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Hello. I didn't know what to do with your edit on Reforms of French orthography since it doesn't seem to me like there is any "subset" or rule applied when the past participle is followed with an infinitive: the usual avoir rule applies, and those alleged subrules are just in fact "tricks" to determine whether or not the infinitive is the object of the past participle... I think your edit is valuable because obviously this is how they perceived it, but I've NPOVed hopefully you'll agree with that. --[[User:Valmi|Valmi ✒]] 23:00, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
You don't have any obligation to adress this, but I think it would be nice to have a user page about you. :-þ --[[User:Valmi|Valmi ✒]] 01:00, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm not sure what you're referring to. If you mean my change for the symbol for Welsh <ll> from ɭ to ɬ, I'm certain that my change was correct. ɭ is a retroflex l, ɬ is voiceless l, which is the sound in Welsh. If that's not what you mean, please clarify. Nohat 06:01, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) OK I noticed that the omniglot page described the rh sound as a "voiceless r", whereas on the page previously it was described as an "aspirated r". I changed the text to read "voiceless r" and changed the symbol from that of an aspirated r to a voiceless r. There's probably not much difference in articulation between the two sounds. I will discuss with a couple Welsh experts I know next week and see what they say about the phonetics of rh. Nohat 06:12, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Your Template:ConvertIPA is a useful addition, but it belongs on the talk page of articles. - SimonP 22:10, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
I'll put this in simple straightforward terms - adding the template to pages you come upon and think should be made to use IPA is rude and no amount of linking to any syndromes from your user page makes it otherwise nor is an excuse. While the uniform use of IPA is a worthy goal this is not the way of achieving it. Sander 19:47, Jan 9 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know, Jean-Sébastien. Take care. --Valmi ✒ 18:29, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
You've added an expansion request to Tamil language but I didn't find an explanation of on the article's talk page or on Wikipedia:Requests_for_expansion. If you don't have a specific expansion request, the tag doesn't make much sense, IMHO. --Pjacobi 23:36, 2005 Jan 14 (UTC)
Can I know what the real intention was behind this edit? :) link Looks like you don't really seem to like the mention of 'kannada' wikipedia on the 'kannada' page. --H P Nadig 01:12, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I just noticed how you archived Talk:Quebec French, and I ought to tell you it's not the way to go—too much work for you, a hell of a mess for the others. Just moving the talk page to something like "Talk:XXX/ArchiveY" and creating a link from the main talk page is sufficient I think, and simpler to deal with for everybody. Cheers, Valmi ✒ 15:14, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I notice that you keep deleting the list of selected works. There are more than 650 publications by this botanist. This list of about 20 publications is almost the absolute minimum. They underscore my statements in the text. When I state that Robinson has made a thorough study, overhauling the tribe X, then I also give the publication involved, to substantiate my statement. This list of selected works, instead being too long - as claimed by you -, on the contrary, emphasizes the immense importance of this botanist. I don't like having to fall back on the "three revert rule" and end up in an endless discussion. Furthermore, I'm about to send an email to Mr. Robinson to overview his own biography. It would give a poor impression to Mr. Robinson to see that someone keeps deleting the (short) list of his works. If you don't improve the text and the article, please abstain. JoJan 09:48, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Well done. 68.81.231.127 13:10, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I sincerely believe that we really need to lay down the law in stub sorting, and really provide a guideline. I believe that we should all attempt to reach a general consensus by April 2, 2005 in a set of rules that we can follow. Once we have built a set of guidelines, we can formally create a policy out of those guidelines. We need to define what a specialized topic stub is, how many articles it should cover, when is it appropriate to create it, what defines its need for its creation, what defines its need for deletion, what criteria it should follow, what are the general steps should one take when sorting a stub, whether or not to start using subst: for all templates, whether or not use subst: for all templates created by the meta-templates, and any other matters that may come up in consideration. I thank jag123 for initially creating the subpage for the project at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Guidelines. Even though they have been discussed, I feel that we really need to confirm everything. For that, we should discuss each issue with its own sections, and raise a list of issues that we need to nail down before really continuing on. The English Wikipedia is nearly at 500k articles. Either the MediaWiki software needs to handle stubs such that they can be found with a simple union of categories, or the sorting is done manually by Wikipedians. Personally, I think the latter is less taxing on the server load, especially when we use subst:, which I think would help the Wikipedia out, performance wise. Please make your comments at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Guidelines. I apologize for making this somewhat of a spam notice, but since the project has more members, the project can finally decide on these important issues at hand. -- AllyUnion (talk) 23:23, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. I'm curious, though: What made you spot it? - DavidWBrooks 17:39, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi, and thanks for voting on Talk:Gdansk/Vote. I just checked all edits, and the software is sometimes acting funny. Could you check this diff to see if all votes are placed where you wanted them to, or if a vote was removed accidentially. If everything is fine, then never mind, and thanks for voting -- Chris 73 Talk 08:18, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for the initiative and invitation. I intended to found a Quebecois notice board, following your suggestion. Thanks for being faster than me. ;) I'll be happy to contribute. I raise my glass to our future collaboration. --Liberlogos 23:46, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have created a tree from the last DB dump. If you wanted articles included, it's about 3MB. I'm hoping you just wanted the category tree, no articles? (That will probably be more dynamic anyway.) Let me know. Where would you like this posted, BTW? -- Beland 08:00, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Posted. -- Beland 15:09, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I was thinking of making a bot that created articles for all known planet species, scientific and common name. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:55, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Circeus 15:18, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)
Hello, my Quebec City friend. Thanks for puttting the nPOV tag with a polite "sorry", that's a lot more gentleman-like than most people! I was pleasantly amused. I'm the founder of the article and I'd simply like to work with you so we can fix this as soon as possible.
I review the section and this is what I see...
If you find that something remains to be changed, please share your ideas with me. If not, let us consider removing the template. Thanks a lot. --Liberlogos 20:58, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Can you please clarify which of the images you support at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Microwaved DVD, or, if you support them both, please put your order of support (eg support both, but 1st more than 2nd)? Thanks. --brian0918™ 15:56, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hello Circeus :-) We need translators to help keep up the Wikimania site, btw; have you thought of coming for the event this summer? See .
As for the Nahuatl content, see ; I asked for the main page to be updated with a welcome message and link to that page, but it hasn't been done yet. +sj + 01:07, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Sahara satellite hires.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. |
Soon, most of the tasks of promoting an FPC will become automated, but we will be required to put a template tag with specific information on the FPC's vote page. Check out User talk:AllyUnion for the discussion. I'll probably make the template tomorrow sometime, and update the instructions for FPC promotion. --brian0918™ 06:35, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi - I'm trying to figure out how articles are occasionally ending up with their entire content duplicated. An instance of this happened yesterday from an edit shown in the history as yours, see . Was there perhaps an edit conflict window? If so, do you remember exactly what you did? Thanks. -- Rick Block 13:18, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I am sorry for editing Municipal reorganization in Quebec with the notice up, I thought it was a cleanup message until I read it. Very sorry. -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:36, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Recently, I saw your comments about article Raipur - to some extent, I have added some additional information and shall continue to contribute, there is a lot to do there. What are your suggestions? And, how you got interested in Raipur? lol...bye - --Bhadani 12:13, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Without the stub deletion policy, I can not. They must be listed on TFD and CFD. If Wikipedia:Deletion of useless stub templates and stub categories did pass with consensus, I would able to delete it for you... but since it has no official support... If I deleted them, I'm not following procedure. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:35, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Note to self: this was in answer to Circeus 15:29, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
I replied on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds, and see my changes to Sungrebe. - UtherSRG 15:16, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
You voted for History of Quebec, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.
Hi there,
I'm new here, with an interest in plants. I've joined the WikiProject Plants and found your name there. Coincidentally, the other day I was searching for plants, in preparation of making my 'To do' list, and noticed several moves (e.g. Ajuga to Bugle), which indicate a preference here at Wikipedia to use english rather than latin names. I find that rather confusing (perplexing), since when we talk about the larger picture (e.g. genus etc) we use latin. Since I plan to contribute articles/pics in the area of plants, I'd like to get clarification on the latin vs. english nomenclature for page titles. My user page has a list of articles/pics that I plan to contribute. I hope that fits in with what the rest of the team is doing. If I should have posted this on the team Discussion page, please let me know.
Thanks very much, Mia Goff 16:16, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
self-note: answer is here
I'm not quite sure what you were trying to do with the taxobox, but it didn't come out right, so I've reverted it. I've also corrected and added to the first paragraph. Don't take this as a criticism, I've noticed the good work you've been doing on the taxoboxes. I'm not sure about listing species in taxoboxes. it's fine for Sheathbill, OK (just) for pratincole, but unworkable with parrot or hummingbird. jimfbleak 16:30, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
I was thiking physiology would be more for biological processes in plants, such as transpiration, photosynthesis, protein synthesis, etc.; and that anatomy would be for the actual plant parts, or organs, as opposed to processes. We could combine them into one cat though if you think that's needed. --DanielCD 13:35, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
Hi Circeus, can you help me check the grammar and spelling on fr:Image:RP Chine administrative.png? Thanks. :D -- ran (talk) 13:54, May 16, 2005 (UTC)
Salut Circéus,
Je me suis décidé à ajouter l'Ile Pratas à la carte de la Chine. Malheureusement, il me faut écrire de nouveau le texte au bas de la carte. Pouvez-vous vérifier le texte ci-dessous ?
La République Populaire de Chine et la République de Chine revendiquent à la fois les Îles Paracels et Spratlys, qui n'apparaissent pas sur cette carte.
La RPC contrôle les Paracels, que revendique aussi le Viêt-nam.
Les Spratlys sont disputées parmi plusieurs pays voisins.
At Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Taxobox errors you wrote:
I'm afraid don't understand what you are getting at. Can you give some examples of the problems you are seeing? Gdr 23:37, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
The point about Alligator gar is not that the genus is abbreviated (my code knows about that) but that it is missing {{Taxobox section binomial}} — it seems to me from reading Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Taxobox Usage that an article about a species needs to have such a template (or one of its variants such as {{Taxobox section binomial simple}}. If this isn't the case and the taxobox Alligator gar is in fact OK, then please update Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Taxobox Usage accordingly.
I wouldn't spend any time fixing the missing binomials by hand because it will be straightforward to write some code to add them automatically (in fact, I'll remove them from the list to stop other editors wasting their time). The other mistakes (typos, misspellings, using {{Taxobox section binomial}} where {{Taxobox section trinomial}} is needed will need to be fixed by hand. Which pages would be good to advertise on? Gdr 08:41, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the Sarracenia flava picture to the Yellow pitcher plant article. I couldn't find a nice one in my collection when I wrote it... polypompholyx 08:50, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Hello! I found you via Wikibabel. I was asked by a couple of (non-Wikipedian) friends to see if I could find someone to translate at least some of the long Duran Duran article I worked on in English into French. (The French DD article is currently a two-sentence stub.) Would you be interested? If not, I'm sorry to trouble you and will keep looking. Thanks! — Catherine\talk 08:16, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
You might want to note that the Geography of India is up for Featured Status. As the nominator of the article, perhaps you would like to support? =Nichalp (Talk)= 19:23, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
Is now open to play. See WP:WF. -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:03, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
After the linked discussion below I nominated the article on the, WP:COTWS --Falphin 21:42, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Your redirects from Eurynorhynchus and Eurynorhynchus pygmeus to Spoon-billed Sandpiper are showing up on the Special:BrokenRedirects report. Are you planning to write an article? Susvolans (pigs can fly) 4 July 2005 12:50 (UTC)
Thanks for posting the RFC on Template:Canada. I am leaving on vacation for a couple of weeks so I will not be participating for a while. This may well be a good thing as I am finding Astrotrain to be very frustrating to deal with, and I suspect that I may be close to violating the 3RR in spirit, at least. It would be good if you could keep an eye on this issue. Thanks in advance. Ground Zero 20:20, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
(self-note: answer here)
Hi Circeus - thanks; I didn't do Argentina (genus) though, it is Qwertzy2 who deserves the credit there. I have just done a page for the other species in the genus though (Eged's Silverweed) and may expand the Argentina page. As far as I can find in google searches, there's only two species in Argentina, but it is hard to tell as some useful sources (e.g. the Flora of China online) still keep them in Potentilla making it very hard to tell if there are other species in Asia that would now be referred to Argentina - MPF 14:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
Expanded the lead for you on Neptune (planet). Any other objections on the FAC? Toothpaste 10:11, 2 August 2005 (UTC) Note: answer is here
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I didn't know that. Thanks for the info! Soo 16:25, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thanks for you help. do i speak with you about a page that is being non-stop vandalized? Flaunted 17:25, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
I think you missed my point on the taxbox image width. Different articles will have different requirements, and I was just saying that a bot should never be enforcing style choices because it cannot accomodate those exceptions. The Morel image (thanks for finding a good replacement) was one such example. -Harmil 01:37, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Sorry for the confusion, I thought I'd understood your categorization. I realize now that you are grouping at the Genus level. I would be more than happy to help and very much appreciate the need for consistency. JohnCastle 00:20, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
OK, I want to finish the family I'm working on, or at least the sub-family. After that, I'll keep an eye on the discussion. Passeriformes is a huge order I suspect that most sub-categories below family are redundant. But I'm not convinced by the argument that categories should have 100 articles, I can't remember see many that meet that criterion.
Categories: Passeriformes has to be grouped at the family level to be meaninging. Passeri has 60+ families and Tyranni has 13, now to me these are valid categories. Now I can see the argument for not having genus level cats since in general there won't be many articles there, so the question is should I re-categorize what I've already done, or continue using this category. BTW, I think I'm done with Dicrurinae, but I've not grouped the middle sub-family by genus, (I'd done the 1st already and the 3rd was already done!) I'm not going any further until I know what the plan is.
Thank You! I just spent an hour tidying up after the previous round of Grundyism; I might have had to take a break before looking at whatever just happened. — Xiong熊talk* 15:02, 2005 August 18 (UTC)
Hi, I've added many Bambara entries (1001 :) to the French Wiktionary. I also tried to add some structure in the form of categories, so you might want to check this. Before that I had already started a Wikilivre Bambara... It's not perfectly complete, and if you want I can add some more information, especially if you tell me what you need it for. Guaka 19:15, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
User:Jenmoa/birthday --User:Jenmoa 00:56, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm a user of Catalan wikipedia. You collaborate with ECHO project, well I can help you with catalan articles. I'm native in catalan and spanish and i can speak more or less both english and french. We could work together to bring here catalan articles. I'm barcelona there: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuari:Barcelona Please leave me a message! --62.175.92.90 16:16, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
I only just logged in again after a hiatus, and I noticed your request that I put up higher resolution images for Image:Driftwood-2.jpg and Image:Turbulence.jpg. They're now all I got out of my camera. --Andrew 02:41, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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About this change You removed the Category:Universities and colleges in Mexico and kept Category:Universities and colleges in Sonora. However if you notice, all the articles in the subcategories of the first categories are also found in the category. That is, for example Universidad de Sonora will have both categories, because we want Category:Universities and colleges in Mexico to list all universities regardless of what state/city they're in. I understand how this may look ambiguous. But if someone is looking for an institution in Mexico, we don't want them to look in every subcategory to find the article. I will revert the change if you don't mind. Thanks --Vizcarra 17:39, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
I've made numerous changes which you may or may not be happy with. Heron has its own article, rather than the crazy link to a disamb page, I've hived off bittern again, (deserves own article), but removed the duplicated content from the Heron page. (see Talk:heron.
I've also cleared the links through redirect oddities like [[herons]], [[egrets]] and [[bitterns]]
Ardeidae I've left as a redirect, not sure if it deserves a separate article, since it would just lump the content of Heron and Bittern
jimfbleak 08:04, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Self note: answered here
I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 14:42, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
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