User talk:Xanthoxyl/Archive 1

Atsumori
Thank you for your expansion of my short article on the play Atsumori; I had not realized there was an infobox for Noh, and it's a fine addition. I suppose it depends on one's interpretation or translation, but the version of the play I read did not mention a "Reaper", but rather a "Youth", who burns firewood to collect salt out of seawater. There are references to a "mower", but a Reaper? Seems the wrong connotation to me, even if the denotation (reaper more or less equals mower) is correct. Thoughts? LordAmeth 22:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The word "reaper" comes from the (outdated) Waley translation, which is quite emphatic that the people Kumagai meets are reapers: "They that were reaping,/Reaping on that hill,/Walk now through the fields/Homeward, for it is dusk." I've just checked and they're literally "grass-cutters" (草刈) so probably "mowers" would be better.
 * Yes, now there's an infobox template for Noh plays &mdash; I just made it. (So any questions or suggestions for alterations can be directed here.) My hope is to put up at least a dozen articles on the most famous plays. Xanthoxyl 09:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was using Royall Tyler's translation; these things can be kind of iffy. Thank you for your hard work - I continue to aim to gradually, slowly expand Wikipedia's coverage of kabuki and joruri; coverage of the traditional Asian arts is sorely lacking, and I'm glad to have yet another ally in working to resolve that. LordAmeth 11:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia's coverage of literature and of the arts in general is surprisingly poor. I'll see if I can improve Noh (the French version was a featured article!); also look in the margins for links to any Japanese versions. 12:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your translation work
Thank you very much for finishing the translation of Hannes Lintl and cleaning it up. I'm removing this entry from WP:PNT now. Cheers! - Introvert • ~  04:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

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thank you for you translation work
thank very much for doing the translation of the french article Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc that i have edited in french Aymeric78 20:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Friedrich Hopfner
Ack, I didn't mean to go sticking extra tags on there if you were working on it, sorry about that... I found the tag a few hours ago, and then the internet went down before I could actually save the edit adding it. I've translated about half of it at this point, though it needs massive cleanup and reorganizing still. I was planning to do that once I'd finished the translating, but I can edit in what I've done so far, if you want to work on that part, or translate the rest -- I'm starting to get in over my head with all the scientific terms. Let me know, and sorry again if I inadvertently took over what you were working on! -Bbik 03:59, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, better idea. Your translating sounds better than mine anyhow, and it looks like we've both done about as much, though I did a bit more jumping around.  I've put what I've done at this point here, copy or replace or ignore as you wish. -Bbik 04:09, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I've learned my lesson! Don't worry about it, though -- if nothing else, it's shown me just how much my German has deteriorated, which is more frustrating than anything else.  And besides, if my doing it as well reminded you about the infobox, that works out well enough. -Bbik 18:56, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Noh - Ikuta Atsumori
Hiya. I've just created an article for Ikuta Atsumori, another play based on the story of Atsumori. The translation I read does not explain which character is waki, tsure, or shite, so I sort of guessed. My logic being that Atsumori is shite because he's the title character, and the whole thing derives from his legend; his son might be waki, because he's the primary character other than Atsumori, and is not really his companion, so he couldn't be tsure, I don't think. The monk, though he introduces the play, and might therefore normally be the waki, more or less just accompanies the boy, and so I labeled him wakitsure. I'd appreciate it if you could take a second look at this. Thank you. LordAmeth 13:34, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Children are termed kokata, so the monk will be waki. The play is now attributed to Komparu Zenpō, and the Kita school does not perform it. Xanthoxyl 14:02, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your help! LordAmeth 14:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Kapellmeister
Thanks for citing sources. Opus33 21:50, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
For clearing out a huge chunk of the articles that needed to be translated! -Yupik 13:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

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I moved the subject page as you requested and removed the entry from Requested moves. ●DanMS • Talk 23:34, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

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Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc
Des commentaires ont été émis contre cet article. Parlant mal l'anglais peux-tu corriger et améliorer les défauts de cet article merci d'avance. Aymeric78 20:37, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Salut. J'ai vu que tu as traduit cet article du français vers l'anglais et je t'en remercie. J'ai décidé de le présenter en tant qu'article de qualité.

List of Noh plays
In List of Noh plays: A-M and the other one, what do the = signs signify? I ask because I am not sure how to interpret that for the bibliography section of Komparu Zenchiku. --Gwern (contribs) 01:50 12 November 2007 (GMT)


 * If a play has two names it is listed twice. For example, Adachi ga hara equals Kurozuka because they are the same play. I ought to mention that only a few plays are definitely known to be by a specific author, so don't be surprised if there are contradictions in source material. Xanthoxyl 02:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * That makes sense, although I personally prefer a 'or' instead of an '='. And I know what you mean by contradictions - they're there even for well-documented poets like Fujiwara no Teika, and it seems that for Noh plays things are even worse... --Gwern (contribs) 02:22 12 November 2007 (GMT)


 * I used "=" because of the risk that that "or" might be taken to be part of the title (Adachi ga hara or Kurozuka). In the kanji column the problem is in reverse because "=" looks like a character. The symbol "≠" appears once, I think.
 * Thanks for working on that article. I should write up some more plays. Xanthoxyl 02:48, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah, I solve that by always italicizing the romaji phrases individually (to follow the usual style guideline that foreign words are italicized), so there's no ambiguity about whether the or is part of the title. --Gwern (contribs) 03:24 12 November 2007 (GMT)

Rokumeikan
I'd been thinking of creating an article on the Rokumeikan for some time, but didn't really have the time or the resources. Thanks for contributing this!!! LordAmeth 01:20, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

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Leopardian poetics
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Mihai cartoaje's talk page
Hi, I agree that Mihai cartoaje's habit of removing critical (but not other) messages from her/his talk page is troublesome, but there is actually nothing in policy against this. It is different for the talk pages of articles, where deleting comments (especially those of others) is considered serious vandalism, but a user's talk page is their own space. Thought I'd tell you before this becomes another edit war for poor Mihai cartoaje to be involved in :-) Happy editing! --Crusio (talk) 08:42, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I know that there is no policy, but it doesn't look good. I won't touch the matter again. Xanthoxyl (talk) 12:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I absolutely agree, it doesn't look good at all (especially since the deletions are so selective). Note that this person left an unjustified tag on my talk page, which I left in place. Anybody who's interested only needs to follow the history to see that it's bogus... :-) --Crusio (talk) 13:16, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

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(In response to this) Oops, thanks for catching that. I see a good bit of precedence for grouping multiple RfDs, such as here and here, the former when listed, the latter refactored when closed by an administrator who suggested the format to the submitter for future listings. -- Thinking of England (talk) 06:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I just noticed that the RfD instructions also mentions using the template for subsequent entries in a multiple listing in order to suppress the multiple section titles. -- Thinking of England (talk) 06:29, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah. I didn't spot the "m". Xanthoxyl (talk) 06:43, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

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Bavin
(Xanthoxyl's replies are here.)

For popular terms, when someone types it in, it is a practice in Wikipedia to assume what it is that they want if only one use is known. If I know only one use for a word (such as Lubdan, when I first saw it I thought 'never heard of that before, nobody made anything, so Leprechaun). If alternative uses for a word exist: this means that a redirect is inappropriate, I don't deny that. What I am denying is that the solution is to delete it. The solution is to create a disambiguation page. If people want to do a search they can click 'search'. Newbies are going to be button-oriented and click either 'go' or 'search' anyway. This entire dispute resolves around the idea that someone will press 'enter' and give up on the topic existing on Wikipedia. Searches will show pretty much anything, even if a name of a non-notable Bavin were listed as a reference or something on an otherwise unrelated article. Deleting does nothing to expand Wikipedia, it only cuts off the beginnings of a good disambiguation pages. Many words fluctuate back and forth between redirects to a major article (like Obama only began redirecting to Barrack in 2007) and disambiguations as other incarnations of the word become more notable. In this case, if there are other notable incarnations of a word on Wikipedia, here is what I've been telling people: be bold and add them, edit the redirect into a disambig page. Disambiguation pages are desirable, yet people simply just delete it and don't create anything. If people are legitimately concerned for important mentions of a word having other notability then it would be being done. Since it isn't, objections are clearly deletionistly centred. In some cases this is either targeted at redirects, or at disambigs, or at both. Or maybe just ones made by certain authors a tagger has a beef with. Tyciol (talk) 03:11, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I do not understand why I am obligated to do that. Wikipedia is a cooperative effort. Disambiguation pages are amended and expanded CONSTANTLY. Most likely the majority of disambiguation pages do not include a reference to every conceivable article on Wikipedia which contains the term. While that's a problem, I still maintain the solution is not to wipe them out, but to continually search to improve them, just as we seek to improve anything we come across.
 * With Postl for example. This was a redirect, I made it into a disambig. I did not delete the redirect because it wasn't detailed enough, nor did I harass Stan Shebs and threaten him with blocking for omitting the famous wrestler Hornswoggle even though Postl is also his name! This is the way we do things. The way it works is: people refer a family name to a person's article if that family name is considered notable to that person or something like that. If someone did not even take the care to list somebody on a disambiguation page about their name, then they just were not notable enough. Notable articles naturally attract enough attention that people editing the article will add them to the disambiguation pages on their own.
 * Wikipedia is always 'forming'. You can't expect a perfect disambiguation page to be created right off the bat, it's an unrealistic standard. If that happened then we'd have no need for a history because you would never need to revise a redirect or a disambiguation. Redirects do not hide possibilities. Redirects do not disable the search function. What they do is make an article stand out in association with the word, just as disambiguations make more than one article stand out in association with the word. It is not correct at all to hamper the editors' Wikipedia experience by annihilating their work simply because it wasn't good enough on the first shot.
 * Not everyone has time to search Wikipedia for potentially hours simply to create a disambiguation page. When I am aware there's more than one person and I have time: I do my best, yeah, but why on earth are people not cooperating and simply deleting things when nothing is actually being obscured at all, but rather, it's a sign pointing in a popular direction? I will not forget about R/DAB, sorry, I know too much about it, an I'm very good at making both of them. This is not about ignorance, it's about a disagreement in policy. The only thing I lack an understanding of is this 'hiding' justification used to attack the redirects of names. An article (disambig being a type of one) not being extensive enough has never been justification for deletion. Short articles get listed as stubs. If a redirect is known to be something that could redirect to other articles: you make it into a disambig. That's the correct step. If someone lacks time to make a disambig covering everything then there should be some kind of disambig-stub or something we can use, right? Tyciol (talk) 05:00, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * A redirect can be circular, but one person cannot make a redirect circular unless he makes both the link on the page and the link back to the page. I only make the link back to the page. I intended to either delete the links later the next time I passed through (they were bad red links prior to that, which nobody was making articles for) or else hope that if someone had made them intending to make actor articles that they would go expand the redirects into articles instead. I am not typing lots to defend redirects like those: I'm typing to defend ALL of my edits. The way you describe it is as if the only redirects I am making are circular or something. Far from it. Most of mine are quality, and they just get lumped together because of a minority of controversial edits. This is policy conflict: people are disregarding the encouragement to expand redirects, violating it by deleting them. I don't look at my edit counts, and believe me, I'd have a far smaller count if people would quit assaulting good material. If it were people simply reverting circulars I'd probably ignore it, but this is serious bad faith and WP:BULLY going on. Tyciol (talk) 05:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

(At this point I gave up.)

St. Ronan's Well
Hi-- I reverted this for now. When did the author die? Can you find out? the law allows it after author's death+100years. So if the guy died before 1909, it's OK. Seb az86556 (talk) 05:29, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your message... like I said I'm iffy about it. So if you're certain, just revert it, I'm not gonna revert again. Seb az86556 (talk) 05:31, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

...or maybe I'll do it Seb az86556 (talk) 05:32, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * P.S.: Maybe you could change your attribution template by adding "...now public domain" or something. Others might stumble over this in the future and jump the gun like I did. Seb az86556 (talk) 05:42, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay. Xanthoxyl (talk) 06:02, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Gift book
Nice additions. Thanks! --Midnightdreary (talk) 16:05, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Regarding pentalogies and the like
Hi - Not wanting to start an edit war, I thought I'd explain my thoughts on the use of these words. I've noticed among the community an overwhelming desire to group ANYTHING with a certain number of parts as an "~alogy", whether it forms a coherent work or not, and although I doubt the validity of some of these words, you make good arguments for "hexalogy", although some of the other examples on the same list are fairly dubious.

In my haste, I reworded the my reference to lack of dictionary use of the words on the trilogy page, but perhaps we should try to come to some consensus as to how to explain these words without encouraging their use for anything but true "~alogies".

Robsinden (talk) 08:30, 19 August 2009 (UTC)


 * The only thing I objected to was the claim that a well-formed word that isn't in dictionaries is "not real" -- dictionaries have special rules about what they include, and it's not as though these words are being pulled out of thin air. However the articles in question aren't any good and I will try to rewrite them. Examples need to be given, but the examples are silly. They don't explain why authors would choose to write in groups of six or seven and this is actually the interesting subject. For example, Plato's works were sometimes arranged by editors into trilogies or tetralogies on different assumptions, and there is Nezami's Pentalogy, and the Enneads so there are definitely secondary sources on the subject. Xanthoxyl (talk) 09:42, 19 August 2009 (UTC)


 * You might like to get involved here: Talk:Hexalogy  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robsinden (talk • contribs) 09:20, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you for the translation work
Feel free to move this to a more prominent place, or to your user page if you'd like. I couldn't find a good place to put it. If you'd prefer that I put it elsewhere, please let me know where you'd like it. Hananekosan (talk) 18:10, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

뮤지컬 일삐노끼오
For 뮤지컬 일삐노끼오 what is the duplicate article in the other language Wikipedia? If it exists I can delete this item. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:47, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ko:뮤지컬 일삐노끼오. Xanthoxyl (talk) 22:17, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

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