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 * &mdash; Asbestos | Talk 09:58, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Hullo World History Plus, I saw some of your contributions on Special:Newpages. Seems you have a lot to contribute, so I hope you'll stick around. On the point about Chagatai Khanate being the wrong title for the article, you might have to bring that up at Requested moves if you want to change that (it isn't something I know much about). I don't think the other title would be right either because Khanate should probably be capitalised (shouldn't it?). In the mean time, maybe you should add your new information on the subject to the existing article and use it as a template for style etc. It has a nice little info-box to orient people to related articles etc and it already links to other articles, so people are more likely to be able to find and use your information if it's there. It could always be moved at a later date, if others agreed that the move should take place.
 * One other small point, since anyone can edit articles they don't credited to a single author (you've put your name at the bottom of things you've written). On the plus side, people can use the history tab to see who has written what. All the best, Mattley 12:50, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Chaghatai is the spelling used by the NGM. But this mag says "Chaghatai Khanate". Grousset, an authority on Central Asia, uses the words Jagatai and Jagataite. Webster's defines the sufix -ite thus (pertinent part only): "a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite, Israelite, laborite". Other examples are: Hussite,Edomite, and so on. Actually, the definition is not wholly accurate because "Hussite", e.g., can be used as an adjective. There is also "sodomite", from Sodom, and it has nothing to do with the associations mentioned in the definition. I assume that -ite is used to make nouns and adjectives from nouns that either end on a consonant as "Israel" or with an i as in "Ogodei" or "Chaghatai". Be that as it may, I would keep "Chaghataite Khanate" unless some authority gives me strong arguments to the contrary, perhaps the historical advisor for the NGM. Offhand, I cannot remember exactly what the entry "Chagatai Khanate" in Wikipedia says, but if it's not in "Chaghataite Khanate" it can be incorporated. I can delete the World history plus at the end of "Chaghataite Khanate" if it sounds presumptuous. Thank you for the comment.

Carlos World history plus