User talk:Gilgamesh~enwiki/Archive 18

Gnuboy listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Gnuboy. Since you had some involvement with the Gnuboy redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 02:02, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Rifka


A tag has been placed on Rifka requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Gnuboy
I've closed Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2018_October_22 as "delete all". Since you participated in the discussion as a substantial contributor to both Gnuboy and the article, I've moved the page history of Gnuboy to your userspace at User:Gilgamesh~enwiki/Gnuboy.

Also, would you like some help in archiving your talk page? I saw the "archives" section at the top of your user talk but all the archives are empty. Deryck C. 11:40, 30 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Understood. And yeah, my talk page has gotten out of hand.  I guess I would appreciate the help with archiving. - Gilgamesh (talk) 18:01, 30 October 2018 (UTC)


 * It appears the old talk pages were moved to my updated userspace, but the links have not, which is why they're red links. - Gilgamesh (talk) 18:03, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Talk page archiving
I've fixed the archive page structure and links, mostly by switching to the standard format involving archives and aan. I've also queued up a bot to put all threads older than a year into new archives for you. Let's see whether it works when the bot runs again (which should be in the next 24 hours).

User:Gilgamesh~enwiki/Template:Talk is mostly redundant now. Would you want me to deprecate it altogether for you, or keep it as a wrapper so that you can add header notices into it in the future? Deryck C. 12:29, 20 November 2018 (UTC)


 * The bot did exactly what I hope it'd do. Your talk page should be nice and serviceable now. Thank you User:Σ for the lovely bot! Deryck C. 10:36, 21 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much! As for your question about User:Gilgamesh~enwiki/Template:Talk, I don't know.  It's been years since I manually archived my talk and I forget what's what. - Gilgamesh (talk) 19:41, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Category:Volcanism of the Mediterranean has been nominated for discussion
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Nomination of Mizrahi Hebrew for deletion
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Nomination for deletion of Template:C-mh
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Proposed deletion of Vegelate


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Nomination of Marvin Goldstein for deletion
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Category:Muslim Zionists has been nominated for discussion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Geoshitties


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 * Seriously, I'm shocked that redirect still existed. I must have created it, like...a decade and a half ago or something.  I never even considered it vandalism at the time, because not only was GeoCities still around (it closed in 2009 outside Japan), but the pejorative nickname was one I frequently heard for it.  I mean, at the time I thought a pejorative name redirect was as good as any other, except that it takes a naive and/or immature mind to think people will seriously search for it under that name. - Gilgamesh (talk) 07:22, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia Hebrew script templates has been nominated for discussion
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help with Irish name
Hi Gilgamesh,

I was wondering if you could help me with Bébinn / Bebhionn. Taking the syllables separately, I get, but I don't know if the second syll reduces to schwa. Or if the two spellings Bébinn and Bebhionn are actually equivalent.

Please ping me if you respond. Thanks, — kwami (talk) 12:16, 10 March 2020 (UTC)


 * As happy as I would be to help you, I'm don't actually know enough about Irish to help you in that particular area. Sorry. - Gilgamesh (talk) 22:15, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

Thanks anyway! — kwami (talk) 00:42, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Category:Hebrew punctuation has been nominated for merging
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"Goidelic" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Hebrew word templates


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Marshallese name of the Marshalls
Hi Gilgamesh,

Wondering, is the local short name just "Ṃajeḷ", or do you need another word with it? (Please ping me.)

Thanks — kwami (talk) 22:18, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Reference. - Gilgamesh (talk) 01:13, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! — kwami (talk) 01:18, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

"Yeshayahu" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Sad news
I don't know if you have heard about it (I only recently heard it from a fellow linguist): Steve Trussel passed away in 2020. This is the only info I found on the web. –Austronesier (talk) 15:05, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oh, no... :( - Gilgamesh (talk) 20:56, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

"Omos" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Terminology
This is by no means a big deal and I mean absolutely no disrespect, but just in case people are too nice to point it out, another quirk you seem to have is your use of geminate(d). It is only consonants that may be single or geminate(d). Vowels are either short or long. Nardog (talk) 14:46, 11 May 2021 (UTC)


 * It's probably just a communication quirk, and I always have those in some form or another. I'm aware that I generally have quirks, but I don't notice most of them unless someone points them out, and I can't keep track of all of them in a timely or efficient manner, so doing so is not the best use of my time or energy.  In this case, I see ⟨ː⟩ and my mind associates it with gemination, regardless of whether it involves consonants or vowels.  No one has ever taken issue with me saying "geminated vowels" before (at least enough to comment on it), nor have I ever really stopped to notice if anyone else doesn't say "geminated vowels," so it strikes me as a non-issue.  I'll settle for an adequate level of communication.
 * Also, in the case of Icelandic, "short" and "long" vowels traditionally refer to those without or with acute diacritics (a e i o u y vs. á é í ó ú ý, and also historically "short" ö and historically "long" æ if one were to nitpick). But as we know, that stopped being an audible duration distinction long ago, as the "long" vowels all either diphthongized or changed in fundamental vowel quality.  Now, "short" vowels, "long" vowels and traditional diphthongs (au ei ey) alike can each have a short or long duration, and the longer duration is what I settle for describing as "geminated," because it can be distinguished with ⟨ː⟩.  It's good enough in a crunch.
 * Now, if my communication quirks ever, for whatever reason, were to become a significant barrier in the writing and wording of articles themselves, then my fellow editors can assist me by improving on the edits directly, just as we normally assist each other in general. In a talk page, the quirkiness of my wording can't occupy the forefront of my attention, which must be reserved for the cogent discussion points themselves. - Gilgamesh (talk) 16:04, 11 May 2021 (UTC)