User talk:Reinhard Hartmann

Welcome!

Hello, Reinhard Hartmann, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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February 2009

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Welcome

Hello again. As a lexicologist, I'm sure you will appreciate that encyclopedia articles that don't explain terms are not particularly encyclopedic or useful to readers. I have accordingly redirected several of your new creations to the existing article on lexicography, where they are already alluded to. Your expertise is greatly appreciated, and I sincerely hope that you will not be put off, and that you will continue to contribute to the project. Please do not hesitate to leave me a message if you need assistance. If you prefer, you could also add a "{{helpme}}" to this page, along with a description of your problem, and someone else will be along shortly to help. -- Fullstop (talk) 12:29, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
ps: Wiktionary, a sister project of Wikipedia, would probably also benefit from your expertise.

Thanks for your note. I've responded on my talk page. -- Fullstop (talk) 16:31, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Applied linguistics

Hello Dr. Hartmann, thank you for your contributions. Please be careful, though, when adding categories, such as Category:Applied linguistics; you have put several articles into this category which are on topics that are not generally considered to be applied fields, such as Neurolinguistics and Psycholinguistics, which are mostly experimental fields (of course, they both have applications, as does any field, but are not generally considered to be part of "applied linguistics"). Thank you, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 14:47, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I have only redirected those fields to the category 'Applied Linguistics' (or 'Applied linguistics', as I understand it should have been called) which are considered by members of the applied linguistics fraternity -- as in relevant textbooks, handbooks, encyclopedias and associations -- to belong there. Incidentally, famous applied linguists such as Robert Lado, Keith Johnson, Jacek Fisiak, Carl James, Peter Strevens, David Crystal, Alan Davies, Chris Butler, John Sinclair, Susan Hunston, Geoffrey Leech, Robert Di Pietro and Douglas Biber are not well represented in Wikipedia!? Cheers, R.R.K. Hartmann

Yep, coverage of academics in general is a major problem on Wikipedia. There are lengthy articles on kid actors who have been on one Nickelodeon show, but almost nothing on people who have made major contributions to their fields. One reason for that is that there are few linguists who are editors on Wikipedia (the majority of editors are either high school kids, or academics but in other fields), and another reason is that Wikipedia's N notability guidelines are not evenly applied across different kinds of people. For example, compare WP:ATHLETE, the notability standards for athletes, to WP:PROFESSOR, the notability guidelines for academics—the former is much more inclusive, and athletes barely have to do anything to be considered "notable," whereas the latter guideline excludes a lot of prolific academics. This is a major problem, but it's not easy to change because of how ingrained these standards are in the community, and because the majority of people are just more interested in athletes than in academics, unfortunately. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 17:07, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect

I guess what you meant to do at Language for special purposes was to make a redirect so that anyone clicking on it would be taken to Language for specific purposes which you plan to create. The way to do that is #REDIRECT [[target page]], and I have done that for you. But you now need to create the target page fairly soon, or the redirect may get deleted as going nowhere. Another tip: if you want to put the page up before it is really complete, you can put {{underconstruction}} at the top - two curly brackets each side - which will protect it (for a few days only). Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:24, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see you have made the target page, but I have changed that for you, too, by "moving" it - changing its title - to "Language for specific purposes". The usual convention for article titles is to capitalise only the first word (except for proper nouns). I have tinkered slightly with the article layout as well to bring it into line with the usual convention. More advice at the Manual of Style and links from there. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:28, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you; that's very helpful! R.HartmannReinhard Hartmann (talk) 07:26, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if I could ask you for your help. I have now finalised my own page (Reinhard Hartmann), but when I try to print it out, page 2 refuses to appear. Is there a problem/solution, please? Reinhard Hartmann (talk) 17:02, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think this must be a browser problem rather than a Wikipedia problem. What browser are you using? I use Firefox, and when I have your page on the screen and click File/Print preview I see all (four) pages; I have just tried Internet Explorer and also see all four pages. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:18, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for answering so quickly. I use Internet Explorer, and I can see page 2, but it doesn't want to be printed out!? RH Reinhard Hartmann (talk) 17:31, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IE printed all four pages for me, no problem. This is IE6, I have never bothered to update since switching to Firefox. I don't know what to suggest; you could try the Help Desk and see if they know of anything that might be relevant. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:33, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of linguists

Dear Reinhard, thanks for adding some linguists to the list. However, as the list once was extremely large and messy, we decided to cut it down to only linguists which have a Wikipedia article. Please don't any linguists without articles anymore. If you think there is someone who really merrits to be on that list, someone really famous and important to, say, Applied linguistics, you can write an article on him or her and then add them to the list. — N-true (talk) 12:34, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a pity you are stopping my attempt to add the names of scholars (esp. in Applied linguistics) to the List of linguists, as I feel they have been rather neglected; but I can understand the argument (and I don't really have time to write entries on them myself). As you are interested in dictionaries (I have seen your impressive ownership list), you may be be aware that I have just finished a lengthy period of trying to consolidate the List of lexicographers. Darf ich fragen, ob es einen guten Grund gibt, warum Prof. Peter Schmitt (als Mitherausgeber von LES) meine emails zum Thema 'Periodicals of relevance to lexicography' nicht beantwortet? Beste Gruesse, Reinhard Hartmann Reinhard Hartmann (talk) 15:01, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
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