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Thanks! rʨanaɢ ( talk) 16:43, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Please read the article again. I have added material. Broad Wall ( talk) 17:03, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Just FYI, the edit of mine which you deleted because it was added after the discussion was closed -- that's not the way it happened. I was writing the comment while the discussion was being closed, so when I saved it, it saved it to the already closed thread. I left it because the thread was open when I began composing the comment. Thanks. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 23:58, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey --- that guy is changing IPs every few minutes now, it's turning into a whack-a-mole. I started an ANI thread, if it might help; see Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents#Dynamic IP and talk pages of schools in China. cab ( talk) 04:38, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
User:Ccyber5由于中国大陆的网络封锁,无法在英文维基百科完全正常地编辑,他委托我向您询问一下,他可不可以申请IP封禁例外(IP block exemption)权限。另外,他有一些问题想向您请教,不知道如何与你在网上联系?-- KeepOpera ( talk) 05:34, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey, Rjanag, please don't take this the wrong way, but I strongly recommend that you withdraw your attempt to delete LatmaTV, as at this point, it is obvious that your request has no chance of passing.-- RM ( Be my friend) 15:29, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you are doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. I have just read your profile and you seem a very learned person and interested in (small) languages and cultures so maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... I'm a member of an association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this has not been approved up to this moment because it does not belong to one state. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! Capsot ( talk) 10:20, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to bring WP:WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics back to semi-active status. Toward that end, I have moved all members who have not posted to the project page in the past six months to a section, "Inactive members." If you wish to be active in the project, I hope you will move your name back to the section, "Members." You may also remove your name if you are no longer interested in the project.
I know you've been especially active on WikiProject Languages. I would value your opinion on whether it is worthwhile to revive WPTL, or maybe combine it into WP Linguistics. Thanks, and happy editing, Cnilep ( talk) 17:57, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
请帮我移动这两个文章:
多谢! --- 华钢琴49 ( TALK) 03:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. The Urumqi article is due to undergo major development in User:Nvvchar/Sandbox 2. You are welcome to contribute to this sandbox and help get Urumqi up to a decent standard. Congrats on the FA on the main page BTW. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:46, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I was refereed to you by Rlevse. I was wondering how to put stats on my talk page like admins showing number of edits that auto updates. Thanks.
Hmm... ( talk) 16:19, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
{{
adminstats}}
or {{
adminbars}}
template, but I'm not aware of any corresponding template for non-admins.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 18:14, 9 July 2010 (UTC)Please show me where this consensus was actually established. I need to know the reason why these characters don't qualify or why you don't want these characters here. Jhenderson777 ( talk) 14:19, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. An IP user ( 123.203.130.251 ( talk · contribs)) has violated WP:3RR on the page Li Keqiang, over the title "First Vice-Premier" and "Executive Vice Premier". What are the appropriate actions to be taken in a case like this? He goes as far as to say "I'm a Chinese that I must know more about China than you. Please read the offical introduction from China: http://english.gov.cn/2008-03/17/content_783355.htm". Colipon+( Talk) 15:42, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, it's been a while... what exactly is Category:Anti-Chinese sentiment supposed to contain? Seems quite POV to me, esp. the entries. I stumbled across it and consider putting it up for discussion. Right now, I don't have any suitable alternative though. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 18:08, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag The Wiki Project Dyslexia is currently setting out its new proposals and objectives. And part of these new proposals is to include the Wikipedia Alexia (acquired dyslexia) series of articles in a more comprehensive range of articles covering the wider issues of dyslexia. This will mean a new summary version of the dyslexia to describe both Developmental Dyslexia and Alexia, with the majority of current content being moved to a new Developmental dyslexia article. The Alexia articles provide a great challenge as most can only be considered as stubs, and many more may need to be created. I was wondering if you or one of your linquistic colleagues to help us describe and help with citations for the phycholinguistic models of reading and how they relate to the various sub types of Alexia with an aphasia. We have set up an Alexia resourses page as a working area before any articles are edited or created. dolfrog ( talk) 21:46, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, it looks like there's some broken code in the infobox of this page but I can't fix it or find the last clean edit. Can you take a look? Thanks! delldot ∇. 15:59, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi there,
I got your name from the Wikimedia:Meetup/Ohio 1 page. I will be in Columbus Aug 8-11 and was wondering if any Wikimedians would be interested in meeting up then. If so, I started Wikipedia:Meetup/Ohio 2 for quick planning :) best, -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 17:39, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi I have a question, I created the page Greetings From E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and it is my first "Book" article I have created, However I am wondering where to go to find reliable sources for it. would I source amazon, or look for websites that have reviews?
Thanks Cjones132002 ( talk) 21:38, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
ok thanks!!!
Cjones132002 (
talk) 19:27, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
..yes you are Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 05:37, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
You just undid my last edit to Shadow Hearts Covenant on the basis it was too long for a plot summary, however you undid it back to an ending summary which was full of wrong information based on previous users interpretation. If you like I can try and make it as short as possible but I don't think adding an extra three lines that are very important to an already long plot summary is a big deal tbh mate, I'll try make it shorter but please don't undo it on the basis it made the article a little longer, correct info that's a 3 lines longer must be better than incorrect info right?
Many thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.149.39.198 ( talk) 17:03, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, in your edit summary you didn't say you've bring it to the talk page, so I was fully unaware of those happening in the talk page. So I undid your revert and wrote my reply in the edit summary. -- 虞海 (Yú Hǎi) ( talk) 06:19, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
On the balance of the weight of argument, and acquaintance with the English literature of Central Asia. One side (although consisting of a single editor) presented actual evidence; the other declamation. You then presumed to close a move in which you had argued at length; I see no signs that outside opinion was solicited, or that it would have supported this improper move.
If you use admin powers on this dispute again, I will consider what form of WP:dispute resolution is most suitable to the case. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:47, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
You added a cleanup tag to Input/Output Configuration Program. If you have time, would you mind starting a new section in Talk:Input/Output Configuration Program and identifying specific terms that need to be defined or statements that need more background?
In the meantime I'll see what I can do about beefing it up. Thanks. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 15:27, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
You added an {{ unreferenced}} tag to OS/VS2 (SVS), but the article has six references:
What is the reason for the tag? Thanks. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 21:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
{{
refimprove}}
, as the article is still mostly unreferenced.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 22:05, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[1].-- Mbz1 ( talk) 22:08, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
So Zujine et all can just waltz right in and remove anything he dislikes, yet I have to gain his consensus to make any changes? There is a serious double standard here.-- PCPP ( talk) 04:50, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Please offer your objections here-- LLTimes ( talk) 15:34, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I worked with a few editors, actually, on "The Fly" page on the contribution you are unilaterally removing. I've read your edit history and you seem to have a history of confrontation with regards to edits you simply don't like. Try working out your differences with us on the talk page. Then we can vote or build a consensus. This unilateral edit you keep fighting was already resolved after an editor turned down (twice) to semi-protect the page and, instead, suggested "dispute resolution." So lets talk this out on the discussion page first, please, and then decide whether to alter or remove the contribution. Also accusing me of sockpuppetry violates "good faith". I'm not discussing this on the other user's page. I think he/she confused you with the anon editor who was previously defacing the page with an absurdly long plot summary and other changes. I would like to work with you and others toward making a good page. So let's start a dialogue about this, before defacing the page, in accordance with the admin's suggestion (which is well documented on the talk page as well). Thx. 75.174.134.45 ( talk) 05:30, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
(Reverted, 3RR given Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 09:34, 13 September 2010 (UTC))
Hi Rjanag! Thanks for the birthday greetings. I'm actually working in China now behind the great internet firewall so it is difficult to access pages on Xinjiang, Tibet etc, but I still try. So make sure to keep up the editing on your end. Take care. David Straub ( talk) 13:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
National identity cards in China - could you add Pinyin for ROC? TruckCard ( talk) 13:16, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I've tagged CSD for Resident Identity Card; it's in the way of a move (I intend on reverting the problematic move). -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 13:55, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thanks for the birthday greeting-- Tony Winward ( talk) 19:30, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Apologies, that certainly wasn't my intention. Walking in the areas I added to has been overlooked on their wiki pages, and so I thought to add a link for further reading that I have found useful hoping others would follow suit.
Thank you for the suggestion of raising the topic in discussion first (is this done in much the same way as I am messaging you now?).
Best
Billjohnsonwalko ( talk) 12:05, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
apparently it is. right, cheers
Billjohnsonwalko ( talk) 12:06, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Responded at.. - Stevertigo ( t | log | c) 02:18, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I was randomly going through articles and noticed a slow month long revert issue on Min Chueh Chang. It is possible for you to assess if its a issue with the article, if so change the status of the article from no protection to semi-protection? or do I have to go through the process with WP:SILVERLOCK? Thanks. Takamaxa ( talk) 14:05, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Takamaxa ( talk) 11:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Probably I should have kept my big mouth shut. I was just struck by the magnitude of your claim about this very ordinary word; which is surprising considering how smart you are, and a linguist to boot. See here for mucho examples of its use, including the Prez. Anyway, now that you know - no hard feelings, bud? Textorus ( talk) 16:03, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Rjanag, I've appreciated your comments about and your work on the [Standard Mandarin]] article. I notice a photo of a banner outside a school in Tibet urging use of Mandarin gets inserted and deleted from time to time. I'm sure the image is controversial (because the underlying policy is controversial), but I'd like to hear from you what you think the rationale is for not posting the image. I get the impression that American readers (who perhaps make up a plurality or even a majority of readers of English Wikipedia) could learn something about current official policy in the P.R.C. from that image, which might help them better understand the situation in the western regions now under P.R.C. sovereignty where ethnic Han people are numerically in the minority. I'll learn something from you whatever you say, so I'm asking without precondition. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk) 02:44, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have completed a general cleanup of the adopter information page for the adopt-a-user project, located here. During my cleanup, I have removed several inactive and retired users. In order to provide interested adoptees with an easy location to find adopters, it is essential that the page be up-to-date with the latest information possible. Thus:
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm ( talk) at 03:47, 23 September 2010 (UTC).
Thanks! Actually, the article was created back in 2006, but it was prodded - I was quite surprised to see no one had recreated it since then. Cheers, Nikkimaria ( talk) 13:33, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi - I've proposed an alternative at T:TDYK that I think should address your concerns. Shiva (Visnu) 14:50, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
There's too many subtopics to this whole DYK mess.
Point: I do a lot of tinkering with the DYK template on a regular basis. This is not what's being objected to.
Cirt restored a factually-inaccurate hook which I removed; however, I had not properly indicated that the hook was inaccurate. I have amended this, and apologised to Cirt for accusing him of violating POINT.
Please do not attribute motives to other people; it can make minor misunderstandings inflate into acrimonious disputes very quickly. You do not know why other people do things, and do not know whether or not someone understands a point - especially not when people are typing quickly so as to avoid edit conflicts. DS ( talk) 15:13, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
With regards to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#User:DragonflySixtyseven_DYK_ban_proposal, it would be helpful to find prior discussion about disruption of DYK processes by DragonflySixtyseven ( talk · contribs) (if such exist), and list them at that AN thread. -- Cirt ( talk) 16:40, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi. :) I think this is a good idea, but it's going to lead to some complications as is because articles tagged with that template are now sneakily listed at the copyright problems board via bot. :) The ones paraphrasing PD sources aren't copyright concerns, of course, so they really shouldn't be there. Plus, since I wouldn't be yanking the content, they'd come back over and over again. :/ Are you good enough with templates and cats and things to perhaps create a separate category other than Category:Articles with close paraphrasing for them to go into? Maybe Category:Articles with close paraphrasing of public domain sources? Is it even possible to have the category switch based on parameters? If that's not up your alley, I'll see if I can find somebody who can help. Certainly, I have no clue. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:30, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
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parameter is activated in the template.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 20:36, 26 September 2010 (UTC)Turns out an account you blocked, User:Ninthwhen has a ton of sockpuppets Дунгане ( talk) 03:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the palindromes! I waste so much worrisome energy on vandals that I forget about all the great editors out there. Praise Thor! PalindromeKitty ( talk) 23:45, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I have closed the AFD and soft redirected it. For future reference, to soft redirect an article to wiktionary, replace the text with this...
{{wi}} {{subst:longcomment}}
You originally did this...
{{wiktionary|ni hao}}
...which makes it look like a blank article. That may be why the IP reverted it. Not to worry, I didn't know this either until I looked it up before closing the AFD :) -- Ron Ritzman ( talk) 11:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Do you not agree sir? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.225.23.211 ( talk) 23:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
You do realize that Mediation requires my active consent and cooperation, don't you? Removing my side of the issue and wheelwarring are unlikely to secure either. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 00:55, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Your concerns about Pmanderson's behaviour seem to ring true in the various times I've seen him at ANI lately. Issues like that are not really well resolved at the edit warring board (though Courcelles's solution seems good to me), but I recognize that they are serious. I really am beginning to think Pmanderson needs a serious warning, followed by a lengthy block if he continues his behaviour. Unfortunately, I myself have had at least one naming dispute with Pmanderson and I'm a tad concerned my level of involvement, as low as it is, would still undermine any such warning. What I would like to see happen would be for an admin with no history of content disputes with him to issue a warning and then follow through as needed. Those are my thoughts at this point. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 02:45, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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See Template talk:Did you know#Four boxes of liberty. What is the duration to establish status quo? This would be useful on future AfD rescues that seem to have DYK potential. Thanks, Aymatth2 ( talk) 22:52, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Not that it matters, but I thought I'll drop in and leave a note about your signature. I use Google Chrome and don't seem to be able to make out the 'j' part of your signature. It comes out strange. Perhaps you could think about changing it if other users face the same issue with your signature. Like I mentioned, I have no issues per se. Wifione ....... Leave a message 13:51, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
"i have plenty of time to respond to you, DS, I just don't want to"
I thought what triggered this whole mess was that I was not properly engaging in discussion regarding controversial decisions. I am attempting to resolve a difficult issue, and to promote reconciliation; I would appreciate it if you do not prematurely declare portions of the conversation to be 'closed' while the imbroglio on AN continues. I do hope you can understand my concern over this, and look forward to reading your rebuttal. DS ( talk) 17:29, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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hey,
Be sure 'n let me know when that book comes in, OK? I'm anxious to avoid letting those two images be deleted. They are far and away the best images in the article (as evidenced by the fact that one of them sits atop the page), and are very definitely Public Domain, but dammit, we have to prove it! Tks! • Ling.Nut 03:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about that revert. I don't really understand why you deleted the factoid from the article, but I should have mentioned this instead of simply reverting your edit.
I hope to convince you that you should at least consider replacing the deleted portion. I believe it is well supported by its citation, that it acts as an interesting hook, and that it enriches the article by including a non-Western perspective. But as I won't revert your edits, it is up to you to decide if the article will or will not include it :)
I don't think the statement made is an over-generalization or, in fact, even a generalization of the source material. The cited article reads, "For one thing, Kraft learned that traditional Oreos were too sweet for Chinese tastes" and, "Some Chinese consumers still find the Oreos too sweet. One 30-year-old consumer who was shopping for groceries in the eastern part of Beijing recently, said that he likes the cookie but that 'many of my friends think I am a bit weird to stick to Oreo cookies, as most of them think it too sweet to be accepted.'"
These statements safely support the notion that sweetness, a highly desirable taste in The West, is not as favored in China. And, while acknowledging that China does not comprise The East, I don't believe a statement like, "sweet may not be a highly favored taste in The East" is a generalization of that notion. Instead it is an assumption that follows from it, and worded in a way that the citation supports it.
I don't think that replacing "The East" with "China" would fit well in the broader context of the article, and I do think that the assumption made is valid. Because tastes usually vary little region-to-region, and because Chinese tastes do not favor sweet, it can be hypothesized that this may be true throughout Asia. So I urge you to consider replacing that part of the article. Fleetham ( talk) 15:52, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I really can't imagine you are giving my argument proper consideration. Statements that obviously misrepresent my argument make it seem that you are more concerned with disarming my contentions than responding to them as if they were valid.
Your argument has valid points, and I won't dispute the deletion. Fleetham ( talk) 18:58, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I stopped reading your reply after, "[you're] trying to take one person saying 'my friends are surprised I eat Oreos!" and extending that to "sweetness is disfavored in the East'".
I went and looked at the WP:SYN link, and you are correct--my edit was WP:SYN and you were right to delete it.
...but I really wasn't trying to extend one person's opinion of his friend's eating habits to those of all Asians.
The fact that you thought this is what my argument was is the reason my first response was rather terse.
So, I apologize for defending my edit, but please take more care to fully understand an argument before you represent it in caricature. Misrepresenting my point doesn't win points for you. Fleetham ( talk) 16:06, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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Fellowscientist ( talk) 17:44, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I don't really mean what I'm saying about post structural linguistics on the talk page. Taivo ignored my private message to him where I had explained this to him. But here's what. I'm just pretending that we want to restart the post structural linguistics page so that Supriya gets tempted to join in the conversation - and I want you to do the same. The whole post structural linguistics issue is absurd and total crap! Of course it doesn't belong to linguistics and I know! Supriya works here as an admin and we can get hold of her through this trick - and report her and ban her from using the Internet all together. Then she'd never be able to log on ANYWHERE. Legally. Just give this a shot. Pretend that you want to start the page and you've agreed. Once she comes on, we can track her computer. I know where her office is and where she sits; I can figure out its IP number too which you can tally with hers. Later, once she's out, we obviously don't need to start the page, or we can delete whatever we've started. Fellowscientist ( talk) 16:24, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
A bit quick on the trigger, there? You reverted before I had added the ref... Please check it, not quite the same language, actually. -- 88.112.14.158 ( talk) 13:23, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
No big deal - just that you put your comment in the survey, not the discussion area. I didn't want to presume to move it, since people editting my talk comments bothers the hell out of me. μηδείς ( talk) 04:43, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
How come after you advise me to restrain, you put my name in a minor faith es? - DePiep ( talk) 20:37, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Would you consider changing the protection level of Kaster before 24 Oct? You may be aware of some issues with that article so wanted to check with you before I did anything. Thanks. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 01:59, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 05:53, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I've added some details.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:22, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Re. Shixunci ( talk · contribs)
A new user, seeming to only contribute in Chinese. After warnings, blocked.
At the request of another user (helpme) I added a link to Chinese Wikipedia help.
Maybe you could add more?
Please see User_talk:Ka Faraq Gatri#Non-English Additions.
Thanks, Chzz ► 12:54, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
I saw from here that it's been one year since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ( talk) 14:17, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Good day
I am wanting to submit a page on ILAMM - a learning methodology - but have seen you have deleted a page about this topic before. Please could you give me some guidelines on what I can do so it is not deleted again. From what I see it was deleted because of copyright issues - is it not possible to take an existing definition and include it into Wikipedia?
Thanks for your assistance. ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndptc ( talk • contribs) 08:21, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I have just had occasion, for the first time, to use {{ contrib-zh1}}. Is there a reason why it gives the message twice, in almost-identical characters? is it perhaps Mandarin/Cantonese or is it a glitch? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 17:14, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm sorry about the whole silly argument, but you have to clarify what you mean by content issues. From what I've gleaned so far, your concerns seems to deal with
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (layout) issues (which is under [[:Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (content)]], admittedly I should have linked to that page directly, instead of the more general
WP:MOS). If you're not talking about
layout,
footnotes,
formatting,
notability,
reliable sources... what's left?--
hkr
Laozi speak 05:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
With regard to the changes that you reverted on the Forensic Linguistics page, what did you mean by "..strange addition of personal opinion in the middle of a footnote"? Do clarify, because I don't recall adding any personal thoughts or the like. I am part of a larger group of students improving that page for a school project, so edits will be made bit by bit and in a series.
We would appreciate it if you could hold off on reverting or making minor stylistic changes until we have finished, as it disrupts the flow of whatever we intend to add. If you have comments on the content, you can make them on my user page. Nashrian ( talk) 05:59, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Would it be okay to remove some of the improvement tags on the Forensic Linguistics page now? Reorganization has been done and most of the grammar has been edited. Nashrian ( talk) 14:35, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Huh? GAN? No we're not looking for GAN but I do think the tone and reorganization have been greatly improved from what it was when it first began. Any suggestion for the "Other general issues" heading? Just that the many books & journals that we use mention those "issues" a lot so it should be worth including. Nashrian ( talk) 14:56, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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For a user ribbon you can use, seeThis investigation of my contributions- Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Дунгане has been dragging on for a while with absolutely no one looking into it. Its been over a month since i last checked it, and two months since another user was checking. I would like to get it cleared up soon, do you have time to check the articles off if they are copyvio or not? ( i can't do it all myself of course, because they would be a conflict of interest). I would like to clear up the copyvio and rewrite if there is any rather than it being all deleted. Дунгане ( talk) 04:30, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. I am writing to you and Pmanderson as the two people I see most involved with the article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpan. I believe it is against the 'rules' to 'lobby' other editors, but that is not what I am doing and I am doing this openly. A user has deleted the reference to the name Turpan in Turkish, stating that it has nothing to do with Turkey/ Turks/ Turkish. I pointed out that according to the article it does indeed. The user then went back to the article and removed all references to Turkish and replaced them with Turkic. I am not an expert on the subject, so, even though I know what the differences are between Turkish and Turkic, I am not in a position to judge in this speciifc case. I therefore am bringing it to the attention of the two of you. Best regards, -- Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 06:54, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on November 4, 2010. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 4, 2010. If you think that it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article director, Raul654 ( talk · contribs). If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch Talk C. 02:27, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Not One Less is a 1999 drama film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, adapted from Shi Xiangsheng's 1997 story "A Sun in the Sky." It was released by China Film Group Corporation in mainland China, and by Sony Pictures Classics and Columbia Tristar internationally. Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students. When one of the boys takes off in search of work in the big city, she goes looking for him. The film addresses education reform in China, the economic gap between urban and rural populations, and the prevalence of bureaucracy and authority figures in everyday life. It is filmed in a neorealist/ documentary style with a troupe of non-professional actors who play characters with the same names and occupations as the actors have in real life, blurring the boundaries between drama and reality. The domestic release of Not One Less was accompanied by a Chinese government campaign aimed at promoting the film and cracking down on piracy. Internationally, the film was generally well-received, but it also attracted criticism for its ostensibly political message. When the film was excluded from the 1999 Cannes Film Festival's competition section, Zhang withdrew it and another film from the festival, and published a letter rebuking Cannes for politicization of and "discrimination" against Chinese cinema. ( more...)
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... that you can see 5000 old versions of a page at a time, if you add an extra 0 to 500 in the url?
It takes a while to load, but it's better than doing 500 at a time. SmartSE ( talk) 18:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been adding these categories to people either with recognised Cornish ancestry or distinctly Cornish names, like Annear. I will be happy to provide referencing. Bodrugan ( talk) 22:01, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been adding these categories to people either with recognised Cornish ancestry or distinctly Cornish names, like Annear. I will be happy to provide referencing. Bodrugan ( talk) 22:02, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
There are plenty of people categorised with various other ancestries that are not included/referenced in their articles. The Wikipedia rules on categorisation appear to only be as strict as you are suggesting for religious and sexual beliefs. Bodrugan ( talk) 01:55, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
N+1 is a pretty well-respected journal, with a print and web presence- so it's not self-published. As for when I did the interview, it was in late April 2010. 109.157.171.247 ( talk) 00:06, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for asking to correct the Creative Pedagogy page references (Nov 9, 2010). I did it and I truly appreciate your advice and help. Gem131 ( talk) 22:08, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I apologise for our earlier encounter on AfD, I shouldn't have emphasised MoS so much, and I do see your point. But now, I have a question regarding DYK, which you've been an very active participant of. How long does it take for the straw polls to close and for the proposals to be implemented? Is there an exact date, or does it vary depending on circumstance?-- res Laozi speak 06:02, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Per primary topic, I have chosen to re-direct 承德 to Chengde (the prefecture) instead of mirroring what the Chinese wiki does. But as there apparently is a 承德县 and Japanese 承德, some form of a DAB ought to be kept. So I attempted to move 承德 to 承德 (disambiguation), but the move attempt failed. Thus, to avoid a copy-and-paste, I request that you execute this. Thanks. If this is invalid, sorry for the bother --
HXL
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Record 04:35, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for the persistent bother, but I have a new request. I have been able to do several move over re-directs, but this time it failed. "Kaiyuan City, Honghe, Yunnan" (ridiculous title) needs to be moved to just "Kaiyuan, Yunnan". No other "Kaiyuan"s of any sort in Yunnan, and it has been the norm on this Wiki to avoid using "City" for 市 in mainland Chinese city article titles if possible. And we both know that Chinese tend to only name the county and province that they are from, not the prefecture. Thanks. --
HXL
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Record 05:13, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
I am redirected by Sasata from the FA nominations page to request for help from you to peer review the Internet Linguistics page. Here's the direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review/Internet_linguistics/archive1 Hope you can spare some time reviewing it so further improvements can be made to make the page better.
Thanks. Serenehj ( talk) 02:33, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Rjanag, saw your comments. Will work on it. Serenehj ( talk) 03:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I think you should complete Talk:Internet linguistics/GA1 to explain why you quick-failed. This will give some guidance to the nominator, which just removing the GAN template does not do. Jezhotwells ( talk) 23:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag,
I have been asked to update this page and our cover art every month. Is there any way I can update the PNAS cover image without having it immediately removed by you? Your assistance would be appreciated.
Smohin ( talk) 00:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
November 23, 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smohin ( talk • contribs) 21:27, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
I uploaded a new PNAS cover (with updated masthead for 2010), to the PNAS wiki page using the guidance you provided. Please let me know if this is not correct.
Smohin ( talk) 21:29, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I reverted your change to Template:Ambox. Reason being that Ambox should never rely on numbered parameters (this was a strict design condition), as {{{text}}} is never guaranteed to be {{{1}}}, ie. if another parameter name was omitted. As this is a very heavily used template, please discuss any changes on the template's talk page first, and test them in the sandbox. Thanks. — Edokter • Talk • 01:20, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I see that you're in Xinjiang. WikiProject Central Asia has Guxnan on its request page, and the Cuisine of Xinjiang page has dead links to Goshnan, which is probably the same thing. Would you be willing to start a stub page for the dish? Maybe after doing some firsthand research of eating some? :) Aelfthrytha ( talk) 18:41, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Stop trying to impose your views on others. I will be restoring the work I did. I also note that you have completely removed the age eligibility article from Wikipedia. Please restore or I will be reporting you for vandalism. Also the title should be fully restored as its more accurate and what was intended by the original author —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.208.75 ( talk) 03:33, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
This 79.97.171.208 is vandalizing many pages and something needs to be done about this habit of destroying serious peoples work who actually develop wikipedia.-- Halqh حَلَقَة הלכהሐላቃህ ( talk) 17:41, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Firstly, I would like to make clear that I am the Assistant Manager of Web Production and Design at PNAS trying to update our content on the Wikipedia page.
In response to your comments:
You mention "there is no need to keep updating the images at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article unless the journal has a major style or layout change, there is no need to upload new images over and over again." PNAS publishes on a weekly basis, and we would prefer the cover on the Wikipedia page be updated on a consistent basis to stay current. At present, the cover on our page is from 2009, which has a different masthead color than 2010, and would prefer updating the PNAS cover to reflect the 2010 volume. We also plan to make this cover update again in 2011 to reflect the new 2011 masthead color, and so on and so forth. I have followed the guidelines you have provided (uploading the PNAS covers to English Wikipedia with a fair-use rationale) and have made the appropriate updates to the PNAS cover image upon request from my superiors. Please let me know if this is not clear.
Your response to the inclusion of this list on the PNAS Wikipedia page is: "unnecessary, unencyclopedic laundry list, no clear inclusion criter[i]a, basically boasting. who determines which papers are "classic"? pretty sure this has been removed before." Thank you for your comments. To answer your question, the PNAS Classic Papers are carefully selected by our Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board, and Associate Editors. This content should be included on the PNAS Wikipedia page and not removed. Thank you. Smohin ( talk) 21:52, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
As you were a former participant of the late August and early September discussions to rename Standard Mandarin to "Modern Standard Chinese", you may be interested in participating in the proposed move at Talk:Standard Mandarin. -- HXL 's Roundtable, and Record 00:55, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
After this, you really, really think that he is not a disruptive editor, that he is a "white victim". Fortunatly the page is protected, otherwise he'd reverted to Simone again. You can see his contributions again and you'll see he refused to talk with othes or to contribute correctly. 4 Blocks for disruptive editing, unblocked per your request, do not take this personal, but 9/10 administrators would block him without hestitation. Tbhotch Talk C. 03:39, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I don't know why you keep insisting I have "something against you", when all I did was point out that your editing was inappropriate, as did the other admin reviewing the case. Note that I did not block you even though you were edit-warring after a stern warning, and I also advised the other admin not to block you. If you want to keep playing the victim, have fun with that, but there is nothing more to say here. rʨanaɢ ( talk) 07:26, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I want to thank you for your warning [12] at Tbhotch's talk page. This is not the first time that this user has edit-warred on this article. [13] [14] [15] [16] Hopefully, they take your warning seriously. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 11:08, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I have a new suggestion for Template:Zh-full, add another paramater, just like pinyin, for Xiao'erjing, which is arabic script used for writing chinese. it will be usefull on Hui related articles, and for names of mosques in China and other islamic related stuff like the Great Mosque of Xi'an. Дунгане ( talk) 20:24, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
What do you think of this start-up? I was thinking it would be an analog to Dr. Blofeld's creation of WikiProject Tibet. If you have no particular opposition to it, I will create a sub-page for potential participants to come on in. Thanks. And BTW, I chose you especially because of your work with the 7-5 incidents. I may well get to asking the other major editors of that article. -- HXL 's Roundtable, and Record 02:58, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Rjanag--I noticed your remarks about pageview stats here. Do you know if there is an easy way to get pageview stats for an arbitrary article? Thanks for your time. Foobarnix ( talk) 22:18, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Template:Adminbars has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.
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Template:Expand has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
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I know I am such a inresponsible editor and my thanks to editors like you for showing my mistakes. So here's a Wikilove to an actual responsible editor unlike myself. By the way, I hope the edit notice is more to your liking. I don't like to disappoint other editors. ;) − Jhenderson 777 01:24, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
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If you feel the article isn't notable that's fine, like I said I did not do anything new. There already was a article on Appa and back then there was no external link sources and the strange thing is you never complained about it's notability then. What is up with that?!?! − Jhenderson 777 14:15, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Salam again,
I also added this note on http://ukij.org/html: "This image is designed by Waris Abdukerim Janbaz and is under LGPL license. It can be freely shared without prior authorization.". Please let me know if you need more remarks. If no other comments, please avtivate all my contributions. cheers! Oyghan ( talk) 02:03, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I enjoyed creating this article. It was a song from my childhood :)
I also appreciate you cleaning it up afterwards and agree with the changes you made. - PM800 ( talk) 13:01, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
just checked my email; thanks! Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 06:24, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag. I was wondering: are you still in Xinjiang? If you still are, are you able to (if and when possible) have a look at a PRC ID Card for a local Xinjiang resident, and be able to note the Uyghur text that appears on it for entries like name, gender, etc? (it can be anyone, so it's best to find a Han or someone you know well, as Uyghurs might become a little weary if foreign tourists ask to look at your ID). I was after official Uyghur translations of each of the headings on the ID card, so that I could include it within my table in the JMSFZ article. I suppose you could use a photograph or a text note if you are familiar with the language. Cheers, -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 06:50, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag,
You noted in your edit to the Linguistics article "if you're gonna create this arrangement, don't call it 'grammar', which neglects structure/form-related fields like phonetics and phonology)". I agree 100% with the main content of your edit description, but I have to ask -- "create this arrangement"? What do you mean -- the division of the field into 3 parts (structure/grammar/other)? I have to say I'm the slightest bit uncomfortable with that division myself (from my perspective, it gives "the study of meaning" too much weight), but I was just trying to copy from what was already in the article lede. If you are uncomfortable too, is this something we should bring up on the talk page? Some sort of nice overview of the field is needed nevertheless, but there may be a better way to contextualize content that is still easily readable.
Hey Rjanag. I see that you are a frequent editor of the Harvard Girl article and you've reverted any attempts to add clarification to the scholarships awarded being need-based as opposed to merit-based. I personally don't care that much about it, and was just trying to provide readers with a clearer understanding of the situation while adding very little text. In fact, only two additional words are required to make this fact clear so there would be no misunderstanding from the reader's viewpoint. Since it's clear another user agrees with this clarification being a helpful addition to the article, I was just wondering what your reasoning was behind removing it. Do you think it's superfluous? Or is there another reason?
In my mind, it probably shouldn't be mentioned at all that she received a scholarship - that is essentially just revealing that her family falls under a certain income level. But if it must be mentioned, as it's currently written, it's very ambiguous to the reader as to why the scholarship was awarded. To a typical reader, it definitely sounds like it's merit-based due to the current wording. So, I thought simply adding the word "need-based" to an article that is over 1,000 words if it provides the reader with a truer picture of the facts would make sense. Or simply eliminating those two phrases from the article would also be a suitable alternative in my mind. Getting into Harvard is certainly a great accomplishment and extremely difficult. Adding ambiguous text/accomplishments to make it sound even more impressive seems unnecessary. Providing wikipedia readers with a clearer picture of the situation by adding two words seems like a good idea in my mind, but you must feel differently. You said to check out Be namo's talk page, but all I saw was that the two of you were in a revert war. I didn't see an actual discussion of the edit. I was just wondering your rationale as to why it would make the article worse based on wikipedia guidelines to include that clarification (or get rid of the mention of scholarship all together). Take it easy. Cheers! - Bluedog423 Talk 06:01, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
A reliable ranking is the priority info to indroduce a college's reputation instead telling people bunch of awards issued by numerous differnt parties. I think most American students need this info before they make their decision. This article seems focus on advertising by mostly showing positive things and avaoiding negative things. According to Wikipedia's rule, doesnt matter if it's positve/negative, all facts about Kenyon College should be mentioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Texaspublic ( talk • contribs) 01:22, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
... he just doesn't get it. Maybe his username shoulda been some kind of Omen. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 14:52, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your message to APL and I am curious. What is the format of the files you want to convert to grey scale? Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 08:52, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
desaturate()
function, that I could just paste into a batch file a lot of times and run the batch file on the folder...unfortunately, I never even managed to figured out how to run GIMP from the command line, and the documentation available doesn't seem very helpful.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 23:57, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
I believe Template:`s/doc is backwards. The first sentence, "This template allows quick entry of an apostrophe and "s" after italicized titles", should be "unitalicized" instead of "italicized". The rest of the paragraph, which matches the first paragraph of Template:'s/doc instead of contrasting with it, should be similarly reversed. This would make it consistent with Template:'/doc, Template:`/doc, and H13. I almost fixed it myself but your name is on it. Art LaPella ( talk) 06:25, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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without looking at it. I'm not sure why I put my signature on it...oops! (so ashamed of my younger Wikipedia self...)
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 10:25, 7 January 2011 (UTC)My intention is in no way nationalistic. What I want is to keep the facts neutral that's why I do think it's the best way to write down Asian American (because that's a widely known fact). About the ancestry part, I do not think that the source (a yahoo site of China which I assume is biased) can proof that Leehom is really from China. News can be manipulated all the time and just because a journalist claims certain things, it still could be wrong. In addition, I know Leehom's ancestry, passport etc. has been discussed since a long time, but I do find it totally silly to put ancestry in his biography because for all other major singers, it was never put on. That's why I would stick with Asian American (Sorry bout the edit war, I didn't know how to leave messages, but I do hope you consider the neutrality of the Chinese Yahoo news as a source.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.26.22.188 ( talk) 16:05, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
i believe arabic is the official script for the kazakh language in China, yet people use cyrillic in articles relating to kazakhs in China, cyrillic is only official in kazakhstan. Same problem on some mongols in china related articles where people are using cyrillic whereas mongolian script is the official script of that language in China, and probably used in writing official documents in the autonomous regions. And although salar does not have an official script, i believe more of it is written in arabic than in latin, and the latin script in some wikipedia articles was made up by some unknown guy, some sources i have say that the actual latin script in use in China is based off pinyin and not the one that is currently seen on the aritcles. Do you know kazakh or salar or have any way of knowing how to write them in arabic script? Дунгане ( talk) 04:39, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
specific articles i am concerned about- Kazakh was written in cyrillic here yet arabic script is official for kazakh in china
i deleted latin alphabet on xunhua salar county article
on Qinghai, oirat mongolian is written in cyrillic and khalka mongol in latin alphabet. Salar is written in alphabet. Oirat and khalka in China use traditional mongol script as official, not latin or cyrillic and i doubt any mongols in qinghai know cyrillic for their language.
If you feel i was wrong in the removal i will not object but i feel they should be replaced with arabic and mongolian writing since they are the official ones in those regions. Дунгане ( talk) 04:54, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
i have three sources which all say salar have used arabic script in the past for hundreds of years and in the present now, though its not official- [17] Two sources say they have arabic script, and that a pinyin based latin script was developed for them, but latin is barely used. Neither arabic nor latin is official, but judging from sources arabic is more common and has historical precedent. [18] [19] the latin script used in the articles was most certainly not the one created in china based on pinyin, it looked like someone copied and pasted the Turkish alphabet or Azerbaijani alphabet and applied it to salar- [20] [21]. Therefore it is really unsourced. Дунгане ( talk) 05:04, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
...to redirect the "eventual archive" to your talk page and then link to the "eventual archive" whenever you are linking something. This way you can still enjoy the benefits of the orange bar? – xeno talk 18:32, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Take a look at the page and add your input on the talk page, please. Looks like we have someone who has been recently involved in tendentious editing. Thanks -- HXL 's Roundtable, and Record 23:22, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:Did you know.2FQueue.2Fdoingcredits
I don't know if these are used for anything, but I noticed the nominator had not notified you. 28bytes ( talk) 07:55, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag. This message is to object your poposal on deleting the article about English Phonetic Alphabet. I do apologize for not making it clear that English Phonetic Alphabet is applied and taught in worldwide. It was fielded in private school in South Korea during 2010 and is currently used to teach children at aboriginal reservation area in Northern Ontario. In addition, EPA is acknowledged by TESL (teachers of English as a second language) Ontario, the most creditable and recognized non-profitable teaching professional association in Ontario that providing support for teachers, students, and government bodies. Workshops were held in TESL Ontario 2010 fall conference to help the industry and the public learn about EPA. The lesson was webcasted and is available in the TESL Ontario Conference Webcast Archives. Usually TESL will publish lesson in conferences onto their website 4 months later. I expect it will come out in early February and it can greatly improve the notability of this wiki article. While waiting for this big reference, what I will do is to find other creditable citations from schools and institutions that are implimenting EPA. If you have any further comments please discuss with me. Thanks a lot! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Williamchacha ( talk • contribs) 19:01, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I wonder if you might consider refactoring your comment, as I'd already responded to the new editor, and your response is a bit bighty. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 01:17, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Sir/Maám,
I am handing this to you because the Talk page for
Tourette’s Syndrome been locked. (Gee, I can’t imagine how that happened.) Ironically enough I was only looking for more info ont eh “social stigma” section of the article. I chose you at random from contributors I could identify.
Tourettes IS a physiological state; The exact location of the part of DNA where it ‘lives’ (for lack of a better word) is in fact known. That this whole ridiculousness began well after the Human Genome was mapped suggests (in fact insists) that this is someone with an axe to grind.
I have NEVER agreed with Wikipedia’s “consensus” policy (there was a time when “consensus” stated, quite definitively, that the world was flat). That said, every single expert in the field agrees it IS biological, including experts in related fields that do NOT specialize in TS, and do not care about it in any way shape or form.
That it is listed in DSRM is not relevant to what it is and where it comes from. Homosexuality used to be listed; Lycanthropy was not. Now it is inverse. This is because the DSRM, for all its importance, is not omnsciens and was never intended to be; It was intended to be used only as another tool (just like a stethoscope and that hammer thing they hit your knees with).
97.120.235.182 (
talk) 18:38, 11 May 2011 (UTC)A REDDSON
I saw your recent contributions at DYK and I clicked on over to your user page and was pretty impressed. Would you be interested in helping with the WP:Online_Ambassadors program? It's really a great opportunity to help university students become Wikipedia contributers. I hope you apply to become an ambassador, Sadads ( talk) 02:57, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi my name is Judy Thompson and I am an ESL teacher in Canada. I really appreciate the effort you put into your response and I would like to reply to your comments.
First of all you are good. You are absolutely right about some things - the Wikipedia entry was created by a Chinese co-op student and there are some basic errors Asia /Ay Zhu/for starters and pure was transcribed /pyUwr/ - sorry about that and thank you.
While the Chinese student is unfamiliar with IPA and phonetics I taught IPA for many years and am very familiar with phonetics. You and I are coming from completely different places. I taught IPA to advanced English students who had been practicing their mistakes for many, many years before their overall English competency was at a level (Canadian Bench Mark 6) where they were eligible to enrol in pronunciation classes. By then there was a tremendous amount of fossilization that had to be unlearned and unlearning requires far more effort than learning properly in the first place. The English Phonetic Alphabet was developed in response to the needs of immigrants to learn to speak English quickly and effectively and is in many respects the antithesis of IPA.
There are 1.5 billion people using English as a learned language in the world today and an estimated less than 1% of them can use the IPA efficiently. EPA is for the rest of these learners and they love it.
They love it for two reasons. It makes sense and they don’t have to be a linguist to use it. We really are coming from completely different places, IPA is high technical and EPA is purely practical.
The pitfalls with IPA are irreconcilable. It isn’t logical for example /i:/ or /iy/ doesn’t logically represent an ‘e’ sound to anyone but the French. /j/ logically is the first sound of jump and jam not yellow. Many of the IPA symbols just don’t make sense and the myriad of Greek characters are alienating. IPA is not a viable tool for the vast majority of English language learners.
Let’s address the rest of your comments in this light and examine the English Phonetic Alphabet on its own merit.
Schwa is a very important part of spoken English. After a functional phonetic alphabet and stressed syllables it is the third most important thing students have to learn. As a tiny version of /u/ as in mustard, that symbol suffices to start. Avoiding two syllable words for rank beginners might be an easy solution.
EPA teachers avoid all linguistic jargon. Phonemic alphabet, glottal stop, voiced dental fricative etc are wonderful clarifying tools for linguists but they are the mortal enemies of the EPA target users
Bold is not the way stressed syllables are distinguished in handwriting – just making them bigger is simple and effective with an ordinary pen. You make a good point about the capitals and if we change the consonants that will also eliminate the need for underlining anything! SH as in /wiSh/, CH as in /wiCh/, keeping TH for θ and using Th for ð, Ng and Zh completes the set - an definite improvement As provincial as it sounds, air in and air out explain the phenomenon so simply for learners they can immediately create both those sounds and the purpose is served.
Changing the font size for capitals is a nuisance especially writing a text book, but it is worth the effort and you get really fast at it. In a word document written in font size 12, reducing the caps to a 10 still leaves them larger than their lowercase counterparts and easily recognizable as caps. I could be wrong but I don’t think there is that flexibility in Wikipedia. Caps and font functions are part of all computers and not a big deal to incorporate in Word for classroom use.
Conversely IPA uses many symbols that are difficult to find and use. And ʃ is constantly mistaken for s in handwriting. I seriously doubt anyone looks at /eI ʒә/ and thinks Asia.
With some clarification perhaps now you can see why this alphabet has been so warmly embraced by the ESL community. It is catching on like wildfire. EPA is currently being used in hundreds of schools in 16 countries around the world. There are new editions and new textbook being printed this spring and the changes you initiated will be part of the product. Again, thank you very much for your educated attention to this vital language tool.
As for the dictionary – dictionaries reflect language they don’t create it. With a viable replacement for the archaic IPA all current dictionaries are obsolete and we can look for them to be replaced in the next decade. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Williamchacha ( talk • contribs) 20:43, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 20:40, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for being the voice of reason. I may need help on another article as well List of God of War characters. Regards Thebladesofchaos ( talk) 21:54, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind being a Wikipedia mentor for me. I saw you on the Online Ambassadors list for the Public Policy Initiative but interestingly enough I had just seen your name under the edits history for my alma mater, Kenyon College. It looks like you have a lot of Wikipedia wisdom to share as well! Thanks! Lmissik ( talk) 01:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Please have a look: User talk:Midnightblueowl#Chinese New Left POV pushing , and this kind of WP:Disruptive editing has to be stopped before more damage is caused by him. Arilang talk 22:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Arilang talk 23:37, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Please have a look: Talk:Barbarians in East Asian cultures#Requested move and help move the page back to it's original name? Arilang talk 02:39, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Well, I figured since the RPG Classics site was linked ont he page, it would be of no problem to have my website linked to it. Although, not yet, My site will contain all the information to the game I can possibly do. RPG Classics is just another fan site created by one person, and actually has somewhat less information than my site does (excluding the health based information of the bosses and such). If I have to have my fan-site removed from the links, then I do not see it fair as the RPG Classics fan-site isn't being removed. In what way would I have to change my site to "follow" the guidelines? I am not using it strictly as advertising for money purposes or any of that, but a way for the Legaia (Page for the game I editteD) community to get together considering it's really small these days. If a person can use the site to view any kind of information that can be of help to them in the game, along with going to the forums to communicate with other people about the game, I think it would bring a community back to the game if you see what I am saying. 75.97.14.223 ( talk) 01:54, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for spotting and reverting the vandalism on my userpage, I really appreciate it! ʙʌsʌwʌʟʌ spik ʌp! 09:42, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page! —Entropy ( T/ C) 18:22, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
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This came in today. I left a note on Talk:Flag of East Turkistan. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 14:13, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
It seems to be stuck now. Since you were the one who pulled it from the queue, and from your last comment you seem to be ok with it now, could you check off on it? Ladyof Shalott 03:40, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
I wasn't edit warring per se, I was just warning him that he can't just go around messing with articles' styles without an explanation whatsoever. For the record, that wasn't the only page he edited inaccurately or the first time he had been warned. I'll back down for now, but I will revert his edits eventually. Snap Snap 01:21, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
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I am new to wikipedia editing and am exploring it in my trade policy class. I figured you would be a good mentor because you edit articles on China and I used to live and work there. Emptybride ( talk) 23:10, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hey Rjanag! If you have time, please look into the edit war going on in Uyghur people, which stirred up due to one user questioning the significance of Uyghurs in Turkey. Also, If you have additional time, there's also a debate going on in Talk:Hindi-Urdu about transliteration/transcription. Thanks, ʙʌsʌwʌʟʌ spik ʌp! 20:39, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi again Rjanag, this user has been removing legitimate comments on his talk page (which is perfectly fine), but putting "vandalism" as the edit summary, even after I asked them not to do so. Is there a policy against this, and if so, what should be done? Thanks, ʙʌsʌwʌʟʌ spik ʌp! 09:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Alright. -- Michaeldsuarez ( talk) 17:33, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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Greetings. Actually, if you take a close look I have been trying to improve the articles and compensate for what are largely questionable edits on account of poor spelling, grammar and other issues. These articles attract their fair share of fans who at times don't see that where possible things neeed to be kept at encyclopedia standard. As tiring as it is, I will continue to persevere. Regards. Thebladesofchaos ( talk) 03:18, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hi there, just noticed that you reverted my edit while I was putting the finishing touches to it ;)
As for the rationale you mention, I have modeled the introduction mostly on Japan, Norway, Italy, Germany and Canada. It contains elements from each country that relates to South Korea.
I looked at previous edits and thought there were some important facts about South Korea that were missing from the main intro so decided to give it a try myself.
I have tried to refrain from POV as much as possible and edit the intro with sourced facts but let me know if there are some elements that you think are leaning that way.
In the meantime, I will apply some of the finishing changes :) Pocketchef ( talk) 20:50, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Mono ( talk) 01:06, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm not really familiar myself, but is there a policy against slow edit-warring, that is, repeated revert edits spread out over a number of days, with no explanation nor engagement in discussion by an editor? Numerous editors have reverted User:2%peach's edits at List of cities in China (user also previously edited as an IP, 110.174.64.45), and the user has been warned. 3RR doesn't apply in this case, as it doesn't occur within 24-hours, so I'm not quite sure on what I should do that would be appropriate. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 07:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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As an administrator can you restore the Sokka article's history per here. Jhenderson 777 01:04, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
He's "right" and has "proven" it. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 14:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Let's finally solve this issue. According to your statement here, the image "has been subject of disputes over its use on other Wikipedias, including en-wiki". I want to know where exactly. I also want to remind you, that your claim that "Picture is not representative of what Uyghur people usually look like", which was later corrected, shows how much you actually know about Uyghurs.-- Me ne frego ( talk) 16:22, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Rjanag. I'm pleased to have another set of eyes on this article. As you can see from the edit history, I've attempted to explain what the problem is with the material these editors keep re-adding to the article, but they seem in no mood to listen. I've now attempted a longer explanation on the article's talk page in the attempt to allay any confusion.
Candidly, though, I think all the edits to the article besides mine and yours are probably the work of a single editor, or a couple of editors working in tandem, whose purpose is to publicize the topic. I say this because User:Jcho91 created and then blanked a test article called Etfoo, Etfoo being the username of the other(?) principal contributor to the article: I'm guessing he was experimenting and forgot who he was logged-in as. User:Etfoo, the creator of the article, has a fairly straightforward conflict of interest.
I've so far avoided nominating the article for deletion in spite of the absence of sources needed to establish notability. I hesitate to nominate scientific topics because, unlike general-interest topics, whose notability is typically easily established or discounted with little more than a Google search, a science-related topic may be perfectly notable but information about it may not turn up in the usual places and may require access to more specialized resources. Nevertheless, as considerable time has elapsed without the addition of any sources to the article, if none are added after a decent interval I will likely send it to AfD. -- Rrburke ( talk) 11:50, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Thank you for your help with the wikipedia page ERPLAB. This is my first wikipedia page and apologize for any actions that are against wikipedia's guidelines. I am a part of the Luck Lab and was asked to create this page in order to give researchers a brief history of what our software is capable of. We also wanted to give some instructions on how to easily download the software (hence the links I tried uploading).
We also wanted to give thanks to members in our lab and researchers who have helped in the development of the software. However, under wikipedias guidelines, I have learned that this may not be possible. Is there any way that we can show our gratitude towards these members, possibly in a history section?
-jcho91 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcho91 ( talk • contribs) 22:34, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Please see the reference desk post, I've replied to your comment there. -- Goqer ( talk) 09:34, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
A link to a word is a mention (even if most are created around uses). Can you find any guidelines that deal with the use-mention distinction in articles? Hyacinth ( talk) 03:13, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGFM#Gesellschaftliche_Positionierung
nobody takes them seriously. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.237.211.247 ( talk) 15:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Rjanag, I've seen you at LGBT-related articles, and want to know if you wouldn't mind weighing in on this: Talk:Heterosexualization#Not only an LGBT issue. I posted a message about it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies, but I hardly get any help from there or other WikiProjects these days. So part of my approach these days is to go to relevant editors individually and hope they weigh in. Flyer22 ( talk) 18:49, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag, I have noticed that you have spent some time helping with the article "2011 Chinese protests". Therefore I would like to inform you about two votes going on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2011_Chinese_protests
Thank you very much for your valued opinion! Best, Waikiki lwt ( talk) 08:09, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please create a page notice at Talk:People's Republic of China and Talk:China? I can't put up with the incessant inquiries into "why doesn't China redirect to PRC?", and this issue really needs to be discussed at WT:NC-ZH, and not on those two talk pages. Something like "Any threads discussing a possible re-direct of China to the PRC will be promptly removed" should suffice. Thanks --HXL's Roundtable and Record 14:47, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
好久不見-- 俠刀行 ( talk) 16:02, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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there is some concern about dead refs and such, questioning the FA-status of the article. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 03:12, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello
We see that Solid Waste is currently directed to Municipal Solid Waste which is not correct if you talk about solid waste. When we created the Solid waste policy in the United States page, we are elaborating the Solid Waste section in every detail. So can you please forward the solid waste to this "about the solid waste" heading in this article? Also please let us know if you have any alternative suggestion. --Brijesh Krishnan 03:10, 29 April 2011 (UTC) Brijeshkrishnan ( talk)
Thank you for your reply. When I was trying to edit the redirecting link of solid waste - it said the topic is administrator protected. Will it be the same if I go ahead creating the new page as per your suggestion? --Brijesh Krishnan 20:17, 29 April 2011 (UTC) Brijeshkrishnan ( talk)
Thanks. We will try and get back to you if need need any advise. --Brijesh Krishnan 05:36, 30 April 2011 (UTC) Brijeshkrishnan ( talk)
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Please explain on the talk page exactly what you disagree with in my edits and revert only that if you must, rather than a wholesale rollback. The language of the article is highly judgmental, assumes the validity of Mair's arguments as uncontroversial facts, misuses the technical term folk etymology, and attributes POV's to "some linguists" which are blog posts by a colleague of Mair who cites Mair as his source. The only possible thing I can imagine you taking exception to is the quote of Long Zhangdao from a commercial website - if so that can be selectively addressed. I am going to restore my edits and would appreciate if you would be precise in any further reversions. μηδείς ( talk) 19:51, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
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So I appreciate your attempts to cool down the neverending Joseon Dynasty edit war, but your 3RR warning to me seems a little excessive: I reverted the page precisely twice, with each revert more than 24 hours apart, and both reverts simply restored well-referenced content that was deleted by new users with no explanation -- which is vandalism in my book and, I presume, yours as well. I intend to continue both reverting unhelpful deletions and my rather fruitless attempts to engage the Korean nationalists on Talk:Joseon Dynasty, although they've so far been rather impervious to reasoning, not least because many of them don't actually speak English... Jpatokal ( talk) 11:40, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
you've dealt with both me and Arilang1234 before
Arilang1234 having a go at his POV pushing on the boxer rebellion article, claiming the content in the article is from "chinese high school text book", when not a single chinese or communist source was used in the article.
look at the section now- Talk:Boxer_Rebellion#Lead_section
report I made on his edits- he tries to link the black panthers, marxists, and vietnam war to anti imperialism on the boxer rebellion= User:ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ/Report ANI
Now he thinks dropping off conspiracy theories about high school text books, australia, marxists, black panthers, and vietnam on the boxer rebellion article and filing an ANI report after he was criticized for doing so is acceptable
Arilang1234 attempting wikilawyering and making threats when he was caught trolling
After his trolling on the Boxer rebellion talk page, Arilang1234 proceeded to file this ANI report complaining about me after I criticized him for his attempt at linking marxists, black panthers, and vietnam war to the Boxer rebels... ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk) 00:11, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
And he titled the ANI thread "racist", and proceeded to provide not one single piece of evidence that I said anything racist at all. One also has to wonder what the "cold war" he inserted into the title has to do with anything other than to grab attention. ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk) 00:27, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Arilang1234 lodged two false accusations directly against me, see this User:ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ.False Accusations. They've crossed the border into outright lying. Arilang1234 deliberately showed past revisions of the talk page rather than the current one, in order to claim/lie that I did not respond to Smallchief and John Smith's. I need other users to confirm that he deliberately lied with malicious intent. ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk) 03:49, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
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Please have a look: Qing Dynasty Royal Decree on events leading to the signing of Boxer Protocol and kindly give some advice on how to improve it? Arilang talk 06:19, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag. Are you able to read the Uyghur script within the following images:( image1, image2) and type it into plain Unicode text, so that it can be included in the table at Resident Identity Card#Identity cards in ethnic minority areas? Thanks. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 04:13, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, long time no talk. I just remembered you were a Chinese speaker and was wondering if you think that individual Chinese characters would warrant Wikipedia articles. Some of them obviously have rich cultural tradition and I believe the contents would grow beyond mere definitions. -- BorgQueen ( talk) 08:02, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Easy there with the templates, cowboy -- I have not been involved in the can-Joseon-be-tagged-as-WP:CHINA edit war, at all. Here are the only edits I've made to the page in the last week: [26] [27] [28] Please remove your edit from my talk page and apologize. Jpatokal ( talk) 03:21, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
As you know, the edit war on Talk:Joseon Dynasty involves multiple users, none of whom have crossed 3rr on their own. Following your example remedy for the earlier edit war on Joseon Dynasty, I have thus filed a request for page protection. However, although many users acted wrongly in this dispute, the conduct of Historiographer ( talk · contribs) is uniquely egregious and sanctionable. Historiographer has a history of edit warring at Joseon Dynasty: on 28 April 2011, he was blocked for 72 hours for edit warring on Joseon Dynasty, with the blocking admin noting that "Historiographer is a repeat offender with several prior 24 hr blocks for edit warring" and that "Korea-related conflicts of this sort are a perennial hotspot and should be treated as a zero-tolerance area when it comes to edit warring". In response to this edit war, you protected the article on 4 May. But after the protection expired, an edit war involving Historiographer flared up again, and in this edit on 22 May, you warned five named users—Baptisan4, Jpatokal, Historiographer, Melonbarmonster2, and Oda Mari—that "Any edit warring on this issue after the page protection ends will be blockable".
At the beginning of the new edit war on Talk:Joseon Dynasty, Historiographer joined the fighting in earnest (5 June), despite your first warning after his block directed explicitly at him about edit warring on that page. He then became one of the three users (including Jpatokal and myself) who received user talk page warnings (5 June) from you against edit warring. When you and I discussed the new template you used for those warnings, {{ uw-ew}}, you said that "WP:3RR clearly states that editors can be blocked without breaching 3RR." After those user talk warnings, edit-warring on Talk:Joseon Dynasty continued, but Jpatokal and I, as already-warned or wrongly-warned editors, refrained from making any more reverts. Yet Historiographer continued (6 June) to make his second hostile revert just on the talk page, despite two warnings directed specifically at him within the past two weeks, and a block for warring on the main article within the last two months. Trying to assume good faith, I pointed out on that article's talk page how defiant Historiographer's behavior looked, and suggested that if he didn't want to appear to be gaming the system, he should revert himself. Although he was active on the talk page just seven minutes before I made my plea, he has yet to respond to it or to otherwise show remorse. Historiographer ( talk · contribs) has gotten as brazenly close to breaking Wikipedia's edit warring rules as you can get without breaking 3RR. So my question is, what is the correct venue to request a stop to his sustained disruptive behavior? I would have brought this to the edit warring noticeboard, but the format seems to be oriented towards recent violations of 3rr, and this case involves a lot of history where only you and Future Perfect at Sunrise as admins have the requisite familiarity. Quigley ( talk) 06:20, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Do you have the authority to protect my talk page (autoconfirmed users only) for 24 hours? 24 hours should be long enough. There is an IP edit warring on my page, and since I have email notifications turned on, it's getting really annoying. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 10:43, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Probably right. I was just trying to find something to link to Ershidin Israil...... I didn't want my new article to be an orphan... NickCT ( talk) 19:55, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I've left a comment here, maybe you're interested in my 2 cents. -- 213.168.111.208 ( talk) 19:53, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I just posted this on his talk page, and copied it here: "I have requested editing dispute assistance, as your random mass "notability" tagging seems impossible to resolve. You have not once described what you would consider acceptable noteworthiness (or whatever the word should be), nor have you explained how you are suddenly the gatekeeper for notability on the many episode pages you've tagged. You haven't shown us an example by, say, editing one of the pages yourself to make it notable by your standards so we can follow suit and then remove the tags without further trouble. Nor have you accepted the contention that if all the page consists of is plot, there is no need to demand references, as the episode is its own reference, even though that is acceptable WP policy. Such a page should have a "plot only" tag, but it's absurd to demand references for a page that has, as yet, nothing to reference. You can find my request here: Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests" -- TEHodson 10:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
So you don't see any problem with Xeworlebi's behavior, nor with the fact that he is as utterly incompetent as he is unwilling to listen to other editors' input? Ok then, enjoy his company. -- 87.79.213.156 ( talk) 15:13, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk · contribs) is at it again; apart from the content which I cannot really evaluate, the section-header "Creation of the Uyghur Nationalist movement by the Soviet Russian Communists" seems "ranty" to me... Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 00:15, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
see response- I did not mention anywhere in my edit about Russians creating "Uyghur Identity". i said that they created the modern ethnic nationality (which is true since the first time Uyghurs were counted as a nationality was by the 1926 soviet census)
Talk:Uyghur_people#.CE.94.CE.A5.CE.9D.CE.93.CE.91.CE.9D.CE.95.27s_recent_additions
ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk) 20:09, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
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. . . at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#A different language?: Good comic strip—one I'd not seen before. I liked this one as well. Deor ( talk) 00:11, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
I don't suppose you'd mind replying to this? I can't put the article up for AFD now, as the page is still protected, and I'm pretty sure I can't do it once the protection expires, either, without an account. -- 68.33.14.232 ( talk) 04:23, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Why does Category:Good articles only include article space articles?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:46, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
{{
ArticleHistory}}
(a single parameter like |dykdate=
would probably do, just something to add a sentence like "this article has received a Four Award" and add the category). At the worst, the category could just be typed in at the top of the talk page, with the wikiproject banners.{{
ArticleHistory}}
template are implemented correctly, those categories are redundant to one another).
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 23:14, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You removed a significant quote from the late historian Howard Zinn which I inserted in the Spare Change News article. Your comment was it was superfluous. You removed it / reverted it, without discussion. I think Howard Zinn's quote about Spare Change News specifically is instructive despite the material possible being covered on general descriptive principles in the article. I may put it back in the article. --- Wikiklrsc ( talk) 20:23, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
As the aforementioned third party, I took a look at the article, and the material in question. Regarding the placement of the Howard Zinn passage, that location seems out of place. The section is titled for mission statements, and the quote by Howard Zinn isn't really a mission statement in the normal sense of the term. At this point, I'm inclined to say leave the quote out, because (A) I can't figure out a really good place to put it, and (B) I don't want to start a quote farm. You might want to consider putting passage into Wikiquote? SchuminWeb ( Talk) 04:27, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
re your revert: I believe if you use my CSE, you will be pleasantly surprised to discover that not only is there a RS for that claim, it is a RS already being used in the article.
Perhaps this will help your researching new claims in the future. -- Gwern (contribs) 01:20 22 June 2011 (GMT)
Hello Rjanag. You made this edit recently: [29]. I agree. There are multiple issues that are needing to deal with. I will start a discussion section on the talkpage. Your input is welcome. Lam Kin Keung ( talk) 03:38, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
"There is no one-to-one pairing between count-classifiers and nouns." I called this nonsensical for short. Perhaps it would have been clearer if I had called it "trivially and non-informatively true and not saying what it intends to say". If there was a one-to-one pairing, there would as many different classifiers as there are nouns, which would be crazy. It's probably not what the person who wrote that meant. They meant that sometimes there are several classifiers for one word, not just one, so perhaps they should have said: "There is no one-to-many pairing, there is a many-to-many pairing." But that's excessively pseudo-mathematical. Anyway, the point is made sufficiently clearly in the text that follows, so I felt the sentence did not need to be improved, just removed.
And: why did you revert? WP:AGF, no? --Kai Carver 09:51, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey, you just deleted the page Walk the Moon that I'm working on for not having any significance. I put the code on top that says I was working on the page. I totally understand your concern fro deleting it and I was working to make sure the page fit all of Wiki's guidelines. I did my research to write a band page, I'm not just doing this on a whim. Please let the page be complete before you decide whether to delete it or not. Thank you.
Kgcarlso91 ( talk) 20:31, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate the in-depth explanation. I will move it a userpage so I can work on it at my pace. One more question though, how do they not meet the inclusion criteria if they are managed by same manager as John Mayer, have write ups in Spin Magazine, and are going to the studio with an extremely prominent producer?
Kgcarlso91 ( talk) 21:36, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Also, once the page is complete, would you mind doing it a once over and give me any tips to make it better (since you have a personal interest and all) ?
Kgcarlso91 ( talk) 21:47, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I have completed the Walk the Moon page taking into account your suggestions. Please review and give feedback. ~~Katie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgcarlso91 ( talk • contribs) 20:59, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
When you say quality of writing do you mean grammatically or the language? or both? ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgcarlso91 ( talk • contribs) 21:38, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to make a new (possibly hidden) category for four=no parameter so that we can check all the remaining DYK, GA, FA articles and not have to keep rechecking them in future efforts to go through articles not at FOUR.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:01, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
|four=no
. That seems more efficient than having to go in and manually edit all 400 articles in that list.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 14:42, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
|four=
parameter specified should go into a category of "possible but not yet checked" articles, those that have been checked and don't qualify should have |four=no
set and not be included anywhere, and those that have been checked and do qualify should have |four=yes
set and go into
Category:Wikipedia four award articles. This is doable, I should be able to make it sometime later today.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 17:15, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
|four=yes
or |four=no
is set in the talk page) it would be removed from that category forever. It would be placed in
Category:Wikipedia four award articles if |four=yes
were set, or placed in no category if |four=no
is set. (It's technically possible to have the checked, ineligible articles go into a category as well, but I don't see any reason to do so; if they're ineligible they're never going to become eligible, and as far as I can tell there's no need to maintain a list of articles known to be ineligible.)
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 17:50, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that your recent edit to the above template is causing an extra whitespace to appear after the template, in headers on article talk pages. I think it is related to the spaces involving the "include" and "noinclude" tags on the template. It's a protected template, so I thought this would be the quickest way to notify you, since I can't fix it myself. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 20:17, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Was you recent edit to Template:Multiple issues discussed anywhere? If not, could I just remind you that changes to protected templates should normally be proposed and discussed on the talk page. Other editors have to do this, and being an administrator does not give you any additional authority to bypass this stage. I'm sure you know this and I hope a little reminder is not taken the wrong way. Thanks for listening — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:04, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
The reversion is fine and thanks for letting me know. I meant to see what linked to it and was interrupted. Sorry about that. That said, it would be better as a navbox instead of as a sidedbar, I think. Truthkeeper88 ( talk) 21:25, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
A while back, I posted a new proposal for Tibetan naming conventions, i.e. conventions that can be used to determine the most appropriate titles for articles related to the Tibetan region. This came out of discussions about article titles on Talk:Qamdo and Talk:Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture. I hope that discussions on the proposal's talk page will lead to consensus in favour of making these conventions official, but so far only a few editors have left comments. If you would be interested in taking a look at the proposed naming conventions and giving your opinion, I would definitely appreciate it. Thanks— Nat Krause( Talk!· What have I done?) 16:20, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for proposing an alternate hook here. I replied there. Thanks. Jesanj ( talk) 16:52, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey again, thanks for the continuing copyediting. You might want to go over the Reception section I made. It took awhile to find resources for that, given the episode aired more than 10 years ago. Wish I could find its Nielsen ratings to include, but that seems impossible. Anyway, do you think its ready for a GAN? The only thing I can see needing improving is the lead probably needs to be expanded. Do you think you could help with that? Thanks again. Drovethrughosts ( talk) 17:56, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
英语好烂呀!最近跟维基用户有事要说,无奈几乎不会英语,说不了话。你得帮帮我呀!这次要删除文章,你告诉他行不行?-- 俠刀行 ( talk) 14:39, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi from Hangzhou. There's two Xinjiang pages that keep getting hit by an odd form of vandalism: Ilham Tohti and Nur Bekri. Someone using unregistered accounts keeps adding a bunch of fictitious "relatives" to the pages. Can you keep an eye on these pages? You're a much more active user of Wikipedia than I am. The vandalism sometimes sits unchanged for days or weeks before I catch it. If you want to reply to this message, please leave it on my talk page. Take Care David Straub ( talk) 08:44, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for working on Korea related articles. Nice to know I'm not the only one interested in the area. Heck, it even appears you are fluent >.> NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 01:00, 8 July 2011 (UTC) |
It's this again. Because it's a strong statement should we weaken it to "a significant factor"? I'd like to get a suggestion on what I can do to help it out, if you can, please. Thank you. Jesanj ( talk) 17:22, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Is it really possible that my wonderful article about Uppsala's Botanical Garden got zero hits on July 12 when it was at DYK? [32] And zero hits yesterday July 13 as well? Sharktopus wonders if he needs to change his brand of toothpaste to become more popular. Sharktopus talk 12:35, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion here that may be of interest to you. -- 88.160.245.226 ( talk) 16:10, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
It would be great to get those nomination subpages going, if you have time to look at that. Sharktopus talk 12:35, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on July 24, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 24, 2011. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article directors Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 02:24, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
" Nothing to My Name" is the English title of a 1986 Mandarin-language rock song by Cui Jian (pictured). It is widely considered Cui's most famous and most important work, and one of the most influential songs in the history of the People's Republic of China. The song is recognized as the first rock song in China and was an unofficial anthem for Chinese youth and activists during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Both in its lyrics and instruments, the song mixes traditional Chinese styles with modern rock elements. In the lyrics, the singer addresses a girl who is scorning him because he has nothing. The song has also been interpreted as being about the dispossessed youth of the time, because it evokes a sense of disillusionment and lack of individual freedom that was common among the young generation during the 1980s. ( more...)
Hi, you're the only one to post a Support in these few minutes, and I took your point and altered the wording. Is it OK? Tony (talk) 03:53, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey there,
Just writing in response to your revert of my edit on the "Nothing to My Name" article. Whether or not "Mandarin" is "widely accepted" (or even "linguistically valid") is irrelevant--the term "Mandarin" ("guanyu") is not and has never been officially recognized to be the proper English designation of the official language of "China." And it certainly is not a universally accepted term to be used in place of Standard Chinese (i.e. Putonghua). Furthermore, "Mandarin"--being a reference to the spoken form of Standard Chinese--is not commonly understood to be a "language."
Northeast Tiger ( talk) 03:08, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Mandarin, Fuchow, Cantonese, Shanghai, Suchow, and the other major fangyan do not share the same written language. I have seen scattered materials written in these different Chinese fangyan, both in tetragraphs and in romanized transcription, and it is safe to say that they barely resemble each other at all. Certainly they are no closer to each other than Dutch is to English or Italian to Spanish.
Jayjg (talk) 05:44, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Jayjg (talk) 06:43, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Just passing by to offer my congratulations after after seeing " Nothing to My Name" on the WP front page. It didn't click until I began reading the introductory paragraph, but then I thought that it sounded familiar. Jumped onto the talk page to confirm and sure enough, I was the GA reviewer back in early 2009. It was a great article then, so it's good to see the work you've put in since has been rewarded. Regards, -- DeLarge ( talk) 10:23, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey there... thank you for setting me straight on the new DYK drill. I appreciate it!! :) Rcej (Robert) – talk 01:50, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
For being so patient with the mess I made last night at DYK. Panyd The muffin is not subtle 11:04, 26 July 2011 (UTC) |
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.
In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.
Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:29, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Any chance you could finish your review of Template talk:Did you know/Icelandic Phallological Museum? Prioryman ( talk) 07:44, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure how far I need to go with this. Would you mind having a look? Thanks. -- Epipelagic ( talk) 08:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm afraid the acrimony of the last few days, combined with the urgency with which some people are pushing their own agendas, has led to a lack of participation in the WT:DYK discussion about your proposed template, so I thought it might be just as well to bring the discussion here for now.
I like the format of your template, but I do think it needs greater differentiation. In particular, I think there needs to be a separate line for the hook and article checks or it's going to lead to confusion.
I've spent a few minutes thinking about the checks I consider to be essential and come up with the following summary. There may be some that I've missed but here's what I've come up with so far:
Hook: Clarity | Neutrality | Citation(s) | Interest
Article: Newness | Length | Cited paragraphs | Source formatting | Source quality | Article quality | Neutrality | Plagiarism
Some of the fields might require some explanation, but anyhow, please let me know what you think. Gatoclass ( talk) 03:12, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
{{DYK review checklist | length=y ~~~ | newness=y ~~~ | hookfact=n ~~~ | hookinterest= y ~~~ | sources= | npov= | plagiarism= }}
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✔ rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✔ rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✘ rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✔ rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
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✔ y rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✔ y rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✘ n rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✔ y rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
{{User:Rjanag/template |length=y |lengthsig=~~~ |newness=y |newnesssig=~~~ |hookfact=n |hookfactsig=~~~ |hookinterest=y |hookinterestsig=~~~ |sources= |sourcessig= |npov= |npovsig= |plagiarism= |plagiarismsig= }}
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rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
{{DYK review checklist | length=~~~ | newness=~~~ | hookfact= | hookinterest=~~~ | sources= | npov= | plagiarism= }}
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{{DYK review checklist | length=y | newness=y | hookfact=n | hookinterest=y | sources= | npov= | plagiarism= }}
*... that '''[[ice]]''' is made of '''[[water]]'''? created by some user <!-- credits --> {{User:Rjanag/DYK hook checklist |format=~~~ |citation=~~~ |neutrality={{subst:DYKX}} |interest=~~~ }} :*Hook fact checks out but this reads like an advertisement for water to me. ~~~~ {{User:Rjanag/DYK article checklist |length=~~~ |newness=~~~ |adequatecitations=~~~ |formattedcitations=~~~ |reliablesources=~~~ |neutrality=~~~ |plagiarism=~~~ |article=Water }} {{User:Rjanag/DYK article checklist |length={{subst:DYKX}} |newness=~~~ |adequatecitations= |formattedcitations= |reliablesources= |neutrality=~~~ |plagiarism=~~~ |article=Ice }} :*The article [[Ice]] is still a stub. ~~~~
created by some user
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rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | ✘ | rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
Length | Newness | Adequate citations |
Formatted citations |
Reliable sources |
Neutrality | Plagiarism |
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rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
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It is studied widely in many American linguistics department. See Carnegie Mellon's Linguistics website here. Please change. No policy is being violated here. ElbowingYouOut ( talk) 07:33, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
I understand. No issues. I'm willing to discuss this on the talk page and list a number of suggestions to start sections on sub-fields, etc. Rhetoric and functional linguistics are some of these. ElbowingYouOut ( talk) 14:38, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Please explain how you are unable to discern at the very start of the first sentence in this text any reference to the Institute of Marine Science in Kiel. If you still can't see the reference, perhaps you might find it in the title of the article. -- Epipelagic ( talk) 23:25, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
It is listed as the last entry for July 22, and has been for over a week. VI WS talk 03:44, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent. LOL. Brilliant, can't believe I never stopped by to say Hi on your talk page. I'll play around with some ways to make it as unintuitive as possible. Maybe auto populate or something. Sorry about hijacking your earlier discussion thread and thanks for the time you put into making the nomination sub-pages possible. I know it has been discussed in the past, but you made it a reality. Kindly Calmer Waters 05:43, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Regarding your edits on the page Event-related potential, I think the results were the exact type that encyclopedia readers would look for under the "Research ERP." I don't understand why you deleted them, could you let me know what you were thinking? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Journals88 ( talk • contribs) 18:52, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for a good addtion (s. T:DYK) - You reverted my change to an archived review, which I understand in general. But this now looks (how do I not say?) ugly, a line with a red link without content. Will that eventually be filled? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:54, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Sorry for all the trouble, and thanks for the assistance. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 06:28, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
I find your reasoning for reversion on the hook about the distance rowed thoroughly illogical. You editwar on the grounds that it is inappropriate to editwar in the prep area (where there is no specific talk area of any duration). There is a reason why the prep areas are editable: so that they can be edited. You defend, and editwar to revert to, a hook that makes a claim absent from the article, which is contrary to the principles of DYK, and ignore the points made in the editnotes. Likewise, on the hook about deaths in custody in Malaysia, you seem to prefer to publish a false claim that the two year period in question is current so that you ban make some kind of procedural point. Kevin McE ( talk) 23:19, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi and thanks for responding to my comments here. My main problem with the new system is with the extra headings which now appear. When scrolling down the page it can be confusing when some headings are main subject headings while others are shoulder headings, both of which have a similar appearance. I find it difficult sometimes to discern one from the other. With the old system when you saw a heading you knew it was the beginning of a new subject. Perhaps if the shoulder headings were a different colour that might make things easier. I know this sounds a bit confusing, but hope you get the idea. Cheers TheRetroGuy ( talk) 12:17, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Another change: Can you check the ellipsis you put in front of the Dick Gordon hook in Queue 6? Looks different. BusterD ( talk) 17:24, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. The Ilham Tohti page also got hit. Someone just has a bizarre sense of humor! David Straub ( talk) 03:04, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Yes, you said that the case of Cai Changqing is certainly a child abuse, but it's not be regarded as a case of feral child since Changqing was suffering abuse after he was 10 years old.
From my view, I think that he can be classified into a new-found case. My explaination is, he is speakless since he was mentally-handicapped, while his uncle has locked him with a iron chain and ignore him. He didn't get any care from adults. He acts like an animal, and cannot contact with the others.
The above points are to support my own personal view. If your opinion is not the same with me, we can both discuss in this talk page again.
Thanks for asking. And I can imagine how much work it took, so my sincere thanks for that, too.
This is Exhibit A, as far as I'm concerned. This poor kid (a freshman trying to get extra credit for a psych course by nominating the article he'd worked on at DYK) gave up. As you noted on his/her talkpage, Step 3 was never done. I think Template talk:Did you know#How to list a new nomination is admirably clear, so the problem must have occurred with filling out the template. I also see people at the talk page saying they can't handle that. And I get the impression from what I have skimmed that the template now requires inserting the name of an article one has reviewed? If so, that cuts me out—I don't often have time to meet the 5-day deadline and also take the time to do a proper review of someone else's baby within that same window. Also was there ever consenus for requiring the review to be done in advance of the nomination? And there was at one point consensus for considering alternate ways to satisfy quid pro quo that would be even harder to fit into a template. I suspect the freshman just didn't understand half of the template—his/her edits to the article suggest massive confusion (placing a reference before the first word of the text, for example), but it seems no one but you saw that nomination until I checked the article and the editor's contributions, because the mangled edit didn't send it to the nominations page. And it was a good hook. I don't think there's a procedural solution to people becoming so flummoxed that they don't add their nominations to the page. Because we need distinct subpages for each nomination for recordkeeping purposes. But it's indicative of the fact it's going to drive away some people. And if the template can be simplified at all, please, please do so. In particular let weirdoes like me fulfil the QPQ after getting the article ready and nominating it. Yngvadottir ( talk) 16:52, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, sorry for not getting back to you earlier on this, the reasons - apart from the fact that I'm getting tired of this whole debate about DYK's future - are firstly that I am not sure how to proceed from this point, and secondly that I was hoping maybe a few other people might carry the debate further forward for a few days and give me a break. No such luck.
Since you asked, I must say that I'm not terribly keen on the DYKX/Y templates. Couldn't you at least have a single template to which you provide a "y" or "n" field? Then the templates could be preloaded into the checklist fields and users would just have to add the letter, ie you would have something like {{subst:DYKfield|}} preloaded and users would just have to add the y or n, so it would be {{subst:DYKfield|y}} etc. Gatoclass ( talk) 07:12, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
|length=<!--{{subst:DYKY}} or {{subst:DYKX}}-->
will also find |length={{subst:DYKfield|}}
confusing. Also, fields left blank would just become blank (i.e., I don't think there's a way to keep them there until they get filled out; once the page is saved everything would turn into |length=<!--{{subst:DYKyes}} or {{subst:DYKno}}-->
). The other nice thing about this is that if someone doesn't review a given thing, that code will still be sitting in the template (since it's commented out), so whoever comes along later and reviews it will be able to mark it off easily; the DYKfield/DYKpass option, on the other hand, would I think become
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For Rjanag, for superlatively reimagining the code for DYK. And for implementing great novelty with great restraint and ongoing good humor. In short, as somebody else remarked above, "for being excellent." Sharktopus talk 23:46, 8 August 2011 (UTC) |
Hi, I noticed that on
Template:DYK talk you used {{BASEPAGENAME}}
twice. If an article is moved after this template is added to its talk page, it will break the link. You need to use {{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}
to get the current name, used in the nom. I can't make this change because the template is full-protected. You may even want to use the nompage
parameter, if that's what it does. In any event, nompage
should be documented in
Template:DYK talk/doc. --
Gyrobo (
talk) 01:28, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
DYK talk}}
itself is not substituted (substitution only works when within templates that are also being substituted). In cases like you've described, the only solution is to add |nompage=
. I'll add info about that to the documentation like you suggested; I think I can also look into getting the |nompage=
to be filled out automatically.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 06:16, 11 August 2011 (UTC)|nompage=
into the preloaded text for this template (so that, most of the time, the |nompage=
parameter will be specified...since this still relies on the same BASEPAGENAME trick it still won't work in cases where the page was already moved before the crediting was done, or where the nomination page name simply doesn't match the article title to begin with...but at least it will probably resolve the majority of the cases you were worried about). I also
added |nompage=
to the template documentation.{{{article}}}
parameter seems to try and accomplish the same goal of preserving the page's name at the time it was at DYK. Maybe {{{nompage}}}
could become a simple "yes" and DYKUpdateBot can be given the task of checking whether an article has been moved since its nom, and update {{{article}}}
accordingly? --
Gyrobo (
talk) 14:14, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
ArticleHistory}}
is generally only implemented on GAs and FA/Ls (or at least articles that have been through those processes). Furthermore, there has been consensus (as far as I remember) not to include a whole lot of DYK information in {{
ArticleHistory}}
; it basically just includes the date, and we would have to get consensus to add the hook, views, link to the subpage, etc.{{
ArticleHistory}}
already includes dykentry
, and {{
DYK talk}}
is generally removed when {{
ArticleHistory}}
is added. The transition removes check views, and now the nom page as well. I came up with a
rough sketch of what I'm thinking – basically, now that DYK noms have there own pages it would be useful to keep track of the same things that other processes keep track of. Where would I go to propose something like this to the community? --
Gyrobo (
talk) 19:56, 11 August 2011 (UTC){{
ArticleHistory}}
include more info for the dyk stuff?
{{
DYK talk}}
?
{{
DYK talk}}
.... why there is something that looks disturbingly close to an edit war on my DYK nomination? I assume there isn't anything I should be doing about this, but if there is please let me know. -- RL0919 ( talk) 05:39, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
You are warned to cease and desist from deliberately and repeatedly breaching strong community consensus generated at an RfC only three weeks ago. This consensus determined that a list of aspects of DYK nominations should be explicitly covered by the use of a checklist.
If you continue to remove the checklist created pursuant to that RfC without replacing it with another checklist that also satisfies the community's decision, the matter will be raised at the Administrators' Noticeboard. This is likely to result in a block for the protection of the project. Tony (talk) 06:36, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag! I notice your removal of information at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chinese_name&diff=443626095&oldid=443625648
You say there is more complexity in the issue than what the sources say. The problem is, what reliable secondary sources say things like "in reality there is a lot of variation, between people and between publications. many publications *do* reverse names"?
The main thing to consider is that WP:V says that verifiability NOT truth is the criterion for inclusion. If writers say "Generally Chinese names are not reversed" then Wikipedia says "Generally Chinese names are not reversed" - If there are exceptions that exist, let the reliable secondary sources say "Exceptions include X, Y, and Z" - If there are complexities, find reliable sources that say explicitly "X complexities exist"
Also personally I have not encountered publications that say "Zedong Mao" or "Enlai Zhou". While there are cases of reversed names, usually they tend to be Chinese who live and study abroad.
I am aware that many Chinese adopt "English names" but that is not a factor here. When considering the Chinese name itself, the name itself tends not to be reversed. WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:30, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
I was hoping, and in fact I proposed, [36] that you would include one of your own proposed table-checklist forms in the DYK review template that you created. It would be a mature and helpful step on your part toward peaceful consensus at WT:DYK. Sharktopus talk 17:53, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your swift response to my comments on the new DYK process. As I noted, I am not a newbie, but the requirement to review another submission (under the new system) was beyond me. I have no problem with the submission process itself; it's straightforward and I have done it a dozen times in the past. I also didn't mind when they instituted the requirement to review somebody else's nomination; that seemed like it had some basic fairness on its side, and it was fairly simple: article age, article length, hook length, hook facts cited in article, that was about it. The problem is the new, far more complex review process, the greatly increased requirements for review, and above all the template. I hadn't submitted a DYK for several months, so I was startled to find this massive template now in use. At first I spent several minutes just trying to navigate the Template Talk page - to figure out which nominations had been disposed of and which had been commented on and which had not. Then I tried to figure out how the templates work and what I was supposed to do; there are no instructions for the template that I could find. Was I going to have to find a nomination that had no commentary at all, and complete the whole friggin' process myself? Would it be enough to sign off on just one aspect of the review? Would it be enough to add a comment below the template? And what's with all the new criteria for the article itself - copyvio, and neutrality, and what-the-hell-is-vintage? Why do the newer nominations not appear to have a template attached; is that something I'm supposed to do? It shouldn't surprise anyone that after 15 or 20 minutes I said "The hell with it" and gave up. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Feel free to quote me. -- MelanieN ( talk) 04:21, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
I see DYK only has 16 approved noms out of 240. And the backlog is about triple of what it was a month ago. Is that because of the effort to turn it in mini-FAs or what? PumpkinSky talk 15:42, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
<includeonly>
to </includeonly>
, and moving that whole chunk of stuff (from {{#if:yes
to the end of the archive message) up above the header.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 16:52, 17 August 2011 (UTC)I was wondering if you could answer this. I created the secondary account User:Joe Chill Secondary. I was wondering how I can get rid of the new Wikipedia view on that account. I changed it on my main account because I found it awful and I forgot how to. Joe Chill ( talk) 23:38, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for informing me about the DYK nomination. -- James26 ( talk) 01:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is hosting its second Backstage Pass and its first Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, August 20. The museum is opening its doors to Wikipedians interested in learning about the museum's collection, taking them on a tour of the vast collection before spending the afternoon working with curators to improve articles relating to the Caplan Collection of folk toys and Creative Playthings objects. Please sign up on the event page if you can attend, and if you'd like to participate virtually you can sign up on the Edit-a-Thon page. --- LoriLee ( talk) 15:10, 17 August 2011 (UTC) |
Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:
This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.
You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.
Once you've found a class that you want to work with—especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area—you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.
If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 16:35, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!
Hi Rjanag! I'm in the process of trying to find Online Ambassadors to support each of the classes for this coming term, and I thought you'd be a good fit for this one: Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Cognitive_Psychology_(Greta_Munger). If you're up for it, please check out the Memorandum of Understanding (linked above) which sketches the expectations for Online Ambassadors this term, and then you can sign on to class and get in touch with the professor.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 14:26, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I have noticed that although some promoted/rejected noms are no longer appearing on T:TDYK, their templates still exist on the page. For example, on August 12 there are only five noms remaining, but in the edit window there are still 16 noms listed. Is this WAD, or something you have overlooked? If it's WAD, we may have to add something to the instructions with regards to the promotion/rejection procedure. Gatoclass ( talk) 07:03, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if you saw this recent sampling of quickie review summaries: Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Depth_of_review. Could you please soon add some review guideline of some kind to the nomination template? Sharktopus talk 18:27, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the user talk. The guy who undid the last two times it is a wiki-undo-stalker with an personal vendetta. He offers no positive help or reason why he undo's things, so I gave it no weight. The edit prior said that my intro had some typo's so I corrected them. I really could care less. There was flag on top of the current into that I am about to put back up there saying that it was inadequate and didn't comply. Tried to help, but oh well. God Bless. -- Yosesphdaviyd ( talk) 17:26, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for that info! Thought they were previous articles that were broken. Will be more careful. Thanks!
Could you take a look at the ORIGINAL Rodney King edit and assess whether that flag needs to be removed, per discussion notes. Thanks! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
-- Yosesphdaviyd ( talk) 20:41, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I've fixed the referencing for GrubHub Food Delivery & Pickup at Template:Did you know nominations/GrubHub Food Delivery & Pickup. Is it ready to be passed? Crisco 1492 ( talk) 13:04, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
|comment=
). I figured I'd try to make nominators fill out as little stuff as possible. It's still possible to specify the |status=
when nominating and it behaves as usual; it's just not required.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 15:25, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
I am unfamiliar with the template used at Template:Did you know nominations/Ye Olde Tavern (Iowa). The Neutrality part says that it is a bit weasely, but the reviewer fixed it himself. The Interest area is blank. I have no idea if it is a pass or not and what to make of the template. Joe Chill ( talk) 23:44, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your info. Will i have to repost the DYK? Rishabh Tatiraju ( talk) 07:08, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, it was suggested we put feedback on the issue of what template to use here? I do appreciate your trying to come up with templates to satisfy the mandate of the RfC (which I never even saw, I was staying away from that awful discussion page at the time on principle). The trouble is I don't really have any preference, except insofar as both of the alternatives I've seen you put forward in the last couple of weeks are relatively unmassive and therefore vastly preferable IMO to Tony1's. I'd really rather the use of templates in reviews be the reviewer's choice. Some people like them, some people don't, I don't consider the RfC to have been a very good expression of the feelings of those who have to do Quid Pro Quo reviews but if it's going to stand, I understand what it actually said was that reviews must explicitly refer to all the items on a list that amounted to Wikipedia policy plus DYK policy, so I see no reason why that should compel all reviewers to do it either with a checklist template or without one. But I genuinely don't have much of a preference when it comes to deciding between your templates - which is why I have never spoken up when you've asked. So there's my feedback, pretty useless though it is :-( Yngvadottir ( talk) 15:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Being an administrator gives you no special rights to make personal attacks, even against unpopular editors like myself. [39] Malleus Fatuorum
Sorry about that, please review the DYK again as I added the statement to the most appropriate place I could find within the article. Thanks!!!-- Dom497 ( talk) 17:14, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Please don't. -- John ( talk) 20:01, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know not to use symbols I did not know that. I understand that the hook may not appeal to all refers interests so I shall add some alternative hooks some time today or tomorrow, in order for a consensus can be reached as to which one is most appropriate. Please suggest an alternative hooks if you think of any.
Kind regards, -- Ratio:Scripta · [ Talk ] 06:23, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I think we need to take this here. I understand you've worked very hard to make change at DYK and I've said multiple times that the new page templates are a fantastic edition. Can you please give me diffs of where I was insulting. I don't generally try to insult people and if I was I'd apologize. First though, I'd need to know what I'm apologizing for. Thanks. Truthkeeper ( talk) 16:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
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For doing so much so well and for so long to improve Wikipedia, whether you want to agree that you're improving it or not! The encyclopedia is better because of you and your work. Now, if only we could make all of the people happy all of the time, I am sure you could figure out some way to put that in code. Sharktopus talk 18:11, 5 September 2011 (UTC) |
You edited (removed) a change I made recently, and I appreciate that you are helping improve the quality of the site. Given that there are few rewards for your hard work, I thought I would say thanks. Your edit was helpful, and I will know better next time.
Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.244.239.242 ( talk) 18:48, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I did, in fact, confuse you with another editor, I have struck the incorrect commentary, and I most sincerely apologize for the serious mistake and any resulting discomfort to you. Best regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:28, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag. Could you help me delete a few sandboxes that I'm no longer working on? The list is here on top of my user page. If you don't have time, just let me know, and I will ask another admin to help. On a different subject, I think we're getting close to a solution at Joseon Dynasty, where you have been an indefatigable and incredibly patient mediator. Keep up the good work! Madalibi ( talk) 07:39, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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You show great tenacity as an editor and in disputes which I much admire you for. Not to mention being a major asset to DYK and a top editor. Keep it up! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:04, 13 September 2011 (UTC) |
User:Rjanag - I recently implemented
Middle Chinese into the {{
chinese}}
template with successful results. However, I was subsequently informed that the "Middle Chinese" header is showing up in the template even when the Middle Chinese tag isn't called in the wikitext. I've gone through the code and tinkered a bit but haven't been able to see what the problem is. As a template-newb, I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at it and see if you can point me in the right direction. I'm guessing it's a minor adjustment that I didn't make in some field. White Whirlwind
咨 21:30, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
{{{mc}}}
shows up (from the template's point of view) as just that when |mc=
is left blank, so the template thinks something is there; with the pipe, if someone leaves |mc=
blank then that becomes blank, so the template understands that nothing is there. It's easy to miss those tiny details (in the past I've often spent hours trying to find some complicated way to fix a template problem before realizing I was just missing a } or | or something). Best,
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 22:20, 13 September 2011 (UTC)I have reverted your edits to Tom Skinner. I took particular care to rewrite all of the information that was taken from the DNZB site - none of it was "word-for-word", and all of it easily passes most academic tests for what can be considered copyright violation. I would advise you to check more carefully before excising work that has deliberately been rewritten to pass WP standards. Grutness... wha? 01:15, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Rjanag for identifying the plagiarist known as Grutness. His contributions have been a concern to me for a long time. Could you also look at the articles of Schwede66 on NZ politicians of the 19th century all his entries seem to be lifted (taken word-for-word) from the Cyclopedia of New Zealand (circa 1906). The wording is Mr so & so married a daughter of the late Mr this & that. Which is OK when it was written contemporaneous with the subject in 1902 but sounds silly in a Wikipedia entry two hundred years later in 2011! Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flagstaff1 ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Rjanag, so far I have got 23 examples of Schwede66 plagiarism-but this task is ongoing as he produces them daily! He seems to copy word-for-word articles on 19th Century NZ politicians from the Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Schwede66 has reverted to personal attack & has asked Gadfium to shut me down. It is a real shame that 'writers' like him exist as it effects the quality of articles on Wikipedia. I am happy to go through all his articles over time & correct them... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flagstaff1 ( talk • contribs) 04:52, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
I don't believe Grutness. A dozen sources were posted in the AfD for New Zealand Young Farmers and Grutness seemed happy about him expanding it in the AfD. I nominated it for DYK thinking that he is an admin with good article experience so I just nominated it without looking at his non-existent job of sourcing the article. Yes, I did fuck up and I admitted that in the DYK nomination but my point is that I think that he is a liar in response to his contributions - Template:Did you know nominations/New Zealand Young Farmers. He has since blanked his user page and posted on his user page that he will stop editing. SL93 ( talk) 23:50, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Rjanag, could you take a look at what I posted at Talk:Tom Skinner? Thanks. Carcharoth ( talk) 01:29, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that some editors were transcluding DYK noms on articles' talk pages (similar to GA reviews), and wondered if maybe there could be a better way to do this. I put together User:Gyrobo/DYK nom as a test case. -- Gyrobo ( talk) 14:30, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Did you really template a editor that's been here since 2004 and threaten a block? WTF? That's idiotic. RxS ( talk) 00:12, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
This is just a bit of an annoyance to me, but... please link your signature to your userpage, instead of only your contributions and talk. I wanted to see it today, but I had to go to your talk page first to arrive at it. Inter change able| talk to me 00:59, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
It is common to use this style of templating. See {{ BAFTA Best Film}}, {{ Palme d'Or}}, {{ Academy Award Best Original Screenplay}}, and {{ Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Drama}}. The point is to reduce the number of links while providing the same detail by a linked network of templates.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:57, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
I read your bio on the ambassador mentor roster. I think you might be interested in this ANI thread, and I am optimistic that you might provide assistance. [40]-- My76Strat ( talk) 18:11, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Epipelagic ( talk) 11:21, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. User:Melonbarmonster2 blanked the edit already discussed in that talk page without any discussion. Please keep paying attention to the article. Thank you. ―― Phoenix7777 ( talk) 08:55, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Ambassadors!
I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.
On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.
Still waiting to get involved with a class this term, or ready to take on more? We have seven classes that are already active and need OA support, and eleven more that have course pages started but don't have active students yet. Please consider joining one or more of these pods!
Active courses that really need Online Ambassadors:
Courses that may be active soon that need Online Ambassadors:
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Since you're most likely more familiar with linguistics than I am, for the Korean particles article, what is your view on the writing systems that we can and can't use? There's another dispute by a rather persistent editor that's engaging in slow edit-warring, and though I've tried to get them to discuss the issue per WP:BRD, they're refusing to engage in any meaningful discussion. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 11:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. I am thinking that our article on Language should be an FA, would you like to help me with this? I think a section on language and the brain would be an excellent and necessary addition. It should summarize the current knowledge of Neurolinguistics and be about the same length as the section on language and culture. I am asking other Language specialists for help as well on writing sections for the article on their topics of specialization. I think the article deserves to be better. Thanks! ·ʍaunus· snunɐw· 15:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
??? 8-/ Skarebo ( talk) 07:45, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Thank you for your help. Now you've done part of the job at T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook. Will you finish with "In your edit summary, please indicate which prep area you are moving the hook to." or can I do that? - SusanLesch ( talk) 21:55, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag, I hope you're well. My name is Aaron and I'm one of the Storytellers working on the 2011 fundraiser here at the Wikimedia Foundation. For this year's campaign we're seeking out and interviewing active Wikipedians like yourself, in order to produce a broader and more representative range of "personal appeals" to run come November. If you'd like to participate in this project, please email me at amuszalskiwikimedia.org. Interviews are typically conducted by phone or Skype and take between 30-90 minutes. (Note: This invitation is open to any interested Wikipedian — If you're reading this, and would like to be interviewed as well, please contact me.) Thanks! Aaron (WMF) ( talk) 19:23, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
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Yeah, I would just undo them all. Maybe you could do the rest? John Smith's ( talk) 14:15, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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This is my latest article. Feel free to make any improvements. -- Doug Coldwell talk 18:50, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi
That was the first time had nominated an article, can you elaborate the nomination was never completed properly. So that next time I can do it better. Sarvagyana guru ( talk) 16:47, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Following your review, I shortened the hook to 192 characters. Thanks for your help. Kiefer. Wolfowitz 08:37, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about " Template:Did you know nominations/Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor", which I nominated. You have just closed with the remark "Submission was never completed." Do you mean that I didn't complete the submission in some way (in which case, what did I do wrong?), or that no one bothered to review it and it's now too old (which I couldn't have done anything about)? — SMUconlaw ( talk) 17:38, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Frankly, if you twice assume that I haven't read the article in question, it does sound like prejudice. Would you really prefer that the quantity of shoddy English, misreported claims and breaches of MoS that appear in the Prep and Queue areas appear on the Main Page? If there were any rigour in the examination of hooks at an earlier stage, this would not be necessary, but in the absence of that, I will retain an interest in trying to making the MP as error free as I can. Kevin McE ( talk) 08:24, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. Could you take a minute to help me move Manchu Conquest to Manchu conquest over the redirect, please? "Conquest" is clearly a common noun that should not be capitalized. I posted a more detailed reasoning and "ngram" evidence at Talk:Manchu Conquest#Move to "Manchu conquest". Thank you for your help! All the best, Madalibi ( talk) 10:48, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey there, there is a straw poll going on at Wikipedia talk:Did you know about whether or not to enact technical changes to DYK tools. Your input would be much appreciated. P.s. I am sending you this message based on your heavy involvement in DYK, rather than at random. I hope this is ok. Panyd The muffin is not subtle 17:57, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Hallo Rjanag, a note per request: commons:User_talk:Rjanag#File:Uyghurprotest_DC_1.jpg Cheers -- Saibo ( Δ) 14:51, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Your comment about signing my posts is noted. Thanks for the tip.
-- Tjo3ya ( talk) 17:49, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
很久不见,幕尼黑啤酒馆暴动那篇写错字,快帮我把错误的编辑摘要删除。谢谢。-- 俠刀行 ( talk) 14:41, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
什麽?他在说啥?/えっ?意味が分からないんです。
I understand that wikipedia has a nofollow policy in place.
The External links that I provided are interviews with these creators that I have taken the time to interview. It is in the interest of their fans (or anyone for that matter) to hear what these creators have to say.
These creators have taken the time to do these interviews and I have taken the time to interview them and get this content posted, for free, onto the internet.
There are other resources like ComixTalk and Newsrama that have posted interviews they have had from creators on for instance, Multiplex wiki article. Why shouldn't the interviews that I have with Gordon be in that same section?
While these interviews do not have any text based transcriptions, they will very soon.
I've seen MP3s links in Phil Foglio's Girl Genius articles as well from TalkShoe, are you saying that those are of neutral nature as well?
Any content that is provided by the creators, for all purposes, should be made available to all. That is what I do and what TGT Media is. I wanted to showcase, as I have for the past 3 years, these creative and talented people.
If I have overstepped in any way, then I apologize. How can this be resolved?
KurtSasso ( talk) 19:33, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
--- I wouldn't take the time to interview these people, only to not put up useful content. Similar to the volunteers for this website you are taking the time to make sure the content is as accurate as it can be. Creative people are giving their knowledge and experiences on TGT. If I was physically editing the articles to state false or fraudulent claims I could understand the need to edit. I have over 400 interviews in both Audio and Video.
RE: conflict of interest: Orange Mike, then any website that has media, news or otherwise (see: ComixTalk, Newsrama) would be also in violation of that. However, because they are a brand that has built up a reputation for solid content and articles, those conflicts are overlooked. It would seem like this comes back to an 'all or nothing' approach using your own guidelines and documentation. Either any website that has created text-based, or audio based or video based interviews, should not post any external links or be used as references since there is a conflict of interest. KurtSasso ( talk) 06:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
In using your words, "Links can only be added to an article in order to improve the article (within WIkipedia's guidelines)" Yet, Wikipedia's guidelines are conflicting in that sense. When a person has a focus to showcase, not the site, but the content (for which content is what Wikipedia is built upon), about a creator(s) that's considered spam/conflict. This was and has never been about linking to the TGT site. With all of this patient explaining you have given me, for which I appreciate it; You have yet to actually listen to the content to determine if/when these external links are truly able to improve the quality of these articles.
For now, I am just going to go and read through your guidelines and make sure that I'm following the code of Wikipedia. Thank you again for all your help. KurtSasso ( talk) 05:41, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
In the rice wine article, tribe would not be the correct term. Goguryeo is stated as a Kingdom/Statedom; not a chiefdom in the Goguryeo article. Not sure what the best term should be but tribe would be incorrect. If you can think of a better term, we should discuss, Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.23.83.100 ( talk) 07:12, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
When on the Wikipedia:Non-free content#Acceptable use#Images stated that "film and television screenshots: For critical commentary and discussion of the work in question" mabybe acceptable. So who's right and who's wrong?-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 21:06, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the decapitalizing my shouting. TCO ( Reviews needed) 17:44, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
The article is on a specific incident and subject in art, and so a proper noun phrase. Please reverse your change, and don't make such changes without achieving consensus first - see WP:Requested moves Johnbod ( talk) 19:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
I will admit to being clueless about DYK nominations; I thought I'd done all I needed to....????? -- Orange Mike | Talk 03:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi - you might not agree with my assessment that kenatipo's edits were POV, but my reversion was in no way vandalism, so maybe your finger slipped in your edit summary of "rvv"? Cheers Tvoz/ talk
Hi Rjanag, there is another hook suggested at Template:Did you know nominations/Sam Poo Kong and I was wondering if you could leave some feedback as to whether or not it is acceptable. (This is an article which you pulled about a week and a half ago) Crisco 1492 ( talk) 07:32, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
Can you take a look of my user page, to see if this is a good enough warning to other users?-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 20:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag
Sorry for the editing mess. The problem is that the opponent keeps ignoring my message on his talk page. So, here it goes again with a copy of it forwarded to you too:
Hi
I still expect your answer to my previous message which you seem to be ignoring. Please, note, that I have restored what had been written by an American multilingual linguist and what later was deleted by you with no explanation of what kind of right you have to do such a deletion.
Still waiting for you to present yourself and to confirm your linguistic background if any.
Artem Ivantsov BA in philology, 5 languages fluency Chetosco ( talk) 18:57, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Could you please unlock this article long enough to revert back to my previous edit (which was by Duo's comments in the talk section and Chetosco's email he'd sent to me an acceptable middle ground). The current version has some erroneous information. Certainly relock it if you feel that's needed, but if you wouldn't mind, revert to the previous edit first. Thanks Drew.ward ( talk) 18:58, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. Thank you for commenting on the Concerns and controversies over Confucius Institutes merger proposal. This article would benefit from more contributors, and if you're interested, please add it to your watchlist. Best wishes, Keahapana ( talk) 20:16, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 03:48, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
R, you're right that it's a mess, but join the discussion at WT:TITLE#An alternative proposal to help sort it out. Editing the policy page itself has become rather off-limits due to past disruptions; I shouldn't have tried to do that either. Dicklyon ( talk) 05:36, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag,
I am very new at editing here. I've been meaning to do it for some time but only got involved now to correct an error on the Rare Disease Day article.
I work for NORD (the sponsor of the event in the US) so I am very concerned about my own possible conflict of interest and whether I am approaching this the right way. First thing I did was read as much as I could about editing, neutral point of view, and conflicts of interest. Then I did my best to correct the article while maintaining a neutrality. But it still looks like I might end up in a dispute.
The first problem I corrected involved two US organizations that were made prominent in the first paragraph as being involved in the event in 2008. US did not get involved until 2009; one of the organizations (Global Genes) didn't exist according to its own article in 2008. The previous editor (R500Mom) quickly wrote to me on my talk page and threatened me with a dispute. I realized that I needed to make clear where I was coming from, but would like to avoid a conflict.
My worry is that there are over 600 organizations involved right now beyond the sponsors (EURORDIS and NORD in Europe and the US, other major national organizations as well which probably SHOULD be mentioned), and it isn't really fair to have only one or two of the rest of them highlighted. Right now only R.A.R.E. and Global Genes are coming to the article to add themselves (there is a reference to Uplifting Athletes under "See Also" as well), but this could get out of control -- or it could just remain unfair to the rest of them, if they don't recognize what's going on. I do know that NORD and EURORDIS go out of their way to avoid being too central to this event, and try to make it for all the participating organizations and people. I was considering removing the sentence at the end of the first paragraph, and then adding a link to the page on rarediseaseday.us which lists all of the organizations. That seems better than listing them all on this page. However I don't want those two organizations to feel slighted either, or to end up in a dispute on my very first try with Wikipedia.
Again, I'd love to be able to highlight all of the different groups involved, but that seems cumbersome and not necessary for this article. What would you suggest?
Sophontologist ( talk) 20:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I changed this:
Since 2008, a number of leading rare disease patient advocacy organizations in the United States, including the R.A.R.E. Project and Global Genes Project, have supported EURORDIS to lead efforts in their respective countries to coordinate activities and promote Rare Disease Day.
to this:
In 2009 Rare Disease Day went global as NORD ( National Organization for Rare Disorders) mobilized 200 rare disease patient advocacy organizations in the United States while organizations in China, Australia, Taiwan, and Latin America also lead efforts in their respective countries to coordinate activities and promote the day.
I also replaced the external link for Global Genes Project with an external link for NORD, since the other external link was for EURORDIS, and both NORD and EURORDIS were the "official sponsors" of the event, while Global Genes has been one of the 600 other participating organizations.
Sophontologist ( talk) 22:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for guarding Chopsticks, R. Would you consider leaving a warning message at the IP's talk page? I have warned IP twice as is my custom. I don't AGF at all from these types of editors. Cheers again.— Djathink imacowboy 07:23, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag, I don't think we've crossed paths too much, but I noticed that you've been involved in topics related to Uyghur separatism, so I thought I would reach out to you for help on Terrorism in the People's Republic of China. I've tried soliciting help from some editors involved in the terrorism project, but to no avail.
I began working on the page a few weeks ago (here's the before [42] and after [43]) after noticing that it had some serious problems. It is still very much a work in progress, though ultimately I would like to see if it can reach GA standards. But I fear that, in the absence of judicious, knowledgeable editors offering constructive feedback, the process of achieving consensus will be fraught with disruptions. I've made several proposals on the talk page suggesting ways the article could be improved, but have been...well, disappointed with the degree of collaborative editing and discussion. In particular, I'm sort of at a loss about how to handle this: [44] [45] [46]
If you have some time, I would very much appreciate if you could weigh in on the general direction of edits, or contribute in other ways as you see fit. Seeing as terrorism-related topics are inescapably controversial, I want to ensure that everything is being handled with adequate care. I don't have full faith in my ability to write a complete and balanced article on my own, and would really benefit from having someone to keep me in check, at a minimum (and hopefully more!). Let me know if you're interested. Homunculus ( duihua) 05:25, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your (seemingly) tireless effort to make the DYK process easy to understand, user-friendly and transparent to follow, willing to try suggestions and drop them if not wanted. Thank you also for patiently explaining again and again, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:53, 25 March 2012 (UTC) |
A year ago, you were the 72nd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (8 October 2010, 24 October 2010)! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:05, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I've recently come across some old posts of yours while researching WP:ATHLETE; I recently nominated a few random athletes for deletion, based on what I now realized was a perhaps incorrect or incomplete reading of the current consensus. In any case, I sympathize with your POV, and I'm wondering, if I wanted to generate a new discussion around WP:ATHLETE how (and where) would you recommend I do so? Esp with dwindling editorship, the proliferation of stub articles cannot end up helping the project... -- Karl.brown ( talk) 04:23, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
T:AH needs an additional AFD, CSD, PROD outcome: withdrawn. See Talk:Kony 2012.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 18:39, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw that this message on your page: "This editor is listed at Highly Active Users, and is willing to provide you with assistance and advice." so I approached to you regarding one problem.
Problem: I was able to get a list of article I created with this tool. But now it says "403: User account expired". Is there an alternative tool to get such a list without having to register first or to contact anybody by mail? Thanks in advance.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 13:13, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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I've noticed you have been active lately removing WP:Death banners from a number of articles. You do not provide any reason except for "not relevant" in the edit summary. Could you expound on this rather terse notice? Boneyard90 ( talk) 22:32, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:Uw-ew requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
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You an administrator who is quite active at WP:DYK, so I wanted to call your attention to a particularly timely hook for the next queue Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Possible_Queue_6_late_substitution_or_addition. You may want to make a late addition or substitution.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:27, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Benlisquare here. Hey man, I lost the link you gave me, and I can't get on (keyword) because of (...). Can you give me it again? I'm in China right now. How do I get past the "gee eph dubya"? Talk page and email please, thanks. 116.228.247.22 ( talk) 16:42, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Rjanag Just a quick request to ask if you would possibly please check article Randa Mai for WP:RS and whether it satisfies WP:BLP and WP:NN. The article was proposed for deletion right after it appeared but the tag was removed by the author who justified it by citing sources/refs on the talk page (one being a fan wiki, the other allegedly a pron database. A couple of contribs by another enthusiast and a few standard bot visits is all there is for development and oversight. Anyway, notability looks questionable (despite my complete lack of knowledge of either pron or Japanese) and would depend on WP:RS. Hope you don't mind the request - I remembered your language skills from dealing with this guy here [47]. All the best and thanks, Plutonium27 ( talk) 17:06, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, been a while. Same user is currently warring at Falun Gong, but I'm too lazy to file a 3RR now. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 19:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Im interested if you see a relation to User:Patriotmissile. -- Martin H. ( talk) 01:03, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I've been watching your back-and-forth edits at Chick-fil-A. I know you mean well, and copyright violations are a serious matter that we should all guard against, but the other editors are right - there isn't a problem with using a short quote. It may be useful for you to learn more about the doctrine of Fair use, so you can save your time and energy for other things. I hope this helps! {{{1}}}- TALK 17:26, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out how to write "Ape Immortal of the Pine Grove" in Chinese. Would 松林猿仙 be correct, or would it be reversed with some kind of modifier added? Thanks. -- Ghostexorcist ( talk) 21:05, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag - I was very happy to see you participate in Language and in fact the claim you removed I had already decided to remove myself for the same reason. Any help you can give to improving the section on neural bases of langauge will be greatly appreciated. Also we kind of need an article about Brain and language if you are up for that. Thanks again! ·ʍaunus· snunɐw· 23:11, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag. I hope you have heeded my comments on the talkpage. In connection with reversals of our article-editing of linguistics, I request you in good faith to not undo my valid edits because of a few errors in the typing and writing that can be easily corrected by any other member on Wikipedia. The point of my edits had been to tighten the presentation of the article and I don't think there was anything wrong with the changes. In good faith, MrsCaptcha ( talk) 09:40, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Please do not remove without permission without basis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymous sensible ( talk • contribs) 11:15, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Could you tell me where? Philostahl ( talk) 00:51, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your edits on various Asian language pages. But re these edits there's a reason for the edits or I wouldn't have made them, so have restored pending discussion.
If you really badly object to either of these two edits, I hope you won't, let's discuss on talk page. Cheers. In ictu oculi ( talk) 02:54, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi,I would like to be an autoconfirmed user, to save the books made with wikibooks. I asked in the main forum,somebody suggest me to contact any admin that can upgrade my account. Would you be so kind to do this for me? Many Thanks! VV Chitammuo ( talk) 17:00, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. I improved the article Antonietta Di Martino, I wanted to ask you if I can reproduce the following: «DYN that she is able to jumping 2.04 m, but only 1.69 m tall, with 35 cm is the woman with the largest differential of all-time?» How I can do? You can reopen this?-- Kasper2006 ( talk) 00:37, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Rjanag,
I have inserted the hakka pronounciation version to [[[Template:Zh/doc#Usage|this template]] but it shows up as "Chinese" instead of "Pha̍k-fa-sṳ". Could you help me fix this error? Thanks. -- Hak-kâ-ngìn ( talk) 00:48, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I'm confused. Once in a while, I nominate a DYK. When I went to do so just now and clicked the "nominate" button, it said the page could be edited only by admins. When I checked the protection log, your name came up. What's up? I just wanted to make a quick nom and move on, but I don't know where to go. It's quite possible I'm being dumb in some way, since I don't nominate often. Cynwolfe ( talk) 15:24, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
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Nice to have met you, even if it's only Wikipedia :) Icedwater ( talk) 15:09, 29 May 2013 (UTC) |
Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:Four_Award#Category:Wikipedia_four_award_articles_not_showing_up_on_article_talk_pages.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 12:03, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Your hear [ivɛːʁ], [ivæːʁ] or [ivaɛ̯ʁ] ? 198.105.96.53 ( talk) 11:23, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Because I don't hear well. 198.105.118.205 ( talk) 21:22, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
The word fête is pronounced "fight" in Quebec French. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te69JK28DDo 198.105.113.19 ( talk) 21:33, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Fyi. This Rfc you participated in has been converted into a requested move. Redtigerxyz Talk 15:57, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
a pointless name change, where else would humans process language, or are you trying to avoid adding constructive content to improve the article dolfrog ( talk) 14:14, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
-- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 16:26, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
It has come to my attention that Category:Possible Wikipedia four award articles will miss articles when the GA and DYK are not merged into the T:AH. It happened this week with Lie Kim Hok. Can any correction be made for this situation?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 13:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
That listed/promoted issue should be a high priority. No telling how many instances of that there are out there.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:22, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
I've uploaded a file for that purpose. It might need to be cropped to show the vandalized text more clearly. SamX‧ ☎‧ ✎ 22:26, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
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How many articles have four=no right now?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ WP:FOUR/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:WAWARD) 04:37, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
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{{
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The following is a notice I sent out to a few people: I will agree to a WP:CONSENSUS determined at an RFC after User:Rjanag gets back to me with some statistics on the project. I understand that it will take at least a week after he creates the new category to have the data. I am drafting the RFC here. You can follow along.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ WP:FOUR/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:WAWARD) 08:29, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at
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The DYK nomination for this article was put on hold after you started both an AfD and a merge discussion. The former closed as no consensus; the latter appears to have vanished late last month.
I didn't want to restart the review process if the merge discussion was going to make a comeback, so I was hoping you could let me know whether you decided to let the matter drop, or plan to resume your push for the merge. If the article stands on its own in its present form and the DYK review should go forward, then I'll call for a new reviewer. Thank you. BlueMoonset ( talk) 17:19, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Wordless novel is another type of coding error for WP:FOUR.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ WP:FOUR/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:WAWARD) 08:22, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
There are two WP:RFCs at WP:FOUR. The first is to conflate issues so as to keep people from expressing meaningful opinions. The second, by me, is claimed to be less than neutral by proponents of the first. Please look at the second one, which I think is much better.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:20, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Been skipping on your humility medication, perhaps? Slashing at me 'cos you assumed too much is responsible? — Lfdder ( talk) 11:54, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
You dont see that the source says she is Spanish?
"Alba began to forge a film career. With her unusual ethnic origins – a mix of Mexican, Danish, French and Spanish"
its in the 13th paragraph. She also says here Alba is from Spain:
The video of her getting the results is on youtube which mentions her DNA test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNAqwrm9hY
C super2 ( talk) 01:58, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.
We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.
Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 21:50, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
As you know, I did not participate in the ANI threads Hijiri88 started
At this point, it seems to me that Hijiri88 is targeting me. His attention is focused on me for reasons which are not clear. If you understand how I might feel that way, can you suggest ways to mitigate this growing problem. Is this explainable as an example of WP:Poking? -- Enkyo2 ( talk) 20:34, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
What's "bold" about adding a section that obviously ought to be there? I HAVE started a discussion (I notice you didn't, nor have you contributed to the last discussion that you insisted I start) - I hope you will now contribute to it. But this "get my permission before you touch this page" attitude is absurd and counterproductive. As I say, you can do a better job of writing this section than I can - I hope when you get time you will be able to do so. But to continue to remove my contributions for no reason except a very obvious desire to exclude from the article anything that you didn't write yourself is harming what could be (and largely already is) a very good and useful article. This information is basic stuff, I'm sorry if you feel your pride has been hurt by having it pointed out that it was missing from the article that you crafted, but it surely belongs and you really have no business trying to suppress it for reasons of pique or whatever. W. P. Uzer ( talk) 10:24, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
In addition to what you and the others said, the material was directly copied from the web site--and the other sources listed.I noticed that as Iwas deleting them. This is fairly common for promotional articles that seem coherent and professionally written, and I now check it every time. DGG ( talk ) 16:30, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Since you seem to know quite a bit about the Uyghur language, would you like to make any additions to Renminbi#Use in minority regions? Do you happen to know what the RMB (Or yuan) is known as in the Uyghur language? -- benlisquare T• C• E 23:16, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. Your user page seems to indicate a good linguistics background and faith-orientation for theology-religion related articles. I am thinking of recommending a page upgrade for a GA article to FA article status which may involve the reading one book review if this might be possible for you. The book is the popularly received "Evil and the God of Love". Any possible interest? AutoJellinek ( talk) 18:00, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Rjnag. Your current user page lists you for a template for a unitarian universalist, just like James Luther Adams and Paul Tillich for "faith-orientation". If your user page was vandalized with an unknown template maybe you could look at this. AutoJellinek ( talk) 14:49, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello, this pronunciation is [sœɡõdɛːʁ] or [sœɡõdaɛ̯ʁ] ? It's difficult to guess. 166.48.173.57 ( talk) 02:10, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, do you still want to uphold the no-off topic discussion consensus at that article? The Soapbox on the talk page is getting out of hand. Jim101 ( talk) 12:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Eye movement in reading: did you get consensus for moving this to a title that focuses solely on saccades (one part of eye movement ... which occupies about 10% of the duration)? I'd like an explanation. Tony (talk) 06:53, 8 February 2014 (UTC) (And I don't care that many research texts use the plural; many don't.) Tony (talk) 06:54, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm writing to you because of your past involvement with the Urumqi riots in 2009. There was a major knife attack in Kunming. Death toll somewhere between 29 and 34, about 140 injuries as of most recent reports. It's looking likely that the attack is associated with the Uyghur independence movement although the situation is obviously cloudy. Editors with experience working on Han / Uyghur conflict would be appreciated to make sure we stick to WP:RS and avoid WP:RECENTISM while this situation unfolds. Simonm223 ( talk) 16:53, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
support for ease and transparency
Thank you for your (seemingly) tireless effort to make the DYK process easy to understand, user-friendly and transparent to follow, willing to try suggestions and drop them if not wanted. Thank you also for patiently explaining again and again, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
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Two years, you were the 72nd recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Template:Editnotices/Page/Kenyon College has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
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Hi! You promised us a Kringle-photo before Christmas 2011. Do have good photo perhaps?
RhinoMind ( talk) 23:06, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Involuntary health consequences. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Involuntary health consequences redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. BDD ( talk) 17:50, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
What was your reasoning for deleting The Justin Gaethje page JMichael22 ( talk) 06:40, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
=={Proposed deletion/dated
|concern = The primary contributor has apparently given up ( declined db-g7 request) and the article in its current state is in need of extensive editing which is not likely to happen; not sure if this meets WP:N or not, but it should probably either be stub-ified or deleted. (Note, the prod was removed before by the article creator, but that editor is now blocked for copyvio, and it's not clear to me whether the editor removed the prod intentionally to contest it or was just reverting to an earlier copyvio version of the article.) |timestamp = 20141013072531
The history is too complicated for prod. Please use afd DGG ( talk ) 21:09, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
I believe you dealt with a sockpuppet account called Chinese-proti at Prostitution in China who subsequently opened multiple accounts to add misleading content and you semi protected the article. Well he came back as User:Mixjang1234 and User:Baohio8888 (and apparently he constantly watches the article every single day to see if any of his content his removed) and I don't think he is going to go away until the article is permanently semi protected. He appears to be a Korean nationalist, trying to downplay about Korean women's prostitution to foreigners while trying to spam content about Chinese women prostituting or Korean men getting sex from foreign women. Rajmaan ( talk) 14:25, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks! rʨanaɢ ( talk) 16:43, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Please read the article again. I have added material. Broad Wall ( talk) 17:03, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Just FYI, the edit of mine which you deleted because it was added after the discussion was closed -- that's not the way it happened. I was writing the comment while the discussion was being closed, so when I saved it, it saved it to the already closed thread. I left it because the thread was open when I began composing the comment. Thanks. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 23:58, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey --- that guy is changing IPs every few minutes now, it's turning into a whack-a-mole. I started an ANI thread, if it might help; see Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard/Incidents#Dynamic IP and talk pages of schools in China. cab ( talk) 04:38, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
User:Ccyber5由于中国大陆的网络封锁,无法在英文维基百科完全正常地编辑,他委托我向您询问一下,他可不可以申请IP封禁例外(IP block exemption)权限。另外,他有一些问题想向您请教,不知道如何与你在网上联系?-- KeepOpera ( talk) 05:34, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey, Rjanag, please don't take this the wrong way, but I strongly recommend that you withdraw your attempt to delete LatmaTV, as at this point, it is obvious that your request has no chance of passing.-- RM ( Be my friend) 15:29, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you are doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. I have just read your profile and you seem a very learned person and interested in (small) languages and cultures so maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... I'm a member of an association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this has not been approved up to this moment because it does not belong to one state. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! Capsot ( talk) 10:20, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am trying to bring WP:WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics back to semi-active status. Toward that end, I have moved all members who have not posted to the project page in the past six months to a section, "Inactive members." If you wish to be active in the project, I hope you will move your name back to the section, "Members." You may also remove your name if you are no longer interested in the project.
I know you've been especially active on WikiProject Languages. I would value your opinion on whether it is worthwhile to revive WPTL, or maybe combine it into WP Linguistics. Thanks, and happy editing, Cnilep ( talk) 17:57, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
请帮我移动这两个文章:
多谢! --- 华钢琴49 ( TALK) 03:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. The Urumqi article is due to undergo major development in User:Nvvchar/Sandbox 2. You are welcome to contribute to this sandbox and help get Urumqi up to a decent standard. Congrats on the FA on the main page BTW. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:46, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I was refereed to you by Rlevse. I was wondering how to put stats on my talk page like admins showing number of edits that auto updates. Thanks.
Hmm... ( talk) 16:19, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
{{
adminstats}}
or {{
adminbars}}
template, but I'm not aware of any corresponding template for non-admins.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 18:14, 9 July 2010 (UTC)Please show me where this consensus was actually established. I need to know the reason why these characters don't qualify or why you don't want these characters here. Jhenderson777 ( talk) 14:19, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. An IP user ( 123.203.130.251 ( talk · contribs)) has violated WP:3RR on the page Li Keqiang, over the title "First Vice-Premier" and "Executive Vice Premier". What are the appropriate actions to be taken in a case like this? He goes as far as to say "I'm a Chinese that I must know more about China than you. Please read the offical introduction from China: http://english.gov.cn/2008-03/17/content_783355.htm". Colipon+( Talk) 15:42, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, it's been a while... what exactly is Category:Anti-Chinese sentiment supposed to contain? Seems quite POV to me, esp. the entries. I stumbled across it and consider putting it up for discussion. Right now, I don't have any suitable alternative though. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 18:08, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag The Wiki Project Dyslexia is currently setting out its new proposals and objectives. And part of these new proposals is to include the Wikipedia Alexia (acquired dyslexia) series of articles in a more comprehensive range of articles covering the wider issues of dyslexia. This will mean a new summary version of the dyslexia to describe both Developmental Dyslexia and Alexia, with the majority of current content being moved to a new Developmental dyslexia article. The Alexia articles provide a great challenge as most can only be considered as stubs, and many more may need to be created. I was wondering if you or one of your linquistic colleagues to help us describe and help with citations for the phycholinguistic models of reading and how they relate to the various sub types of Alexia with an aphasia. We have set up an Alexia resourses page as a working area before any articles are edited or created. dolfrog ( talk) 21:46, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, it looks like there's some broken code in the infobox of this page but I can't fix it or find the last clean edit. Can you take a look? Thanks! delldot ∇. 15:59, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi there,
I got your name from the Wikimedia:Meetup/Ohio 1 page. I will be in Columbus Aug 8-11 and was wondering if any Wikimedians would be interested in meeting up then. If so, I started Wikipedia:Meetup/Ohio 2 for quick planning :) best, -- phoebe / ( talk to me) 17:39, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi I have a question, I created the page Greetings From E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and it is my first "Book" article I have created, However I am wondering where to go to find reliable sources for it. would I source amazon, or look for websites that have reviews?
Thanks Cjones132002 ( talk) 21:38, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
ok thanks!!!
Cjones132002 (
talk) 19:27, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
..yes you are Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 05:37, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
You just undid my last edit to Shadow Hearts Covenant on the basis it was too long for a plot summary, however you undid it back to an ending summary which was full of wrong information based on previous users interpretation. If you like I can try and make it as short as possible but I don't think adding an extra three lines that are very important to an already long plot summary is a big deal tbh mate, I'll try make it shorter but please don't undo it on the basis it made the article a little longer, correct info that's a 3 lines longer must be better than incorrect info right?
Many thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.149.39.198 ( talk) 17:03, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, in your edit summary you didn't say you've bring it to the talk page, so I was fully unaware of those happening in the talk page. So I undid your revert and wrote my reply in the edit summary. -- 虞海 (Yú Hǎi) ( talk) 06:19, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
On the balance of the weight of argument, and acquaintance with the English literature of Central Asia. One side (although consisting of a single editor) presented actual evidence; the other declamation. You then presumed to close a move in which you had argued at length; I see no signs that outside opinion was solicited, or that it would have supported this improper move.
If you use admin powers on this dispute again, I will consider what form of WP:dispute resolution is most suitable to the case. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:47, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
You added a cleanup tag to Input/Output Configuration Program. If you have time, would you mind starting a new section in Talk:Input/Output Configuration Program and identifying specific terms that need to be defined or statements that need more background?
In the meantime I'll see what I can do about beefing it up. Thanks. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 15:27, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
You added an {{ unreferenced}} tag to OS/VS2 (SVS), but the article has six references:
What is the reason for the tag? Thanks. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul ( talk) 21:00, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
{{
refimprove}}
, as the article is still mostly unreferenced.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 22:05, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[1].-- Mbz1 ( talk) 22:08, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
So Zujine et all can just waltz right in and remove anything he dislikes, yet I have to gain his consensus to make any changes? There is a serious double standard here.-- PCPP ( talk) 04:50, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Please offer your objections here-- LLTimes ( talk) 15:34, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I worked with a few editors, actually, on "The Fly" page on the contribution you are unilaterally removing. I've read your edit history and you seem to have a history of confrontation with regards to edits you simply don't like. Try working out your differences with us on the talk page. Then we can vote or build a consensus. This unilateral edit you keep fighting was already resolved after an editor turned down (twice) to semi-protect the page and, instead, suggested "dispute resolution." So lets talk this out on the discussion page first, please, and then decide whether to alter or remove the contribution. Also accusing me of sockpuppetry violates "good faith". I'm not discussing this on the other user's page. I think he/she confused you with the anon editor who was previously defacing the page with an absurdly long plot summary and other changes. I would like to work with you and others toward making a good page. So let's start a dialogue about this, before defacing the page, in accordance with the admin's suggestion (which is well documented on the talk page as well). Thx. 75.174.134.45 ( talk) 05:30, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
(Reverted, 3RR given Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 09:34, 13 September 2010 (UTC))
Hi Rjanag! Thanks for the birthday greetings. I'm actually working in China now behind the great internet firewall so it is difficult to access pages on Xinjiang, Tibet etc, but I still try. So make sure to keep up the editing on your end. Take care. David Straub ( talk) 13:13, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
National identity cards in China - could you add Pinyin for ROC? TruckCard ( talk) 13:16, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I've tagged CSD for Resident Identity Card; it's in the way of a move (I intend on reverting the problematic move). -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 13:55, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thanks for the birthday greeting-- Tony Winward ( talk) 19:30, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Apologies, that certainly wasn't my intention. Walking in the areas I added to has been overlooked on their wiki pages, and so I thought to add a link for further reading that I have found useful hoping others would follow suit.
Thank you for the suggestion of raising the topic in discussion first (is this done in much the same way as I am messaging you now?).
Best
Billjohnsonwalko ( talk) 12:05, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
apparently it is. right, cheers
Billjohnsonwalko ( talk) 12:06, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Responded at.. - Stevertigo ( t | log | c) 02:18, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I was randomly going through articles and noticed a slow month long revert issue on Min Chueh Chang. It is possible for you to assess if its a issue with the article, if so change the status of the article from no protection to semi-protection? or do I have to go through the process with WP:SILVERLOCK? Thanks. Takamaxa ( talk) 14:05, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Takamaxa ( talk) 11:55, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Probably I should have kept my big mouth shut. I was just struck by the magnitude of your claim about this very ordinary word; which is surprising considering how smart you are, and a linguist to boot. See here for mucho examples of its use, including the Prez. Anyway, now that you know - no hard feelings, bud? Textorus ( talk) 16:03, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Rjanag, I've appreciated your comments about and your work on the [Standard Mandarin]] article. I notice a photo of a banner outside a school in Tibet urging use of Mandarin gets inserted and deleted from time to time. I'm sure the image is controversial (because the underlying policy is controversial), but I'd like to hear from you what you think the rationale is for not posting the image. I get the impression that American readers (who perhaps make up a plurality or even a majority of readers of English Wikipedia) could learn something about current official policy in the P.R.C. from that image, which might help them better understand the situation in the western regions now under P.R.C. sovereignty where ethnic Han people are numerically in the minority. I'll learn something from you whatever you say, so I'm asking without precondition. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk) 02:44, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have completed a general cleanup of the adopter information page for the adopt-a-user project, located here. During my cleanup, I have removed several inactive and retired users. In order to provide interested adoptees with an easy location to find adopters, it is essential that the page be up-to-date with the latest information possible. Thus:
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm ( talk) at 03:47, 23 September 2010 (UTC).
Thanks! Actually, the article was created back in 2006, but it was prodded - I was quite surprised to see no one had recreated it since then. Cheers, Nikkimaria ( talk) 13:33, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi - I've proposed an alternative at T:TDYK that I think should address your concerns. Shiva (Visnu) 14:50, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
There's too many subtopics to this whole DYK mess.
Point: I do a lot of tinkering with the DYK template on a regular basis. This is not what's being objected to.
Cirt restored a factually-inaccurate hook which I removed; however, I had not properly indicated that the hook was inaccurate. I have amended this, and apologised to Cirt for accusing him of violating POINT.
Please do not attribute motives to other people; it can make minor misunderstandings inflate into acrimonious disputes very quickly. You do not know why other people do things, and do not know whether or not someone understands a point - especially not when people are typing quickly so as to avoid edit conflicts. DS ( talk) 15:13, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
With regards to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#User:DragonflySixtyseven_DYK_ban_proposal, it would be helpful to find prior discussion about disruption of DYK processes by DragonflySixtyseven ( talk · contribs) (if such exist), and list them at that AN thread. -- Cirt ( talk) 16:40, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi. :) I think this is a good idea, but it's going to lead to some complications as is because articles tagged with that template are now sneakily listed at the copyright problems board via bot. :) The ones paraphrasing PD sources aren't copyright concerns, of course, so they really shouldn't be there. Plus, since I wouldn't be yanking the content, they'd come back over and over again. :/ Are you good enough with templates and cats and things to perhaps create a separate category other than Category:Articles with close paraphrasing for them to go into? Maybe Category:Articles with close paraphrasing of public domain sources? Is it even possible to have the category switch based on parameters? If that's not up your alley, I'll see if I can find somebody who can help. Certainly, I have no clue. :D -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:30, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
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parameter is activated in the template.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 20:36, 26 September 2010 (UTC)Turns out an account you blocked, User:Ninthwhen has a ton of sockpuppets Дунгане ( talk) 03:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the palindromes! I waste so much worrisome energy on vandals that I forget about all the great editors out there. Praise Thor! PalindromeKitty ( talk) 23:45, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I have closed the AFD and soft redirected it. For future reference, to soft redirect an article to wiktionary, replace the text with this...
{{wi}} {{subst:longcomment}}
You originally did this...
{{wiktionary|ni hao}}
...which makes it look like a blank article. That may be why the IP reverted it. Not to worry, I didn't know this either until I looked it up before closing the AFD :) -- Ron Ritzman ( talk) 11:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
Do you not agree sir? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.225.23.211 ( talk) 23:49, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
You do realize that Mediation requires my active consent and cooperation, don't you? Removing my side of the issue and wheelwarring are unlikely to secure either. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 00:55, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Your concerns about Pmanderson's behaviour seem to ring true in the various times I've seen him at ANI lately. Issues like that are not really well resolved at the edit warring board (though Courcelles's solution seems good to me), but I recognize that they are serious. I really am beginning to think Pmanderson needs a serious warning, followed by a lengthy block if he continues his behaviour. Unfortunately, I myself have had at least one naming dispute with Pmanderson and I'm a tad concerned my level of involvement, as low as it is, would still undermine any such warning. What I would like to see happen would be for an admin with no history of content disputes with him to issue a warning and then follow through as needed. Those are my thoughts at this point. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 02:45, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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See Template talk:Did you know#Four boxes of liberty. What is the duration to establish status quo? This would be useful on future AfD rescues that seem to have DYK potential. Thanks, Aymatth2 ( talk) 22:52, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Not that it matters, but I thought I'll drop in and leave a note about your signature. I use Google Chrome and don't seem to be able to make out the 'j' part of your signature. It comes out strange. Perhaps you could think about changing it if other users face the same issue with your signature. Like I mentioned, I have no issues per se. Wifione ....... Leave a message 13:51, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
"i have plenty of time to respond to you, DS, I just don't want to"
I thought what triggered this whole mess was that I was not properly engaging in discussion regarding controversial decisions. I am attempting to resolve a difficult issue, and to promote reconciliation; I would appreciate it if you do not prematurely declare portions of the conversation to be 'closed' while the imbroglio on AN continues. I do hope you can understand my concern over this, and look forward to reading your rebuttal. DS ( talk) 17:29, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
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hey,
Be sure 'n let me know when that book comes in, OK? I'm anxious to avoid letting those two images be deleted. They are far and away the best images in the article (as evidenced by the fact that one of them sits atop the page), and are very definitely Public Domain, but dammit, we have to prove it! Tks! • Ling.Nut 03:00, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Sorry about that revert. I don't really understand why you deleted the factoid from the article, but I should have mentioned this instead of simply reverting your edit.
I hope to convince you that you should at least consider replacing the deleted portion. I believe it is well supported by its citation, that it acts as an interesting hook, and that it enriches the article by including a non-Western perspective. But as I won't revert your edits, it is up to you to decide if the article will or will not include it :)
I don't think the statement made is an over-generalization or, in fact, even a generalization of the source material. The cited article reads, "For one thing, Kraft learned that traditional Oreos were too sweet for Chinese tastes" and, "Some Chinese consumers still find the Oreos too sweet. One 30-year-old consumer who was shopping for groceries in the eastern part of Beijing recently, said that he likes the cookie but that 'many of my friends think I am a bit weird to stick to Oreo cookies, as most of them think it too sweet to be accepted.'"
These statements safely support the notion that sweetness, a highly desirable taste in The West, is not as favored in China. And, while acknowledging that China does not comprise The East, I don't believe a statement like, "sweet may not be a highly favored taste in The East" is a generalization of that notion. Instead it is an assumption that follows from it, and worded in a way that the citation supports it.
I don't think that replacing "The East" with "China" would fit well in the broader context of the article, and I do think that the assumption made is valid. Because tastes usually vary little region-to-region, and because Chinese tastes do not favor sweet, it can be hypothesized that this may be true throughout Asia. So I urge you to consider replacing that part of the article. Fleetham ( talk) 15:52, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I really can't imagine you are giving my argument proper consideration. Statements that obviously misrepresent my argument make it seem that you are more concerned with disarming my contentions than responding to them as if they were valid.
Your argument has valid points, and I won't dispute the deletion. Fleetham ( talk) 18:58, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I stopped reading your reply after, "[you're] trying to take one person saying 'my friends are surprised I eat Oreos!" and extending that to "sweetness is disfavored in the East'".
I went and looked at the WP:SYN link, and you are correct--my edit was WP:SYN and you were right to delete it.
...but I really wasn't trying to extend one person's opinion of his friend's eating habits to those of all Asians.
The fact that you thought this is what my argument was is the reason my first response was rather terse.
So, I apologize for defending my edit, but please take more care to fully understand an argument before you represent it in caricature. Misrepresenting my point doesn't win points for you. Fleetham ( talk) 16:06, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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Fellowscientist ( talk) 17:44, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I don't really mean what I'm saying about post structural linguistics on the talk page. Taivo ignored my private message to him where I had explained this to him. But here's what. I'm just pretending that we want to restart the post structural linguistics page so that Supriya gets tempted to join in the conversation - and I want you to do the same. The whole post structural linguistics issue is absurd and total crap! Of course it doesn't belong to linguistics and I know! Supriya works here as an admin and we can get hold of her through this trick - and report her and ban her from using the Internet all together. Then she'd never be able to log on ANYWHERE. Legally. Just give this a shot. Pretend that you want to start the page and you've agreed. Once she comes on, we can track her computer. I know where her office is and where she sits; I can figure out its IP number too which you can tally with hers. Later, once she's out, we obviously don't need to start the page, or we can delete whatever we've started. Fellowscientist ( talk) 16:24, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
A bit quick on the trigger, there? You reverted before I had added the ref... Please check it, not quite the same language, actually. -- 88.112.14.158 ( talk) 13:23, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
No big deal - just that you put your comment in the survey, not the discussion area. I didn't want to presume to move it, since people editting my talk comments bothers the hell out of me. μηδείς ( talk) 04:43, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
How come after you advise me to restrain, you put my name in a minor faith es? - DePiep ( talk) 20:37, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Would you consider changing the protection level of Kaster before 24 Oct? You may be aware of some issues with that article so wanted to check with you before I did anything. Thanks. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 01:59, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 05:53, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I've added some details.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:22, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Re. Shixunci ( talk · contribs)
A new user, seeming to only contribute in Chinese. After warnings, blocked.
At the request of another user (helpme) I added a link to Chinese Wikipedia help.
Maybe you could add more?
Please see User_talk:Ka Faraq Gatri#Non-English Additions.
Thanks, Chzz ► 12:54, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
I saw from here that it's been one year since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ( talk) 14:17, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Good day
I am wanting to submit a page on ILAMM - a learning methodology - but have seen you have deleted a page about this topic before. Please could you give me some guidelines on what I can do so it is not deleted again. From what I see it was deleted because of copyright issues - is it not possible to take an existing definition and include it into Wikipedia?
Thanks for your assistance. ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndptc ( talk • contribs) 08:21, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I have just had occasion, for the first time, to use {{ contrib-zh1}}. Is there a reason why it gives the message twice, in almost-identical characters? is it perhaps Mandarin/Cantonese or is it a glitch? Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 17:14, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm sorry about the whole silly argument, but you have to clarify what you mean by content issues. From what I've gleaned so far, your concerns seems to deal with
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (layout) issues (which is under [[:Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (content)]], admittedly I should have linked to that page directly, instead of the more general
WP:MOS). If you're not talking about
layout,
footnotes,
formatting,
notability,
reliable sources... what's left?--
hkr
Laozi speak 05:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
With regard to the changes that you reverted on the Forensic Linguistics page, what did you mean by "..strange addition of personal opinion in the middle of a footnote"? Do clarify, because I don't recall adding any personal thoughts or the like. I am part of a larger group of students improving that page for a school project, so edits will be made bit by bit and in a series.
We would appreciate it if you could hold off on reverting or making minor stylistic changes until we have finished, as it disrupts the flow of whatever we intend to add. If you have comments on the content, you can make them on my user page. Nashrian ( talk) 05:59, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Would it be okay to remove some of the improvement tags on the Forensic Linguistics page now? Reorganization has been done and most of the grammar has been edited. Nashrian ( talk) 14:35, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Huh? GAN? No we're not looking for GAN but I do think the tone and reorganization have been greatly improved from what it was when it first began. Any suggestion for the "Other general issues" heading? Just that the many books & journals that we use mention those "issues" a lot so it should be worth including. Nashrian ( talk) 14:56, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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For a user ribbon you can use, seeThis investigation of my contributions- Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/Дунгане has been dragging on for a while with absolutely no one looking into it. Its been over a month since i last checked it, and two months since another user was checking. I would like to get it cleared up soon, do you have time to check the articles off if they are copyvio or not? ( i can't do it all myself of course, because they would be a conflict of interest). I would like to clear up the copyvio and rewrite if there is any rather than it being all deleted. Дунгане ( talk) 04:30, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. I am writing to you and Pmanderson as the two people I see most involved with the article on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpan. I believe it is against the 'rules' to 'lobby' other editors, but that is not what I am doing and I am doing this openly. A user has deleted the reference to the name Turpan in Turkish, stating that it has nothing to do with Turkey/ Turks/ Turkish. I pointed out that according to the article it does indeed. The user then went back to the article and removed all references to Turkish and replaced them with Turkic. I am not an expert on the subject, so, even though I know what the differences are between Turkish and Turkic, I am not in a position to judge in this speciifc case. I therefore am bringing it to the attention of the two of you. Best regards, -- Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 06:54, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on November 4, 2010. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 4, 2010. If you think that it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article director, Raul654 ( talk · contribs). If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch Talk C. 02:27, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Not One Less is a 1999 drama film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, adapted from Shi Xiangsheng's 1997 story "A Sun in the Sky." It was released by China Film Group Corporation in mainland China, and by Sony Pictures Classics and Columbia Tristar internationally. Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students. When one of the boys takes off in search of work in the big city, she goes looking for him. The film addresses education reform in China, the economic gap between urban and rural populations, and the prevalence of bureaucracy and authority figures in everyday life. It is filmed in a neorealist/ documentary style with a troupe of non-professional actors who play characters with the same names and occupations as the actors have in real life, blurring the boundaries between drama and reality. The domestic release of Not One Less was accompanied by a Chinese government campaign aimed at promoting the film and cracking down on piracy. Internationally, the film was generally well-received, but it also attracted criticism for its ostensibly political message. When the film was excluded from the 1999 Cannes Film Festival's competition section, Zhang withdrew it and another film from the festival, and published a letter rebuking Cannes for politicization of and "discrimination" against Chinese cinema. ( more...)
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... that you can see 5000 old versions of a page at a time, if you add an extra 0 to 500 in the url?
It takes a while to load, but it's better than doing 500 at a time. SmartSE ( talk) 18:07, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been adding these categories to people either with recognised Cornish ancestry or distinctly Cornish names, like Annear. I will be happy to provide referencing. Bodrugan ( talk) 22:01, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been adding these categories to people either with recognised Cornish ancestry or distinctly Cornish names, like Annear. I will be happy to provide referencing. Bodrugan ( talk) 22:02, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
There are plenty of people categorised with various other ancestries that are not included/referenced in their articles. The Wikipedia rules on categorisation appear to only be as strict as you are suggesting for religious and sexual beliefs. Bodrugan ( talk) 01:55, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
N+1 is a pretty well-respected journal, with a print and web presence- so it's not self-published. As for when I did the interview, it was in late April 2010. 109.157.171.247 ( talk) 00:06, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for asking to correct the Creative Pedagogy page references (Nov 9, 2010). I did it and I truly appreciate your advice and help. Gem131 ( talk) 22:08, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I apologise for our earlier encounter on AfD, I shouldn't have emphasised MoS so much, and I do see your point. But now, I have a question regarding DYK, which you've been an very active participant of. How long does it take for the straw polls to close and for the proposals to be implemented? Is there an exact date, or does it vary depending on circumstance?-- res Laozi speak 06:02, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Per primary topic, I have chosen to re-direct 承德 to Chengde (the prefecture) instead of mirroring what the Chinese wiki does. But as there apparently is a 承德县 and Japanese 承德, some form of a DAB ought to be kept. So I attempted to move 承德 to 承德 (disambiguation), but the move attempt failed. Thus, to avoid a copy-and-paste, I request that you execute this. Thanks. If this is invalid, sorry for the bother --
HXL
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Record 04:35, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for the persistent bother, but I have a new request. I have been able to do several move over re-directs, but this time it failed. "Kaiyuan City, Honghe, Yunnan" (ridiculous title) needs to be moved to just "Kaiyuan, Yunnan". No other "Kaiyuan"s of any sort in Yunnan, and it has been the norm on this Wiki to avoid using "City" for 市 in mainland Chinese city article titles if possible. And we both know that Chinese tend to only name the county and province that they are from, not the prefecture. Thanks. --
HXL
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Record 05:13, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
I am redirected by Sasata from the FA nominations page to request for help from you to peer review the Internet Linguistics page. Here's the direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Peer_review/Internet_linguistics/archive1 Hope you can spare some time reviewing it so further improvements can be made to make the page better.
Thanks. Serenehj ( talk) 02:33, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Rjanag, saw your comments. Will work on it. Serenehj ( talk) 03:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
I think you should complete Talk:Internet linguistics/GA1 to explain why you quick-failed. This will give some guidance to the nominator, which just removing the GAN template does not do. Jezhotwells ( talk) 23:55, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag,
I have been asked to update this page and our cover art every month. Is there any way I can update the PNAS cover image without having it immediately removed by you? Your assistance would be appreciated.
Smohin ( talk) 00:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
November 23, 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smohin ( talk • contribs) 21:27, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
I uploaded a new PNAS cover (with updated masthead for 2010), to the PNAS wiki page using the guidance you provided. Please let me know if this is not correct.
Smohin ( talk) 21:29, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I reverted your change to Template:Ambox. Reason being that Ambox should never rely on numbered parameters (this was a strict design condition), as {{{text}}} is never guaranteed to be {{{1}}}, ie. if another parameter name was omitted. As this is a very heavily used template, please discuss any changes on the template's talk page first, and test them in the sandbox. Thanks. — Edokter • Talk • 01:20, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I see that you're in Xinjiang. WikiProject Central Asia has Guxnan on its request page, and the Cuisine of Xinjiang page has dead links to Goshnan, which is probably the same thing. Would you be willing to start a stub page for the dish? Maybe after doing some firsthand research of eating some? :) Aelfthrytha ( talk) 18:41, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Stop trying to impose your views on others. I will be restoring the work I did. I also note that you have completely removed the age eligibility article from Wikipedia. Please restore or I will be reporting you for vandalism. Also the title should be fully restored as its more accurate and what was intended by the original author —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.208.75 ( talk) 03:33, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
This 79.97.171.208 is vandalizing many pages and something needs to be done about this habit of destroying serious peoples work who actually develop wikipedia.-- Halqh حَلَقَة הלכהሐላቃህ ( talk) 17:41, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Firstly, I would like to make clear that I am the Assistant Manager of Web Production and Design at PNAS trying to update our content on the Wikipedia page.
In response to your comments:
You mention "there is no need to keep updating the images at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article unless the journal has a major style or layout change, there is no need to upload new images over and over again." PNAS publishes on a weekly basis, and we would prefer the cover on the Wikipedia page be updated on a consistent basis to stay current. At present, the cover on our page is from 2009, which has a different masthead color than 2010, and would prefer updating the PNAS cover to reflect the 2010 volume. We also plan to make this cover update again in 2011 to reflect the new 2011 masthead color, and so on and so forth. I have followed the guidelines you have provided (uploading the PNAS covers to English Wikipedia with a fair-use rationale) and have made the appropriate updates to the PNAS cover image upon request from my superiors. Please let me know if this is not clear.
Your response to the inclusion of this list on the PNAS Wikipedia page is: "unnecessary, unencyclopedic laundry list, no clear inclusion criter[i]a, basically boasting. who determines which papers are "classic"? pretty sure this has been removed before." Thank you for your comments. To answer your question, the PNAS Classic Papers are carefully selected by our Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board, and Associate Editors. This content should be included on the PNAS Wikipedia page and not removed. Thank you. Smohin ( talk) 21:52, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
As you were a former participant of the late August and early September discussions to rename Standard Mandarin to "Modern Standard Chinese", you may be interested in participating in the proposed move at Talk:Standard Mandarin. -- HXL 's Roundtable, and Record 00:55, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
After this, you really, really think that he is not a disruptive editor, that he is a "white victim". Fortunatly the page is protected, otherwise he'd reverted to Simone again. You can see his contributions again and you'll see he refused to talk with othes or to contribute correctly. 4 Blocks for disruptive editing, unblocked per your request, do not take this personal, but 9/10 administrators would block him without hestitation. Tbhotch Talk C. 03:39, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I don't know why you keep insisting I have "something against you", when all I did was point out that your editing was inappropriate, as did the other admin reviewing the case. Note that I did not block you even though you were edit-warring after a stern warning, and I also advised the other admin not to block you. If you want to keep playing the victim, have fun with that, but there is nothing more to say here. rʨanaɢ ( talk) 07:26, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I want to thank you for your warning [12] at Tbhotch's talk page. This is not the first time that this user has edit-warred on this article. [13] [14] [15] [16] Hopefully, they take your warning seriously. A Quest For Knowledge ( talk) 11:08, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I have a new suggestion for Template:Zh-full, add another paramater, just like pinyin, for Xiao'erjing, which is arabic script used for writing chinese. it will be usefull on Hui related articles, and for names of mosques in China and other islamic related stuff like the Great Mosque of Xi'an. Дунгане ( talk) 20:24, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
What do you think of this start-up? I was thinking it would be an analog to Dr. Blofeld's creation of WikiProject Tibet. If you have no particular opposition to it, I will create a sub-page for potential participants to come on in. Thanks. And BTW, I chose you especially because of your work with the 7-5 incidents. I may well get to asking the other major editors of that article. -- HXL 's Roundtable, and Record 02:58, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Rjanag--I noticed your remarks about pageview stats here. Do you know if there is an easy way to get pageview stats for an arbitrary article? Thanks for your time. Foobarnix ( talk) 22:18, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Template:Adminbars has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.
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Template:Expand has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
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I know I am such a inresponsible editor and my thanks to editors like you for showing my mistakes. So here's a Wikilove to an actual responsible editor unlike myself. By the way, I hope the edit notice is more to your liking. I don't like to disappoint other editors. ;) − Jhenderson 777 01:24, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
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If you feel the article isn't notable that's fine, like I said I did not do anything new. There already was a article on Appa and back then there was no external link sources and the strange thing is you never complained about it's notability then. What is up with that?!?! − Jhenderson 777 14:15, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Salam again,
I also added this note on http://ukij.org/html: "This image is designed by Waris Abdukerim Janbaz and is under LGPL license. It can be freely shared without prior authorization.". Please let me know if you need more remarks. If no other comments, please avtivate all my contributions. cheers! Oyghan ( talk) 02:03, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I enjoyed creating this article. It was a song from my childhood :)
I also appreciate you cleaning it up afterwards and agree with the changes you made. - PM800 ( talk) 13:01, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
just checked my email; thanks! Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 06:24, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag. I was wondering: are you still in Xinjiang? If you still are, are you able to (if and when possible) have a look at a PRC ID Card for a local Xinjiang resident, and be able to note the Uyghur text that appears on it for entries like name, gender, etc? (it can be anyone, so it's best to find a Han or someone you know well, as Uyghurs might become a little weary if foreign tourists ask to look at your ID). I was after official Uyghur translations of each of the headings on the ID card, so that I could include it within my table in the JMSFZ article. I suppose you could use a photograph or a text note if you are familiar with the language. Cheers, -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 06:50, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag,
You noted in your edit to the Linguistics article "if you're gonna create this arrangement, don't call it 'grammar', which neglects structure/form-related fields like phonetics and phonology)". I agree 100% with the main content of your edit description, but I have to ask -- "create this arrangement"? What do you mean -- the division of the field into 3 parts (structure/grammar/other)? I have to say I'm the slightest bit uncomfortable with that division myself (from my perspective, it gives "the study of meaning" too much weight), but I was just trying to copy from what was already in the article lede. If you are uncomfortable too, is this something we should bring up on the talk page? Some sort of nice overview of the field is needed nevertheless, but there may be a better way to contextualize content that is still easily readable.
Hey Rjanag. I see that you are a frequent editor of the Harvard Girl article and you've reverted any attempts to add clarification to the scholarships awarded being need-based as opposed to merit-based. I personally don't care that much about it, and was just trying to provide readers with a clearer understanding of the situation while adding very little text. In fact, only two additional words are required to make this fact clear so there would be no misunderstanding from the reader's viewpoint. Since it's clear another user agrees with this clarification being a helpful addition to the article, I was just wondering what your reasoning was behind removing it. Do you think it's superfluous? Or is there another reason?
In my mind, it probably shouldn't be mentioned at all that she received a scholarship - that is essentially just revealing that her family falls under a certain income level. But if it must be mentioned, as it's currently written, it's very ambiguous to the reader as to why the scholarship was awarded. To a typical reader, it definitely sounds like it's merit-based due to the current wording. So, I thought simply adding the word "need-based" to an article that is over 1,000 words if it provides the reader with a truer picture of the facts would make sense. Or simply eliminating those two phrases from the article would also be a suitable alternative in my mind. Getting into Harvard is certainly a great accomplishment and extremely difficult. Adding ambiguous text/accomplishments to make it sound even more impressive seems unnecessary. Providing wikipedia readers with a clearer picture of the situation by adding two words seems like a good idea in my mind, but you must feel differently. You said to check out Be namo's talk page, but all I saw was that the two of you were in a revert war. I didn't see an actual discussion of the edit. I was just wondering your rationale as to why it would make the article worse based on wikipedia guidelines to include that clarification (or get rid of the mention of scholarship all together). Take it easy. Cheers! - Bluedog423 Talk 06:01, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
A reliable ranking is the priority info to indroduce a college's reputation instead telling people bunch of awards issued by numerous differnt parties. I think most American students need this info before they make their decision. This article seems focus on advertising by mostly showing positive things and avaoiding negative things. According to Wikipedia's rule, doesnt matter if it's positve/negative, all facts about Kenyon College should be mentioned. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Texaspublic ( talk • contribs) 01:22, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
... he just doesn't get it. Maybe his username shoulda been some kind of Omen. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 14:52, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your message to APL and I am curious. What is the format of the files you want to convert to grey scale? Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 08:52, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
desaturate()
function, that I could just paste into a batch file a lot of times and run the batch file on the folder...unfortunately, I never even managed to figured out how to run GIMP from the command line, and the documentation available doesn't seem very helpful.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 23:57, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
I believe Template:`s/doc is backwards. The first sentence, "This template allows quick entry of an apostrophe and "s" after italicized titles", should be "unitalicized" instead of "italicized". The rest of the paragraph, which matches the first paragraph of Template:'s/doc instead of contrasting with it, should be similarly reversed. This would make it consistent with Template:'/doc, Template:`/doc, and H13. I almost fixed it myself but your name is on it. Art LaPella ( talk) 06:25, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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without looking at it. I'm not sure why I put my signature on it...oops! (so ashamed of my younger Wikipedia self...)
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 10:25, 7 January 2011 (UTC)My intention is in no way nationalistic. What I want is to keep the facts neutral that's why I do think it's the best way to write down Asian American (because that's a widely known fact). About the ancestry part, I do not think that the source (a yahoo site of China which I assume is biased) can proof that Leehom is really from China. News can be manipulated all the time and just because a journalist claims certain things, it still could be wrong. In addition, I know Leehom's ancestry, passport etc. has been discussed since a long time, but I do find it totally silly to put ancestry in his biography because for all other major singers, it was never put on. That's why I would stick with Asian American (Sorry bout the edit war, I didn't know how to leave messages, but I do hope you consider the neutrality of the Chinese Yahoo news as a source.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.26.22.188 ( talk) 16:05, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
i believe arabic is the official script for the kazakh language in China, yet people use cyrillic in articles relating to kazakhs in China, cyrillic is only official in kazakhstan. Same problem on some mongols in china related articles where people are using cyrillic whereas mongolian script is the official script of that language in China, and probably used in writing official documents in the autonomous regions. And although salar does not have an official script, i believe more of it is written in arabic than in latin, and the latin script in some wikipedia articles was made up by some unknown guy, some sources i have say that the actual latin script in use in China is based off pinyin and not the one that is currently seen on the aritcles. Do you know kazakh or salar or have any way of knowing how to write them in arabic script? Дунгане ( talk) 04:39, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
specific articles i am concerned about- Kazakh was written in cyrillic here yet arabic script is official for kazakh in china
i deleted latin alphabet on xunhua salar county article
on Qinghai, oirat mongolian is written in cyrillic and khalka mongol in latin alphabet. Salar is written in alphabet. Oirat and khalka in China use traditional mongol script as official, not latin or cyrillic and i doubt any mongols in qinghai know cyrillic for their language.
If you feel i was wrong in the removal i will not object but i feel they should be replaced with arabic and mongolian writing since they are the official ones in those regions. Дунгане ( talk) 04:54, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
i have three sources which all say salar have used arabic script in the past for hundreds of years and in the present now, though its not official- [17] Two sources say they have arabic script, and that a pinyin based latin script was developed for them, but latin is barely used. Neither arabic nor latin is official, but judging from sources arabic is more common and has historical precedent. [18] [19] the latin script used in the articles was most certainly not the one created in china based on pinyin, it looked like someone copied and pasted the Turkish alphabet or Azerbaijani alphabet and applied it to salar- [20] [21]. Therefore it is really unsourced. Дунгане ( talk) 05:04, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
...to redirect the "eventual archive" to your talk page and then link to the "eventual archive" whenever you are linking something. This way you can still enjoy the benefits of the orange bar? – xeno talk 18:32, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Take a look at the page and add your input on the talk page, please. Looks like we have someone who has been recently involved in tendentious editing. Thanks -- HXL 's Roundtable, and Record 23:22, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Template:Did you know.2FQueue.2Fdoingcredits
I don't know if these are used for anything, but I noticed the nominator had not notified you. 28bytes ( talk) 07:55, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag. This message is to object your poposal on deleting the article about English Phonetic Alphabet. I do apologize for not making it clear that English Phonetic Alphabet is applied and taught in worldwide. It was fielded in private school in South Korea during 2010 and is currently used to teach children at aboriginal reservation area in Northern Ontario. In addition, EPA is acknowledged by TESL (teachers of English as a second language) Ontario, the most creditable and recognized non-profitable teaching professional association in Ontario that providing support for teachers, students, and government bodies. Workshops were held in TESL Ontario 2010 fall conference to help the industry and the public learn about EPA. The lesson was webcasted and is available in the TESL Ontario Conference Webcast Archives. Usually TESL will publish lesson in conferences onto their website 4 months later. I expect it will come out in early February and it can greatly improve the notability of this wiki article. While waiting for this big reference, what I will do is to find other creditable citations from schools and institutions that are implimenting EPA. If you have any further comments please discuss with me. Thanks a lot! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Williamchacha ( talk • contribs) 19:01, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I wonder if you might consider refactoring your comment, as I'd already responded to the new editor, and your response is a bit bighty. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 01:17, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
Sir/Maám,
I am handing this to you because the Talk page for
Tourette’s Syndrome been locked. (Gee, I can’t imagine how that happened.) Ironically enough I was only looking for more info ont eh “social stigma” section of the article. I chose you at random from contributors I could identify.
Tourettes IS a physiological state; The exact location of the part of DNA where it ‘lives’ (for lack of a better word) is in fact known. That this whole ridiculousness began well after the Human Genome was mapped suggests (in fact insists) that this is someone with an axe to grind.
I have NEVER agreed with Wikipedia’s “consensus” policy (there was a time when “consensus” stated, quite definitively, that the world was flat). That said, every single expert in the field agrees it IS biological, including experts in related fields that do NOT specialize in TS, and do not care about it in any way shape or form.
That it is listed in DSRM is not relevant to what it is and where it comes from. Homosexuality used to be listed; Lycanthropy was not. Now it is inverse. This is because the DSRM, for all its importance, is not omnsciens and was never intended to be; It was intended to be used only as another tool (just like a stethoscope and that hammer thing they hit your knees with).
97.120.235.182 (
talk) 18:38, 11 May 2011 (UTC)A REDDSON
I saw your recent contributions at DYK and I clicked on over to your user page and was pretty impressed. Would you be interested in helping with the WP:Online_Ambassadors program? It's really a great opportunity to help university students become Wikipedia contributers. I hope you apply to become an ambassador, Sadads ( talk) 02:57, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi my name is Judy Thompson and I am an ESL teacher in Canada. I really appreciate the effort you put into your response and I would like to reply to your comments.
First of all you are good. You are absolutely right about some things - the Wikipedia entry was created by a Chinese co-op student and there are some basic errors Asia /Ay Zhu/for starters and pure was transcribed /pyUwr/ - sorry about that and thank you.
While the Chinese student is unfamiliar with IPA and phonetics I taught IPA for many years and am very familiar with phonetics. You and I are coming from completely different places. I taught IPA to advanced English students who had been practicing their mistakes for many, many years before their overall English competency was at a level (Canadian Bench Mark 6) where they were eligible to enrol in pronunciation classes. By then there was a tremendous amount of fossilization that had to be unlearned and unlearning requires far more effort than learning properly in the first place. The English Phonetic Alphabet was developed in response to the needs of immigrants to learn to speak English quickly and effectively and is in many respects the antithesis of IPA.
There are 1.5 billion people using English as a learned language in the world today and an estimated less than 1% of them can use the IPA efficiently. EPA is for the rest of these learners and they love it.
They love it for two reasons. It makes sense and they don’t have to be a linguist to use it. We really are coming from completely different places, IPA is high technical and EPA is purely practical.
The pitfalls with IPA are irreconcilable. It isn’t logical for example /i:/ or /iy/ doesn’t logically represent an ‘e’ sound to anyone but the French. /j/ logically is the first sound of jump and jam not yellow. Many of the IPA symbols just don’t make sense and the myriad of Greek characters are alienating. IPA is not a viable tool for the vast majority of English language learners.
Let’s address the rest of your comments in this light and examine the English Phonetic Alphabet on its own merit.
Schwa is a very important part of spoken English. After a functional phonetic alphabet and stressed syllables it is the third most important thing students have to learn. As a tiny version of /u/ as in mustard, that symbol suffices to start. Avoiding two syllable words for rank beginners might be an easy solution.
EPA teachers avoid all linguistic jargon. Phonemic alphabet, glottal stop, voiced dental fricative etc are wonderful clarifying tools for linguists but they are the mortal enemies of the EPA target users
Bold is not the way stressed syllables are distinguished in handwriting – just making them bigger is simple and effective with an ordinary pen. You make a good point about the capitals and if we change the consonants that will also eliminate the need for underlining anything! SH as in /wiSh/, CH as in /wiCh/, keeping TH for θ and using Th for ð, Ng and Zh completes the set - an definite improvement As provincial as it sounds, air in and air out explain the phenomenon so simply for learners they can immediately create both those sounds and the purpose is served.
Changing the font size for capitals is a nuisance especially writing a text book, but it is worth the effort and you get really fast at it. In a word document written in font size 12, reducing the caps to a 10 still leaves them larger than their lowercase counterparts and easily recognizable as caps. I could be wrong but I don’t think there is that flexibility in Wikipedia. Caps and font functions are part of all computers and not a big deal to incorporate in Word for classroom use.
Conversely IPA uses many symbols that are difficult to find and use. And ʃ is constantly mistaken for s in handwriting. I seriously doubt anyone looks at /eI ʒә/ and thinks Asia.
With some clarification perhaps now you can see why this alphabet has been so warmly embraced by the ESL community. It is catching on like wildfire. EPA is currently being used in hundreds of schools in 16 countries around the world. There are new editions and new textbook being printed this spring and the changes you initiated will be part of the product. Again, thank you very much for your educated attention to this vital language tool.
As for the dictionary – dictionaries reflect language they don’t create it. With a viable replacement for the archaic IPA all current dictionaries are obsolete and we can look for them to be replaced in the next decade. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Williamchacha ( talk • contribs) 20:43, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. Roscelese ( talk ⋅ contribs) 20:40, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for being the voice of reason. I may need help on another article as well List of God of War characters. Regards Thebladesofchaos ( talk) 21:54, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind being a Wikipedia mentor for me. I saw you on the Online Ambassadors list for the Public Policy Initiative but interestingly enough I had just seen your name under the edits history for my alma mater, Kenyon College. It looks like you have a lot of Wikipedia wisdom to share as well! Thanks! Lmissik ( talk) 01:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Please have a look: User talk:Midnightblueowl#Chinese New Left POV pushing , and this kind of WP:Disruptive editing has to be stopped before more damage is caused by him. Arilang talk 22:16, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Arilang talk 23:37, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Please have a look: Talk:Barbarians in East Asian cultures#Requested move and help move the page back to it's original name? Arilang talk 02:39, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Well, I figured since the RPG Classics site was linked ont he page, it would be of no problem to have my website linked to it. Although, not yet, My site will contain all the information to the game I can possibly do. RPG Classics is just another fan site created by one person, and actually has somewhat less information than my site does (excluding the health based information of the bosses and such). If I have to have my fan-site removed from the links, then I do not see it fair as the RPG Classics fan-site isn't being removed. In what way would I have to change my site to "follow" the guidelines? I am not using it strictly as advertising for money purposes or any of that, but a way for the Legaia (Page for the game I editteD) community to get together considering it's really small these days. If a person can use the site to view any kind of information that can be of help to them in the game, along with going to the forums to communicate with other people about the game, I think it would bring a community back to the game if you see what I am saying. 75.97.14.223 ( talk) 01:54, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for spotting and reverting the vandalism on my userpage, I really appreciate it! ʙʌsʌwʌʟʌ spik ʌp! 09:42, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page! —Entropy ( T/ C) 18:22, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
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This came in today. I left a note on Talk:Flag of East Turkistan. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 14:13, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
It seems to be stuck now. Since you were the one who pulled it from the queue, and from your last comment you seem to be ok with it now, could you check off on it? Ladyof Shalott 03:40, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
I wasn't edit warring per se, I was just warning him that he can't just go around messing with articles' styles without an explanation whatsoever. For the record, that wasn't the only page he edited inaccurately or the first time he had been warned. I'll back down for now, but I will revert his edits eventually. Snap Snap 01:21, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
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I am new to wikipedia editing and am exploring it in my trade policy class. I figured you would be a good mentor because you edit articles on China and I used to live and work there. Emptybride ( talk) 23:10, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hey Rjanag! If you have time, please look into the edit war going on in Uyghur people, which stirred up due to one user questioning the significance of Uyghurs in Turkey. Also, If you have additional time, there's also a debate going on in Talk:Hindi-Urdu about transliteration/transcription. Thanks, ʙʌsʌwʌʟʌ spik ʌp! 20:39, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi again Rjanag, this user has been removing legitimate comments on his talk page (which is perfectly fine), but putting "vandalism" as the edit summary, even after I asked them not to do so. Is there a policy against this, and if so, what should be done? Thanks, ʙʌsʌwʌʟʌ spik ʌp! 09:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Alright. -- Michaeldsuarez ( talk) 17:33, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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Greetings. Actually, if you take a close look I have been trying to improve the articles and compensate for what are largely questionable edits on account of poor spelling, grammar and other issues. These articles attract their fair share of fans who at times don't see that where possible things neeed to be kept at encyclopedia standard. As tiring as it is, I will continue to persevere. Regards. Thebladesofchaos ( talk) 03:18, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hi there, just noticed that you reverted my edit while I was putting the finishing touches to it ;)
As for the rationale you mention, I have modeled the introduction mostly on Japan, Norway, Italy, Germany and Canada. It contains elements from each country that relates to South Korea.
I looked at previous edits and thought there were some important facts about South Korea that were missing from the main intro so decided to give it a try myself.
I have tried to refrain from POV as much as possible and edit the intro with sourced facts but let me know if there are some elements that you think are leaning that way.
In the meantime, I will apply some of the finishing changes :) Pocketchef ( talk) 20:50, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Mono ( talk) 01:06, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm not really familiar myself, but is there a policy against slow edit-warring, that is, repeated revert edits spread out over a number of days, with no explanation nor engagement in discussion by an editor? Numerous editors have reverted User:2%peach's edits at List of cities in China (user also previously edited as an IP, 110.174.64.45), and the user has been warned. 3RR doesn't apply in this case, as it doesn't occur within 24-hours, so I'm not quite sure on what I should do that would be appropriate. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 07:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
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As an administrator can you restore the Sokka article's history per here. Jhenderson 777 01:04, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
He's "right" and has "proven" it. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 14:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Let's finally solve this issue. According to your statement here, the image "has been subject of disputes over its use on other Wikipedias, including en-wiki". I want to know where exactly. I also want to remind you, that your claim that "Picture is not representative of what Uyghur people usually look like", which was later corrected, shows how much you actually know about Uyghurs.-- Me ne frego ( talk) 16:22, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Rjanag. I'm pleased to have another set of eyes on this article. As you can see from the edit history, I've attempted to explain what the problem is with the material these editors keep re-adding to the article, but they seem in no mood to listen. I've now attempted a longer explanation on the article's talk page in the attempt to allay any confusion.
Candidly, though, I think all the edits to the article besides mine and yours are probably the work of a single editor, or a couple of editors working in tandem, whose purpose is to publicize the topic. I say this because User:Jcho91 created and then blanked a test article called Etfoo, Etfoo being the username of the other(?) principal contributor to the article: I'm guessing he was experimenting and forgot who he was logged-in as. User:Etfoo, the creator of the article, has a fairly straightforward conflict of interest.
I've so far avoided nominating the article for deletion in spite of the absence of sources needed to establish notability. I hesitate to nominate scientific topics because, unlike general-interest topics, whose notability is typically easily established or discounted with little more than a Google search, a science-related topic may be perfectly notable but information about it may not turn up in the usual places and may require access to more specialized resources. Nevertheless, as considerable time has elapsed without the addition of any sources to the article, if none are added after a decent interval I will likely send it to AfD. -- Rrburke ( talk) 11:50, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
Thank you for your help with the wikipedia page ERPLAB. This is my first wikipedia page and apologize for any actions that are against wikipedia's guidelines. I am a part of the Luck Lab and was asked to create this page in order to give researchers a brief history of what our software is capable of. We also wanted to give some instructions on how to easily download the software (hence the links I tried uploading).
We also wanted to give thanks to members in our lab and researchers who have helped in the development of the software. However, under wikipedias guidelines, I have learned that this may not be possible. Is there any way that we can show our gratitude towards these members, possibly in a history section?
-jcho91 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcho91 ( talk • contribs) 22:34, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
Please see the reference desk post, I've replied to your comment there. -- Goqer ( talk) 09:34, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
A link to a word is a mention (even if most are created around uses). Can you find any guidelines that deal with the use-mention distinction in articles? Hyacinth ( talk) 03:13, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGFM#Gesellschaftliche_Positionierung
nobody takes them seriously. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.237.211.247 ( talk) 15:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Rjanag, I've seen you at LGBT-related articles, and want to know if you wouldn't mind weighing in on this: Talk:Heterosexualization#Not only an LGBT issue. I posted a message about it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies, but I hardly get any help from there or other WikiProjects these days. So part of my approach these days is to go to relevant editors individually and hope they weigh in. Flyer22 ( talk) 18:49, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag, I have noticed that you have spent some time helping with the article "2011 Chinese protests". Therefore I would like to inform you about two votes going on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2011_Chinese_protests
Thank you very much for your valued opinion! Best, Waikiki lwt ( talk) 08:09, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you please create a page notice at Talk:People's Republic of China and Talk:China? I can't put up with the incessant inquiries into "why doesn't China redirect to PRC?", and this issue really needs to be discussed at WT:NC-ZH, and not on those two talk pages. Something like "Any threads discussing a possible re-direct of China to the PRC will be promptly removed" should suffice. Thanks --HXL's Roundtable and Record 14:47, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
好久不見-- 俠刀行 ( talk) 16:02, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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there is some concern about dead refs and such, questioning the FA-status of the article. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 03:12, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello
We see that Solid Waste is currently directed to Municipal Solid Waste which is not correct if you talk about solid waste. When we created the Solid waste policy in the United States page, we are elaborating the Solid Waste section in every detail. So can you please forward the solid waste to this "about the solid waste" heading in this article? Also please let us know if you have any alternative suggestion. --Brijesh Krishnan 03:10, 29 April 2011 (UTC) Brijeshkrishnan ( talk)
Thank you for your reply. When I was trying to edit the redirecting link of solid waste - it said the topic is administrator protected. Will it be the same if I go ahead creating the new page as per your suggestion? --Brijesh Krishnan 20:17, 29 April 2011 (UTC) Brijeshkrishnan ( talk)
Thanks. We will try and get back to you if need need any advise. --Brijesh Krishnan 05:36, 30 April 2011 (UTC) Brijeshkrishnan ( talk)
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Please explain on the talk page exactly what you disagree with in my edits and revert only that if you must, rather than a wholesale rollback. The language of the article is highly judgmental, assumes the validity of Mair's arguments as uncontroversial facts, misuses the technical term folk etymology, and attributes POV's to "some linguists" which are blog posts by a colleague of Mair who cites Mair as his source. The only possible thing I can imagine you taking exception to is the quote of Long Zhangdao from a commercial website - if so that can be selectively addressed. I am going to restore my edits and would appreciate if you would be precise in any further reversions. μηδείς ( talk) 19:51, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
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So I appreciate your attempts to cool down the neverending Joseon Dynasty edit war, but your 3RR warning to me seems a little excessive: I reverted the page precisely twice, with each revert more than 24 hours apart, and both reverts simply restored well-referenced content that was deleted by new users with no explanation -- which is vandalism in my book and, I presume, yours as well. I intend to continue both reverting unhelpful deletions and my rather fruitless attempts to engage the Korean nationalists on Talk:Joseon Dynasty, although they've so far been rather impervious to reasoning, not least because many of them don't actually speak English... Jpatokal ( talk) 11:40, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
you've dealt with both me and Arilang1234 before
Arilang1234 having a go at his POV pushing on the boxer rebellion article, claiming the content in the article is from "chinese high school text book", when not a single chinese or communist source was used in the article.
look at the section now- Talk:Boxer_Rebellion#Lead_section
report I made on his edits- he tries to link the black panthers, marxists, and vietnam war to anti imperialism on the boxer rebellion= User:ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ/Report ANI
Now he thinks dropping off conspiracy theories about high school text books, australia, marxists, black panthers, and vietnam on the boxer rebellion article and filing an ANI report after he was criticized for doing so is acceptable
Arilang1234 attempting wikilawyering and making threats when he was caught trolling
After his trolling on the Boxer rebellion talk page, Arilang1234 proceeded to file this ANI report complaining about me after I criticized him for his attempt at linking marxists, black panthers, and vietnam war to the Boxer rebels... ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk) 00:11, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
And he titled the ANI thread "racist", and proceeded to provide not one single piece of evidence that I said anything racist at all. One also has to wonder what the "cold war" he inserted into the title has to do with anything other than to grab attention. ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk) 00:27, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Arilang1234 lodged two false accusations directly against me, see this User:ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ.False Accusations. They've crossed the border into outright lying. Arilang1234 deliberately showed past revisions of the talk page rather than the current one, in order to claim/lie that I did not respond to Smallchief and John Smith's. I need other users to confirm that he deliberately lied with malicious intent. ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk) 03:49, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
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Please have a look: Qing Dynasty Royal Decree on events leading to the signing of Boxer Protocol and kindly give some advice on how to improve it? Arilang talk 06:19, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag. Are you able to read the Uyghur script within the following images:( image1, image2) and type it into plain Unicode text, so that it can be included in the table at Resident Identity Card#Identity cards in ethnic minority areas? Thanks. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 04:13, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, long time no talk. I just remembered you were a Chinese speaker and was wondering if you think that individual Chinese characters would warrant Wikipedia articles. Some of them obviously have rich cultural tradition and I believe the contents would grow beyond mere definitions. -- BorgQueen ( talk) 08:02, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Easy there with the templates, cowboy -- I have not been involved in the can-Joseon-be-tagged-as-WP:CHINA edit war, at all. Here are the only edits I've made to the page in the last week: [26] [27] [28] Please remove your edit from my talk page and apologize. Jpatokal ( talk) 03:21, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
As you know, the edit war on Talk:Joseon Dynasty involves multiple users, none of whom have crossed 3rr on their own. Following your example remedy for the earlier edit war on Joseon Dynasty, I have thus filed a request for page protection. However, although many users acted wrongly in this dispute, the conduct of Historiographer ( talk · contribs) is uniquely egregious and sanctionable. Historiographer has a history of edit warring at Joseon Dynasty: on 28 April 2011, he was blocked for 72 hours for edit warring on Joseon Dynasty, with the blocking admin noting that "Historiographer is a repeat offender with several prior 24 hr blocks for edit warring" and that "Korea-related conflicts of this sort are a perennial hotspot and should be treated as a zero-tolerance area when it comes to edit warring". In response to this edit war, you protected the article on 4 May. But after the protection expired, an edit war involving Historiographer flared up again, and in this edit on 22 May, you warned five named users—Baptisan4, Jpatokal, Historiographer, Melonbarmonster2, and Oda Mari—that "Any edit warring on this issue after the page protection ends will be blockable".
At the beginning of the new edit war on Talk:Joseon Dynasty, Historiographer joined the fighting in earnest (5 June), despite your first warning after his block directed explicitly at him about edit warring on that page. He then became one of the three users (including Jpatokal and myself) who received user talk page warnings (5 June) from you against edit warring. When you and I discussed the new template you used for those warnings, {{ uw-ew}}, you said that "WP:3RR clearly states that editors can be blocked without breaching 3RR." After those user talk warnings, edit-warring on Talk:Joseon Dynasty continued, but Jpatokal and I, as already-warned or wrongly-warned editors, refrained from making any more reverts. Yet Historiographer continued (6 June) to make his second hostile revert just on the talk page, despite two warnings directed specifically at him within the past two weeks, and a block for warring on the main article within the last two months. Trying to assume good faith, I pointed out on that article's talk page how defiant Historiographer's behavior looked, and suggested that if he didn't want to appear to be gaming the system, he should revert himself. Although he was active on the talk page just seven minutes before I made my plea, he has yet to respond to it or to otherwise show remorse. Historiographer ( talk · contribs) has gotten as brazenly close to breaking Wikipedia's edit warring rules as you can get without breaking 3RR. So my question is, what is the correct venue to request a stop to his sustained disruptive behavior? I would have brought this to the edit warring noticeboard, but the format seems to be oriented towards recent violations of 3rr, and this case involves a lot of history where only you and Future Perfect at Sunrise as admins have the requisite familiarity. Quigley ( talk) 06:20, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Do you have the authority to protect my talk page (autoconfirmed users only) for 24 hours? 24 hours should be long enough. There is an IP edit warring on my page, and since I have email notifications turned on, it's getting really annoying. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 10:43, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Probably right. I was just trying to find something to link to Ershidin Israil...... I didn't want my new article to be an orphan... NickCT ( talk) 19:55, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
I've left a comment here, maybe you're interested in my 2 cents. -- 213.168.111.208 ( talk) 19:53, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I just posted this on his talk page, and copied it here: "I have requested editing dispute assistance, as your random mass "notability" tagging seems impossible to resolve. You have not once described what you would consider acceptable noteworthiness (or whatever the word should be), nor have you explained how you are suddenly the gatekeeper for notability on the many episode pages you've tagged. You haven't shown us an example by, say, editing one of the pages yourself to make it notable by your standards so we can follow suit and then remove the tags without further trouble. Nor have you accepted the contention that if all the page consists of is plot, there is no need to demand references, as the episode is its own reference, even though that is acceptable WP policy. Such a page should have a "plot only" tag, but it's absurd to demand references for a page that has, as yet, nothing to reference. You can find my request here: Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests" -- TEHodson 10:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
So you don't see any problem with Xeworlebi's behavior, nor with the fact that he is as utterly incompetent as he is unwilling to listen to other editors' input? Ok then, enjoy his company. -- 87.79.213.156 ( talk) 15:13, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk · contribs) is at it again; apart from the content which I cannot really evaluate, the section-header "Creation of the Uyghur Nationalist movement by the Soviet Russian Communists" seems "ranty" to me... Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 00:15, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
see response- I did not mention anywhere in my edit about Russians creating "Uyghur Identity". i said that they created the modern ethnic nationality (which is true since the first time Uyghurs were counted as a nationality was by the 1926 soviet census)
Talk:Uyghur_people#.CE.94.CE.A5.CE.9D.CE.93.CE.91.CE.9D.CE.95.27s_recent_additions
ΔΥΝΓΑΝΕ ( talk) 20:09, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
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. . . at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#A different language?: Good comic strip—one I'd not seen before. I liked this one as well. Deor ( talk) 00:11, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
I don't suppose you'd mind replying to this? I can't put the article up for AFD now, as the page is still protected, and I'm pretty sure I can't do it once the protection expires, either, without an account. -- 68.33.14.232 ( talk) 04:23, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Why does Category:Good articles only include article space articles?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 22:46, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
{{
ArticleHistory}}
(a single parameter like |dykdate=
would probably do, just something to add a sentence like "this article has received a Four Award" and add the category). At the worst, the category could just be typed in at the top of the talk page, with the wikiproject banners.{{
ArticleHistory}}
template are implemented correctly, those categories are redundant to one another).
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 23:14, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You removed a significant quote from the late historian Howard Zinn which I inserted in the Spare Change News article. Your comment was it was superfluous. You removed it / reverted it, without discussion. I think Howard Zinn's quote about Spare Change News specifically is instructive despite the material possible being covered on general descriptive principles in the article. I may put it back in the article. --- Wikiklrsc ( talk) 20:23, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
As the aforementioned third party, I took a look at the article, and the material in question. Regarding the placement of the Howard Zinn passage, that location seems out of place. The section is titled for mission statements, and the quote by Howard Zinn isn't really a mission statement in the normal sense of the term. At this point, I'm inclined to say leave the quote out, because (A) I can't figure out a really good place to put it, and (B) I don't want to start a quote farm. You might want to consider putting passage into Wikiquote? SchuminWeb ( Talk) 04:27, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
re your revert: I believe if you use my CSE, you will be pleasantly surprised to discover that not only is there a RS for that claim, it is a RS already being used in the article.
Perhaps this will help your researching new claims in the future. -- Gwern (contribs) 01:20 22 June 2011 (GMT)
Hello Rjanag. You made this edit recently: [29]. I agree. There are multiple issues that are needing to deal with. I will start a discussion section on the talkpage. Your input is welcome. Lam Kin Keung ( talk) 03:38, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
"There is no one-to-one pairing between count-classifiers and nouns." I called this nonsensical for short. Perhaps it would have been clearer if I had called it "trivially and non-informatively true and not saying what it intends to say". If there was a one-to-one pairing, there would as many different classifiers as there are nouns, which would be crazy. It's probably not what the person who wrote that meant. They meant that sometimes there are several classifiers for one word, not just one, so perhaps they should have said: "There is no one-to-many pairing, there is a many-to-many pairing." But that's excessively pseudo-mathematical. Anyway, the point is made sufficiently clearly in the text that follows, so I felt the sentence did not need to be improved, just removed.
And: why did you revert? WP:AGF, no? --Kai Carver 09:51, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
Hey, you just deleted the page Walk the Moon that I'm working on for not having any significance. I put the code on top that says I was working on the page. I totally understand your concern fro deleting it and I was working to make sure the page fit all of Wiki's guidelines. I did my research to write a band page, I'm not just doing this on a whim. Please let the page be complete before you decide whether to delete it or not. Thank you.
Kgcarlso91 ( talk) 20:31, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate the in-depth explanation. I will move it a userpage so I can work on it at my pace. One more question though, how do they not meet the inclusion criteria if they are managed by same manager as John Mayer, have write ups in Spin Magazine, and are going to the studio with an extremely prominent producer?
Kgcarlso91 ( talk) 21:36, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
Also, once the page is complete, would you mind doing it a once over and give me any tips to make it better (since you have a personal interest and all) ?
Kgcarlso91 ( talk) 21:47, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
I have completed the Walk the Moon page taking into account your suggestions. Please review and give feedback. ~~Katie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgcarlso91 ( talk • contribs) 20:59, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
When you say quality of writing do you mean grammatically or the language? or both? ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kgcarlso91 ( talk • contribs) 21:38, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Is it possible to make a new (possibly hidden) category for four=no parameter so that we can check all the remaining DYK, GA, FA articles and not have to keep rechecking them in future efforts to go through articles not at FOUR.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:01, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
|four=no
. That seems more efficient than having to go in and manually edit all 400 articles in that list.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 14:42, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
|four=
parameter specified should go into a category of "possible but not yet checked" articles, those that have been checked and don't qualify should have |four=no
set and not be included anywhere, and those that have been checked and do qualify should have |four=yes
set and go into
Category:Wikipedia four award articles. This is doable, I should be able to make it sometime later today.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 17:15, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
|four=yes
or |four=no
is set in the talk page) it would be removed from that category forever. It would be placed in
Category:Wikipedia four award articles if |four=yes
were set, or placed in no category if |four=no
is set. (It's technically possible to have the checked, ineligible articles go into a category as well, but I don't see any reason to do so; if they're ineligible they're never going to become eligible, and as far as I can tell there's no need to maintain a list of articles known to be ineligible.)
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 17:50, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know that your recent edit to the above template is causing an extra whitespace to appear after the template, in headers on article talk pages. I think it is related to the spaces involving the "include" and "noinclude" tags on the template. It's a protected template, so I thought this would be the quickest way to notify you, since I can't fix it myself. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 20:17, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Was you recent edit to Template:Multiple issues discussed anywhere? If not, could I just remind you that changes to protected templates should normally be proposed and discussed on the talk page. Other editors have to do this, and being an administrator does not give you any additional authority to bypass this stage. I'm sure you know this and I hope a little reminder is not taken the wrong way. Thanks for listening — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 09:04, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
The reversion is fine and thanks for letting me know. I meant to see what linked to it and was interrupted. Sorry about that. That said, it would be better as a navbox instead of as a sidedbar, I think. Truthkeeper88 ( talk) 21:25, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
A while back, I posted a new proposal for Tibetan naming conventions, i.e. conventions that can be used to determine the most appropriate titles for articles related to the Tibetan region. This came out of discussions about article titles on Talk:Qamdo and Talk:Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture. I hope that discussions on the proposal's talk page will lead to consensus in favour of making these conventions official, but so far only a few editors have left comments. If you would be interested in taking a look at the proposed naming conventions and giving your opinion, I would definitely appreciate it. Thanks— Nat Krause( Talk!· What have I done?) 16:20, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Thanks for proposing an alternate hook here. I replied there. Thanks. Jesanj ( talk) 16:52, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey again, thanks for the continuing copyediting. You might want to go over the Reception section I made. It took awhile to find resources for that, given the episode aired more than 10 years ago. Wish I could find its Nielsen ratings to include, but that seems impossible. Anyway, do you think its ready for a GAN? The only thing I can see needing improving is the lead probably needs to be expanded. Do you think you could help with that? Thanks again. Drovethrughosts ( talk) 17:56, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
英语好烂呀!最近跟维基用户有事要说,无奈几乎不会英语,说不了话。你得帮帮我呀!这次要删除文章,你告诉他行不行?-- 俠刀行 ( talk) 14:39, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi from Hangzhou. There's two Xinjiang pages that keep getting hit by an odd form of vandalism: Ilham Tohti and Nur Bekri. Someone using unregistered accounts keeps adding a bunch of fictitious "relatives" to the pages. Can you keep an eye on these pages? You're a much more active user of Wikipedia than I am. The vandalism sometimes sits unchanged for days or weeks before I catch it. If you want to reply to this message, please leave it on my talk page. Take Care David Straub ( talk) 08:44, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for working on Korea related articles. Nice to know I'm not the only one interested in the area. Heck, it even appears you are fluent >.> NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 01:00, 8 July 2011 (UTC) |
It's this again. Because it's a strong statement should we weaken it to "a significant factor"? I'd like to get a suggestion on what I can do to help it out, if you can, please. Thank you. Jesanj ( talk) 17:22, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
Is it really possible that my wonderful article about Uppsala's Botanical Garden got zero hits on July 12 when it was at DYK? [32] And zero hits yesterday July 13 as well? Sharktopus wonders if he needs to change his brand of toothpaste to become more popular. Sharktopus talk 12:35, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion here that may be of interest to you. -- 88.160.245.226 ( talk) 16:10, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
It would be great to get those nomination subpages going, if you have time to look at that. Sharktopus talk 12:35, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the main editors of this article know that it will be appearing as the main page featured article on July 24, 2011. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 24, 2011. If you think it is necessary to change the main date, you can request it with the featured article directors Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions of the suggested formatting. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :D Thanks! Tbhotch. ™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 02:24, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
" Nothing to My Name" is the English title of a 1986 Mandarin-language rock song by Cui Jian (pictured). It is widely considered Cui's most famous and most important work, and one of the most influential songs in the history of the People's Republic of China. The song is recognized as the first rock song in China and was an unofficial anthem for Chinese youth and activists during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Both in its lyrics and instruments, the song mixes traditional Chinese styles with modern rock elements. In the lyrics, the singer addresses a girl who is scorning him because he has nothing. The song has also been interpreted as being about the dispossessed youth of the time, because it evokes a sense of disillusionment and lack of individual freedom that was common among the young generation during the 1980s. ( more...)
Hi, you're the only one to post a Support in these few minutes, and I took your point and altered the wording. Is it OK? Tony (talk) 03:53, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey there,
Just writing in response to your revert of my edit on the "Nothing to My Name" article. Whether or not "Mandarin" is "widely accepted" (or even "linguistically valid") is irrelevant--the term "Mandarin" ("guanyu") is not and has never been officially recognized to be the proper English designation of the official language of "China." And it certainly is not a universally accepted term to be used in place of Standard Chinese (i.e. Putonghua). Furthermore, "Mandarin"--being a reference to the spoken form of Standard Chinese--is not commonly understood to be a "language."
Northeast Tiger ( talk) 03:08, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Mandarin, Fuchow, Cantonese, Shanghai, Suchow, and the other major fangyan do not share the same written language. I have seen scattered materials written in these different Chinese fangyan, both in tetragraphs and in romanized transcription, and it is safe to say that they barely resemble each other at all. Certainly they are no closer to each other than Dutch is to English or Italian to Spanish.
Jayjg (talk) 05:44, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Jayjg (talk) 06:43, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Just passing by to offer my congratulations after after seeing " Nothing to My Name" on the WP front page. It didn't click until I began reading the introductory paragraph, but then I thought that it sounded familiar. Jumped onto the talk page to confirm and sure enough, I was the GA reviewer back in early 2009. It was a great article then, so it's good to see the work you've put in since has been rewarded. Regards, -- DeLarge ( talk) 10:23, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Hey there... thank you for setting me straight on the new DYK drill. I appreciate it!! :) Rcej (Robert) – talk 01:50, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
For being so patient with the mess I made last night at DYK. Panyd The muffin is not subtle 11:04, 26 July 2011 (UTC) |
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.
In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.
Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 17:29, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Any chance you could finish your review of Template talk:Did you know/Icelandic Phallological Museum? Prioryman ( talk) 07:44, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure how far I need to go with this. Would you mind having a look? Thanks. -- Epipelagic ( talk) 08:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
I'm afraid the acrimony of the last few days, combined with the urgency with which some people are pushing their own agendas, has led to a lack of participation in the WT:DYK discussion about your proposed template, so I thought it might be just as well to bring the discussion here for now.
I like the format of your template, but I do think it needs greater differentiation. In particular, I think there needs to be a separate line for the hook and article checks or it's going to lead to confusion.
I've spent a few minutes thinking about the checks I consider to be essential and come up with the following summary. There may be some that I've missed but here's what I've come up with so far:
Hook: Clarity | Neutrality | Citation(s) | Interest
Article: Newness | Length | Cited paragraphs | Source formatting | Source quality | Article quality | Neutrality | Plagiarism
Some of the fields might require some explanation, but anyhow, please let me know what you think. Gatoclass ( talk) 03:12, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
{{DYK review checklist | length=y ~~~ | newness=y ~~~ | hookfact=n ~~~ | hookinterest= y ~~~ | sources= | npov= | plagiarism= }}
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✔ rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✔ rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✘ rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✔ rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
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✔ y rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✔ y rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✘ n rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
✔ y rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
{{User:Rjanag/template |length=y |lengthsig=~~~ |newness=y |newnesssig=~~~ |hookfact=n |hookfactsig=~~~ |hookinterest=y |hookinterestsig=~~~ |sources= |sourcessig= |npov= |npovsig= |plagiarism= |plagiarismsig= }}
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rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
{{DYK review checklist | length=~~~ | newness=~~~ | hookfact= | hookinterest=~~~ | sources= | npov= | plagiarism= }}
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{{DYK review checklist | length=y | newness=y | hookfact=n | hookinterest=y | sources= | npov= | plagiarism= }}
*... that '''[[ice]]''' is made of '''[[water]]'''? created by some user <!-- credits --> {{User:Rjanag/DYK hook checklist |format=~~~ |citation=~~~ |neutrality={{subst:DYKX}} |interest=~~~ }} :*Hook fact checks out but this reads like an advertisement for water to me. ~~~~ {{User:Rjanag/DYK article checklist |length=~~~ |newness=~~~ |adequatecitations=~~~ |formattedcitations=~~~ |reliablesources=~~~ |neutrality=~~~ |plagiarism=~~~ |article=Water }} {{User:Rjanag/DYK article checklist |length={{subst:DYKX}} |newness=~~~ |adequatecitations= |formattedcitations= |reliablesources= |neutrality=~~~ |plagiarism=~~~ |article=Ice }} :*The article [[Ice]] is still a stub. ~~~~
created by some user
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rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | ✘ | rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
Length | Newness | Adequate citations |
Formatted citations |
Reliable sources |
Neutrality | Plagiarism |
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rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) | rʨanaɢ ( talk) |
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It is studied widely in many American linguistics department. See Carnegie Mellon's Linguistics website here. Please change. No policy is being violated here. ElbowingYouOut ( talk) 07:33, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
I understand. No issues. I'm willing to discuss this on the talk page and list a number of suggestions to start sections on sub-fields, etc. Rhetoric and functional linguistics are some of these. ElbowingYouOut ( talk) 14:38, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Please explain how you are unable to discern at the very start of the first sentence in this text any reference to the Institute of Marine Science in Kiel. If you still can't see the reference, perhaps you might find it in the title of the article. -- Epipelagic ( talk) 23:25, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
It is listed as the last entry for July 22, and has been for over a week. VI WS talk 03:44, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
You are a great guy! Thanks for being so excellent. LOL. Brilliant, can't believe I never stopped by to say Hi on your talk page. I'll play around with some ways to make it as unintuitive as possible. Maybe auto populate or something. Sorry about hijacking your earlier discussion thread and thanks for the time you put into making the nomination sub-pages possible. I know it has been discussed in the past, but you made it a reality. Kindly Calmer Waters 05:43, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Regarding your edits on the page Event-related potential, I think the results were the exact type that encyclopedia readers would look for under the "Research ERP." I don't understand why you deleted them, could you let me know what you were thinking? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Journals88 ( talk • contribs) 18:52, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for a good addtion (s. T:DYK) - You reverted my change to an archived review, which I understand in general. But this now looks (how do I not say?) ugly, a line with a red link without content. Will that eventually be filled? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:54, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Sorry for all the trouble, and thanks for the assistance. - Chandan Guha ( talk) 06:28, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
I find your reasoning for reversion on the hook about the distance rowed thoroughly illogical. You editwar on the grounds that it is inappropriate to editwar in the prep area (where there is no specific talk area of any duration). There is a reason why the prep areas are editable: so that they can be edited. You defend, and editwar to revert to, a hook that makes a claim absent from the article, which is contrary to the principles of DYK, and ignore the points made in the editnotes. Likewise, on the hook about deaths in custody in Malaysia, you seem to prefer to publish a false claim that the two year period in question is current so that you ban make some kind of procedural point. Kevin McE ( talk) 23:19, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi and thanks for responding to my comments here. My main problem with the new system is with the extra headings which now appear. When scrolling down the page it can be confusing when some headings are main subject headings while others are shoulder headings, both of which have a similar appearance. I find it difficult sometimes to discern one from the other. With the old system when you saw a heading you knew it was the beginning of a new subject. Perhaps if the shoulder headings were a different colour that might make things easier. I know this sounds a bit confusing, but hope you get the idea. Cheers TheRetroGuy ( talk) 12:17, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Another change: Can you check the ellipsis you put in front of the Dick Gordon hook in Queue 6? Looks different. BusterD ( talk) 17:24, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. The Ilham Tohti page also got hit. Someone just has a bizarre sense of humor! David Straub ( talk) 03:04, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Yes, you said that the case of Cai Changqing is certainly a child abuse, but it's not be regarded as a case of feral child since Changqing was suffering abuse after he was 10 years old.
From my view, I think that he can be classified into a new-found case. My explaination is, he is speakless since he was mentally-handicapped, while his uncle has locked him with a iron chain and ignore him. He didn't get any care from adults. He acts like an animal, and cannot contact with the others.
The above points are to support my own personal view. If your opinion is not the same with me, we can both discuss in this talk page again.
Thanks for asking. And I can imagine how much work it took, so my sincere thanks for that, too.
This is Exhibit A, as far as I'm concerned. This poor kid (a freshman trying to get extra credit for a psych course by nominating the article he'd worked on at DYK) gave up. As you noted on his/her talkpage, Step 3 was never done. I think Template talk:Did you know#How to list a new nomination is admirably clear, so the problem must have occurred with filling out the template. I also see people at the talk page saying they can't handle that. And I get the impression from what I have skimmed that the template now requires inserting the name of an article one has reviewed? If so, that cuts me out—I don't often have time to meet the 5-day deadline and also take the time to do a proper review of someone else's baby within that same window. Also was there ever consenus for requiring the review to be done in advance of the nomination? And there was at one point consensus for considering alternate ways to satisfy quid pro quo that would be even harder to fit into a template. I suspect the freshman just didn't understand half of the template—his/her edits to the article suggest massive confusion (placing a reference before the first word of the text, for example), but it seems no one but you saw that nomination until I checked the article and the editor's contributions, because the mangled edit didn't send it to the nominations page. And it was a good hook. I don't think there's a procedural solution to people becoming so flummoxed that they don't add their nominations to the page. Because we need distinct subpages for each nomination for recordkeeping purposes. But it's indicative of the fact it's going to drive away some people. And if the template can be simplified at all, please, please do so. In particular let weirdoes like me fulfil the QPQ after getting the article ready and nominating it. Yngvadottir ( talk) 16:52, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, sorry for not getting back to you earlier on this, the reasons - apart from the fact that I'm getting tired of this whole debate about DYK's future - are firstly that I am not sure how to proceed from this point, and secondly that I was hoping maybe a few other people might carry the debate further forward for a few days and give me a break. No such luck.
Since you asked, I must say that I'm not terribly keen on the DYKX/Y templates. Couldn't you at least have a single template to which you provide a "y" or "n" field? Then the templates could be preloaded into the checklist fields and users would just have to add the letter, ie you would have something like {{subst:DYKfield|}} preloaded and users would just have to add the y or n, so it would be {{subst:DYKfield|y}} etc. Gatoclass ( talk) 07:12, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
|length=<!--{{subst:DYKY}} or {{subst:DYKX}}-->
will also find |length={{subst:DYKfield|}}
confusing. Also, fields left blank would just become blank (i.e., I don't think there's a way to keep them there until they get filled out; once the page is saved everything would turn into |length=<!--{{subst:DYKyes}} or {{subst:DYKno}}-->
). The other nice thing about this is that if someone doesn't review a given thing, that code will still be sitting in the template (since it's commented out), so whoever comes along later and reviews it will be able to mark it off easily; the DYKfield/DYKpass option, on the other hand, would I think become
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For Rjanag, for superlatively reimagining the code for DYK. And for implementing great novelty with great restraint and ongoing good humor. In short, as somebody else remarked above, "for being excellent." Sharktopus talk 23:46, 8 August 2011 (UTC) |
Hi, I noticed that on
Template:DYK talk you used {{BASEPAGENAME}}
twice. If an article is moved after this template is added to its talk page, it will break the link. You need to use {{subst:BASEPAGENAME}}
to get the current name, used in the nom. I can't make this change because the template is full-protected. You may even want to use the nompage
parameter, if that's what it does. In any event, nompage
should be documented in
Template:DYK talk/doc. --
Gyrobo (
talk) 01:28, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
DYK talk}}
itself is not substituted (substitution only works when within templates that are also being substituted). In cases like you've described, the only solution is to add |nompage=
. I'll add info about that to the documentation like you suggested; I think I can also look into getting the |nompage=
to be filled out automatically.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 06:16, 11 August 2011 (UTC)|nompage=
into the preloaded text for this template (so that, most of the time, the |nompage=
parameter will be specified...since this still relies on the same BASEPAGENAME trick it still won't work in cases where the page was already moved before the crediting was done, or where the nomination page name simply doesn't match the article title to begin with...but at least it will probably resolve the majority of the cases you were worried about). I also
added |nompage=
to the template documentation.{{{article}}}
parameter seems to try and accomplish the same goal of preserving the page's name at the time it was at DYK. Maybe {{{nompage}}}
could become a simple "yes" and DYKUpdateBot can be given the task of checking whether an article has been moved since its nom, and update {{{article}}}
accordingly? --
Gyrobo (
talk) 14:14, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
{{
ArticleHistory}}
is generally only implemented on GAs and FA/Ls (or at least articles that have been through those processes). Furthermore, there has been consensus (as far as I remember) not to include a whole lot of DYK information in {{
ArticleHistory}}
; it basically just includes the date, and we would have to get consensus to add the hook, views, link to the subpage, etc.{{
ArticleHistory}}
already includes dykentry
, and {{
DYK talk}}
is generally removed when {{
ArticleHistory}}
is added. The transition removes check views, and now the nom page as well. I came up with a
rough sketch of what I'm thinking – basically, now that DYK noms have there own pages it would be useful to keep track of the same things that other processes keep track of. Where would I go to propose something like this to the community? --
Gyrobo (
talk) 19:56, 11 August 2011 (UTC){{
ArticleHistory}}
include more info for the dyk stuff?
{{
DYK talk}}
?
{{
DYK talk}}
.... why there is something that looks disturbingly close to an edit war on my DYK nomination? I assume there isn't anything I should be doing about this, but if there is please let me know. -- RL0919 ( talk) 05:39, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
You are warned to cease and desist from deliberately and repeatedly breaching strong community consensus generated at an RfC only three weeks ago. This consensus determined that a list of aspects of DYK nominations should be explicitly covered by the use of a checklist.
If you continue to remove the checklist created pursuant to that RfC without replacing it with another checklist that also satisfies the community's decision, the matter will be raised at the Administrators' Noticeboard. This is likely to result in a block for the protection of the project. Tony (talk) 06:36, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag! I notice your removal of information at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Chinese_name&diff=443626095&oldid=443625648
You say there is more complexity in the issue than what the sources say. The problem is, what reliable secondary sources say things like "in reality there is a lot of variation, between people and between publications. many publications *do* reverse names"?
The main thing to consider is that WP:V says that verifiability NOT truth is the criterion for inclusion. If writers say "Generally Chinese names are not reversed" then Wikipedia says "Generally Chinese names are not reversed" - If there are exceptions that exist, let the reliable secondary sources say "Exceptions include X, Y, and Z" - If there are complexities, find reliable sources that say explicitly "X complexities exist"
Also personally I have not encountered publications that say "Zedong Mao" or "Enlai Zhou". While there are cases of reversed names, usually they tend to be Chinese who live and study abroad.
I am aware that many Chinese adopt "English names" but that is not a factor here. When considering the Chinese name itself, the name itself tends not to be reversed. WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:30, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
I was hoping, and in fact I proposed, [36] that you would include one of your own proposed table-checklist forms in the DYK review template that you created. It would be a mature and helpful step on your part toward peaceful consensus at WT:DYK. Sharktopus talk 17:53, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your swift response to my comments on the new DYK process. As I noted, I am not a newbie, but the requirement to review another submission (under the new system) was beyond me. I have no problem with the submission process itself; it's straightforward and I have done it a dozen times in the past. I also didn't mind when they instituted the requirement to review somebody else's nomination; that seemed like it had some basic fairness on its side, and it was fairly simple: article age, article length, hook length, hook facts cited in article, that was about it. The problem is the new, far more complex review process, the greatly increased requirements for review, and above all the template. I hadn't submitted a DYK for several months, so I was startled to find this massive template now in use. At first I spent several minutes just trying to navigate the Template Talk page - to figure out which nominations had been disposed of and which had been commented on and which had not. Then I tried to figure out how the templates work and what I was supposed to do; there are no instructions for the template that I could find. Was I going to have to find a nomination that had no commentary at all, and complete the whole friggin' process myself? Would it be enough to sign off on just one aspect of the review? Would it be enough to add a comment below the template? And what's with all the new criteria for the article itself - copyvio, and neutrality, and what-the-hell-is-vintage? Why do the newer nominations not appear to have a template attached; is that something I'm supposed to do? It shouldn't surprise anyone that after 15 or 20 minutes I said "The hell with it" and gave up. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. Feel free to quote me. -- MelanieN ( talk) 04:21, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
I see DYK only has 16 approved noms out of 240. And the backlog is about triple of what it was a month ago. Is that because of the effort to turn it in mini-FAs or what? PumpkinSky talk 15:42, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
<includeonly>
to </includeonly>
, and moving that whole chunk of stuff (from {{#if:yes
to the end of the archive message) up above the header.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 16:52, 17 August 2011 (UTC)I was wondering if you could answer this. I created the secondary account User:Joe Chill Secondary. I was wondering how I can get rid of the new Wikipedia view on that account. I changed it on my main account because I found it awful and I forgot how to. Joe Chill ( talk) 23:38, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for informing me about the DYK nomination. -- James26 ( talk) 01:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is hosting its second Backstage Pass and its first Edit-a-Thon on Saturday, August 20. The museum is opening its doors to Wikipedians interested in learning about the museum's collection, taking them on a tour of the vast collection before spending the afternoon working with curators to improve articles relating to the Caplan Collection of folk toys and Creative Playthings objects. Please sign up on the event page if you can attend, and if you'd like to participate virtually you can sign up on the Edit-a-Thon page. --- LoriLee ( talk) 15:10, 17 August 2011 (UTC) |
Hello! If you're planning to be an active Online Ambassador for the upcoming academic term, now is the time to join one or more pods. (A pod consists of the instructor, the Campus Ambassadors, and the Online Ambassadors for single class.) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) explains the expectations for being part of a pod as an Online Ambassador. (The MOU for pods in Canada is essentially the same.) In short, the role of Online Ambassadors this term consists of:
This replaces the 1-on-1 mentoring role for Online Ambassadors that we had in previous terms; rather than being responsible for individual students (some of whom don't want or help or are unresponsive), Online Ambassadors will be there to help whichever students in their class(es) ask for help.
You can browse the upcoming courses here: United States; Canada. More are being added as new pods become active and create their course pages.
Once you've found a class that you want to work with—especially if you some interest or expertise in the topic area—you should sign the MOU listing for that class and get in touch with the instructor. We're hoping to have at least two Online Ambassadors per pod, and more for the larger classes.
If you're up for supporting any kind of class and would like me to assign you to a pod in need of more Online Ambassadors, just let me know.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 16:35, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
PS: There are still a lot of student articles from the last term that haven't been rated. Please rate a few and update the list!
Hi Rjanag! I'm in the process of trying to find Online Ambassadors to support each of the classes for this coming term, and I thought you'd be a good fit for this one: Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Cognitive_Psychology_(Greta_Munger). If you're up for it, please check out the Memorandum of Understanding (linked above) which sketches the expectations for Online Ambassadors this term, and then you can sign on to class and get in touch with the professor.
-- Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 14:26, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I have noticed that although some promoted/rejected noms are no longer appearing on T:TDYK, their templates still exist on the page. For example, on August 12 there are only five noms remaining, but in the edit window there are still 16 noms listed. Is this WAD, or something you have overlooked? If it's WAD, we may have to add something to the instructions with regards to the promotion/rejection procedure. Gatoclass ( talk) 07:03, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
I don't know if you saw this recent sampling of quickie review summaries: Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Depth_of_review. Could you please soon add some review guideline of some kind to the nomination template? Sharktopus talk 18:27, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the user talk. The guy who undid the last two times it is a wiki-undo-stalker with an personal vendetta. He offers no positive help or reason why he undo's things, so I gave it no weight. The edit prior said that my intro had some typo's so I corrected them. I really could care less. There was flag on top of the current into that I am about to put back up there saying that it was inadequate and didn't comply. Tried to help, but oh well. God Bless. -- Yosesphdaviyd ( talk) 17:26, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for that info! Thought they were previous articles that were broken. Will be more careful. Thanks!
Could you take a look at the ORIGINAL Rodney King edit and assess whether that flag needs to be removed, per discussion notes. Thanks! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King
-- Yosesphdaviyd ( talk) 20:41, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag, I've fixed the referencing for GrubHub Food Delivery & Pickup at Template:Did you know nominations/GrubHub Food Delivery & Pickup. Is it ready to be passed? Crisco 1492 ( talk) 13:04, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
|comment=
). I figured I'd try to make nominators fill out as little stuff as possible. It's still possible to specify the |status=
when nominating and it behaves as usual; it's just not required.
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 15:25, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
I am unfamiliar with the template used at Template:Did you know nominations/Ye Olde Tavern (Iowa). The Neutrality part says that it is a bit weasely, but the reviewer fixed it himself. The Interest area is blank. I have no idea if it is a pass or not and what to make of the template. Joe Chill ( talk) 23:44, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your info. Will i have to repost the DYK? Rishabh Tatiraju ( talk) 07:08, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, it was suggested we put feedback on the issue of what template to use here? I do appreciate your trying to come up with templates to satisfy the mandate of the RfC (which I never even saw, I was staying away from that awful discussion page at the time on principle). The trouble is I don't really have any preference, except insofar as both of the alternatives I've seen you put forward in the last couple of weeks are relatively unmassive and therefore vastly preferable IMO to Tony1's. I'd really rather the use of templates in reviews be the reviewer's choice. Some people like them, some people don't, I don't consider the RfC to have been a very good expression of the feelings of those who have to do Quid Pro Quo reviews but if it's going to stand, I understand what it actually said was that reviews must explicitly refer to all the items on a list that amounted to Wikipedia policy plus DYK policy, so I see no reason why that should compel all reviewers to do it either with a checklist template or without one. But I genuinely don't have much of a preference when it comes to deciding between your templates - which is why I have never spoken up when you've asked. So there's my feedback, pretty useless though it is :-( Yngvadottir ( talk) 15:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Being an administrator gives you no special rights to make personal attacks, even against unpopular editors like myself. [39] Malleus Fatuorum
Sorry about that, please review the DYK again as I added the statement to the most appropriate place I could find within the article. Thanks!!!-- Dom497 ( talk) 17:14, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Please don't. -- John ( talk) 20:01, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know not to use symbols I did not know that. I understand that the hook may not appeal to all refers interests so I shall add some alternative hooks some time today or tomorrow, in order for a consensus can be reached as to which one is most appropriate. Please suggest an alternative hooks if you think of any.
Kind regards, -- Ratio:Scripta · [ Talk ] 06:23, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I think we need to take this here. I understand you've worked very hard to make change at DYK and I've said multiple times that the new page templates are a fantastic edition. Can you please give me diffs of where I was insulting. I don't generally try to insult people and if I was I'd apologize. First though, I'd need to know what I'm apologizing for. Thanks. Truthkeeper ( talk) 16:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
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For doing so much so well and for so long to improve Wikipedia, whether you want to agree that you're improving it or not! The encyclopedia is better because of you and your work. Now, if only we could make all of the people happy all of the time, I am sure you could figure out some way to put that in code. Sharktopus talk 18:11, 5 September 2011 (UTC) |
You edited (removed) a change I made recently, and I appreciate that you are helping improve the quality of the site. Given that there are few rewards for your hard work, I thought I would say thanks. Your edit was helpful, and I will know better next time.
Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.244.239.242 ( talk) 18:48, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
I did, in fact, confuse you with another editor, I have struck the incorrect commentary, and I most sincerely apologize for the serious mistake and any resulting discomfort to you. Best regards, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:28, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag. Could you help me delete a few sandboxes that I'm no longer working on? The list is here on top of my user page. If you don't have time, just let me know, and I will ask another admin to help. On a different subject, I think we're getting close to a solution at Joseon Dynasty, where you have been an indefatigable and incredibly patient mediator. Keep up the good work! Madalibi ( talk) 07:39, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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You show great tenacity as an editor and in disputes which I much admire you for. Not to mention being a major asset to DYK and a top editor. Keep it up! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:04, 13 September 2011 (UTC) |
User:Rjanag - I recently implemented
Middle Chinese into the {{
chinese}}
template with successful results. However, I was subsequently informed that the "Middle Chinese" header is showing up in the template even when the Middle Chinese tag isn't called in the wikitext. I've gone through the code and tinkered a bit but haven't been able to see what the problem is. As a template-newb, I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at it and see if you can point me in the right direction. I'm guessing it's a minor adjustment that I didn't make in some field. White Whirlwind
咨 21:30, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
{{{mc}}}
shows up (from the template's point of view) as just that when |mc=
is left blank, so the template thinks something is there; with the pipe, if someone leaves |mc=
blank then that becomes blank, so the template understands that nothing is there. It's easy to miss those tiny details (in the past I've often spent hours trying to find some complicated way to fix a template problem before realizing I was just missing a } or | or something). Best,
rʨanaɢ (
talk) 22:20, 13 September 2011 (UTC)I have reverted your edits to Tom Skinner. I took particular care to rewrite all of the information that was taken from the DNZB site - none of it was "word-for-word", and all of it easily passes most academic tests for what can be considered copyright violation. I would advise you to check more carefully before excising work that has deliberately been rewritten to pass WP standards. Grutness... wha? 01:15, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Rjanag for identifying the plagiarist known as Grutness. His contributions have been a concern to me for a long time. Could you also look at the articles of Schwede66 on NZ politicians of the 19th century all his entries seem to be lifted (taken word-for-word) from the Cyclopedia of New Zealand (circa 1906). The wording is Mr so & so married a daughter of the late Mr this & that. Which is OK when it was written contemporaneous with the subject in 1902 but sounds silly in a Wikipedia entry two hundred years later in 2011! Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flagstaff1 ( talk • contribs) 19:18, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank you Rjanag, so far I have got 23 examples of Schwede66 plagiarism-but this task is ongoing as he produces them daily! He seems to copy word-for-word articles on 19th Century NZ politicians from the Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Schwede66 has reverted to personal attack & has asked Gadfium to shut me down. It is a real shame that 'writers' like him exist as it effects the quality of articles on Wikipedia. I am happy to go through all his articles over time & correct them... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flagstaff1 ( talk • contribs) 04:52, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
I don't believe Grutness. A dozen sources were posted in the AfD for New Zealand Young Farmers and Grutness seemed happy about him expanding it in the AfD. I nominated it for DYK thinking that he is an admin with good article experience so I just nominated it without looking at his non-existent job of sourcing the article. Yes, I did fuck up and I admitted that in the DYK nomination but my point is that I think that he is a liar in response to his contributions - Template:Did you know nominations/New Zealand Young Farmers. He has since blanked his user page and posted on his user page that he will stop editing. SL93 ( talk) 23:50, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Rjanag, could you take a look at what I posted at Talk:Tom Skinner? Thanks. Carcharoth ( talk) 01:29, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
I noticed that some editors were transcluding DYK noms on articles' talk pages (similar to GA reviews), and wondered if maybe there could be a better way to do this. I put together User:Gyrobo/DYK nom as a test case. -- Gyrobo ( talk) 14:30, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Did you really template a editor that's been here since 2004 and threaten a block? WTF? That's idiotic. RxS ( talk) 00:12, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
This is just a bit of an annoyance to me, but... please link your signature to your userpage, instead of only your contributions and talk. I wanted to see it today, but I had to go to your talk page first to arrive at it. Inter change able| talk to me 00:59, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
It is common to use this style of templating. See {{ BAFTA Best Film}}, {{ Palme d'Or}}, {{ Academy Award Best Original Screenplay}}, and {{ Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Drama}}. The point is to reduce the number of links while providing the same detail by a linked network of templates.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:57, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
I read your bio on the ambassador mentor roster. I think you might be interested in this ANI thread, and I am optimistic that you might provide assistance. [40]-- My76Strat ( talk) 18:11, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Epipelagic ( talk) 11:21, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. User:Melonbarmonster2 blanked the edit already discussed in that talk page without any discussion. Please keep paying attention to the article. Thank you. ―― Phoenix7777 ( talk) 08:55, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Ambassadors!
I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.
On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.
Still waiting to get involved with a class this term, or ready to take on more? We have seven classes that are already active and need OA support, and eleven more that have course pages started but don't have active students yet. Please consider joining one or more of these pods!
Active courses that really need Online Ambassadors:
Courses that may be active soon that need Online Ambassadors:
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Since you're most likely more familiar with linguistics than I am, for the Korean particles article, what is your view on the writing systems that we can and can't use? There's another dispute by a rather persistent editor that's engaging in slow edit-warring, and though I've tried to get them to discuss the issue per WP:BRD, they're refusing to engage in any meaningful discussion. -- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 11:08, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. I am thinking that our article on Language should be an FA, would you like to help me with this? I think a section on language and the brain would be an excellent and necessary addition. It should summarize the current knowledge of Neurolinguistics and be about the same length as the section on language and culture. I am asking other Language specialists for help as well on writing sections for the article on their topics of specialization. I think the article deserves to be better. Thanks! ·ʍaunus· snunɐw· 15:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
??? 8-/ Skarebo ( talk) 07:45, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi there. Thank you for your help. Now you've done part of the job at T:TDYK#How to promote an accepted hook. Will you finish with "In your edit summary, please indicate which prep area you are moving the hook to." or can I do that? - SusanLesch ( talk) 21:55, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag, I hope you're well. My name is Aaron and I'm one of the Storytellers working on the 2011 fundraiser here at the Wikimedia Foundation. For this year's campaign we're seeking out and interviewing active Wikipedians like yourself, in order to produce a broader and more representative range of "personal appeals" to run come November. If you'd like to participate in this project, please email me at amuszalskiwikimedia.org. Interviews are typically conducted by phone or Skype and take between 30-90 minutes. (Note: This invitation is open to any interested Wikipedian — If you're reading this, and would like to be interviewed as well, please contact me.) Thanks! Aaron (WMF) ( talk) 19:23, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
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Yeah, I would just undo them all. Maybe you could do the rest? John Smith's ( talk) 14:15, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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This is my latest article. Feel free to make any improvements. -- Doug Coldwell talk 18:50, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi
That was the first time had nominated an article, can you elaborate the nomination was never completed properly. So that next time I can do it better. Sarvagyana guru ( talk) 16:47, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Following your review, I shortened the hook to 192 characters. Thanks for your help. Kiefer. Wolfowitz 08:37, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I have a question about " Template:Did you know nominations/Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor", which I nominated. You have just closed with the remark "Submission was never completed." Do you mean that I didn't complete the submission in some way (in which case, what did I do wrong?), or that no one bothered to review it and it's now too old (which I couldn't have done anything about)? — SMUconlaw ( talk) 17:38, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Frankly, if you twice assume that I haven't read the article in question, it does sound like prejudice. Would you really prefer that the quantity of shoddy English, misreported claims and breaches of MoS that appear in the Prep and Queue areas appear on the Main Page? If there were any rigour in the examination of hooks at an earlier stage, this would not be necessary, but in the absence of that, I will retain an interest in trying to making the MP as error free as I can. Kevin McE ( talk) 08:24, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. Could you take a minute to help me move Manchu Conquest to Manchu conquest over the redirect, please? "Conquest" is clearly a common noun that should not be capitalized. I posted a more detailed reasoning and "ngram" evidence at Talk:Manchu Conquest#Move to "Manchu conquest". Thank you for your help! All the best, Madalibi ( talk) 10:48, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey there, there is a straw poll going on at Wikipedia talk:Did you know about whether or not to enact technical changes to DYK tools. Your input would be much appreciated. P.s. I am sending you this message based on your heavy involvement in DYK, rather than at random. I hope this is ok. Panyd The muffin is not subtle 17:57, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Hallo Rjanag, a note per request: commons:User_talk:Rjanag#File:Uyghurprotest_DC_1.jpg Cheers -- Saibo ( Δ) 14:51, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Your comment about signing my posts is noted. Thanks for the tip.
-- Tjo3ya ( talk) 17:49, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
很久不见,幕尼黑啤酒馆暴动那篇写错字,快帮我把错误的编辑摘要删除。谢谢。-- 俠刀行 ( talk) 14:41, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
什麽?他在说啥?/えっ?意味が分からないんです。
I understand that wikipedia has a nofollow policy in place.
The External links that I provided are interviews with these creators that I have taken the time to interview. It is in the interest of their fans (or anyone for that matter) to hear what these creators have to say.
These creators have taken the time to do these interviews and I have taken the time to interview them and get this content posted, for free, onto the internet.
There are other resources like ComixTalk and Newsrama that have posted interviews they have had from creators on for instance, Multiplex wiki article. Why shouldn't the interviews that I have with Gordon be in that same section?
While these interviews do not have any text based transcriptions, they will very soon.
I've seen MP3s links in Phil Foglio's Girl Genius articles as well from TalkShoe, are you saying that those are of neutral nature as well?
Any content that is provided by the creators, for all purposes, should be made available to all. That is what I do and what TGT Media is. I wanted to showcase, as I have for the past 3 years, these creative and talented people.
If I have overstepped in any way, then I apologize. How can this be resolved?
KurtSasso ( talk) 19:33, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
--- I wouldn't take the time to interview these people, only to not put up useful content. Similar to the volunteers for this website you are taking the time to make sure the content is as accurate as it can be. Creative people are giving their knowledge and experiences on TGT. If I was physically editing the articles to state false or fraudulent claims I could understand the need to edit. I have over 400 interviews in both Audio and Video.
RE: conflict of interest: Orange Mike, then any website that has media, news or otherwise (see: ComixTalk, Newsrama) would be also in violation of that. However, because they are a brand that has built up a reputation for solid content and articles, those conflicts are overlooked. It would seem like this comes back to an 'all or nothing' approach using your own guidelines and documentation. Either any website that has created text-based, or audio based or video based interviews, should not post any external links or be used as references since there is a conflict of interest. KurtSasso ( talk) 06:07, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
In using your words, "Links can only be added to an article in order to improve the article (within WIkipedia's guidelines)" Yet, Wikipedia's guidelines are conflicting in that sense. When a person has a focus to showcase, not the site, but the content (for which content is what Wikipedia is built upon), about a creator(s) that's considered spam/conflict. This was and has never been about linking to the TGT site. With all of this patient explaining you have given me, for which I appreciate it; You have yet to actually listen to the content to determine if/when these external links are truly able to improve the quality of these articles.
For now, I am just going to go and read through your guidelines and make sure that I'm following the code of Wikipedia. Thank you again for all your help. KurtSasso ( talk) 05:41, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
In the rice wine article, tribe would not be the correct term. Goguryeo is stated as a Kingdom/Statedom; not a chiefdom in the Goguryeo article. Not sure what the best term should be but tribe would be incorrect. If you can think of a better term, we should discuss, Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.23.83.100 ( talk) 07:12, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
When on the Wikipedia:Non-free content#Acceptable use#Images stated that "film and television screenshots: For critical commentary and discussion of the work in question" mabybe acceptable. So who's right and who's wrong?-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 21:06, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the decapitalizing my shouting. TCO ( Reviews needed) 17:44, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
The article is on a specific incident and subject in art, and so a proper noun phrase. Please reverse your change, and don't make such changes without achieving consensus first - see WP:Requested moves Johnbod ( talk) 19:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
I will admit to being clueless about DYK nominations; I thought I'd done all I needed to....????? -- Orange Mike | Talk 03:01, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi - you might not agree with my assessment that kenatipo's edits were POV, but my reversion was in no way vandalism, so maybe your finger slipped in your edit summary of "rvv"? Cheers Tvoz/ talk
Hi Rjanag, there is another hook suggested at Template:Did you know nominations/Sam Poo Kong and I was wondering if you could leave some feedback as to whether or not it is acceptable. (This is an article which you pulled about a week and a half ago) Crisco 1492 ( talk) 07:32, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag
Can you take a look of my user page, to see if this is a good enough warning to other users?-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 20:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag
Sorry for the editing mess. The problem is that the opponent keeps ignoring my message on his talk page. So, here it goes again with a copy of it forwarded to you too:
Hi
I still expect your answer to my previous message which you seem to be ignoring. Please, note, that I have restored what had been written by an American multilingual linguist and what later was deleted by you with no explanation of what kind of right you have to do such a deletion.
Still waiting for you to present yourself and to confirm your linguistic background if any.
Artem Ivantsov BA in philology, 5 languages fluency Chetosco ( talk) 18:57, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
Could you please unlock this article long enough to revert back to my previous edit (which was by Duo's comments in the talk section and Chetosco's email he'd sent to me an acceptable middle ground). The current version has some erroneous information. Certainly relock it if you feel that's needed, but if you wouldn't mind, revert to the previous edit first. Thanks Drew.ward ( talk) 18:58, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. Thank you for commenting on the Concerns and controversies over Confucius Institutes merger proposal. This article would benefit from more contributors, and if you're interested, please add it to your watchlist. Best wishes, Keahapana ( talk) 20:16, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Rjanag,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 03:48, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
R, you're right that it's a mess, but join the discussion at WT:TITLE#An alternative proposal to help sort it out. Editing the policy page itself has become rather off-limits due to past disruptions; I shouldn't have tried to do that either. Dicklyon ( talk) 05:36, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag,
I am very new at editing here. I've been meaning to do it for some time but only got involved now to correct an error on the Rare Disease Day article.
I work for NORD (the sponsor of the event in the US) so I am very concerned about my own possible conflict of interest and whether I am approaching this the right way. First thing I did was read as much as I could about editing, neutral point of view, and conflicts of interest. Then I did my best to correct the article while maintaining a neutrality. But it still looks like I might end up in a dispute.
The first problem I corrected involved two US organizations that were made prominent in the first paragraph as being involved in the event in 2008. US did not get involved until 2009; one of the organizations (Global Genes) didn't exist according to its own article in 2008. The previous editor (R500Mom) quickly wrote to me on my talk page and threatened me with a dispute. I realized that I needed to make clear where I was coming from, but would like to avoid a conflict.
My worry is that there are over 600 organizations involved right now beyond the sponsors (EURORDIS and NORD in Europe and the US, other major national organizations as well which probably SHOULD be mentioned), and it isn't really fair to have only one or two of the rest of them highlighted. Right now only R.A.R.E. and Global Genes are coming to the article to add themselves (there is a reference to Uplifting Athletes under "See Also" as well), but this could get out of control -- or it could just remain unfair to the rest of them, if they don't recognize what's going on. I do know that NORD and EURORDIS go out of their way to avoid being too central to this event, and try to make it for all the participating organizations and people. I was considering removing the sentence at the end of the first paragraph, and then adding a link to the page on rarediseaseday.us which lists all of the organizations. That seems better than listing them all on this page. However I don't want those two organizations to feel slighted either, or to end up in a dispute on my very first try with Wikipedia.
Again, I'd love to be able to highlight all of the different groups involved, but that seems cumbersome and not necessary for this article. What would you suggest?
Sophontologist ( talk) 20:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I changed this:
Since 2008, a number of leading rare disease patient advocacy organizations in the United States, including the R.A.R.E. Project and Global Genes Project, have supported EURORDIS to lead efforts in their respective countries to coordinate activities and promote Rare Disease Day.
to this:
In 2009 Rare Disease Day went global as NORD ( National Organization for Rare Disorders) mobilized 200 rare disease patient advocacy organizations in the United States while organizations in China, Australia, Taiwan, and Latin America also lead efforts in their respective countries to coordinate activities and promote the day.
I also replaced the external link for Global Genes Project with an external link for NORD, since the other external link was for EURORDIS, and both NORD and EURORDIS were the "official sponsors" of the event, while Global Genes has been one of the 600 other participating organizations.
Sophontologist ( talk) 22:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for guarding Chopsticks, R. Would you consider leaving a warning message at the IP's talk page? I have warned IP twice as is my custom. I don't AGF at all from these types of editors. Cheers again.— Djathink imacowboy 07:23, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag, I don't think we've crossed paths too much, but I noticed that you've been involved in topics related to Uyghur separatism, so I thought I would reach out to you for help on Terrorism in the People's Republic of China. I've tried soliciting help from some editors involved in the terrorism project, but to no avail.
I began working on the page a few weeks ago (here's the before [42] and after [43]) after noticing that it had some serious problems. It is still very much a work in progress, though ultimately I would like to see if it can reach GA standards. But I fear that, in the absence of judicious, knowledgeable editors offering constructive feedback, the process of achieving consensus will be fraught with disruptions. I've made several proposals on the talk page suggesting ways the article could be improved, but have been...well, disappointed with the degree of collaborative editing and discussion. In particular, I'm sort of at a loss about how to handle this: [44] [45] [46]
If you have some time, I would very much appreciate if you could weigh in on the general direction of edits, or contribute in other ways as you see fit. Seeing as terrorism-related topics are inescapably controversial, I want to ensure that everything is being handled with adequate care. I don't have full faith in my ability to write a complete and balanced article on my own, and would really benefit from having someone to keep me in check, at a minimum (and hopefully more!). Let me know if you're interested. Homunculus ( duihua) 05:25, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your (seemingly) tireless effort to make the DYK process easy to understand, user-friendly and transparent to follow, willing to try suggestions and drop them if not wanted. Thank you also for patiently explaining again and again, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:53, 25 March 2012 (UTC) |
A year ago, you were the 72nd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (8 October 2010, 24 October 2010)! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:05, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I've recently come across some old posts of yours while researching WP:ATHLETE; I recently nominated a few random athletes for deletion, based on what I now realized was a perhaps incorrect or incomplete reading of the current consensus. In any case, I sympathize with your POV, and I'm wondering, if I wanted to generate a new discussion around WP:ATHLETE how (and where) would you recommend I do so? Esp with dwindling editorship, the proliferation of stub articles cannot end up helping the project... -- Karl.brown ( talk) 04:23, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
T:AH needs an additional AFD, CSD, PROD outcome: withdrawn. See Talk:Kony 2012.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 18:39, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
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I saw that this message on your page: "This editor is listed at Highly Active Users, and is willing to provide you with assistance and advice." so I approached to you regarding one problem.
Problem: I was able to get a list of article I created with this tool. But now it says "403: User account expired". Is there an alternative tool to get such a list without having to register first or to contact anybody by mail? Thanks in advance.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 13:13, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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I've noticed you have been active lately removing WP:Death banners from a number of articles. You do not provide any reason except for "not relevant" in the edit summary. Could you expound on this rather terse notice? Boneyard90 ( talk) 22:32, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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You an administrator who is quite active at WP:DYK, so I wanted to call your attention to a particularly timely hook for the next queue Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Possible_Queue_6_late_substitution_or_addition. You may want to make a late addition or substitution.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:27, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Benlisquare here. Hey man, I lost the link you gave me, and I can't get on (keyword) because of (...). Can you give me it again? I'm in China right now. How do I get past the "gee eph dubya"? Talk page and email please, thanks. 116.228.247.22 ( talk) 16:42, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Rjanag Just a quick request to ask if you would possibly please check article Randa Mai for WP:RS and whether it satisfies WP:BLP and WP:NN. The article was proposed for deletion right after it appeared but the tag was removed by the author who justified it by citing sources/refs on the talk page (one being a fan wiki, the other allegedly a pron database. A couple of contribs by another enthusiast and a few standard bot visits is all there is for development and oversight. Anyway, notability looks questionable (despite my complete lack of knowledge of either pron or Japanese) and would depend on WP:RS. Hope you don't mind the request - I remembered your language skills from dealing with this guy here [47]. All the best and thanks, Plutonium27 ( talk) 17:06, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi, been a while. Same user is currently warring at Falun Gong, but I'm too lazy to file a 3RR now. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 19:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Im interested if you see a relation to User:Patriotmissile. -- Martin H. ( talk) 01:03, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello. I've been watching your back-and-forth edits at Chick-fil-A. I know you mean well, and copyright violations are a serious matter that we should all guard against, but the other editors are right - there isn't a problem with using a short quote. It may be useful for you to learn more about the doctrine of Fair use, so you can save your time and energy for other things. I hope this helps! {{{1}}}- TALK 17:26, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm trying to figure out how to write "Ape Immortal of the Pine Grove" in Chinese. Would 松林猿仙 be correct, or would it be reversed with some kind of modifier added? Thanks. -- Ghostexorcist ( talk) 21:05, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag - I was very happy to see you participate in Language and in fact the claim you removed I had already decided to remove myself for the same reason. Any help you can give to improving the section on neural bases of langauge will be greatly appreciated. Also we kind of need an article about Brain and language if you are up for that. Thanks again! ·ʍaunus· snunɐw· 23:11, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello Rjanag. I hope you have heeded my comments on the talkpage. In connection with reversals of our article-editing of linguistics, I request you in good faith to not undo my valid edits because of a few errors in the typing and writing that can be easily corrected by any other member on Wikipedia. The point of my edits had been to tighten the presentation of the article and I don't think there was anything wrong with the changes. In good faith, MrsCaptcha ( talk) 09:40, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Please do not remove without permission without basis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anonymous sensible ( talk • contribs) 11:15, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
Could you tell me where? Philostahl ( talk) 00:51, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your edits on various Asian language pages. But re these edits there's a reason for the edits or I wouldn't have made them, so have restored pending discussion.
If you really badly object to either of these two edits, I hope you won't, let's discuss on talk page. Cheers. In ictu oculi ( talk) 02:54, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi,I would like to be an autoconfirmed user, to save the books made with wikibooks. I asked in the main forum,somebody suggest me to contact any admin that can upgrade my account. Would you be so kind to do this for me? Many Thanks! VV Chitammuo ( talk) 17:00, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. I improved the article Antonietta Di Martino, I wanted to ask you if I can reproduce the following: «DYN that she is able to jumping 2.04 m, but only 1.69 m tall, with 35 cm is the woman with the largest differential of all-time?» How I can do? You can reopen this?-- Kasper2006 ( talk) 00:37, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
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User:Lee Tru./sandbox/WikiDragon, WikiPlatypus Meating den is now open! Check it out, we (the WikiDragons) could use some help form you!-- Thus Spake Lee Tru. 21:00, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag,
I have inserted the hakka pronounciation version to [[[Template:Zh/doc#Usage|this template]] but it shows up as "Chinese" instead of "Pha̍k-fa-sṳ". Could you help me fix this error? Thanks. -- Hak-kâ-ngìn ( talk) 00:48, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi. I'm confused. Once in a while, I nominate a DYK. When I went to do so just now and clicked the "nominate" button, it said the page could be edited only by admins. When I checked the protection log, your name came up. What's up? I just wanted to make a quick nom and move on, but I don't know where to go. It's quite possible I'm being dumb in some way, since I don't nominate often. Cynwolfe ( talk) 15:24, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
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Nice to have met you, even if it's only Wikipedia :) Icedwater ( talk) 15:09, 29 May 2013 (UTC) |
Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:Four_Award#Category:Wikipedia_four_award_articles_not_showing_up_on_article_talk_pages.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 12:03, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Your hear [ivɛːʁ], [ivæːʁ] or [ivaɛ̯ʁ] ? 198.105.96.53 ( talk) 11:23, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
Because I don't hear well. 198.105.118.205 ( talk) 21:22, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
The word fête is pronounced "fight" in Quebec French. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te69JK28DDo 198.105.113.19 ( talk) 21:33, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Fyi. This Rfc you participated in has been converted into a requested move. Redtigerxyz Talk 15:57, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
a pointless name change, where else would humans process language, or are you trying to avoid adding constructive content to improve the article dolfrog ( talk) 14:14, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
-- 李博杰 | — Talk contribs email 16:26, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
It has come to my attention that Category:Possible Wikipedia four award articles will miss articles when the GA and DYK are not merged into the T:AH. It happened this week with Lie Kim Hok. Can any correction be made for this situation?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 13:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
That listed/promoted issue should be a high priority. No telling how many instances of that there are out there.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 17:22, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
I've uploaded a file for that purpose. It might need to be cropped to show the vandalized text more clearly. SamX‧ ☎‧ ✎ 22:26, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
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How many articles have four=no right now?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ WP:FOUR/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:WAWARD) 04:37, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
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The following is a notice I sent out to a few people: I will agree to a WP:CONSENSUS determined at an RFC after User:Rjanag gets back to me with some statistics on the project. I understand that it will take at least a week after he creates the new category to have the data. I am drafting the RFC here. You can follow along.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ WP:FOUR/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:WAWARD) 08:29, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
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The DYK nomination for this article was put on hold after you started both an AfD and a merge discussion. The former closed as no consensus; the latter appears to have vanished late last month.
I didn't want to restart the review process if the merge discussion was going to make a comeback, so I was hoping you could let me know whether you decided to let the matter drop, or plan to resume your push for the merge. If the article stands on its own in its present form and the DYK review should go forward, then I'll call for a new reviewer. Thank you. BlueMoonset ( talk) 17:19, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Wordless novel is another type of coding error for WP:FOUR.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ WP:FOUR/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:WAWARD) 08:22, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
There are two WP:RFCs at WP:FOUR. The first is to conflate issues so as to keep people from expressing meaningful opinions. The second, by me, is claimed to be less than neutral by proponents of the first. Please look at the second one, which I think is much better.-- TonyTheTiger ( T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:20, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Been skipping on your humility medication, perhaps? Slashing at me 'cos you assumed too much is responsible? — Lfdder ( talk) 11:54, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
You dont see that the source says she is Spanish?
"Alba began to forge a film career. With her unusual ethnic origins – a mix of Mexican, Danish, French and Spanish"
its in the 13th paragraph. She also says here Alba is from Spain:
The video of her getting the results is on youtube which mentions her DNA test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNAqwrm9hY
C super2 ( talk) 01:58, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Rjanag. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.
We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.
Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 21:50, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
As you know, I did not participate in the ANI threads Hijiri88 started
At this point, it seems to me that Hijiri88 is targeting me. His attention is focused on me for reasons which are not clear. If you understand how I might feel that way, can you suggest ways to mitigate this growing problem. Is this explainable as an example of WP:Poking? -- Enkyo2 ( talk) 20:34, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
What's "bold" about adding a section that obviously ought to be there? I HAVE started a discussion (I notice you didn't, nor have you contributed to the last discussion that you insisted I start) - I hope you will now contribute to it. But this "get my permission before you touch this page" attitude is absurd and counterproductive. As I say, you can do a better job of writing this section than I can - I hope when you get time you will be able to do so. But to continue to remove my contributions for no reason except a very obvious desire to exclude from the article anything that you didn't write yourself is harming what could be (and largely already is) a very good and useful article. This information is basic stuff, I'm sorry if you feel your pride has been hurt by having it pointed out that it was missing from the article that you crafted, but it surely belongs and you really have no business trying to suppress it for reasons of pique or whatever. W. P. Uzer ( talk) 10:24, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
In addition to what you and the others said, the material was directly copied from the web site--and the other sources listed.I noticed that as Iwas deleting them. This is fairly common for promotional articles that seem coherent and professionally written, and I now check it every time. DGG ( talk ) 16:30, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Since you seem to know quite a bit about the Uyghur language, would you like to make any additions to Renminbi#Use in minority regions? Do you happen to know what the RMB (Or yuan) is known as in the Uyghur language? -- benlisquare T• C• E 23:16, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Rjanag. Your user page seems to indicate a good linguistics background and faith-orientation for theology-religion related articles. I am thinking of recommending a page upgrade for a GA article to FA article status which may involve the reading one book review if this might be possible for you. The book is the popularly received "Evil and the God of Love". Any possible interest? AutoJellinek ( talk) 18:00, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Rjnag. Your current user page lists you for a template for a unitarian universalist, just like James Luther Adams and Paul Tillich for "faith-orientation". If your user page was vandalized with an unknown template maybe you could look at this. AutoJellinek ( talk) 14:49, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello, this pronunciation is [sœɡõdɛːʁ] or [sœɡõdaɛ̯ʁ] ? It's difficult to guess. 166.48.173.57 ( talk) 02:10, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, do you still want to uphold the no-off topic discussion consensus at that article? The Soapbox on the talk page is getting out of hand. Jim101 ( talk) 12:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Eye movement in reading: did you get consensus for moving this to a title that focuses solely on saccades (one part of eye movement ... which occupies about 10% of the duration)? I'd like an explanation. Tony (talk) 06:53, 8 February 2014 (UTC) (And I don't care that many research texts use the plural; many don't.) Tony (talk) 06:54, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm writing to you because of your past involvement with the Urumqi riots in 2009. There was a major knife attack in Kunming. Death toll somewhere between 29 and 34, about 140 injuries as of most recent reports. It's looking likely that the attack is associated with the Uyghur independence movement although the situation is obviously cloudy. Editors with experience working on Han / Uyghur conflict would be appreciated to make sure we stick to WP:RS and avoid WP:RECENTISM while this situation unfolds. Simonm223 ( talk) 16:53, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
support for ease and transparency
Thank you for your (seemingly) tireless effort to make the DYK process easy to understand, user-friendly and transparent to follow, willing to try suggestions and drop them if not wanted. Thank you also for patiently explaining again and again, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
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Two years, you were the 72nd recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi! You promised us a Kringle-photo before Christmas 2011. Do have good photo perhaps?
RhinoMind ( talk) 23:06, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Involuntary health consequences. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Involuntary health consequences redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. BDD ( talk) 17:50, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
What was your reasoning for deleting The Justin Gaethje page JMichael22 ( talk) 06:40, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
=={Proposed deletion/dated
|concern = The primary contributor has apparently given up ( declined db-g7 request) and the article in its current state is in need of extensive editing which is not likely to happen; not sure if this meets WP:N or not, but it should probably either be stub-ified or deleted. (Note, the prod was removed before by the article creator, but that editor is now blocked for copyvio, and it's not clear to me whether the editor removed the prod intentionally to contest it or was just reverting to an earlier copyvio version of the article.) |timestamp = 20141013072531
The history is too complicated for prod. Please use afd DGG ( talk ) 21:09, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
I believe you dealt with a sockpuppet account called Chinese-proti at Prostitution in China who subsequently opened multiple accounts to add misleading content and you semi protected the article. Well he came back as User:Mixjang1234 and User:Baohio8888 (and apparently he constantly watches the article every single day to see if any of his content his removed) and I don't think he is going to go away until the article is permanently semi protected. He appears to be a Korean nationalist, trying to downplay about Korean women's prostitution to foreigners while trying to spam content about Chinese women prostituting or Korean men getting sex from foreign women. Rajmaan ( talk) 14:25, 27 November 2014 (UTC)