User talk:Eldin raigmore

Administrators: I would like my user page semi-protected, preferably permanently. All the vandalism has come from one anonymous user. Here is information about that vandalism: Revision as of 16:48, 10 May 2009 200.61.163.235 + Pseudonym for a pseudointellectual. How apt!

If somebody updates my own self-identification with an uncivil personal attack I want them to sign it. Eldin raigmore (talk) 21:33, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Eldin raigmore (talk) 21:33, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Generally pages are only semi-protected if they receive a lot of vandalism over a short period of time. One bad edit probably won't get an admin to protect your page. In the future, use the template when you have a request to edit a semiprotected page. To request for something to be protected you'd post on WP:RFPP. See WP:SEMI concerning policy for semi-protection. Killiondude (talk) 01:12, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks; I didn't know about the tlx, nor about the WP:RFPP.

I think all User pages should be automatically semi-protected as a matter of course, though.

Eldin raigmore (talk) 18:43, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Should also be in Category:Biology and pharmacology of chemical elements ?
Shouldn't Hydrogen also be in Category:Biology and pharmacology of chemical elements ? Eldin raigmore (talk) 18:10, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Eldin: be WP:BOLD and add these category tags to elements found in biology yourself! It's not a controverial edit.  S  B Harris 02:03, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

User FYI
FYI, Whimemsz account was deleted when becoming BentRedNewt, which now have also been deleted, but the User Talk pages ended up with new material even after those accounts were deleted. That user now have opened a new account as   and you may communicate to that user directly via the new account. However, I believe   is taking an extended wikibreak to concentrate on academics. CJLippert (talk) 20:36, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * no, I don't know. -- m:drini 05:17, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Whimemsz asked me not to publish any connection between him and that other username CJLippert mentioned. --Eldin raigmore (talk) 21:16, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

perfect
Hi,

Do you have any refs for "retrospective" aspect/tense? I've only ever seen perfect and anterior, which is definitely used as a synonym for perfect in much of the lit. I don't care for either "anterior" or "perfect", so this would be nice to have. Also, any refs for anterior being used for past tense in a relative-tense system? It would be nice to have dab'ing terms for rel. tense. kwami (talk) 20:11, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I have plenty of refs for retrospective aspect (, for example) and retrospective tense (, for example, although it also includes some "spurious hits"); and also plenty of refs for "anterior" as meaning "relative past" in a relative-tense system (, and, for instance, show several).
 * shows several books that use "anterior" as a near-synonym for "perfect". and  have several books by Bybee et al in which they decide "to use anterior in place of perfect"; but they don't say they're exact synonyms.
 * I believe that if we use anterior to mean relative past, then it makes sense to say perfect (or, as I prefer, retrospective) encodes "the effects of a state/situation/process/event/action, which took place anterior to some more-topical time, whose effects are relevant at that more-topical time".  That would mean that everything "perfect" or "retrospective" was also necessarily "anterior", but not necessarily vice-versa.  So I concede that they are closely-related ideas.  But I think it's a shame to screw up the definition of "anterior".  "Retrospective" is a better term for "perfect" than either "perfect" or "anterior"; Comrie uses it that way.
 * Thanks for asking! Eldin raigmore (talk) 16:51, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Perfect is not a tense, so if anterior is defined as a tense, they can't be synonyms. I am familiar with ANT through Bybee & some other work, but am certainly prepared to take Comrie's prefs into account. (I don't have his tense volume, only Aspect.) Especially since I feel ANT is a counter-intuitive word for PERF, while it's an intuitive term for REL.PST. I haven't had a chance to look through the refs yet, but we'd have ANT/POST for REL.PST/REL.FUT, vs. RETRO/PROSP for NPRS-affecting-PRS perfect/"gonna", right? That seems a very reasonable setup. kwami (talk) 22:19, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Exactly so. If Wikipedia editors were allowed to use "this is what makes sense to me" as a valid reference, that's what it would be.  Just as "retrospective" is "an ANT event whose effects are still relevant in the simultaneous (REL.PRS)", "prospective" would be "a POST event whose prequelae are already relevant in the simultaneous".  But we need to get it from two or more reliable, reputable secondary sources. (Right?).  I don't have any of those books; I've borrowed most of them in the past, but don't have them right now.  But Wikipedia doesn't have to be perfected (no pun intended) by next week. Eldin raigmore (talk) 21:43, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

CHON
You may want to take a look at CHON, an article you have previously edited and commented on the Talk page. Cheers. N2e (talk) 18:33, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

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Incomplete references
A few years ago, you inserted references to ‘Hutchisson 1986’, ‘Capell 1971’ and ‘Beaumont 1976’ at Grammatical number. Could you please complete them with titles at least, and preferrably other details such as first name, publisher, perhaps place of publication &c.?
 * ― 200.219.132.105 (talk) 19:51, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry it took so long for me to notice your question.
 * •Hutchisson, Don. 1986. Sursurunga pronouns and the special uses of quadral number. In: Wiesemann, Ursula (ed.) Pronominal Systems. (Continuum 5). Tübingen: Narr. 217-255.
 * Capell, Arthur, 1971. The Austronesian Languages of Australian New Guinea. In: Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics
 * Beaumont, Clive H. 1976 Austronesian Languages: New Ireland. In: Stephen A. Wurm (ed.) Austronesian Languages: New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study II (Pacific Linguistics, Series C, no. 39) 387-97. Canberra:
 * Eldin raigmore (talk) 23:38, 20 February 2014 (UTC)