User talk:Binabik80

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Binabik80, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Wikipedia Boot Camp, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Roman Empire and Roman Emperor

Hi Binabik80, I responded to your proposal on splitting up Roman Emperor on Talk:Roman Empire. Cheers! --Hippalus 09:39, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Books

Hullo there. I saw some of your reading selection..and even that you're choosy about what you read. Was wondering if you'd read anything by Sean Russell, specifically his World Without End and its sequel, Sea Without a Shore? I think it portrays the age of colonisation well. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 05:04, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Roman Gaul image

That information about copyright does greatly help. Thanks. → JarlaxleArtemis 05:20, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Fantasy

On Talk:Fantasy a while ago you made some comments regarding whether contemporaries of "Classical" and "Mediaeval" fantasy made the same distinction between reality and fiction as modern readers. I agree with your opinion on this, but I'm looking for some references that could support it better and elaborate on it. If you know of any other sources on this topic, I'd appreciate it. (My primary interest in this is not for wikipedia, but if I find anything interesting I'll surely add it) — Hoho (Talk) 13:26, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: google.com

It seems like it turned into a redirect already. I didn't know there was a page on google already.

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[edit] Cassius

I request you revert your edit on this page, as I did discuss this with an administrator; Mark. If you look in the edit history, you would also see the assistance he gave me, which I believe shows acceptance for the work I did. To revert it all is rather deconstructive, needless, and not particularly welcomed. Especially after I changed every page that linked to the relevant Cassius to Gaius Cassius Longinus, so the redirect is totally unnecessary. --Daniel Lawrence 22:44, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] upsilon transcribed as f or v

I'm pretty sure this article should be at Euagoras; I'm not aware of any other instances of upsilon being transliterated as v. Are there any objections? Binabik80 16:49, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Certainly there are many instances of upsilon being transcribed as v or f, although I think that's normally when transcribing Modern Greek rather than Classical Greek. Strictly speaking, it's transcription rather than transliteration, because the choice of which letter in the Latin alphabet is used, depends on the pronunciation. Michael Hardy 02:10, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
PS: I'd bet large sums of money -- maybe even 50 cents, that nearly all cases in which the letter f appears in transcriptions from Modern Greek are occurences of upsilon. The other Greek letter that gets pronounced that way is φ, and that's transcribed as ph. Michael Hardy 02:12, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
The convention in English -- which after all, Binabik80, you defended so well in Mark Antony -- is that Ευ- is transliterated as Ev- before a vowel: Evander, not Euander. (And indeed, evangelist, not euangelist.) Opoudjis 15:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dera

I appreciate your comments about T.E. Lawrence and his rape at Dera. I personally feel we must trust Lawrence on this, and that it did happen. Not to mention it would be dishonest at best... Trish Lewis 20:48, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User talk:209.167.159.66

I'm sorry, since the only things I ever changed were probably grammar mistakes and mispelled words. If you could provide me on what I have changed, it would be appreciated.

I see, thanks for telling me that. I believe someone else is using my computer/ip address to edit the article (I live in a boarding school), as I have no interest for footbal. But thanks for informing me about it.

[edit] BVM

Some titles include the definite article, some don't. For example The Guardian, The Irish Times, the Irish Independent, etc. It depends on the formal name and whether in its registered form it includes or excludes the definite article. Blessed Virgin Mary does not use the definite article has part of the title. However The Blessed Virgin uses the definite article because in Catholicism in mediæval times some individuals who were honoured for their virginity were referred to as a blessed virgin. They were distinguished from the BVM by the non use of the definite article and lowercasing of the title. In contrast the BVM was described using the definite article as part of the title and by uppercasing. Though the use of the blessed virgins reference has long since died out for the other, it has stuck with the BVM. WP has a policy of not including definite articles unless they are part of the title. In those cases the The with the capital is used, usually bolded, in the first refererence, but then used grammatically, not in forms of theoretical title, in the rest of the text. (Monarchs for example, are often described as The King in the opening paragraph, but as ' . . . the King . . . ' elsewhere in the text.)

The reason I didn't leave an edit summary simply because I couldn't. WP is screwing around tonight. On one article I had to hit save 19 times before it saved. Instead save kept merely showing previews. In that case it took 6 saves and everytime 1 failed it blanked the edit line summary. The one that I had forgotten to re-enter the edit line yet again in the version that was saved. Having spent most of my time on WP today re-re-re-re-saving things I didn't dare do a new minor edit to add in an edit summary as that would have involved spending another five-ten minutes trying to get the save to work again. I will return the article to the generally agreed form for such articles. FearÉIREANN 22:34, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Veronese Riddle

Hi Binabik, and thanks for your interest. I read the point you raised about the Indovinello. You can find my answer on the discussion page. Bye. --Wikipedius 23:03, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Actually you are wrong turning His government to his government. When reference is being made to a government of a monarch who is a nominal chief executive in a parliamentary system, it is standard English to capitalise His and Her and seen as constitutionally illiterate to lowercase it. Slán FearÉIREANN\(caint) 02:11, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox President

Hi. There has been a mess on that template. As a hot fix I've created template:Infobox President old. Please use that on all articles that you see broken. Many articles have already been converted to a new parameter set, so they now need the new version of Netoholic in order not to break. Adrian Buehlmann 02:17, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Please address further concerns regarding template:Infobox President to User:Netoholic. template:Infobox President old is now orphaned (not used) and I put it up for a speedy delete. Adrian Buehlmann 10:03, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Waldorf and Nancy

Hi, and Happy New Year. I'm not going to revert your edit, but I do think that a married couple who were both born the same day is a very curious phenomenon. And when they are both noteworthy persons, this makes it even more curious. But I suppose it all depends on one's innate sense of curiousity. Well, I thought it was so curious that I posed a question the Miscellaneous Reference Desk earlier this year seeking information about any other such cases. From memory, I think we discovered 4. Highly unusual, hence highly curious. JackofOz 07:06, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roman Senate

I have responded to an edit of yours for the Roman Senate nearly a year ago. I would like to say I love your overrated men of history, and five favorites. I feel bad for ol' Jefferson on your list, though I agree. I still kinda like the guy though. My fav is Caesar too, and I agree about Cicero and ESPECIALLY Jackson. I hate that guy. I really really agree with you on Cato. Ok, Im just going off, but I have a great suggestion of novels for you: the First Man in Rome series by Colleen McCullough. And as for Meier's bio of Caesar. Its decent, but I think his sometime psycho-analysing is kind of fruitless. I mean, how can we know any of that? Anyway, drop me a line if you like. bb.f.d.caesar@gmail.com

[edit] Military History Task Force

Hello, I see that you've made some edits on Italian history, and was wondering if you'd be able to join a new Military History WikiProject Task Force opening up on Italian military history. It will just be a small division of the main project, but it will be devoted to helping the fairly sad Italian history articles on Wikipedia right now, (for instance, all articles on their WWII tanks are stubs), as well as Roman articles, and we need a few editors before we can actually create the project. Thank you for any support.-KingPenguin 11:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Well, you can join at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Italian military history task force, though unfortunately for some Rome articles are now out, but I hope you're still interested. You would be the fifth member.-KingPenguin 23:53, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change to Common.css

Per recent discussions, the way in which Persondata is viewed by Wikipedia editors has changed. In order to continue viewing Persondata in Wikipedia articles, please edit your user CSS file to display table.persondata rather than table.metadata. More specific instructions can be found on the Persondata page. --ShakingSpirittalk on behalf of Kaldari 00:44, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jekyll

Diff Strictly speaking it did both, as he wore wigs when playing both Jackman and Hyde, but you're right about it not matching what the source says. Brad 09:42, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Century Tower

As a current or past contributor to a related article, I thought I'd let you know about WikiProject University of Florida, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of University of Florida. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks and related articles. Thanks! ~~~~


[edit] Invitation

Hello there

I see you are interested in the Life On Mars Television Series, as I am.

At the moment I have A Life On Mars Wikiproject currently up for approval by the Wikiproject Approval Council. As you are interested in Life On Mars I was wondering if you would be interested in adding your name and joining. If you are interested you can find it on Wikipedia: WikiProject Council/Proposals its right at the very bottom you cant miss it as its titled ‘Wikipedia: Wikiproject Life on Mars (Television Series)’. And after your name is added to Wikiproject propsals please add it to the main page Wikipedia:Wikiproject Life On Mars

If you are interested by all means feel free to join

Regards

Police,Mad,Jack —Preceding comment was added at 17:19, 1 January 2008 (UTC)