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 * Wiem, ze mozna laczyc IP z zarejestrowanym, wiec chyba tak. Ale nie jetem pewien jak: spytaj sie na Village Pump (technical) albo na WP:ANI (a najlepiej i tu, i tu).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 10:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

You disagree
Well i think in the interests of comity we should have a discussion in some other venue. I propose msn--Filll 12:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

discussing WP
WP is a good place to do it, &   centralize a discussion is convenient, and so I will avail myself of my colleague's invitation, and  will look here for a reply.

I see WP as providing a sort of index to knowledge -- not a repository of it, which is beyond any encyclopedia, not a summary of it, which needs experts such as on Citizendium, but an fully anotated hyperlinked index of where information is to be found. The role of the WP is the role of the journalist. We organize and report on as much of the world as possible. We have some unique advantages -- the variety of contributors, the potential for hyperlinks, the insistance on GFDL. We have some disadvantages--the lack of intellectual sophistication of many contributors, the stubbornness of others, the prejudices of everyone.

In order to keep this job finite it is necessary to set limits. i do not agree with those who think --quite literally--that every human being living or dead should have an article, and every school and building and group and recording and book and software. We record what is worth recording given our facilities. Most editors here do not have access to research libraries, and can therefore on many topics not be expected to do more than summarize other encyclopedias or textbooks--they cannot be expected to be able to gather all the published work and organize it. for other topics, especially those arisen in the last 8 or 10 years, they can, & the consequent emphasis on contemporary culture is appropriate.

The standards of documentation depend on the subject, and it is absurd to expect peer-reviewed formal sources for computer programs, and equally absurd to rely on newspapers for science. And both absurd & disruptive to treat them as equally open to criticism by the same standards and the same people.

My professional career has been organizing the formal documentation of science, in polemics and a little research in how to do it, and I know the limits of both scholarship and argument. DGG 02:35, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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 * che-yong) is a key concept in Chinese philosophy and other Far-Eastern philosophies Japanese philosophy, Korean philosophy, Vietnamese philosophy.
 * use the ti-yong schema for the analysis and explanation of deep relationships, was Wang Bi (226-249) in his commentary to Daodejing, chapter 22, when he discussed the [[metaphysics|

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Proposed deletion of The Klingon Way


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The Klingon Way
Not sure if you noticed, but you changed my comment. Please be more careful next time. This time I will fix it, but if repeated I will come to the conclusion this was in bad faith. BTW, I'm still waiting for a full retraction of your blatant AGF violation. Will you strike it through? Widefox ; talk 00:52, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * No I haven't noticed, and at your remark elsewhere, it was too late at night (my time zone) for me to be physically able to search for the isssue. That other notice of you, which I answered already "yesterday", was written in a more "cryptic way" than this one, so it dind't encourage to searching either. Only this morning have I seen this notice of yours and have checked what was the issue. I need to apologise.noychoH (talk) 09:11, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Klingon_Way, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Widefox ; talk 00:56, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I have taken a look again at my presumed "editing of legitimate comments by other users", and I have to admit that this must have happened by accident without my knowledge - anyhow, the "edit" in question makes no sense whatsoever, I can see it was most probably an accidental pasting of the content of my memory buffer, ( exactly of the phrase I have had used within my previous edit and subsequently, copied-and-pasted, as a summary description of my previous edit ), inadvertently replacing some words typed previously by you. Excuse me. noychoH (talk) 08:03, 1 October 2016 (UTC) corrected noychoH (talk) 20:39, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Quotes for the Captain Krankor's review of The Klingon Way in HolQeD
Let me quote some excerpts from the review by Captain Krankor, in oder to show you the level of scholarly work and independent research (beyond simply quoting Marc Okrand) done:
 * (...) A perennial problem in the study of tlhIngan Hol is the paucity of available source material, so the emergence of any new body of canonical Klingon is always an event of paramount (!) importance. Such a new work has recently become available to us with the publication of Marc Okrand's Star Trek: The Klingon Way - A Warrior's Guide. While the work predominantely concerns itself with Klingon culture and philosophy, it does contain a considerable amount of Hol [i.e. language], some of which covers new ground and offers fresh insight. (...) It bear noting at the outset that aby insights which we glean form The Klingon Way may have to be taken with a small grain of salt. The book is, for the most part, a collection of Klingon proverbs, and. as Dr. Okrand points out explicitly, "As with common sayings in other languages, some Klingon proverbs, particularly those which have taken on ritualistic overtones, exhibit unusual grammatical forms." (TKW p. 65). Fortunately, we have good reasons to feel comfortable drawing conclusions from the constructions we find. The truth is, the vast bulk of the proverbs presented conform tp standard, modern Klingon grammar, and for those few which do appera aberrant, Dr. Okrand draws explicit attention to the aberration.
 * In fact, somewhat surprisingly, there is very little which is shockingly new. What do we find of importance are certain examples which provide clarification for usage in areas which were previously murky. There is also, it should be noted, some important new vocabulary presented, but I shall leave that to someone else to compile.
 * Perhaps the most exciting find is tat the work provides the resolution of one of the oldest grammatical issues (...). The issue is the proper usage of the word Hoch - "everyone, all, everything" - in conjunction with other nouns. (...) [p. 2, followed by a lengthy discussion of the usage of the word Hoch in the proverbs, p. 2-3].
 * One thing which has slowly become clear is that when TKD talks about "sentences," it often really means "clauses." (...) [p. 3, followed by a discussion of examples taken from TKD, p. 3-4]. Well, happily, TKW confirms this instinct. We have a couple of examples of "sentence" conjunctions being used to join mere clauses. (...) [p. 4, followed by a lengthy discussion of "sentence" conjunctions, according to the terminology of TKD, like  'ej and  'ach, in the proverbs, p. 4-5].
 * The remaining insights are smaller, but nonetheless interesting and valuable. For instance, on page 29 we find:
 * WuwvI'pu' qan tu'lu'be'.
 * There are no old warriors.
 * What is interesting here is the placement of the -be' . In PK [i.e. Power Klingon]], we are given the toast QuvlIjDaq yIHmey tu'be'lu'jaj, wich seem to imply that the -be'  should go before the -lu'  when negating our old friend tu'lu' . Indeed, your friendly grammarian deliberately changed his style becaue of this. Yet, here we find that tu'lu'be'  is perfectly acceptavle. (...) [p. 5]
 * Another morsel is found on page 69, where we are delighted to have an official translation of:
 * Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam.
 * It is a good day to die.
 * Since the original TKD, we have known that a -meH verb can take no verb prefix and take an indefinite subject meaning. (...) It is therefore interesting to find out that one is permitted to put in an explicit -lu'  suffix if one so chooses, as is done with Heghlu'meH. [p. 5-6]
 * (...) [omitted: a discussion of comparatives and superlatives].
 * And so we have found much valuable grammatic fruit in the pages of The Klingon Way. It bears mentioning that there are also several proverbs which are "interesting" for other reasons, but which limited space prevents going into. For instance, one might find, on pages 95 and 104, validation (more or less) of transcriptions long ago presented in this column. And one might find significant grammatic error were one to study pages 119 or 186. (...) [p. 6]
 * 08:12, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

October 2016
Please assume good faith in your dealings with other editors, which you did not on The Klingon Way. Assume that they are here to improve rather than harm Wikipedia. ''Articles_for_deletion/The_Klingon_Way. Two editors have told you not to attempt to make out this some bad faith or bad faith/destructive editors. You persist to speculate on other's motivations and repeat unfounded allegations about other editors (including me). You've made clear that you don't mind being blocked for such comments, but this is just because someone doesn't agree with you.'' Widefox ; talk 12:34, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

GTranslate
Ta for your ta.

FYI your Veda quote provides hilarious results when run via (wrong) Nepali or Hindi (= detected lang) in GTrans. Voila:

Co-founder With nine niggles

Cum sperm

Tejaswu Designated Things

I'm fascinated

Peace: Peace: Peace.

Or:

Cum Navy Cum nine bucks

There is a cum work.

Tejaswati Navdadmastu.

I have a scholar.

Peace: Peace: Peace:

So: pax vobiscum!

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Thank you for your contribution!
Hello NoychoH! Thank you for your translation of the article "Zadruga (movement)" from Polish-language Wikipedia. It would be great to have the article about Zadrugizm translated as well into "Zadrugism".--Eckhardt Etheling (talk) 15:58, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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I just reverted the addition of the template at Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. It was already present lower in the article. I saw it was also duplicated at Center for Science and Culture and you have added the template (or possibly other edits of the same size) to a number of articles. You might want to check for duplications. Sometimes the template may appear in a relevant section rather than at the top of the article. I'm not familiar with the details of the relevant style guides. BiologicalMe (talk) 15:22, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I just ran the list as well. It was the one on my Watchlist, plus the other one I checked. Chalk it up as a case where sampling did not reflect the big picture. Thanks. BiologicalMe (talk)

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Please kindly read my discussion under User_talk:Javierfv1212 and User_talk:Symphing12 and maybe let's begin anew a talk about consesus on using Indic Scripts, because I think those contained in Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics/Archive_48 (re:lead)] and Wikipedia_talk:Noticeboard_for_India-related_topics/Archive_64 (re:infobox) are dated. noychoH (talk) 21:45, 25 October 2023 (UTC)


 * "Please kindly read" what's written above your post on DGG's talk page... --Randykitty (talk) 22:28, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh, I am so sorry, I haven't remarked. I have just followed all the talk links to those who participated in talk for that consensus. And because it was via the .m. link, sent to me by JavierFV, and I have read (before I have understood what .n. means, as I have myself never used a mobile to edit the Wikipedia) all the previous talk topics were shown to me as collapsed, and there was a long list of them, not all of them even visible, I just clicked on "Add new topic" without scrolling down to the end of the list. I will remove it immediately.
 * Let DGG stay in peace! noychoH (talk) 22:53, 25 October 2023 (UTC)


 * I also only closed a single RfC almost 12(!) years ago...I have no opinion on the subject, don't edit in the topic area and pain the multiple attempts on my talkpage to have me take action based on other peoples views. This also dances a very fine line of canvassing. -- Amanda (she/her)  01:11, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I am sorry. I do not know whether you have an opinion or not (I have thought that yes, because you have participated the discussion, but I might be wrong). It was not my intension to canvass you (or anybody). What you desrcribe as "multiple attemptes" - I only corrected twice my errors in my first message. (And in my opinion my message in any of the three versions absolutely does not fulfill the description of canvassing as shown in the definition page). I didn't intend to influence your opinion on the topic being discussed, nor sent you multiple messages, or whatever. Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my message, I didn't intend to edit the topic area clearly marked as archive, I wanted to ask your opinions about reopening the RfC (and due to the fact that the the link to that notification page was sent me in an .m. version, I couldn't have opened the discussion in the notification page). Maybe I was lucky in that. Your commenst makes me say: This is the last time in my life that I have gone beyond pure editing of some Wikipedia articles, and try to express some more general point of view. Usually immediately afterward someone appears acccusing me of something which was absolutely not my intention, if one only clearly reads my words and analyses my actions. What for should I suffer accusations and need to explain and excuse myself? noychoH (talk) 06:59, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

HEREBY I withdraw my proposal about reopening the discussion on the ISC as presented in my message and I apologize to everybody who might have felt harassed or whatever wrong by my message. noychoH (talk) 07:08, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Introduction to contentious topics
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 * Which page do you mean? noychoH (talk) 06:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I noticed you're messaging many editors about an India related topic. The notice is just FYI (something to be aware of) and doesn't mean you've done something wrong. --RegentsPark (comment) 14:19, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
 * OK. In fact, I am a Sanskrit and Indian philosophy scholar first of all, those topics are therefore natural to me. It means I only need to be less "bold" than usual, less "bold" than the Wikipedia guideline says? More cautious? Well, well... The other (positive for me) fact, however, is that I am not interested at all in modern India/Pakistan/other countries of the region, so the issues of "nationalism" shall probably pass by me. But on the other (negative) hand, being interested in religions, makes my edits probably a possible target of some religious fanatics. Well, well... I have studied the information behind the link provided to the contentious topics on India etc. and I find most cases mentioned there (in very vague way, indeed), something I would probably never engage to. Until yesterday I was not aware that the case of script can also be so contentious... Thanks for your advice. noychoH (talk) 16:19, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

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mainland China
Consensus in the article mainland China is that it is treated as a geographical entity, not a political entity (hence, the lower case "mainland China" is used instead of "Mainland China"). When describing something which associates with a geographical entity, "on" is used instead of "in" (i.e. on the island, on the continent, on the mainland, on the peninsula etc.).

Usage of "mainland China" vs "Mainland China" in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=mainland+China&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1

More information about the correct preposition for mainland:

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/in-the-mainland-on-the-mainland.2741848/ Vic Park (talk) 15:35, 26 January 2024 (UTC)


 * It seems to mee that you fully agree with me, despite your previous move, at least the Wordreference forum linked by you now seems to fully confirm my revert. My capitalisation of the "Mainland" was caused only by the fact that it was quoted from the title of the template. Otherwise I fully agree with you. Thank you. noychoH (talk) 10:06, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I have done a research myself. There are actually two different "mainland/Mainland Chinas". When the word mainland is capitalized (i.e. Mainland China), it is a geopolitical term defined as the territory under direct administration of the Chinese Communist Party government of the People's Republic of China. It includes Hainan Island and other smaller islands directly administered by China, but excludes Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. When the word mainland is not capitalized (i.e. mainland China), it is a geographical term defined as the part of China located on mainland Asia (or Eurasia), excluding all its islands, regardless of their political status.
 * In summary, "Mainland China" is a political region, therefore we should use "something/someone is in Mainland China". On the other hand, "mainland China" is a physical region, therefore we should use "something/someone is on mainland China".
 * The context in that template clearly refers to the geopolitical term, not the geographical term. Hence, you are absolutely correct in using the word "in" and capitalized the word "Mainland". Thank you for picking out the mistake. Vic Park (talk) 11:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
 * You are most kindly welcome!
 * What more, the geopolitical term directly reflects the common usage of the Chinese term Zhōngguó Dàlù 中國大陸 in Taiwan ("Taiwan" understood as the short form for the country "Republic of China", not as the island; hence the traditional characters used), whereas the geographical term reflects the common usage of the same term Zhōngguó dàlù 中国大陆 in the Peoples Republic of China (hence the simplified characters used). noychoH (talk) 21:55, 28 January 2024 (UTC)