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As you can see on my talk page at User talk:Dougweller#Olmecs, we have a new editor who doesn't understand our attitude towards sources. I don't know what will happen about that, but the recent edits at ATyrian purple suggesting the Phoenicians went to Mexico are a problem. Can you help? I suspect there are two issues - handling the 1909 Zelia Nuttall source which it appears no one has seriously discussed and some OR in the rest of the edit. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 15:22, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for the barnstar! I was perusing your User page and noticed that you occasionally upload pictures of Mesoamerican sites. Do you, per chance, have any images of stelae at Piedras Negras? Weird question out of left field, I know, but I can't seem to find any in the Commons. Thanks again!-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 14:50, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to bug you again, but you seem like a person who might be able to answer this question. I've started to make some vectors of glyphs, mostly for the kings of Piedras Negras. I'm using Illustrator, and I'm kind of new at it, so some of the lines are coming out a little funny. Is there a sort of margin of wonkiness that is accepted, or should I just start over? The two I've uploaded are of Ha' K'in Xook and K'inich Yat Ahk II. Can glyphs be uploaded under public domain since they could technically be considered "fonts"?-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:59, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
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I'd be grateful for a reference that explains how a cross dyke can be shown to serve the function of a boundary line without serving as a defensive earthwork. You clearly have much more knowledge of relevant fields, but the references in Cross dyke don't give an explanation that overrides my understanding of military technology and I haven't found an independent reference that improves on them. If I were looking for a way to embody the concepts of Ringwork and Spur castle with early Iron Age technology, I'd build something that would look a lot like a cross dyke; the other explanations seem to lack an explanations of why they were across ridges, why they were of relatively short length or both. I'll admit to being completely baffled by "pit alignments", although, being perhaps less effort to make, they seem to fit the boundary line explanation better than cross dykes, per se.-- Wcoole ( talk) 21:26, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Simon, I came across your name quite by chance and I have not had the pleasure of talking with you before. Sometimes I help out at the Teahouse and since I am a translator myself, I often help other non-English editors. I have no idea how you like to work, and I hope you don't mind me asking. Some time ago I came to know a new editor who has a special interest in writing articles about Guatemala (such as Italian immigration to Guatemala, German Guatemalan, Demographics of Guatemala, etc.) For a newbie, he has a good grasp of how articles are done but he needs help with his English. I have suggested that he might team up with someone who understand Spanish, but is more fluent in English than he is, someone who can correct the language in his articles. I help him with the things he has to learn about editing, but I only speak a little Spanish and have almost no knowledge about Guatemala. Would you be interested in helping him out with the language in the articles? He's a quick learner so I only think he needs a bit of help now at the start. You can find our conversations on my talk page. All the best, w.carter -Talk 19:36, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, I am following up on the name of Dr. Josué Sáenz who is cited in the Wikipedia "Grolier Codex" [1] article. (Please pardon my lack of knowledge on Wikipedia coding. I am a Wikipedia newbie and still learing.)
It is a very common mistake to confuse the Spanish names "Josué" and "José". They are not the same name. The Spanish "Josué" is the English equivelant of "Joshua" and the Spanish "José" is the English equivalent of "Joseph".
Dr. Josué Sáenz was the President of the Mexican National Olympic Committee during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. You can see the spelling of his name throughout this article "The Organization" produced by the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad [2]. He was also the former Director of the Ministry of Finance of Mexico. His father was the archaeologist César A. Sáenz.
I suggest you check your cited references related to the name of Dr. Josué Sáenz:
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FAMSI: "José" is incorrect, "Saenz" is incorrect. The author, Randa Marhenke (I know her), of the FAMSI article has been notified about these errors and they will be corrected.
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As you can see on my talk page at User talk:Dougweller#Olmecs, we have a new editor who doesn't understand our attitude towards sources. I don't know what will happen about that, but the recent edits at ATyrian purple suggesting the Phoenicians went to Mexico are a problem. Can you help? I suspect there are two issues - handling the 1909 Zelia Nuttall source which it appears no one has seriously discussed and some OR in the rest of the edit. Thanks. Dougweller ( talk) 15:22, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 30 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clearbury Ring, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that although Clearbury Ring, a hillfort near Salisbury in southern England, dates to the Iron Age, a paleolithic hand axe was found there? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clearbury Ring. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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Thanks for the barnstar! I was perusing your User page and noticed that you occasionally upload pictures of Mesoamerican sites. Do you, per chance, have any images of stelae at Piedras Negras? Weird question out of left field, I know, but I can't seem to find any in the Commons. Thanks again!-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 14:50, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
Sorry to bug you again, but you seem like a person who might be able to answer this question. I've started to make some vectors of glyphs, mostly for the kings of Piedras Negras. I'm using Illustrator, and I'm kind of new at it, so some of the lines are coming out a little funny. Is there a sort of margin of wonkiness that is accepted, or should I just start over? The two I've uploaded are of Ha' K'in Xook and K'inich Yat Ahk II. Can glyphs be uploaded under public domain since they could technically be considered "fonts"?-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 00:59, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
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I'd be grateful for a reference that explains how a cross dyke can be shown to serve the function of a boundary line without serving as a defensive earthwork. You clearly have much more knowledge of relevant fields, but the references in Cross dyke don't give an explanation that overrides my understanding of military technology and I haven't found an independent reference that improves on them. If I were looking for a way to embody the concepts of Ringwork and Spur castle with early Iron Age technology, I'd build something that would look a lot like a cross dyke; the other explanations seem to lack an explanations of why they were across ridges, why they were of relatively short length or both. I'll admit to being completely baffled by "pit alignments", although, being perhaps less effort to make, they seem to fit the boundary line explanation better than cross dykes, per se.-- Wcoole ( talk) 21:26, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Simon, I came across your name quite by chance and I have not had the pleasure of talking with you before. Sometimes I help out at the Teahouse and since I am a translator myself, I often help other non-English editors. I have no idea how you like to work, and I hope you don't mind me asking. Some time ago I came to know a new editor who has a special interest in writing articles about Guatemala (such as Italian immigration to Guatemala, German Guatemalan, Demographics of Guatemala, etc.) For a newbie, he has a good grasp of how articles are done but he needs help with his English. I have suggested that he might team up with someone who understand Spanish, but is more fluent in English than he is, someone who can correct the language in his articles. I help him with the things he has to learn about editing, but I only speak a little Spanish and have almost no knowledge about Guatemala. Would you be interested in helping him out with the language in the articles? He's a quick learner so I only think he needs a bit of help now at the start. You can find our conversations on my talk page. All the best, w.carter -Talk 19:36, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, I am following up on the name of Dr. Josué Sáenz who is cited in the Wikipedia "Grolier Codex" [1] article. (Please pardon my lack of knowledge on Wikipedia coding. I am a Wikipedia newbie and still learing.)
It is a very common mistake to confuse the Spanish names "Josué" and "José". They are not the same name. The Spanish "Josué" is the English equivelant of "Joshua" and the Spanish "José" is the English equivalent of "Joseph".
Dr. Josué Sáenz was the President of the Mexican National Olympic Committee during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. You can see the spelling of his name throughout this article "The Organization" produced by the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad [2]. He was also the former Director of the Ministry of Finance of Mexico. His father was the archaeologist César A. Sáenz.
I suggest you check your cited references related to the name of Dr. Josué Sáenz:
Baudez, p. 70 (correct spelling)
Milbrath, p. 51 (correct spelling)
FAMSI: "José" is incorrect, "Saenz" is incorrect. The author, Randa Marhenke (I know her), of the FAMSI article has been notified about these errors and they will be corrected.
Yates: "Josué" is the correct first name. Last name without accent may be a matter of style, but for scholarship please consider the name as spelled by the name holder (we know Dr. Josué Sáenz).
Thanks for your dedication to Mesoamerican studies and the body of work you have created on Wikipedia! ACMelendez ( talk) 00:40, 3 February 2015 (UTC)