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Wiktionary:Spelling variants in entry names
[This section was previously erroneously placed on my user page. Having belatedly noticd it, I have moved it to here] Enginear (talk) 02:05, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Re: "Are you aware of the sub-thread Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Beer parlour, and the thread of which it forms part Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Beer_parlour?" &mdash; Thanks for the heads-up; I was not aware of it. I responded to it at Beer_parlour and the policypage in question. &mdash; SMcCandlish &#91;talk&#93; &#91;contrib&#93; ツ 21:17, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Holy Spirit
Hi, I moved that material to the Holy Spirit page. And please note that per Reverting


 * If you make a change which is good-faith reverted, do not simply reinstate your edit - leave the status quo up.

So you should leave that material out to see if you get consensus for adding it. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 14:54, 25 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I have never, ever, reinstated one of my edits after being reverted, unless I have altered it to comply fully, IMO, with the criticism made of it. Nor have I ever had two successive edits reverted, except by you on this occasion (though I suppose you might call your action a move, rather than a revert). Enginear (talk) 21:02, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

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 * A useful prompt from a useful bot! Now corrected. Enginear (talk) 19:41, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

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I seem to be making a habit of this! Corrected. Enginear (talk) 18:21, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

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Sorry, I think we need to tidy the bird pages I agree - the Malaconotoidea is a name coined for this grouping, for which there is more evidence every year or two with new work. Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:40, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * For the record, I have corrected apex and User:GoingBatty has corrected kingpin, but all the links to boom were intended, since until someone writes the appropriate article, we can only link to the appropriate section of the disambig page, as I have done (since the disambig page gives a short but useful definition, I believe it is still worth a link, rather than leaving a redlink or nothing at all). Enginear (talk) 18:45, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Zoe (talking and emoting head)


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 * Text of article follows, copied for my own interest in case of deletion:

"Zoe" is an innovative talking and emoting head produced by a collaboration between researchers at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering and the Toshiba's Cambridge research laboratory.

The digital, two-dimensional head is programmed to talk words typed in, with both visual and audio effects determined by any combination of six different primary emotions. The corpus used was video recordings created of Zoë Lister saying about 7,000 sentences in six different emotions - Happy, Sad, Tender, Angry, Afraid and Neutral. The prototype's user interface not only allows different proportions of these emotions to be mixed, for example, very sad, fairly angry and a little afraid, but also allows alteration of the pitch, speed and depth of the voice itself.

On 19 March 2013, the research team reportedly said, "by combining these levels, it becomes possible to pre-set or create almost infinite emotional combinations. For instance, combining happiness with tenderness and slightly increasing the speed and depth of the voice makes it sound friendly and welcoming. A combination of speed, anger and fear makes Zoe sound as if she is panicking." They say this "allows for a level of emotional subtlety which has not been possible in other avatars like Zoe until now."

The coding has been kept compact enough to fit in the memory of a smartphone, and the team are said to be working on a system that would allow people to upload their own faces and voices in a few seconds, enabling them to "customise and personalise their own, emotionally realistic, digital assistants".

They are exploring other possible applications, working, already, with a school for autistic and deaf children, where the technology could be used to help pupils to “read” emotions and lip-read. In a trial, volunteers obtained via a crowd-sourcing website, successfully recognised the emotion in 77% of cases, even though other cues, for example hand gestures, were missing.

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 * Done, and spelling corrected. Enginear (talk) 18:03, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Jeeves/Bertie
I've actually made over 60,000 edits over the years, for what it's worth. Instinct from experience shouldn't really count for much here, but I'd expect articles about works of fiction to refer to characters in the same way that the works themselves did. A surnames-only policy would look odd applied to subjects where a character's surname was barely used in the work itself - we don't refer to the protagonist as "Pirrip" throughout the Great Expectations article.

It seems like an oversight that the manual of style doesn't seem to address this (I can only find a couple of series-specific British television WikiProjects saying "Names should be used in a context suitable to their role in the episode", with protagonists and neutral characters being referred to by forenames or nicknames, and antagonists and officials by their surnames). Perhaps it's worth raising the subject at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Writing about fiction? --McGeddon (talk) 14:24, 23 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Just to let you know that I've raised this myself at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Writing_about_fiction. Feel free to join in. --McGeddon (talk) 19:44, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Done Enginear (talk) 21:28, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

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 * Corrected -- actually they were supposed to be links to Wiktionary, and I had left out the wikt: Enginear (talk) 09:11, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

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What I believe to be the legal treatment of Muslims in UK and Europe
I am writing this from memory, without checking facts, but I am fairly certain that If anyone is sure I'm wrong about any of these points, please say. (And my apologies if I take a long time to answer, as I'm going through a busy patch in the real world.) Enginear (talk) 06:55, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * There are no normal "no-go" areas for police in the UK, although there were a few small areas from which the police made a tactical withdrawal for a few hours during the 2011 riots, until reinforcements arrived.
 * There are no areas in the UK where sharia law is tolerated for criminal matters, although for civil matters, if both parties agree to do so, then rather than going to court, they may use an arbitration service which might, if they wish, work according to any religious laws, eg Jewish, Muslim or even Christian, provided that the penalties do not involve any illegal act, eg wounding or bigamy
 * In the UK, claimed religious or ethnic practices which are illegal in UK, eg female genital mutilation, honour killings, forced marriage, abusive relationships including abusive parenting, pedophilia, human trafficking, carrying kirpans (unless they are small and blunt) and even supplying marijuana are all prosecuted without any fear or favour (although until that was clarified recently, greater leeway was sometimes allowed)
 * Discrimination on grounds of sex, sexuality, race, disability, etc is illegal in all public buildings/spaces and also at work and in education, even if it is claimed not to disadvantage anyone -- so, for example, enforcement of seating segregated by sex or marital status is illegal
 * Veils are permitted to be banned where they affect safety or make work less effective, so schoolteachers and care workers may not cover their faces (possibly so deaf pupils can lip read, but I'm not certain of the reasoning)
 * Within weeks of a tip-off that Muslim governors were pressurizing head teachers in what turned out to be only a handful of schools in Birmingham, the issues were rectified
 * Within days of opening, a UK Muslim faith school which tried to segregate pupils by sex and teach only "halal" viewpoints was shut down
 * Within days of hearing that Muslim men near the East London Mosque were verbally abusing women whom they felt were not appropriately covered, a few years back, the practice was stamped out by the police, who were backed by the Mosque leaders
 * After years of a laissez faire attitude to those who preached jihad, or any other violence or intolerance, English law has been tightened about as far as it can be without outlawing many Jewish and Christian preachers too, and anecdotally, seems to be enforced.
 * I cannot be so certain about conditions in France, but I would be surprised if they are significantly different, and all the other Western European countries are likely to be similar. I know much less about Eastern Europe, so can't comment.

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Diff where most of the useful info re PrivateEye was removed
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