Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Assyria/Archive 2

Assyriska Föreningen - world club champions (U11)
I think you'll find this interesting. User Johan Elisson has deleted this section, saying in comment "Youth tournaments are not notable enough to be included". I disagree with him. Gothia Cup is a big event (World Cup for clubs, categories from U11-U19), and winning the cup is a big success. Fact that the winner is an immigrant squad, possibly the best success that any Assyrian football squad ever had (am I wrong?), gives the "weight" to this case. So, I believe this should stay on that page, and I believe that that success should have a place on this WikiProject. Greetings, Kamarad Walter (talk) 12:44, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Assyrian-related article up for deletion
Not sure if there is a better place to put this, but Obelit Yadgar is up for deletion. Many people here in Chicagoland were great fans of his radio programs. Novickas (talk) 18:27, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Whats the reason behind the deletion? Chaldean (talk) 00:53, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Project categories
I have nominated several of this project's maintenance categories for renaming (a minor change). The discussion is located here and comments are welcome. –Black Falcon (Talk) 03:24, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

arc.wikipedia.org
Can you explain if arc.wikipedia.org is in modern-day Syrian/Assyrian/Syriac/Neo-Aramaic language or in antique Aramaic? On the Main Page it says "Aramaic" in several languages, and I have learned to associate that with the old version of the language. If you're able to write in this language, could you perhaps write a short translation of Assyriska Föreningen there? According to the Swedish Wikipedia, the name is written arc:ܐܣܣܝܪܝܣܟܐ in Assyrian. I think that an article on this topic can help this Wikipedia to gain more interest. --LA2 (talk) 12:55, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes it is the modern-day language. The language is called Syriac or Aramaic or Assyrian - it has alot of different names, but we agreed on Aramaic simply because; In the most strict form, Syriac is a reference to classical Aramaic, that was used centuries ago, and Assyrian wasn't choosen for political reasons. Any requests for writing Aramaic pages, etc, should be directed to User:334, as he spends alot fo time with Aramaic Wikipedia. Chaldean (talk) 13:42, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for answering! I don't speak Syriac, obviously. But I'm on the board of Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, trying to promote Wikipedia within the country of Sweden, which doesn't necessarily mean in the Swedish language. There are a lot of Assyrians in Sweden. Do you have any ideas or suggestions on how I should go about to get them involved? On WikiProject Assyria a few participants are listed with the Swedish flag, but at least one of them (EliasAlucard) was permanently blocked (both here and on the Swedish language Wikipedia) because he couldn't behave. Apparently I need to reach not just any Assyrians, but those who are literate in Syriac and computer literate and willing. Can someone help me with a Syriac translation of our brochure? --LA2 (talk) 17:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, Elias was very helpful when it came for these kinds of situations. We have three active Assyrian speaking users who also happens to be from Sweden - User:WestAssyrian, User:AramaeanSyriac, User:The TriZ. As you can see here User_talk:WestAssyrian - they are very fluint in Swedish and you shouldn't have a problem cooperating with them. I advice you however to keep an eye on POV pushing from all three users, as all of them are nationalist and have their own agenda (which isn't always a bad thing.) These guys known everything about the Assyrian Swedish community, so they should be very helpful to you. Chaldean (talk) 20:24, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * As far as for Syriac translation of our brochure - I don't see a brochure, I only see an image, so where is the brochure? Chaldean (talk) 20:25, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * As always with PDF files on Wikimedia Commons, you click the PDF filename under the Adobe "A" logotype. --LA2 (talk) 02:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh boy, I thought it was only a single sentence. This is more comprehensive then I thought, so I'm going to put in a request to User:334. Chaldean (talk) 03:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Another Swedish Assyrian is User:Assyria 90, who wrote arc.wiki's article on Sweden, arc:ܣܘܝܕ, probably the best article in that entire Wikipedia. --LA2 (talk) 11:44, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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Syriac text
Would you look at Image:-universalsyriacscout.png and see if you can make out what it says? It probably says something like "Be Prepared", or "Always Prepared", and I have need of the text. Thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 15:51, 30 October 2008 (UTC)