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[edit] Hi again! :)
Sorry about the belated reply, dear friend... with so little spare time inmy hands the last days, only now I'm slowly catching up with my wiki-life and my messages, and that very slowly :( In any case, thanks again for the hard work you're doing with the article migrations, and I'll join you as soon as I possibly can. In fact, by migrating them, the bot begins to recognize the format and automatically adds it to that page; which means that, sadly, yes: we still have to migrate them, tho adding them at the IPNA page is optional (albeit that'd be preferable, but we both know what a daunting task that is). Slowly, little ny little, adding a few articles between several people will take us there, hopefully. Please, drop by and visit me any time you need my help. Have a beautiful day, and I'm so happy you liked the cake! :) Love, Phaedriel - 21:11, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Talk:Battle of Washita River#Request for comment
Thanks for commenting at the HanzoHattori RfC. A related article RfC has been initiated at Talk:Battle of Washita River#Request for comment. We could really use statements from people outside the dispute, so I hope you'll take a look. Thanks. --Yksin 02:33, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Minneapolis
Fabulous article! If you the time and inclination, I'd love to get your input on the Augusta, Georgia article, I think it has potential. – Dreadstar † 18:16, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks!
Between you & Into the Fray, my morning has started out very cheerfully indeed. And wow -- it's so great to have other people looking at this article, & helping us to dig out of the deadlock. --Yksin 17:01, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Oj syncope example
Would the shkinwe (otw/ojg) vs. skinawe (ciw/ojc) vs. oshkinawe (alq/ojb) work for the example you're trying to provide of full vs. partial syncope? Or are you thinking of something else and it just didn't come out right and needing to think this through a bit more? CJLippert 19:08, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
- Ah, that's a much better example, yes! I realized that dibikad ends up as dbikad in both "fully" syncopating dialects and "partially" syncopating ones. Thanks for the suggestion --Miskwito 21:15, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
OK, well now, let me show you why in Freelang we split up (ciw) into (SW) and (CS): At Leech Lake and White Earth and Fond du Lac, the word is "oshkinawe" but at Mille Lacs, Bois Forte, Grand Portage and all Wisconsin and UP Michigan, as well as north shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, the word is "shkinawe" or "skinawe" ("skinawe" is peculiar to Mille Lacs D3 (and so more recently to Mille Lacs D1 and D2, including Sandy Lake), St. Croix, Lac Courte Oreilles, Bad River and Red Cliff, but not the other. c.f. Talk:Sandy_Lake_Band_of_Mississippi_Chippewa) CJLippert 23:57, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
- p.s. I like the addition/clarification. I did change a word "in" to "of" so that one of your sentences would flow better. Miigwech! CJLippert 00:05, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. I knew CIW had been split up by you guys, but I wasn't sure which parts of "Central Ojibwe" had the change and which didn't --Miskwito 00:11, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Silanian article
Unfortunately, "hoax" is not a speedy criteria. Nonsense is. But someone would have be fluent in something to know that it isn't something salvageable. So I sent it to translation in an abundance of caution. 5 days from now barring a contested prod, it'll be gone and all's well. Carlossuarez46 01:39, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
- Serbian was my best guess of a language using mixed Cyrillic and Latin characters (it uses "J"), and had never heard of Silanian. Thanks for moving the comment about the deleted diva and you even beat me to warning the guy who flamed that guy. Lots of following-up. :-) Carlossuarez46 02:03, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] the person attacks i said to a member
yeah thanks umm yeah because it REALLY getting annoying because he kept putting that name in that section which clearly has no proof that she's in it or anywhere
yeah because that name kept popping up everytime in that section when i tried to edit or put something for that section
but thanks for the reminder- User:Spike7000
[edit] Black Horse
Call it as you see it G4 doesn't apply, there's debate whether a template alone takes you out of G3 or G1, then A7 still may work. Your call. Carlossuarez46 04:16, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
For reverting the vandalism to my user page I just noticed today. Thanks, Carlossuarez46 16:49, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Windigo
Boozhoo. You've done such a good job keeping the windigo article clean, so I hope you'll have time to look at my comment on Talk:Wendigo. Miigwech, Leo1410 18:33, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. I didn't notice it until now. Carlossuarez46 19:11, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] dark therapy
The article is written as a "how to", not as an encyclopedia article.
Most of the claims are unsourced, just the opinion of somebody that is promoting such therapy.
In my opinion, the Dark Therapy article should be re-written using the article abstracted in PMID 17637502, and the references given there. Jclerman 14:53, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
- Upadate: I did some revisions, deletions, etc. in the Dark Therapy article. There remain, still, more things to change, and I might have deleted important things. I suggest you extract from Darkness Therapy the few things that have some worth and don't overlap with the Dark Therapy article. Then, please, put the Darkness Therapy as AFD. I haven't yet learned how to do it. I got exposed to the function and effects of melatonin in a Summer Colloquium, in the mid 1980s and I'm not up-to-date in the topic. I was expecting somebody would appear and do a better job than mine on the article. Please read my recent comments in the article's talk page. After all, we might consider extracting it as a section in one of the related articles. Let me know. Also, there was other user that commented about this. I can't remember the name now but I put a link to you and her/him/in in the article's talk page. Jclerman 18:32, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lenca and Greenberg
It is POV and falsifiable, Trask not withstanding. There are reputable scholars that do believe that Lenca is part of the Macro-Chibchan language group. Even so, ask yourself what it contributes to the article, and to the understanding of Lenca? What this section of the article does is discuss the history of research on the classification of the Lenca language, which is the subject of scholarly controversy. There's no claim that Greenberg was right or wrong, but he did classify the language, and whether other scholars believed him or not is irrelevant to the article. By the very fact that we acknowledge the classification is disputed, we acknowledge the controversy. What you wrote is a point of view, and contested. Words matter, and using language like "disagrees" and "reject" are points of view.
I'm not going to get into a revert war here but I am asking you to think about what it adds to the article and why you think it needs to be there. Thanks. Rsheptak 17:49, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks!
I think my tiredness clouded my judgment. Murderbike 01:36, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Squaw alternate
Aaniin niijii, You know of any studies that discuss maybe how maybe the words ikwe and egwa (as in egwakwe) might be confused together in the treatment of the word squaw among Native communities, since the erroneous "vagina" claims is not a recent happening despite literature claims on this topic being much newer -- the "vigina" claims seem to be closer to 80 years old in many communities. CJLippert 00:08, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not aware of any such studies, unfortunately, no. The only real study I know of is Goddard's. --Miskwito 22:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- OK. Miigwech. CJLippert 16:32, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Custer stuff
I answered on my talk page. --Yksin 21:15, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Monaseetah
Hahahaa, I was just thinking how completely klutzy that sentence was, & next thing I know is, you fixed it. Much better now. Thank you! --Yksin 22:43, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Screwy formatting
FYI, I think it is just the Wiki-server is just confused with too many ''' in such a close succession, which is why I used the <b>...</b> codes instead. Yes, "preview" is a good thing. CJLippert 00:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dreadstar RfA
Thanks for your support, I took the easy way out of thanking everyone by borrowing someone else's thank you card design...but know that I sincerely appreciate your support and confidence in me! Dreadstar † 03:59, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dené-Caucasian
Hi, now that I have a little time, I commented your comment on the DC talk page. (Unfortunately I destroyed the numbering.) David Marjanović 17:02, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] LBH Treatment For GAC Page?
Hi there - I was just wondering if you had any thought about posting your excellent summary of the LBH battle to the GAC page, where you, Yskin, and I (and likely more) agree that the treatment is overlong and lacks NPOV. If I have to read "recklessly," blatantaly," "general massacre" and all of the distortions and misunderstandings for much longer, I may gag. Or worse. Sensei48 16:22, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
- I second that motion. --Yksin 16:50, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Meetup in Minneapolis
[edit] Clara Blinn
Yes, you've heard that name before, a zillion times if you still follow Talk:Battle of Washita River. As has long been in the plans & in the research stage: the article finally got started. Check it out. Of course she will still need some mention in the Washita article, but certainly would violate WP:WEIGHT to discuss it within the body of that article to the extent Custerwest would like to have it; & in order to deal with the issues of NPOV that CW seems incapable or unwilling to understand, it became obvious that an article just about her was becoming necessary. I've been doing so much research, & organizing notes; the rest of the article should appear within the next couple of days. Maybe this will help get some of the overdiscussion of this off the talk page for the Battle of Washita River when our friend eventually comes off his one month ban. Though undoubtedly there will still be argument. --Yksin 09:16, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] FL Main page proposal
You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination this year. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1, 2007, voting starting December 1, 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1, 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual main page will resemble either an excerpted list format or an abbreviated text format. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Farewell to First-Ojibwe; Thank you Weshki
Aaniin niijii, I think we've decided that Rob McKnight have let go of the domain www.first-ojibwe.net, so bunch of us, especially Weshki, is taking steps to reinstate what we all had there. So, with that, Weshki now has her own site at: http://weshki.googlepages.com/index.html and have set up a new bulletin-board at: http://anishinabemowin.21.forumer.com/ Hope to see you there. Also, I have put in a request for bot-assistance to replace all the First-Ojibwe links of Weshki's site to Weshki's own site. CJLippert 18:30, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Awards for you
I'm giving you this award for all your hard work on the topic of indigenous peoples of North America. You also qualify for this service award. You can change it to a userbox, a book, or a ribbon if you like. Congradulations! Asarelah (talk) 04:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Question on Panarchy article and etymology
Panarchy is a word which has been created fairly independently by at least three people that is used in a sometimes similar, sometimes different manner. Someone new to wikipedia came along who started an "etymology" section that repeats info in previous sections and quotes his own Thesis paper. I did some internet research and except from some comments by that person and some other minor sources who promote the word, couldn't find anything from very reliable sources on the topic. So I am wondering if the whole topic should just be skipped, or just mentioned briefly in introductin, and otherwise just keep it pretty much as originally was with descriptions of the three different uses, and maybe a new miscellaneous section on two other uses. thanks for any advice!Carol Moore 00:02, 29 January 2008 (UTC)Carolmooredc {talk}
[edit] Nahuatl getting into position for FA-drive
I have been working intensively on the Nahuatl article for the past few days - I am intent on taking it to FA status within the next few months. In that regard I'd appreciate all and any copyediting, peerreviwing, additions and suggestions to the article from knowledgeable and careful editors such as yourself. Thanks beforehand. ·Maunus· ·ƛ· 15:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome back!
Haven't run across your edits in a while until today. I'm not really one to talk though as I edit then don't edit for months at a time. Lately I've been relentlessly soliciting advice for improving the article on Kechewaishke (aka Great Buffalo). I know you're well-read on Ojibwe linguistics and history, so I hope you'll have a chance to visit Talk:Kechewaishke at some point and chime in on some of the difficult areas User:CJLippert, User:Herbwag, and I have tried to negotiate. Chi-miigwech! Leo1410 (talk) 02:35, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] AfD nomination of Pre-language
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[edit] Niwaasamoo-ikidowin
Aaniin. Waasamoo-ikidowin igii-niindaa'in last week, but didn't hear back from you. Did you get it? --Miskwito (talk) 19:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- gaawiin gaa, niijii. gaawiin gibiijibii'amawisinoon yo'ow giwaasamoo-ikidowin. zhaabwayi'ii Wikipedia goni hotmail? CJLippert (talk) 22:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- Zhaabwayi'ii hotmail gigii-piijibii'amoon; indaa-ozhibii'aan ina miinawaa? (I meant to write "gigii-niindaa'in" in my original note, incidentally) --Miskwito (talk) 20:00, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- enh. gidoozhiibii'aan daga miinawaa. CJLippert (talk) 22:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- [In response to your email:] Enh, ingikendaan. Gigii-piijibii'amoon a'aw waasamoo-ikidowin miinawaa awasonaago. Gaawiin dagoshinoomagasiin giiwenh, naayaanh? Maybe my email account just isn't working... Niwii-nanda-biijibii'ige zhabwayi'ii account bekaanak. --Miskwito (talk) 09:38, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- enh. gidoozhiibii'aan daga miinawaa. CJLippert (talk) 22:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
- Zhaabwayi'ii hotmail gigii-piijibii'amoon; indaa-ozhibii'aan ina miinawaa? (I meant to write "gigii-niindaa'in" in my original note, incidentally) --Miskwito (talk) 20:00, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Unfinished thought?
aaniin niijii, In the article Anishinaabe_language#Vocabulary, there is a commented out portion: <!--(The literal meaning of -agak is disputed..._ Another example is ''babiikominagak'', which is composed of ''bikw-'', "round" (reduplicated) + ''-min'', "berry/fruit" + ''agad--> and I was wondering if you at one time was beginning a thought and never finished it. The -ak/-ad and its pairing -izid/-izi indicates having a certain attribute. In addition -min do indicate "berry/fruit" but -minag indicates a round, berry-like object. CJLippert (talk) 21:11, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I don't recall writing that, although apparently I did (I wrote "I'm not sure where -agak comes from" originally though; I have no idea why someone changed it). I don't know what I was trying to say, though... --Miskwito (talk) 19:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
