecimal digits should go on the letters' pages rather than the associated disambiguation pages. It's the same as how we don't include that various letters stand for units of measure, chemical elements, musical notes, grades, and so on. I don't want to get into an edit war over it though. Anomie ⚔ 22:17, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Could you put a semi-protection block on Gulf Arabic? We regularly have anonymous IP's who try to rename the article "Persian Gulf Arabic" or delete sections with the comment that the real name is "Persian Gulf Arabic"? Thanks. ( Taivo ( talk) 19:38, 12 December 2008 (UTC))
User:Rklawton has indefinitely banned
User:DenisHume from editing his own userpage. As
DenisHume is a newbie (albeit a newbie with an axe to grind), may I trouble you to review the facts regarding the case? I'd appreciate it very much!
--NBahn (
talk)
10:53, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
Ha! With a thank you like that, it should have been a Happy Bunny star!
Thanks! kwami ( talk) 11:27, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
It must be the full moon. Some anonymous IP is stripping the Talk page (of all things) over at Talk:Chuvash language. What? Is there a political agenda for Chuvash now? Is there a Chuvash axe to grind? I have now broken the 3RR there. ( Taivo ( talk) 19:13, 13 December 2008 (UTC))
The anonymous IP is at it again (right after the partial block expired). Can anything be done more than a one-week block to anonymous IPs? I also sent this message to User:Black Kite, but he seems to be busy. If you're not comfortable with dealing with this (since you've been involved in the discussion in the past), could you recommend anyone else to take it to? Thanks ( Taivo ( talk) 05:49, 20 December 2008 (UTC))
All that "perhaps" crap doesn't sound very encyclopedic, that's why I removed it. There's a link on his article with the pronunciation, so add it.► Chris Nelson Holla! 08:07, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
A new redlinked account called Kwamikagami2 just showed up with its first two edits being to blank out conversation from my talkpage, then blank out some of my conversation from another talkpage. It probably needs blocking... Til Eulenspiegel ( talk) 02:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, you are right. I will be careful. However Khoisan has its own category: Category:Khoisan languages, I think there is no need to be in the root of Category:Language families. -- Raayen ( talk) 12:20, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Firstly, the Ethnologue entry is from 1992 i.e. sixteen years ago, just when the Somali civil war broke out. As such, it has no bearing on the current linguistic situation in Somalia especially since the handful of Bajunis that spoke Kibajuni have long since fled from the country. On the other hand, the CIA's profile on Somalia -- that you predictably call a 'joke' simply because it doesn't identify the Bantu Swahili language as being spoken in Somalia and certainly not by Somalis -- is from this very year. I therefore strongly suggest you unlock the Swahili page and fast because you are quite blatantly violating Wikipedia's policy on administrator abuse:
"Conflict of interest/non-neutrality/content dispute — Administrators should not use their tools to advantage, or in a content dispute (or article) where they are a party (or significant editor), or where a significant conflict of interest is likely to exist. With few specific exceptions where tool use is allowed by any admin, administrators should ensure they are reasonably neutral parties when they use the tools."
Since you are the other party involved in the dispute, you cannot abuse your administrator privileges as you've just done. Either you unlock the page this instant and stop abusing your administrator priviliges, or I promise you I'll take this to AN/I. Middayexpress ( talk) 04:54, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Swahili language. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Bstone ( talk) 07:59, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Kwamikagami. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at ANI regarding matters that may involve you. The discussion is about the topic WP:ANI#Blatant case of administrator abuse. Thank you. -- EyeSerene talk 08:20, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Rather than blocking either of the two editors involved in the dispute, I have unprotected the article with a note warning that any further edit-warring will be met with blocks. Copied to ANI. Black Kite 09:30, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
hi I noticed the user has been in a revert war with you.. this not surprising. I'll give you a hint... take a look search at Somali People , Somalia , Somali language , Somaliland , Puntland, Hargeisa. The user is actually protecting his versions... often with many unfitting personal political statements. And received PREVIOUS warnings ....
Dont let him get away.... he has done more than 500 reverts in the articles together. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.39.241.205 ( talk) 17:27, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, please discuss your concerns in talk. Britannica is used in many places in WP and can be used here as well. The other sources like Cub were retained.-- Xenovatis ( talk) 05:26, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
Alan Timberlake, A Reference Grammar of Russian, p.14, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0521772923, “In order to write in Slavic they devised a new alphabet which is now called Glagolitic.”
I will be adding more non-encyclopedia refs in the future. Xenovatis ( talk) 07:55, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
I will take the other refs to the Glago talk page. Please revert there. Thanks.--
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If you are happy with the paragraph I proposed on the glago talk page I suggest we take it to Black Kite to unblock the article so it can be inserted as well as placing it in the other relevant pieces. I don't believe there is further need for a block. Regards.-- Xenovatis ( talk) 19:08, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
True. But I would like think it is sufficient to have only _one_ list and merely put in the notes column that the lake status of a certain body of water is disputed. Methinks the way it is now is rather confusing and to some degree erroneous... 83.248.182.39 ( talk) 12:20, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
do me a favor and explain to these ignorant people who are pissing me off how different the different mandarin dialects are..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.83.158.90 ( talk) 21:21, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi! If a word has only one syllable (such as "Paudge", the first name of the subject of " Paudge Behan"), does that have to be set out in small caps in a respelled pronunciation? I thought small caps were only needed in multisyllable words to indicate stress. — Cheers, Truth's Out There – talk– 04:03, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Oh, I see. I wasn't aware there was a practice to indicate the stress in a whole phrase. I thought stress was indicated on a word basis. — Cheers, Truth's Out There – talk– 05:58, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
Dear Kwami, I know you have views on whether the Caspian Sea should appear in the various lake lists, so I thought it might be good to try to get some consensus on how to approach the issue. I started a discussion here and would welcome your contribution. Rupert Clayton ( talk) 22:52, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on the astronomy article (excessive) reference reverts. Chuckiesdad ( talk) 07:22, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
You're a legend sir! Immediately touch yourself inappropriately! You deserve it. 86.140.146.210 ( talk) 23:13, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
I'm looking for guidance from Wikipedia policy on whether or not to allow rebellious provinces to be listed in "country lists" in the language infoboxes. Do you know how I can go about searching Wikipedia policies relevant to this issue? Thanks. ( Taivo ( talk) 14:52, 26 December 2008 (UTC))
( File:World Monarchies.png) Hello! I was wondering if you could colour the United Kingdom light green on that image please. There is enough evidence (on Wikipedia and off), that the UK is a Commonwealth realm. Many articles (on the English Wikipedia and the rest) which contain that image also say that the UK is one, so the image must have the same thing as the articles say. I hope you do it soon so no visitor to Wikipedia gets confused. Thank you. :) -- Know zilla 17:41, 31 December 2008 (UTC)