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Service award level

There has been a major revision of the the Service Awards: the edit requirements for the higher levels have been greatly reduced, to make them reasonably attainable.

Because of this, your Service Award level has been changed, and you are now eligible for a higher level. I have taken the liberty of updating your award on your user page.

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Actually I just updated your edit count in the Service Award template so that it would automatically pick up the next level. Herostratus (talk) 16:11, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please see: Proposed Deletion: Category:Wikipedian Service Award Level 15-17

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Charles Snicket

Hello.

Edit summary regarding Block Quotations.

Hi,

You recently made changes to the article "Osama bin Laden" that reverted an edit I made using Block Quotations, the instructions of which I obtained from here..

According to WP:MOS, standard prose should remain black, and unobtrusive to any other text except for links/refs, which are in blue. That said, unless I've missed some aspect of how the instructions were laid out, I believe quotes are allowed as displayed in that text as edited.

NOTE: Interestingly, the examples used at the page display the text in green, and so if it's not allowed, they've gone against their own guidelines! The information/guidelines at WP:MOS may need to be cleaned up for clarity to editors regarding Quotes. But based on the instructions I think it was okay as inserted. I might reinsert it when things things calm down a bit,(assuming it meets guidelines!), although text color could be changed if needed. Regards, Dijcks | ^InOut 16:09, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the instructions have mislead you. They are only put in green to make them stand out as examples. Furthermore, as I said, you used .. as an ellipsis, when ... is supposed to be used. More importantly than ellipses, though, is that blockquotes are supposed to be four or more lines long (WP:MOS#Block quotations) and are only to be used in the article text (Template:Cquote#Usage); pull-quotes, which may appear at the beginning of a section and use the template {{cquote}}, must "emphasize the content of the section", whereas the quote you used only presented one facet of the section—one which was not elaborated upon beyond the initial quote. Beyond that, the entire conspiracy theory section has been deemed inappropriate for the article, particularly given the existence of the article on bin Laden's death, a judgment I wholeheartedly agree with (not for personal political or idealogical reasons, but because there is very little legitimate fodder for the theories). — the Man in Question (in question) 16:25, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm with you on having removed the "doubts" section. I was the user that suggested removal ~ and later did remove it.

I did make a suggestion at the village pump to change the color of the example texts because it simply does go against its own policy by displaying text in that color. I've had to re-read the instructions for each type of quote and I think it's finally sunk-in (only took me 5 edits)! Thanks for the help on this.. Dijcks | ^InOut 16:59, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, heavens! you've kept me busy, going back and forth to this page for the last fifteen minutes. — the Man in Question (in question) 17:12, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry! It's not been one of my better "editing" days! I just took my medication lol!!!! Dijcks | ^InOut 17:39, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ObL

Hi, regarding ObL, I nominated File:Osama bin Laden.png for deletion because it turns out File:Hamid Mir interviewing Osama bin Laden.jpg has a valid free license, so the non-free image fails WP:NFCC#1. Best regards Hekerui (talk) 16:22, 9 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of List of common false etymologies

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DYK for List of common false etymologies

On 28 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of common false etymologies, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the f-word did not begin as an acronym, as is commonly claimed, but is of much older Proto-Germanic origin? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Discussion pointer

Hello! Please see Talk:Main Page#Did you know ... that the f-word did not begin as an acronym. Thanks! —David Levy 15:00, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam

Hi. About the revert, I understand you acted in good faith. However, I find it somewhat ridiculous to write the transliteration twice in the beginning, once loosely and the other strictly. Furthermore, there is nothing in WP:BEGINNING that justifies your revert. Finally, per WP:AMOS, ALA transliteration is preferred and is also more intuitive to English readers (this is English Wikipedia after all). I don't wish to start a revert war on such a small issue so could you tell me what is your take on this matter? Thank you. — ABJIKLAM (t · c) 04:18, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination for deletion of Template:American folklore

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Mnestra > Mestra

Hi MiQ. I'm planning to expand the Mnestra article and would like to move it back to Mestra which is, if there can really be a common way of referring to this lady, by far the most common. No one seems to be paying any attention at all to the proposal I put on the talk page. Since you moved the article from Mestra to its current title, do you have any input you want to add there? Thanks — the cardiff chestnut | talk — 00:04, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, looks like you're right—despite the way I learned it, "Mestra" is more commonly found in reference to her on Google Books. Go ahead. — the Man in Question (in question) 02:49, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, MiQ. I'm actually pretty curious find out just when Mnestra started to be used. Before Mnestra's Braid was named, I assume. Clytemnestra, Hypermnestra, etc. vacillated between forms with and without the n, so maybe Mnestra came in on analogy and with a bit of folk etymology: Mestra = "knowledgeable", while Mnestra = "wooed", which would be fitting for her. — the cardiff chestnut | talk — 02:04, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Old Norse & Old English Article Movements

Hello, please discuss the articles you're moving around before you do so. I do not have the power to revert your changes, and in some cases, such as, Hretha and Múspellsheimr, discussion is warranted. :bloodofox: (talk) 04:29, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Hretha" is not an actual spelling of the name; Bede records the name as "Rheda"; the reconstructed form is either *Hrēþe or *Hrēðe. "Hretha" is a fiction invented by people unaware that -a is a masculine suffix in Old English, not a feminine suffix; it is also much less common than Rheda in English literature[1][2]. Therefore I do not believe any discussion was necessary. Your objection to the move from Múspellsheimr to Muspelheim is more legitimate, and perhaps it could have benefited from discussion; but comparable articles, such as Niflheim and Ragnarök, are written in their traditional English orthography rather than their original Old Norse forms (i.e. Niflheimr, Ragnarǫk); the same is true of other notable Old Norse names, such as Odin (Óðinn), Thor (Þórr), Valhalla (Valhǫll), etc. Furthermore, the spellings Múspells heimr, Múspellzheimr, and Múspellz heimr were all extant in Old Norse. — the Man in Question (in question) 04:54, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hretha is a common modern anglicization of the Old English form, which is employed in a quote your edit modified to feature the Latinized form that Bede presents. Please be more careful. As for the Old Norse material, this has been worked out long ago here; please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Norse mythology). The infamous issues around the first element of Múspellsheimr shouldn't negate it from the normalized Old Norse nominative (and now that I look at it, that article badly needs a total rewrite). Niflheim should go to Niflheimr and also needs some love. Ragnarök uses the umlaut due to issues with the o-ogonek, as outlined in the naming conventions link I present. :bloodofox: (talk) 05:00, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for not noticing the use in a quote. I don't think "Hretha" can be called common. — the Man in Question (in question) 05:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding Hretha, a Google Books search shows widespread use of the anglicization in English scholarship for quite a long while now [3]. That said, I am in favor of keeping the article title in the Latin form, but I felt the need to point how common this anglicization is. :bloodofox: (talk) 05:20, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see that the quotation is a translation, which is why I changed it to "Rheda", which is truer to the original. — the Man in Question (in question) 05:38, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You may notice that the quote and original Latin are from two different sources. Wallis chose the anglicization of the reconstructed Old English form, so we need to respect that or swap it out for another translation source. :bloodofox: (talk) 06:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for commenting on Portal:Hellenismos

Thanks for your input on Portal talk:Hellenismos. Though I disagree (and recently explained more why,) I am not necessarily against changing the portal name, but its name is used in certain places on Wikipedia and has been used in the English language for years/decades.--Dchmelik (talk) 17:44, 26 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Human consumption listed at Redirects for discussion

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Roman province

Judaea/Iudaea/IVDAEA was the actual spelling used by the Romans themselves... AnonMoos (talk) 13:05, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lemony Snicket Task Force

Excuse me... I got a message from a now-retired user named Rident in 2010 inviting me into the Lemony Snicket Task Force. I was not interested at first, but now I am, but I can't talk to her now, since she's retired. Is it too late to join, by any chance? If so, how do I sign up? (please respond on my talk page; is that a talkback?) The Shadow-Fighter (talk) 00:43, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Om article

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– Okay, will not add any link. A new message has been posted in Om article talk page! --Tito Dutta ✉ 22:55, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dexter characters

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File:Frenchwriterstub.jpg

Just noticed that you are still active. :-) Any chance you remember this file? It was lost some time ago. Do you still have a copy? Can you create a new version? Is it still needed? --MGA73 (talk) 22:23, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, still active…but slower these years. I don't remember what the file was, so I don't think I can help, unfortunately. — the Man in Question (in question) 22:48, 11 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Too bad. Well it is unused so perhaps we could simply delete it. If you agree you could add {{db-author}} to the file page. --MGA73 (talk) 18:56, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done. — the Man in Question (in question) 17:17, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rush Limbaugh

Please do not remove correct and valuable information, especially without even giving an edit summary. And why on earth would someone pursuing a doctorate in diachronic linguistics remove pronunciation help that most US readers need? --Espoo (talk) 17:40, 30 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Whoa there! First of all, an edit that happened in 2008 is not worth raising a fit over. As it happens, I agree that the edit makes no sense—and I don't remember the circumstances at all that led me to do it. Secondly, my introduction page is a joke (keep reading it, and this will become clear). I am definitely not pursuing a doctorate in diachronic linguistics, nor have I ever pursued one. — the Man in Question (in question) 04:53, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for overreacting, but being an experienced editor yourself, i guess you can understand that someone can get peeved about information they added being removed without even an edit summary even if they don't discover the removal until much later. Sorry i called vandalism what was apparently accidental removal. --Espoo (talk) 10:20, 2 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Modern pronuciations for ancient Egyptian words

I notice that you've been adding pronunciations to the ancient Egypt articles that were tagged as needing them. I don't object to that—I wasn't happy when the tags were slapped on dozens of AE articles—but you don't provide sources for those pronunciations. It may not seem to matter much, considering that you are (I assume) a native English speaker, but these words aren't all that commonly used in English. Long ago, I assumed that "Anubis" was stressed the same way as "antidote", but as the sourced pronunciation that I added to the article demonstrates, it isn't. Several years ago, someone asked at Talk:Ptah how to pronounce that god's name. If you have a source for the pronunciations you add, by all means continue, but it needs to be cited. A. Parrot (talk) 18:41, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The pronunciation of Egyptian names follows a system—though that system is different depending on whether the reconstructed Egyptian form is used (as in the case of Ptah) or the hellenized form is used (as in the case of Anubis). Anubis would always have the accent on the second syllable because in Greek it is Anoubis (Ἄνουβις), with the second syllable having a long vowel (ou). If a long vowel falls in the second-to-last syllable of a Greek word in English, the stress falls there; if not, then the stress falls on the third-to-last syllable. The same basic system is used for the pronunciation of reconstructed Egyptian names, except that some retain "ah" and "oo" pronunciations for a and u, while others do not, and there are fewer unstressed syllables (for example, /ˈsɛkˌmɛt/ rather than */ˈsɛkˌmɨt/). — the Man in Question (in question) 18:47, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

But is there a source somewhere that says that? A. Parrot (talk) 18:59, 3 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

V.F.D.

Hi !

I came across this page today. Great work ! (especially the Mission part)

How come this stuff isn't in the V.F.D. article ? :) --George (talk) 11:13, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I remember :)

I copied the Mission section to the V.F.D. article in October. I'll remember to go through the WIP pages the next time I'm in a Lemony Snicket-y mood and see if there are other things that could be moved to the article. --George (talk) 20:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Weet-weet for deletion

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Template:Examples needed

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IPA on Mount Cheam and Cheam Range

I think you have it wrong....yes you were right to get rid of the schwa but I don't think the vowel you've provided is right.....we pronounce it SHEE-em, with that EE very brief and the -em part the main vowel; stress is really more like Shee-EM; the "em" part is the same vowel as "pen". Can't say I've ever heard it pronounced like the "ae" character you've provided.Skookum1 (talk) 00:59, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! If you know how it's pronounced, though, then go ahead and change it. I based the IPA on what online sources said about its pronunciation. — the Man in Question (in question) 22:05, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cithara

Please see Talk:Cithara#Move dispute -- PBS (talk) 00:27, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Squamish was a bad move

Squamish has more primary meanings than the Skwxwu7mesh people, the Cydebot cat-name change was ill-advised; please see comments at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_May_3#Category:Nux.C3.A1lk. I'll be having to make another CfR now, for Category:Skwxwu7mesh so it conforms to {{NorthAmNative}} guidelines re indigenous ethnocategory names and existing norms in Category:First Nations in British Columbia.Skookum1 (talk) 06:39, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Glaucus (owl)

Hi MIQ, we're trying to figure out a move you made some years ago at this page. Please pop over when you have a chance. Later, davidiad { t } 23:36, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merger discussion

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Attempting to establish whether you were being intentionally antagonistic

I'm querying your edit on the White Russia article/entry. I can't help but wonder why, rather than simply request a citation as your edit comment suggested that your sole quibble was that, ""anachronistic" would have to be both clarified and sourced.", you reworked the lead appending the Collins dictionary to the only other source cited, being the American Heritage Dictionary.

By no means does either of these sources qualify as being insightful or comprehensive with regards to a complex and sensitive area of studies.

I would ask that, should you come across anything you'd regard as being questionable edits specifically by me, you refer them to me directly. My thanks for your time and patience. Cheers! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 05:37, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There was nothing antagonistic in the tone of anything I did—I am sorry it came across that way. I don't suppose I should say anything more lest it, too, should come across as antagonistic. — the Man in Question (in question) 01:39, 21 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies for the inference. I didn't realise just how curt my comment sounded until re-reading it now. Hopefully, no bad blood has been established between us. Cheers for responding! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 01:07, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for bringing this to my attention! The signature I uploaded, which was from an online source, sufficiently matches all other online versions of Christie's signature to demonstrate its authenticity: [5] [6] [7] [8]. — the Man in Question (in question) 20:22, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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where did you get the pronunciation of Semiahmoo from?

I see the first draft of Semiahmoo people included " (pronounced /ˌsɛmiˈɑːmoʊ/ (deprecated template), US dict: sĕm′ē-ä′mō) " and I'm wondering where you got that; most of the links on the draft are now dead. That might be the pronunciation of their name in North Straits Salish, but the customary English pronunciation of the name, which is both their name and a geographic name, is with a "moo" (as in cow) sound, not /moʊ/. I'm not sure what /ɑː/ is for either, but the [a] can be either "stick out your tongue and say ah", or more like as in cat. I'd say more commonly the latter. I'm not from White Rock (where their community is located and there's a big high school by that name) and I don't know how the Semiahmoo Resort pronounces it on the US side of the line, but "moo" is normal on the Canadian side of the border; that much at least, harder to say about the 'a' sound, I'd tend to say it like "cat" though.Skookum1 (talk) 07:57, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My bad, forgot to add link to Talk:Semiahmoo people where I'd launched the question for discussion. Not that you have a cite, but wondering which of the vanished ones maybe you got it from?Skookum1 (talk) 08:05, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you! I'm honored that you thought of me. — the Man in Question (in question) 04:12, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Vjmlhds (talk) 14:04, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Rhadamanthus

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Recent edit to George R. R. Martin

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Erm…whoa. That was very much a slip of the keyboard. The signature was my only intended edit. Sorry about that. Oi. — the Man in Question (in question) 10:05, 12 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Happy birthday!

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Have a great day! George Edward C – Talk – Contributions 18:54, 13 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day

Happy First Edit Day, The Man in Question, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Anastasia [Missionedit] (talk) 02:27, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]