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Didn't think you needed to know all the items above, since you alreay know—but just to welcome our new member(s). :) — Mir l e n 00:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Carch. I noticed your question about the etymology of the Ptolemaios on Bill Thayer's talk page. In short, the etymology of his name is pretty clear: ptolemos is an old form of polemos ('war'); -aios is a fairly typical adjectival ending; Ptolemaios should mean something like 'warlike'. (To do this yourself, you can use the Greek dictionary search at Perseus). How to track the name into modern Greek is not something that I can help you with. Bucketsofg 22:04, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Carch. You asked about "Ptolemais". This is merely a feminine adjectival formation from Ptolemaios, and it was used to name several colonial foundations of the Ptolemies because the word city in Greek is feminine. So Ptolemais means something like "Ptolemy's (city)". I think these basic facts can be found in the Perseus dictionary entry that I pointed out to you above (e.g. here). Bucketsofg 22:35, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
If the link you use in Perseus is "LSJ", then I would cite it thus:
H.F. Liddell, R. Scott, and H. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon s.v. "Ptolemais"
Bucketsofg 23:05, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Oops – thanks for letting me know about my oversight. All tags now deactivated and I suppose I'd better check those on my other user pages are as well. Best wishes, David Kernow 12:37, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Carcharoth, Thanks for your feedback with this issue. I'd like to know whether I need a consensus to do this, or not. I think Category:People by language would be the best name. The Category:Polyglots would fit as a subcategory of that one I'm proposing. Again, thank you for your words. Best, Mxcatania 17:04, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Carcharoth, yes, Philology is not the same than Linguistics, since Philology is for ancient languages while Linguistics probably not. There is a little confusion over there... I think Tolkien was both philologist and linguist. I'll work on it to tide things. Mxcatania 17:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Carcharoth. Thank you for your support vote on my RFA. The final result was a successful request based on 111 support and 1 oppose. -- CBDunkerson 20:55, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
If you're still interested in WikiProject M-E, make sure to sign the role call for April on the discussion page! — Mir l e n 05:27, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Great work! I'll have to take a closer look at how the Mongol categories nest, but I don't think there would be a problem with making the "Military history of the Mongol Empire" a sub-category of "Medieval warfare" and then removing the latter from "Battles of the Mongols". Kirill Lok s h in 13:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
As backgournd, these were the guidelines before January 16th of this year. I started talking about this in January of 2005(!), though the conversation had been happening before I joined in. There were some previous discussions here, here and I think some even earlier. I just scanned the archives and it is interesting to see how often the same issues come up (like piping using a space or * for eponymous articles). It is hard to understand some of the conversation withou having a snapshot of the way things were. When categories first started, they were of little use because few articles were categorized. They also duplicated a system of lists, which many people had put a good deal of effort into creating. Prior to March of 2005 there wasn't any way to create a table of contents for categories, so there was good reasons to subcategorize, remove duplications, and keep categories small. After my initial frustration with the categorization structure, I worked with User:Rick Block and others, to figrue out a way to create a TOC for categories, with the hope that the possibility of navigating large categories would change the thinking about Categorization. This led to Template:CategoryTOC which was a quick success. The most recent discussions, which ultimately led to the rewrite of the Categorization page started here.
BTW, I really appreciate your comments at Wikipedia talk:Categorization. I hope you will stick around for a while. I noticed, looking over the archives, that many people who were active in Categorization policy are not participating these days. I also hope you get a chance to scan through the archives. I find it fascinating to see how things change over time, and how much stays the same. -- Samuel Wantman 22:52, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Happy Easter, Carcharoth! But even if you don't really celebrate it (like me), here's some delicious chocolate to eat! — Mir l e n 18:41, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
There is a poll/proposal concerning the renaming of our WikiProject. Please vote here to share your opinion! — Mir l e n 19:34, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
I have make extensive changes to our Lord of the Rings article in an attempt to work it up to Featured Article status. In order to find more suggestions I have listed it under Wikipedia:Peer Review. Under the guidelines to nominations I am required to notify others of knowledge in the area to review it. I have decided that the best group for this would be our WikiProject. So I ask you all to look at the article and make any suggestions you can. Hopefully we will be voting this FA soon enough. Sorry Guy 00:53, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. Following up a discussion elsewhere, would you be able to point out something explaining what needs to be done with converting chess diagrams. What are these old and new formats you are referring to? Thanks. Carcharoth 09:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey. Things have gotten quieter — I'm just exhustated in general I guess. But no, you didn't miss the May role call. I'm planning to initiate that later. However, if you want to go ahead and start it up, go ahead. By the way, I'm not totally against your ideas, in fact, I do support it most of the time, I just have a few disagreements. Anyway, thanks for curbing the Tolkien scholar tendencies of mine — I do appreciate it, because it's constructive for me as an editor. :) — Mir l e n 23:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I signed up for project middle earth yesterday. I've been adding infoboxes for battles and places. Are there any tasks you guys are currently working on? Where can I help? Most of the tasks listed on the things to do page seem to be completed. -- Barnikel 04:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
User:Aaron Brenneman/Gallery of Socialist Realism Hope it helps. -- ( drini ☎ ) 17:16, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Following up your comment from the Main Page talk page: "As I understand it, taking a photograph or scanning 2-dimensional works of art does not involve any creativity and thus does not generate any new copyright." - are you sure that copyright is limited to creative activities? I know from experience that a lot of time and effort can go into a professional, high quality scan. It is the 'stealing' of the results of that effort that picture libraries are probably trying to minimise by using a "copyright" label. They may even have a justification under some laws. Carcharoth 15:30, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Instead of revert the edits I thought it would be better to ask you in your talk page. I have a few questions about your recent edits to Samwise Gamgee.
Thanks for doing the research. Yes I think we should go with the Amon Hen spelling, not the misprint. I have tried not to change any correctly wrongly spelt examples. Rich Farmbrough 09:30 18 May 2006 (UTC).
Hi,
I've fixed the tags on both the en-wp and commons pages. atanamir 18:17, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
All looks fine to me. You done well. (I should probably note that I am somewhat groggy and have spent a week away from the 'pedia, but nonetheless, good job!) Girolamo Savonarola 12:59, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
At this point I'd suggest waiting 'til June to do another roll call. It also might be worth-while to separate the 'roll call' from the participants list. The participant list can be a collection of everyone who ever signed up for the project without taking away from the impetus provided by having a monthly roll call/pledge of action. -- CBDunkerson 15:34, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I was wondering if, as the latest uploader of one of these two files, you'd be able to help with corrections to:
The problem is that both (still) show the wrong location for the Edgware Road bombing. The train had just left Edgware Road on the Circle Line/District Line tracks and was heading towards Paddington - hence the marker needs to be on the green/yellow line, slightly to the left of Edgware Road.
I'm also confused as to why the 7 July 2005 London bombings article is linked to the PNG file, but that that file is "not there", but seems to redirect in some way to the SVG file. Has the PNG file been changed to SVG and the link from the article not changed? Carcharoth 18:43, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestions. They aren't straightforward, but definitely something I will think about for the future, perhaps in the summer when I have more time on my hands, although if you find anyone else with technical expertise, all the source data is available. ed g2s • talk 00:30, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I've redirected this new article to The Mewlips ( prompted by your edit summary ) as there seemd to be no possibility of expanding this into a full article Peripitus 12:32, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
I saw your discussion at the Pump. I'm wondering why Gorcrows are included in Category:Middle-earth races when all that is known about them is that they croak in their sleep? Also, is it customary to include fiction creatures in an already fictional universe in Wikipedia? I can see where you might want to include them in WP, since someone might see the term in the book, and look it up here, but I don't think they should be included in a category. I mean, we don't even know if they're a race or a creature, and we don't know if they're ficitonal or real. Also, even if they didn't have an article title (or redirect), they'd still show up in a search. And lastly, the plural form should not be used as an article title. - Freekee 15:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for bringing this up! I mistakenly thought that I saw the Wiktionary entry having those definitions, but I'm glad you know that they don't, because they are important to include in the page, in that case. I've modified Diaphragm, and I think it should be satisfactory - I added the links to Urogenital diaphragm and Pelvic diaphragm, and then separated some of the entries out. I separated out body related ones, optics related ones, and left the rest in "Other", since I couldn't think of any other good separation categories. If there are other good categories, please go ahead and separate out more! This way seems like it provides all the information, but doesn't make the page too overwhelming. -- Nataly a 12:55, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I appear to have mistakenly pointed out Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links to you, without realizing that you had already been posting there (and therefore would already know about it...). I knew you had posted on one of the disambiguation talk pages, but thought it was a different one - I apologize for pointing out the obvious in what might have been a not very nice tone on my part! -- Nataly a 19:07, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for tidying up the Simbelmyne article. I noticed that the reference style you used was to refer to the chapter, rather than the page number. This seems like a good idea, as it would avoid the messy thing with page numbers. I wonder if the book title link could be to a list of editions, or if the reference template, while giving details of one edition, could incorporate a "other editions" link - or would that contravene the house style of Wikipedia? Carcharoth 15:26, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I believe you were intersted in this? [1] -- Avi 16:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Your work on the disaster articles and their categorisation has been important. You should consider joining us at the WikiProject for disaster management WP:DM. -- rxnd ( t | € | c ) 22:57, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if you could perhaps comment on the current proposal for naming and structure of various military people categories? Some opinions from people outside the Military history project would be helpful for us. Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 16:40, 30 May 2006 (UTC)