User talk:BlakeALee

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Abui people has been accepted
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Women scientists
Hello, Thank you for your message. When I change WP Women scientists to WP Women writers it is because I do not think linguists, sociologists, economists or librarians are "scientists" in the same sense as physical scientists, life scientists, earth scientists or archaeologists. This I have done on many articles without any objection. You may want to enquire on the WP scientists talk page for some clarification of its scope.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 08:47, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

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 * Ok... If you scroll down the Abui language page as it currently is you can see that "Unknown glossing abbreviation(s)" appears as a frequent error. This is because the main source, (Kratochvíl 2007 A grammar of Abui: A Papuan language of Alor) uses many unconventional glossing abbreviations. As you can see from my edit history, I started putting code in to allow the reader to understand these glossing conventions one-by-one. This was tedious, so I switched to inserting all of the glossing conventions at the top of the page. I thought it was understood that the glossing conventions come from Kratochvíl 2007, since that is where the quoted examples inserted in the text come from.
 * If this is not allowed, do you have an alternate proposal for how to make it clear to the reader what all of Kratochvíl's glossing abbreviations mean, and to remove the "Unknown glossing abbreviation(s)" messages? BlakeALee (talk) 21:47, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I was following the "custom abbreviations" information listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Interlinear#Glossing_abbreviations. This is part of the code not seen while in regular article reading mode. But it is important that the reader be able to understand Kratochvíl's abbreviations, otherwise the quoted examples from Kratochvíl in the article are not very helpful. Since this is a linguistics article on a little-known language, we have to include actual text examples of the language, which means directly quoting published sources. BlakeALee (talk) 21:57, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I am going to undo my edit. Because of the way the copyright material is displayed, I think it will be okay. Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me. — Diannaa (talk) 23:24, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh great, thank you! BlakeALee (talk) 01:08, 18 November 2023 (UTC)

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