User talk:Nathan Hamblen

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I have deleted the page you tagged for deletion (the one named Nathan Hamblen). Which account will you be using? This one or User:Nhamblen? - Texture 22:26, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Check out Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit for changing your edits to your new account. Hope this helps. - Texture 22:33, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Regarding Frankish language in Wallonia: I believe it is mentioned in Picard language because the German dialects of Eupen and Malmedy are Franconian dialects, although not Frankish. I've added a note to Frankish language that the term Frankish may be applied to all Franconian dialects. — Jor (Talk) 11:57, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Hi Nathan.

An official website says nothing about Aranese/Gascon. On the other hand this document says "El Valle de Arán es el único territorio de Occitania donde la lengua occitana tiene un reconocimiento legal que podríamos considerar de oficialidad (o cooficialidad). Hemos de advertir a priori que la oficialidad de la que goza el aranés no es equiparable, ni mucho menos, a la del catalán, el gallego o el vasco en sus respectivas comunidades autónomas.".

I read in Ethnologue that Aranese has only 3,814 speakers.

As a compromise solution I think that the note in Spain#Demographics should be respected, but in Spanish Language the sentence "there are several languages spoken and officially recognized in the country (Basque, Catalan, and Galician)" could also be left untouched.

Pablo.cl 23:29, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Basque Country 2 Peafowl 3 Learning Project 4 Millau viaduct 5 translation 6 Article Licensing 7 Translation 8 Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

[edit] Basque Country

Please, when you turn a substantive article into a redirect, make sure you merge the material. I have no problem with Euskal Herria being redirected to Basque Country, but I have a lot of problem with losing half the content of the former. If you feel that material (which I have now merged into Basque Country) is wrong or inappropriate, let's argue that case on its merits in the discussion page, not by one virtually uncommented edit. -- Jmabel 17:40, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Jmabel, everything that I left out (and that you added back) is in the Basque people article. That article is prominently linked to at the beginning of Basque Country#History. Other info is in the linked to Kingdom of Navarre and Henry of Navarre articles. Why tell the whole story about his Huguenot to Catholic conversion again here?

Secondly (and similarly), I see you've added in Basque names for everything. Those names are already available at the beginning of each linked article. It is Wikipedia policy to use other languages sparingly. As French and Spanish are by all accounts closer to English than Basque is, they are the ones we use first. Reminding everyone what the Basque name is, every time the word shows up on a page, is just annoying. Nathan 18:49, May 31, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Peafowl

I've written Indian Peafowl and Green Peafowl, mainly to try to tidy a confused article and messy taxobox. status is in each article Jim

Ah, I didn't see that those are now their own articles instead of redirects back to Peafowl. Thanks for tidying that confused mess. Nathan 16:29, Jun 1, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Learning Project

Hi Nathan, I found you when I read your insightful comment at the vote regarding Pro-American sentiment. On your user page I see that you are a programmer, a quite gifted photographer, and into language teaching. So I think you would be the optimal guy to work with on a project I started. It is about learning, mainly vocabulary. Some guys discussed it with me on my user page, if you are interested please let me know there as well. Get-back-world-respect 19:26, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Millau viaduct

Sorry to be so lazy getting back to you, but I notice that I'm not getting "new messages" flags as often as I did in the past. Three new messages I didn't know about!

Anyway the article on Millau viaduct looks fine. My only question is about the use of the term "metallic roadbed". I know that in England "metalled" can mean what most people call "asphalt", so this was a little unclear to me. Is the road built from steel? Or is it paved concrete?

Neat bridge by the way!

Maury 12:10, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for looking over it! I've looked into the metallic roadway issue and apparently it is made of metal (what kind exactly I'm not sure). I'll see if I can find out some more info. Nathan 21:57, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] translation

There is an enormous backlog at Wikipedia:Translation into English#French-to-English, more than for all other languages combined. I see you are signed up at Wikipedia:Translators_available#French-to-English. Would you be at all interested in taking on one of these articles? (Full disclosure: this is a bit of a "mass mailing", I'm working my way down the whole list of French-to-English translators.) -- Jmabel 00:07, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 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. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are 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 what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Translation

I notice that about 2 months ago you left a note on WP:TIE that you were working on the translation fr:Occitan ==> Occitan language. Could you update the status of that work? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:33, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can