User talk:XJaM

For old talk see: Archive 2002/2003.

At List of Slovenians, User:68.234.200.53 made some changes which may be questionable. Since I know nothing about the subject matter, could you look at these changes and correct them if necessary. Maximus Rex 09:33, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Yes, Maximus Rex thank you for your notice. I've checked the page and I've made some reverted changes according to the policy of Wikipedia. I am convinced that these particular subjects will be argued by someones who still do not recognize the meaning and value of Slovene NOB (National liberation fight) during the WW2 and the other side of collaborational forces, which have devided the nation to suffer even more. The collective enemy was just one for the whole Slovene nation in those terrible days. The NOB was recognized by the Allies, so... Some recent reactionary communities try to change the NOB as communist plain revolution and not as the liberation fight against the Nazism - what in fact it was, really. Best regards and Happy New 2004. --XJamRastafire 20:32, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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I hope you do fill in Burning Spear's stuff -- I'm sure you'd do a great job. I get my album covers from [allmusic.com] -- those are a perfect size already. They don't have all of them though, and I dunno how to resize them. Good luck! (for reviews, check out [popmatters.com]. I bet they have some Burning Spear, and they're usually well-written and thorough) Tuf-Kat 07:50, Jan 3, 2004 (UTC)

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Well, I've looked through your contribs on the en wikipedia, and you seem to be a sensible chap. sl plainly needs some admins, so (in the absence of a process) I hereby nominate you for adminship on sl. If you accept, I'll leave a message on Brion's TODO list. -- Finlay McWalter 22:44, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

You may do so, I accept. Perhaps I lack some of computer related technical skills, but with a little help of my friends... Since I am here at least for two fine years I know some of Wikipedia's concepts. Thank you anyway. --XJamRastafire 22:53, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hmm, perhaps I've overstepped myself. On reading how the other wikipedias do this, those that don't have a formal process seem to just do things on their Village Pump (or equivalent). Our VP doesn't have a link to the slovenian wikipedia, but I figure you guys have something like it? If that's the case, you should probably post my nomination there and leave it for a few days, just in case someone there objects. Then ideally some other english speaking sl.wikipedia contributor would leave a note on Brion's TODO list. Sorry to get things mixed up. -- Finlay McWalter 23:09, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

No problem at all. Slovene Wikipedia will grow up soon and these problems will be solved as they are here in English Wikipedia. I'll do something in this direction. Truly speaking a term VP is strange for my native - but we shall figure something out. Best regards. --XJamRastafire 23:34, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

VP is equally weird to by British-English ears. Perhaps "meeting room", "town square", "watercooler", or "salon" might make more sense. -- Finlay McWalter 23:40, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

What about a "round table" (but not in a sence of King Arthur's one - just in a sence of literal translation of a Slovene term "okrogla miza" - or "forum", or even "debating circle" or also from Slovene customs "Under the lime" ("Pod lipo")? "Watercooler" is also strange :-) --XJamRastafire 00:30, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

It's entirely up to you guys. I think the idea is to be "the place where informal conversation happens". Under the lime sounds quite pleasant. I'm surprised anything gets done on sl.wikipedia without such a forum. (Side note: "village bike" is british english for "the girl in the village who'll have sex with anyone", something I think the Americans didn't know when they decided upon "village pump" for en.wikipedia). -- Finlay McWalter 00:42, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Re: Slovene language

The article is indeed split up, though I must say that now that this change has been completed, it doesn't look all that good!

Either Slovene or Slovenian supposedly works; however, I am far more inclined to use the former. In addition, the article was started as 'Slovene language': according to Wikipedia's Manual of Style, the first specific variant used in a page should then be used throughout (hence, British English and 'Slovene'). I propose the article be moved back to 'Slovene language', and the language in it properly standardised to British English with 'Slovene' as the language name. Do you think this is sensible?

The new and the old infoboxes seem to clash in a rather ugly manner I think. I suppose there is no sense in arguing that the 'lime green' colour looks absolutely hideous; however, it might look better if the old infobox was moved somewhat down, perhaps to "origin of the language", or perhaps even to the new article, 'Slovene grammar'. What do you think?

As for the top 100 languages, all have more than 7 million speakers. Still, 2 million isn't that bad ...

Cheers,
Sinuhe 08:58, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Hi XJamRastafire. I have looked through the list of people with various interests and found you in several places that I am also interested in. I want to ask you about a couple of items that I would like to do for wikipedia before I do them, but right now would ask you to have a look at a couple of items for your views. I am new to wiki and wikipedia and am having some differences of opinions with User:IMSoP but in a civilised way. The places to view if you are willing are cycles and talk:cycle plus links that he put from there. Thanks, RayTomes 10:19, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Despite the work that's obviously gone into List of transliterations I question if there should be such a page. Please see my comments on the vote for deletion page and add yours! technopilgrim 01:43, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Postage

I'm not really sure what the stamps fall under. I have no idea what Albanian copyright law was like at the time (1960s), if there was one at all. Initially I thought they were public domain, so I was putting them under the GFDL, but I'm not sure anymore. At the very least, they're fair use, but I don't really know. Use them if you feel they're "safe"

Regarding Sinuhe, the only reason I was a bit harsh on him, was that he wasn't acknowledging that using the Move feature was the way to go, and I didn't want him to do that again, maybe on other articles.

And, yes, I am Albanian, if you have any questions that I can possibly answer, don't hesitate to ask.

Dori | Talk 16:04, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

Administrator?

You have been here for a loooong time, and made many contributions to Wikipedia. So I want to nominate you for adminship. Do you accept the nomination? --Lst27 00:47, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Hello, XJam! (a reply to what you wrote on User_talk:Boraczek) Actually, "Čitam po slovensky" is meant to be in Slovak rather than Slovene. Anyway, thanks for the corrections (this one and the one on the Slovenian Wikipedia)! Boraczek 14:53, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

congrats

you're now an administrator! Brush up on your deletion, protection, and reversion guidelines! And, um... review the manual of style! And... et cetera. BTW, you must be the first Slovenian administrator; if so, double-congrats! ugen64 01:49, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations from me too, XJam! We're so proud of you! :-) --Romanm 09:33, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Congratulations! Cribcage 04:57, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Numbers in the Slovene Wikipedia

XJam, I'm pleased to see that the Slovene Wikipedia is making progress with the articles in its List of numbers. I have made a note of this fact in the Report on International Cooperation in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers page. I like the format for the table that blends features from the Docuan and Sabbutian tables. But I'm wondering about the format for the main bodies of the articles. I see links and mathematical formulas but there don't appear to be paragraphs. Is this the finalized format for number articles in the Slovene Wikipedia or is the template still being discussed and refined? PrimeFan 22:48, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

Replied at PrimeFan talk page. --XJamRastafire 13:34, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

"Švutzdokuja" is just I took User:Sabbut and User:Docu's usernames and tried to combine them and make it look like a Slovene word. Sabbut came up with the format for the Spanish Wikipedia, which Utente:L'abbaco spagnolo copied for the Italian Wikipedia, while Docu came up with the format in the English Wikipedia. Having a name for the table is useful for the edit summaries, though perhaps not for anything else.

I like Sabbut's table because it has those functions on it, but I like your modification even better because it lists the individual divisors.

Something that might help with the international cooperation on this project is making sure Wiktionary has all the mathematical terms with their translations. Yesterday, Wiktionary didn't even have entries on decimal and hexadecimal, so I wrote them (but they still need work, such as the Slovene words). PrimeFan 15:46, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Replied at PrimeFan talk page. --XJamRastafire 16:16, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

If "Švutzdokuja" sounds terrible, you should come up with something you're more comfortable typing into edit summaries, that is, of course, if the need arises (in the English Wikipedia we find it helpful when reviewing edits to know if the edit was just to the Docuan table or to another section of the article). Maybe something along the lines of "Sabbut-Dokuovi table".

Congratulations on the WikiProjekt! PrimeFan 16:56, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Timeline of Slovene history

Please don't litter the Timeline of Slovene history article with false historical information. I'm sure you're not a historian nor a slavist. You must have fallen for some pseudo-scientific theories. "Circa 400 - St. Jerome translates Slovene writings to Latin." This statement is quite funny. At the same time it's a pure mythology. But Wikipedia is meant to be a source of reliable scientific information, not a fantasy book, so please refrain from putting it in the article.

Also, as you seem to have little knowledge about your own native language, I suppose, let me tell you that the literary Slovene language emerged in the 16th century. Using the term "Slovene language" when referring to the times before the 16th century is in fact anachronistic. Boraczek 08:36, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

BTW, so as to explain why the quoted sentence is funny to me - that statement is on the same level of scientific substantiation as the sentence, say, "Circa 400 - Slovenes came to Slovenia from Mars by spaceships offered to them by Klingons from the Planet X". I don't need to check your personal info to know that you're not a historian, so you can't tell history from fantasies. But since you put fantasies in a Wikipedia article, you spread false historical information. Please think it over. I hope I didn't offend you. In fact, I'm a bit irritated, but I hope I didn't pass the line of being unkind. So let me end with: Kind regards. Boraczek 09:00, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Replied at Boraczek talk page. --XJamRastafire 10:39, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

As I don't want to get into an edit war, I didn't revert your changes. But the readers have the right to be warned that the data are not reliable, so for the time being I included the warning message. I'll soon post my reply. Boraczek 13:12, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I moved the discussion to Talk:Timeline of Slovene history#Misinformation. Boraczek 19:10, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Maria Mitchell correction

Hi, I made a major correction at the Maria Mitchell page. Can you fix the Slovenian version of the page at sl:Maria Mitchell? Thanks. -- Curps 21:24, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Walter Sydney Adams

Hi, I made a mistake when I first created this article, it's "Sydney", not "Sidney". Can you fix and rename the Slovenian page? sl:Walter Sidney Adams

Thanks. -- Curps 00:45, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Godefroy Wendelin

I notice there is a Slovenian page already. I believe it's Wendelin and not Wedelin. -- Curps 02:05, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Avala's case at the Arbcom

Could you visit Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Avala/Evidence#Snowspinner.27s and tell what is the correct translation of several terms directed at Avala? Nikola 19:50, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Typo

Thanks, it was meant to be "under" Lepidoptera (meaning I have tackled some of the subordinate taxa - the families). Have fixed --Keith Edkins 06:46, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Slovenian

The fact you prefer 'Slovene' is no surprise due to the very fact you are not a native English speaker. For, if you were, you'd know how clumsy and rather ugly 'Slovene' sounds. It is of no coincidence that 'Slovene' is being phased out and is already used exclusively by the Slovenian army, Slovenian Chamber of Commerce, most Slovenian businesses with an international presence, etc. The Slovene language too will be changed eventually too. Regards. --BT

Replied at BT2 talk page. --XJamRastafire 10:09, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Bot

Just to let you know, Bgbot is now flagged as a bot at sl: so its edits will not show up in recent changes. If you ever to remove the bot flag from it, just ask at m:requests for permissions. Angela. 20:47, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)

Invite

Hi

I'm posting this to invite you to participate in WP:LCOTW , a project you may be interested in. Please consider nominating and/or voting for a suitable article there. Filiocht 12:42, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

1. ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
2. ...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 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. So far over 90% of people who have responded have done this.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for 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:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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 at my talk page what you think. It's important to know, even if you choose to do anything so I don't keep asking. -- Ram-Man 16:24, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

image license

Hi,
while compiling the italian article on Slovenija I found this image: Image:SVN_highlighted_map.png, with no license information. I suppose it's gfdl? Alfio 22:13, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unverified image

Thanks for uploading Image:Karantania 597.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the image and I'll tag it for you. Thanks, Kbh3rd 00:27, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

ALSO:

• Image:Celje-Celjski dom.jpg
• Image:Celje-rscd.png

Tuještevno število (Nontotient)

Anton, XJam, how's this for a "crucible" to test proposed terms? Talk:Nontotient. PrimeFan 23:07, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

License ?

Hi, someone just uploaded Image:Ulps000-1.png on french wikipedia, could you tell me its license ? Thanks Tipiac 11:47, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image:Hippachus 000A.jpg

Hello. I was image tagging, when I came across Image:Hippachus 000A.jpg. Do you remember where it came from? Could you add a image copyright tag to it? Pictures without tags will eventually be deleted. Thanks, – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 02:10, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Društvo Matematikov Fizikov in Astronomov Slovenije

Hi. Društvo Matematikov Fizikov in Astronomov Slovenije is up for deletion. I think the page should be kept but I was unable to find any english information on the society on the web. As you are a native slovene speaker I thought you could have a short look at the society webpage [1] and add some material to the wikipedia article so it does not get deleted.

Thanks. MathMartin 11:15, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Balkan NPOV page

Pisem vama trojici koji ste se prijavili jos onomad na m:South Slavic NPOV page (Hariju, Joyu i tebi), posto sam napravio neke izmene, a potaknut desavanjima vezanim za stranicu en:Kosovo. Dakle, definitivno treba to da aktiviramo. Preko toga, ja sam promenio ime u m:Balkan NPOV page zato sto mi se cini da tako ima znatno vise smisla. Treba ukljuciti u to i Albance, ali i Grke itd. i videti sta dalje. Meni se cini da je dobro da napravimo template koji kaze da je ta i ta stranica pod obradom Balkan NPOV page i da tamo treba razgovarati i sl. --Millosh 19:44, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Eleassar777

Prosim, da ne popravljaš več moje uporabniške strani, razen če gre za črkovanje ali slovnico. Sicer pusti predlog na pogovorni strani. Sicer pa hvala za čestitke! --Eleassar777 08:06, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Slovenian/Slovenes

Discussion transferred to Talk:Slovenians. Much discussion took place today. You can join. --Eleassar777 my talk 21:27, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In Talk:Slovenians, I have presented arguments that show why Slovenian is at least the preferred but more possibly the correct term to use both as an adjective and as a noun. Perhaps you may wish to have a look at them. --Eleassar777 my talk 06:05, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I have tried to clarify my comments and also please note, BT2 added the links, not me. I was just naive enough to have created the lists and have expected both would be expanded so that we could perhaps see which one is longer. The stable version of my point of view is available here. It is only this page that still matters as to my arguments. It's probably the best to carefully read it in its entirety. I am also thinking of putting together a comprehensive list of all arguments we have available for any of options as to this matters on my user page. Or possibly creating a new article where they would be presented. Otherwise, happy wiki-ing! I don't understand why you say that you would leave - it would be pity to lose you. --Eleassar777 my talk 21:42, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It is simple because I have to listen on and on what should I write and this steals me a lot of precious time. Just because. I have many other important things to do, you know. There is a whole Milky Way yet to discover, right :-) If I am not able to write properly in English (although many English native spakers have encouraged me, for what I am thankful them), then I shall stop toiling. What else can I do? I like Wikipedia very much, but I can not stand that non-native English can not use proper terms, just because some think they are right. --xJaM 00:39, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You don't need this, do you? If you do, you can always put it up again from history. I'll just leave my P.S.

P.S:A galaxy is too large for you or me, isn't it? ;)

just removed my stupid pps. Sorry that you had to read it.

Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest

I've created this. You may want to expand it. Hedley 19:53, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Slovene/Slovenian debate

I wouldn't know what to say on this debate right now, but I'm going to read the discussion at Talk:Slovenians and give my opinion on the matter.

My father speaking in English called the language "Slovene," and that's how I see it called in books such as Colloquial Slovene: The Complete Course for Beginners by Andrea Albretti, as well as in-depth scholarly books such as A Historical Phonology Of The Slovene Language by Marc L. Greenberg. So right now, my preference for the word "Slovene" is based more on familiarity than any other merits. Anton Mravcek 19:04, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Could you XJaM, please post the text written in Slovenski etimološki slovar, to my user page in Slovene? I know this is additional work, however I think I would then easier understand what is written and would be very thankful. --Eleassar777 my talk 19:22, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What do you mean Eleassar777? I have no digital form of the dictioanry if you mean to copy/paste that text from it. I just can write it again in Slovene. --xJaM 19:26, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to library today so you don't have to write it in Slovenian - unless you wish to do it for others. I sent you an e-mail today of publications offered by NUK - did you get it? Unfortunately, the most relevant are the articles in the publications that are only ordered and not available right now. I'm going to ask how long it will take till they arrive.

By the way, I noticed that Stane (or Stanko, I don't remember any more) Klinar that wrote those articles co-operated with Mr Gobetz and several other Slovenians. I suppose they all say the same and in my opinion it would be very difficult to get something specialized on this question that would confirm Slovene is the right term. Nevertheless, these are only my guesses. --Eleassar777 my talk 07:53, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I went to NUK today and I posted some sources in Talk:Slovenians. They confirm that Slovene should be used. Expect more. Greetings. --Eleassar777 my talk 14:01, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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XJam, why do you use Croatian and not Croat, yet Slovene and not Slovenian? Please explain this mystery. Surely you learned from your English teachers in Slovenia 'Croat' along with 'Slovene'. BT2 23:55, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Why I am using Croatian instead of Croat? Simply because I really do not want to fall in another debate which term is preferrable. This is no mistery - a simple fact that Wikipedia now uses this term. But don't think I shall switch to 'Slovenian' because of that - only if we would reach a consensus and if someone with good arguments shall persuade me. --xJaM 00:01, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My Webster's says it this way:

• Slovene - noun - One of a southern Slavic group usually classed with the Serbs and Croats. The dictionary says Slovene is Greek. Maybe that's where we get "Nazarene", as the New Testament was written largely in Greek.
• Slovenian - adjective - Slovene; noun - a Slovene. Also, the language of the Slovenes, closely akin to Serbo-Croatian. Wahkeenah 00:20, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Interesting, Wahkeenah. From where a Greek language now came? During the last days we are just hearing that a word "Slovene" came from French word Slovėnes, or from German word Slowene. You can also see my non-English etymological source at Talk:Slovenians where a Proto-Slavic word '*slovene' is described and of course other debates. I would say in a simple manner that Jesus was Nazarethian, or Nazarethe :-) --xJaM 00:31, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not so fast, XJam. I think our friend Wahkeenah is having trouble reading his dictionary. I, too, have a Webster's dictionary (1971 -- several years older than me). Its entry for Slovene is the following:

Slovene n, [G, fr. Slovene Sloven] 1 a : a member of southern Slavic group of people usu. classed with the Serbs and Croats and living in Yugoslavia b : a native or inhabitant of Slovenia 2 : the language of the Slovenes -- Slovene adj -- Slovenian adj or n

Legend: G = German (Gk = Greek), n = noun, adj = adjective

Now, XJam, I think we can agree that Croat is to Croatia, as Slovene is to Slovenia. Croat has been, as I think you've conceded, effectively replaced by Croatian. Slovene is not far behind. By the way, there's our beloved 'Sloven' again.

Yes, thank you for clearing this out. I do not quite understand only this: /[G, fr. Slovene Sloven]/. Does this mean that a word 'Sloven', which means "Slovene" come from German and/or French? --xJaM 11:18, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

fr. stands here for from, and not French. This means that Slovene was thought to have come from a German word Sloven (definition: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sloven). This contradicts etymologists' other idea of slovenec/slovenian/slovene coming from slovo and instead implies we were named (in English, German, and Slovenian) after an old German word for carelessness in appearance and work. I think some etymologists are full of BS. Their job is a lot of guess work... BT2 03:59, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I don't buy this at all. Sloven ('zlofn) and Slowene (zlo'véne) are pronounced and written different in German. Besides this, Slovenian name for Slovenes is surely older than the German name. And why would Slovenes want to call themselves after a derogatory German word? The most simple and only logical path is that Sloven* spread to other languages, including German, not from German to all Slavic languages including Slovenian. From German then, Slowene entered English as Slovene. If the German Sloven and Slowene are related at all, it is (according to what has just been said and to historical circumstances) much more believable it happened the other way.

Whatever the truth, also remember that here on Wikipedia, we're following published works and secondary sources in writing articles, not original research.

Besides this, at least in British English Slovene is more common than Slovenian, and Slovenes is included in the list of the 86,800 or so most frequently used words, while Slovenians do not appear amongst them. See this link (data from British National Corpus). --Eleassar my talk 07:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In that source that you gave BT2 it is clearly written for the word "Slovene":

Slo·vene (slō'vēn') also Slo·ve·ni·an (slō-vē'nē-ən, -vēn'yən)

noun

1. a. native or inhabitant of Slovenia.

   b. A person of Slovenian descent.

2. The Slavic language of the Slovenes.

adjective

Of or relating to Slovenia or its people, language, or culture.

The same is for 'Slovenian', which is defined as synonym all over...

And then short etymology:

[German Slowene, from Slovene Slovenec, ultimately from Old Church Slavonic Slověne, Slav.]

You are already familiar with the word Slověne that I gave in that excerpt from Snoj's dictionary, which is based on almost similar word *slovene, and which is presumably from Proto-Slavic from which Old Church Slavonic and the modern Slavic languages later emerged (as is written in article about Proto-Slavic in WP). Also Eleassar have answered you nicely and I support his arguments that words 'Sloven' and 'Slovene' are purely coincidental and they can't have no real connections. This must be a mistake, and there should most probably be "Slowene" instead of 'Sloven' - as is also written in the above source that you gave BT2. In fact it was the other way round that our ancestors called their Eastern neighbours Germanic tribes *nemьci, Slovene Nemci, primarily *'nemi ljudje' ('speechless, people'), namely *'poeple, who can not speak (in our tongue)' (as I've shown on the basis of Snoj's dictionary - and I guess that this wasn't meant as an insult for their neighbours but purely in the manner of their temper and nature. BTW Slovenes are known to be clean and hardworking nation, so ... calling them slovens is pure fiction and a big offence). The other, quite interesting idea (but for now still very questionable) is also that the name Slovenci came from the Proto-Slavs (or from this combinations of Proto-Slovenes, Slo-veneti, Sloventi). From the last word Sloventi we might look for the Slovene word for Slovenes, when 't' is soften to 'c', producing Slovenci). These claims might some day be proved. --xJaM 00:00, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

That source is junk. Take a look at a "word" adjacent to Slovene in the frequency list: strach. Please tell me what this is. Further, do you actually believe Slovenians doesn't appear even twice (wordcount's criteria to be included in their list) in any reasonable sample set?

By the way, the British National Corpus is part of Oxford University and hosted on its site. Interestingly enough, a search on Oxford University's site finds:

Slovenians: 9 http://www.google.co.uk/u/Oxford?sitesearch=ox.ac.uk&q=slovenians&Go=Go%21&domains=ox.ac.uk

Slovenian: 67 http://www.google.co.uk/u/Oxford?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&domains=ox.ac.uk&q=slovenian&btnG=Search&sitesearch=ox.ac.uk&meta=

Slovenes: 8 http://www.google.co.uk/u/Oxford?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&domains=ox.ac.uk&q=slovenes&btnG=Search&sitesearch=ox.ac.uk&meta=

Slovene: 61 http://www.google.co.uk/u/Oxford?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&domains=ox.ac.uk&q=slovene&btnG=Search&sitesearch=ox.ac.uk&meta=

BT2 13:51, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

For further discussion of what is junk and what not, see Talk:Slovenians. --Eleassar my talk 22:15, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Proposed policy

I don't want to enrage you, but you would probably be interested in the guidelines that have been proposed by Dystopos and me as to the usage of Slovene/Slovenian in WP. If for nothing else, to comment and perhaps criticise it. We have tried to make it as policy based and argumented as possible. See: Talk:Slovenians. --Eleassar my talk 13:13, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

IFD

Just to tell you that one of your image uploads is being marked for IFD. Reason: obsolescence. Link here: Image:9pcircle Fp. Splintercellguy 1 July 2005 03:18 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Constellations

I see that you are listed as a contributor for this project. Because the project is incomplete, I would like to find out what the current plans are for the project. Much work is still needed, particularly for constellations in the southern sky. I believe we need to do the following:

1. Complete the infobox for each constellation.
2. Standardise the format for each constellation.

On my user page, I have posted a few ideas for standardisation and I would like some feedback. --  B.d.mills  (T, C)

Looking forward...

...to seeing your translation. Thank you for volunteering!

To make it easier, I have copied the English text on that page so it appears twice. Translate the top portion. You do not need to copy the section labeled "Translation desired," but do please add the links in that section that I have requested.

When there is a link, keep the link portion the same, but translate the visible portion. So,

[[:en:User:Paul Klenk|my English user page]]

will become:

[[:en:User:Paul Klenk|Slovenian translation of "my English user page"]]

Let me know if you have questions. You can see more examples by following the links at the top of my English user page.

Thanks again for your offer! Here's the page: sl:User:Paul Klenk

paul klenk ^talk 16:32, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Please vote on list of lists, a featured list candidate

Please vote at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of lists of mathematical topics. Michael Hardy 20:45, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Request for assistance: Please place this notice at the top of the main page:

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Thank you. --Go for it! 23:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Ten-Day War rewrite

I've completely rewritten and expanded the article on the Ten-Day War. Let me know what you think! -- ChrisO 23:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Translation Help

• Wikipedia:Translation_into_English#Serbian-to-English Whenever you get the chance, List of Serbs is needing some translations. Thanks. Antidote 20:41, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar award.

I feel that you deserve this second award for the tirelees contributions you have made! Keep it up! --Siva1979^{Talk to me}14:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

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Sl WP

Ne vem, če si opazil prihajajoče glasovanje o Wikipediji vs. Vikipedija. LP, --Klemen Kocjancic 16:50, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Ali me lahko kontaktiraš na e-mail (preko uporabniške strani) glede nekaterih prevodov? LP, --Klemen Kocjancic 11:22, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Computers from Slovenia

Hi, I created a List of computer systems from Slovenia and following related articles:

• Iskra Delta Partner
• Iskra Delta 800
• Gorenje Dialog
• Triglav (computer)
• Iskradata 1680
• List of computer systems from SFRY
• History of computer hardware in the SFRY
• Template:Slovene computers
• similar content for computers from Serbia and Croatia

I, however, was unable to find any more information than I already presented, no matter how hard I searched. Slovenian Wikipedia contains absolutely nothing either. If you feel you can help and are willing to do so, please go ahead.

--Aleksandar Šušnjar 15:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Glas

Trebaju mi glasovi pa ako bi mogo glasati ovdje[[2]] i ovdje[[3]]. Unaprijed ti zahvaljujem. Pozdrav! Luka Jačov 15:58, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

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Liberalism

Hi, I found you through the list of translators. I noticed the Serbian wiki has granted FA status to their Liberalism article and hoped you wouldn't mind either improving Liberalism or simply throwing some ideas to everyone on the talk page. Thanks! Xaxafrad 03:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Churches in Ethiopia

Check out the main page of WikiProject Ethiopia. I have created a list of 45 Churches (excluding those in Lalibela) that I think you'll find useful. Hopefully you can help expand that list! — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 23:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

JzG

This user will not quit. He has vandalized my talkpage numerous times over the past three days

• Today he deleted comments of other users with no explanation[4], protecting my talkpage[5] without any justification, deleting my response to his harassment on my talkpage with the bizarre edit summary "Since you are saying goodbye, let's assume you mean it, eh?", and then leaving this threatening message to intimidate me into leaving[6].

Before that he vandalized my talkpage[7]. Then when I reverted another user assumed he was right and reverted to JzG's version, but realized he was wrong and apologized. I was cordially and said it was alright. JzG has left numerous uncivil comments on my talkpage that can be viewed if one goes through the history of the page. He has also repeatedly been warned. I want him blocked immediately. Tchadienne 22:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

OTRS

The OTRS team is badly in need of seasoned Wikipedians who have the ability to read and write in various Eastern European languages, and who are willing to deal with complaints related to content in these languages. I'm not sure whether you would be interested in becoming involved, but it would be an enormous service to the Foundation if you are. If so, let me know and I'll get you started. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 21:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

sl:Ehrenfestov_paradoks

The picture used is unfortunately wrong. If you are interested we can discuss this and a possible correction, e.g. at Talk:Ehrenfest paradox or de:Diskussion:Ehrenfestsches Paradoxon. --Pjacobi 16:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes I have seen that from German WP. Since I can't master German, for now I just have moved the article from the article of Paul Ehrenfest and later on I shall supplement the article of paradox itself. Thank you for your notion. --xJaM 16:29, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Creating a correct replacement for that picture is on my to-do list since eons... --Pjacobi

:-) For now I have removed it from Slovene article. I shall read discussions and see what to do. And of course I am not an expert on a subject, perhaps just curious enough - and this does not help always. --xJaM 16:42, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Kontakt

Ali me lahko prosim kontaktiraš na majl (preko upor. strani)? HvN. LP, --Klemen Kocjancic 16:38, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

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Translation help?

Hi! I've been trying to fill out Golubac fortress and Golubac, and in the process noticed that there's significantly more information at the Serbian page for Golubac. However, I can't read it. I was wondering if you had the time to do a quick translation -- even if it's just bullet points rather than fancy prose, all I'm looking for is information so I can write it up for the appropriate page. Thanks either way! -Bbik 02:45, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Mathematical Physics

Hey XJam, I found you through the Wikiproject Mathematics page and saw that your interested in Mathematical Physics. As such I thought I would let you know that this article is nominated for the Math Collaboration of the week (I nominated it). Even if this article does not make the cut, it needs serious work and I am not qualified to do it as of yet. If you get the time please take a look at it; if not, I understand, and thanks for your time--Cronholm144 22:50, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Mathematics CotW

Hello again, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 00:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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Template:Country data Egypt‎

Sorry for giving negative feedback, but I thought you should know that you broke Template:Country data Egypt‎. I've fixed it — it was just a matter of deleting the newline before the <noinclude> that you added for the interwiki link. I notice you got it right for the South Africa and Romania country data, but as the country data templates are used all over the place, I thought I should point it out. Thanks for adding the interwiki links, anyway! --StuartBrady (Talk) 20:51, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and thank you for your notice. In future I shall be more careful. --xJaM 20:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! BTW, could you tell me if sl:Kategorija:Predloge Podatki države s posebnim kratkim imenom is the correct interwiki link for Category:Country data templates? Cheers! —StuartBrady (Talk) 02:18, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

No, I do not think. Although I didn't make links to it, I do believe it is (at least according to English naming) Category:Country data templates with distinct shortname. In the first days of templates here in wikipedia we wikipedians at Slovene part of the project have decided to use English names of templates for better translations and adjustments, but eventually others began to use translated templates, which in my opinion, make more mess. Of course there are a lot of templates at sl:, which do not exist at en:, but they can be given Slovene names. Adaptations of such templates can sometimes be a hard job. --xJaM 03:40, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. If you could create the appropriate category, that would rock. sl:Predloga:Prikažipodatke države is the template that would need changing (to be more like Template:Country data). —StuartBrady (Talk) 18:32, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

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About the article Slavic Settlements in the eastern alps

Hi! What do you think about what Jalen wrote here, and about my commentary in the discussion of he article? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Slavic_settlement_of_Eastern_Alps --Marcos G. Tusar (talk) 17:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Timeline of Slovenian History

Asa as slovene, maybe you can help us in the discussion of some articles.

- Timeline of Slovene history

- Carantania

- History of Slovenia

- Carantanians

--Marcos G. Tusar (talk) 11:23, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Slovenia

Hi there! You are welcome to join WikiProject Slovenia . We need as many Slovene members as possible!!

♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Requesting help

I know this is a stupid question, but could you please leave a note at User talk:Blofeld of SPECTRE detailing what the photo license here [8] translates into English as? Thank you. John Carter (talk) 00:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Roman numerals

Quite a long time ago, you changed this article to say

"IIII is still used on clock and card faces"

Would you care to enlighten the rest of us on what cards you were talking about? I added {{clarifyme}} to it back in December, but no answer has come of it as yet. -- Smjg (talk) 12:06, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, this addition dates really quite far in the past to the autumn of 2002. I've meant specially an Austrian style of the 54-card Tarock hand, since I know them. This can be seen in this image, where 4th tarot is designated with IIII and is fourth from the right. --xJaM (talk) 12:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Slovenia welcomes American Ambassador

XJam, I just saw the news that Dimitrij Rupel welcomed Yousif Ghafari to the American embassy in Ljubljana. Anton Mravcek (talk) 18:20, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Could you please use more descriptive summaries than "me". I really doubt editors here know what you have changed just from this acronym. It would be better if you left the summary field empty - less confusing. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 17:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, okay, I'll keep in mind your notice. "Me" here simply stands for "minor edition", just like some other abbreviations ("dab" for disambiguation and so forth). I am glad if someone finds something that I do wrong, and also I hope that this is not merely a consequence from a dispute for usage of flagicons in language info boxes, although I just wanted to add some of them to article about Slovene - according to the usage I've seen in other articles, mainly in Finnish and Karelian language. And btw, you're the first who have reminded me about this in 5 years. --xJaM (talk) 15:07, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I was annoyed by this already before, but there was never enough time to mention it. I've been able to figure out what "me" means, but I find the edit summary "minor edit" just as unhelpful as "me". In any case, there is a tick box for minor edits below the "edit summary" field. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 16:21, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh, please (you could give me a break :-)) - can you always find enough time to give a proper edit summary? Why "me" is not enough? If I change or remove one comma, add part of a sentence and such, I guess this short description is sufficient enough, but yes, for you is not. I know for that box - I always mark my minor edits as such. --xJaM (talk) 16:39, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

For example "dab Punjabi" [9] is perhaps the same edit summary as "me" if you do not know what "dab" means, so, how to prove the opposite? --xJaM (talk) 16:55, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Or this [10]. If you make a typo, then write it down so - just as you want others to write good edit summaries. Fair enough? Not to mention this particular edit was completely unnecessary. --xJaM (talk) 17:07, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

My apologies for mentioning this at all. I see you're again unnecessarily trying to bicker. It was a well meant remark, you know, and I didn't say I'm perfect. I'll keep away from you in the future if possible. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 17:12, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I accept them. And, as I've said, I'll keep in mind your notices, but I can't keep all of them, particulary not those which are not constructive. You and me are quite well 'hobnailed' wikipedians and we do not need this. I don't want to quarrel any how, and in this manner you obviously do not know me at all. There is no "again". I just stand for what I find meaningful. I have a right for that, and also I have to stand. On the other side, I can learn a lot from your edits, and I hope you can also learn something from mine. The last thing I've learnt is usage of a full stop in image captions [11], but for intance not linking the year 1846, which is significant enough for one town that Celje was/is, is at least superficial. --xJaM (talk) 17:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Just a note to remind you

I will be handling the 3rd Opinion request. Please remember, and your in serious trouble of violating it, the Three Revert Policy. Further edits to the article should not be made until a consensus can be reached. Thanks, Dusti^SPEAK!! 15:46, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

I know. That's why I have reverted the article exactly 3 times in this manner of despute. So, now I am waiting the problem to be resolved. --xJaM (talk) 16:00, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Carantania mentioned in 595 AD

Hi X-Jam!!!, I would like you to help me in the dipute about this topic, some 2 or 3 wikipedians are reverting my editions in the following articles: Carantania, Carantanians, Slovenia, Slovenes, and others. They revert me but they do not participate in the discussion pages. I need your oppinion please. Greetings from Argentina--Marcos G. Tusar (talk) 22:39, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Your old user talk page

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No, I don't mind. Thank you for your notice. Another possibility is perhaps: "User talk:XJamRastafire/Archive2004" and I can backup this file together with some inputs in this talk page. --xJaM (talk) 11:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Good evening!

Я являюсь участником русской Википедии и попал на вашу страницу. Я обнаружил на ней, что вы бывали в Советском Союзе и в России и в частности неплохо говорите по-русски. Я в свою очередь могу общаться на английском. Я хочу задать всего несколько вопросов: 1. Как ваше имя? 2. В каких годах и при каких обстоятельствах вы были в нашей огромной стране? Ответьте, пожалуйста, на мою страницу обсуждения Обсуждение участника:Helpervyacheslav. Заранее благодарю! 18:36 UTC

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Articles for deletion nomination of List of fictional computers

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Prosim, deblokiraj me

Prosim Jani deblokiraj me! Ker Andrejj je dal 1 teden. Samo zato, ker v članku Sveti Jurij, Rogašovci in članku Spodnja Panonija sem razveljavil njegovo ureditev. Vzel sem znanje, da Andrejj razveljavil v člankih prleških naselij mojo ureditev, ampak Sveti Jurij je prekmursko naselje, Spodnja Panonija pa organska dela prekmurske zgodovine. In 1 teden sem dobil! Vejpa na madžarski wikipediji nekaj norcev piše obscen neumnosti, jaz pa nisem napisal obscenosti. Doncsecz^talk 06:27, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Archangel že je prosil mojo deblokiranje. Doncsecz^talk 16:36, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

Andreja Gomboc

Please, see the deletion discussion. The article was created by you in 2004. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 23:11, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

September 2010

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I am already marking my edits "minor" if I do them. Can you show me some counterexamples? --xJaM (talk) 23:24, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Help please

Dear XJamRastafire

We have found your name in the list of translators. We are looking for someone who could translate and upload on Slovenian this page: Can you help us ? Thanks--RiverTeifi (talk) 16:54, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

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Images in bicentric polygon

Hi. Your images at Bicentric polygon are very good, but they are hard to see because of insufficient contrast. Could you darken the colors to contrast better against the background?

Thanks! Duoduoduo (talk) 15:20, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I know. I have in plan to update them to svg format and to correct bad contrast. One - for regular pentagon is already done - here. And I want them to be also mathematically correct (of which mentioned for pentagon is currently not). --xJaM (talk) 11:42, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Done. I hope they are better now. --xJaM (talk) 22:47, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Looks great! Thanks! Duoduoduo (talk) 02:23, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Russian translation

Hello. I was on Wikipedia:Translators available and notice that you were on the list for Russian to English translators and wondered if you could translate Maria Vladimirovna of Staritsa and/or Vladimir of Staritsa? Thanks.--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 00:05, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear XJamRastafire,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

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ABBYY Compreno

Hello. I'm addressing you based on the listing in Wikipedia:Translators_available#Russian-to-English. May I kindly request you to confirm that Russian references for this material do include multiple independent secondary sources (in particular, articles in wide-spread IT-news publications). Thank you in advance. -- Nazar (talk) 01:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Scaphe Page

Hi-
I see that you were one of the last people to edit the scaphe page. I have been working on it in my sandbox. I am about to post the new scaphe page, would you help me out by looking it over and improving anything I didn't quite get right?

Thanks--Gaurd.vanforlife (talk) 00:20, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

can you help?

Hello. :) A problem has been flagged with a lengthy quotation in an article about a Slovenian mathematician, at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Can_you_help_with_an_excessive_quotation_issue.3F. One of the editors there thought that perhaps you could assist. The issue is that the quote is too lengthy for current copyright policies, and it needs to be largely turned into a paraphrase, with a small amount quoted, or removed. If you are able to help, it would be greatly appreciated! If it isn't addressed soon, I'll have to remove it until somebody is able to get around to it. I'm not capable of rewriting it myself due to my lack of familiarity with the subject. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:16, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Posidonius

Hi, I'm looking for the source of the statement in the article Posidonius:

In about 90 BCE Posidonius estimated the distance to the sun (see astronomical unit) to be 9,893 times the Earth's radius

Since you have started this page, maybe you can remember the source of the number 9893? I looked in both of the references that you mentioned ([12],[13]), but have not found this number. Thank you. Alexei Kopylov (talk) 07:21, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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Administrator changes

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• A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
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• When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
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• The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

• The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

• JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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ArbCom 2019 special circular

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)

ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

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For the Arbitration Committee, -Cameron11598 21:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of List of Latin names of rivers for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of Latin names of rivers is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Hog Farm (talk) 03:35, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

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Suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity

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Nomination of Mathematical constants by continued fraction representation for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mathematical constants by continued fraction representation is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Translation for page "Porto Montenegro"

Poštovani,

Javljam se povodom prevoda stranice "Porto Montenegro". Željeo bih da stranica Porto Montenegro kao internacionalna kompanija ima svoj kratak opis i na Engleskom jeziku, pa sam pokušao da ga sam prevedem, međutim wikipedija mi ne dozvoljava da objavim prevod jer je za to potreban prevod iskusnog prevodioca. Molim Vas da nas posavjetujete kako da dođemo do prevoda.

Srdačan pozdrav, Vujacic99 (talk) 13:32, 25 April 2023 (UTC)