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Again, welcome! Chris Roy 01:13, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ACLU revert

Interesting to see that oft-quoted Baldwin yearbook remark was cited in that 1961 Congressional Record! It has a long history; not sure if you noticed, but we get vandals sticking that quote in over and over. Sdedeo (tips) 17:08, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tillamook

I'm sorry to admit that I know almost nothing about the subject but Salishan languages says Tillamook is Coast Salish. Maybe you should change it too... -- TheMightyQuill 17:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

I missed that - those big trees are hard to follow. Most subgroupings of Salishan do treat Tillamook as an outlier. The article uses a classification that groups Coast, Tsamosan, and Tillamook together, whereas one more usually sees five top-level branches rather than just those three. I'll check the off-line sources before revising the tree in the article so as not to create an inconsistency.Bill 18:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] proposal: category First Nations languages in British Columbia

Hi; avoiding the formal linguistics/ethno debate we were having for now; I've got a busy day coming; but just a headsup about some First Nations category discussions on User talk:Luigizanasi and User talk:Kurieeto which I thought you might have some input on; essentially an effort to distinguish three categories of First Nations article relevant to single articles extant right now: government, people/community and ethnography are to be separate; and also language. While deliberating the issues raised there, and looking at the First Nations in BC category, I began to feel that a "First Nations languages in British Columbia" category is needed, although not in the linguistics hierarchy under Salishan languages or Wakashan languages or Athabaskan languages etc.; the "First Nations in BC" category is currently in use for individual people articles, individual myths, individual languages etc. But you're the linguistics guy and I'll bow here if the use of "language" in a category title predisposes it to "belong" within the language-group hierarchies. If it doesn't need to, I think it's worthwhile. Thoughts?Skookum1 19:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help researching info on MIT graduate Ed Seykota

I need help writing the article about Ed Seykota, I need help researching his time in MIT, I need access to MITs library. I want copies of his thesis, papers etc. I also need official documentation about his degrees at MIT. Please help.

trade2tradewell (at) yahoo (dot) com - Replace "at" with "@", and "(dot)" with "."

Thanks

--Trade2tradewell 20:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Phonetics box

In case you're interested, I recently designed a userbox which might appeal to linguists with a subtle and undistilled sense of humour. It can easily be found through my userpage, or more directly through my userbox gallery. By the way, I am a Language Log reader. Zerrakhi 09:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BC & Pacific Northwest History Forum

Please see RE BC & Pacific Northwest History Forum re: Talk:List of United States military history events#Border Commission troops in the Pacific Northwest. If you think maybe I should also move some or copy some of my other stuff from NW history and BC history pages and various Indigenous peoples project article/talk pages let me know; I never mean to blog, but I'm voluble and to me everything's interconnected; never meaning to dominate a page so have made this area to post my historical rambles on. Thoughts?Skookum1 03:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Comment on my posting of this: if anyone has any questions or wants to debate any issues relating to Oregon Country/Columbia District/Pacific Northwest history/historical geography, colonialist/settler/immigrant or aboriginal/indigenous materials/themes/articles/questions, please feel free to drop by the forum and start a thread/topic, or just butt in at yer leisure.Skookum1 08:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tillamook re Salish/Coast Salish

Hi Bill; sorry for any discord earlier, didn't mean to rile feathers or fur or whatever. Just happened to drop by the Tillamook, Oregon page this morning; as I remember from what you told me, Bella Coola/Nuxalk and Tillamook/Nehalem are not considered Coast Salish; or is Tillamook Coast Salish? It read that way and I changed the link from Coast Salish to Salishan languages (see article) but then I dropped by the Coast Salish page and they're in the Coast Salish hierarchy-tree. Did I get that wrong, and only Bella Coola is outside the Coast Salish loop? Thought I'd understood that Tillamook was as well. BTW reason I dropped by that page is someone's citing that link re a potential List of Chinook Jargon placenames, which will be a spinoff of the increasingly unwieldy Chinook Jargon page (pls see Talk:Chinook Jargon. And AFAIK Tillamook as a name, while it may be Chinookan, isn't Chinook Jargon; or I suppose it could be considered so as the most common term for the Nehalem in the early NW, but its components aren't Chinook Jargon as such, as with Tatoosh Island, Lummi Island (if that is from lummieh), Taghum, Lapush, and so on. BTW I've always assumed that Spuzzum was from the CJ spatsum; could it possibly be Nlaka'pamux??

[edit] Another item for you, if you don't mind

Please see Spirit house and Talk:Spirit house. I started the talk page after finding the item on Carrier spirit houses on the main Spirit house page, which of course is about Thai spirit houses...IIRC this is your particular bailiwick, no?Skookum1 16:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jörg Schilling

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Jörg Schilling, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Jörg Schilling. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached.Robert 22:03, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America Newsletter - July '06

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[edit] Altaic

Hi, thank you for your contribution. Maybe cause of the language barrier, i could not express myself clearly. I can safely say that i'm not against any discussion, i'm just supporting that this should be done under "Altaic Languages" or maybe better "Altaic hypothesis" section. We can continue the discussion of dispute there. For the "(disputed)" tag, my opion is that this may lead a misundestanding on the issue (as in the case, see Talk:Khazar_language#Is_Altaic_disputed_.3F) and should be removed. It somehow can be understood as wheather "x language' being Altaic is disputed". The Altaic hypothesis is controversial. Major reference works use the "Altaic" term for these languages. We've been discussing the issue for 4-5 days but never ended up with a conclusion about the "(disputed)" tag. On the other hand, we could not start discussing the Altaic hypothesis yet :) Although i'm not an expert, I know there is ongoing research on this field. After solving this "(disputed)" tag problem, we'll try to continue. Could you please, check our discussion at User_talk:Future_Perfect_at_Sunrise#Dispute_of_Dispute. Thanx e104421

[edit] pseudo

Here [[1]] is a note for you.

[edit] Charles Plympton Smith article

Hi Billposer. First, I love your home province, I've dome some ocean kayaking near Uclulet on Vancouver Island. Beautiful! As you are the originator of the Charles Plympton Smith, I wanted to share that having read it I fail to see the notability. I don't want to jump to nominating for deletion without alerting you as author. CApitol3 21:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sugar in Carrier

Hello! I`ve got one request for you. I collect words in various languages. Now I`m looking for word "sugar" in other languages, but I can`t find a Carrier dictionary. I`ve got counterparts of word "sugar" in Japanese, Ahmaric, Thai, Georgian and Chinese, so can you write me what is "sugar" in Carrier language? I`ve got this word in 382 languages and dialects of many regions and countries in the world so it is very important for me! Thank you very much! Szoltys <talk>

[edit] Nyan Wheti

It's not that I don't believe you, but just so you know, they (mis?)spelled it Nak'albhunghum on the Nyan Wheti sign along the trail. -TheMightyQuill 07:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

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