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Welcome! Hello, WilliamThweatt, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place [edit] {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub}}I've created this, feeding into the same category as lang-stub for the time being, and tagged the four I'd found earlier. If this gets significantly larger -- or if "Wikiproject Austro-Asiatic langugages" springs into being -- the issue of a separate category can be revisited. Alai 03:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC) [edit] Register in MonAppreciated your expansion on register in the Mon article. What do you think about just changing the name of that section to "Register" (since it's not about phonation per se--i.e., not about voicing--but only about phonation differences on vowels as a contrastive feature)? By the way, "tone" in Burmese is partly a phonation thing too--with modal ("clear"), breathy ("heavy") and creaky tones. I did some instrumental phonetic studies, but the actual nature of the three "tones" never really came clear to me. Where you draw the line between tone languages and register languages has never been clear to me, where either might use pitch, pitch contour, phonation types and length in various ways to distinguish words. ...Anyway, good job, thanks. · rodii · 17:18, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sothea and SamouthIt was my pleasure to get the articles together. And it's great to know there's someone else out there who appreciates Khmer rock and roll. Wisekwai 21:14, 31 March 2006 (UTC) [edit] KurdsHey, no problem. I was going to fix it, but you beat me to it. :) Don't forget to check the article for neutrality. —Khoikhoi 03:04, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Immigration protestsThanks for keeping the "scare" stuff out of the 2006 U.S. immigration reform protests article. By any chance have you taken a look at my comment about the terms "illegal", "unauthorized", and "undocumented"? I know I should have brought the issues up on the talk to illegal immigration, and perhaps I will copy them there...--Rockero 20:25, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks for the heads up...But it looks like I was beaten to that welcome. Keep up the great work! Kukini 05:41, 1 May 2006 (UTC) [edit] Talk:Great American Boycott vulgarity and racist commentsHello, I got your name from the list of Admins. I have a question. I don't like removing things from discussion pages but somebody has recently posted a very vulgar, racist comment with links to White Supremist websites at this talk page. Can these be deleted? If you could take a look, it's under the subsection "I Agree". Thanks.--WilliamThweatt 17:01, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Adelle DavisHi Will :). I put this article up for peer review. I'd like your opinion, my friend. --RogerK 04:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC) [edit] Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotSuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun! SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better -- thanks for helping. If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from ForteTuba, SuggestBot's caretaker. P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on the SuggestBot request page. If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- SuggestBot 03:49, 26 May 2006 (UTC) [edit] Kurdish peopleHello William Thweatt. On the article itself page 19 but on the PDF-reader page 24. Also I think it is not only his own estimation but he mentions a source for that. Besides there are many scholars supporting this high growing population issue. Thanks. Wirya 15:47, 27 May 2006 (UTC) [edit] Jarai languageHi, Jarai language is in need of an expert to check it (I've just created it). Thanks for your help! Badagnani 06:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC) [edit] Your Vandalism warning on my talk pageHi, that wasn't vandalism. Just an edit conflict. :P -- Shizane talkcontribs 20:05, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Edit Warriors girding for battleYou might be interested to note that Fellow-edit is assembling the troops to do edit war upon us "liberals" over at Ann Coulter. I'm of the opinion that this sort of behavior violates the spirit, if not the letter, of WP:AGF and WP:CIVIL. Kasreyn 23:16, 14 June 2006 (UTC) Indeed. You and lawyer2b have been absolutely impeccably polite and constructive at that article. Kasreyn 23:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC) Hilarious reply to Fellow-edit by Jchap, who points out the self-described "newbie" who mysteriously already knows how to use templates and vote in AfD's. :P Kasreyn 00:09, 15 June 2006 (UTC) [edit] Needed: Another Ann Coulter FixThis time the first eight or so Notes are messed up. Looks like some more ref tag stuff, but I'm not yet skilled with the Wiki version of ref tags. Lou Sander 03:53, 28 June 2006 (UTC) [edit] Peer review for MyanmarHello, I have begun a peer review for Myanmar. Please express your opinions at Wikipedia:Peer review/Myanmar. Thank you. Hintha 21:41, 10 July 2006 (UTC) [edit] RE Clan MorrisonGood on you for having a go at rewriting it. There were a couple of things which immediately stuck out when i read through it ; first of all the fact that the first two paragraphs are the same, repeated in different sections and secondly that there were statements sitting about which ended with exclamation marks! which really isnt encyclopedic at all. Anyway the article looks a lot better after your edits, well done.siarach 19:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC) [edit] Myanmar articleHello. I've tried to condense the History section in the article, and I've added some more paragraphs about music and cuisine in the Culture section. Can you help copyedit the History section further, and perhaps add more information in the Geography section? I don't know what else to leave out from the History section, and I'm not that knowledgable in the Geography of Myanmar. What else should be added to the lead section? WikiProject Countries advises the following:
Should the most well-known Burmese figures (Aung San Suu Kyi, U Thant, Aung San) be mentioned here? Or should Myanmar's ethnic and linguistic diversity or Burmese culture be mentioned? Hintha 01:16, 15 July 2006 (UTC) [edit] Cambodian literatureI did a search for "Khmer literature" and also "Cambodian literature" and was amazed to find that no articles exist in Wikipedia. Do you know somebody who could work on this? --- Jakob Dempsey, YZU, Taiwan [edit] ThanksI'm still on my Wikibreak, just checking from a library computer, and I noticed that you reverted some vandalism to my userpage. I appreciate that. I noticed that the vandal was claiming both you and Scientizzle were my socks... any idea what that's all about? The only page I can think of that all three of us edit is Intelligent Design (and related pages). In any case, thanks. :) Kasreyn 22:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cambodia FARThe review for Cambodia is inches from completion, I think. Tony listed two small issues at the end. Any chance you could take care of those and give us an update? Cheers and good work on this one, Marskell 08:03, 4 September 2006 (UTC) [edit] Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groupsHi William, welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups. I saw your info. The page on Austronesian people is brand-new and fairly desperately in need of help, if you have the time. By the way, I'm working on Taiwanese Aborigines, Formosan languages and to a lesser extent Austronesian languages. Cheers --Ling.Nut 19:22, 16 September 2006 (UTC) [edit] Oh PSI took another look at your user page and had a different thought. The Chamic languages (from my viewpoint, esp. Tsat) are particularly interesting among the Austronesian languages, as the ones that represent a sort of counter-migration back to the continent.. there's a little note about it on Austronesian languages (see Thurgood, Graham (1999), From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects. Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications No. 28, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.)--Ling.Nut 19:35, 16 September 2006 (UTC) [edit] InvitationHi, you are welcome to join WikiProject Burma/Myanmar, thanks! Chris 23:38, 10 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Morocco mediationA request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Morocco, and indicate whether you agree or refuse to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation. There are only seven days for everyone to agree, so please check as soon as possible. [edit] Oops!Sorry, I forgot to reply to you! I blocked that IP about 10 seconds after your message :) Glen 12:53, 20 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] ReThanks! :-) —Khoikhoi 01:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Muchas graciasHey William, thanks a lot for supporting me in my recent RfA. It succeeded, and I am very grateful to all of you. If you ever need help with anything, please don't hesitate to ask. Also, feel free point out any mistakes I make! Thanks again, —Khoikhoi 04:57, 21 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Great workI wrote the article Indian influence on Chinese martial arts. Thanks for the extensive grammer cleanup and presentation work. Your work is well appreciated. Freedom skies 01:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Unreferenced?Actually, Manchuria does have one reference at the bottom of the page, so it's not "entirely" unreferenced.--Niohe 21:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/MyanmarHi! Please join us! Chris 22:48, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Morocco MediationGiven that no one has replied to the mediation within the last 17 days, I am closing it as being stale. From a cursory glance, it appears to me that mediation is no longer needed. However, if this is not the case, then you are more than welcome to file a new case. Thanks. On behalf of the Mediation Committee, ^demon[omg plz] 16:21, 1 December 2006 (UTC) [edit] Re: Jesse JacksonHm. I just re-read Talk:Jesse Jackson to remind myself of the disagreement we were involved in. I'm sorry you concluded that my motivations there were political; I'd have done the same thing if it had been (say) Rick Santorum. I thought we had had a good strong discussion of the quote in question as regards Wikipedia policy and encyclopedia writing, not politics -- my stance was, basically, "he says a lot of stupid stuff; what's so special about this incoherent one?" Otherwise, we've been doing about the same thing on that article: defending it from general vandalism. However, if you perceive I've been acting politically there, you're probably not alone; can you suggest how I might proceed in the future to diminish the appearance of political behavior? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 16:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC) [edit] RE:Your post to KhoiKhoi
Thanks Nina. William, what probably happened is some user just added the {{sprotected}} template, and thought that by simply adding the tag that it would actually protect the page. Of course, only admins can protect pages, and if you see anons editing a page, it's not semi-protected. Here is a view of all the edits that occured from when Ryan Delaney unprotected the article at 18:49, 14 December 2006 to when Clevelander started editing it at 02:12, 16 December 2006. I took a look at it, and at a quick glance, I don't see any vandalism that hasn't already been reverted. Cheers, Khoikhoi 06:42, 16 December 2006 (UTC) [edit] Savage pageNo, YOU are in danger of sanction as you have repeatedly disregarded the very rules to mention. (EnglishEfternamn 18:39, 21 December 2006 (UTC))
Kudos on neatly nipping that "anti-homosexual" versus "homophobic" snit. Frotz661 01:48, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] A matter of honourAs a small matter of personal honour, your edit summary in the socialism article ("re-edited various grammar and punctuation fixes wiped out by Nikodemus' insistent blanket reversions") got things the wrong way around: I was not the one doing the blanket reversions - WGee and 172 were responsible for that. In fact, I had just restored your grammar corrections to the first paragraph a few minutes before you made your most recent edit. -- Nikodemos 00:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] A comment on socialismUpon reflection, I notice that this comment of mine was a little haughty, particularly the last sentence in light of your profession. I'm not sure whether or not you interpreted it that way, but I was quite impatient at the time and I apologize for that. -- WGee 05:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC) [edit] About my commentI see I worded myself poorly and as a result you misunderstood me here[2]. If the user's name was Terrorism101, I certainly would not have defended it. My comment was referring to the War on terror, which seems address a lot more than only terrorism. I felt much of the concern surrounding this name may have been due to the mis-use of the word terror as terrorism over the last few years. I hope I have clarified. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 16:37, 9 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] TabsLooking good! ++Lar: t/c 21:39, 11 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] OfferThanks for the offer, but I had a look at the page you mentioned and I would fail it because of the lack of in-line citations. You have five books in References, but very few page numbers in Notes. There is a reference for an external Pdf page which is very good, and can be quoted extensively (by paraphrasing, of course...) The whole article could be a lot more detailed, and the flow could be improved, BTW. Thanks again for your offer. andreasegde 06:33, 13 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New York and New EnglandIsn't it a little harsh to fail the article, given that it passes 4 of the 5 criteria, with the last being simply due to not quite enough information. Wouldn't putting it on hold be a more appropriate action then failing it right away? Hurricanehink (talk) 05:32, 15 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] Maximus the ConfessorResponded on article talk page. -- Pastordavid 00:50, 18 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] Commons POTY identity confirmationI confirm I am the same user as 69.225.87.189 --William Thweatt Talk | Contribs 04:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] Cambodia - sex tourismWilliam, I left a message in this section of the Cambodia talk page, but then added a minor point to a different section, with the ersult that you migbht not notice the more important one. Please have a look and let me know what you think of my latest comment. Regards PiCo 06:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] WPW newsletter
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) 23:22, 24 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] Justanother and WP:BLPI saw that you had removed a section of an article talk page at the repeated request of Justanother at WP:BLPN. I wonder if you would care to examine his actions at Tilman Hausherr, where he seems to be following a quite surprisingly different interpretation of WP:BLP. -- Antaeus Feldspar 04:01, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ThanksThanks for your input over at Antaeus' posting on Tilman. I had glanced at WP:NAM a few times but never long enough to truly appreciate it. I especially need to work on it as I allow myself to be "rightously provoked" and give myself permission to be as wickedly sardonic as I can manage in return. That is not especially a "class act". While that may have assisted me in the past, there were likely other approaches that I could have taken also and that would have served as well and that I might want to concentrate more on in the future. My only defense is that when you are being ganged up on and bullied in your first visit to the playground, you may not realize that the teachers are just on the other side of the door. Take care. --Justanother 03:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] CambodiaHi William. Thanks for your message. I did have a look at the issue being discussed on the Cambodia talk page, and with the direction and tone the conversation is taking, for my own sanity's sake, I need to stay away from it for now. Perhaps the issue can be revisited at a later date? Thanks again! — WiseKwai 04:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] Thank you!... for your kind words! <bows> -- Ben 00:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] Visual arts-related AfDsHere's a template to use in an AfD, when it has been listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Visual arts (please do list appropriate AfDs there). I think it should go under the article details and above the nom statement, as it is a formal notice and not part of the debate. It will sign your name with date stamp automatically. Please pass on to others. Mnemonic: List of Visual arts-related Deletions. Template to use:
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[edit] AN/I on User:Antaeus FeldsparHi. Since you are tangentially involved in this, it is appropriate that I let you know about it and invite your comments. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Attacks_and_disruption_of_noticeboards_by_User:Antaeus_Feldspar Thanks. --Justanother 14:48, 28 February 2007 (UTC) [edit] HelloHi, i just finished reading your comment on the wikipedia proposal page for Cambodia and I'm glad to find someone else who wants to contribute to Cambodian related articles. I've also noticed many pages are very poorly written and while i may not be a college graduate i hope to contribute in any way i can. Out of curiosity, what is it that interests you in Cambodia? [edit] KhmerI've left a couple of comments on Talk:Khmer language. I know nothing about Khmer, so my remarks are from the point of view of an interested general reader. -- NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 17:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC) PS How do you pronounce your surname? Just wondering. IPA will do just fine! --NigelG (or Ndsg) | Talk 15:40, 15 March 2007 (UTC) |