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Angela 23:23, Nov 1, 2003 (UTC)
There is quite a bit more to add to Agenor and Phoenix genealogy which I will get to eventually, unless someone else does. But outside of idiosyncratic genealogical links and inconsistant genealogical information, everything that applies to Phoenix in some texts can be found applied Agenor in other texts, including some of the genealogical links. A full discussion of Agenor alone would end up saying almost everything that can be said about Phoenix (and vice versa). They are impossible to separate in a full discussion.
And beyond genealogy there's almost nothing to be said about either. They are just links in the genealogical chain. jallan 15:18, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
I noticed your participation in the discussion and editing of Dido. Thanks for fighting the good fight against cranks. I've been in that situation myself. -- Decumanus | Talk 23:41, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
User:Trc, a Roman Catholic apologist with no previous interest in Moloch has reverted your excellent new material. This is a problem user to watch. Wetman 17:17, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
As much as I would really love to live every name of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, I've been advised in the past that it's not wise. Jerusalem is a site of frequent heated edit wars, and the more heated editors generally won't accept anything more than the Modern Israeli Hebrew and Standard Arabic names for the city. I've even heard some of the expanded forms derisively called "pseudo-IPA" and such. That's why I linked to Names of Jerusalem rather than listing all the names there. - Gilgamesh 03:37, 28 June 2004 (UTC)
I've quickly cobbled up some of your thoughts on the Hellenistic literary approach (leaving out some casual asides), in the hopes that you'll look over this new section and bring it up to speed. Wetman 01:26, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Jallan. Welcome and thanks for the honest critique.
I respectfully disagree. Persecution is a serious subcategory of violence, under which discrimination and harrassment are less serious subcategories, but there is some overlap. Some would justifiably argue that 9-11 was 'latent anti-Americanism' taken to the level of persecution. There is a case for that, but in perspective, its a fine example of the pot calling the kettle black... and thats the nature of pov... But "persecution" by its most general definition should trancend pov, no?
I would agree with this, except that in my mind there can be a logical ordering of these issues into what they are. Ill plead guilty that my use of the classification question is to effect improvement in the articles themselves, by catalysing the questions, "what does this fit under" and "what is this thing, really?" This could have some postive effects within the articles for defining the scope and discerning genuine material from the pap, and this in turn might make the editing of these more reasonable. Thats where one's m:wikifaith must be strong. ;)
Well, certainly there is a tendency of problematic wars to come back home; toothpaste may not go back in the tube, but the real ugly and dangerous demons need to go back in the box regardless; that's something that everybody (even the demons) can agree on. Yes, it would be difficult to call the Iraq War a "persecution" of Muslims and Arabs, because people in the US can be so completely convinced of its "humanitarianism," whether they mean "intended" or "genuine." People thought the Spanish American War was to "liberate" Cubans from the cruel Spanish; in the end some US admiral ordered his "troops" to kill everyone on a Philippine island over the age of "ten years."
So, yes, reality and fantasy have some distance between them. A great little test of this schism with reality might be to try put the Iraq War under the "humanitarianism" category.
The opinion differences between US and the rest of the world is due a administration and media-induced ignorance, and this ignorance (unintended it may be) is itself a cause for "anti-American sentiment." "Dont speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin..." yes, but this is possible to do among reasonable people.
Actually, we tried mediation. I put some introductory observations (inherently POV on my part, subject to further overview). The next thing IZAK did was bring the complete argument over the the mediation request page. Also, mediation was rejected and instead there was supposed to be additional comment. Not sure, but I think this multi-user comment is what we've been seeing. :P - Gilgamesh 09:14, 8 July 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism is trying to decide all Hebrew linguistics issues for Wikipedia by themselves. But Hebrew is not purely the realm of Judaism; it is also the realm of Samaritans, Christians and Abrahamic religion as a whole, and also secular Canaanite languages studies. I'm trying to challenge mono-cultural mono-sectarian dominance over a linguistic field that we all should be sharing together. I invite you to participate in trying to pluralize Hebrew language conventions for Wikipedia. In particular, not only is Tiberian Hebrew transliteration challenged, but also Standard Hebrew transliteration, as some people want to use only Israeli Hebrew colloquial transliteration or Ashkenazi Hebrew liturgical transliteration. I think these are perfectly valid and worthy of participation, but not at the total expense of every other Hebrew linguistics study concern. Please support a multi-religious multi-cultural scientific NPOV mandate for studying Hebrew linguistics on Wikipedia. - Gilgamesh 02:43, 18 July 2004 (UTC)
That essay on the talk page of Wikipedia: WikiProject Judaism was really quite impressive. Thanks.
(One technical note on what you wrote: Yemenite Jews read Hebrew in a way, as you suggest, that may be correctly extrapolated from texts with Tiberian pointing. This in fact must be true, because otherwise they could never have adopted that pointing in any of their texts. However, at the same time, their Hebrew is not best represented by the Tiberian points, which they adopted over the course of time later in history, by rather by the Babylonian niqqud (supralinear), which corresponds exactly to actual usage with no need for extrapolation.)
I want to urge you to make a special contribution, which perhaps would best be in a Hebrew transliteration article. The idea would be to present the different systems of transliteration one at a time (not letter by letter as in Hebrew alphabet), describing when and how they have been used, by whom and for what purposes, what the rationale behind each one is, and what each one's weaknesses and advantages are.
If you could do that for the Tiberian points that would be wonderful. I cannot do it myself for two reasons: (a) because my graduate courses in Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic were far too many years ago for me to remember this stuff; and (b) because I know absolutely nothing at all about how they are represented in Unicode.
As a practical matter, by the way, for articles on Jews and Judaism I happen to prefer the time-tested Encyclopedia Judaica system as a usable, practical compromise between standard modern Hebrew and historical purity. Do you know anything about Unicode for the special symbols in that system (e.g. het, zaddi with dots underneath)?Dovi 09:45, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks! That software program you recommended is great.Dovi 03:50, Jul 22, 2004 (UTC)
Dear Jallan, I constantly humbled by your knowledge of Norse mythology. I have suggested that Bordeur's transcription is to be a norm for Wikipedia articles.
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Great Sea
In Reply to:
Since you participated in the discussion on this subject, could you express your opinion on what to do with the substub template at Template talk:Substub? Thanks. --Michael Snow 21:22, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
You are hereby invited to Wikipedia:WikiProject Hebrew languages. - Gilgamesh 08:17, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for standing up and voicing your opinion. It angers me that people are hiding behind "it's fact so it can't be deleted". Oftentimes, I don't think a lot of these advocates know the full extent of this stuff. It's been going on for at least four months. See the beginning of my first talk page archive. I'm accused of BEING that guy! Mike H 15:29, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
I'd like to thank you as well. This person has exceptionally pained Mike due to the subject matter, or perhaps the lack of it. It's pained me simply because I care about how this site should be treated, and even my shortest contributions have not only been useful IMO, but I do go back over my contribs every so often to check for inaccuracies and such. In fact, I just realized that I goofed on an article of mine, namely Tamiya Blackfoot. I'm not going to wait for the mistake to grow into fact. :^P Take care. - Lucky 6.9 22:05, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Uh, you seem to have put your VfD listing above mine, although it comes after it in time. Just a mistake, I'm sure, and I don't suppose it'll really confuse anybody, in fact never mind. Bishonen 00:36, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Absolutely, that's fine. See how close the listings are in time, too? Maybe my twin will be younger than yours when s/he returns to earth. :-) Bishonen 01:09, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for the jeremiad on the village pump (re: naming policy). You saved me from going on one :) →Raul654 04:52, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)
I did nominate the kings of Numenor pages for deletion and it seems that they're too popular. Apparently my factual pages on election results are far less notable than lists of names out of a Tolkein appendix. Acsenray 16:19, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I like your work on the naming in Norse mythology. Could you only please see to it that the links work afterwards. An example: in the page your renamed Hrólf Kraki, you renamed Fyris Wolds into Fýris Wolds, which destroyed the link. I have been spending some time on making the links work.--Wiglaf 08:30, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Why is the connection between these two characters so controversial? They apparently correspond to each other in at least two stories in two related traditions.--Wiglaf 19:04, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Good evening, Jallan. On 26 Aug, you voted to delete the article about the Bradley Amendment because it was a POV rant. Even though the discussion period has run out, no one's acted on that thread yet. I've completely rewritten the article. I'd appreciate it if you'd take a read through and see if it's now worthy of a keep. Rossami 01:18, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Jallan, you really went above and beyond the call of duty in trying to eliminate the B-Movie Bandit once and for all. Unfortunately he's back, he's reverting articles and it's business as usual for the jerk. Others are still happily formatting these stupid things since, heaven forbid, information must not be lost! Result: I've lost whatever interest that I had in contributing to this project. I'm not blanking my pages, but nor am I planning on returning. Best way to reach me during the week is my work e-mail: production@dc.rr.com. I'm there during business hours Pacific, or UTC minus 7. - Lucky 6.9 05:11, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
You might want to be just a bit more careful with your redirects; I fixed several of yours that weren't properly typed. For reference, the correct format is #REDIRECT [[Article]]. I'm not admonishing you; I'm just trying to keep the mess on Wikipedia to a minimum. --Slowking Man 03:06, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)
When I arrived at Wikipedia, "Geats" was already used as the name for the Gautar/Götar. Almost everything seems to point to the conclusion that they are one and the same, and I consider etymology to be a fairly reliable source. Moreover, the Swedish authorities who has claimed that they were Danes or Jutes, had special agendas, such as Curt Weibull (it was only a skirmish in his academic wars, and he even talked of "killing" the disciples of his enemies. He was very succesful in killing them). Almost every single page I can find on the Geats on the Internet either does the same or consider it to be the most likely identification. Do you think it is worthwile trying to standardize the terminology (calling the Gautar Geats) or do you find the identification too uncertain? I'd also like to thank you for the work you're putting into the mythology part.--Wiglaf 08:32, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
By ??? I meant any kind of phrase such as "generally held to be the same as". Since there is no obvious alternative name for the house of Yngling, I'd vote for keeping it as it is. One possibility could be Yngling (clan).--Wiglaf 19:18, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I don't think clan would work. I don't recall it ever being used in English translations, probably because there's nothing particularly like a clan in the old accounts, no word corresponding in Old English or Old Norse.
If we define clan as a social unit bigger than a family but smaller than a tribe, there is a term in Scandinavian, the ätt (see Norse clans). Every person had to belong to an ätt in order to have some kind of legal security, and children and freed thralls were formally led into the ätt at the Tings. If the ynglings had been around for several hundred years, as the sagas claim, there would have been hundreds of men claiming to belong to the ynglings. However, the ätt was quite different from a Scottish clan. I don't insist on calling them the Yngling (clan). The names Yngling (dynasty), Yngling (line) or Ynling (lineage) would work fine.--Wiglaf 20:04, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
From the discussion on the Village Pump (Random page meanderings), I think your idea of taking 100 or whatever random pages and asking for comments would be very interesting. The articles could be copied to subpages of a Wikipedia: or User: page. They might not need to be protected, as long as there is a prominent message regarding their status (seeing as they would be outside the encyclopedia space). If you want to run this experiment, I'll be happy to help you out; (or I could run it if you can't be bothered :P ). TPK 08:39, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the work on the Shingo page. The legend is of course controversial. Nobody will be surprised to find people posting rants and dissertations there from time to time!
I can't imagine historians ever working out the details of the origin of the legend, but I've imagined that it started with two Christian (Catholic) missionaries, among the many who were active in the Tohoku region in the 1500s and early 1600s. They might have been priests or brothers, and/or could have been related as brothers.
After the missionaries died, the people might have come to believe that one was truly Jesus. This would be sort of a reversal of the story line of many Noh plays: in them, a wandering priest arrives at a place where he meets a person and asks to be shown the location of a battle, suicide, or other tragic event. When he arrives, he falls asleep, or is it a trance?, and the guide reveals himself to be the spirit of the general who died in battle, or committed suicide etc. (It's often unclear whether the revelation is real or not.) The farmers who started the legend in Shingo need not have been aware of Noh, a dramatic form of the military aristocracy; Noh had arisen from peasants' art forms, and legends of the sort that the plays present might have been common.
Having identified the missionaries as Jesus and his brother, the people could then have tried to make the other pieces of the puzzle fit. They would rely on the teachings of the missionaries, as well as stories they had told about travels that they or others had done.
But of course all of this is speculation! I hope nobody ever takes my ramblings as history. Fg2 22:55, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
Jallan 19:55, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hello. You don't appear to be an administrator, but I think you should be. If you would like for me to nominate you, I will do so. You may reply here or on my talk page. Regards, Wile E. Heresiarch 17:26, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. Congratulations!. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 04:12, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for the tone, balance and improved accuracy you've recently given this entry. --Wetman 23:48, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Jallan. You might already know about this, but in case you don't ... there is a poll at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style that you might be interested in. Maurreen 05:26, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Dear Jallan, I'd want to thank you for you great and inspiring work on the Norse sagas!--Wiglaf 12:43, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
It was the next day, that I realized that I could ask you, since I am thinking of leaving Wikipedia.
I won't say, "Don't go", because I don't know the details. You've done a lot of good work that will remain. And this is project where people can participate at any time to the exact level at which they wish to, a place where one can jot down one's own notes on various things one is interested in for others to appreciate, at least such notes as are encyclopedic. And then one can hopefully see them corrected or bettered. And if worsened by a later editor, well the originals are still in the history. And it is so nice to be able to actually change errors in material one reads! There is not need to be a regular contributor.
Yes, the purpose of the book is to try to find the kernels of real history behind the legends. I did not realize that I had transposed that POV into the article.
I got that impression from the way the discussion concentrated on the possible historical elements and ignored the entire Valkyrie lover element found in the tales of all three of the Helgi figures. The result is something like a discussion of Beowulf which concentrated on the political relationships between Geats, Swedes, Danes, and Heathobards and ignored Grendel and the dragon.
Great, you seem to know a great deal about this legend. Concerning the dating, the author is pretty believable. He was once one of the foremost scholars. That does not mean that he was right, though.
If you are doing a book about possible history underlying legends, then that kind of POV is quite expected and not at all disreputable. You should put forth your theories, not hold them back. But I've probably been rendered immune to attempts to extract fact from legend, in part by reading seventeen or more different accounts of the supposed historical Arthur, some by very competent scholars, but all different. The arguments themselves are often worth the reading and worth repeating. But then other top scholars present other arguments equally strong for competing theories. I often point out that someone reading the Nibelungenlied would never be able to extract the truth about characters like Gunther, Etzel, Dietrich, and Ermanaric. (Of course Heinz Ritter claims that the legends, at last as presented in the Thidrek's saga are mostly history, and that the characters have nothing at all to do with Gundahari, Attila the Hun, Theodoric the Goth and so forth, but are historical princes of Saxony and surrounding regions, though ones not actually mentioned in surviving history.)
There is support from both history, linguistics and archaeology, and the no evidence argument is quite spurious as it can be claimed of many facts presented in history writing. One could just as well ask for conclusive evidence against the Scandinavian origins.
Exactly. We don't know either way. Archaelogy and linguistic study can very seldom prove individual pieces of history, but usually doesn't disprove it either. (Again and again when archaeology does seem to prove or disprove something, suddenly some archaelogist will show that the entire system dating is wrong or that a new style of pottery or kind of grave did not mean a new people in the area, but just a new style of pottery or new burial customs.) But traditions about origins are also often confused, and ancient historians, like many modern ones (and like many editors in Wikipedia) were quite ready to fill in blanks with whatever dubious information they could find. (The Ættartolur traces Attila the Hun's kin back to Scandinavia.) Perhaps the puzzle pieces don't fit and never will, but there is nothing gained by hiding them when nothing has been proved to the point of general consensus. And in any cases, statements from ancient historians are worth citing just because they are said by ancient historians. Even if statements are shown to be incorrect, they have the value of evidence against those who would put total faith in everything that an ancient historian claims and are often valuable for showing what people formally believed. I will continue to keep an eye on the Heruli article.
Jallan 01:19, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
FYI, I have (at last) responded to your comments on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Draft trim (November 2004). I think we are nearly there, though there are a small number of points to resolve. I look forward to receiving your comments in due course. jguk 21:25, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up on talk about my changes to the Manual Jallan, I have left my thoughts on the subject there. adamsan 09:04, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind comments about the article! :)--Wiglaf 19:44, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Jallan. You did an excellent job prosecuting the neutral spellings rule. Maurreen 05:18, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Jallan, thanks for the info about International English. I'd like to learn more. Do you know any decent online references about this? Maurreen 08:48, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Jallan, I love your comments and the quote. You made a beautiful, sonorous argument.
But unfortunately, I expect the meaning will be lost on the intended audience.
You might appreciate this quote from Dylan Thomas (I hope I'm remembering it correctly): "I am in love with the shape and sound of words." Maurreen 06:50, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
And yes "school boy humour" is childish! But it is from that play on words, that a whole strand of British humour comes. For example instead of saying "nuts" when asked to surrender at the brige in Arnhem, the officer choose to misunderstand the German offices use of the phrase "discuss surrender terms" and told the officer that his small band of paratroopers would like to take a whole German division prisoner but there was not room in the building for them all. Philip Baird Shearer 11:14, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:46, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "((DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual))" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "((DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual))" with "((MultiLicensePD))". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)
Hi, Jallan. Thanks for your support about the style guide. User:jguk had asked me, among other things, for a cooling off period of about two weeks between he and I. That time has now passed. In case you're interested, I wanted to let you know that I have reopened the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (jguk's changes). Maurreen 07:08, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Jallan. The Bibliography at Norse mythology seems to have gotten doubled when you edited it, would you like to take a look at it? (I'm uncertain as to which bits represent your changes, I'd better not mess with it.) Incidentally, if you know about this stuff, would you maybe like to turn the primary sources (the eddas) into proper bibliograpical references, from their present sad state? There's also a need (proclaimed by me on WP:FAC) for subdivision of the bibliography into References (=sources actually used for the article) and Further reading, if you're up for it. Several people are working to improve the article now it's been nominated for FAC, but I'm thinking maybe you have the most expertise of them, and that's what the referencing job needs.--[[User:Bishonen|Bishonen (talk)]] 19:06, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Jallan, thank you very much for your full answer. I'm only sorry to say it's a bit wasted on my Talk page, this is far from being my field. I do know about references and bibliographies, I deal with them in my day job as you do, and I have a couple of points there (though I don't honestly know when/if I'll find the time to make them--I'll just say that the WP:FAC hardasses are going to insist on a division into "references used" vs. "further reading", they always do). But that's unfortunately the sum of my competence here, I only got drawn into some superficial copyediting of Norse mythology through voting on it on WP:FAC. Is it OK if I copy your post to Talk:Norse mythology, along with my original question? It's quite an active page at the moment. I hope you'll agree, but I won't do it until I hear from you, in case you'd rather not get inexorably drawn into the Ginnungagap.--[[User:Bishonen|Bishonen (talk)]] 02:20, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi. I saw that you voted on the RFC regarding Tucson, Arizona, and I thought you might be interested in commenting on a broader application of the formatting to other city articles. The discussion (for now) is at Talk: Tucson, Arizona#Other Arizona and nearby cities. (It might get moved to WikiProject Cities, if there's interest in doing so.) Thanks! kmccoy (talk) 01:37, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, Jallan. I will try to help mediate with this, but probably won't be able to give it any deliberation until tonight. Maurreen 15:17, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I don't have any great preference, but want to get something started to clear up the maze of redirects and strange spellings that currently afflict the Norse mythology articles. (Actually, many of them aren't strange, it is just that they don't agree with one another.) As you have mentioned, you generally use Swedish sources and often accordingly use Swedish spellings. Do you have any objections to me generally changing those spellings to more normal English adaptations of the Norse originals?
Hi Jallan, no I have nothing against you changing the names into more normal English adaptations. I don't mind at all. Concerning the spelling, and I am going to add that to the discussion page, I am starting to think that we should either go the whole hog and have a hypercorrect spelling with thorns, eths and diachritic marks, or make the names as plain as possible.--Wiglaf 19:14, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Jallan, sorry to see you go. Maurreen 05:20, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi! You appear to be an QUALIFIED interested disinterested bystander... I'm just making the rounds to everyone that has made their mark on Tsushima Islands which lead me to Fg2, (thence to then YOU! Congrats! Booby Prize, but I badly need some responisble People to help me mediate therein that are familiar with things Japanese... Sorry, but I infer that's still YOU!) in the last month trying to mediate this flaming revert war — I can use your help — Bring lots O water! (Better yet Beer) Frank
Well that's my heads up, and appeal -- Hope you can help. I really don't have a dog in this fight! If you can alert a few others qualified on matters Japanese, by all means, please do so!
Hi!
I've been away from Wikipedia for a long time, and you have no time as it says on your page, but since you are apparently the person to ask, I have this question: What was originally a hooked o is now spelt, by consensus, as ö. Well and good. I can accept that (although the hooked o is dear to my heart). But how do you, in Wikipedia, spell a hooked o with an accent over it, which is rarely a problem, I admit, unless you are transliterating Old Icelandic, where the difference was real? I mean, it's OK to use ö instead of the hook, when ö suffices, but when you are, say, giving examples of old poetry, where there was a real difference, (ö is an umlaut of a, o with a hook and an accent is an umlaut of á), one being short, the other long, what do you do? If all this has been discussed to death, I apologize. As I said, I've been away.
Cheerio
Io 20:49, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
The user categorisation scheme for linguistics has changed. Henceforth there are separate categories for Wikipedians who are professional linguists (Category:Wikipedians by profession→Wikipedian linguists) and Wikipedians who simply have an interest in linguistics (Category:Wikipedians by fields of interest→Wikipedians interested in linguistics). You are currently listed under the former category; please reassign yourself if necessary. —Psychonaut 17:09, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Many years ago, when you were twee l'il thing, you originated an article called Sefer haYashar (Biblical references), a daughter to the Sefer haYashar article. Being unaware of your daughter article, I created an independent article called "Lost Book of Jasher."
If you're still interested in the topic, I wonder whether you'd be kind enough to allow me to merge the daughter article into the new article. They seem to have an 80 percent overlap.
If I'd seen your article first, I might have merged the other direction. But as things stand, the new article is linked in quite a few places, as part of a series of articles on Lost books of the Old Testament.
Perhaps you'd like to simply edit the new article with info from your article, then we can do a redirect from old to new? Thanks! --The Editrix 23:53, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
You are listed in the linguist by profession category. Would you please look at the discussion at Talk:Caron? It has been suggested that professional opinions are required to resolve the dispute there.
I was told to merge my article on Hannibal and Melqart with this article I tried my best to fit it appropriately, feel free people to rearrange its positioning. By the way this article on Melqart rocks I struggle to find information on the subject but this is superb, great job!!! user:king Alaric
For your information: I have made a new text for the Norwegian corresponding article about Vikar since the previous text tried to, rather doubtfully, establish the figure as historic rather than a legendary figure. My new text is much closer to your English article. There have been though a few edits lately on the English article that you may want to check out. --FinnWiki (talk) 14:19, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative privileges of users who have been inactive for one year, meaning administrators who have made neither any edits nor any logged actions in over one year. As a result of this discussion, your administrative privileges have been removed pending your return. If you wish to have these privileges reinstated, please post to the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e., as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised and that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions). This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. RL0919 (talk) 21:40, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello. You are receiving this message because of a recent change to the administrator policy that alters what you were told at the time of your desysopping. The effect of the change is that if you are inactive for a continuous three year period, you will be unable to request return of the administrative user right. This includes inactive time prior to your desysopping if you were desysopped for inactivity and inactive time prior to the change in policy. Inactivity is defined as the absence of edits or logged actions. Until such time as you have been inactive for three years, you may request return of the tools at the bureaucrats' noticeboard. After you have been inactive for three years, you may seek return of the tools only through WP:RFA. Thank you. MBisanz talk 00:20, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.
Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!
LukeSurl t c 10:55, 20 May 2014 (UTC)I see that you've had no experience of Wikipedia to speak of since 2005. I would suggest that you should remind yourself of WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA before you start ranting at me (per here, and escalating to an outright attack here when it is apparent that you haven't actually bothered to read qualifications as to the problem at hand. Please try to reacquaint yourself with the art of discussion as opposed to abuse! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 01:49, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:52, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
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