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Special:Contributions/82.221.100.1. I've just blocked the IP for 36 hours, but if this is a known vandal/problem editor you are aware of, feel free to change, lengthen or reduce the time if it is necessary. Cheers! Resolute 13:43, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks; Wikinger, as usual. Best protocol is to look up the Whois: if it's in Poland, softblock the entire range no matter how big; if it's anywhere else, always hardblock as open proxy. Fut.Perf. ☼ 14:12, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Shadotwala.jpg

Please tell me why you deleted File:Shadotwala.jpg. 1. It said I must bring proof the owner said its fine by 29 June 2014 not the 24th 2. I already emailed you with permission.

Thanks ~~Dovikap~~ user:dovikap

Ah. I deleted it because I saw you changing the source link on the image page, seemingly in response to the request for evidence of permission, so it looked as if you wanted to say that that new source link contained the required permission. Since that wasn't the case, I concluded there was nothing else to wait for. If you have proper e-mail licensing, then of course it can be restored. Unfortunately I don't have direct access to the permission e-mail queue myself (assuming you sent that to "permissions-en@wikimedia.org"). What kind of permission statement is it, a full explicit licensing statement mentioning release under something like "cc-by-sa" or the like? Fut.Perf. ☼ 15:21, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Faliscan

Hello, Future Perfect! I was looking at your User page and user boxes and came across the word "Faliscan" which I had never seen before, so I clicked on the link and read the article. I found it very interesting. I made a few minor copy-edits (mostly adding a few commas), and added some indentation to make the f/h "a." and "b." list look a little better, but I had a few questions I thought you might be able to answer. One is that in the section on f/h changes, there are a few Faliscan words to which no English equivalent is given, one in the prose text: hec and the others in the "a." list (hileo, hirmia, etc.). I wondered if you could add those. Also, I found a few things that were unclear, so I added "clarification needed" tags with a note to editors. Maybe you could clarify those things, too, and then delete the tags and questions. (I hope it was all right that I posed my questions there rather than on the Talk page.) I thought it was interesting that Faliscan habas is the same as one of the Spanish words for beans (the other being frijoles). I have a question: in the second paragraph in "Corpus", it gives a Faliscan sentence: foied vino pipafo, cra carefo and the Latin equivalent. I wondered if pipafo, meaning "drink", is related to the English word "pipette", a slender tube used in laboratories for taking up liquids. If it is, how did that word get into English? CorinneSD (talk) 15:55, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Heh, I hope you didn't take my language boxes too seriously here ;-) But I'll gladly try and see what I can do about the article; thanks for taking an interest in it. About the words you mention, since Spanish haba is evidently from Latin faba, and Faliscan haba is said to be from the same IE root *bʰabo (Latin f- regularly corresponds to IE *bʰ- too), the two words really seem to be cognates. About pipafo, since it appears to be cognate with Latin bibo, while pipette would be from Latin pipa ('pipe'), via French, I don't really see how a connection could work. Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:17, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

I enjoyed reading your User boxes earlier. I can see you don't take yourself too seriously. I also love the photo of the macaque! The eyes are so beautiful and expressive (notice she's a female), and her teeth are in pretty good shape.

Thank you for the information. Do you think the English word "bean" or "beans" comes ultimately from that same IE root?

On another topic, I have the article on Pali on my watch list. A few weeks ago I came across something that sounded nonsensical to me. I added a "clarification needed" tag and a note to editors. A few days ago, another editor removed the tag and my note and made a minor adjustment to the sentence that to my mind didn't really resolve the problem. It's not a major issue, just a question of precision. I left a note on Kwamikagami's talk page, but he hasn't responded. Today I left a note on the talk page of my fellow retired English teacher editing buddy, User talk:Rothorpe#Pali to see what he has to say about it. But since you are knowledgeable in linguistics, perhaps you could take a look at it, too. CorinneSD (talk) 19:21, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

I decided to go ahead and make the edits. CorinneSD (talk) 22:38, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Help

Hi! Tell me, please! I was blocked because sockpuppeter on the talk page Misplaced Pages: Articles for deletion/Putin khuilo! And my voice was closed .... Now I can leave voice or is no longer have rights? --Jeromjerom (talk) 16:59, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

I would strongly recommend you keep away from that article and everything surrounding it at least until the whole controversy about it is over, and instead go and demonstrate you are able and willing to contribute constructively in other, uncontentious areas during that time. Going back and insisting on putting yet more votes into that AfD is a rather bad idea. (It also happens to be pretty pointless, given the state of the discussion.) Just be glad you weren't blocked for longer and do something useful elsewhere. Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:36, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

But me talk Dord: Jeromjerom, now that your block has expired, you are allowed to edit. However, you are not allowed to use multiple accounts to influence the outcome of a discussion such as the deletion discussion you mentioned. ​—DoRD (talk)​ 17:11, 24 June 2014.--Jeromjerom (talk) 19:43, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Well, DorD gave you his advice; I gave you mine. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:58, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Ок. Please, then return version . I did not break the rules. I do everything by the rules. .--Jeromjerom (talk) 20:04, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

or at least leave my answer-discussion, which was removed a week ago . --Jeromjerom (talk) 20:11, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Unicode 7.0

FYI, 7.0 was released last Monday. VanIsaac_WS 16:36, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

No problem. The page at is still saying it's "pending publication" and will only be officially released in October, but it's not as if I care much either way. I was basically only reverting that harassing psychopath User:Wikinger. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:38, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Ah, yes I can see the confusion. That's just the core specification. All of the new characters and updates to data files were released on the 16th. The new core specification has updates to the collation algorithm and IDNA compatibility. VanIsaac_WS 01:40, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Empire of Luxembourg Link

Hi, I'm wondering why we should remove the Empire of Luxembourg link from the Henry V of Luxembourg article before the deletion discussion on Empire of Luxembourg is finished? Thanks. Bananaman321 (talk) 22:18, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Socratic barnstar

		The Socratic Barnstar
		For your amazing compromise / idea on "Template talk:Largest cities of Kosovo" which I would have never of thought of. Sorry it is rather late! Kind regards IJA (talk) 00:04, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Sidurisadvice.com

I've woefully neglected Talk:Siduri and Epic of Gilgamesh, but looking at it now I'm concerned with what I see as a continued effort to promote this website. Talk:Siduri was not just being used for bad translations, it was being used to promote some sort of metaprojects (with our wikiproject links being removed). I've reverted back to the earlier version - that stuff was completely OT and OTT, unless you see some merit I missed. The new 'collaborative image' is also publicising this website. The image has credits to the website embedded in it and the text also credits it. Side issue, if that is a translation of the entire text, isn't it copyvio?

I've restored the machine translations and change the image at Epic of Gilgamesh to one not promoting this website. The website is still being used to state there is a campaign to display the tablet - surely we should have independent sources mentioning this? Dougweller (talk) 09:37, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

He's still promoting his 'project' at Talk:Siduri. He's moved the text to his user page. Dougweller (talk) 15:18, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

And created a new 'profile', ie account. See User talk:Siduri-Project. Dougweller (talk) 20:22, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

TheIPInfo's report on you at 3RR

How does a user with only 4 talk page edits manage to find ANEW? Looks like a sock, any idea who it might be? If you don't see the report that's because Ian thomson removed it. Dougweller (talk) 16:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

I reverted Ian who got into a battle with the user and warned Ian. Even if turns out to be a sock, Ian shouldn't be removing reports from AN3. I'll go look at it now.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:11, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Rarevogel

3 obvious abuses of sources today. , , and which is a repeat of his first edit although I quoted the source to him on his talk page. This looks problematic but is a different issue, same pov. Dougweller (talk) 20:25, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Email

--Kansas Bear (talk) 22:44, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Architectural Art

Hi - Thanks for the message. I'm not sure whether you're watching my page but I left a response there. Cxw1044 (talk) 22:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

New reply on my page. Cxw1044 (talk) 11:26, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

OK - so I went back to the photographer and they emailed me that they are happy to release with the commons license. I forwarded the reply to permission-en@wikimedia.org. I uploaded the image with the updated license info but it still looks the same. What are the next steps? Cxw1044 (talk) 19:35, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that. You can just add a note about the licensing directly on the image description page. (Simply use the "edit" button like on any other page; if you go via the "upload a new version" it will just overwrite the file itself but not change the description text, which is a bit stupid of the software.) Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:26, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Heads up

You have been involved in this issue so I think you should see Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Request_topic_ban_for_Andy_Dingley Werieth (talk) 15:31, 2 July 2014 (UTC)