User talk:Mahagaja/Archive 15

Your weird signature

You appear to have a character in your signature that displays as "?" on my computer. Unfortunately, this means that whenever I edit a Talk page with your signature in it, your weird character is replaced with a question mark. I have gone through and laboriously copied your signature from the old version to the new version in an attempt to maintain the integrity of your signature, but this is an extraordinary amount of work just to maintain a nonstandard character in someone's signature on a Talk page, and I probably won't do it again. I am open to suggestions on how to leave your signature intact without it taking 20 minutes of my time to do so. -- BBlackmoor ^(talk) 02:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I guess you're referring to the phonetic character I used to have in my signature. Don't worry about keeping it intact; the link to my talk page will still work even if it displays as "(t?k)". Anyway, I don't use that signature anymore. User:Angr 07:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Okay. I mainly wanted you to know that I at least tried to keep your signature intact, in case I was unsuccessful and you noticed it later. I did not want you to think I had vandalized your signature through malice or carelessness. Thanks for being gracious. -- BBlackmoor ^(talk) 04:40, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Date links

Please read the policies you purport to cite. Absolutely nowhere in either of those does it state that years "should not be linked without very good reason".

What it actually says, should you choose to read it before using it to berate someone, is that there is no consensus about the best course of action to take about date links. If you choose to go a bit further and actually read the lengthy discussion that resulted in that guideline, you'll discover that the general consensus was to actually assess each link on its merits, and not just shoot them all on sight. Rebecca 07:57, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

I apologize, the last time I read those pages, a few months ago, they did say precisely what I said. I didn't realize they had been vandalized in the meantime. User:Angr 07:58, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

IPAudio

I would like to ask you to look at Template:IPAudio. On the template talk page there have currently been raised questions about thte rendering of IPA and licensing infromation, both of which I believe you might have an opinion on. If you feel that the comments are warranted then perhaps you can point to a better alternative. Stefán Ingi 13:23, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali image

Hello Angr, I realize now why you were inclined to swap this image out. I've properly sourced the image and provided a link on the image. Who is the ultimate person or group to decide if the photo shows information (very pertinent information) to this article that isn't found in the image currently displayed? Netscott 15:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, the editors of Wikipedia. If you want to use the {{Non-free fair use in}} template, though, you have to provide a detailed fair use rationale, which in this case will have to include why the public domain image isn't good enough. And as I said on the talk page, arguing that the FU image is better just because it shows her in parliament really isn't good enough. User:Angr 15:51, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I'll add the rationale to the image's talk page. On somewhat legal questions like this it seems a bit strange that merely the editors of Wikipedia decide such questions, are you sure that's in accord with Wikipedia policies? Netscott 16:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Trouble in Mi’kmaq-land

I'd be grateful if you'd look in on the dispute at Mi'kmaq_hieroglyphic_writing and its talk page. Evertype 16:35, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Chris Tucker

Angr,

Is there a particular reason why you deleted Chris Tucker's picture from his page? If there is, do you have another one to replace it? Dinobrya

The image did not have a copyright tag, and had been marked as lacking a copyright tag for more than a week. When you upload images, you need to include copyright information, including a fair use rationale if the image isn't free. Also, it's a good idea to keep images you upload on your watchlist so you can see if they get tagged for any reason. I'm afraid I don't have another image of him. User:Angr 07:05, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Nothing personal, it would be a good idea next time to simply make it known on the discussion page instead of removing the picture without notice and without being prepared to offer another picture. How about the courtesy of looking for the tag information? It took a lot of work to find that picture. User:Dinobrya

The thing is, there are hundreds of such images to be removed every day. When admins go through the various categories of images that are improperly tagged and/or sourced, we really don't have time to discuss it on the talk page and find another image, nor is that our responsibility. It's the responsibility of the uploader to follow the rules, which are clearly written in a big colorful box when you go to upload an image. User:Angr 06:07, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

AuE vowel split

Based on your comments on various talk pages, you seem to know a reasonable amount about English vowels, so I'm wondering whether you have any comments about the fact that in Australian English, the word gone is the only morpheme in the entire vocabulary that contains a long ɔː rather than a short ɔ (as in gondalier). Is this curious fact mentioned anywhere on Wikipedia, and if not, do you think it should be? (There are no minimal pairs, although I personally am in the habit of using gɔn for gonne, which means there is sort of a minimal pair in my idiolect). It has always struck me as interesting that there can be arguably-phonological splits for which only one example exists in the lexicon, which many amateur linguists find counterintuitive. Zerrakhi 06:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

The only word in the entire vocabulary? What about words belonging to Wells's lexical sets THOUGHT, NORTH, and FORCE? At any rate, it can certainly be included if it's verifiable by means of published, reliable sources, not if the only evidence for it is that a number of Australian Wikipedians confirm it to be true. User:Angr 07:09, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

The only word other than derivatives ("goner"), yes: the phonemes in thought, north and force are all /oː/ rather than /ɔː/. I've found some statements on Wikipedia that give support to the observation without explicitely confirming it:

• Phonological_history_of_the_low_back_vowels#Lot-cloth_split states that "The lot-cloth split is the result of a late seventeenth-century sound change that lengthened /ɒ/ to [ɒː] before voiceless fricatives, and also before /n/ in the word gone".
• Australian_English_phonology states that, "Historically Australian English also had the same lengthening of /ɔ/ before unvoiced fricatives, but, like the English accents, this has since been reversed".

Putting these two statements together, the explanation would appear to be that only the unvoiced fricatives were affected by the reversal, while the word gone was not. Which is certainly very interesting, and makes me wonder why gone was affected by the seventeenth-century development if it otherwise only affected the position before unvoiced fricatives. Zerrakhi 08:15, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't know, but it's true that in non-COT-CAUGHT-merging American accents, gone has the THOUGHT vowel (it rhymes with dawn), making it a member of Wells's CLOTH set (words that have the LOT vowel in RP but the THOUGHT vowel in General American). Most CLOTH words have historical short o followed by a voiceless fricative or in some cases (dog, log, hog) /g/. Gone is the only CLOTH word where the consonant after the short o is /n/, except that some American accents also have the THOUGHT vowel in stressed pronunciations of on. The "on line" is a fairly famous isogloss in American dialectology; accents north of the line rhyme gone with John, accents south of the line rhyme gone with dawn. But it's becoming less and less important as the cot-caught merger advances; for about 40% (and growing) of American English speakers John and dawn rhyme with each other anyway, so gone clearly rhymes with both. At any rate, gone is an unusual CLOTH word in American English, and it's probably not a coincidence that it's weird in Australian English as well. User:Angr 08:32, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Re friendly reminder

Yeah, I normally do. Which one(s) did I miss? IceKarmaॐ 10:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Freescale DragonBall, Kimberley Locke, and Juno Doran. But maybe you do a group of deletes and then a group of link removals; I usually do a link removal immediately after each delete. That would explain why I was still finding links to images you had only just deleted a minute before. No worries! User:Angr 10:25, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

User pic

Hi, thanks for sorting out the picture on my homepage. I would like to change the caption but don't know how! If you want, could you please change it to something like 'Temple at Manjushri Centre, England, NKT Spring Festival, May 2006'. Thanks Patrick--Patrick K 14:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Patrick--Patrick K 13:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:2006-1-28-painting-fzn small.jpg

Thank you very much for your guidance on the copyright issue. I seriously consider this problem and I inquired the website editors -- my fellow Falun Gong practitioners. They said they are not clear about copyright but it is free to use on wikipedia by practitioners including me and a credit to the website is requested. But I did not get an official reply in writing yet. And since all website contributors are volunteers, I am not sure when I can get a reply.

Here is the English version of photo.minghui.org --: http://photo.minghui.org/photo/Eindex.htm These websites are collections of photos from www.minghui.org whose English website is www.clearwisdom.net

www.clearwisdom.net (www.minghui.org) is one of the websites maintained by volunteers consisting of Falun Gong practitioners. All the cost of the websites are covered by the volunteers and all the editors are the volunteers. One of the lefthand sidebar menu item is Photo archive. That will connect to http://photo.minghui.org/photo/Eindex.htm

The photo I uploaded was a photo of a drawing drawn by a Falun Gong practitioner in Mainland China. The name of the author is not given since

1. Practitioners are taught not to pursue fame according to Falun Gong teachings.
2. Releasing the name is not safe to that practitioner since s/he is in Mainland China. The website is public so police may arrest the practitioner after knowing the name.
3. A lot of arts[1] created by practitioners are free to download (photos, poems, ), as well as the Falun Gong books themselves, exercise videos and audios, other music by Falun Gong practitioners are all online free to download. Because one of the Falun Gong's goals is to save people, everything is free of charge.

I am sorry that this same photo is not translated to the English version of minghui.org yet.

I wonder if this photo could be labeled as fairuse instead if I am not very sure about the copyright. But this photo is currently only used in my user page, not an article page. So I don't know if this belongs to fairuse category?

I have seen a photo from another Falun Gong website [www.faluninfo.net] is uploaded to wikipedia. Can I use the similar copyright tag "no right reserved"?

Thank you, Fnhddzs 14:47, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I've seen the Chinese article with this photo originally published says " copyrighted by minghui.org ". So what kind of tag I could consider since I got permission to use here? Thank you,Fnhddzs 15:04, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

I see. Thanks. I will remove it unless I got other information that may change the situation. Fnhddzs 15:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

linguist assistance

You are listed in the linguist by profession category. Would you please look at the discussion at Talk:Caron? It has been suggested that professional opinions are required to resolve the dispute there.

I took a look, but it's not a linguistics question. User:Angr 15:03, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

C1? :)

• 2006-07-06 16:58:40 Angr (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Category:Images with unknown copyright status as of 27 June 2006?" (C1)
• 2006-07-06 16:58:04 Kimchi.sg (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Image:Folkenberg small.jpg?" (image with unknown copyright status, tagged for more than 7 days)

Hey, that was supposed to be my deletion. :P Kimchi.sg 09:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

I do seem to do that. See #Wow, you're fast! above. User:Angr 09:17, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: User:212.219.191.135

No problem Angr. I am in an agreement w/ that. Cheers -- Szvest 12:33, 7 July 2006 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up™}

Help with a user requested

I've had a run in with 66.69.219.9 (talk · contribs) today. This user has been adding to a number of articles information that the Aramaic word haimānuthā, meaning 'faith', is related to the Greek word hymnos, meaning a 'song of praise' or 'hymn'. Actually there is no connexion apart fromthe fact that they sound a little alike. The user points to their partial phonetic coincidence as 'proof' that they must be linked, and then quotes Matthew 6.30 from the Peshitta as documented evidence for this. All that Bible verse says is 'You of litte faith'. Naturally, the Peshitta uses the word haimānuthā for 'faith'. This does not prove anything. I have quoted to the user dictionary entries on both words that disprove a link, but the user continues, and has started to get offensive. Can you please look into this? Thanks. — Gareth Hughes 21:38, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for helping out with this. You'll see that 66.69.219.9 has also been adding spurious information to Roman Catholic Church (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) about the link with word eunuch in Aramaic (mhaimnā) with the meaning hymnist. It's all the same empty argument as before: any word with the series 'h-y-m-n' has to be related. However, the letter y transliterates upsilon in Greek and yodh in Aramaic, which are two completely different letters. The user seems to think that anyone who cannot see the 'obvious' nature of this link is an idiot, which doesn't help when trying to explain the huge, unreferenced jump in etymology that is being pulled here. — Gareth Hughes 13:05, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I4?

Apologies for a stupid question, but what does I4 stand for [2]. The same image is currently up for deletion in Commons. See commons:Commons:Deletion requests##Image:Zulfikar_Ali_Bhutto.jpg for details. --Lendu 13:21, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

It stands for "Deleted per speedy criterion I4, images with unknown source and/or copyright information, that have been tagged as lacking this information for at least 7 days". User:Angr 13:30, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Myles MacInnes-photo.jpg

Feel free to delete it, I still don't know how to actually delete pictures off Wiki PiffPuffPickle 11:04, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

P.S. 193

Did you provide the image displayed on the page? If so, it is greatly appreciated!! --Josh, user:POLLUX 15:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

No, that would be User:Anakata. User:Angr 15:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Looking for Actual article of Duponceau, Peter S. (1819)

Hi, Angr,

I was wondering if you could direct me to any material re: Peter Duponceau's definition of polysynthesis. My dissertation focuses on a cognitive approach to Navajo grammar and I would certainly like to use Duponceau's early definitions for my background regarding polysynthetic languages!

I checked the history of polysynthetic language and found your user name. Here is the bibliographic reference:

Duponceau, Peter S. (1819). Report of the corresponding secretary to the committee, of his progress in the investigation committed to him of the general character and forms of the languages of the American Indians: Read, 12th Jan. 1819. In Transactions of the Historical & Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge (Vol. 1, pp. xvii-xlvi).

Would you know where I can get this? --Daghaalsuii 18:20, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I haven't the foggiest idea. Did you ask at your university library's interlibrary loan department? Surely the older university libraries in the U.S. like Harvard and Yale will have journals from 1819. User:Angr 18:36, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow! That was fast! Thanks for your help! --Daghaalsuii 18:41, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Re:Image:Artaxias stele.jpg

Source does not indicate any terms under which the copyright holder permits the image to be used.

I asked for permission directly from the copyright owner. He said I can use the photo as long as I give him credit which I did.

Moreover, this disclaimer at the above site makes me suspect they themselves are using the image either with permission (although this is not explicitly stated) or under a fair-use claim, in which case the source is invalid.

The individual who runs the site and the organization is the same individual who took and owns the picture. Dickran Kouymjian. --Eupator 14:14, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem, will do when back home. I'm at work now and the exchange is on my home account's inbox.--Eupator 14:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

No deleting on the ref desk

You're an admin? Take care you don't lose that status through asocial behaviour. Deleting other people's comments is just not done. Some go so far as to not even delete their own texts when they change their minds, but strike them through in stead. I think that is a bit over the top (depending on the situation). But deleting other people's comments is a big no-no. If you diasagree with what I say, comment on it. I've got a pretty tough skin, I can take it. But don't censor me. Don't ever do this again! DirkvdM 17:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

What I removed from the reference desk was essentially a personal attack. Removing personal attacks is well permitted under Wikipedia policy. User:Angr 17:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Irish pronunciation

Hi, Angr! Sorry to bother you again; I am wondering if you could answer a few more questions of mine.

I've been working on Ó Siahdail's Lesson 7 (yup, my progress is not very impressive, I'm afraid) during the past week, and, of course, this is where he once again surprised me by unloading the whole bunch of verb tenses of bí on me. Anyway, I've been trying to make sure all forms were standard and not dialect-specific, and An Foclóir Beag was of great help to me here. Then I tried to match the pronunciation guidelines from your previous response with what Ó Siahdail says in Lesson 7 and with what Irish orthography says. I am kind of stuck in a few places:

1. Both An Foclóir Beag and my little Collins Irish Dictionary (Standard Irish through and through) give bhíothas as the Standard form of bí for "one was". Ó Siahdail gives bhíothadh, and you also recommended me this form last time, albeit with pronunciation different from Ó Siahdail's ([vʲiːhəv]). Same goes for the dependent forms (Ó Siahdail's ní rabhadh vs. An Foclóir Beag's ní rabhthar vs. Collins Gem's ní rabhthas). I didn't give it much thought last time, but now when I'm trying to piece everything together, it is rather confusing.
2. In Imperfect, how are analytical forms (bhíodh sé, bhíodh sí...) pronounced? From what I gather, it should be [vʲiːt], but I really want to make sure I got it right. Ó Siahdail says that dh is pronounced [t] before a slender s; Irish orthography--only before pronouns beginning with an s. Which one is standard?
3. Ó Siahdail uses a dot under [t] in the transcription on page 27, but I couldn't find this symbol in Appendix I. What is the meaning of that dot?
4. Again, in Imperfect, would bhíodh be pronounced [vʲiːx] when followed by anything but a slender s? According to Irish orthography, it should be.
5. Pronunciation of dh in Conditional--same questions as for Imperfect. I figured this much out: bheinn = [vʲiːnʲ]; bheifea = ['vʲefʲa:]; bheadh sé = [vʲat ʃe:]; bheadh sí = ['vʲat 'ʃi:]; bheimis = ['vʲimʲʃ]; bheadh sibh = ['vʲat 'ʃivʲ]; bheidís = ['vʲedʲi:ʃ]; bheifí = ['vʲefʲi:]. Is this correct?
6. Pronunciation of dh in Future (beidh mé, beidh sí...). Last time you told me beidh is pronounced [bʲej]. Now I can't figure out why. Why not [bai]? Not [bei]? Does it matter which letter/sound it is followed by? Aaaaa!

I am sorry for so many questions--hopefully I am not bugging you too much with this stuff--but I am kind of desperate to figure all this out on my own; not when all my sources contradict one another. I would certainly appreciate your answers when you get a moment. Thanks!--Ag Foghlaim 20:15, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

1. An Foclóir Beag and Collins are quite right: past tense autonomous is bhíothas, not bhíothadh in the standard language. Sorry about confusing you before. Pronounce it [vʲiːhəs].
2. bhíodh sé doesn't really have a "standard" pronunciation. In Connacht in general, it's [vʲiːt ʃe:], but in Ulster it's [vʲiːu ʃə] and in Munster it's [vʲiːx ʃe:]. To the best of my knowledge, the Connacht pronunciation is [vʲiːt] only before sé, sí, siad (pronouns beginning with slender s), and otherwise [vʲiːx], so that bhíodh Seán is [vʲiːx ʃa:n].
3. The dot under the t is supposed to mean the place of articulation is alveolar or postalveolar rather than dental. I didn't bother indicating this because it's a completely phonetic assimilation to the following [ʃ] and therefore IMO not worth mentioning in a broad transcription.
4. Yes, imperfect bhíodh is [vʲiːx] except before sé, sí, siad. (And in Munster, it's [vʲiːx] even before sé, sí, siad, so if you want to adopt Munster pronunciation for these forms, it'll be one less thing to remember.)
5. I think bheimis is actually ['vʲemʲəʃ] (i.e. it's an exception to the rule that ei is [i] before nasals). Beidh is also an exception to the spelling rules; eidh doesn't represent [ai] here but is broken down into ei [e] + slender dh [j].

Hope this helps! User:Angr 20:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'll probably print your answers out and frame them--yes, they are that useful to me! The only thing you missed was my sub-question about the dependent forms in #1 (Ó Siahdail's ní rabhadh vs. An Foclóir Beag's ní rabhthar vs. Collins Gem's ní rabhthas). There are three forms to chose from. By analogy, I would guess that ní rabhthas is the standard one, but I am curious as to where ní rabhthar came from. It was my impression that An Foclóir Beag used Standard Irish as well.

As for your suggestions, I much prefer to stick with Standard Irish, or with Connacht when it's impossible, as it was the case with bhíodh sé. Munster and Ulster are interesting, too, but I'd rather limit the variations at this point as much as possible.

Again, please accept my gratitude for your help!--Ag Foghlaim 20:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Since you seem to be the type who's not intimidated by technical grammar terms, you might look into buying the Christian Brothers' New Irish Grammar, which is very dry but the absolute standard reference grammar. Using them now as a tie-breaker for the dependent form of the past tense autonomous, the answer is... (drumroll please)... rabhthar. I guess rabhthas is either an analogical form or a typo in Collins Gem. (A typo is quite possible, as they get rabhthar right in the present subjunctive at the bottom of the column.) User:Angr 20:58, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, let's just say I am not easily intimidated :) I must admit that when you recommended I read syllable coda and syllable onset it was a bit too, erm, challenging. Thanks for the tip, though. I'll try to find that book. It's too bad my local library is a complete disappointment when it comes to Irish—all they have is one copy of TYI!--Ag Foghlaim 18:35, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

RE: orphaned fair use for Image:Montevallosportlogo2.jpg

Hello: I accidently uploaded the wrong image for the University of Montevallo when I was intially creating the infobox. I ended up uploading a second, more elaborate official image (which you can now see in the article). Please feel free to delete this unused image. --Bobak 20:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

RE: no source information fair use for Image:Montevallosportlogo2.jpg

The {{Univ-logo}}-tag implies a clear case of res ipsa loquitur in my eyes. --Bobak 20:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps, but the tag does say at the bottom, "To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information" (emphasis added). User:Angr 20:36, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

IPA of Union of Myanmar in Myanmar article

Hi. Can you check whether the IPA on the lead section of the Myanmar article is correct? Thanks. Hintha 01:21, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I made it a little more surface-phonetic rather than abstract-phonemic. The symbol /N/ isn't actually an IPA symbol, and while we use it in the Burmese language article, its meaning is explained there. In other articles, though, people who know IPA aren't going to know what's meant by /N/, so I replaced it with its surface allophones. User:Angr 08:44, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Cornell

I have just started WikiProject Cornell University, an attempt to thoroughly cover topics related to Cornell. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. Thanks! —mercuryboard^talk 05:17, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Scandinavia

Just so you know, User:Comanche cph has again broken 3RR, with four reverts between 2006-07-15 14:35:10 and 2006-07-15 18:41:40. Greetings, --Janke | Talk 17:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Problem user: MartinRamos92

Hi Angr. MartinRamos92 has continued to violate guidelines by changing the spelling of articles. He's even deleted comments and warnings from his user page. I'll undo the changes to Organization (and related) pages (if I can). Perhaps you, qua admin, can cast some appropriate spell on him. --Cultural Freedom 2006-07-16 10:23 (UTC)

OK, I've changed everything back, except his bizarre changes to redirect pages (changing z to s even though the s-spelling redirects to a neutral spelling! -- compare my contribs with his, and you'll see the ones I left as is). Need to get away from my computer for a little while... --Cultural Freedom 2006-07-16 10:44 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. If he keeps it up, you might consider filing an RFC/USER about him. User:Angr 14:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Good idea. I'll be keeping an eye on him. --Cultural Freedom 2006-07-16 15:33 (UTC)

Shakespeare at Winedale

What did you do with the Shakespeare at Winedale page? Why is it gone?

Because it was mostly if not entirely cut and pasted from content at http://www.shakespeare-winedale.org/, making it a copyright violation. User:Angr 17:29, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

User_talk:Emax

I guess you have missed the <!--Please post above this template--> and the 'this user is inactive template... maybe I should make it flashing :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 13:25, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I missed the "Please post above this template" part, because I just hit the + sign. I didn't miss the "this user is inactive" part, I just ignored it. Plenty of people claim to be inactive when actually they're quite active. User:Angr 13:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

BPO RFC & mediation

Hello,

Re: your Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Media, art and literature about the Berlin Orchestra.

I would like to point out that contrary to your statement ("A mediator has offered his help, but no one has taken the offer up."), I was the one who requested (and obviously accepted) this mediation 5 days ago, on Improv's talk page ([3]), after the article talk page's debate was ignored.

After 5 days of more edit-warring or vandalism, the other party rejected the mediation this morning (diff).

I've added this information to the BPO's talk page, but could you update your RFC notice? Currently, I find it will prejudice readers against two people allegedly both rejecting mediation, when it isn't the case at all.

Thanks, -- 62.147.112.38 12:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for updating it. Regards, 62.147.112.38 13:27, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

About your request "both of you could explain why it's so all-fired important", please note that I had already explained at length my arguments since July 12, when I opened a debate about formats at the top of Talk:Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The mediation was attempted only later, when the talk page was ignored by the other party. Regards, -- 62.147.113.23 14:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

re:Bot Request

I've completed your request. The image has been replaced in all instances within the article and Category namespaces. And, dare I say, the new image is so much better. Regards, Alphachimp ^talk 07:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot to mention, it was only 208 edits, so I didn't use a bot, just a semi-bot. Let me know if you need any more help. Alphachimp ^talk 07:09, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! User:Angr 07:34, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Vatican coa.png

Instances of this image are being replaced with Image:Emblem of the Papacy.svg. There is another alternative, Image:Vatican coa2.png. The original image was 11k, the other .png is 36k, the .svg is 206k. Could someone make a .png version with a transparent background in place of the coa2.png? Gimmetrow 11:25, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Maybe someone could, I can't! User:Angr 11:58, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

LOL. Let's just leave it as it is =D. Alphachimp ^talk 17:26, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't follow. The new .svg is huge. The main problem with the .png is that the background makes some of the navboxes look bad. Gimmetrow 20:57, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

GIPE Page Images

Hey Angr! Is there any particular reason that made you delete the campus images from the GIPE page?

They didn't have copyright tags on them, and had been marked as such for 9 days. User:Angr 07:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Request for discussion participation

Hi! I'd like to request your participation in a debate that's currently ongoing between me and an anonymous user on my talk page (the very last thread). Since it's about which German spelling to use on the English Wikipedia, I thought your opinion might be a valuable addition, especially so as I'm insecure as to whether I'm missing something or whether my viewpoint is right. Thanks in advance! —Nightstallion (?) 10:37, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

British Isles

Angr, should have a look at talk:British Isles a raging discussion going on at the moment.MelForbes 17:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

No thanks. User:Angr 17:34, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Little Blue Heron image

Sorry, I thought the USFWS tag was sufficient, as it used to be in the past. It's not my image, and I'm not bothered enough to find out who the photographer was, so delete away. jimfbleak 12:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Psimon

Hi. Why did you delete the Psimon image that i had uploaded to accompany that article? Nightscream 14:42, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images have to actually be used in articles. At the time it was deleted, that image wasn't being used in any articles, and had been tagged as such for at least 7 days. Thus, it was deleted under speedy criterion I5. User:Angr 16:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Linguistics

Hi Angr! I have question for you...do you have any creative ideas for improvments to linguistic articles on Wikipedia involving Vietnamese languages? We have a Wikipedian here who might be willing to record some sounds for Wikipedia, so I'm wondering what might be a good collection of recordings to make. Any ideas? --HappyCamper 02:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

What's your job like?

Hello Angr! I noticed on your page that it mentioned that you had obtained your PhD, so I thought you might be able to answer a few questions I have. I'm an entering freshman in college.

Throughout high school I took Latin. Ever since, I've been interested in ancient dead languages like Latin, Greek, Old English, all the Indo-European stuff. I have few people to talk to about it because it's such an esoteric interest. My Latin Teacher knew Old High German, Old Norse, Old English, Latin, Modern German and a little Greek. He was a big fan of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family, and admired Germanic culture. He even did his own translation of Beowulf. Anyway, because of him, I've developed a keen interest in linguistics; why and how languages work, their idiosyncrasies, their differences and similarities, etc.

As a freshman in college, I’m not really sure what I want to do with my life, but linguistics is definitely one of my major interests. I was wondering what a typical day at work is like for you and, if you weren’t working as a translator, what job opportunities you would have? I know lexicographers write dictionaries, but that sounds like a rather bland job. I’ve always been fascinated with tracing the etymology of a word. It’s interesting to see how it traveled though several different languages finally back to PIE, so what’s something I could do with that?

Finally, Just out of curiosity, how did you get interested in the field and why the focus on Old Irish? Thanks for your time. - User:ChristopherWillis

Well, a typical day at work for me involves doing technical translations from German into English, for which a Ph.D. in linguistics is completely unnecessary. What a Ph.D. in linguistics really prepares you for is to become a linguistics professor. If you decide to go to grad school and focus on Indo-European linguistics there, you could go on to be an Indo-Europeanist, doing research and writing articles on the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. But there aren't a whole lot of jobs available; universities are cutting back wherever they can, and Indo-European linguistics just is a little esoteric for most university boards. If you want to study linguistics and still have a chance at actually getting a job afterward, your best bets are computer linguistics and applied linguistics. User:Angr 08:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Cut and paste move?

Hi Angr. I'm still not good enough at reading the history pages of articles, but it looks like someone did a cut and paste article name change somewhere here: [4]. Since you're an admin, can you fix this? (If it matters.) Best, --Cultural Freedom 2006-07-25 -22:13 (UTC)

It seems to have been taken care of already. User:Angr 07:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Are US Postage stampes covered by copyright?

I'm looking for some advice from an experience admin, and I hope that you can provide this advice to me. Today I noticed you deleted an image of a US postage stamp. I am curious about the reason for your deletion (besides the fact it had been deleted a month earlier.) Are there special laws/rules controlling the images of US postage stamps that differ from other images produced by the US Federal govenment? (I searched for advice on this issue within Wikipedia, but didn't seem to have any luck finding an answer. Any advice on how to improve such a search would be helpful as well.) Thanks.. WVhybrid 03:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

As I understand it, US postage stamps made after 1978 are copyrighted, because the United States Postal Service hasn't been part of the Federal Government since then. Prior to that date, the USPS was part of the government and stamps were public domain. User:Angr 07:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

That makes sense. Unfortunate, but understandable. Thank you. p.s. I like your photos of the Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof. What a great celebration of design. WVhybrid 22:22, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Dance capitalization

I noticed that you listed yourself as a linguist. There is currently a dispute at the Lindy Hop article the Dance WikiProject about the capitalization of dances that could use the expertise of a linguist. If you think you might be able to help, we would certainly appreciate your comments. Thanks! --Cswrye 05:01, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Why do you need a linguist? Capitalization has nothing to do with linguistics. User:Angr 07:10, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Rollback error

I have no idea how this happened. Sorry about that; I wasn't even aware that I had looked at that article, let alone having any intent to revert your editing of it. Jkelly 19:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Reference desk

Thanks for the info; so we're stuck with doing all this manually? Lectonar 12:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

It's on my watchlist anyway; never got around to these bot-things either. Until the 7th then. Cheers. Lectonar 12:16, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Fannie Flagg article

Thanks for catching my goof on the Fannie Flagg article. I tried to correct the title of her newest book and still ended up not getting it right. Thanks again. Dbart 15:03, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem. That's what a wiki is for! :-) User:Angr 15:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Help with translation

Hi. I'm currently working on a script intended to create short articles on political parties on a variety of wikipedias simultaneously. However, in order for the technique to work I need help with translations to various languages. If you know any of the languages listed at User:Soman/Lang-Help , then please help by filling in the blanks. Thanks, --Soman 15:01, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Icelandic þ and ð

Since you were helpful in the past with the phonology section in Icelandic language, I wanted to ask if you could comment on a question I raised at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Phonetics#Icelandic þ and ð. Basically, did the reference you had for Icelandic phonology mention anything about ð and þ in Icelandic not being the dental [ð] and [θ] but rather alveolar? Stefán Ingi 13:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Image proof

Hey, what more do I need to do to prove the source of the images of the articles I have uploaded? Thanks.--Chuck watson 14:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

You need to provide information on who holds the copyrights to those images. The tag you put on them, {{PD-self}}, can only be used if you yourself are the photographer. But Image:Rusty ps.jpg says "This photo was taken by the Rusty Ps" and indeed is available online at http://www.rustyps.com/photos/index.html. Image:Alterra.jpg says "Picture taken by Alterra Coffee Roasters" and appears to be from their myspace page. Thus I seriously doubt you are the photographer. User:Angr 14:38, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Well it happens that I am the photographer. That is why the images are found elsewhere online. I am the webmaster of Alterra Coffee Roasters and the producer (S Watson) for the Rusty Ps. So indeed these photos are legitimate. Is there more I need to prove for this?--69.210.85.38 19:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

If you're the photographer, then please upload higher-resolution versions of these images (at least 1000 px on the longest side). Photographs that have been released into the public domain do not need to be low-res, and are more useful to Wikipedia the higher-res they are. Or, upload photographs that haven't appeared on the web yet, but of the same subjects. Or, if you're the webmaster of the websites where the images are to be found, please update the sites to say that all rights to the images have been irrevocably released, making them public domain. User:Angr 19:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)