User talk:Tomkyd1964

Thanks very much. Embarrassed. Tomkyd1964 (talk) 15:48, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

English variety changes
Hello, thanks for your copyedit of the Arno article. However, please don't change words from one variety of English to another without first checking whether this is appropriate per the relevant guideline. Thanks. Graham 87 01:54, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Same goes for Illuminati. Not sure about the de-hyphenation either, nor is my spell-checker. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 01:11, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

IPA
Please stop messing around with IPA transcriptions; this activity borders on vandalism. Why did you remove the template from Xenophon? Why don't you ever use the IPAc-en template? Why do you employ [æ] (Abdera, Thrace) and [ʌ] (Tegea), instead of the schwa? You also confused [æ] with [e] (Theano) and [ɪr] with [ir] (Abdera, Thrace). These mistakes are elementary and clearly show that you have no idea what you are doing. --Omnipaedista (talk) 20:56, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Kagu
On the genus ‘’Rhynochetos’’: 1) that Verreaux & DesMurs may have confused Gk. ‘’rhynchos’’ (‘’rhunkhos’’, ῥύγχος), beak, with ‘’rhin-’’ (ῥίς, ῥινός), nose, and 2) that ‘’chetos’’ is from ‘’khaitē’’, χαίτη, crest or mane; cf. spirochete, coiled hair. No such Gk. word as ‘’chetos’’ or ‘’khetos’’ (χητος, χαιτος, χοιτος, χετος), meaning corn, callus, or grain.

On the species ‘’jubatus’’: 1) It does mean maned or crested, but 2) L. ‘’jubatus’’ derives from ‘’juba’’, mane or crest, and not from nonexistent ‘’jabatus’’ [sic].

Tomkyd1964 (talk) 17:12, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Alcmaeonids
My twice-corrected stress on the phonemic transcription /ˌælkmiːˈoʊnɪdz/ to /ˌælkˈmiːoʊnɪdz/ has twice been reverted. I am certain that it’s “Alc-mae´o-nids,” or “Alc´mae-o-nids,” not “Alc-mae-o´nids.” This follows the standard Anglicization of Latinized classical Greek names, and I cited a source, https://quatr.us/greeks/the-curse-of-the-alcmaeonids.htm. See also https://www.howtopronounce.com/alcmaeonid/.

Tomkyd1964Tomkyd1964 (talk) 16:45, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Baffled
I'm baffled by what you thought you were doing in this edit. I'm assuming it wasn't just vandalism. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:53, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for the e-mail. I've made the edit you were rightly trying to make. It looks as if some kind of "autocorrection" of single quotes was turned on in whatever editor you were using, so that it changed all occurrences of '' to double curly quotes. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:20, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

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Hi Tomkyd1964! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you.  -  Sumanuil  '''. ''' (talk to me) 01:33, 19 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. I made the edits in good faith and in accordance with Greek entries and punctuation elsewhere. I don't understand how they would change the substance. Sincerely, Tomkyd1964 Tomkyd1964 (talk) 04:19, 19 June 2024 (UTC)