User talk:Nohat/archive 2005-11-21

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[edit] move of British comics

I notice you moved British comics to British comic. I'm not convinced the move was necessarily the right thing, and at least would have appreciated some comment on the talk page. Steve block talk 18:50, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

I appreciate the reason for why you moved it, however, if you take a look at the article Comics, and notice that the term there is used in the plural to describe the art form, I think there is a strong argument for leaving British comics as a plural because the article describes the art form as within the UK. Steve block talk 09:38, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kafka

Thanks for your comment! I usually standardize articles that focus on a topic specific to a particular English-speaking country to avoid angry reactions. The Kakfa article is written in a mixture of British and American English... Maybe I should completely stop standardizing "neutral" (not specific to any English-speaking country) articles? There is a general consensus that articles about British and American topics should conform to UK and US spelling and usuage, respectively. There is no consensus however about the huge number of "neutral" articles (See the endless discussions on the Manual of Style talk page...) SpNeo 12:33, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Commons:NewIPAchart.pdf

Could you please change the IPA PDF to be printable at 100% on both, A4 and Letter? The intersection of both is an area of 210 mm × 279 mm, minus margins.

[edit] Icelandic Wikipedia logo

Hi, I requested that you make a new logo for the is:Icelandic Wikipedia on your talk page some time ago, that request got moved to the archive here: User talk:Nohat/archive 2005-08-08#Icelandic Wikipeda logo, the subtext Frjálsa alfræðiorðabókin needs to be changed to Frjálsa alfræðiritið, alternatively if you can't do it for some reason could you direct me to someone who can, and getting the source photoshop/gimp files you use when making it would be nice as well, the font you mentioned cost $300 dollars [1] so I'm not able to make it on my installation. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 01:46:42, 2005-08-11 (UTC)

At the very least, an answer to this question would be appreciated. --Bjarki 00:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] blahtex

Hi, I discussed "Natick flapping" with you a while ago. Sorry to bother you, I'm wondering if you could help me out briefly.

Could you please put one of those IPA things on m:Blahtex. The correct pronunciation is: "blah" rhymes with "fa" as in "do re mi fa", and "tex" sounds just like "tech" as in "technology". Stress is on "blah".

Thanks so much :-) Dmharvey Image:User_dmharvey_sig.png Talk 11:40, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] MoS

You wrote: Regarding your most recent change to the MoS, I want to thank you for being willing to engage in the spirit of compromise. Nohat 19:16, 11 August 2005 (UTC) You are welcome. There is a dispute, and it is only fair to mention it if those on at least one side want it mentioned. The previous version of the notice was a) much more obtrusive, an b) had a clear PoV that the changes were correct, merely being obstructed. Obviously i disagree with that. DES (talk) 19:23, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I hope we can come to better agreement on what specific recommendations the MoS should make, but I don't envisage that happening in a short timeframe. I think more time and more input is needed before a clear consensus will emerge. In the meantime, however, I am satisfied with your changes. Nohat 19:28, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] circumcision page

Nohat, why did you revert the edit where I changed the term uncircumcised to intact?

Because uncircumcised is the common, unmarked, neutral term. "Intact" is a loaded term that makes value judgments about circumcision. Nohat 03:14, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Whoa! Did you even read my comments on the circumcision discussion page? I do not understand how anyone could possibly see it that way. I STRONGLY DISAGREE!!!! Sirkumsize 03:24, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Actually call me if you'd like 416-801-3874. Sirkumsize 03:25, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
It seems to be you who has failed to read the comments on the talk page, not me. Nohat 03:27, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I have replied to them. Please give me a call. I find your opinion very disturbing. Sirkumsize 03:30, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm not wasting my minutes on engaging in pointless debate with someone who can't even be bothered to look up a word in a dictionary when engaging in a debate on semantics. Nohat 03:34, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
And you looked up uncircumcised in the dictionary didn't you? Sirkumsize 03:47, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

This guy wants you to call him up and talk about penises. Scary. Descendall 04:09, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Language usage

Nohat, I just noticed in one of your comments on the circumcision talk page that you're a trained linguist. I wonder if I could ask for your input on the correct capitalisation of "Genital Integrity", since this is periodically debated. Talk:Genital_integrity#Deleted_sentence_and_proper_noun_usage. Thanks in advance. - Jakew 09:43, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cornellwatch

Thanks for your vigilance with Cornell University. I really wish more would take Wikipedia:Avoid_academic_boosterism to heart. - choster 23:18, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Autofellatio FPC

Please define "bogus". Thank You! — Xiong熊talk* 14:47, 2005 August 18 (UTC)

User:Nohat Is Not A Dictionary. Nohat 17:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
Okay, fair enough! That's wikifunny. — Xiong熊talk* 08:03, 2005 August 27 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia watchlist for a topic

Can anyone pls advise me how to watch all enteries in Wikipedia for a topic like Diabetes etc, so I can be uptdate on newest information?

You have to add each page that you wish to watch to your watchlist individually. Nohat 05:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] British comics revisited

I've thought about this a lot over the last few days, and after knocking up Ally Sloper's Half Holiday I realised you were right and I was wrong. I'm too stubborn for my own good at times, for which I can only apologise. Steve block talk 20:15, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Writing system

Hi Nohat,

The new image for Writing system is just about ready. Since you've put time into editing the article, do you want to take a look and see if you have any suggestions?

kwami 07:57, 2005 August 27 (UTC)

It's great. The only things I'd suggest are:
  • Make a separate version for German. Many of the script names I think have different names in German, so it'd be better to make it monolingual, as it were.
  • In areas where two (or more) writing systems compete for majority usage, you might want to do angled hashing of the different colors. This would only be necessary where there are a significant number of users of different writing systems. I.e. you don't need to put blue (Latin) hash marks in China, but maybe in Croatia. Perhaps yellow (Chinese) hash marks in the Yi area, or pink (Cyrillic) hash marks in the Mongolian area. Nohat 08:10, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Are you looking at the map on the talk page, or the main page? The one I've done is completely in English. I have the center of Japan and Mongolia in one color, but outlined with another; otherwise I've put dots where there are significant minority communities (Latin in Algeria & Russia, Yi and Pollard in China, etc.) I tried hash marks, but I thought it looked too busy, what with all the scripts laid on top of it. Croatia is pretty much just Latin now, or so I thought. I could see Chinese hash marks through Inner Mongolia and Turkestan, though. Let me know if you see anything else that needs attention.
Thanks! kwami 20:00, 2005 August 27 (UTC)

[edit] Dolgoruki

Since you have participated in "Use English" talks, please visit Talk:Ekaterina Dolgorukova to contribute to the current poll. 217.140.193.123 06:01, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aluminium

Aluminium has been protected. Andre (talk) 17:51, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IPA

Hi, I could appreciate your help. What is the IPA symbol for 'ay' as in the word 'bathe'? And why isn't it on the vowel chart at the IPA page? Thanks.--Mark J 17:13, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

bathe: [beɪð]. Which page is it not on? Nohat 18:43, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia-banner

Do you have another image of this with a white background (not transparent)? -- Thorpe talk 22:25, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation page for Lemma

Hello. I am contacting you since you listed yourself as a participant of the Linguistics WikiProject. There is currently a discussion going on at [[Talk:Lemma]] about whether [[Lemma]] should be a disambiguation page or about the mathematical meaning of the word, currently at [[Lemma (mathematics)]]; the linguistics meaning is at [[Lemma (linguistics)]]. Unfortunately, most, if not all, participants of the discussions are mathematicians. I'd be interested to hear the opinion of some people interested in linguistics. Please state your opinion and/or copy this message somewhere where linguists are likely to find it. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 11:41, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Logos for the Cebuano and Kapampangan Wikipedias

Hi. I'd like to request logos for both the Cebuano and Kapampangan wikipedias. The Cebuano Wikipedia logo would say: "Wikipedya Ang Gawasnong Ensayklopedya". The Kapampangan Wikipedia logo would say "Wikipedia Ing Timawang Enciclopedia". Both requests have previously been filed at m:Requests_for_logos#Requests. Thanks! --Harvzsf 18:27, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Logo for Nauruan Wikipedia

Hi there,
the Nauruan Wikipedia needs a large (1058x1296) PNG version and a small (135x155) PNG version of the Wikipedia logo (similar to German logos on Commons ,[2] and [3]). The text would be "Wikipidiya - Entsikropidiya eko pumwen". I'd be glad of you could send both PNG files to my e-mail address "naoero{AT}gmail{DOT}com", so I can upload them to the right places on Commons and Nauruan Wikipedia. Thank you very much for your kind assistance. Greetings -- CdaMVvWgS 19:38, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Correction: The text should be "Wikipidiya - entsikropidiya emenengame". Sorry and thanks. Greetings -- CdaMVvWgS 05:15, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage vandalism

Dear User-who-lacks-a-headornament.

Next time you add {{bugmenot}} to somebody's userpage, you should actually LOG IN USING THE LOGIN INFORMATION POSTED, AND CHANGE THE PASSWORD.

Had you tried to do that, you would find that the information posted to BugMeNot for my account is FALSE, and has always been. I am a real, bona-fide Wikipedian. I am one person, not a collective.

Please be more careful in the future. If you do this again, I will report you for vandalism. --Ifoolyou 04:03, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Logo error - on all countries' Wikipedias!

All the letters on the current Wikipedia logo are the first letter of the word 'Wikipedia' in various languages. However, the Hebrew letter (two below the english W) is the letter 'reish' (also called 'resh') instead of 'vav' which is what the word Wikipedia starts with in Hebrew. Can this be corrected? They are two very different letters! The 'vav' looks just like the 'reish' but not as stretched out. See Hebrew Alphabet.

This is actually not the case. Only the W represents the first letter of the word Wikipedia. All the other letters were randomly selected. Nohat 18:54, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Fbi.wav

Image:Fbi.wav has no source information. I noticed that Image:Britishfbi.wav, which you uploaded around the same time has {{GFDL}}. If the omission of GFDL was an oversight, could you correct it so we can get this out of Category:Images with unknown source? Thanks. --Tabor 21:38, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Æ → Ash (letter) or Aesc

Okay, I've split the request into two, since any title that's a word is better than an uncommon letter. Please have a look at Talk:Æ#Requested move, and update your vote if necessary. Thanks. —Michael Z. 2005-09-26 23:47 Z

[edit] Hi-res russian logo ?

Where could I find a high resolution version of the russian Wikipedia logo? PDF would be great, PNG would be fine. Sorry if this isn't the place to ask, I couldn't find your email address. (BTW, the russian logo seems to be slightly chopped off at the top on the website, is that normal?) Thanks a lot, and congratulations for your great work! Saintamh 03:14, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] German Wikipedia Logo

Hello. I heard that you are 'responsible' for the wiki-logos, aren't you? We've got a problem. Look at our german Logo: de:Bild:Wiki.png. If you look exactly you can see a white border. Here you can see what I mean (first one and third one is the old picture - the second, fourth and fifth is the new). Then I looked at the commons: commons:Wikipedia. But I only found an other version of the German picture: commons:Image:Wikipedia-logo-de.png. Look at the 'N' => 'Ñ', there aren't the same. What can I do? Can you change it please, would be very nice! Greetings from Switzerland -- 62.202.80.4 16:33, 29 September 2005 (UTC) also known as de:Benutzer:Baumanns

[edit] small logo?

Hi - I'm chasing down an issue involving the load time for template:Mainpage date that started when the template was changed to include the logo. I'm not exactly sure, but my impression is that image resizing is done on the Apache servers (not the squids), so when this template is loaded the image is fetched and then resized. There seems to be some sort of caching for the resized image, but I don't think the smaller version is permanently kept. In any event, do you know if there are various sized logos available? Can you make a small one appropriate for use in this template? Is my impression of how image loading and resizing close? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:38, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ArbCom elections

Hello, Nohat/archive 2005-11-21. In case you haven't noticed, I'm writing a special series on the upcoming 2005 ArbCom elections for The Wikipedia Signpost. In the October 17 issue, we will be profiling the current ArbCom members. Note that this should not be a platform for re-election; rather, it should serve as an insight into what you feel about the ArbCom, and your opinions of it are. Thus, I hope you don't mind answering a few questions. Many thanks!

1. Are up for re-election this year?
2. If so, do you plan to run for re-election?
3. How do you feel about serving on the ArbCom?
4. What do you think are the strengths of the ArbCom?
5. Weaknesses?
6. If you could change anything, what would you change? Why?
7. Do you regret accepting your position? Why or why not?
8. If you could say one thing to the current ArbCom candidates, what would you say, and why?
9. Do you think your job is easy? Hard? Explain.
10. Looking in retrospective, is there anything you would have done differently?
11. Do you feel that the ArbCom is appreciated by the community? If not, how do you think that could be changed?
12. What is the most frustrating thing about being on the ArbCom? Enjoyable?

I hope you didn't mind me bombarding with you with questions; by no means feel obligated to answer all (or any) of them. Thanks for serving Wikipedia, and for taking your time to help a Signpost reporter! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 14:18, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Fbi.wav has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Fbi.wav, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

--Bash 20:33, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Signpost

Hello, Nohat. I noticed that you haven't replied to the questions for the Wikipedia Signpost. If you would take some time out of your busy schedule to briefly reply, that would be greatly appreciated. If you wish for the responses to be included in next week's Signpost, please try and have them to me as soon as possible, preferably by Thursday or Friday so I have time to write the article. Thanks very much! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk | WS 19:49, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] (request) Cebuano wikipedia logo

Hi,

Could you make a logo for the Cebuano wikipedia? The text would read "Wikipedya, Ang gawasnong ensayklopedya". Thanks! -- Bentong Isles

[edit] Original sources for Wikipedia logo

Hi Nohat, is there a way I could get the original data that you used to create the Wikipedia logo? You said last year that you could get the stuff together that week, but I never heard back from you. Thanks, silsor 17:15, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Here is the original conversation. Do you need my email address again? silsor 04:31, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re tea

Right. Your comment when you reverted my edit to Tea -- namely Moriori's edit is exactly why the previous construction was poor—it was misleading readers into thinking the minnan word for tea is "Camellia sinensis", which is incorrect -- is precisely how I had interpreted it. That's why I even tried to make it clearer. I must pay better attention!!! No harm done. Cheers. Moriori 08:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

I have answered, and implore you to study the sentence. It is correct, and indivisible. As for the reading of the sentence above, it is entirely unsupported by any correct sense of grammar. "This article is concerned exclusively with preparations and uses of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, the Minnan word for which is the etymological origin of the English word tea."

As to being blocked, if you would like to bring this matter before competent authority, I will defend it. I remind you that it is you who, having taken no previous interest in this article, is now harassing me and my work. The record will bear me out.

-SM 08:37, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Daniel Brandt

Thanks for putting that protection notice back, I spaced it when I protected it earlier. I'll be unprotecting it again sometime over the next 1/2 day or so. Thanks again! Rx StrangeLove 02:58, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hey Nohat, thank you for your comments. I've been feeling a bit under pressure because of it, so what you say is very much appreciated. Cheers, SlimVirgin (talk) 03:50, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cannabis cultivation

Thanks for the work on the article. You've taken on a long row to hoe, rendering it into encyclopedic prose. I have an observation as to why this is the case. This leads to a paradox: how to attract the first-rate expertise on fora like overgrow, cannabisworld, etc, and, from a process standpoint, triage the texual fallout and quickly acculturate new contributors without discouraging them. Any thoughts?

One little piece at a time, I guess. If well-intentioned new editors are interested enough in Wikipedia to contribute extensively, they should be pointed towards our documentation for new editors. Other than, the best thing to be done is to lead by example and fix up the conributions as much as possible without biting the newcomers by deleting large swaths of contributions. There is also the problem that the type of first-rate expertise that is being attracted may be difficult to cite with reputable sources. I think that this article is pretty dense with lots of good information as it is, and just needs a good comb-through with eye towards cleanup. Nohat 09:44, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Logo for the Ilokano Wikipedia

Hi! May I request if you can do us a logo for the Ilokano Wikipedia. It would say: "Wikipedia - Ti Nawaya nga Ensiklopedia". I requested this already at m:Requests_for_logos#Requests and also was listed m:Wikipedia_logo_in_each_language. Thank you very much! --Saluyot 04:48, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] variation on logo

Hello,

I just received confirmation that I can start working on a site called 'linupedia.nl'. It should become a content site with Dutch information over the Linux OS. I am looking for a logo and thought of a variation if the Wikipedia logo, but with Linux related logo's on the puzzle pieces.

Maybe just changing one letter to a small colord pinguin is nice. maybe adding some more logos like creative commons, redhat novell, suse, debian etc is also a good idea.

Are you willing to make something like this. please contact me about this. kwoot

[edit] RfA

Hello there. I thought I might drop you a line about my RfA process currently going on. I thought you might be particularly interested in it since various people use the unfortunate "Black book" incident, my attempts at mediation ([4], [5], [6], [7]), your reply and the fact that you moved the page to my namespace as an evidence against me. Cheers! Halibutt 04:41, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I would like to hear a word from you about this on the RfA. In particular, Halibutt's vote of keep in the original black book's AfD and the fact that he allowed the attack page on his user space for so long, in fact only deleting it once it was causing trouble in his RfA. He claims that you are OK with this behavior. Is it true? Please respond to my oppose vote in his RfA rather than to my talk page. Thank you. Borisblue 05:10, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

I have replied by voting in the RfA. I hope that my opinions on the matter have been clarified. Nohat 06:39, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR

Hmm, it seems you've broken 3RR at aluminum. This seems strange, and something tells me there's special circumstances given your experience at the wiki... so why'd you break it? Redwolf24 (talk) Attention Washingtonians! 07:48, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't think I did. I was trying to achieve consensus by making different attempts at reaching a common ground on the issue at hand. It seems some editors, rather than attempt to compromise and work together to remove the bias from each other's edits, choose instead to delete and whine. Nohat 08:06, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
From my reading of the diffs, I'm afraid you did. Reversions don't have to be a word-for-word reversion - it's the essence of the edit, ultimately, that's important, and it's obviously a bone of contention that should be hashed out at the talk page instead of warring and flip-flopping the page itself once it's apparent that your edit goes against the current consensus version and is opposed. I've blocked you for 24 hours for the 3RR violation. Please resolve matters on the talk page before editing further in this manner. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 08:42, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
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