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[edit] Image moved

Hello! The image Image:Shorthand sampler.png that you created was moved to the Wikimedia commons, so that it can be used on other wikis as well. It is now accessible on this wiki through the name Image:Eclectic shorthand by cross.png instead. Regards, Sam Hocevar 11:17, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

I moved your nice picture t--Marlow4 17:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)o commons. I added informations in the description. I found most shorthand method author' names. But, who is "Cross" ? (and full name of Lindsey ?)
--Victor Stinner 11:25, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
For Cross, see the article on Eclectic Shorthand, which is really quite a unique and interesting system. I don't know anything about Lindsley, other than that Mr. Cross considered it a serious competitor in 1897, but I don't know anything more. --Marlow4 23:08, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Native Latin speakers?

Greetings, fellow Latinist. If you have second, please cast your two cents in on the discussion of a category for native Latin speakers who are also Wikipedians. --Flex 13:17, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Emergency department

I wonder if you would consider supporting Emergency department at Wikipedia:Article improvement drive, to raise the profile of medicine on the wikipedia. The ED is a key area where the public receive emergency care, but the current article is very inadequate.--File Éireann 23:46, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please vote to keep CDP-USA userbox

Please consider going to here and voting to keep the CDP-USA userbox. Thanks.  IS Guðsþegn – UTCE – 20:56, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ‎"‎װיקיפּעדיע‎"‎ and ‎"‎װיקיביבליאָטעק‎‎"‎


[edit] Ancient Greek Wikisource

I understand from your userboxes you're interested in Ancient Greek. I've submitted a proposal to add an Ancient Greek Wikisource on Meta, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me by either voting in Support of the proposal, or even adding your name as one of the contributors in the template. (NB: I'm posting this to a lot of people, so please reply to my talkpage or to Meta) --Nema Fakei 20:28, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Garlic

Your contributions history doesn't look like the average vandal's. Why did you just do that to garlic? Please don't. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 22:50, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Duly chastised, won't happen again. --Marlow4 17:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deja vu all over again

It's baaaaack! Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of famous members of Mensa (2nd nomination) ... your 2¢ would be appreciated. --Dennette 15:36, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BC/BCE...

Got your message. I really don't agree, but since it's apparently a "touchy subject", I'll leave it alone. This was neither "revert warring" nor "unilateral". As for "substantial reason", I kinda thought not referencing time based on the inaccurate, antiquated birthday of a religious figure seemed fairly reasonable. Having read thru much of the Wiki discussion on this, I'm still not sure why BC/AD persists. The most common argument for keeping it appear to be: "well, that's the way it's always been". Or even better, "no one really thinks of it in religious terms...". Yikes.

I mean really, doesn't it seem just the slightest bit odd to time stamp Chinese history based on the birthday (again, inaccurate) of the Christian Savior? I might even cut the idea some slack if it were BJ (before Jesus), because than at least an historical figure is referenced. But, as you know, "the Christ" is whole other level.

In their essence, BC and AD are Euro-Christocentric. Doesn't matter that "that's what we've always used", or that "it's really not religious anymore". Oh well. Glad to know someone out there is keeping an eye on this particular subject. Guess I'll add it to my watchlist and see what happens...--Jonashart 02:33, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I have not made and will not make the counter-argument on this issue; I suppose most BC/AD proponents would argue on the basis of tradition and the preservation thereof, as you say. It's also questionable whether the objections you raise regarding BC/AD are really solved in any meaningful way simply by rebaptising them BCE and CE--the cultural origins remain unchanged. Besides, one could just as well argue from the left against BCE/CE, on the grounds that this perpetuates the Western self-understanding as the 'neutral' viewpoint, against which all other cultures (Chinese, Islamic, etc. with their 'quaint' ways of dating) are contrasted. Instead of admiting that the Western calendar has a historical and cultural foundation and bias just like every other culture's calendar does.
But that is not the point. The idea of NPOV on wikipedia is not that it is right--only that it is neutral. Nobody here makes the assertion that neutrality is always right: of course it isn't. But our aim is not to be right, it is to be neutral.
The reason being as I understand it that a community-based encyclopaedia cannot be built if we make it a forum in which to debate and decide on the validity of political correctness, abortion, the Iraq war, or any other contentious topic you like. Take your previous comment and fill it with equally powerful justifications of a given stance on Iraq or abortion and I think you can see that, even if you have proved to your satisfaction that you are right in what you say, you will only provoke a huge argument--you will never be able to convince everybody else that you are right. Wikipedia has had thousands of such argument already, and although there will always be some that go looking for them, most agree that it is in the larger interest of the project to avoid the contentious and stick to a neutral policy that avoids making 'rulings' on topics people feel strongly about. --Marlow4 21:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, just now seeing that you've replied. You've raised a very interesting point re: 'rebaptizing' as neutral. That's taking the next step (or the current step) in post-modern thought. Just the kind of thing I like to do with my students. A nice twist.
Anywho, point taken. Little "t" truth vs. big "T" Truth, eh? Gotcha gotcha gotcha. And to your point, relabeling doesn't actually change the point in history from which the clock starts. Lesson learned. Thanks Marlow.--Jonashart 21:04, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tax form 2555

I noticed you removed the fact tag on this section. If the statements are referenced in the external links, could you please turn it into an inline citation for the statements. Also reading through it, the statements in that section seem POV. Statements like "allowed it to slip in" & "entirely failed" should be reworded for neutral tone. I also don't see any POV from Grassley on why the change was included. I'd work on it myself but I'm a bit busy at the moment and would have to read through the articles. It seems you already have some knowledge on the topic. Morphh (talk) 13:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't want to vouch for the article section or its sources, but the links clearly do back the statements which is why I removed the tag. It seemed silly to have a "citation needed" followed directly by the link to the source. Again I don't vouch for the validity of the link or anything in the article; I was looking on this as more of a style edit. --Marlow4 14:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cherokee Scouting

Can you help render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Cherokee script? Thanks! Chris 07:23, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:John robert gregg.png

Thanks for uploading Image:John robert gregg.png. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you. —Remember the dot (talk) 05:51, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contribution in the devloppment of haitian creole wiktionary

[edit] Kontribisyon nan pwojè Dikyonè an

Bonjou,

Mwen administratè nan wikipedya ak wikisource ayisyen.

Mwen ap kontinye pwojè wiksyonè kreyòl Ayisyen (haitian creole wiktionary) nan adrès sa a :

Pou pwojè sa a valide konplètman, nou bezwen ke ou ede nou kreye vokabilè yo epi definisyon yo. Yo te mèt senp, se pa anpil bagay. Administratè yo vle wè ke pwojè sa a kapab bout toutbon.Mwen ap diskite ak gwo toro Steward ak administratè yo pou yo ouvè yon Wiktionary toutbon nan paj sa a : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktionary_Haitian_Creole

Mwen mande nou sèlman edite chak fwa nou vini, yon ti mo, yon ti pawòl nan wiksyonè a. Mete lyen an nan paj itilizatè ou.

Mwen komanse yon ti fòm pou fasilite edisyon nou yo. Ou mèt gade li nan paj sa a : ht:Itilizatè:Masterches/lis_wiksyonè


[edit] Kouman nou ap fè

Ki jan pou nou fè ?


(rezon an se paske anpil pwojè ap devlope epi wt/+kòt lang peyi, lè pwojè a aksepte, tout rasin wt/ht ap bouje nan rasin paj pwojè a, dirèkteman [[bouki]] plito ke [[wt/ht/bouki]] )

  • ou mèt gade paj mwen an pou kèk egzanp epi yon modèl definisyon pou fasilite kontribisyon nou yo nan paj sa a : ht:Itilizatè:Masterches/lis_wiksyonè
  • kite mesaj ak diskisyon nan paj yo, kite mesaj nou si nou genyen kèk pwoblèm ekri mwen nan paj mwen : ht:itilizatè:Masterches
  • ...mèsi ankò ! Ede mwen kreye wiksyonè sa a, nou kapab fè li ! Nou kapab devlope li !

Pou tout kesyon, mande mwen san kraze tèt ou.


Gade zye tou nan lòt pwojè yo, tankou :

Wikipedia
ansiklopedi		 Wiktionary
diksyonè (an demann)		 Wikiquote
pwovèb yo (an demann)		 Wikisource
lib dokiman yo

[edit] Tradiksyon (en)

Tradiksyon pou tout moun konprann byen

Contribution in the devloppment of the haitian creole wiktionary

Hi,

I'm admin in Haitian creole wikipedia and wikisource. I'm continuing the devlopment of the future haitian creole wiktionary. I'd like it to be a place where all questions of vocabulary could be solve quickly. Many of us are looking for a correct definition, vocabulary,sentence, or a large source of information concerning a word but remain disappointed due to lack of this information.

I'd like to invite you to contribute to the devlopment of this project. It's currently under aproval because we need contributors for editing the beta version (at http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/wt/ht ). The discussions with the admins are at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktionary_Haitian_Creole.

your first contribution could be very short, that's not a problem (for instance "Frans se yon peyi" will be sufficient for the first definition for France)

How to do it ?

thank you for your contribution.

You can contact me if any problems at : MasterChes

See also all that is working out :

Wikipedia
ansiklopedi		 Wiktionary
diksyonè (an demann)		 Wikiquote
pwovèb yo (an demann)		 Wikisource
lib dokiman yo


--Masterches (talk) 17:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)