User talk:Omnipaedista

Speedy deletion of Adiexodo

A tag has been placed on Adiexodo requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for musical topics.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Triwbe (talk) 04:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Ancient Greek Wikipedia

HELP US MAKING THE PROJECT OF ANCIENT GREEK WIKIPEDIA

We are the promoters of the Wikipedia in Ancient Greek. we need your help, specially for write NEW ARTICLES and the TRANSLATION OF THE MEDIAWIKI INTERFACE FOR ANCIENT GREEK, for demonstrating, to the language subcommittee, the value of our project.

Thanks a lot for your help. Ἡ Οὐικιπαιδεία needs you! Crazymadlover

500 most used Mediawiki messages

hello. we must effort to complete the translation of mediawiki messages, to ancient greek, specially of the 500 most used:

http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&task=view&group=core-mostused&language=grc&limit=500

it is and important goal to succeed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.202.221 (talk) 13:25, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
—Identified now as User:Crazymadlover (Omnipedian (talk) 20:48, 20 December 2008 (UTC))

AfD nomination of Sacred Chao (band)

I have nominated Sacred Chao (band), an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sacred Chao (band). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice?
Slashme (talk) 11:15, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Eclipse

Per your edit to the eclipse article, from my browser you basically took out Greek characters that I was able to read and replaced them with boxes. I'm not clear how that is an improvement.—RJH (talk) 17:39, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

I haven't replied for so long to this objection because I thought it was.. well, easily “debunked”. But now that I'm thinking about it, it might not be so obvious why it is so. The nub is that it should be easy for someone to trace the root of a non-english-originated English scientific term back to the foreign word it comes from. In this case it's an ancient Greek word that is traditionally written with diacritics in the printed bibliography. So, this form should be preferred in electronic bibliography, as well. Moreover, if you write a Greek word without diacritics, it may be mistaken for a modern Greek one and this confusion may hamper one from finding the correct lemma in a dictionary such as Wiktionary. Omnipaedista (talk) 15:27, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

As for the technicalities, I always employ Wikipedia's character insertion utility below the edit box (or copypaste Arial Unicode MS characters) when I insert grc diacritics; these are always displayed properly when one employs any of the major web browsers (though they may appear a bit "disfigured" with IE) unless one has an extremely obsolete version of them that doesn't support the standard extension of the Greek alphabet. During the past 16 months, I have entered Greek diacritics in hundreds of English, French, and German Wikipedia articles and even written whole articles employing grc diacritics on Incubator and nobody ever complained about badly rendered characters except for two English Wikipedia users: User:Slashme and User:Rwflammang. --Omnipaedista (talk) 00:51, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia again

Please see this, someone has requested, again, a Wikipedia in ancient Greek, and support. Crazymadlover

Wikisource

I have requested a Wikisource in ancient Greek, maybe you wish to contribute. Crazymadlover

100% mediawiki messages

i changed my language interface in all wikimedia pages, to ancient Greek, i enjoy. but often find English phrase without translation. you must be very busy in the real life. but i might ask, cordially, complete the translation of 100% of mediawiki messages. I ask you because you are certainly one whose better knows the language. clearly that it may not be entirely useful at this time, but I think that the ability to translate these messages demonstrate the power of language, and is also a matter of pride and self-esteem. Crazymadlover —Preceding undated comment was added at 13:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC).

Lately, I've begun translating the Extension messages too. There is however a big obstacle. Literally hundreds of new entries have been added to the list of both the extension (from 5,300 to 5,600) and the "core" (from 1,800 to 2,100) messages during the last 6 months, while the majority of the translating community (apart from you, Leigh, and me) has been pretty much idle. If so many new messages keep being added so fast, it will be very hard for me to keep up translating them equally fast, either all by myself or even with the help of just 2-3 more people. Omnipedian (talk) 03:40, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to the Africa Project!

Hi, Omnipaedista, and welcome to WikiProject Africa! We are a growing community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to identifying, categorizing, and improving articles relevant to Africa. Here are some points that may be helpful: Our main aim is to help improve Africa-related articles, so if people ask for help with an article, please try your hardest to help them if you are able. Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it. The project has several ongoing and developing activities, such as article quality assessment, which you are welcome to participate. If you have another language besides English, please consider adding yourself to our translation section, to help us improve our foreign Africa topics. You may also be interested in joining one of the descendant projects related to a specific African country. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on the talk page, and we will be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We hope you enjoy working on this project.

T L Miles (talk) 17:29, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

τέχνη

μπορεις να μου εξηγησεις τις διαφορες της αρχαιας προφορας με της νεας? ειμαι πανασχετος. (Ancient Greek: IPA: [tékʰ.nεː], Modern Greek [ˈtex.ni] (help·info)) τι διαφορα εχουνε τα τ,ε,χ,ν,η? αλλο ταυ εννοουσανε οι αρχαιοι? και το χ ητανε καππα? ή πιο κοντα στο καππα? ή σα το εβραικο με το λαρρυγγι? και το ν ητανε σα το χωργιατικο πχ. της Λαμιας? ειλικρινα δε ξερω μη νομιζεις οτι αμφισβητω.CuteHappyBrute (talk) 23:22, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

(To non-grecophones: this is a popularized description of Ancient Greek language's phonology intended for native speakers of modern Greek; it's based on the literature given in this article. The occasion for this discussion is the accuracy of the IPA transcriptions of ancient Greek words in Wikipedia.)

Χμμ.. Από την διάσπαση της Πρωτο-Ελληνικής μέχρι και την ύστερη περίοδο της Κοινής Ελληνικής, τα δασέα, χ-θ-φ, ακούγονταν σαν τα άηχα κλειστά σὐμφωνα (=ψιλά με την ορολογία των Αλεξανδρινών), κ-τ-π, με την μόνη διαφορά ὀτι η εκφορά τους συνοδευόταν από ένα γλωττιδικό τριβόμενο (ακριβώς όπως το h στη λέξη happy). Αν ακούσεις προσεχτικά Αγγλόφωνους θα παρατηρήσεις ότι προφέρουν ως δασέα τα «ψιλά» σύμφωνα της μητρικής τους γλώσσας, όταν το επόμενο φωνήεν τονίζεται· πχ. αν θέλαμε να μεταγράψουμε φωνητικά αγγλικές λέξεις στα αρχαία ελληνικά θα γινόταν ως εξής: kills “φόνοι” - *χίλς, tin “τενεκές” - *θίν, pin “καρφιτσώνω” - *φίν. Όσο για τα "μέσα", γ-δ-β, προφέρονταν, ως g-d-b. Έτσι οι αρχαίοι Ἐλληνες το μπέε (βέλασμα) το γράφανε βῆ, ενώ οι Λατινόφωνοι όταν μεταγράφανε ελληνικά ονόματα, το κάνανε ως εξής: Θῆβαι - Thebae ή Thebai (και όχι ως *T(h)ive, αν η κλασική προφορά ταυτιζόταν με την αρχαία). Τα φωνήεντα της αττικής διαλέκτου: ει: μακρό ε με τα χείλη τεντωμένα δίαπλατα αλλά σε καποιες περιπτώσεις (προκλασσικές κυρίως) σαν το a στη λέξη game, η: μακρό ε με τα χείλη χαλαρά, υ: σαν το Νεοελλ. ου προκλασσικά αλλά σαν το γαλλικό u στην Αττική, ου: μακρό ου (αλλά στην προκλασσική περίοδο: μακρό ο με τα χείλη πολύ κλειστά ή ενίοτε σαν το ow στη λέξη snow), ω: μακρό ο με τα χείλη χαλαρά, αι: άι (αλλά στο τελός των λέξεων σαν το αγι στη λέξη κανάγιας), οι: όι (αλλά στο τελός των λέξεων σαν το ογι στη λέξη λαμόγιο). Το ζ προφερόταν σαν το j στη λέξη jump στα Πρωτοελλ., σαν το τζ στο τζαμάρω στην προκλασσική Αττική και μάλλον και στην Κοινή), και σαν το zd στην περσική λέξη mazda στην κλασσική Αττική διάλεκτο. Το ν, ποτέ, στην προ Κοινής περίοδο, δεν φαίνεται να ήταν ουρανικό («χωριάτικο») πριν απο τα ι & ε . Αυτό το φαινόμενο εμφανίστηκε πολύ αργότερα σε κάποια ιδιώματα της Μεσαιων. & Νέας Ελλ., αλλά ποτέ δεν απέκτησε πρεστίζ γενικότερα, για αυτο και σήμερα είναι κοινωνικά στιγματισμένο. Όσο για τους τόνους, ακούγοντας Ιαπωνικά μπορείς να πάρεις μια ιδέα. Η οξεία ακουγόταν σαν ερώτηση, η βαρεία σαν απάντηση, και η περισπωμένη σαν το Νεοελλ. επιφώνημα ώ-ω (που σήμαίνει “όχι”). Πληροφοριακά, επειδή το ανέφερες, κάποια από τα «σπάνια» σύμφωνα της Εβραϊκής υπήρχαν στην Πρωτινδευρωπαϊκή (ΠΙΕ: 5000-3000 πΧ): όλα τα α της Πρωτοελλ. (ΠΕ: 3000-2000 πΧ) προέρχονται από τα φαρυγγικά τριβόμενα φωνήματα της ΠΙΕ, και πολλά από τα ε της ΠΕ προέρχονται από το κλειστό γλωττιδικό της ΠΙΕ. Τώρα, ίσως αναρωτιέσαι πως είναι δυνατόν για την Ακαδημαϊκή κοινότητα να είναι τόσο σίγουρη για την προφορά γλωσσών τόσο αρχαίων χρόνων: η απάντηση είναι ότι υπάρχουν συγκλονιστικές ομοιότητες στον τρόπο που αλλάζουν με το χρόνο τα φωνητικά συστήματα όλων των γλωσσών του κόσμου, και έτσι έχοντας ένα επαρκές σώμα δεδομένων (οι διάφορες αρχαίες Ελλ. διάλεκτοι μαρτυρούν, π.χ., τη μορφή της ΠΕ) ή, ακόμη καλύτερα, περιγραφές των ίδιων των ομιλητών (Αρχ. Ελλ. φιλόσοφοι και γραμματικοί, εν προκειμένω), μπορεί κανέις να ξεκινήσει την αποκατάσταση, και έτσι να αποκτήσει μια ανέλπιστα ξεκάθαρη εικόνα για τον φωνητικό συστήμα οποιασδήποτε νεκρής γλώσσας, αρκεί να βουτήξει στις ανατριχιαστικές λεπτομέρειες και τεχνικότητες του θέματος.
Omnipedian (talk) 03:40, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

I stumbled on this belatedly, but I could not resist a minute intrusive footnote on the unshifted "μέσα" consonants, δ-β, in spoken, as opposed to written modern Greek. (Pardon the use of English by dint of keyboard challenges. The phenomenon is also attested in, e.g., Joseph & Tserdanelis, "Variationstypologie".): It looks like the pronounciation of δ has been protected by a preceding ν and that of β by a preceding μ for about 3000 years. Consider δένδρον, άνδρα, ένδεκα, κόμβος, γαμβρός, εμβαίνω. The "unprotected" pronounciation is strictly orthographic and derives from formal education and writing; and has barely invaded rapid, informal, colloquial speech and song. So, one hears in songs the same phonetic values for άνδρα, one may well have heard in the first word of the Odyssey... Cuzkatzimhut (talk) 14:45, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Indeed! The pronounciation of δ has been protected by a preceding ν and that of β by a preceding μ for about 3000 years. --Omnipaedista (talk) 01:11, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

I left νγ/γγ out, cf. συγγενής, since the protection is already codified in γγ, and there can be no orthographic "evolved" (mis)pronounciation! Cuzkatzimhut (talk) 16:06, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Re:Stub categories

"propose the following templates, categories if they reach 60". Taking {{Romania-writer-stub}} as an example. first create the template upmerged to Category:European writer stubs and Category:Romanian people stubs. Add the template to any relevent articles, then if there are 60 articles (which is what WSS use as a starting point) on "What links here" then create Category:Romanian writer stubs, if not it gets left upmerged until it reaches 60. Hope this explains, if not let me know and I'll try to explain further.Waacstats (talk) 23:51, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

I think I got it now. Thanks for the clarification. Of course, If I face any problems when trying to apply this procedure I'll let you know. --Omnipedian (talk) 20:48, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Unified login

Giving a heads up: after having merged my accounts on all the Wikimedia projects' user namespaces, I transferred my previous account here (User:Omnipedian) to the “unified” User:Omnipaedista and I will be using only the new one from now on. Omnipaedista (talk) 05:13, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Years

In 2009, WikiProject Years developed a essay for the inclusion of events "recent year" articles.

Important policy discussions took place in January 2009 at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years.

Deilvered by §hepBot (Disable) at 01:32, 11 January 2009 (UTC) on request of Wrad

Two Sri Lanka templates

Your removal of two templates from Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal did not appear constructive, and has been reverted.

I assume you just misunderstood the instructions in WP:SLR/bluebox. The first, bold link, points to the reason why the template is on articles. The link to the project talk page is for you to report any issues you have, including when you would like to remove the template. As most other talk pages, it is regularly archived. Absence of a discussion from that talk page is therefore no indication that such discussion has not taken place.

As for {{Sri Lankan Conflict}}, I can not think of any reason for a good faith editor to remove that template from an article covering a paramilitary group participating in the Sri Lankan Conflict.

Please do not remove such templates from pages on Wikipedia anymore. — Sebastian 21:34, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm really sorry about that. It seems that I did misunderstand the instructions of WP:SLR/bluebox. The removal of the conflinct-template was completely unintensional (uncareful selection of text before I pressed delete). However, I've never removed any similar templates before nor I actually intend to; the only thing I remove in general is obviously-outdated tags (such as recently-died-tags, unreferenced-tags in articles containing footnotes and reliable literature section, etc), and (since Dec 29) very specific outdated merge proposals about which I had no complaints so far. Omnipaedista (talk) 06:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your gracious reply! I apologize that I was a bit harsh. It turns out, you were not the only person who misunderstood it: Another editor came to our talk page with a similar question, so I'm thinking about how to word it more clearly. We might even remove the box from this particular article after all, as nobody spoke up for it to remain there. So you see, something good came from it. — Sebastian 08:33, 13 January 2009 (UTC)    (I stopped watching this page. If you would like to continue the talk, please do so here and ping me.)

Wikinews in Greek

Accordying to analysis page, the project of Wikinews in Greek needs have an active test project with at least 3 active contributors and complete the translation of Mediawiki messages and all MediaWiki extensions used by Wikimedia --- Crazymadlover. —Preceding undated comment added 01:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC).

The problem is that apart from Consta and me, noone works on the MediaWiki-extensions-used-by-Wikimedia anymore. Moreover these messages are among the most technical that exist, and in many cases a small research of literature is a prerequisite in order to render them properly. So, as I said on a similar occasion elsewhere, progress will be slow. --Omnipaedista (talk) 19:07, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Update: now I've completed 90% of them. User:ZaDiak has provided some help as well. --Omnipaedista (talk) 03:30, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

The WikiProject Greece April 2009 newsletter

The April 2009 issue of the WikiProject Greece newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.--Yannismarou (talk) 02:31, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

grc

Where did you learn Ancient Greek, and what difference is it to Koine Greek? Bugboy52.4 (talk) 22:58, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		You are an angel! For your work on Noetic Consciousness‎. LoveMonkey (talk) 00:55, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for that! --Omnipaedista (talk) 22:48, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Articles on Consciousness

Here are two very current articles on theoria and the nous. [1], [2] They explain allot and I was hoping to integrate them into the theoria, nous, gnosis, contemplation and Catholic–Eastern Orthodox theological differences articles. I am now however retired so I must stop. If you could pretty please with money on top, review the articles and maybe integrate them. LoveMonkey (talk) 19:33, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

As far as I know these terms are mainly used in Hesychastic Monastic Orthodox Christian Theology. This is a very specialized doctrine and I am not sure if I will be able to achieve a successful summary. Plus, I will have to find the original theological texts where these concepts are further explained. Allow me to add here a disclaimer: I am indeed interested in Theology, but this because I find its literature interesting; this means that my top priority is to clarify which concept belongs to which treadition and to reduce the POV interpretation of each doctrine's tenets by editors who embrace a different doctrine. I generally favor the use of Comparative Religion theoretical descriptions over Theological ones (and regarding my contributions to mind-related articles, I generally prefer to work on documenting the traditional philosophical/scientific treatment of consciousness-related phenomena than on any other alternative treatment). --Omnipaedista (talk) 22:48, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Article on Participle

Hello.

Could you write, in the article Participle, the sections of Ancient and Modern Greek?

Btw. I and another anonymous user let you a question (main page) and suggestion (Georgia article) at Ancient Greek Incubator test.

Crazymadlover. —Preceding undated comment added 20:49, 18 May 2009 (UTC).

OK. Just give me some time. (Both questions in the incub. have been replied now.) --Omnipaedista (talk) 07:45, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Update. I have added a Hellenic languages section to the article but I am keeping it hidden because I want to find some good citations first (and amend its wording in general). --Omnipaedista (talk) 03:30, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Attention: In fact, you have written a section in Infinitive article (thanks for that, too). But i suggested in Participle. Crazymadlover. —Preceding undated comment added 01:24, 9 July 2009 (UTC).

Neon Genesis Evangelion

thanks for improving this article, about one of my favorite animes/mangas. Two thumbs up. Crazymadlover —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.41.2.98 (talk) 21:24, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Omnipaedista. You have new messages at MLauba's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

MLauba (talk) 05:56, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Eurynorhynchus

I have not been able to figure out the etymology of the Euryno- bit. Any help is highly appreciated. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 23:47, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

I've just created the relevant entries in the Wiktionary: wikt:εὐρύνω + -ο- + wikt:ῥύγχος. This root (eurȳn-) is a verb root, of course; it is one of the rare cases where the first compound of a Neolatin noun is a verb root (another example is piezoelectricity) instead of a noun root. B.t.w., thanks for notifying me about that. Don't hesitate to indicate me any other species names with non-transparent etymology; my personal dream is that someday all the species-related Wikipedia articles (or at least their respective Wiktionary entries) will have an etymology section; those etyma are notable both for biotaxonomy mnemonic and historical linguistic reasons. --Omnipaedista (talk) 01:10, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Rosetta Barnstar
		Omnipaedista is hereby awarded with a Rossetta Barnstar by me, Crazymadlover, for tirelessly making necessary (but tedious for most users) translations of Mediawiki messages to Ancient Greek. Your work is truly appreciated. --Crazymadlover 10 June 2009

Thank you for that! Sorry for having transferred it to my talk-page but, in general, I prefer not to have an awards-section in my English Wikipedia user-page :)
--Omnipaedista (talk) 03:30, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Gothic keyboards

About a year ago, you left a message on my talk page about text-entry for the Gothic Wikipedia. If you use the Mac (and if you're still interested), I can supply Macintosh input methods for Gothic and all the major runic transcription systems. Just leave a message on my talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emk (talk • contribs) 02:55, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Theatre of Pakistan: Urdu drama

Your comment from December 2008 is observant, but the article has not been improved. The contributor has not answered my message about potential deletion. I really don't see the value of what is currently on the page. Ed8r (talk) 20:26, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the notification. As I said in my edit summary: "the article seems to be still full of copyvio, advertizing prose, POV, and lack of hierarchy" and as you said in the talk-page: it's "virtually incomprehensible". Alas, the only knowledge I have for the matter at hand is limited to some very broad historical info on Urdu theatre, so I can't really help in improving the article. However, I --for one-- strongly oppose to its deletion. Instead, I propose one of the following: 1) either trim it down to a few (semi-trivial) sentences and just improve its general literature/references section, or 2) turn it into a redirect (without deleting it) to the article-section Culture_of_Pakistan#Drama_and_theatre so that anyone who might want to work on the subject-matter can do so in the more general article (and if its section gets really improved sometime in the future then it could qualify to be split into a new article). But I would really like to hear your opinion, as well. --Omnipaedista (talk) 08:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm certainly open to ideas from someone with more experience than I . . . that is, you. A redirect sounds like a good solution, but I have no idea how to proceed.Ed8r (talk) 23:39, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Suggested edits

1. First, the expansion of the Hellenic languages sections at Augmentative
2. The creation of the section "Greek as a second language" in the Greek language (here both ancient and modern?) and/or Modern Greek articles. Furthermore, all of Greek languages articles should become features ones, some time in the future

Crazymadlover

1) I was too thinking that this section requires expansion. I will try to clarify the ell examples. In grc however (as in lat), there are not any suffixes that you can really call augmentatives. 2) To be honest, I am not really interested in improving the respective (academic-like) Wikipedia articles. Instead, I was thinking about contributing to the more practical project of Wikibooks: the books Ancient_Greek, Koine_Greek, Modern_Greek need a lot of work. There we could even develop a Spoken Ancient Greek book or something (cf. wikibooks:Spoken_Latin and wikibooks:Latin/Spoken): for example, recently, Santi Carbonell Martínez (Universitat d'Alacant) has developed a method for easier acquisition of the language by children in which the use of living dialogues is emphasized (here's the Scribd version and this is the video adaptation --both loosely based on the work of a Greek philologist). This method could serve as an inspiration for a special Wikibook (at least, in principle). Anyway, just wanted to suggest this idea. --Omnipaedista (talk) 08:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

ουικιπαδεια not βικιπαιδεια

do not make the same mistake user Geraki did.

This thread doesn't belong here, but there. --Omnipaedista (talk) 00:51, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Explanation

I understand your point, and I agree with you that the Geometry section should have its entries placed under appropriate proper subsections. In fact, I created most of the subsection hierarchies in the List of important publications in mathematics article including the ones you mentioned for Algebra. You suggestion of "Traditional Geometry" for the older publications works for me. An alternative might be "Classical Geometry". Symplectic geometry deserves a place (and some listings), as does differential geometry. Hilbert's and Coxeter's works will need to find a home as well. Note that Algebraic Geometry already has a distinct section, as the subject has become enormous in its own right following Weil, Grothendieck, et al. Please feel free to add whatever sections you feel are appropriate under Geometry. Thanks! — Myasuda (talk) 15:09, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

October 2009

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Hogenakkal Falls. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Doctor muthu's muthu ^{wanna talk ?} 16:14, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

I think you are referring to this edit. For the record, I had just reverted an apparent vandalism myself; then I got reverted and instead of just reverting the vandalism for the second time (as I should have done), I tried to remedy the situation by *relocating* (not deleting) a name from the first infobox to the second one; I admit that my edit summary may have been hasty, but by no means would I call the edit a vandalism or a bad faith one, because I have no interest in doing that (I did not try to deliberately impose a controversial personal opinion; I was honestly trying to help) and I had never edited the article before. To be honest, I am not even entirely sure if the relocation was indeed unconstructive; I was wondering how the falls are called in Kannada (the falls may belong to a state where Tamil is the official language but the info about how the the kn name of the falls is still useful); in the talk page there is nothing mentioned on the matter but I saw somewhere in the article the name ಹೊಗೆನಕಲ್ ಜಲಪಾತ which is obviously what I was looking for, and I just added it to the lede in order to improve the article. My question is why shouldn't that name appear in the article's lede? This situation reminds the one with the articles on Greek villages who happem to have nonGreek names in neighbor-countries' languages, and there are often edit wars about whether these nonGreek names should be added as (neutral) info or be left out because their existence there may be inflammatory. Am I missing something fundamental here? Are you sure you haven't mistaken my edits for the unconstructive edits of the two users (with the single-purpose accounts) that edited the article before and after me? --Omnipaedista (talk) 21:58, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Perseus

Hi. I noticed in my watchlist that you removed some references at marble due to deadlinks. I checked the site, and found that there is a newer version available (http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/lexica.html links to the new http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ ).

Perhaps some of those references could be restored/repaired, instead of removed? Always best to preserve information when possible! :) -- Quiddity (talk) 18:57, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

I totally agree with that: in principle, info should be preserved and that broken links should not be removed but instead be appropriately replaced when possible. The only thing is that most of the Perseus links that have been inserted in 'pedia by this user are not so innocent. This user has a long history of applying a "policy" of his to introduce inaccurate, false, or "graecocentric" POV-pushing etymologies (in good faith, nevertheless), and instead of properly referencing them (to a link that proves that these English words are indeed from the purported Greek words), he just linked to Perseus in order to merely prove that these words exist in grc. This means that he had added, for example, to the article his fringe opinion that trope comes from τροπή and instead of providing a reference he just inserted a link to prove that the word τροπή existed in Greek. In an other case he misleadingly claimed that Greek-compounds-including Neolatin words come directly from Classical Greek which is wrong, and he even attempted to link the hypothesized Classical Greek words to Perseus, even though they do not exist there, exactly because they are not classical but modern Greek patterned after the Neolatin ones: biorhythm, xenoglossy, epicenter, etc.. Not to mention, that even if he got the eng etymology right, the meanings he gave to the ancient words were often made up. In other words, I didn't just removed the links because they were dead but because they were deeply misleading; thanks for giving me the opportunity to clarify that. :) --Omnipaedista (talk) 04:24, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Much thanks for the abundantly clear reply! My condolences and thanks for clearing up the mess, then. Fans are never fun, with or without the facepaint. -- Quiddity (talk) 07:00, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Help with dermatology-related content

Are you interested in dermatology-related content? I am looking for more help at the dermatology task force, particularly with our new Bolognia push 2009! Perhaps you would you be able to help us? ---kilbad (talk) 21:10, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Trope (music)

I was unaware of the vandal misusing Liddell and Scott. However, I believe I was the editor who added the L&S etymology to Trope (music). I did not double-check before reverting your edit, however, to make sure the citation had not been tampered with. I shall do so when I get to the office tomorrow. If the citation is unadulterated, will it be sufficient to say so in my edit summary when I restore the L&S version? Merriam Webster is really not good enough.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 04:11, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. The thing is this: ideally, we should have two different citations; one that certifies that the ancient Greek word's meaning in English (and this is where we need L&S LSJ), and, more importantly, one that certifies that the English word trope comes from the ancient Greek one. So, all one has to do, is to carefully insert a reference to an etymological English dictionary (or even two: OED due to its credentials and MW for due to its online accessibility), and along with that, a reference to L&S (lemma: τρόπος "turn, direction, way") to certify the existence and English meaning of the grc word. --Omnipaedista (talk) 04:23, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

See also the penultimate thread before this one. --Omnipaedista (talk) 04:27, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Ziteitai pseftis

Thanks for letting me know. Yes, it looks like it's the wrong title! Lugnuts (talk) 14:10, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Delmatoi

Greek: Δελματοί - Delmatoi; Latin: Dalmatae - what is the problem? Zenanarh (talk) 07:41, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Simple: I want to see a reference to an Ancient or Medieval Greek text that confirms that their name in Greek was that. I have searched the literature and all I could find was Δαλμᾶται. I just want to make sure that Delmatoi is not made up, or that it is not a wrong transliteration from Greek. --Omnipaedista (talk) 19:39, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Hetaireia

You are quite right. I can't really think what caused me to use the circumflex. Well spotted! :) Constantine ✍ 00:28, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

For a Unbiased Bold Editor

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		The Barnstar of Diligence is hereby awarded for your effort in stopping Tamil group from pushing their POV in Hogenakal Falls article. By a long term wikipedia reader but Not a Editor.75.62.179.195 (talk) 06:10, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Requests

Hello:

I resquest you if you can make a Grc version of

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

I am defuzzying Greek messages at Translatewiki, check it, please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.41.2.98 (talk) 15:04, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

And if you can Help ZaDiak with the creation of new articles in Pontic.

Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazymadlover (talk • contribs) 13:07, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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Diacritics

I see you got it wrong with Georgy Voronoy. I see you don't have ru-4 infobox. I am not sure which source you are using then, but "do nothing when in doubt" might be a good rule in this case. Mhym (talk) 18:58, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for noting me about this. I generally use online sources (mainly the Russian Wikipedia but also forvo, specialized pronunciation guides, Russian-language documentaries) for the diacritics of Russian surnames. The only cases when I was in doubt (I had no sources at all) but actually edited the relevant articles were: Georgy Voronoy and Nicholas Poppe. Of course, you're right; next time I'm in doubt I will not edit the article myself but I will ask the assistance of a russophone editor instead. --Omnipaedista (talk) 19:16, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

The Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia calls upon you

It's been a while, come give us a visit sometime. —ᚹᚩᛞᛖᚾᚻᛖᛚᛗ (ᚷᛖᛋᛈᚱᛖᚳ) 11:46, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Blut Aus Nord

You're right the name of the band is from German, so the correct pronunciation would be /blʏt.aʊ̯s.nɔrd/. Thanks
Java13690 (talk) 15:36, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Ευχαριστω

...για τις διορθωσεις. The Cat and the Owl (talk) 17:43, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Political correctness

"This user likes hip–hop"?Lestrade (talk) 18:15, 21 May 2010 (UTC)Lestrade

Inna (given name)

Hi. I noticed this revert you made on the article, however sources provided by anon user (LGPN, LSJ) are reliable, while 20000-names.com and MN Weekly (Russia) Moscow News Weekly are not. I suggest we keep a perhaps of Greek origin, per reliable sources. A Macedonian (talk) 08:13, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

I added back Greek Inna and references but with better wording. A Macedonian (talk) 12:38, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi, would you be so kind as to give us support!

Hello, I hope you are doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. I have just read your profile and you seem a very learned person and interested in (small) languages and cultures so maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... I'm part of an association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this has not been approved up to this moment because it does not belong to one state. We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! Capsot (talk) 17:18, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, I'm really glad to count on your support! Take real care! Capsot (talk) 21:16, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Dermatology

Any interest in dermatology? If so, we are always looking for more help at the Dermatology task force, particularly with the ongoing Bolognia push. I can e-mail you the login information if you like? There is still a lot of potential for many new articles and redirects. ---kilbad (talk) 01:07, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Genitive

Hi there. I notice you're adding the genitive of Greek words to articles. I don't think that is really necessary, since we're not a dictionary, let alone one of Attic Greek. RJC ^Talk_Contribs 21:05, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello. The genitive seems to be useful especially in the case of the Attic names that end with -ōn since it is not predictable whether their root retains its longness. This is also a piece of useful information because one can extract the modern Greek name this way (A. Gr. -ōn "is replaced" in M. Gr. either by -ōnas or -onas depending on the ancient genitive). Anyway, if I can link to a Wiktionary entry where there is a declension table, that would be enough for me. But such Wikt entries aren't always available. --Omnipaedista (talk) 21:18, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Mechanical filter FAC

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Alexander Kronrod‎

Re: your stress edit. Please stop making wrong ones. If in doubt, do nothing. I corrected this one, but I don't want to check up on all your stress edits. Mhym (talk) 23:20, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, in the case of this name I was not in much doubt since I had checked before editing both the Slovenian Wikipedia article which gives [krónrod], and the transcription of his name into Greek which is Κρόνροντ, Κrónrod (and transcriptions of Russian names into Greek are almost always correct as far as stress marks are concerned). --Omnipaedista (talk) 11:01, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

IPA text

Hi:

In the sample text section of Modern Greek article the insertion of IPA text has been requested. I wondering if you could write it. Crazymadlover. —Preceding undated comment added 23:09, 22 November 2010 (UTC).

Someone has edited that. So, please, check it out if it is correct. Crazymadlover. —Preceding undated comment added 21:22, 7 May 2011 (UTC).

I just corrected it. --Omnipaedista (talk) 09:53, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Καλημέρα!

Hi there. I noticed you are a WP:Etymology member. Will you please have a look here? I had a disagreement with user:Yair rand after I reverted his two etymology sections deletions, here and here. Thank you. A Macedonian, a Greek. (talk) 09:20, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Dacia

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Maths rating

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Émile Durkheim

Hello Omnipaedista,

Could you please explain me this edit? Thanks, Korg (talk) 20:11, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

The transcription you had added was completely arbitrary; I provided the correct one: [3] & [4]. --Omnipaedista (talk) 00:16, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

The transcription I added was certainly not arbitrary. It reflects how his name is commonly pronounced in French. On the contrary, the links you provided do not show the correct pronunciation (I would be tempted to add a negative vote to the Forvo pronunciation, and I'll correct the transcription on the German Wikipedia). Please have a look at this video: [5] (at approximately 03:10 and 03:35). Regards, Korg (talk) 13:45, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the very interesting link! Is it the case then that the pronunciation given at Forvo is an alternative (less common/"uninformed") one? --Omnipaedista (talk) 06:40, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

I don't know... Personnally I've never heard this one before, but that doesn't mean it is incorrect per se. In any case, the article should mention the other pronunciation. Would you please undo your revert? Thanks, Korg (talk) 16:34, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

I will copy/paste our discussion to Durkheim's article talk-page and undo my revert as soon as possible. --Omnipaedista (talk) 14:36, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

German words in English

I have again reverted your capitalization of German words on the Appellplatz article. English rules apply in English. Foreign words are not used with non-English grammar or punctuation, nor do German nouns get capitalized in English. I notice Germans are not afraid to hyphenate English words whenever they use them, although the same words are not hyphenated in English. They also don't hesitate to call ice cream "maple walnuts" or put other flavors in plurals even though this would never be done in English. They write what makes sense to German readers. German rules apply to German writing. It's the same here, English rules apply in English writing. Capitalized nouns otherwise look like proper nouns or mistakes when written in English. Italics or quotation marks are used to indicate the words are foreign. To use the reasoning you stated in your last edit would mean that a noun that was commonly known would be used with normal English capitalization, but that an unknown noun would take a cap. This is obviously silly because if you had two such words in a sentence, it would be inconsistent and look like a mistake. I will confess that not being a professional translator and working so closely with German originals to write these WP articles, I have often just forgotten not to use an initial cap when using a German word in English (and I do tend to pronounce a word foreign word in the foreign accent, to the best of my ability) but I have also gone back and corrected some of these, such as with the article Stolperstein. Marrante (talk) 13:47, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm afraid you're missing the point. Writing a word of German origin that is used in English as a technical term, i.e. a recently naturalized word (such a word is appel(l)platz; see here, for example), according to the English rules is legitimate (as you said: "this is the English Wikipedia, where nouns do not take capitals and sometimes, there are foreign words that are commonly misspelled"; confer also Größencharakter > grossencharakter). In this case it is relevant to appeal to the fact that "this is the English Wikipedia."

But in the case where you are just giving the etymology of the word, it is irrelevant to appeal to the fact that this is the English Wikipedia. When giving the etymology of a foreign word, the scholarly standard is to indicate the "foreignness" of the compound-words, so one inevitably follows the rules of the foreign language (as I said: "the specific nouns [Appell, Platz] of which the word [appelplatz] is composed are to take capitals since they are not English words per se"). This is common Wikipedia practice, as well; see here, for example, or check out other articles in this list. Also, it's not "silly" per se (maybe only "weird" or "uncommon") to write a German noun that is commonly used in English with normal English capitalization, while an unknown (or unnaturalized) German noun with German capitalization in the very same sentence. In mathematics literature, at least, it has become a common practice: ansatz and ersatz are almost never capitalized while Nullstellensatz or Entscheidungsproblem almost always are. --Omnipaedista (talk) 00:16, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

I think you're missing, or perhaps, overstating the point. It's clear from your user page, you have a math background. The Appellplatz article, however, is not about math, it's about the Nazi era. The New York Times (for one) does not capitalize German nouns. Marrante (talk) 09:29, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

I insist on the appropriateness of my very last edit to the article (capitalization of the initial letters of Appell and Platz in the lede). I'm talking about standard dictionary-like practices when indicating the etymology of a foreign word in a scholarly source (including Wikipedia and Wiktionary). There has to be a Wikipedia policy regarding this sort of issues... --Omnipaedista (talk) 09:40, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

So do you suggest that Lust in the article wanderlust should be decapitalized? This would be against the practice of every respected etymological source (including the Oxford Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary). (See also: Doppelgänger#Spelling, Schadenfreude#Linguistic_analysis.) --Omnipaedista (talk) 10:01, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Do what you want. There are so many more important things to me than to spend days arguing about this with you. Make yourself happy. Marrante (talk) 16:47, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

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Sockpuppetry case

Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Omnipaedista for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. — HelloAnnyong ^{(say whaaat?!)} 12:09, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

No evidence of sockpuppetry was presented. I have closed the investigation and blocked the account that created it as a sockpuppet. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:54, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

After this discussion (in which I notified a user who edits regularly the relevant articles in order to watch them), Basstonic/Kordax ("always there when needed") immediately created the account Supertusta and copied my message and posted it to the talk-page to prove that Supertusta was my sock. (My comment "File a formal request against me in the appropriate page and let CheckUser check me." was to be taken literally--I have nothing to hide). His amusing/naive trolling practices included copying infoboxes from my userpage to his sockpuppet's userpage, and editing the article tsifteteli in a way that seems to be defending my edits (but I would never make such a naive edit; not to mention that I would never create a sockpuppet in the first place, as an established user who follows Wikipedia policies). Even if I were to use a sockpuppet, I would not be so naive as to make it so obvious. Kordax also accused me of being a sock of Yangula just because Yangula was the first to file a report against Plouton2. Needless to say that I never reverted any edits as an IP and that I never created a sockpuppet account (I expect whoever accuses me of such a thing, to refer to IPs and accounts suspected to be me). CheckUser can verify this. I also sent a private email to HelloAnnyong a while ago in which I asked him about which is the proper procedure for opening a case on WP:SPI (in order to investigate Kordax and Basstonic). My question was honest (I did not intend to bypass any procedures; I was just delaying it until I had enough evidence (I wanted to be meticulous) and new more about the procedure; I've done just once in the past). I was greatly disappointed that a file opened against me instead. Also, a note about why I suspect Valeristemperec to be a sock of the accounts named above (Basstonic, Kordax). As them, he inserts/removes Greek POV pushing cats to articles (check his contribs and confer [6]), he awards himself with barnstars (see his talk-page), he seems to be stalking my contribs and making edits to the respective articles afterwards. If one applies the Duck test, they can conclude that he is a sockpuppet of Kordax. If the three users (Kordax, Basstonic, Valeristemperec) prove to be socks of Plouton2 and if he continues creating new accounts, I would like to sincerely ask whether there is a less bureaucratic process in order to ban him next time. --Omnipaedista (talk) 13:00, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

As a matter of fact I had independently come to the conclusion that Supertusta was probably a sockpuppet account set up to discredit you, and came back to this page to tell you. What you have written here has strengthened my conviction that this is the case, and I have blocked the account. I had already blocked Basstonic as an obvious sockpuppet. I don't have time to check Kordax, Valeristemperec now, but you may like to add them to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Plouton2. Also please feel welcome to contact me via my talk page for further help on this, but I won't be able to do anything for at least 20 hours or so. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:52, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much. You have already done too much for me and for Wikipedia. --Omnipaedista (talk) 14:36, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

False accusations

I came here to tell you that I took care of those edits. Thank you for notifying me. Now I saw the case above and my response to that is below. Best Regards Aigest (talk) 11:10, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Integrity
		Some trolls tried to "prove" the contrary and they got what they deserved. You deserve this star. Congratulations Aigest (talk) 11:10, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words. Thank you for clearing up the mess. Greetings. --Omnipaedista (talk) 14:36, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Regarding Gaius Julius Alexio

Hi Omnipaedista

Thanks for correcting the Greek inscriptions and names that I have put in Wikipedia recently. I have instantly picked up that you are Greek. When you are doing articles about your cultural history, sometimes the ancient Greek names or inscriptions can be difficult and challenging, to copy or translate into Wikipedia.

Another article you can look at is Gaius Julius Fabia Sampsiceramus III Silas, I have put in there recently ancient Greek inscriptions.

Thanks once again for your contributions,

Anriz. 13 August 2011

Thank you for creating all those wonderful articles and for improving the existing ones; you provide a great service to WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. It is true that the accurate copying of Greek diacritics can be tricky. When in doubt about the diacritics of a Greek inscription, feel welcome to contact me via my talk page. I'll be really glad to help. --Omnipaedista (talk) 10:17, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Editing articles

We see that you re trying hard, for making objective edits in Greek articles, too. we dont know if you are -and how much- Greek you are, such you had claimed so we d like to know as GREEKS from where exactly are you from, beacause the factuality of your edits is opened discutibile... --Zerothinker (talk) 12:38, 13 August 2011 (UTC)