User talk:Che829
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[edit] List of English words of Spanish origin
Hi,
I noticed that you removed embarrass from the list of English words of Spanish origin. However, it is from Spanish via French. The word sarabande that you added took a similar route.
Regards,
Primetime 06:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
- Right. It came into Spanish possibly from Portuguese.[1] But, then again, most Spanish words are from another language (e.g., Latin, Arabic, Celtic, etc.). I wrote an article about the Spanish word (see Embarazado). The fact is that a majority of eymologists believe it came from French, then Spanish, then Portuguese, then Celtic. Most of the words on the list came into Spanish from another language.--Primetime 07:06, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
- I don't see why the definition should be deleted, as it technically is from both languages. The word bodega that you added is originally from the Latin apotheca, "storehouse". I'm going to go ahead and re-insert the word.--Primetime 07:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Guidelines for Wikipedia lists of ethnic groups
Please may I draw your attention to
Your contributions would be very welcome. -- Brownlee 11:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vandalism
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --NThurston 22:05, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] License tagging for Image:Venedig.gif
Thanks for uploading Image:Venedig.gif. Wikipedia gets thousands of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images.
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[edit] Turkey
I appreciate your enthusiasm in editing the Turkey article, but the figures you keep inserting into the article happen to be those for the previous year. See link here for data--Kilhan 21:23, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Allempires.com
Blogs, social networking sites (such as MySpace) and forums should generally not be linked to. However, there are exceptions, such as in cases where the article is about, or closely related to, the website itself, or where the website is of a particularly high standard.
As such, allempires.com as a forum on history is not really a good link for wikipedia. The forum is also not even specifically about the concept of empires, as stated in the website's FAQ, which makes it especially inappropriate for Empire. I won't remove it again, as that would violate WP:3RR, but I strongly urge you to reconsider simply adding it. If you feel that there's reason to make an exception in this case, please bring it up at Talk:Empire and see what the opinions of other editors are first. siafu 03:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Venedig.gif
Thanks for uploading Image:Venedig.gif. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).
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