User talk:Taivo

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Welcome, Taivo

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[edit] Edits to Death Valley National Park

Nice addition. :) --mav 20:52, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help Wikipedia!

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! I saw your entry on the new user log. I wonder if I could enlist your support for some of the linguistcs articles Wikipedia is lacking or need expansion. Wikipedia linguistic articles tend to suffer from an Indo-European and especially English point of view, and many of the articles need to be expanded to encompass all languages. Meanwhile, a few articles are missing entirely, in that they have only been treated in the grammatical sense and not linguistic. Here's just a few examples:

  • Tense (linguistics) is missing, only a grammar article exists.
  • Aryan. A dearth of organization, riddled with apparent confusion.
  • Augment. Probably needs a disambig and another article. Augment can be much more than 'an affix in Indo-European languages' and is used in a broader sense in linguistics.
  • Derivation (linguistics). Could use more international examples.
  • Determiner. Really should be renamed to 'Determiner (English)' or something like that. Interesting things could be said about determiners and definiteness cross-linguistically.

See many more Indo-European-centric articles that need help at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias_open_tasks#Linguistics, and see a general list of requested linguistics articles at Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Social_Sciences_and_Philosophy#Linguistics. Thanks for your help and I hope you continue to contribute!--Dmcdevit 04:34, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Numic Article

I started on a Numic article which you may want to look at, especially because I dared to use the word glottochronology. You certainly won't hurt my feelings by doing a complete re-write.

If we get to vote on what you spend your time on (in the vein of the previous post here), I vote for Great Basin languages and peoples. ;-) Toiyabe 22:10, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

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