![]() | On 11 January 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lenborough Hoard, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Lenborough Hoard, found just before Christmas 2014, is believed to be one of the largest hoards of Anglo-Saxon coins ever discovered in Britain? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
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The 50 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal | |
This recognition of fifty DYKs belittles the contribution that you have made to Wikipedia. All those great articles about hoards that I believe started in the year that we collaborated with the British Museum. Lots of stuff about the History of the World in 100 objects including dozens of great photographs. Its a great pleasure to recognise this achievement and to thank you on behalf of the DYK project, myself and the wiki. Thanks. Victuallers (talk) 23:24, 12 January 2015 (UTC) |
Hi, you rolled back my edit in article on Go Seigen. I admit I dont speak/write Japanese, but right now in the article are same characters for Go Seigen′s name in Japanese and in Chinese, which looks suspicious even to me. I took the Japanese characters from the article on de.wiki. Wesalius (talk) 09:54, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Any chance you could make the background of File:Duang simplified.png transparent? Prioryman (talk) 20:34, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for uploading File:Shang dynasty inscribed scapula.jpg and File:Shang dynasty inscribed tortoise plastron.jpg. I wonder if you have an image of the scapula that is immediately to the left of those two in the same display in the museum. I ask because Keightley has a detailed discussion of the inscription on that one, which we could cite. Cheers, Kanguole 18:27, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
I have no idea how to use Wikipedia, but I saw you edited People who disappeared mysteriously, which I just read all of, and find very interesting, but thought you could add in Theresa Rose Greaves.. Nateewelling (talk) 00:53, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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Sorry. I disagree vehemently. As a disambiguation page it is imperative that the distinction between PM and pm is made. That's the very nature of such a page. As such it should be clear to all readers that there is a difference between PM and pm. I consider it an insult for you to say that what the OED has to contribute is not important. Please put it back as I left it. Thanks for your co-operation. Steven — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.216.147 (talk) 15:45, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi BabelStone. It is basic grammar that when we abbreviate anything we should respect the capitalisation of the original. Some house styles ignoring this basic requirement is no reason for abandoning the basic requirement. More than that, the disambiguation page should be distinguishing between genuine PM (as in, e.g., Prime Minister) and pm/p.m. (post meridiem). The ambiguity isn't cleared up with the mis-capitalisation of post meridiem. The "12 hour clock" page should also be corrected with the explanation that abbreviating "post meridiem" should preserve the capitalisation. I won't do that because you are likely to revert to the original, so please make the appropriate alteration. That way neither of us will get annoyed. I also note that the 12-hour clock page indicates that 12 noon is often indicated as "12 p.m." Since "p.m." means post meridiem, or AFTER noon, it might be handy to point out that 12p.m. is literally 12 o'clock after noon, which can only be 12 midnight. Can we please clear up the ambiguity caused by people incorrectly referring to 12 noon as 12p.m.? If people used "noon" and "midnight" instead of not thinking about the meaning of 12pm we would be far better off. Steven — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.216.147 (talk) 03:41, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello again. I can agree with you about the capitalisation being available on the 12-hour page, but if you argue that comments about that should be kept to that page then we must remove any reference to such things as "also written as", on the disambugation page. I feel strongly that if the origin of the abbreviation is clear where there is information relating to how it is written then we can educate people on what is etymologically, and grammatically correct. Problems like this arise because of a lack of information, which allows people to do their own thing and when enough people do that language decends into chaos. So, can we agree to either include, on the disambiguation page, the reason why PM is not correct when talking about the time, or remove from that page any reference to other ways (correct or otherwise) of writing an abbreviation for post meridiem? As to the comment that "Wikipedia can't cure [the problem of people using 12am and 12pm instead of noon and midnight, or midnight and noon]" it can contribute to the disambiguation by being correct itself, since people looking at Wikipedia will see the correct notation and be educated. People learn from what they see and hear far more than they do in schools, so let's set a good example for others to follow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.216.147 (talk) 12:54, 22 May 2015 (UTC) Steven — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.59.216.147 (talk) 12:46, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
So Unicode v8 is about to appear. I see issues. Unicode announces:
But in the normative ISO 15924 file [2] Ahom does not have a Property Value Alias: Ahom;338;Ahom, Tai Ahom;âhom;;2012-11-01
. And this is the normative file. (confusingly, ahom is announced in the non-normative 'changes' file [3]). Same for hatran: announced for v8, not a PVA in ISO 15924. btw, this one not even in the changes list?.
This ISO management is a troublesome discrepancy. Last time, as we know, it was fixed late and backhandedly, with a 'we all know what is meant' attitude. Next time, I will not allow Wikipedia to use unsourced statements. ping @Shervinafshar and Evertype:. -DePiep (talk) 22:56, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Ahum
, and ISO 15924 is to publish that PVA formally. Unicode v8 is to use that PVA. For this connection, you can not claim that Unicode and ISO 15924 are "different non-synchronized standards" (statement may be correct in itself, and is wrong in context). Unicode says that they use exactly that PVA by definition. What you write is just an escape wording. What if you are a person maintaining a Unicode setup, and the this defining data file is outdated fort over a year?DePiep. BE CIVIL. Every time you interact with us you are angry and demanding about it. That sure doesn't win you friends. The correct thing to do is to simply point out an error and, helpfully, to propose a fix. Not to malign busy people for not tracking everything in real time. The people responsible for the PVA did not contact the 15924 registrar to flag the change. Moreover, though the file is normative and includes PVA references, the PVA references are there informatively because PVA is not defined or mentioned in ISO 15924. -- Evertype·✆ 11:35, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
OK, I surely have some excuses to make. I've clicked & reread this whole story. While in this history (2014, 2013) there were some distractions, major faults are my own. First and foremost, I apologise to Evertype for interpreting this edit as: changing someone else's post (BS's) afterwards to look good. How careless, while it was a useful linkfix! To BabelStone I say: had I read more carefully and with patience, I'd have understood earlier, and so prevented loss of (y)our energy. (But there were distractions along the road, he kept crying). We might meet about practical or technical notes later on somewhere. I give four trump cards 🂡🂱🃁🃑 to throw against me in any future meeting, to say "read it again and add patience". Have a nice edit, DePiep (talk) 19:43, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
For SignWriting, there are character sequences that use a base character with an optional fill character and an optional rotation character. Not all sequences are valid. For each base characters there is a 6 by 16 grid that shows all of the possible character sequences available. I have put together an example charts for U+1D800. I used a simple script to automate the creation of the table data with the input of a base character. Do you think this would be useful? Do you have any formatting suggestions? In theory, each base character in the main Unicode Chart for Sutton SignWriting could link to the associated character sequences page. Slevinski (talk) 19:26, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi. Tx for your review. Just some preliminary thoughts. The facebook page is a "verified" page. Of the government -- the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As stated at WP:FACEBOOK, an official page may be used as an RS primary source, "but only if it can be authenticated". Here, the page has the blue "verified" badge notation, verifying that it has been authenticated. And this fact is consistent with the (now-added; not indicated in the article at the time of your review) fact, supported by other RS refs, that his father is Christian. As to the spelling of his name -- the subject is variously spelled (transliterated into English from the spelling in his native language) as "Marc" and "Mark", and the rest of the entry leaves zero doubt that the reference is to the same swimmer ... it discusses him winning the same races. It's quite common for transliterated names to have multiple spellings. Tx. --Epeefleche (talk) 21:45, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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![]() | On 8 July 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wansong Xingxiu, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the 13th-century pagoda built to house the remains of the Chinese Zen monk Wansong Xingxiu was covered by an outer pagoda in 1753, the original only being rediscovered in 1986? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wansong Xingxiu. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass (talk) 13:06, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
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Dear Babelstone, I thought I would mention that a new article of mine has been marked as not sufficiently important. I thought you might be interested, and maybe can help me. thanks Tibetologist (talk) 06:18, 4 October 2015 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Min_%28linguist%29
...on the conductor. Got a view on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southgate Symphony Orchestra? --Dweller (talk) 20:47, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
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