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[[File:Skeleton-warrior.jpg|thumb|200px|A reconstruction of a Peloponnesian soldier, based on archeological excavations]]
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I suspect I will no longer be monitoring the 12,000 pages on my watch list, though the WP software will continue to report that someone is watching them. I've learned a few things about Wikipedia, though:
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|}[[Image:Original_Barnstar.png|frame|left| presented in recognition of your comprehensive and always balanced contributions to articles on writing systems and languages.<br>Top stuff! [[user:CJLL Wright|cjllw]]05:45, 2005 August 3 (UTC)]]
[[Image:IPA chart 2005.png|thumb|right|300px|The IPA]]


[[WP:BLP]] is just a suggestion, not something to take seriously. I can write libelous things about living people if a reliable source reports that someone said those things. If you revert me, you can be blocked for edit waring (even if, as in this case, people have emailed you with concerns that the people being libeled may face death threats).
The name ''Kwami'' is an [[Akan name|Ashanti name]] for a man born on a Saturday. 鏡 ''Kagami'' is a Japanese pun on my surname.


If a page is finally moved after months of debate, and I don't like it, I can revert it without discussion or justification. If you restore the consensus name, you will be desysopped for wheel-warring.
My first edit was on 2004 August 12.


I don't know if the number of [[WP:Randy in Boise|Randys]] and the simply delusional has increased, generally and among members of Wikiprojects who are supposed to have a clue, or if the idiot level has finally just worn me down, but it really isn't worth discussing anything with the astronomy editor who doesn't understand the IAU definition of a planet, but will edit war over it anyway while insisting that expert sources spoon-fed to him with on-line links "don't exist", or with the history editor who argues it's acceptable to call the devout "atheists" if they appear at an interfaith forum (even if they come from countries where the penalty for that is death), and a breach of policy to deny it. After a while, sure, let's say that skeletons fought the Peloponnesian War. Who cares? Maybe our readers will grow to be as bright as our editors. — [[User:Kwamikagami|kwami]] ([[User talk:Kwamikagami|talk]]) 08:38, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
===Scrapbook===
====Language====
[[Image:Phagspa-Hangul comparison.svg|thumb|200px|Origins of hangul [[Image:Phagspa-Hangul comparison.png|right|50px]]]]
*Language articles (largely phonetics): [[Toda language|Toda]], [[Paicĩ language|Paicĩ]], [[Yélî Dnye language|Yélî Dnye]], [[Juǀʼhoan language|Juǀʼhoan]], [[ǃXóõ language|ǃXóõ]], [[Nǀu language|Nǀuu]], [[ǂHõã language|ǂHõã]], [[Gǀwi language|Gǀwi]], [[Dahalo language|Dahalo]], [[Damin]], [[Hadza language|Hadza]], [[Sandawe language|Sandawe]], [[Wari’ language|Wari’]], [[Rotokas language|Rotokas]], [[Iwaidja language|Iwaidja]], [[Kusunda language|Kusunda]], [[Hindi-Urdu phonology]], [[Korean phonology]], [[Naro language|Naro]], [[Chechen language|Chechen]], (proto-)[[Chimakuan languages|Chimakuan]], [[Montana Salish language|Montana Salish]], [[Tsou language|Tsou]], [[Tiwi language|Tiwi]], [[Iaai language|Iaai]], [[Jalapa Mazatec]], [[Ndrumbea language|Ndrumbea]], [[Defaka language|Defaka]], [[Tee language|Tẹẹ]], [[Avatime language|Avatime]], [[Akan language|Akan]] (while at Twi, now [[Asante dialect]]), [[Amis language|Amis]], [[Angami language|Angami]], [[Dida language|Dida]], [[Sui language|Sui]], [[Xavante language|Xavante]] (revised), [[Sakao language|Sakao]], [[Tolomako language|Tolomako]], [[Mlabri language|Mlabri]], [[Gorgotoqui language|Gorgotoqui]], [[Garifuna language|Garifuna]] (start), [[Kukuya language|Kukuya]], [[Hawu language|Hawu]] & [[Ndao language|Ndao]], [[Shompen languages|Shompen]], [[Enggano language|Enggano]], [[Taíno language|Taíno]], [[Ciboney languages|Ciboney]], [[Margi language|Margi]], [[Miyako language|Miyako]]
*[[American Sign Language grammar]], [[Korean grammar]]
*[[Esperanto]], [[Esperanto grammar]], [[Esperanto phonology]], [[Esperanto orthography]], [[Esperanto vocabulary]] (& [[Esperanto etymology|etymology]]), [[Esperantido]], [[Na'vi language|Na’vi]] (moved to [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Na%27vi Wikibooks])
*[[Balinese numerals]], [[Javanese numerals]], [[Yoruba numerals]], [[Dzongkha numerals]], [[Hindustani numerals]]
*Language classification: [[Khoisan languages]], [[Australian Aboriginal languages]], [[Austronesian languages]], [[Je-Tupi-Carib]], [[Sino-Tibetan languages]], [[Karasuk languages]], [[Dené-Yeniseian languages]], [[Nilo-Saharan languages]], [[Niger-Congo languages]], [[Austroasiatic languages]], [[Tai-Kadai languages]], [[Hmong-Mien languages]], [[Buyeo languages]], [[Trans-New Guinea languages]] and other families in Ross's [[Papuan languages]] classification, [[Dogon languages|Dogon]], [[Classification of Pygmy languages]]
*[[Clusivity]], [[Attributive verb]], [[Pluractionality]], [[Austronesian alignment]], [[Nominative-absolutive language]]
*Phonetics: [[Place of articulation]], [[Click consonant]], [[Airstream mechanism]], [[Phonation]], [[Prosody (linguistics)|Prosody]], [[Prosodic unit]], [[Secondary stress]]

====Writing====
[[Image:WritingSystemsoftheWorld2.png|400px|thumb|left|Writing Systems of the World]]
[[File:Palenque glyphs-edit1.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Palenque glyphs]]
*[[International Phonetic Alphabet]] (much of it while at [[IPA in Unicode]]) and many of the articles linked from there, [[tone letter]]
*[[Help:IPA]], [[Help:IPA for English]], and [[Help:IPA for Korean]]
*[[Alphabet#Types|Types of alphabets]], [[List of writing systems]]
*[[History of the alphabet]], [[Middle Bronze Age alphabets]], [[Origin of hangul]]
*[[Japanese manual syllabary]], [[Korean manual alphabet]], [[Irish manual alphabet]]
*[[Stokoe notation]], [[General Chinese]], [[Cyrillic digraphs]]
*[[Roman numerals#Origins|Origin of Roman numerals]], [[Brahmi numeral]]s
*[[Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics]]; [[Image:Cscr-featured.svg|12px]][[Rongorongo]] & [[Image:Cscr-featured.svg|12px]][[Decipherment of rongorongo|attempts at decipherment]], with articles on each tablet; [[Woleaian script]]; [[Pahawh Hmong]]; [[Afaka script]]; [[Bamum script]]; [[Ersu Shaba script]]

====Astronomy====
[[Image:Masses of all moons.png|right|200px]]
*[[Moons of Pluto]], [[Moons of Haumea]]
*[[Rings of Rhea]]
*[[List_of_stars_by_constellation|Origins of star names]], especially [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Chinese language|Chinese]]; the info is now divided up on the Talk pages of the 88 constellation articles.
*Pronunciation of [[Moons of Jupiter|Jupiter's moons]], [[Moons of Saturn|Saturn's moons]], [[Moons of Uranus|Uranus's moons]], [[Moons of Neptune|Neptune's moons]]
*[[Pronunciation of asteroid names]], [[Trojan pronunciation|Trojan names]], [[Centaur and KBO pronunciation|Centaurs and Kujper Belt Object names]]
*[[Sidereal astrology|Actual zodiac dates]], for those who like to mess with their astrologer friends
*[[Controversy over the discovery of Haumea]] (while at {{dp|Haumea}})

====Other====
[[Image:Sannin setup.svg|left|200px]]
*[[Shogi strategy and tactics]] (while at [[Shogi]]), [[Tenjiku shogi]], [[Tai shogi]], [[Ko shogi]], [[Sannin shogi]], ''[[Shogi variant|etc]].''
*[[Ritual Decalogue]] (started)
*[[Continent]]
*[[Usonia]] (taken to [[wiktionary:Usonian]] and [[wiktionary:Citations:Usonian]])
*[[Segmented sleep]]
*[[Gari Ledyard]]
*[[Alexander Salmon, Jr]]
*[[King Nga'ara|King Nga‘ara]] (stub; expansion on to-do list)
*[[eye putty]]
*[[User:Multichill/top self uploaders/Kwamikagami|some images]] (tracked by another user)

===Useful stuff===
[[Image:Malayo-Polynesian.svg|right|500px]]
;Useful code
*&#x....; = Unicode hexadecimal entry
*&amp;#x200e; (left-to-right mark) when text directionality gets scrambled
*.IPA { font-family: Gentium, Doulos SIL !important; } = font override in monobook.css.
*<nowiki>{{FixBunching|beg/end}}</nowiki> when templates sit side-by-side
*{{tl|fix|text=...}}
*[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Helferlein/VBA-Macro_for_EXCEL_tableconversion EXCEL-wiki macro]
*<nowiki>{{SOWL}}</nowiki> (SOWL reference)
*<nowiki>{{OED|word}}</nowiki> (OED references)
*{{tl|R with possibilities}} - <s>prevents rd's from being rerouted</s> no, it doesn't
*[[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression|AWB regex]]: \{\{IPA\|([^\}]*)\'([^\}]*)\}\} &rarr; $1ˈ$2<br>not contains: (\|.){3,}
::\{\{[pP]ron-en\|([^|}]*)[^|}/., abdefhijklmnoprstuvwzðʒɡŋθʃːɑɒæɛɪɔʊʌəɚɨɵɜɝˈˌ] &rarr;
::need \escape: ()[]<> { [only] \ | .^*+?$
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_templates Template syntax]
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions StringFunctions]
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions Parser functions]
*{{tl|ref|text-α|*}} – {{tl|note|text-α|*}} – to anchor an asterisk; use the display text to ID the fn
[[File:Pygmy peoples (Hewlett & Fancher).png|right|500px|border]]
*{{tl|KeepLocal}} to keep a file on WP-en
*{{tl|Empty category}} for intentionally empty cat
*{{tl|Category redirect}}; bots will update articles

;Useful links
*[http://www.webcitation.org/archive.php Webcite] & {{tl|WebCite}}
*[[WP:ANEW]] (3RR), [[WP:RFPP]] (pp), & [[WP:ANI]] for admin COI
*[http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pages/index.php?name=Kwamikagami&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects last 100 articles] I created, so I remember to add assessment boxes
*[http://toolserver.org/~nikola/grep.php WP title search (regex)]
*[http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/watcher/ watchers per page]
*[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1943 probs w Google search counts]
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps Blank maps]
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:World_Map_Blank.svg large blank world map]
*[[Help:Pronunciation respelling key]]
*[http://www.ip-adress.com/ipaddresstolocation/ IP address check]
*[http://www.glottopedia.org/ Glottopedia]
*[[Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents|Noticeboard]]
*[[Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace|Vandalism templates]]
*[[MediaWiki:Edittools.js]] and [[MediaWiki:Edittools]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=gOhEAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=latin+pronunciation&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false summary of trad. Latin pron]
*[http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/ article traffic stats] (viewing frequency)
*[[:Category:Language articles needing attention]]
[[File:Dymaxion map unfolded-no-ocean.png|150px|left]]
{{clear}}
;Alias
*[[User talk:66.27.205.12|2006]]
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kwamikagami Commons]
*[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Kwamikagami Wiktionary]
*[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Kwamikagami Wikibooks]

;Archive of admin nomination
*[[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kwamikagami]]

;Fun
*[[Wikipedia:Unusual articles]]
*[[Talk:Kwamikagami/Na'vi transcription|Navi script]]

===To do===
[[File:Telescopus semiannulatus.jpg|right|350px|The East African Tiger Snake]]
review {{IPA for lang=, --> IPAlink,
* [[Bengali phonology]] (notes in sandbox)
* [[verbal case]]
* modern Nama orthography
* Naron examples for clicks, esp. palatal clicks
* <s>update [[Shompen language]], [[Enggano language]]</s>
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Languages/Open_tasks#Red_links|Language red links]]
* small (blue round) giant large T B mixed cell / lung tumor tumour carcinoma lymphoma
* db dump: search this time for ŋ, IPA ɡ, β̞
* search IPA templates for ', :, latin g, greek ε, ɘ, ȡ ȶ ȴ ȵ , [new, a-l: ?, any caps; new, a-q: {{IPA|lang=] [did not search: έ, ὲ, numerals; simplify ˧˧ etc. to ˧; \s+]
* <s>[[pausa]]</s>
* redo [[active-stative]] alignment from more universal POV
* Move star etymologies to individual articles. Now in talk pages of [[List_of_stars_by_constellation|constellations]].
* Photos SL alphabets.
* Pitch accent per Hyman.
* evidence for Austric
* Dida
* clean up after [[Wikipedia:School and university projects/LING1100-WritingSystems/Completed assignments]] (dbl check <s>Cham,</s> Malayalam, Old Persian, Cypriot, Khitan, Cherokee, Brahmi, Javanese, Coptic, Elamite, Manchu, Sogdian)
* Orin Gensler and Afrasiatic influence on Insular Celtic
* Andamanese per Addi2009
* clean up & ref Buyeo / Japanese-Koguryoic
* <s>[[Osage alphabet]]</s>
* <s>rewrite [[Middle Bronze Age alphabet‎]], maybe move to proto-Sinaitic script</s>
* <s>redo [[Nambikwara language|Nambikwara]] phonology</s>
* <s>[[affect (linguistics)]]</s>
* <s>expand Nga'ara</s>
* <s>fix endo/exo-labial mixup high front & maybe central Vs</s>
* <s>Swahili N classes</s>
* <s>delete {{tl|IPAEng}} after it's fallen further out of use</s>
* <s>finish [[WP:IPA for Vietnamese]]</s>

===Gallery===
<gallery>
Image:Lepcha script.png|Lepcha script
Image:Lineage on Gv6.png|Putative rongorongo lineage
Image:Rongorongo ligatures.png|Rongorongo ligatures
Image:Caucasic languages.svg|Caucasic languages
Image:ExtIPA.png|The Extended IPA
Image:Pine Ridge Flag.svg|Pine Ridge (Lakota) flag
Image:Reverse boustrophedon.png|Reverse boustrophedon
File:TNG map.svg|Trans–New Guinea language families
File:Sannin bishop startup.svg|Bishop threats in sannin shogi
</gallery>

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Revision as of 15:46, 21 July 2012

A reconstruction of a Peloponnesian soldier, based on archeological excavations

I suspect I will no longer be monitoring the 12,000 pages on my watch list, though the WP software will continue to report that someone is watching them. I've learned a few things about Wikipedia, though:

WP:BLP is just a suggestion, not something to take seriously. I can write libelous things about living people if a reliable source reports that someone said those things. If you revert me, you can be blocked for edit waring (even if, as in this case, people have emailed you with concerns that the people being libeled may face death threats).

If a page is finally moved after months of debate, and I don't like it, I can revert it without discussion or justification. If you restore the consensus name, you will be desysopped for wheel-warring.

I don't know if the number of Randys and the simply delusional has increased, generally and among members of Wikiprojects who are supposed to have a clue, or if the idiot level has finally just worn me down, but it really isn't worth discussing anything with the astronomy editor who doesn't understand the IAU definition of a planet, but will edit war over it anyway while insisting that expert sources spoon-fed to him with on-line links "don't exist", or with the history editor who argues it's acceptable to call the devout "atheists" if they appear at an interfaith forum (even if they come from countries where the penalty for that is death), and a breach of policy to deny it. After a while, sure, let's say that skeletons fought the Peloponnesian War. Who cares? Maybe our readers will grow to be as bright as our editors. — kwami (talk) 08:38, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

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