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Hi Siva. I'm currently working on rewriting the section on Carnatic theory for the nynorsk wikipedia to make fewer references to Western musical concepts, and explain basic theoretical notions in more detail. In connection with that, I've added a few comments to the 'Tonic v Key' debate on the Carnatic music article which, hopefully, will be of some help. --Aravindhan 17:57, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week 2 Unusual Request 3 Dental 4 Image copyright problem with Image:Latrunculi.png 5 WikiProject WS 6 Help for template 7 Featured article work for WikiProject Writing Systems members 8 Reference desk 9 Visigothic 10 Barnstar and some other stuff 11 Wikipedia:WikiProject Ragas 12 Pitman shorthand consonant table 13 Natural phonetics 14 Commons Picture of the Year 15 WPW newsletter 16 Survey Invitation

[edit] Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week

I would like to revive this project. Are you interested in working on it? J3ff 06:48, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'm almost surprised to see myself typing this, but I don't think I'm interested in it. I think that what we really need is better and more complete articles in es:. Personally, I see less point in translating to English than in translating from English.--Siva 02:01, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unusual Request

checkout my comment on. Wikipedia:Unusual_requests#Favour_for_me._.5Bslightly_edited.5D --Spundun 03:11, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dental

Please see the discussion page on the latin pronunciation article.Cygnus_hansa 19:30, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Latrunculi.png

Thanks for uploading Image:Latrunculi.png. 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).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Thank you. Shyam ^(T/C) 13:46, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. The image is under the "fair use" license. I'm not sure what specific fair-use tag to apply, so I just put in a generic one. When I find time, I will verify the nature of the license. --Siva 00:38, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject WS

Just letting you know I have created a userbox for WikiProject Writing Systems at Template:User WikiProject WS. It looks like this:

Just add {{User WikiProject WS}} to your userpage. BTW, any questions or comments should be directed to the project's talkpage, as I will be spamming this message to all current members. Thanx!--The ikiroid (talk)^{(Help Me Improve)} 22:35, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help for template

Hi, this is the ikiroid again, trying to scout out help for Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing systems. I'm looking for anyone who can help contribute to Template:Infobox WS. It's an esoteric sort of template, copied from Template:Infobox Language that now needs to be revised for writing system pages. All ideas and comments about it should be directed to Template talk:Infobox WS. Contact me with any questions or comments. Thanks!--The ikiroid (talk)^{(Help Me Improve)} 21:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured article work for WikiProject Writing Systems members

Hello WikiProject WS members, it's the ikiroid again, spamming for help.....this time, it's for working on an article. We're trying to bring the article about the International Phonetic Alphabet up to featured status, and it would be great if anyone from our project would be willing to lend a helping hand. You can make suggestions about what to improve in the article here, where we're keeping track of the article's renovation. Thanks for reading. Feel free to ask me any questions about the article's improvement.--The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 23:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reference desk

Another editor replied to your reference desk query here. EVOCATIVEINTRIGUE TALKTOME | EMAILME | IMPROVEME 15:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Where? The link doesn't take me to the reference desk, but rather to the Language page. And at the reference desk, I can find only one answer to my query. --Siva 17:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Visigothic

I did look at the page, and I saw that it does have some references to Visigothic script, but it's just a newsletter from some SCA-type internet newsgroup. I don't think it's quite what we want for an external link. Adam Bishop 05:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar and some other stuff

I know we're not anywhere near completion, but I've been wanting to give you this anyway.

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For making a ton of edits in order to improve International Phonetic Alphabet. Thank you!!!!! The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 16:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

By the way, you don't need to mark so much stuff as a minor edit. Many editors exclude minor edits from their watchlist, so if you did more than revert vandalism, fix spelling, or link a word, you can mark it as a major edit. You don't need to be so humble :-) The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 16:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Ragas

This project, which you started in July 2004, is up for deletion at WP:MFD. Perhaps you'd like to give your opinion. Cheers, Yomangani^talk 21:58, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pitman shorthand consonant table

I was glad to see that you added a table of the consonant outlines to the Pitman shorthand article. But I thought you'd like to know that some of the outlines don't display properly on my computer. I wonder if you'd have the time to have a look at this and see if it's possible to improve them.

My computer is fairly conventional - Dell, three years old, running Windows XP - but only the p, b ch, j, th, dh, s and z display correctly. (Though having said that, the ch looks as though it is a thick stroke while the j is a thin one - shouldn't it be the other way round? Sorry if I'm wrong on this, it's a long time since I used Pitmans on a daily basis.)

The other characters come up as follows: the t and d are both broken in two instead of being a single vertical stroke. The difference in thickness isn't really visible either.

The k and g look too short, as though they are halved.

The f, v, sh, zh, l and r all come up as square boxes, which is a symbol I've see before when my computer doesn't know how to display a character.

And lastly, w, y and h don't appear at all.

I'd be happy to try and fix this myself, except that I don't know how you've managed to produce the strokes at all, so I thought it would be best just to let you know about the display problems in the hope that you can identify what's going wrong. Adrian Robson 09:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Natural phonetics

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Natural phonetics, 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 "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, but the article may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 02:48, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commons Picture of the Year

Thank you for voting in the picture of the year. However your vote was invalid because you did not have 100 edits on Commons, or the diff you supplied was not correct. Please read the instructions on diff making how to do this. You can remove the strike from your vote once you have add a correct diff. Thanks, Bryan 20:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WPW newsletter

The Writing systems WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - December 2006
News Welcome to the newsletter of the Writing systems WikiProject, everyone. Our project currently has 29 members. Any questions or requests for assistance on writing system articles can be posted at WT:WPW. Our Article Assessment Project is currently underway. Feel free to contribute by assessing and improving all unassessed articles according to the assessment page. Any help is appreciated. We would like to bring all mid-, high-, and top-importance articles to at least B class by the end of the year. We are working on implementing writing systems templates into appropriate articles. Try to help out!	Writing system articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 3 1 4 A GA 2 2 B 14 15 31 13 8 81 Start 9 21 31 53 21 135 Stub 4 9 95 25 133 Assessed 23 42 74 162 54 355 Unassessed 0 0 0 36 888 924 Total 23 42 74 198 942 1279
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This is the project's first newsletter. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas about it, feel free to post it on WT:WPW. Thanks. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 23:20, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 18:16, 9 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}