User talk:Cnilep/Archive/January 2009 - June 2009

Culture
Hi, until a few days ago this article was a total trainwreck. I just did a major overhaul, although I believe I was pretty conservative: I cut all the redundancies, any material that was fringe or unrelated, and then tried to reorganize what was left so that distinct points of view or approaches were explicit. It still needs a lot of work (I explain all this in more detail on the article talk page, bottom). I created a section on "American Anthropology" but I am thinking perhaps that should be renamed "cultural anthropology." Because one thing I did not do - but which I believe is important - was to create a new section on "culture and language." But I am not qualified to write such a section. I am hoping you can, or at least make a start of it. I was thinking of a section that says something about how in human evolution culture and language coevolved; in what ways culture and language are related, and in what ways they are not, how linguists think of culture, maybe some basic stuff on ethnolinguistics and sociolinguistics with links to the real articles. Well, I hope you will consider it. Please? Thanks, Slrubenstein  |  Talk 21:17, 21 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid I won't have time to write anything substantive in the near future, but I added a list of quotes to Talk:Culture around which such a section might be built. Cnilep (talk) 18:59, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Slrubenstein  |  Talk 17:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Meaning (philosophy of language)
Good suggestion, and should have been painfully obvious to all of us (I think I referred to Philogo in my comments, but I see you mentioned it first). J L G 4 1 0 4 21:42, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

February 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page Talk:Dude has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. miquonranger03 (talk) 15:37, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * See my comments on Talk:Dude. Cnilep (talk) 15:45, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Code-switching
I undid your change, but I've altered things more, so that the problems there to begin with are hopefully improved (although it still has some way to go). Let me know what you think. Licqua (talk) 23:39, 14 March 2009 (UTC)


 * See discussion on Talk:Code-switching. Cnilep (talk) 00:31, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I see no difference in meaning between the article on Code-switching and that of Code mixing. Licqua (talk) 18:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Prestige
Hi, Cnilep! Since you left a rating on the prestige page, would you mind including some comments as well? I am planning to continue working on the page, and while I am well aware of weaknesses in certain areas, I'd like to know what some other editors thought as well, so that I can make it as helpful an article as possible. James McBride (talk) 19:39, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the comments. They will be very helpful. James McBride (talk) 22:06, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Just in case you haven't had had had had had had had had had had had enough...
I'm hoping to keep the conversation about this article active and avoid the usual fleeing from a topic that takes place after an AfD has closed. There was much talk about merging this article but little agreement on where to merge it to. Therefore I am informing everyone who participated in the debate of the ongoing conversation here in order to bring this matter to a close sometime in our lifetimes. Beeblebrox (talk) 03:07, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Zero to merger proposal
Hi, I left a comment regarding your merger proposal at Talk:Zero to. Thanks, Jafeluv (talk) 10:32, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Linguistic relativity
Hi, since it seems we are the only ones to care about the article on the sapir-Whorf hypothesis I'd like your input to my proposed move/rename and also your ideas for improving the content. I have a feeling the current version I wrote lacks a lot more about the actual content of the principle and that they might read the article without actually knowing what linguistic relativity is. ideas about how this could be mended would be appreciated. I am thinking about adding some content sections such as "Universalism vs. Relativism" describing the implications of both view points, a section on "thought and language" describing the different advances in the study of the relation between different cognitive activities and language and a section on "Conceptualization and language". What do you think?·Maunus· ƛ · 15:08, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

 * Thanks. I feel kinda warm and fuzzy. Cnilep (talk) 00:43, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Sub-category for 'Culture articles needing translation from Japanese Wikipedia'
Many (perhaps most?) of the articles in Category:Culture articles needing translation from Japanese Wikipedia relate to Manga. I can - with some effort - translate articles from Japanese, but I'm not a manga Otaku. I thought it would be keen to have a subcategory just for manga, but I couldn't figure out where to propose this, so I tried to create Category:Manga articles needing translation from Japanese Wikipedia. It's pretty clear, though, that I don't know what I'm doing. Help? Cnilep (talk) 21:25, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, you just never added the category to the article, 4koma. I added it for you. Is there anything else you need? -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 21:36, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, I see. I thought the template would add it to the category, but it seems I need to add the category by hand? I think I'm still missing something here. Cnilep (talk) 21:51, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Only the Category:Culture articles needing translation from Japanese Wikipedia. -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 22:31, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've got it: The template needs to be edited to add a topic switch. Only admins can edit the template. Thank you for your advice, Mikemoral. Cnilep (talk) 00:31, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

adminhelp I have added a suggestion to Template talk:Expand Japanese that the switch topic=manga be added. Is there a better way to make this request so that admins might see it? Cnilep (talk) 17:32, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Placing editprotected on the template's talk page is the preferred method, although I'll take a look now. If it's too involved, I'll tag it myself for someone else to look at. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 19:03, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Great, thank you for your help and for the advice. Cnilep (talk) 19:06, 7 June 2009 (UTC)


 * You can use editprotected to alert admins to such requests on talk pages. In this case, I'd do it but I do not think it's a good idea. Mangas are actually covered by the "culture" topic switch and I do not think that we should change the template to use topics that other similar templates do not use, at least not without discussing it first. I suggest you raise such a discussion, maybe at WT:JAPAN. Regards  So Why  19:12, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you. At your suggestion, I have begun a discussion at WT:JAPAN. Cnilep (talk) 19:37, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Re: Henry M. Dawes
Hi! Did I do something wrong? The user who added the material explained here that the source is in public domain, and I assumed good faith and removed the copyvio notice. You're right that I should have added a citation specifying the source; I've done it here. How should I add the documentation about the souce's public domain status? Sorry for the inconvenience. Jafeluv (talk) 20:23, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

RGS Worcester and The Alice Ottley School
Hi ! An article you have been involved with has been tagged by its local parent project as needing either a little attention to  style, updating,  or further development. If you can help with these minor issues please see RGS Worcester and The Alice Ottley School.--Kudpung (talk) 08:18, 22 June 2009 (UTC)