User talk:Mahagaja/Archive 10

Chinese templates
I see you changed Hanyu Pinyin to Pinyin in the templates for Chinese words. That's find, but to keep everything uniform, please go through and change it in all of the templates if you're going to do that. --LakeHMM 00:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

A list of related templates can be found at Template:zh-all. --LakeHMM 00:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

List of Proof-read requests on the de-en translation page
Hi Angr, I'm still learning the ropes and just saw that you did a lot of list cleanup today. I had totally missed the previous tanslations archive before :(. I've done several translations now but did my first proof-read yesterday.  My question is this:  After I proofread the article I took it off the list thinking this is what we are supposed to do so we know what's been done and what hasn't.  Now, having found the archives, I'm not so sure anymore it was supposed to come off, unless the archives include only articles that still need proof reading.  If the list includes all, whether proofread or not, how do we know which articles still need proofreading and which don't (other than checking around and clicking on user talk pages)?  Please let me know and I'll put it back on the list if it's supposed to stay on.  Thanks for your help. --Mmounties 14:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think there are rules about what is and isn't supposed to go into the archives. I just stuck a bunch of stuff there because the de-en translation page is huge and needs cutting down, and those things were more than a month old. I doubt anyone ever looks at them anyway; they're just there because you aren't supposed to permanently delete things. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Angr/talk 14:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

THanks
...for getting rid of those backslashes. Sorry! Joey Q. McCartney 10:57, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Nickname sig thing
Thanks for alerting me. I think it's fixed now. Bhumiya/Talk 21:46, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Accent on Ìmola
You are mistaken when you say the "grave accent is never used" on Italian placenames. Indeed, in many Italian reference works (such as atlases and dictionaries), it is standard to show stress when it is not on the penult (or when the word ends in two vowels, e.g. -ia) using a grave or acute. In principle, the grave is for open vowels and the acute for closed, but this distinction is not followed systematically. Please contribute to the discussion at User talk:Macrakis/Italian accents. (I suppose there could be a better place for it...) --Macrakis 15:57, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Wondering why this useful template was deleted? I often use it to subst long lists of languages, and was just trying to use it...but it no longer exists. It saves alot of effort. If you don't have any objections I will undelete it. JonMoore 00:34, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * It was deleted by consensus. It was considered not to be useful enough to keep, a drain on the servers, and not the correct use of template name space. Please just type out French, English, Spanish, etc. Angr/ talk 06:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You can also just use English (language) . --Army1987 20:27, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Not every language article has a redirect with "language" in parentheses though. English (language) redirects to English language, but Galatian (language) is just a red link; you have to use Galatian . Angr/ talk 20:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Database dumps
Hi Agr, that was a good question you asked on the missing articles/de talk page. How often do they do such dumps? (I've started to go through the list when I need a change of pace and eliminated some of the ones only listed there because of missing links.) Did I understand correctly that the last dump didn't even include all those they normally include because it would have been ridiculously many? Btw, I'm really grateful for the layout conventions on the pages across the wikis because it enabled me to, while I'm at it, to add the en: interwiki link to the other language articles as well that were linked from the German article. So now, after just a short time, I can say that I've modified cyrillic, japanese and other pages written in to me incomprehensible characters. :) Keep up the good work.  I really like what we all got accomplished last week.  --Mmounties 01:08, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know how often they do the database dumps. I'm not sure it's even organized. I too am under the impression the last dump excluded pages in German + three other languages excluding English, because there were over 2000 of them. And I too have enjoyed adding en: links to languages I can't read, thinking "Hmm.. this must be Edit... this must be Save page... I hope... let's see what happens..." Angr/ talk 06:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

German Wikipedians' notice board
I know you are not German, but if you have some time, would you mind having a look at this brand new notice board? I think it could be used to either start or stand in place of a WikiProject Germany, and to gather some people to revive Portal:Germany. And of course it should be used by any Wikipedia editor who needs Germany-related help or a German opinion on something. I am currently trying to make sure it does not become a rallying point for German POV pushing. Any help would be appreciated at Wikipedia talk:German Wikipedians' notice board. I also do not know all that many German editors here: can you point me to some experienced German Wikipedians that might be interested in helping? Thank you, Kusma (討論) 02:40, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Currently we are moving toward German-speaking already and are starting to include Swiss and Austrian topics, so de-N is the right place, but I don't really want to spam all these people (there's just too many of us!). I will just try to ask all the German-speaking people I know and those I happen to interact with to come to our board and to spread the word. Kusma (討論) 05:49, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Noticeboard
Hi, I'm trying to find someone who might help us get the looks to work on all browsers. In the mean time, I'd like for you to take a look at how it looks in your browser coded so that the To Do's box shows next to the flags. Ok with you? As long as we don't take out the TOC that wouldn't look too bad in IE. --Mmounties 20:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

blanking
ya...that was not what I was going for...I was having a lot of troubles w/ WP and that appears to have been one of them. :-\ Thanks for rolling it back, I'll hafta go see what else might have gotten mucked up, now that the servers appear to be back up. Tom e rtalk 23:35, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Lord of the Dance
Well done! - you beat me to it on the same grounds.... Tyrenius 00:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

What exactly do you mena, "stop adding original research to this page"? The added text about "Lord of the Dance" that you last deleted was well-sourced with four quoted links and well-balanced, with two sources on each side. It's only "original research" in the sense that all of Wikipedia is "original" -- it was written by someone with information to add, documented by external sources; and without it, the existing page for "Lord of the Dance" is less complete, omitting the highly controversial nature of the hymn. --69.76.70.190 04:05, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You're right, I'm sorry. I didn't look carefully enough the second time and thought you had simply reverted to your previous version, which was unsourced. I must say I never perceived the verse as remotely anti-Semitic, and that particular verse was a large part of the reason I had the hymn at my own wedding -- which, since I was marrying another man, would probably also have been called "a shame" by certain Christian "holy people". Angr/ talk 06:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response -- and for not only restoring, but also improving, what I'd added. I'm a novice at drafting appropriately formatted Wikipedia material, and I appreciate the guidance. --69.76.70.190 14:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! You might consider picking a user name and logging in, as that will make your edits easier to follow, and will reduce the likelihood that someone thinks you're just trolling and reverts you. Angr/ talk 15:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

tonal language
Hey dere. A new user created Tonal Languages. When you get a few free minutes, could you please review my comments here, here and here? Cheers, Tom e rtalk 02:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Thoughts
With Userpages getting vandalized often, perhaps Wikipedia ought to just have it where only users can edit their pages. I figured I'd say this here since your page was a victim of many attacks. 144.126.161.43 03:50, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

a Template in german
I've seen in you user page that you speak very well the german. Can you check this page for me to know if I made big mistakes..

As you live in germany, if you can't check if for me can you ask someone from the german wiki to do it ?

Thanks for your help, Frombenny 13:43, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

British video
It is the third item of February 12 at current events. Get-back-world-respect 16:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for pointing that out. I had overlooked it. (I'm in Berlin too, BTW.) Angr/ talk 16:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, you are into languages? I have a language learning project on my website. We are planning to reprogram it more decently soon. Get-back-world-respect 16:41, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * A little. I have a degree in linguistics and work as a translator. Angr/ talk 16:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

German words
Cheers! --Malthusian (talk) 17:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Hesse-Hanau
Hi Angr, I just removed a request for expansion from the Noticeboard (Hesse-Hanau) because a search for Hanau hit an article about that town. I'd like to tag the sub-stub Hesse-Hanau for deletion. How do I do that? Thanks for your help. --Mmounties 18:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * There is something like a principality of Hesse-Hanau, see Hanau and especially Hanauisch-Indien. However, I agree completely with the redirect as for now. To expand this would still be an interesting topic. Kusma (討論) 20:07, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, there was a Graf (count) of Hanau, so his lands would be called a Grafschaft (county), but even from the pages you pointed me to I'm not seeing evidence that there was a state called Hesse-Hanau distinct from the town of Hanau in the same way that the state of Hesse-Kassel was distinct from the city of Kassel. It would definitely be interesting to add more about the counts of Hanau to Hanau, but I'm still not convinced there ever needs to be a separate page called Hesse-Hanau. Angr/ talk 20:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I am not certain about the territory of Hesse-Hanau, but it was large enough to be split between Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt. The incoming link from List of British Forces in the American Revolutionary War shows that there might be something. However, I'm all for following the German example (as you did): the history of Hanau (even if it was reichsunmittelbar at some point) should be in Hanau. Kusma (討論) 21:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Image:Protoglots.png
Thanks for giving feedback on Image:Protoglot.png. Yes, there are a few mistakes on it. Tajik was spelled as Tadihik; and Manx Gaelic was placed under Iranian language. So, I have made correction to those mistakes and uploaded a new Image:Protoglots.png (Ayersalisa 15:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC))

GRMA, a Antaine! Dála an scéil, céard a tharla do do leathanach baile?

Hope you come back sooner
Hope you come back sooner. ;) Take care! &mdash; Nightst a  llion  (?) 09:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to see you're out - Hope you're back a LOT sooner than June
... and hope all is well. --Mmounties 18:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

oh my
well, I certainly hope you're back before June, although I'd prefer "before March" :-p. I hope I'm not out of line by asking if you'd care to comment here. Get well soon ;-) Tom e rtalk  00:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, guys, for the words of support. Of course I should have known I couldn't really stay away that long. But I really am busy working on my Habilitation, so I'll be less active then I have been until it's done. Angr/ talk 14:37, 26 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Welcome back! &mdash; Nightst a  llion  (?) 11:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Angr&curid=1336737&diff=41316383&oldid=41012392

Same thing happened to me this month.

→ ''' P. Mac Uidhir''' (t)  (c)  17:47, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Speedy on Alicia Simmons
Given the total number of edits, even though many of them were vandalism, you might have let the deletion vote run for more than 2 hours. Basically without a decent vote, the page is going to get recreated (not by me - I hasten to add) and I'm going to have to revert it six times a day. With a decent vote period at least there are grounds for deleting it on sight in the future.

My vote would have been delete. Anyway. Megapixie 23:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)