User talk:Uaxuctum
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Hi there, would you be interested in writing the page about catalan orthography and phonology in catalan as well? Please note the learning project that is discussed on my page as well. Get-back-world-respect 02:30, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Spanish in the Philippines?
Stop writing about Spanish usage in the Philippines until you actually visit the country and know what you are talking about. Muchas Gracias.
- Firstly, it is very impolite (apart from cowardly) to leave an anonymous unsigned message on another user's talk page, specially when it is a personal attack. Secondly, Wikipedia is not concerned about any user's own personal knowledge (not mine, and not yours either), but about reporting published data, and that's exactly what I did: it's not me who says there are still Spanish speakers in the Philippines, it was a report by an official institution, as well as the Philippine census; and the historical use and cultural influence of Spanish for several centuries in the archipelago is extensively documented and well-known. Besides, having a look at your edit history it seems clear that you have some kind of personal pique against the Spanish language (you even tried to downplay its presence in South America). Uaxuctum 10:16, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Yellow
I just saw when studying your contributions that you must know about colors. Check out what I wrote at Talk:Complementary color. 66.32.251.161 00:43, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Color blindness
In addition to having no inclination to keep debating, I feel like the argument has basically played out; we don't really disagree anymore, we just continue to push each others' buttons. In the interest of the community (i.e. in case anyone else cares), I've tried to summarize our conversation. You will see that in the way I've organized the points I've been guided by where I stand on the status of your arguments relative to mine, e.g. placing your argument (point 1.1) and my argument (1.2) under point 1 (on which I think we agree). I'm sorry if this seems like political bullshit, but I think there are some worthwhile conclusions buried in all our long-winded back-and-forth, so I did it. If you think the summarizing thing is total crap, you could just delete it, but I hope you'll read through it and incorporate/modify your points where I've failed to represent them adequately. Of course, my bias was to justify my side of the nitpicking, but I tried to resist nitpicking in the summary in general. I predict you'll want to merge 1.1 into 1, saying they are the same things; I don't quite agree; this was the root of my objection to your approach in the first place.
Back to my Wikivacation... --Chinasaur 21:04, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Ceqli language
It was so nice to see you defend the article on Ceqli against claims of obscurity (even from within conlanging's own community! :shudder:) and amidst all the hysterical (and false) accusations of sock puppetry. Now that you have a lot of posts to your name, you can defend to article at Votes for Undeletion. We really need you over there.
- I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not going to get into that can of worms again even if it were for all the treasures the world. I got seriously scalded last time, which kept me away from Wikipedia for months. I was no newbie back then, I had already posted around 150 contributions (none of them reverted) when I was merrily called a sockpuppet by no less than an administrator who hadn't even cared to check that simple fact before making such an accusation and threatening to ban me, and then someone left an insulting comment on the very frontpage of my userspace. That experience made me realize very clearly just how ingenuously mistaken I was about Wikipedia and for a good while I had no intention to ever come back to this website again. Uaxuctum 08:24, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Playing cards
A while back you mentioned something about Latin suited and French suited playing cards. Feel free to add information if you find this important as I would like to get this article featured. You obviously know more about the subject, since I never heard of the different sort of suits before I read your comment. At any rate, I don't think they should have their own articles, since I doubt someone would type it in the search box, but you could always put in a redirect if you want to :) Having all playing card info in one article unless it grows to big would be best in my opinion. Please reply on my talk page. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 20:32, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Total Eclipse of the Heart
Seriously, Titles do not have capital letters when it comes to words like of, the and stuff like that. Check it up if you don't believe me. //EliasAlucard 10:39, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Timelines of Classical Composers
Uaxuctum, this certainly is an omission. I made the inital versions of the timelines. Most are based on existing tables. The famous composers was a selection I made as a starter to be completed by people with better knowledge. I do like 20th century music, just felt it was not me who should do this. So please use your expertise and fill the void Erik Zachte 12:45, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Images have uploaded to wikicommons
Hello, I have uploaded Image:Alicante Spain marina.jpg, Image:Alicante Spain CastilloSantaBarbara.jpg and Image:Alicante Spain townhall.jpg to wikicommons with the same file name. --Burn 01:57, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] vandal
Thanks for the heads up, he's currently blocked. Laughing in my face is a matter of absolutely no importance, but continuing page move vandalism is. I believe all his damage is repaired. - Nunh-huh 21:59, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Arabic)
Greetings! Since you recently contributed to Arabic transliteration, I thought you might be interested in the following project: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Arabic). It's designed to create standards for Arabic transliteration to use on Wikipedia, to make it easier for users to find articles consistently. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 15:02, August 4, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sources for Indexi
Hello, good work on Indexi, and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. What websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Indexi? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 05:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
- Somebody else added the link already. I found the info on the progarchives.com website. Uaxuctum 23:32, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] reddish green and yellowish blue
Thank you So much for the Info about reddish green and yellowish blue and the link to the PDF [1]. I allways dreamed of seeing a new color.--E-Bod 03:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Basque Portal?
Kaixo, I'm contacting you because you figure in Category:User eu, meaning that you speak some Basque. You must therefore be Basque yourself or have an intense connection with the Basque Country.
I am thinking that maybe was a good idea to create a Portal (or maybe a Wikiproject? or both?) on the Basque theme but I feel such kind of project requires more than just one person.
If you are interested, please comment in my talk page.
Enjoy, --Sugaar 10:39, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] skyscrapercity.com
I looked at the criteria for Notability for Web Content. It requires that there be published works dealing with the topic, awards won by the content, or publishing independent of the creators. The article fir neither of these, and the article's name was a website, common for advertisement based articles (also criteron for Speedying). I apologize if this was a requested page, but the Notability guidelines still stand regardless of whether it was requested or not. - Jake - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not an admin, so obviously an admin made the call. That's why I don't want to become an admin. I have independence, and a second party gives a once-over check after I tag. - Jake Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:15, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- I can't magically bring the page back to remove the speedy tag. Someone deleted it. - Bladeswin | Talk to me | 05:19, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spanish Forum
First of all, I didn't write the deletion message, someone else did. Second of all, the article was entirely in spanish, and already existed on the Spanish wiki, which is a criteria for deletion. Thus, if you want it undeleted, you're going to have to take it to DrV. --InShaneee 17:24, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- Here you go: User:Uaxuctum/Forocoches. It doesn't look like much of an article to me, but see what you can do per WP:WEB. Guy 15:00, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- Moved in to forocoches.com, sorry for the delay. Guy (Help!) 22:12, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Skyscrapercity.com
Wow, so then should we write about the other 101 non-notable forums ranked higher? User:Zoe|(talk) 05:05, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Please review WP:WEB. User:Zoe|(talk) 20:13, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Voiced and semi-voiced
I understand what you are saying about the voicing diacritic, but I interpret the sentence to read more like this:
- Before voiced consonants, /s/ is sometimes lightly voiced ([s̬])or fully voiced ([z]).
The [z] is in reference to the fully voiced while the (in my edit, not present) [s̬] refers to the lightly voiced sibilant. Thus, with my edit, there isn't given IPA for the lightly voiced realization. I omitted this because I didn't want to strain the reader with too much technical IPA.
I don't know what you mean by "tense" or "lax." Those are terms that are generally avoided nowadays in linguistics because they've been overused. Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 04:55, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
- From my understanding, fortis and lenis are phonological terms. That is, they are used to describe pairs of consonants that behave similarly to or are cognate with sounds pairs that have a voicing distinction. For instance, English and Spanish both have /t/ and /d/ (notice the / slashes / that indicate phonemic representation); Because English /t/ is actually [tʰ] and English /d/ is often devoiced (we'll say [t] for simplicity's sake), they are obviously not distinguished by voicing as they are in Spanish. Thus /t/ in both languages can be described as fortis while /d/ is lenis. However, when we get to the phonetics of it, fortis and lenis go out the door. English has [tʰ] and [t].
- Even if, for whatever reason, someone use fortis and lenis phonetically, in Spanish they'd become synonymous with voiceless and voiced so that a voiceless phoneme ("fortis" /s/ may have a voiced allophone thus turning "lenis" ([z]). With this interpretation, the claim in your summary that /f/ and /s/ remain "tense" would really mean that they remain voiceless, even though the article states that they sometimes become fully voiced. Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 09:22, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
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- I think you're guilty of a little original research here, but the distinction you hear may be between a fully unvoiced [f] and a partially unvoiced one. If you haven't heard a fully voiced one, then even your subjective experience would be lacking. What you describe in Ewe is a phonological distinction between labial fricatives. In totality, the only difference between the voiceless labiodental fricative and the voiced labiodental fricative is voicing. Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 20:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Hey, calm down. I'm not making an ad hominem attack and if it seems like I might be, I'd appreciate if you gave me the benefit of the doubt. The fact of the matter is, whatever tenseness is (and I think I can reasonably assert that neither of us can tell what it means phonetically from either source you've provided) your (language-specific) claim that /f/ and /s/ "remain tense" in contexts where they aquire partial or full voicing is going to need a source to back it up. Wikipedia editors can't be "discredited" because Wikipedia editors are not sources. Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 23:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Jean Nouvel and Gasometer
Hello! Thank you for your comment regarding the blacklisting of the Link to the Gasometer-Website. It was my fault, that the link got into the blacklist, because I have added this link with a photograph of the Gasometer to Jean Nouvel articles in other languages of wikipedia - so the spamfilter thougt I would spam wikipedia. I have already talked to the admin User:Eagle 101 - who has worked on the blacklist-request, but he answered, that there are "a lot of other resources as well" and he does not show any effort to remove the link from the blacklist or to whitelist it. (this is my opinion) - let have a look at his discussion page on User_talk:Eagle_101#Blocking of wiener-gasometer.at. Maybe he will react on your request/posting. Greetings from Vienna Andreas.poeschek 14:31, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello! I wanted only to leave the comment here, that somebody has "reorganized" the Jean Nouvel article and erased all buildings of Jean Nouvel. :-( Andreas.poeschek 18:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Hello! Good news. The admins removed the Gasometer-Link from the Blacklist, so you can edit the article without any problems. Thank you again for your comments for removing the link from the blacklist. Greetings from Vienna Andreas.poeschek 12:53, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
