User:Ling.Nut

[edit] Me

• I'm a PhD student in Applied Linguistics.
• I wholly embrace the idea of using the Internet to present a high-quality, free-of-charge encyclopedia to the public at large. As much as in within my power, I plan to be a contributor for many years to come.--Ling.Nut 02:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Safe Wiki

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[edit] Contributions, Milestones and Userboxes

Wikipedia:Babel

This user is a graduate student in Applied linguistics.

{{t|3}} This user can and does contribute to the template namespace with confidence.

8 000 This user has over 8 000 edits on the English Wikipedia.

MA2 This user has two Master of Arts degrees.

TEFL This user is a teacher of English as a foreign language.

en This user is a native speaker of English.

zh-1 該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。 该用户能以基本的中文进行交流。

This user is a participant in the Ethnic groups WikiProject.

html-3 This user is an advanced HTML user.

• Contributing since -- 6 August 2006.
• First user page vandalism -- 18 October 2006.
• 5,000^th edit -- 27 October 2006.
• 6,000^th edit -- 10 November, 2006
• 7,000^th edit -- 01 December, 2006
• 8,000^th edit -- 08 January, 2007
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Endangered languages: improving existing articles, expanding the number of articles, improving the documentation (references for number of speakers, ethnic population), and related projects.
• "Language revitalization" currently under the umbrella as well. Any momentum gained via the efforts of the endangered languages WikiProject could have spillover effects into language revitalization articles, if that topic were formally included within this project's scope.
• Endangered Languages in South America
• Endangered Languages in Central America
• Endangered Languages in North America
• Endangered Languages in Africa
• Endangered Languages SANDBOX

[edit] Templates

• Template:Harvcol. Harvard citation with colons for page numbers.
• Template:Harvcolnb. Same as above, but no brackets (parentheses).
• Template:Harvcoltxt. Same as above, but places authors name(s) outside the parentheses, e.g. Tsuchida & Yamada (2004).
• Template:Harvrefcol. This basically places APA-style references formatted with colons etc. at the bottom of the page, e.g.:

• Blust, R. (1999). "Subgrouping, circularity and extinction: some issues in Austronesian comparative linguistics" in E. Zeitoun & P.J.K Li (Eds.) Selected papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (3rd ed., pp. 31-94). Taipei: Academia Sinica. ISBN 1727182

• Infobox for Taiwanese aborigines
• See also templates for WikiProject Ethnic groups and WikiProject Hawaii, below.

[edit] WikiProjects

• Created Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Adopting disambiguation pages
• For Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups (in conjunction with Jmabel):
  • Adopted an assessment and importance ratings system utilizing the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team's assessment system.
    • Major modifications to WikiProject Ethnic groups project banner {{Ethnic groups}}, in order to provide assessment and comment functionality via the template. Modifications incorporated elements of {{WP Mesoamerica}} and {{WPBiography}}.
    • Created twenty new relevant categories as a part of the initiative.
  • Initiated adoption of {{WPEthnic groups Sidebar}} (a modified version of {{WPBiography Sidebar}}). This is a step in remodeling the project page for Wikiproject Ethnic Groups.
  • Ongoing work of adding new articles to the WikiProject, and assessing existing articles.
• For Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii
  • Adopted an assessment and importance ratings system utilizing the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team's assessment system.
  • Full details similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups (above); did not create a sidebar; did create twenty-two categories; did substantially modify the project banner (see User:Ling.Nut/HawaiiTemplateSandbox).

[edit] Articles

• A very large number of edits (fairly major restructuring) of Taiwanese aborigines. Compare to the pre-edit version.
• The Homeland section of Austronesian Languages
• Compare Formosan languages to what it was previously.
• Created Wikipedia:Harvard citation template examples
• Created seven new stubs for individual Formosan languages.
• Created Council of Indigenous Peoples
• Created Batanic languages.
•            Cashibo language

[edit] Categories

• Category:Chinese scholars
• Category:Language articles without language code
• Twenty categories for Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups (see above).
• Twenty-two categories for Wikipedia:WikiProject Hawaii (see above).

[edit] Cleanup, merging, wiki-gnoming, & Misc.

• Merge Pangasinan people, Captain Moroni, Ewald, Amphiphiles ... and many others.
• Disambiguation link repair

[edit] Barnstars

		The Czech Barnstar of National Merit
		You are awarded with a Czech 1st class barnstar for the significant work on national barnstars for WikiProject Czech Republic, we thank you! ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 17:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Please feel free as a holder of the 1st class barnstar to hold its ribbon ≈Tulkolahten≈^≈talk≈ 17:24, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey Ling.Nut - best of luck for your exams, sure all will go well. Here's a linguist's star in anticipation...cheers, cjllw02:39, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Working Man's Barnstar

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your work disambiguating links Dina 18:50, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for helping WikiProject Kentucky develop an assessment system. We appreciate it! Acdixon 17:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

		The Republic of China (ROC) Barnstar of National Merit
		If I were a Buddhist, I'd refer to this as borrowing flowers to offer to the Buddha -- but since I'm not, I won't do that. :-) In any case, you are awarded this barnstar for your contributions. --Nlu (talk) 23:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Harvcol templates:Examples of use

• Small bands of Plains tribes may have, from time to time, escaped to the mountains ... (see {{Harvcolnb|Tsuchida|Yamada|1991|pp=1-10}}; {{Harvcolnb|Li|2001}}.

Small bands of Plains tribes may have, from time to time, escaped to the mountains ... (see Tsuchida & Yamada 1991:1-10; Li 2001).

• "... text here (e.g., {{Harvcolnb|Bellwood|1997}})."

"... text here (e.g., Bellwood 1997)."

• {{Harvcolnb|Smith|2006|pp=25-26}}

Smith 2006:25-26

• {{ Harvcol|Blust|1999}}

(Blust 1999) ... wikicite uses (Blust 1999)

• {{ Harvcol|Blust|1999|p=12}}, {{Harvcol|Peiros|2004}}

(Blust 1999:12), (Peiros 2004)

• {{ Harvcoltxt |Diamond|2000|pp=12-24}} asserts that...

Diamond (2000:12-24) asserts that...

• {{ Harvcoltxt |Diamond|2000}}

Diamond (2000) asserts that...

• ... according to {{Harvcoltxt|Tsuchida|Yamada|1991}}

... according to Tsuchida & Yamada (1991)

[edit] Demo References

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