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| Hi Maunus, for information, after translation in French of most of the article Language, I've started a label procedure and mentionned your name ], assuming you were the main author, but correct me if I am wrong. Thanks a again for this beautiful article and for the interaction. Cordially ] (]) 06:46, 23 March 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :Hi Cathrotterdam, I am sorry I did not get involved much in the translation process, but am happy to see that you have nominated it for bon article. There are of course other authors of the artivcle, but I think it is correct to consider me the main contriubutor to its current state (User:Rjanag wrote the poart about neurolinguistics, User:Cnilep the part about acquisition). Many thanks for keeping me updated and ''bonne chance'' with the nomination.] · ] 07:01, 23 March 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| :: Hi Maunus, I was about to ask about the same thing but met the new multi-coloured edit conflict gadget, more confusing than a whole fairground lit up in twinkly lamps. The article is in pretty good order and deserves to be rescued. ] (]) 09:46, 24 March 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::I have some well-deserved leave this week and I'll start working on the Swedish article. Could you e-mail me the PDF you mentioned in the FAR? I'm sure it could be very helpful. | |||
| ::] <sup>]</sup> 10:18, 2 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :::Actually, it turned out to be pretty useless - mostly reading lessons. I will see if I don't receive the two other grammars I ordered sometime during this week.] · ] 10:26, 2 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::::{{ping|Peter Isotalo}}, now I have Auwera and Koenig and Holmes and Hinchcliffe's "Essential Swedish Grammar" both of which will be useful. I may be able to scan important parts and send them to you.] · ] 06:38, 5 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| == Seseo == | |||
| Sorry, I linked to a wrong section. I meant to link to ]. As you can see, it's clearly wrong to call seseo a "merger of {{IPA|/s/}} and {{IPA|/θ/}}" because accents with seseo have never had the latter in the first place. It's rather like calling the foot-strut split a merger. It's wrong. ] (]) 17:39, 3 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :Ok, understood now. I have selfreverted my reversion of your change. Thanks!] · ] 17:42, 3 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| == Aztec legacy == | |||
| Maunus, I'll see what I can do next week to improve the article. ] (]) 01:59, 4 April 2018 (UTC)Amuseclio | |||
| ::I will be adding much more to the Aztec legacy section. I hope a Diego Rivera mural image with better resolution can be found. I added the logo for the Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma Brewery in the popular culture subsection. ] (]) 04:45, 6 May 2018 (UTC)Amuseclio | |||
| == Aztec etc == | |||
| Hey I just noticed it's in GAN. I'm busy for the near future, but when we're both done, I'll chip in in any way I can. May be a few weeks tho, sorry. later... ] ♦ ] 05:02, 18 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :Hey {{ping|Lingzhi}}, thanks for the statement of moral support. I personally don't mind long GA reviews, as long as the article gets better - but I think the reviewer may well want to have it done earlier than a couple of weeks. But thanks! I know you are working on the Bengal famine article and that there is some sort of what shall we say...hullaballoo...going on with that. I hope you get it solved, so the article can be promoted. Best.] · ] 07:38, 18 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| == Bengal famine of 1943 spot checks == | |||
| * Just let me know if you need any sources. I will email then to you. Thanks! ] ♦ ] 01:16, 28 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| *No need to do this. Ian Rose closed the FAC. Thanks ] ♦ ] 02:34, 29 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::Ok, it would have taken me some time. But it did seem like it was going nowhere. I think some of the objections to the writing style were also valid. I am sorry your work didn't pay off.] · ] 06:23, 29 April 2018 (UTC) | |||
| == There is a difference between claims and acceptance == | |||
| Rajus don't claim they are Kshatriyas. They are Kshatriyas and there is acceptance for that. ] (]) 13:02, 1 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :Then you need to present the sources that say so unequivocally. And if there are sources that say otherwise then they need to be included as well.] · ] 13:31, 1 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| == Indigenismo and Indigenismo in Mexico == | |||
| Dear Maunus, | |||
| I've proposed merging the two articles ] to ]. Take a look at the talk pages. I'm surprised the pageviews for both are so low. Where appropriate, I'll pay attention to linking articles I'm working on, which might boost page view stats. I know from your user page that you don't see such debates generating much light, but I think that readers are not being well served by having two articles. It would be great if you could take a moment to weigh in on the talk pages. ] (]) 17:41, 4 May 2018 (UTC)Amuseclio | |||
| :.Dear Amuseclio, I will take a look, but I must say I don't know enough about indigenismo in South America to assess whether it is reasonable to merge the two. My intuition says it is bette o keep both and then link to the Mexican article from the general article - but it depends a little on whether we can find any literature about indigenismo in general. ] · ] 18:48, 4 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| == The article Boycott == | |||
| Hello! As I understand, the word "]" is an ] since it was derived from the name of ]. I think that it is helpful if that is clearly stated in the article. Don't you agree? --] (]) 12:42, 6 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :No. People can understand that Boycott is named after Charles Boycott without having the word "eponym" in the text. In fact using the word eponym, which most people probably don't know may confuse rather than help the reader. There is no need to link to thre article ] everytime a word arises as an eponym. The normal and easily understandable way of saying this is saying something is "named after" something else. The word "eponym" is overused in some journalistic genres (notably music journalism), but it is rarely helpful in an encyclopedic context. ] · ] 12:51, 6 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::Reading anything may confuse anybody. The beauty here is the possibility to link to other articles so that any reader who does not understand the meaning of what an eponym is may click the link and read that article. My best guess is that anybody reading a section named "Etymology" would appreciate appropriate use of words like "eponym" or "portmanteau". --] (]) 13:49, 6 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :::The point of an encyclopedia article is not to teach the reader new vocabulary. It is not helpful to force unnecessary jargon into an article and divert the readers attanetion with links to articles that are not necessary in order to understand the article they are reading. It is both better language and more helpful to simply write that Boycott is named for Charles Boycott. Adding the word "epoynym" adds nothing to the article. I admit that removing this kind of abuse of the word "eponymous" is a pet peeve of mine. But I suggest you make an RfC if you want to insist that the word must be included.] · ] 14:00, 6 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::::That's OK. Though I disagree that use of "eponymous" would be unnecessary jargon. Instead I think it's an excellent example of the word. I would also expect anyone discouraged by words like that to rather turn to the simple English version of the article. There is no need to drag it out. We may keep you version if you feel strongly about it. Thanks for answering. --] (]) 14:52, 6 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :::::It is unnecessary because it can be explained in plain language with no loss of meaning, and it is jargon because not everybody will know it. Most readers don't know there is a simple English version of articles, and any ways they are never very good, and furthermore the fact that this is not the simple English wikipedia does not mean that we shouldn't strive for clear language that is readily intelligible to the average reader.] · ] 15:22, 6 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::How about doing something like this: ] ] (]) 08:46, 7 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| == Aztec warfare Spanish observer == | |||
| Could you put the name of the Spanish eyewitness that Hassig is quoting about Aztec warfare? Inquiring minds want a primary source. ] (]) 22:38, 11 May 2018 (UTC)Amuseclio | |||
| :I can't give the name unfortunately, because the source he cites is the Conquistador Anonimo. But I have added the name of the work he cites and a wikilink.] · ] 06:10, 12 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| == Yaqui Genocide == | |||
| This editor is creating a huge headache. Virtually all their edits are copied from other articles without attribution. I found one where the sources don't match the text, and just sweeping my eye over the sources find things like "Rouse, p.7) with no way of finding out who it is. See my post to Dianna and to the editor. I've redirected one article to ]. I guess this could be redirect to Yaqui. ] ] 09:51, 14 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::Yes, that makes sense - I think redirecting it to Yaqui is a good idea for now.] · ] 10:27, 14 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :::Which I did, only to be reverted with an edit summary saying he'd already said he was copying (it said " a section copied from another article" in his first edit summary, hardly helpful. I've reverted again asking him to stop. If he continues I think I'll have to take him to ANI. ] ] 11:50, 14 May 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| == Malmø == | |||
| Hi. Could you help me with the Danish pronunciation of ''Malmø''? Is it perhaps {{IPA|}} or {{IPA|}}? Either way, I assume it has ''stød'' because the corresponding Swedish pronunciation has the second toneme ({{IPA|}}). ] <small>(ex. Mr KEBAB)</small> (]) 02:31, 11 June 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :{{IPA|}} looks right for me, though I wouldn't show both length and stød, but only stød. Apparently now, Danish phoneticians have begun to transcribe the stød before the syllable that it affects in which case your second option would be correct.] · ] 08:34, 11 June 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::Thanks. I'd rather stick to the transcription used on ], but I'm aware that your suggestion is just as correct. | |||
| ::Yeah, but most older sources stick to putting {{IPA|}} after the syllable. Let's keep it that way for now, at least until the alternative becomes the predominant transcription. ] <small>(ex. Mr KEBAB)</small> (]) 12:53, 11 June 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::One more thing: is the transcription of ]'s surname correct? I'm pretty sure that words can have more than one ''stød'', but shouldn't the last syllable be marked as bearing secondary stress? I think Nina Grønnum considers all syllables with ''stød'' to be stressed, but I could be mistaken. ] <small>(ex. Mr KEBAB)</small> (]) 17:17, 13 June 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :::I don't have stød in the first syllable, and the vowel needs to be lower, and the final vowel is rounded (pronounced as å, though spelled with aa). I would write {{IPA-da|ɑnɐs ˈlenəɡʌˀ|lang}}.] · ] 18:46, 13 June 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::::Thanks. Are you sure about the final vowel though? That doesn't look like a transcription you'd normally see in dictionaries and reference works that use IPA (or at least the IPA-based system for Danish that we call IPA for simplicity). {{IPA|}} is a rounded vowel, maybe you mistook it for {{IPA|}}? ] <small>(ex. Mr KEBAB)</small> (]) 19:27, 13 June 2018 (UTC) | |||
| ::::::Well, going by the IPA/Danish it seems you are right because it does rhyme with "i går" - I just remember being taught using ʌ for that sound - but no matter, {{IPA-da|ɑnɐs ˈlenəɡɒˀ|lang} is fine.] · ] 19:57, 13 June 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| Did you still want to pursue the DYK now that this has been discovered? I'll happily take care of fixing the nomination template and transcluding it if you'd like to continue with it. Please let me know. Many thanks. ] (]) 06:36, 10 July 2018 (UTC) | |||
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| == Lule Sami language source == | |||
| I've been wanting to improve the Wiki page for the Lule Sami language of the Sami people of Norway and Sweden. The sources I've came across seem rather limited to obtain, but perhaps there can be a way for you to obtain a source. One source that I came across was "Lulesamisk Grammatik" by Nils Eric Spiik. If there is any way for you to obtain this source, or perhaps another source for the Lule Sami language if possible, that would be great. Thank you. ] (]) 18:32, 4 August 2018 (UTC) | |||
| :I actually ordered it from my university library, but I never got it. When I come home from summer travels I will check up on it again.] · ] 19:10, 8 August 2018 (UTC) | |||
| Great, please do keep me posted! I would like to know when you have a source. ] (]) 23:37, 8 August 2018 (UTC) | |||
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