User talk:Fenevad

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[edit] Hurdy gurdy

You're welcome! I found the article extremely helpful last year when I knew nothing about the instrument. I'll be glad to take a look at the newer version. —Malber (talk • contribs) 02:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Left a reply. Thanks. Nposs 22:02, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Appreciate the confirmation regarding the editing direction taken. +Fenevad 22:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I just realized that I had forgotten to respond to your request. Here's the result:

By the way, have you tried the alternative method? (That would help show if the mistake was in the calling of the JS, or if the output is just not being shown.) Thanks, AZ _t 00:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GA noms

I'll add the templates, but I'm taking 6 or more months off from Wikipedia to study for PhD prelims. Moreover, the guy who used to ramrod WP:ETHNIC is also cutting back on WP for personal reasons. Your suer page says you're a linguist. If you know anyone who wants to ramrod WP:ENLANG (which I created), then tell them it's OK!

sadly, --Ling.Nut 21:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Origami linkspam

yeah, I've been watching this article for awhile. It's his website, i think that's why he keeps doing that; and I think he might have done it more times than that, he set up a user account (User:ricknordal) as well, and has done it at least twice from there. Thanks for the message though. Ahudson 01:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Weird glitch

That's really odd you're unable to view the block log for User:Ricknordal. It doesn't seem to show up here[1], but tell me what you see when you click here[2]. -- Satori Son 17:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Berber mythology

Hi, thanks for your interest in that article. I have just gave you the answers in the talk-page, i still have to give the citations for placed in the article. Can you put the template "fact" (citations needed) in all the doubted/unclear facts to give the needed citations/sources/explanations. The real problem is with the rest, because those facts are even desputed and speculative among the historians. I tried to avoid giving deciding conclusion, but i may have gave some of them. Onather point, should i give the citations in the article, or in the talk-page or in the HTML comments? Best regards! Read3r 14:37, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

By the way, i wrote also an article on Ancient Libya. It is really unmistaken for understanding the history of the Berbers including the their beliefs. It explains what Herodotus meant with the name "Libyan" and what "Libya" meant to the Greeks. Ancient Libya. I hope you improve it a bit, and give your comments on the references and content, you may find there the same problems, since i'm specialized in producing badly written wikipedia articles. Thanks in advance! Read3r 14:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alesnormales’ contributions

Thanks for the heads up. I did not even know there was a Tooth abscess, but now I have added it to my watchlist. - Dozenist talk 18:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dental caries revert

Sorry about the revert to Dental caries, I didn't realize it was singular, I forgot to look at your edit summary. My apologies.--HarryHenryGebel 04:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		I hereby award you this Barnstar for your tireless work on Hurdy gurdy - the best instrument in the world. Pittising 19:16, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My mistake on spelling in the figure

For the HG article, the correct spelling of the G/C tuning (as shown in the range figure) is "Auvergnat", not "Auvernait". I spelled it wrong on our website (not corrected yet, sad to say), and I assume that's where you got it.

Alden

[edit] Eskimo shamanism

Dear User:Fenevad,

Thank You for Your notification and Your work. I shall read it carefully to-morrow (it is midnight now in Hungary).

The article (now: Shamanism among Eskimo peoples) was born during huge debates, thus some parts of the article are responses to the many concerns which the article got during the debates. Even the term itself "Eskimo shamanism" raises a twofold question. The article tried to contain its own justification.

I hope Yksin will say her opinion too, many parts of the article were triggered by her concerns, and she studied Yupiks more thoroughfully than me.

Do You speak Hungarian? Your name "Fenevad" means "beast" in Hungarian.

I have Diószegi's book at hand, so I can check it for sure. His name is really "Diószegi".

Best wishes,

Physis 23:09, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great job

Very good job on the edit/rewrite of Shamanism among Eskimo peoples. Those portions you've worked on read much more smoothly & naturally now. --Yksin 23:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Re: Physis' comments: yes, he/she (?) worked pretty hard to answer my concerns. I'm working quite a bit on Yup'ik, which will probably add some info to the shamanism article at some point, but only after I return from a two-week vaction I'm about to go on. --Yksin 23:14, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Dear Fenevad,

Sorry that I am not yet ready. I had a big programming job today. I shall do what You asked, as soon as possible.

Best wishes,

Physis 00:43, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First comparisons

Dear Fenevad,

Thank You for Your work for making the text more clear, and preserving the contents. I began to compare it to the earlier solutions.

Till now, I would suggest preserving the following linking solutions:

Thank You also for emphasizing the problems with the "Certain unity of Eskimo cultures" section. Really, I should like to rewrite it, emphasizing more that this is rather a certain relatedness together with diversity. I tried to write some of the motivations earlier in Talk:Shamanism among Eskimo peoples/Bidirectional approach to organize the beauty of tension between diversity versus unity of cultures.

Best wishes,

Congratulation also for learning Hungarian in two years. I learn one Eskimo language (Ungazik) since years (although not continuously) and I still have only very few knowledge. There are some similarities, e.g. possessive suffixes of the nouns, incorporating personal pronoun object into the verb, transitive vs intransitive conjugation of the verb etc.

Physis 11:52, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Netsilik section of Shamanism among Eskimo peoples

If I understand well Rasmussen's book about Netsilik Eskimos, I think Your work in the Netsilik section is good. Only two questions:

• You rewrote "[Sila was] a power that can move in people" to "[Sila was] a power moves in people". I do not have a profound knowledge on English language, but I think that the former is nearer to Rasmussens sentence (in the Hungarian translation), Rasmussen 1965, p. 106:

• You merged the Yupik tattoing part into Netsilik section: "Among the Netsiliks, tattooing provided power that could affect which world a woman goes to after her death.^[1] A similar belief was known about the Yupik.^[2]". I know nothing Yupik tattoing (and motivations behind them), thus I cannot prove that Yupik and Netsilik tattoings can be related so closely. Thus, I would leave the Yupik tattoing sentence in the Yupik section. Certainly, thus the Yupik section will be only a stub, but that is not a principial problem.

Thank You for the big work. I could make the above comparisons till now,

best wishes,

Physis 16:14, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Rasmussen 1965:2566–79
2. ^ Tattoos of the early hunter-gatherers of the Arctic written by Lars Krutak

[edit] Hurdy Gurdy Illustration

The Hurdy Gurdy article was very helpful to me.

I am trying to trace the maker of my Hurdy Gurdy which looks like it was made by the same person who made the Gurdy shown in the illustration which you posted showing the parts of a Gurdy.

Do you have contact details or a name etc for this maker?

Regards and many thanks.

Roy Campbell Glasgow (Scotland)

[edit] Ninera article

Fenevad, thank you very much for your words of encouragement. Slovak-style hurdy-gurdy is really rare kind of folk instrument (compared to fujara e.g.) in Slovakia today, but I'll try to find something more about it. Just please if I'll put something in wiki on this topic, check (and correct) my grammar there... ;-)

Vlado21 07:10, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Just saying hi

Are you the same Fenevad from the Folklor list? Nice to see you again. --Stacey Doljack Borsody (talk) 22:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Articles in Hungarian

Hi!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hungarian_language&diff=192078057&oldid=191853898

What I meant by "behaving like the indefinite article 'a(n)' in English" isn't that 'a(z)' is the indefinite article in Hungarian, of course, but that it behaves phonologically "like the indefinite article 'a(n)' in English". I hope it's clear now.

(I'm a native speaker of Hungarian, and from your name I'd guess you're one too, but just to make sure that we understand each other I write in English.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matt Kovacs (talk • contribs) 12:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)