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User talk:Greatgavini/Archive I: November 2005 - July 2006

Hi

I'm also from Northern Ireland :) Darkimmortal 01:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC) reply

Note to self to fill space

Gavin, you da man. - THE GREAT GAVINI { T- C} 17:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Why, thank you. Tell me, have you ever read Pride and Prejudice, my good fellow? - THE GREAT GAVINI { T- C} 17:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC) reply
Indeed I have. I heartily recommend it. - THE GREAT GAVINI { T- C} 17:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC) reply

Languages

Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 17:04, 5 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Just wanted to tell you...

The fact that you like Regina Spektor, Pride and Prejudice, Salvador Dali and Slavic languages officially makes you cool. Really. -- Missmarple 17:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC) reply

DYK

Updated DYK query On 14 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Three Dancers, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Nice article and story for the tagline! Enjoyed reading it. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 06:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Town names pronounciations

Hi. I replied to your query on pronounciations of Coagh and Killylea here. I hope it helps. -- Mal 13:33, 15 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Reply from Xn4

Hello, the Greatgavini. You wrote on my talk page "Unfortunately, one or more of your edits have not conformed to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy, and have been reverted." I'm always happy to be corrected, but if you could tell me which edit(s) this refers to and in what way it/they did not conform, it would speed up my learning curve. Greetings, Xn4 07:01, 20 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Ah, I didn't mean any of your edits are POV! That's just one of the welcome notices available, and thinking that they're all similar, I put that one on your talk page. I see now it does have some extra stuff about NPOV, but I think it's more for warning you rather than for informative purposes. I'll change it to a more suitable one. All the best, -- THE GREAT GAVINI {T|C|#} 07:37, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

If it was not intended, then the correction would certainly be appreciated. Regards, Xn4 07:43, 20 August 2006 (UTC) reply

It has been corrected. -- THE GREAT GAVINI { T| C| #} 07:45, 20 August 2006 (UTC) reply

As you have contributed to an article relating to Belfast, I hope you could take some time to read this page about our new project: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Belfast.

Thanks. -- Mal 01:47, 23 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Re: Flanking maneuver

The MoS says:

"

  • Articles should use the same dialect throughout.
  • If an article's subject has a strong tie to a specific region/dialect, it should use that dialect.
  • Where varieties of English differ over a certain word or phrase, try to find an alternative that is common to both.
  • If no such words can be agreed upon, and there is no strong tie to a specific dialect, the dialect of the first significant contributor (not a stub) should be used.

"

Since the article name is "Flanking maneuver", we should not include other spellings of the word per point one. I have made a redirect Flanking manoeuver to the article already, so there should be no problem. Point two and point three are invalid; per point four, the article should use the dialect of the first significant contributor, which is me.

The examples you gave are single words, whereas an alternate spelling could be provided. However, "flanking maneuver" is a term, and a variant of only one of the word is best not included. See Aluminium battery for example, where the word Aluminium could be spelled Aluminum.

The sentence I removed is: "spelled flanking manoeuvre in Commonwealth and other countries" Incidentally I find this sentence a bit strange and confusing, which is one of the reasons I removed it. "other countries" can mean any other country in the world - whereas it should be any other country in the English-speaking world only.

I have now linked the word "maneuver" into its article, which included the different spellings - hopefully any confusion from Commonwealth readers will be cleared.

Thanks for the compliment :). Unfortunately I made typos throughout the article. Aran| heru| nar 04:14, 24 August 2006 (UTC) reply

Courtesy notice of proposed deletion

I've added the "{{ prod}}" template to the article List of English words of Romanian origin, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:List of English words of Romanian origin. If you remove the {{ dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Lagringa 23:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC) reply

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Firstly, there is no deletion notice on the article, and secondly I've re-added pastrami because the article of the same name states the word is from the language, and Online Etymology Dictionary thinks so too. An unsupported theory (the "definitely not Romanian" one) which contradicts another article in this encyclopaedia is probably not worth going by. -- the GREAT Gavini 15:20, 28 September 2006 (UTC) reply
Someone removed my deletion tag. I've got no problem with adding pastrami. The information that was there that said it wasn't from Romanian looked pretty detailed and convincing. I still question whether one word justifies a whole article on the topic, and I'm not too optimistic about finding more. Lagringa 18:36, 28 September 2006 (UTC) reply

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Feminism.

Woo for feminism! And Northern Irish folks; need I say no more?

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Your fancy sig is broken

You're missing a close </sup> in your sig and it's interfering with talk pages: Talk:Meridional French. Gronky 01:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC) reply

Ha, I just came here to tell you that. Ah well. Millancad 05:21, 29 June 2007 (UTC) reply

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Interwiki links

Hi Gavin,

You can use the interwiki link shorthand instead of a URL to point out your alternate language pages if you want

[[m:af:Noord-Ierland|Northen Ireland (Afrikaans)]]

For Example Northen Ireland (Afrikaans)

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Language-population update project

Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the {{ sigfig}} template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

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