User talk:Moilleadóir

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Irish names
I'm curious about your decision to move O'Siochfhradha to Ó Siochfhradha. I don't consider myself an expert, but I think its more common to use an O' instead of Ó in an Irish name. Seabhcan 22:41, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * It's only more common because it's more common to use the Anglified form of the name. O'Sugrue would be fine, but it just looks wrong to use an apostrophe with the Irish form of the name - it's misleading (i.e. there's no abbreviation happening) and a misspelling since the O needs it's accent.  I'm sure some people do use apostrophes with Irish forms of names, but it shouldn't be encouraged.
 * Of course, if it was his choice to spell it that way, it would be right to honour that, but I very much doubt it was.


 * --Moilleadóir 05:38, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The [o:] is meant to be the same IPA character i.e. o with a length symbol afterwards. The Australian value of the vowel in 'born', 'sawn' is higher than [O:], closer to [o:]. The vowel in 'gone' has the same *quality* as 'Ron', but the same *quantity* as 'born'. Helps? --Kesuari 12:34, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Naming conventions (Arabic)
Greetings! Since you recently contributed to Arabic transliteration, I thought you might be interested in the following project: Naming conventions (Arabic). It's designed to create standards for Arabic transliteration to use on Wikipedia, to make it easier for users to find articles consistently. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 15:02, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Vicífhoclóir
Moilleadóir, a bhuachaill, conas 'tá? :) Is mise Alison, táim im' riarthóir anseo, ach d'aistrigh mé go dtí an Vicífhoclóir Gaeilge mar bhí sé beagnach bás. Agus anois, tá se saghas beo arís. Tá a lán obair le déanahm fós! :) Tá cuntas agat taobh ansin cheana! An maith leat cabhair a thabhairt dúinn? (pretty-please!) - Alis o n  ❤ 03:30, 15 September 2007 (UTC) (riarthóir sealadach, ga.wiktionary)

Fuzzy logic
I don't think you should have removed the link to Fuzzy Logic (album) at the top of Fuzzy logic. You said "There is a disambiguation page", but people who type in "fuzzy logic" (or "Fuzzy logic") will not see the disambiguation page (which is at "Fuzzy Logic"; I couldn't even find the disambiguation page at first), so they'd have no way to find the album from there. So I went ahead and put the link back in. Just a heads-up. - furrykef (Talk at me) 10:57, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Vicífhoclóir
Hi, I can hardly say no now after two such kind invites! Bláthnaid 13:16, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Yayy!!! We wore her down :) - A l is o n  ❤ 21:21, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

your complaint about delinking trivial chronological items
I refer to your posting at MOSNUM talk. Such linkings are, by any reasonable interpretation of MOS(NUM), a breach of the requirement that they add significantly to the readers' understanding of the topic. There are a whole bunch of reasons that they're undesirable, among the most important being that they dilute the likelihood that readers will attend to the high-value links. I'd like to know exactly why you feel so attached to the idea of not cleaning up what many people regard as a little cultural fixation among Wikis over the past few years. TONY  (talk)  01:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you very much indeed for the translation. Wonderful! I really must make an effort at learning some Irish or Gaelic, enough that I could translate stuff with a dictionary and grammar to hand, but my excuse until now has been that it isn't easy to learn either language here in Brussels. But I'll be moving back to Scotland soon, so no more excuses then. Thanks again and best wishes, Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:29, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Melbourne meetup
Hey all, just a reminder that there's a meetup tomorrow at 11am in North Melbourne. There are more details at the meetup page. Hope to see you tomorrow! SteveBot (talk) 04:48, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Yoruba language
Thanks for your note on my talk page. First, your edits have been helpful from a layout point of view. But the section has major issues; the focus on Arabic amounts to undue weight. See http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/paper1304.pdf for a bare overview of the sort if influence English has had on Yoruba. The loans in the article are of a very limited religious nature dealing with the Muslim minority, not with all speakers. The days of the week may seem secular, but are related to religious worship as well. Besides the proselytizing POV, the source is basically a fringe "scholar" published in self-promoting and or unverifiable works. So far as I can see this section is no different from, say, a Christian evangelical quoting essentially white supremacist fringe literature to show how Christian missionary work has expanded the vocabulary of Native American languages. At this point I am going to delete the section again as undue weight and problematic in regards to POV and especially the source. I am not averse to having a vocabulary or loanword section. But as it is we have a promotion of the views of Sheikh Dr. Abu-Abdullah Adelabu section. μηδείς (talk) 20:08, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Meetup invitation: Melbourne 26
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Changes to Islamic prophet infoboxes
Hi, I think it's a bad idea to make potentially controversial changes to articles en masse, without testing the water for disputes and establishing consensus. I've reverted your change in one of them and replied to a discussion about honorifics on another page. I trust that you will implement whatever consensus we reach in the other articles yourself. Thanks. Eperoton (talk) 23:18, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

For he's a jolly good fellow
I refer to your deletion of the Australian variation of "For he's a jolly good fellow" as "For she's a jolly good lassie. Notwithstanding that you have not heard of it, it is a traditional variation, particularly in Victoria that I am personally familiar with. I was able to source numerous examples of it from newspaper articles (Shepparton, Echuca area, Geelong, Fairfax media) and other sources from the 1940s to the present day. I selected three representative sources. I made the contribution anonymously only due to not being able to remember my credentials. I believe I have therefore addressed your fair criticism of the quality of the reference and have once more included this example of Australian cultural history in the article. Sinjut (talk) 18:38, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

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