User talk:Halda/Old talk

Dune

I deleted the page as you requested, I am loathe to fulfill your other request as I don't know much about the subject (it's been years since I read Dune). I searched for both terms on google, and they both come up. Maybe best to discuss it with the previous authors of the article? - snoyes 19:30, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi Alcarillo. Edits from your IP have now been reattributed to your username. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 10:53, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Stjepan Radic

You're welcome :) I should dig up some of his biographic data as well... The actual quotes seem to have been:

"Gospodo! Još nije prekasno! Ne srljajte kao guske u maglu!"

"Ne zaključujte jedinstvene vlade s Kraljevinom Srbijom"

Meaning:

"Gentlemen! It's still not too late! Don't rush like geese into fog!"

"Do not ratify a unified government with the Kingdom of Serbia"

I can't find a decent translation of the verb srljati used in that sentence, it means something like "to rush" or "to scramble", to do something hastily, with a negative connotation.

Note that he was actually opposed to signing the deal so soon (all this happened within a month or so since the secession from Austria-Hungary), not necessarily to the whole idea. In other words, he did not find this bargain acceptable, but support for a union of the South Slavs was pretty strong among the people (it was either that or possible occupation by Italy, Austria or Hungary). I'll amend the article to state this more clearly.

Narodno Vijeće means People's Council. That was the temporary ruling body of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the product of the secession from Austria-Hungary. This wasn't the Croatian Parliament because it wasn't composed of really elected representatives (I believe), merely the ad hoc leaders while the ruined empire was still in a war-induced mess. In fact, the modern Constitution of Croatia emphasizes this fact (that it wasn't the real Parliament which chose to join Serbia and Montenegro in 1918) in its introduction, because the first Yugoslavia turned out to be a real fiasco...

--Shallot 18:00, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Tar-Ardamin

i have a question regarding Tar-Ardamin. You changed the translation of Ardamin from 'First of the world' to 'Pillar of the world' — may i ask why? 'Pillar of the World' would be 'Ardamindon' i think, whereas 'Arda-min' simply means 'Arda-first' (Arda, realm, here means 'world'). Anárion 10:11, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Good question, and I think the idea behind the name is similar: that he is calling himself a primus inter pares, a 'first among equals' as well as a 'pillar of Edainic nobility' -- both are signs of emerging Númenorian arrogance. However, his Adûnaic name Ar-Abattarîk has the word element -tarîk, which is attested as 'Pillar' (ref: târik "pillar", in Minul-târik "Pillar of Heaven", in [Ardalambion]); it does have obvious linkages to the "minassë", and "minë" meaning one, a pillar forming physically, in essence, a "one". I also found this: [German site (though in English)] where it says that an earlier name for Meneltarma was Menelmin. Perhaps what Tolkien was getting at is that language also reflected the Númenorean's growing pride and estrangement from the Eldar: "min" in Quenya is transformed from "one" to "pillar" in Adûnaic. Or it could just be the final name slipped through the cracks in his ongoing editing (remember it was omitted from the LOTR Appendix). I think, then in the interests of clarity that the article should state that his Adûnaic name means "Pillar of the World", and in Quenya it may mean "First of the World". -- Alcarillo 17:45 26 Apr 2004 UTC

Thank you for your fascinating reply. i am copying this to the article's talk page ;-) Anárion 17:10, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hello! Regarding initials: I think that it's currently better to use a standard style across Wikipedia: if we need to fix it later, we can do this programmatically, as with the display of dates. We can, and should, eventually be able to generate high-quality typography from the article text. It's easier to do this if the style is consistent in the source text. A mix of styles, or an edit war over style, is probably not the best way to go. Please see the Wikipedia:naming conventions discussion for more on this. -- The Anome 17:01, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Keg parties

Actually, you know, I have sometimes been so drunk that I start discussing how to exist! in a funny accent. But usually there's nobody listening. Bodnotbod-Talk bodnotbod 23:03, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

External link on Astoria, Queens

I removed the link you placed: Community profile from Long Island Exchange in the external links section b/c it's not a community site, but a commercial one. According to them:

Long Island Exchange, a subsidiary of Searchen Networks Inc., is a special interest media and publishing company focused on the business and entertainment markets here on Long Island New York.

Alcarillo 20:31, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do recognize that this company is a business, but then again so is The New York Times and Newsday and Amazon.com, all sources of other links on this same page that I added and that no one seems to object to. What is it about Long Island Exchange that would make nondescript links from their site linkspam but the others OK. Please note that I have no connection to Long Island Exchange, other than as a source for some neighborhood information that I have not found anywhere else in an organized fashion. Alansohn 22:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]