User talk:Misha bb

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Where do you live?
I heard your Sami. Do you mind stating where you live? I am curious. Ffda (talk) 22:52, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oslo --Misha bb (talk) 13:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Semi Langauges
Hi Misha, I am doing a report on the linguisticethnicities of Europe, including the non-Indo-European ones such as the Uralic Family of langauges. Where did you obtain the source for your map of Sami languages in Scandanavia? - Indo Historian —Preceding comment was added at 19:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, actually it was already on wikipedia commons. I just altered it a bit: I made the municipality borders more accurate, added some new municipalities in Norway where Sámi has gotten official status, and removed one municipality that was erroneously featured a having Sámi as an official language. I do not know who entered the original map, but it is a fairly common picture of the "borders" between the Sámi languages. Any book or website dealing with Sámi languages will probably have a similar map showing the Sámi language regions. I've never seen any map highlighting the municipalities anywhere else than on Wiki, though.--Misha bb (talk) 09:16, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Image:Big_Collage_Sami.JPG listed for deletion
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 * Ok, I'll delete the pic and come back with a collage that consists of pics that are UNDISPUTABLY free. If this means that two such central cultural figures as those depicted in #4 and #5 are not taken into the collage because of this, though... Well, I think it's quite a shame. But I don't want to spend time discussing this for eternity, so... --Misha bb (talk) 21:44, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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University of the Arctic/Selected picture/10, etc.
Hi. What are you trying to do with all these image pages you're creating? --Dynaflow  babble  14:15, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * What I am trying to do is create a portal, which has a "selected image" field feturing relevant images to the University of the Arctic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Misha bb (talk • contribs) 14:19, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, okay. I was just curious.  Thanks.   --Dynaflow   babble  14:25, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Image galleries go on the Commons not here. And we certainly do not create a separate article for each image. And I see no need for any sort of "portal" for a single university. &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 19:06, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I see you have already created the portal. Portal:University of the Arctic/Selected panorama looks all right. I suggest you create Portal:University of the Arctic/Selected pictures to match. But I can see absolutely no justification for separate Portal:University of the Arctic/Selected panorama/1, etc. and Portal:University of the Arctic/Selected picture/1, etc. articles. How do other portals handle this? &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 19:19, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

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Swedish Sami municipalities
Hello Misha ! On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Corrected_sami_map_4.PNG - what source(s) do you have for the municipalities on Swedish side ? Just curious.

best regards from Oyvind, also in Oslo
 * Hello Øyvind. There's an overview on http://minoritet.prod3.imcms.net/1015


 * Yes, I found the source there. Made an updated map to nn-wiki, as municipality no 18 in Sweden has joined the area.


 * Great!

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Wanna chase some girls?
Hi Misha bb. If you're interested in continuing your wikirampage with an article on Að Elta Stelpur, e-mail me and I'll send you my paper on it. Not peer-reviewed, technically, but included in the Proceedings of the XIIIth Board Game Studies Colloquium (2010), so not completely shabby. Cheers. Phil wink (talk) 23:13, 6 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi! It've been thinking about doing so. As well as doing some cleanup work on Dablo. But now that the holidays are over, time is suddenly running short, and January is packed with work and travel. I'll have to stop the rampage for a while, but Ađ elta stelpur and Dablo are next on my list when I get time. I'll be happy to read the article, though! The only source I have for Ađ elta stelpur is Bell's book (or at least the parts of it available on Google Scholar).Misha bb (talk) 11:56, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * I plead ignorance. The sources don't indicate if we're talking about the elder or the younger.Misha bb (talk) 11:51, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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