User:Leyasu has been making personal attacks against me on Talk:Grunge music. At the same time, he is trying to insert false information into the article. If you can, could you please stop by the talk page and help resolve this dispute?
Also, if you aren't able to stop this mess, could you please pass this on to someone who can? I've tried mediation, and nobody there will help. I've tried contacting another admin, and that did nothing. This harassment has been going on for some time now and the poor response to it is IMO an embarassment to Wikipedia. The ability of Wikipedia to enforce its official policy is looking questionable right now, and if this continues on Wikipedia is going to lose my support. -- LGagnon 07:27, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I've seen it. As far as I'm concerned, the article could also have sat there with an {{ unreferenced}} warning, but whatever; happy editing and success in 2006 -- dab (ᛏ) 17:45, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey Angr, I am sorry to bother you with this, but I have to because I know you are an expert on linguistics. I am trying to explain to User:Fritz S. that band names are collective nouns and that they are singular. Since X number of members make up one band. For example, " New Radicals was an American rock band" not "New Radicals were an American rock band." Also the user keeps on saying that it should be plural because the name of the band is plural. I am not good at explaining things so can you help me out by explaining this to him and/or enlighten me further. You can find the conversation at both of mine and his talk pages. Thanks! RJN 17:48, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for welcoming me and for giving tips. I hope to visit Wikipedia once a week at least. jayas 17:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Could you tell me what this (UTC) is? User talk something? -- jayas 17:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr. I notice that you closed off the above AfD. Since there were only three users contributing to the AfD, I reckon it would be more appropriate to relist for more input. But maybe I'm biased, as I don't think this band deserves an article yet. What do you think? Cheers, CLW 19:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
At the Talk:Classical definition of effeminacy#Unsuitable for Wikipedia a person on the talk page wrote that the article is "POV" and that the article has no merit whatsoever. I would like a second opinion. I thought it was very good and informative. Am I right to conjecture that you also see it that way?
Another User:SimonP has thought it worthwhile to add that the article needs "cleanup". Thus user has gone to synoecism and xenelasia and also added cleanup markers. I feel this user is targeting my work at wikipedia because it doesn't conform to his politics and/or doesn't like my political persuasion. WHEELER 21:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I edited your usrbox to link to the Constitution. 68.39.174.238 07:05, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Despite my personal opinion that en.wikipedia is well beyond sanity in inflated category use, I've just tried to question one specific abuse: Should articles on languages be categorized according to membership in hypothetical/disputed/fringe language groups? I've taken Category:Dene-Caucasian languages as an example, but there are more, see the subcategories of Category:Proposed language families.
Pjacobi 16:36, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Heh. Okay, thanks for letting me know. -- Whimemsz 05:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Greetings, Angr! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! — Nightstallion (?) 07:47, 4 January 2006 (UTC) |
I've listed two sections in the Phonological history of English consonants for VFD. Please contribute to the discussions. Robot32 22:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I have created a userbox about prepositions here, but I cannot get the userbox page to link to it. I am asking you because you have also made a grammar userbox and I hoped you could help. If you can, please leave me a message at my talk page. Thanks:) -- Think Fast 22:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
you expert knowlege of the german language is being requested for the page pedelec. Your comment may also be appreciated on the deletion nomination. -- CyclePat 02:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm writing to ask your assistance. Matt Crypto has taken it upon himself unilaterally to remove certain images from my user page and block editing. I cannot edit my own user page. I think this is highly improper and an abuse of his authority -- particularly given his involvement in the RfC/RfAs against me. Is there something you can do? Thanks. deeceevoice 13:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I notice you reverted my good faith blanking of the userpage in question. Would you revert it if I moved said user page to a different spot in their user directory (as I suggested they do on their talk page) and removed the redirect? Hipocrite - «Talk» 15:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome and the advice about copywriting pics. I've fixed the pic you were talking about by adding the tag as you suggested. Thanks again! Givnan 07:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
You're literalist interpretation of the rules and willingness to flatly overturn two separate admins has, unsurprisingly, not helped the situation at all. Phil Sandifer 17:13, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Please reconsider your undoing of the block of Deeceevoice. She needs to discuss the issues if she is to avoid a permanent ban. Fred Bauder 19:42, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I was hoping you could help me. I’m tired of Hipocrite be aggressive and being bias. I would like something done about Hipocrite personally attacking me by saying:
"Only if it has been resolved to the effect of "Hipocrite is right." Hipocrite - «Talk» 03:58, 9 January 2006 (UTC)"
I'm not perfect, and sometimes get out of hand, but I have never made a threat. He has an extensive history of aggressiveness, and pushing his views on to others. Not to mention the pages of conflicts he has had with other users.
He made that threat 4 four times, what is that all about? He is saying that the case in dispute can only be solved if I bow down and praise him like a god. That's a Threat, bias, and personal attack me. I feel like just leaving and not coming back to this site, like so many have because of users like him. He's is not willing to compromise on the dispute unless I do that. Hope you can help, Thanks!
Anakinskywalker 04:57, 09 January 2006 (UTC)
I have begun articles on Ulster Irish, Connacht Irish, and Munster Irish. -- Angr ( tɔk) 21:48, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't have the luxury of being able to contact Mr. Ó Siadhail for explanations, so, additionally, please accept my gratitude for being tolerant to my pestering you with questions and for providing detailed answers to those questions! I in turn promise to keep this practice to the very minimum :)-- Ag Foghlaim 19:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I hope I’m doing this right, editing the page to reply to your comment—I guess I’ll have to re-read the manual to make sure! In the meantime...
I read the linked point about capitalisation and stand corrected, and will happily conform to the Wikipedia standard of header capitalisation from now on.
However, I’m fanatical about directed quotes and apostrophes; as long as Wikipedia allows them, I plan to fix every single one, one random article at a time. I just think that directed quotes and apostrophes look more professional, more like an actual published work; plus, aesthetically, non-directed quotes really, really bother me, and make me want to not use Wikipedia—which would be unfortunate, because I learn so much about so many things just by going through articles replacing quote marks!
Thank you for the welcome and I will certainly read the links you suggested. :-)
I see from the history you've been involved with the article in the past. It's going through a major revision and your input would be helpful. A.J.A. 18:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Once again I come to you with a question related to a language which I realise might not be among your main interests. This time it is Danish phonology. I am trying to get a discussion going about how to represent the Danish plosives in IPA, see Talk:Danish phonology#Plosives, and I would be grateful if you had a look. Stefán Ingi 14:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I notice you increased the length of block for this user to a week, however you didn't unblock in between, so the shorter block is still the effective block. Thanks -- pgk( talk) 16:28, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
No, but it's better. IPA currently seems to be displaying Cyrilic and Welsh seems to contain Scandinavian letters, but most the categories are fixed. I've posted a comment on village pump. Thanks. smurrayinch ester( User), ( Talk) 11:19, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr. Thanks for restoring template:ll. I cycled again through WLH (what links here) of ll and think I got them for now (see contribs, January 15, 2006). Side note: I used the temporary template User:Adrian Buehlmann/work/ll from under my user space to subst. But again this relies on that likely broken WLH feature. Frankly, I must say deleting template:ll was not such a good idea in the first place. However, please note that I just executed the will of the TfD autcome. -- Adrian Buehlmann 10:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I agree with the removal of the O-macron and t-cedille from French. The O-macron required when writing fr:Tōkyō in French, but is technically part of the romanisation, so not all that useful on the English Wikipedia. The T-cedille was proposed by a linguist, but not used (on the other hand, this might be why it does have a use in an encyclopedia). The ae is used when writing Latin words, however (and it is on the special charactes list on the French Wikipedia). In German the Y-umlaut is used in surnames. The characters with a real umlaut shouldn't be used on the computers, but I though they might be useful in the article on Umlauts. The M in script was used for the Goldmark. Cheers, — Ruud 12:07, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, one or both of the following situations applies to you, and you may therefore be interested in related discussions.
You may also be interested in a discussion of whether or not the entire text of a whole bible chapter should be contained in the 6 articles concerning those specific chapters, and whether or not they should only use the translations favoured by fundamentalists. This is being discussed at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Whole bible chapter text.
-- Victim of signature fascism | Don't forget to vote in the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections 18:01, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the revert and block of
Broadmindedtwentysomething. We figured he might have given up, but I have a feeling this one's going to be a headache for some time to come yet...
Jamyskis
Whisper,
Contribs
19:44, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
We are actually in the process of upgrading templates to make them compliant with WP:AUM.
At Template talk:Book reference#Rewrite due to WP:AUM (begin of that thread) I present a new version for book reference which is not a metatemplate (you can view the code of that at User:Adrian Buehlmann/work/b-ref/1).
May I ask you to carefully review your position? (Please post at Template talk:Book reference#Rewrite due to WP:AUM). Thank you very much indeed. -- Adrian Buehlmann 23:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
template:book reference is no longer a meta-template and conforms with WP:AUM [3]. This is a temporary solution and we are looking for further improving to adress any issues. -- Adrian Buehlmann 15:29, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr, thanks for the notice that the list of Wikipedians in Germany was replaced by a category; I've categorised myself by my Bundesland now. -- pne (talk) 07:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your notice. I just read that you live in Berlin: we just had our monthly wikipedia meeting last night. Berlin has an active and lively wp community, even including american wikipedians who live here :-) If you should be interested, check de:Wikipedia:Berlin. Next meeting will be on february 19th. See you -- Magadan ?! 12:51, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr, thanks for the notice about the Bundesländer category thingy! At first I tried to include it into my Babel box, but apparently it doesn't work that way. So I just put myself into the appropriate Category (...ies). -- Wutzofant 13:53, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr, I'm the fourth to begin my comment with 'hi' ;-) Thank you for the, err, the Bundesländer category thingy. Really good idea. Sciurinæ 00:19, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. Now I can be found more easily. Winnie-MD 12:49, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey I had never heard that, but you're absolutely right! I just looked that up. How's this for a great quote from Mat Stone: “I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.” That's me! Thank you for helping me, at long last, find out who I am! ElectricRay 14:39, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Modernes Deutsch natuerlich nicht :) aber Fruehneuhochdeutsch ( EMHG), 14.-16. Jh., benutzte die Ligatur sehr wohl, und ich habe sie manchmal benoetigt fuer Zitate aus dieser Zeit. Die Frage ist aber wirklich, ob es eine gute Idee sei, das Menu nach Sprache zu sortieren: Viele glyphs werden so mehrmals vertreten sein. ů waere auf einer Seite "Latin ligatures" geradesogut untergebracht. dab (ᛏ) 16:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't have an opinion on the merits, but Kauai is almost unreadable with the text < ‹The template Okina has been proposed for deletion here.› inserted in almost every line and caption of the article. I wonder if it might be possible to proceed in a less disruptive manner? -- Walter Siegmund (talk) 07:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Well, Ecclesia actually means "congregation", literally "called together", while Oikumene means "world, everybody", congregated or not. "Congregation" is "Versammlung", while "Gemeinde" is "Community", in the sense of some total population, physically congregated or not. dab (ᛏ) 16:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
If you have a moment, could you provide an IPA pronunciation guide for Oireachtas article, please? Someone keeps adding naff pseudo-English "pronunciation guides". -- Red King 17:51, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
You beat me to it. Hmmph. :P
→ P.MacUidhir (t) (c) 18:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
What do you mean by this edit summary? -- Tantalum T e lluride 20:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I've moved the project page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics -- Dalbury( Talk) 23:16, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
You need to take a look at the Iranian languages page. I am in a edit war with a certain contributor there. The page is on Iranian languages, yet the contributor keeps adding many paragraphs on the language history of Azerbaijan. It is rather nationalistic in its tone. Do we need over half the page on Iranian languages how Azerbaijan was once Iranian speaking? Shouldn't this be on the Languages of Azerbaijan page. He also quotes a government controlled language source. This is just a horribly written article. Who could take it seriously. Imperial78 01:16, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Haigh Angr
is mor liom do chuid oibre ar altanna na gcanuinti. Rinne me roinnt mionathruithe don alt fa Ghaeilic Uladh. An e go raibh foinse amhain agat le haghaidh an ailt? Bhraith me go raibh rud beag michruinnis ann o thaobh liostai na bhfocal de. Ta sraith leabhar ann a molfainn go mor leat iad ma bhionn tu ag iarraidh goil ar aghaoidh leis an jab seo, mar ata, An Teanga Beo: Gaeilge Uladh le Pol O Baoill, An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Ch., agus, bhuel, ta's agat cade teideal an chinn eile... Pe sceal e ta neart eolais bheacht sna leabhair udai fa na canuinti, an stor focal s'acub, a gcuid suaitheantaisi gramadula, 7rl. Beir bua, Palmiro | Talk 22:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:46, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr. The Dún Laoghaire page uses a frustratingly vague non-standard pronunciation guide. If you get a chance, could you convert it to IPA? You seemed like the best person to ask. Thanks! Take care, -- Whimemsz 01:18, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr. Can I ask you to mediate a dispute, Talk:Władysław II Jagiełło. It concerns the naming of the Lithuanian ruler Jogaila, who also became King of Poland, as Wladislaus II. The current title is Władysław II Jagiełło, which, along with other rulers of Poland, violates general wiki rules for naming monarchs (although Polish users a little while ago agreed amongst themselves to Polonize the names of all Polish monarchs, moving all the articles in correspondence with this decision). This I personally have little objection to (although others might), but Jogaila was not even Polish nor solely a Polish ruler, and the latter means he is not governed by "rules" "agreed" for Polish monarchs. I moved the page to Jogaila of Lithuania. I may or may not have been wrong in the first place for moving it, but I saw this as uncontroversial, as my experience has taught be that it is far more common to refer to him by his Lithuanian name Jogaila, or the corruption thereof Jagiello, and seemed sensible on almost every other ground I could think of. This was objected to by some Polish contributors. Eventually, it had seemed that compromise was reached with Jogaila (Władysław II), but then another Polish user with admin powers ( Piotrus), whose intellectual integrity has been far from obviously displayed, reverted this back to the absurd name. Opinions seem hardened, good counter arguments are not being advanced, and the convo now is producing more heat than light. I'm very busy ATM, and am quite anxious to resolve this, but I can't see it happening. Can you help, or have someone help mediate? Thanks. - Calgacus 18:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know the vast quantity of excellent work you are doing on Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/de is not going unnoticed, very well done, keep it up! Martin 10:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
User:Leyasu has been making personal attacks against me on Talk:Grunge music. At the same time, he is trying to insert false information into the article. If you can, could you please stop by the talk page and help resolve this dispute?
Also, if you aren't able to stop this mess, could you please pass this on to someone who can? I've tried mediation, and nobody there will help. I've tried contacting another admin, and that did nothing. This harassment has been going on for some time now and the poor response to it is IMO an embarassment to Wikipedia. The ability of Wikipedia to enforce its official policy is looking questionable right now, and if this continues on Wikipedia is going to lose my support. -- LGagnon 07:27, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I've seen it. As far as I'm concerned, the article could also have sat there with an {{ unreferenced}} warning, but whatever; happy editing and success in 2006 -- dab (ᛏ) 17:45, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey Angr, I am sorry to bother you with this, but I have to because I know you are an expert on linguistics. I am trying to explain to User:Fritz S. that band names are collective nouns and that they are singular. Since X number of members make up one band. For example, " New Radicals was an American rock band" not "New Radicals were an American rock band." Also the user keeps on saying that it should be plural because the name of the band is plural. I am not good at explaining things so can you help me out by explaining this to him and/or enlighten me further. You can find the conversation at both of mine and his talk pages. Thanks! RJN 17:48, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for welcoming me and for giving tips. I hope to visit Wikipedia once a week at least. jayas 17:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC) Could you tell me what this (UTC) is? User talk something? -- jayas 17:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr. I notice that you closed off the above AfD. Since there were only three users contributing to the AfD, I reckon it would be more appropriate to relist for more input. But maybe I'm biased, as I don't think this band deserves an article yet. What do you think? Cheers, CLW 19:35, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
At the Talk:Classical definition of effeminacy#Unsuitable for Wikipedia a person on the talk page wrote that the article is "POV" and that the article has no merit whatsoever. I would like a second opinion. I thought it was very good and informative. Am I right to conjecture that you also see it that way?
Another User:SimonP has thought it worthwhile to add that the article needs "cleanup". Thus user has gone to synoecism and xenelasia and also added cleanup markers. I feel this user is targeting my work at wikipedia because it doesn't conform to his politics and/or doesn't like my political persuasion. WHEELER 21:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I edited your usrbox to link to the Constitution. 68.39.174.238 07:05, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Despite my personal opinion that en.wikipedia is well beyond sanity in inflated category use, I've just tried to question one specific abuse: Should articles on languages be categorized according to membership in hypothetical/disputed/fringe language groups? I've taken Category:Dene-Caucasian languages as an example, but there are more, see the subcategories of Category:Proposed language families.
Pjacobi 16:36, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Heh. Okay, thanks for letting me know. -- Whimemsz 05:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Greetings, Angr! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! — Nightstallion (?) 07:47, 4 January 2006 (UTC) |
I've listed two sections in the Phonological history of English consonants for VFD. Please contribute to the discussions. Robot32 22:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
I have created a userbox about prepositions here, but I cannot get the userbox page to link to it. I am asking you because you have also made a grammar userbox and I hoped you could help. If you can, please leave me a message at my talk page. Thanks:) -- Think Fast 22:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
you expert knowlege of the german language is being requested for the page pedelec. Your comment may also be appreciated on the deletion nomination. -- CyclePat 02:52, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm writing to ask your assistance. Matt Crypto has taken it upon himself unilaterally to remove certain images from my user page and block editing. I cannot edit my own user page. I think this is highly improper and an abuse of his authority -- particularly given his involvement in the RfC/RfAs against me. Is there something you can do? Thanks. deeceevoice 13:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
I notice you reverted my good faith blanking of the userpage in question. Would you revert it if I moved said user page to a different spot in their user directory (as I suggested they do on their talk page) and removed the redirect? Hipocrite - «Talk» 15:22, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome and the advice about copywriting pics. I've fixed the pic you were talking about by adding the tag as you suggested. Thanks again! Givnan 07:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
You're literalist interpretation of the rules and willingness to flatly overturn two separate admins has, unsurprisingly, not helped the situation at all. Phil Sandifer 17:13, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Please reconsider your undoing of the block of Deeceevoice. She needs to discuss the issues if she is to avoid a permanent ban. Fred Bauder 19:42, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I was hoping you could help me. I’m tired of Hipocrite be aggressive and being bias. I would like something done about Hipocrite personally attacking me by saying:
"Only if it has been resolved to the effect of "Hipocrite is right." Hipocrite - «Talk» 03:58, 9 January 2006 (UTC)"
I'm not perfect, and sometimes get out of hand, but I have never made a threat. He has an extensive history of aggressiveness, and pushing his views on to others. Not to mention the pages of conflicts he has had with other users.
He made that threat 4 four times, what is that all about? He is saying that the case in dispute can only be solved if I bow down and praise him like a god. That's a Threat, bias, and personal attack me. I feel like just leaving and not coming back to this site, like so many have because of users like him. He's is not willing to compromise on the dispute unless I do that. Hope you can help, Thanks!
Anakinskywalker 04:57, 09 January 2006 (UTC)
I have begun articles on Ulster Irish, Connacht Irish, and Munster Irish. -- Angr ( tɔk) 21:48, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't have the luxury of being able to contact Mr. Ó Siadhail for explanations, so, additionally, please accept my gratitude for being tolerant to my pestering you with questions and for providing detailed answers to those questions! I in turn promise to keep this practice to the very minimum :)-- Ag Foghlaim 19:30, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I hope I’m doing this right, editing the page to reply to your comment—I guess I’ll have to re-read the manual to make sure! In the meantime...
I read the linked point about capitalisation and stand corrected, and will happily conform to the Wikipedia standard of header capitalisation from now on.
However, I’m fanatical about directed quotes and apostrophes; as long as Wikipedia allows them, I plan to fix every single one, one random article at a time. I just think that directed quotes and apostrophes look more professional, more like an actual published work; plus, aesthetically, non-directed quotes really, really bother me, and make me want to not use Wikipedia—which would be unfortunate, because I learn so much about so many things just by going through articles replacing quote marks!
Thank you for the welcome and I will certainly read the links you suggested. :-)
I see from the history you've been involved with the article in the past. It's going through a major revision and your input would be helpful. A.J.A. 18:17, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Once again I come to you with a question related to a language which I realise might not be among your main interests. This time it is Danish phonology. I am trying to get a discussion going about how to represent the Danish plosives in IPA, see Talk:Danish phonology#Plosives, and I would be grateful if you had a look. Stefán Ingi 14:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I notice you increased the length of block for this user to a week, however you didn't unblock in between, so the shorter block is still the effective block. Thanks -- pgk( talk) 16:28, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
No, but it's better. IPA currently seems to be displaying Cyrilic and Welsh seems to contain Scandinavian letters, but most the categories are fixed. I've posted a comment on village pump. Thanks. smurrayinch ester( User), ( Talk) 11:19, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr. Thanks for restoring template:ll. I cycled again through WLH (what links here) of ll and think I got them for now (see contribs, January 15, 2006). Side note: I used the temporary template User:Adrian Buehlmann/work/ll from under my user space to subst. But again this relies on that likely broken WLH feature. Frankly, I must say deleting template:ll was not such a good idea in the first place. However, please note that I just executed the will of the TfD autcome. -- Adrian Buehlmann 10:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I agree with the removal of the O-macron and t-cedille from French. The O-macron required when writing fr:Tōkyō in French, but is technically part of the romanisation, so not all that useful on the English Wikipedia. The T-cedille was proposed by a linguist, but not used (on the other hand, this might be why it does have a use in an encyclopedia). The ae is used when writing Latin words, however (and it is on the special charactes list on the French Wikipedia). In German the Y-umlaut is used in surnames. The characters with a real umlaut shouldn't be used on the computers, but I though they might be useful in the article on Umlauts. The M in script was used for the Goldmark. Cheers, — Ruud 12:07, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, one or both of the following situations applies to you, and you may therefore be interested in related discussions.
You may also be interested in a discussion of whether or not the entire text of a whole bible chapter should be contained in the 6 articles concerning those specific chapters, and whether or not they should only use the translations favoured by fundamentalists. This is being discussed at Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Whole bible chapter text.
-- Victim of signature fascism | Don't forget to vote in the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee elections 18:01, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the revert and block of
Broadmindedtwentysomething. We figured he might have given up, but I have a feeling this one's going to be a headache for some time to come yet...
Jamyskis
Whisper,
Contribs
19:44, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
We are actually in the process of upgrading templates to make them compliant with WP:AUM.
At Template talk:Book reference#Rewrite due to WP:AUM (begin of that thread) I present a new version for book reference which is not a metatemplate (you can view the code of that at User:Adrian Buehlmann/work/b-ref/1).
May I ask you to carefully review your position? (Please post at Template talk:Book reference#Rewrite due to WP:AUM). Thank you very much indeed. -- Adrian Buehlmann 23:21, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
template:book reference is no longer a meta-template and conforms with WP:AUM [3]. This is a temporary solution and we are looking for further improving to adress any issues. -- Adrian Buehlmann 15:29, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr, thanks for the notice that the list of Wikipedians in Germany was replaced by a category; I've categorised myself by my Bundesland now. -- pne (talk) 07:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your notice. I just read that you live in Berlin: we just had our monthly wikipedia meeting last night. Berlin has an active and lively wp community, even including american wikipedians who live here :-) If you should be interested, check de:Wikipedia:Berlin. Next meeting will be on february 19th. See you -- Magadan ?! 12:51, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr, thanks for the notice about the Bundesländer category thingy! At first I tried to include it into my Babel box, but apparently it doesn't work that way. So I just put myself into the appropriate Category (...ies). -- Wutzofant 13:53, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr, I'm the fourth to begin my comment with 'hi' ;-) Thank you for the, err, the Bundesländer category thingy. Really good idea. Sciurinæ 00:19, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note. Now I can be found more easily. Winnie-MD 12:49, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey I had never heard that, but you're absolutely right! I just looked that up. How's this for a great quote from Mat Stone: “I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.” That's me! Thank you for helping me, at long last, find out who I am! ElectricRay 14:39, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Modernes Deutsch natuerlich nicht :) aber Fruehneuhochdeutsch ( EMHG), 14.-16. Jh., benutzte die Ligatur sehr wohl, und ich habe sie manchmal benoetigt fuer Zitate aus dieser Zeit. Die Frage ist aber wirklich, ob es eine gute Idee sei, das Menu nach Sprache zu sortieren: Viele glyphs werden so mehrmals vertreten sein. ů waere auf einer Seite "Latin ligatures" geradesogut untergebracht. dab (ᛏ) 16:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I don't have an opinion on the merits, but Kauai is almost unreadable with the text < ‹The template Okina has been proposed for deletion here.› inserted in almost every line and caption of the article. I wonder if it might be possible to proceed in a less disruptive manner? -- Walter Siegmund (talk) 07:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Well, Ecclesia actually means "congregation", literally "called together", while Oikumene means "world, everybody", congregated or not. "Congregation" is "Versammlung", while "Gemeinde" is "Community", in the sense of some total population, physically congregated or not. dab (ᛏ) 16:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
If you have a moment, could you provide an IPA pronunciation guide for Oireachtas article, please? Someone keeps adding naff pseudo-English "pronunciation guides". -- Red King 17:51, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
You beat me to it. Hmmph. :P
→ P.MacUidhir (t) (c) 18:56, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
What do you mean by this edit summary? -- Tantalum T e lluride 20:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I've moved the project page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics -- Dalbury( Talk) 23:16, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
You need to take a look at the Iranian languages page. I am in a edit war with a certain contributor there. The page is on Iranian languages, yet the contributor keeps adding many paragraphs on the language history of Azerbaijan. It is rather nationalistic in its tone. Do we need over half the page on Iranian languages how Azerbaijan was once Iranian speaking? Shouldn't this be on the Languages of Azerbaijan page. He also quotes a government controlled language source. This is just a horribly written article. Who could take it seriously. Imperial78 01:16, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Haigh Angr
is mor liom do chuid oibre ar altanna na gcanuinti. Rinne me roinnt mionathruithe don alt fa Ghaeilic Uladh. An e go raibh foinse amhain agat le haghaidh an ailt? Bhraith me go raibh rud beag michruinnis ann o thaobh liostai na bhfocal de. Ta sraith leabhar ann a molfainn go mor leat iad ma bhionn tu ag iarraidh goil ar aghaoidh leis an jab seo, mar ata, An Teanga Beo: Gaeilge Uladh le Pol O Baoill, An Teanga Bheo: Gaeilge Ch., agus, bhuel, ta's agat cade teideal an chinn eile... Pe sceal e ta neart eolais bheacht sna leabhair udai fa na canuinti, an stor focal s'acub, a gcuid suaitheantaisi gramadula, 7rl. Beir bua, Palmiro | Talk 22:18, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:46, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr. The Dún Laoghaire page uses a frustratingly vague non-standard pronunciation guide. If you get a chance, could you convert it to IPA? You seemed like the best person to ask. Thanks! Take care, -- Whimemsz 01:18, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angr. Can I ask you to mediate a dispute, Talk:Władysław II Jagiełło. It concerns the naming of the Lithuanian ruler Jogaila, who also became King of Poland, as Wladislaus II. The current title is Władysław II Jagiełło, which, along with other rulers of Poland, violates general wiki rules for naming monarchs (although Polish users a little while ago agreed amongst themselves to Polonize the names of all Polish monarchs, moving all the articles in correspondence with this decision). This I personally have little objection to (although others might), but Jogaila was not even Polish nor solely a Polish ruler, and the latter means he is not governed by "rules" "agreed" for Polish monarchs. I moved the page to Jogaila of Lithuania. I may or may not have been wrong in the first place for moving it, but I saw this as uncontroversial, as my experience has taught be that it is far more common to refer to him by his Lithuanian name Jogaila, or the corruption thereof Jagiello, and seemed sensible on almost every other ground I could think of. This was objected to by some Polish contributors. Eventually, it had seemed that compromise was reached with Jogaila (Władysław II), but then another Polish user with admin powers ( Piotrus), whose intellectual integrity has been far from obviously displayed, reverted this back to the absurd name. Opinions seem hardened, good counter arguments are not being advanced, and the convo now is producing more heat than light. I'm very busy ATM, and am quite anxious to resolve this, but I can't see it happening. Can you help, or have someone help mediate? Thanks. - Calgacus 18:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know the vast quantity of excellent work you are doing on Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/de is not going unnoticed, very well done, keep it up! Martin 10:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)