Hi, I changed the ((Unicode navigation)) box seriously. Essentially, I added the lists of Scripts & Symbols in a collapsible part, and moved existing wikilinks there. This is my question: I would like to read your comments about this concept & implementation (e.g. at this talk here).
These are most of my rationals, on the script-aspects.
Adding all scripts (copied from well founded ((Scripts in Unicode)) & its Ancients brother). Distinction made common&inherited/modern/ancient. Adding links to: CJK/Han; Hebrew "H in Unicode..." not Hebr alphabet; Arabic & Herbrew diacritics (because they each have article). Re Common/Inherited: a bit stretching & smuggling by me: "Space" is "Punctuation" too, but I added it because of the good Unicode-space-table there. Other potential lists in this "Symbols" group do not have an Unicode-table yet, such as Currency sign, but should be there imo.
Intended usage: Each article that links Unicode with a script is good for the Unicode navbox. I still skip script articles that do not address Unicode by (say) a table. Example: the Hiragana script is in Unicode, but that article has no Unicode section. So no Unicode navbox there (there is no ((scripts in Unicode)) template either). About 10 out of 100 script-links (articles) have the Unicode template. -DePiep (talk) 18:40, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
thanks for your help with Amy Chua. i agree with all of the changes youve made so far, you did a great job. but it looks like someone, maybe the same person, undid them all! MrsSunDoesntShine (talk) 22:20, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
On 27 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article International Dunhuang Project, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the International Dunhuang Project has made over a quarter of a million images of Silk Road manuscripts and other artefacts available online? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:05, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
On 27 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Testament of Ba, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the earliest known fragment of the Testament of Ba, an account of the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet, was discovered in the British Library in 2009? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:03, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
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On 2 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dunhuang Go Manual, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Dunhuang Go Manual is the earliest surviving manual on the strategic board game of Go? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:03, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I think the article is ready for GA review. It might be a good target for the IDP professionals to lend a hand with some expert peer-reviews after it has achieved GA status as part of getting the article up to FA (which I believe is an achievable target for this topic). It would be a great bonus to have the article on the main page within a few months, possibly with the help of a later edit-a-thon or IDP wiki-week. Fæ (talk) 22:34, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
On 7 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Menggu Ziyun, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Menggu Ziyun is a 14th century rime dictionary of Chinese as written in the 'Phags-pa script? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 06:03, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
On 12 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Irk Bitig, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Irk Bitig (Book of Omens) is the only known complete manuscript text written in the Old Turkic script? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello BabelStone,
About your revision of 18 February 2011 of the Phaistos_Disc page: the DOI was expanded incorrectly by Wikipedia! As you can see easily by a click on the DOI link. So I will replace the text, with the proper reference.
I intend also to replace the phrase "Note that the signs are shown here in mirror image", which you removed as well. Please tell me, do you think that this is not true? Or do you think it is not relevant?
Arie ten Cate (talk) 18:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
The article is indeed well written, good in both scope and focus but has a suffieciant amount of work needed to fail GA at this time. It is suggested that seek assistance through a participating project.--Amadscientist (talk) 12:18, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Your last edit of the Go (game) page your comment states "no evidence go is more than 4000 years old". I assume that you meant to say 2000 from your edit!
The age of games is tricky as I tried to start a talk on the board game page a while back about this topic. I suspect the problem comes from the official UK version from the 1970s says on the box the 4000 year old oriental game. I agree that the age of the game should be what can be 100% established but this is not a clear cut decision. It might be worth starting a talk point on the Go talk page where you put your points.Tetron76 (talk) 18:07, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
FYI, I've nominated this at DYK. Nyttend (talk) 22:14, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
In this case the source is wrong, but I'm not sure what we can do about it... genitives in -i are o-stem masculine nouns which in Primitive Irish has an ending in -as, not -us. If it were a u-stem noun with an ending -us the gentive would be -o(s). See O'Connell's Grammar of Old Irish and other attested forms like Vergoso (MONAT/4/1) and Cunagussos (GLLOG/1/1) with masculine u-stems. I note the translator is an expert in Anglo-Saxon and not Celtic. Paul S (talk) 01:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
We have both been on the receiving end of strange GA reviews by Amadscientist. I propose that you renominate International Dunhuang Project and I have already renominated Getty Villa, and that we each review the other's articles so as to avoid the long wait in queue. Racepacket (talk) 12:57, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
On 15 March 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nimrud Ivories, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that crime writer Agatha Christie used her face cream to clean the more than 2500-year-old Nimrud Ivories (example pictured) after their excavation? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 08:02, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi BabelStone. I noticed you created many of the Unicode chart templates so I'm asking your opinion of an idea I have to include more detail in them. I'd like to add a title attribute to the table cells to include the Unicode name as shown in the UCD file. That way people would see the name as a tooltip/hint when they hovered over each character. For example, the cell for Batak character 1BC0 would show something like "U+1BC0: BATAK LETTER A" for the title/tooltip. Do you think this is useful? And should I proceed? Thanks, DRMcCreedy (talk) 06:31, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
As a literary term, a titular protagonist, or a titular character is one where the book title is that of the character. ie for Bilbo to be the titular protagonist, the title of the book would be "Bilbo Baggins" and not "The Hobbit". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_role . I'm not going to revert - but I think you should, since as a literary term "titular protagonist is incorrect. Also, for The Hobbit to refer simply to Bilbo negates the possibility that the title refers to Hobbits as a race, or a type of character, or metaphor for an underdog, or all of these. This point is debatable, but I think it is narrow to assume the title singularly refers to Bilbo. isfutile:P (talk) 14:24, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Regarding this edit of yours, I'm quite confused, what did you actually do in regards to the unicode glyph? I'm running Mozilla Firefox 4.0.1 at the moment, and now my watchlist (I have the page watched), the article history and the article itself are refusing to load/display properly... It seems this is only a browser issue as this doesn't happen in IE 9.0.8 or Chrome 12.0.742 (they display a 囗 instead), however in Firefox a large black bar fills the page, and whilst the ordinary format of the Wikipedia site is still there and the "table" is still visible, all the text is replaced with white emptiness. I am only able to read text by highlighting it blue with my cursor... quite strange if you ask me. -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs email 14:38, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
I tried to improve the article Rovas Script Family. If there is any imperfection in this article, please, let me know. Thanks for reviewing this article. Rovasscript (talk) 08:04, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
The Hamster Award for Good Work | |
Keep up the good editing, Babelstone! Augustus the Pony (talk) 16:42, 2 July 2011 (UTC) |
Well done for all your Wiki-editing! No Raisin At All (talk) 12:11, 16 August 2011 (UTC) |
Wow, thanks! Hope you have some more pictures to upload. BabelStone (talk) 12:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Hey BabelStone!
You may remember we had worked together and discussed some points about the Andriy Slyusarchuk article. I see from your user page here that you have knowledge of many writing systems and are familiar with the topic of archeology. I'd like to ask for your kind advice. I got a few samples of an allegedly undeciphered hieroglyphic script from a friend of mine. He claims the script was received through automatic writing by a woman who tuned to a channeling stream of information. I'd like some expert to kindly give opinion on whether this seems to be a hoax, maybe imitation of some of the existing hieroglyphic scripts, or it might really be something new. I uploaded 2 of the images of the manually recorded script here: [1] ,[2]. Could you also possibly direct me to someone or some forum, or group, where I could ask for an expert advice on this topic? Would Wikipedia:WikiProject_Archaeology be the right place? Much appreciate your kind prompt reply. -- Nazar (talk) 08:26, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated Sawgoek, an article on which you have commented, for deletion. You may wish to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sawgoek. Kanguole 14:00, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi BabelStone, I've reviewed your nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Jin Guangping, Jin Qizong, Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun and there are some issues with referencing. Could you please fix up the references and then reply at the nomination page? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:33, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
On 19 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jin Qizong, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Jin Guangping, Jin Qizong and Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun, three generations of the same family who all studied the extinct Jurchen language and script, are direct descendants of the Qianlong Emperor? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 08:03, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
On 19 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Jin Guangping, Jin Qizong and Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun, three generations of the same family who all studied the extinct Jurchen language and script, are direct descendants of the Qianlong Emperor? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 08:04, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
On 19 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jin Guangping, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Jin Guangping, Jin Qizong and Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun, three generations of the same family who all studied the extinct Jurchen language and script, are direct descendants of the Qianlong Emperor? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 08:03, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
On 22 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article List of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Chinese government has published a list of sixty-four important cultural relics (one pictured) that are forbidden to be exhibited outside of China? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/List of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 00:01, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
On 23 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Baisigou Square Pagoda, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the 12th-century Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union, discovered among the rubble of the Baisigou Square Pagoda after it had been blown up, is the earliest-known book printed using wooden movable type? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 08:18, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
On 23 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the 12th-century Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union, discovered among the rubble of the Baisigou Square Pagoda after it had been blown up, is the earliest-known book printed using wooden movable type? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 08:18, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for helping with Archaic Greek alphabets. Unfortunately, I think I'm not quite convinced about this [3] edit. The character we need here, U+03D8 GREEK LETTER ARCHAIC KOPPA (Ϙ), is unfortunately still not reliably supported (it's been around only since version 3.2); see e.g. recent discussion at Template talk:Greek Alphabet). What is reliably supported is U+03DE GREEK LETTER KOPPA (Ϟ), but that's the one with the inconsistent glyph implementation (older fonts displaying either an epigraphic Koppa or a modern numeral Koppa, and newer fonts displaying mostly some ugly concocted pseudo-uppercase version of numeral Koppa). Epigraphic Sampi is of course even worse, having been around only since 5.1; there are only a handful of fonts out there that have it. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:47, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
... but I had a question about your rhinoceroses; please check the DYK nom. Cheers, – Fut.Perf. ☼ 18:53, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
On 29 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Rhinoceroses in ancient China, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that rhinoceroses in ancient China were used as models for wine vessels? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rhinoceroses in ancient China.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Orlady (talk) 12:04, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Could you give me your email address?I am a scholar from China,and my research field is Tangut charachter.My email is xxxxxxx@xx.xxx.xx many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nxlcq (talk • contribs) 19:16, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
I wish more editors would leave such helpful edit summaries as this. I dabbed the China link. Could you help me find the commons images you mentioned? Many thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:24, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination/SFSU Class Project and consider adding your name.
The scope of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Classroom coordination/SFSU Class Project is mainly concerned with new articles.
According to the teacher's instructions, this group of students may not create a lot of new articles, but may instead focus more on improving existing articles.
So, there may be little for us to do in the way the Wikipedia:WikiProject China/NNU Class Project required. The students may, however, still call on us for guidance in other areas. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 09:15, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
On 17 October 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Stele of Sulaiman, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Om mani padme hum is engraved in the Lantsa, Tibetan, Uyghur, 'Phags-pa, Tangut and Chinese scripts on a 1348 stele, and in the Tibetan, Jurchen, Chinese, and Mongolian scripts on a 1413 stele? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Orlady (talk) 00:03, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar | |
For your work on Stele of Sulaiman and Yongning Temple Stele which helps direct wikipedia to an increasingly valuable resource covering time and place. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 00:03, 17 October 2011 (UTC) |
On 17 October 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Yongning Temple Stele, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Om mani padme hum is engraved in the Lantsa, Tibetan, Uyghur, 'Phags-pa, Tangut and Chinese scripts on a 1348 stele, and in the Tibetan, Jurchen, Chinese, and Mongolian scripts on a 1413 stele? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Orlady (talk) 00:03, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
On 21 October 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Shite-hawk, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that, contrary to claims of a medieval origin for the term shite-hawk, it originated as British military slang for the Black Kite (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shite-hawk.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Thank you for supporting the DYK project Victuallers (talk) 12:02, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor | |
For making me smile and conjuring bizarre images in my head of pigeons after too many vindaloos. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:36, 21 October 2011 (UTC) |
The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal | ||
Well you have created much more than 25. I see you are well on your way to 50. I see your DYK's and note that they are as so interesting.... and I see that the hoard articles continue to grow. I just got 3 questions right on university challenge because they were pictures of hoards. Keep up the good work. Thanks from me and the wiki. Victuallers (talk) 20:40, 24 October 2011 (UTC) |
On 3 November 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bredon Hill Hoard, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that some of the nominally silver Roman coins from the Bredon Hill Hoard (pictured) only have a 1% silver content? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bredon Hill Hoard.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 00:01, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi BabelStone. I'm contacting all the editors who have commented on whether we should un-capitalize "dynasty" in wiki titles. I have just proposed a new and simple way to make a final decision on this issue. Could you go to this new section to say whether you support my proposal? Thank you! Cheers, Madalibi (talk) 01:30, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, you might be interested in the discussion at Talk:Pictish language. Catfish Jim and the soapdish 11:28, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
You have been involved in the recent naming discussion at Talk:Xixabangma. There is a new poll to determine support for the move from Shishapangma to Xixabangma. If you are interested, please provide your opinion here.--Wikimedes (talk) 00:53, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
I can't let you hoard all the hoards, now, can I? :-) Glad you liked the article! Prioryman (talk) 21:36, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi BabelStone, List of monarchs of East Anglia is a list-class article that I have nominated for featured list status. Would you mind taking a look at it for me, and either supporting or opposing it, as it's not been commented on much? Thanks. Hel-hama (talk) 11:35, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
Please check again and re-download here: sourceforge.net/projects/code2000/files/
Now all TTFs internally are admitting following things:
"Notice: Code2000 is freeware, users are not required to register. US$0.00 (James Kass, 2807 Erskine Creek Road Space 93,Lake Isabella, California 93240 U.S.A.)[e-mail: jameskass@code2000.net]<Web site: http://www.code2000.net/index.htm>"
"Code2000 is freeware. Users are not required to register the font after any reasonable evaluation period by sending $0.00 (US) or equivalent to: James Kass 2807 Erskine Creek Road, Space 93 Lake Isabella, California 93240 U.S.A."
"Notice: Code2001 may be freely distributed, but even if you don't own it, you may alter it in any manner whatsoever."
"Code2001 may be freely distributed. All rights reserved."
"Notice: Code2002 may be freely distributed, but even if you don't own it, you may alter it in any manner whatsoever."
"Code2002 may be freely distributed. All rights reserved."
As you see, author finally confirmed free status of his fonts. So please correct all errors present in Wikipedia in regard to these fonts. 212.227.18.8 (talk) 19:13, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Please add to Code2000 following link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110108105420/http://code2000.net/
It is WEB-ARCHIVE copy of original James Kass website, CONTRARY to sourceforge fake. And it is already added in de:Code2000. So canyou add it as reference to Code2000? It is needed as reference. 93.114.46.192 (talk) 09:49, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Nadolig llawen and best wishes for 2012! | |
All the best, BabelStone, for the New Year. Martinevans123 (talk) 17:41, 26 December 2011 (UTC) |