You're making things too easy for the opposition. [[User:Splićanin|Splićanin]] ([[User talk:Splićanin|talk]]) 16:00, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
You're making things too easy for the opposition. [[User:Splićanin|Splićanin]] ([[User talk:Splićanin|talk]]) 16:00, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
: You are being a troll that is refusing to accept scientific linguistic realities.
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Voegelin
A paper coauthored by Voegelin, titled "Seneca I", is cited on Seneca language. I can't confirm that that paper exists, but it would presumably show that Voegelin did work on at least one Iroquoian language. —swpbT19:21, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
He also has a paper cited on Siouan languages, "Internal Relationships of Siouan Languages". It seems there's ample evidence he did work on both language families. I'm re-adding the categories accordingly. —swpbT19:32, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Re. [1]: While you may be technically correct, I've studied linguistics (primarily in Norwegian though), and I've never really come across "daughter" being used this way. I'm not saying it's not, just that it's kind of rare. In any case, I think using "language" in that sentence makes it clearer, so I don't see the need to insist on using "daughter". Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:07, 15 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It's not rare at all in English historical linguistics. "Daughter language", for example, is an entry in Campbell & Mixco's A Glossary of Historical Linguistics (pg. 39) without any notice that it's an unusual construction at all. Indeed, we speak normally of the "mother tongue" as the original language. "Daughter" is the normal word used in English historical linguistics for the descendants of a common ancestor. Nothing unusual about it whatsoever. --Taivo (talk) 00:09, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, we call a group of related languages a family. The mother/daughter/sister/cousin metaphor is part of the overall metaphor for language relatedness in English. Other references include David Crystal, A Dictionary of linguistics & Phonetics (pg. 176, family): "A 'family' of languages is the set of languages deriving from a common ancestor, or 'parent', e.g. the Indo-European (IE) family consists of the 'daughter' languages Sanskrit, Greek...". P.H. Matthews, Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics (pg. 92, daughter): "1. Any of the later languages that develop separately from a single earlier language. E.g. French and Spanish are 'daughter languages' in relation to Latin." "Daughter" is, quite simply, the most common term used in English to describe the descendant of a parent language. --Taivo (talk) 00:23, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
reverts because of not "reliable source"
The source is reliable. It seems more that you do not like it, or you not know about this topic at all. The southern theory is well known in Korea. Also all edits from me are sourced. Also the revert of koreanic language was to the version before I made an edit. So it seems that you are reverting all the time sourced content. Explain me why and what is wrong on the source?
Here look:
1.: asiasociety.org/education/korean-language
2.: linguistics.byu.edu/classes/ling450ch/reports/Korean.html
3.: aboutworldlanguages.com/Korean
Also there are much more parts in wikipedia with even no source and no one reverts it. And when someone reverts it it get rereverted...
It is a fact that scientists/linguists be life that Austronesian people arrived on the Korean peninsula.
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Any of the three can affect reliability. Reliable sources may be published materials with a reliable publication process, authors who are regarded as authoritative in relation to the subject, or both. These qualifications should be demonstrable to other people.
http://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/Ling450ch/reports/korean.html :
References
Chun-u, Kim. (1983). The Making of the Korean Language. In Korean National Commission for UNESCO, The Korean Language (13-42). Korea: The Si-ya-yong-o-sa Publishers, Inc.
Ohno, Susumu. (1970). The Origen of the Japanese Language. Kodusai Bunka Shinkokai, Tokyo.
Sang-ok, Yi. (1983). The Theory of Altaic Languages and Korean. In Korean National Commission for UNESCO, The Korean Language (43-54). Korea: The Si-ya-yong-o-sa Publishers, Inc.
Woong, Huh. (1983). The Development of the Korean Language. In Korean National Commission for UNESCO, The Korean Language (1-12). Korea: The Si-ya-yong-o-sa Publishers, Inc.
Korean Overseas Information Services. (1990). A Handbook of Korea. (p.45-55 ). Seoul, Korea.
Despite your ranting, you failed to comprehend what I said or to understand Wikipedia's guidelines on reliable sources. Reliable sources are not links to class notes that might be based on other sources. Reliable sources are the SOURCES, not the class notes that might use those sources. Use the original sources if you want to pass the reliable source test, not someone's class notes. --Taivo (talk) 21:42, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Two articles
Sorry, Taivo, but I think you are wrong about the last edit on Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia. The event was part of a systematic inhumane terror against a minority group whose rights were violated on the basis of pseudoscientifc propaganda despite the international conventions of which Greece is a party, it is significant enough and described here
I have one more concern. Recently one user wrote a new fringe lead of the article Ancient Macedonians and claims that his unsuitable edits should stay there only because he nominated it for GA status, reverted arrogantly the unstable version without consensus from other editors and said "enough". He pushed the view that the Macedonian language was a Greek dialect and that the Macedonians were solely a Greek tribe, which I have plenty of sources to disagree with, both primary and secondary.--Judist (talk) 06:25, 15 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have been following your responses in this talkpage, where you have proven to be extremely skilled and eloquent in your arguments. This one was the most striking ever: link, which embodies a classic characteristic which is very commonly seen among non-neutral editors, but is rarely described as eloquently as you did there. Please, you shouldn't be surprised if other editors (such as me) start copying your fine writing skills elsewhere to make up for their lacking skills! " SILENTRESIDENT12:56, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Shoshoni has an underlying diphthong /ai/. It is pronounced both as [ai] and [e]. All surface [e] reflect underlying /ai/. --Taivo (talk) 20:34, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, you need to learn how to post on another editor's talk page. I had to fix your post so that it wasn't just placed randomly on the page where you put it. --Taivo (talk) 20:35, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
May 2017
Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.Judist (talk) 11:04, 6 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I am sorry but Wikipedia has policies and I had to report the violation of the 3RR. I am always reported for that, Regards.Judist (talk) 11:04, 6 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I just have urged the Admins on the Noticeboard to dismiss without any hesitation this retaliatory filling by User:Judist against User:TaivoLinguist. With this AN filling against Taivo and the recent ARBMAC warning against me, Judist is dangerously close to WP:HARASSing those editors who couldn't agree and consent to his POV edits and disruptions. --SILENTRESIDENT11:24, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have found errors in almost all of the phonological inventories provided by FDomanico. Just having a source is not enough - the source has to be reliable AND the text entered has to correspond with the source says. Mackie for example does not posit a kw phoneme for Piscataway, this phoneme seems to have been gratuitously added by Fdomanico. I suggest double checking all information added by this user.·maunus · snunɐɯ·06:33, 7 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Taivo, I don't have access to Ester Martinez dictionary of Ohkay Owingeh Tewa which Fdomanico is using for the phonology at Tewa language. If you have access to the book maybe you could check it.·maunus · snunɐɯ·05:31, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
User:Maunus, this is where I found the link to the book by Esther Martinez, http://www.santafedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tewa_Language. Recently I've tried to incorporate the phoneme description within the site, according to all of my knowledge if the entire IPA symbol chart. Also for my information regarding the Atakapa language, I am aware the Albert Gatschet's information on the language was quite inaccurate, but there exists a book " A Dictionary of the Atakapa Language", as well as an entry in International Journal of American Linguistics (1929), by John R. Swanton. Hopefully his information on the language is correct. Please let me know. Fdomanico51997 (talk) 16:59, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You cannot use literature that you have not yourself seen in this way. You cannot cite Ester Martinez second hand. The Santafedia is not a reliable source, just like wikipedia is not. Swanton wrote before the concept of the phoneme was established, so his information has to be taken with caution and perhaps should not be used for setting up phoneme inventories at all (unless a more contemporary phonologist has done a reanalysis).·maunus · snunɐɯ·17:45, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
User:Fdomanico51997, User:Maunus is absolutely right. SantaFedia is not a reliable source any more than Wikipedia is a reliable source. If you haven't actually looked at the Ester Martinez dictionary, then you cannot cite it. That's the simple bottom line. --Taivo (talk) 18:12, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
As far as the phonemic inventory of Atakapa language is concerned, even the Handbook (Southeast volume) states that the premodern orthography prevents the accurate analysis of the phonology of Atakapa. I've removed the phonology section of the article because there is, literally, no reliable source to base it on. --Taivo (talk) 19:07, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It was first used by Daniel Jones in 1917, and subsequently developed by Trubetzkoy and Jakobson, but was not fully developed and entrenched in phonological theory untill the 1930s. The rule to follow is that unless the source explicitly that it is a phoneme inventory, then we do not present it as such. If it says "sounds" for example, then it is probably not representing phonemes. ·maunus · snunɐɯ·07:44, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
And to add to what Maunus wrote, some extinct languages have had their phonemes scientifically reconstructed through meticulous linguistic analysis. In that case, it's acceptable to talk about phoneme inventories with an appropriate link to the scholarly work wherein the phonemic inventory was reconstructed and a clear label that it is a reconstructed inventory. The phonemic inventory of Powhatan has been reconstructed, but that of Atakapa has not. --Taivo (talk) 14:44, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you commented on
This is to inform you that an attempt is being made to overturn an RfC that you commented on (2 RfCs, actually, one less than six months ago and another a year ago). The new RfC is at:
The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".
The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:
The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".
Please stop deleting my contribution on Ancient Macedonian
My contribution is as follows:
"There is absolutely no proof that Ancient Macedonian was a different language from Ancient Greek: the fact that sometimes Ancient Macedonian words (from Hesychius' glossary) "reveal voiced stops where Greek shows voiceless aspirates", meaning b,d,g, instead of ph, th, kh is analogous to a similar, yet not identical phenomenon that occurs in German, i.e. within the same language, between dialects of the same language: Low German lopen vs. (High/literary/standard) German laufen, Low German riek, German reich. This Ancient Macedonian shift constitutes by no means a proof that Ancient Macedonian was no Ancient Greek dialect."
This in no POV, those who say Ancient Macedonian was not Greek base their theory on the above consonant shift.
We do not add a citation for these name changes in Ukraine from Rada action last spring as part of the decommunization process. Compare Kamianske, for example. --Taivo (talk) 17:22, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Thankyou for giving sign that IP is vandalizing the page Korean language. I gave given him the final (4im) warning, but if he continues to do so, please tell me or send to WP:ARV. Anyways Thankyou once again. You have proved yourself best anti-vandalizer. Thanks for improving Wikipedia. SahabAliwadia14:00, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I've fully protected this article so that consensus may be determined on the article talk page. If, after the protection expires, one side or the other in this dispute attempts to edit the article without consensus on the contentious point I will begin blocking accounts. Tiderolls17:24, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
need a super-linguist superhero at Japanese language article - again
Hi Taivo,
Once again, Altaic and other discredited stuff is creeping up in the article on the Japanese language. It's in serious need of some slash-and-burn editing to dispose of the non-specialist editors posting their pet tripe on it. If you can spare the time? Thanks - HammerFilmFan
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Making a Language barnstar, could I make use of your help please?
Hello, I remember our talk back then and I think time has come for the realisation of the idea of making a Linguist's (or Language) Barnstar. What do you think? --❤ SILENTRESIDENT ❤21:51, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This barnstar is given to recognize linguistic contributions to Wikipedia, to let people know that their valuable work on linguistic-related content and the understanding of languages is seen and appreciated. It seems the "formal" procedures for recommending a new Barnstar have been closed - or at least the following page can no longer be used for this purpose.
I have created the Language/Linguist Barnstar which uses the Multi-language icon found on the main page, which I believe is a neat way to reflect Wikipedia's accessibility to all different languages as well as International English Wikipedia's valuable information about all these languages on articles created for them on its international english language (I can provide original PSD document if needed). --❤ SILENTRESIDENT ❤22:15, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I could appreciate if you drop your anti-Greek tone for once
I could appreciate if you drop your anti-Greek tone for once. Could this be too hard for you?
It is obvious that the political developments in the region coincide with the increases of vandal activity in Wikipedia, and that is true about every ethnicity. I understand your frustration when it comes to having to defend articles from Greek vandals, but to comment on the Editor's ethnicity in Wikipedia is inappropriate, the least. Despite linking to Republic of Macedonia's article, your comment on NeiN's page gave me the unfortunate impression that you are referring to Greek editors in general and not just vandals. -- ❤ SILENTRESIDENT ❤01:00, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I am certainly not anti-Greek and if you looked at my complete edit history you'd see that I am just as cognizant of Macedonian and (in the case of Cyprus) Turkish nationalism. You just notice it at the moment because Greek nationalism is running at a fever-pitch and it is the Greek POV pushing which is taking a hit. My comments to Neil were specifically focused on the moment at hand. The reverse is true during periods when Macedonians or Turks are running on high octane. It is extreme nationalism of any kind that I oppose, not Greeks or Macedonians or Turks. The only nationalism that I admit to an imbalance is Ukrainian versus Russian, although even then, Ukrainian nationalists have accused me of being a pro-Russian shill because of my "go-slow" approach to decommunizing Wikipedia's Ukraine articles. --Taivo (talk) 04:49, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Shoshoni range
I appreciate your quick checking and monitoring of the Shoshoni page, but I wanted to discuss with you the question of Shoshoni spoken in California.
It is true that McLaughlin does not mention California among the range of the language. However, Gould and Loether state explicitly that Shoshoni is spoken in California in their book, and several maps also indicate a (small) area in southeastern California where Western Shoshoni is spoken.
Perhaps there is some confusion in these sources between Shoshoni and Timbisha, but can you confirm that this is the case? The conflicting sources are concerning, as both books seem credible, and I'd like to come to a consensus with you.
(User:Phloxfire) The problem is that Dayley (1989a and b) called his dictionary and grammar of Timbisha, "Tümpisa Shoshone". It is not Shoshoni proper, but Timbisha. The range of Shoshoni never extended into California. Ever. That was always Timbisha territory. Campbell's book was poorly edited in the place where he mentions Shoshoni, but his book is not as reliable a source as sources that specifically deal with Shoshoni and Central Numic. Gould says that it extends into California, but she also considers Comanche to be "Southern Shoshoni". She considers all three Central Numic languages to be "Shoshoni". The sources are clear once you remove Gould and Loether and Campbell from the mix. There is no Shoshoni in California. John McLaughlin Shoshoni Grammar (2012, Lincom); Richley H. Crapo Big Smokey Valley Shoshoni (1976, Desert Research Institute); Beverly Crum and Jon Dayley Western Shoshoni Grammar (1993, Boise State University); Jon P. Dayley Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar (1989, University of California Press); Wick R. Miller "Sketch of Shoshone, a Uto-Aztecan Language", Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 17, Languages (1996, Smithsonian, pp. 693-720). There simply is no real debate on the issue among specialists. Gould's view is a unique one, supporting her own particular position that all three Central Numic languages are one language. The majority of scholars on Shoshoni and Central Numic languages exclude Shoshoni from California, reserving that area that is sometimes mistakenly lumped into "Western Shoshoni" by nonlinguists for anthropological reasons to Timbisha. There simply is no debate. I will revert your change again since the majority of reliable sources clearly place Timbisha in California, but not Shoshoni. --Taivo (talk) 11:34, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the clarification, Taivo. That's an odd stance for Gould to take, but I'm glad so much of the literature otherwise seems to agree. So Timbisha in California, no Shoshoni proper - that checks out.
Gould is a native speaker and this is a very common stance among native speakers. I have heard speakers of all seven Numic languages tell each other, when whites are in the room, "We all speak the same [Numic] language." But they don't. When they have to talk amongst themselves they always switch to English. --Taivo (talk) 22:21, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redlinks
Hi, I'm not sure I get the point about redlinks being discouraged. Unless these topics aren't notable and an article is unlikely to ever be created, I don't see the problem with them. See WP:REDLINK for a fuller explanation. Thanks! – Uanfala (talk)02:50, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redlinks have always been discouraged on the pages that I've been involved with (by most of the editors involved, not just me). They are, more often than not, speculative pages that may or may not have any real basis in either notability or reality. Take the two redlinks that were placed on Washo language. The "California sprachbund" is problematic for two reasons. First, it's only partially defined and there are no real scholarly works that address it. Second, Americanists don't use the term "sprachbund" as a proper name for the areas of Native North America. The "Great Basin sprachbund" is problematic for an entirely different reason--except for Washo on the edge--the so-called "sprachbund" is actually a well-defined genetic language group, the Numic group of Uto-Aztecan. So calling the Great Basin a "sprachbund" is linguistically inaccurate since it's a genetically-defined group, not an areally defined group. So one of the redlinks has a remote chance of ever becoming blue and the other redlink has no chance unless you simply link to the Numic languages page. --Taivo (talk) 03:04, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, if there's no chance of these ever becoming articles and if section links to Linguistic areas of the Americas can be seen as misleading, then redlinks indeed don't make sense. But if the term "sprachbund" is problematic, you might want to further edit it out of the text? Just one afterthought about redlinks in general: I've also seen plenty of people being averse to redlinks, but I've never seen any rationale given for this aversion and it's squarely against the guidelines. I guess it might have to do with the overall rarity of redlinks in many areas: there are so many articles here, people probably assume that anything notable enough will have already had an article created. – Uanfala (talk)03:15, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That Linguistic areas of the Americas listing is based entirely on a single work, Sherzer 1976, and is not widely cited as definitive on the topic. Probably a full third to half of the languages of Native North America had not even been described at the time of its publication. It is based, for example, on only four of the seven Numic languages and Washo for describing the Great Basin. Come to think of it, I recall that he actually includes Comanche in the Plains area, even though it was only recently intrusive there from the Great Basin. "Linguistic area" is, indeed, more widely used in Americanist literature, but we're certainly not rubes, ignorant of the meaning of "sprachbund". We know very well what it means and the technical linguistic sense of it, we're just averse to naming regions of Native American languages with a German term. --Taivo (talk) 10:24, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Atakapa language
Hi Taivo, I happened to find your source for the phonology of the Atakapa language on JSTOR. I believe it was "Phonologic Formulas for Atakapa-Chitimacha". However, I am a bit confused because the chart within the source showed a combined phonology of Chitimacha and Atakapa. Also, I am not sure if Atakapa really has /ʃ/ or /x/ fricatives. I also had recently contacted the Facebook page dedicated to the Atakapa language project about a month ago. Based on their analyses (which may not be complete yet), they showed vocabulary words having one of those two fricatives. Again, I don't know if the language actually has them. Fdomanico51997 (talk) 22:50, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I saw your reversion on the Ute Dialect page--I have since clarified the phonology section to state that T. Givon's description is of the southern Ute dialect. I should note that prior to my original edit, the phonology section did not cite a source, and so I was not able to acertain which dialect the original chart and text referred to, although since the original word examples for vowel length were the same as those given in Givon's grammar for Southern Ute, I can only assume it was also describing Southern Ute. Please let me know if there is a better way have this information on the page, or if you have the source for the original chart and text/source that it refers to the other dialects. Thank you!
I completely understand your concerns and will refrain from using census data in the future. I do know that, in some cases like that of Dakota, the actual number of speakers and the purported number of speakers in the census are vastly different. How do I get good language data, as Ethnologue is not always a reliable source and government data is inaccurate? Can you point me towards some sources more reliable than the ones I have been using? Thank you for letting me know though! C1MM (talk) 01:43, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Reliable speaker data is not always available, it just depends on how recently an actual linguist has been working on the language intimately enough to know the situation. Ethnologue, however, is more reliable as a whole than US Census data. Ethnologue isn't perfect in all situations, of course, but it's usually much closer than government data since linguists are involved in correcting Ethnologue. There simply is no perfectly reliable source (and never will be), so we have to choose sources that are, on average, more reliable than those that are, on average, less reliable. --Taivo (talk) 02:18, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've been doing ample amounts of research to find an available good source for the Northern Sotho (Sepedi) language of South Africa. The phonology for the consonants and vowels section for the Northern Sotho language page is missing, so I've been wanting to know what the phonology of the Sepedi language is so I will be able to contribute information to the Northern Sotho page. What available reliable sources are there to obtain the phonological information? I've been trying to obtain an ILL for various book sources, but haven't had any luck. Any information provided would be grateful. Thanks Fdomanico51997 (talk) 19:20, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Fdomanico51997:: This is the best on-line source for finding references to languages: Glottolog. If you're looking for "easy" on-line references they don't always exist and you simply must rely on ILL for the best sources. --Taivo (talk) 00:09, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"No known L1 speakers" means an extinct language. "Reawakening" in Ethnologue is a political fiction for the sake of local community pride, but isn't a realistic assessment. Ethnologue is not the final word on survival (and ISO 639-3 is just Ethnologue in different clothes, not an independent source). --Taivo (talk) 19:54, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I understand that Ethnologue is not the final word on survival (nor is ELCat), but I do wonder how Manx and Cornish have managed to fly under the radar as politically fictitious languages for so long. Should I go through Wikipedia and mark Cornish and Manx as extinct? Plandu (talk) 20:03, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not involved with either Cornish or Manx pages, so you'll have to deal with those editors. But when it comes to Native America, there are different political forces at work that cause Ethnologue to mark languages as "Reawakening" when they aren't really. Cornish and Manx both have individuals who are fluent enough that they are capable of writing books and media. There are local signs being produced in Cornish and Manx as I understand (I'm not a specialist that that part of the world though). No such L2 fluency exists within the Tunica community. --Taivo (talk) 20:07, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your explanation. There are such varying criteria depending on who is asked. Would love to talk to you more about this topic. Plandu (talk) 20:12, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The name is transliterated correctly, but translation is not that easy: there is a rhetorical question which loses its meaning when translated to English, so I translated what it means, not a literal translation. Can you propose a better translation? --TohaomgTohaomg (talk) 12:41, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
And, by the way, reverting is done when edit is obviously vandal or nonsense, otherwise it should be cancelled with giving explanation in edit summary. I kindly ask you not to abuse your revert rights any more. --TohaomgTohaomg (talk) 12:44, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Mormonism
The whole thing is a fraud, so don't revert edits pointing this out. Joseph Smith was a tall-tale teller, and the thing is an utter joke. Do you believe in this fraud? If you do, don't edit a factual encyclopedia with your fraud. 79.71.16.195 (talk) 20:38, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You are, of course, a religious bigot and shouldn't be editing Wikipedia if you can't maintain WP:NPOV. If you don't understand what NPOV is, then you certainly need to find another hobby somewhere else. --Taivo (talk) 20:53, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
79.71.16.195 should note that Taivo is opposed to Mormonism, but he feels obliged to make a show of neutrality.
Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion pages. Doing so won't stop the discussion from taking place. You are, however, welcome to comment about the proposed deletion on the appropriate page. Thank you. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 09:44, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but I don't have the time to read twenty pages of Wikilawtext to find the answer. Your link just takes me to page 1, from which there are interminable links to other pages and no simple, "Do X." --Taivo (talk) 12:25, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. The page was not deleted, but turned into a disambiguation page. The article content was moved to other pages. --Taivo (talk) 12:33, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The page is a disambiguation page for a label that signifies nothing. A category is inappropriate. The three pages that the page links to should be categorized because they are meaningful. But the label "Paiute" is an empty term. No one should be coming to this page without moving on to one of the other pages. --Taivo (talk) 22:49, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It is not a real page, just a disambiguation page with a brief description. Categorization would be misleading since this is a false "tribe", not a real one. --Taivo (talk) 05:34, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Your creation of a dab, splitting off into Northern and Southern, has created a huge number of disambiguation issues. Someone with your expertise in distinguishing between the two might be more able to distinguish which article those dabs should be directed to. Thanks. Onel5969TT me11:12, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have tons of time to dedicate to fixing the links, but am working my way through them one-by-one as I get a little free time here and there. It won't be fixed overnight. In the meantime, if there are pages that especially concern you, please let me know and I'll fix them before I fix others. --Taivo (talk) 12:33, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No worries. I'm going through them as well and picking off the low-hanging fruit. But there are quite a few where I can't easily discern what the right target is. I'm tagging them with a dn tag, so other editors might be able to make the right choice. Onel5969TT me13:23, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Seeking feedback on a guide for students who edit articles in cultural anthropology
Hi TaivoLinguist, Wiki Education is developing a guide to help students edit articles related to cultural anthropology and we'd love to hear what experienced users think of our draft so far. I've solicited feedback on a few WikiProjects, including WikiProject:Anthropology, but haven't heard much yet. I wanted to reach out personally to experienced editors who have an interest in these topics to see if they'd provide feedback. Essentially, the guide is meant to supplement other resources that students consult, such as an interactive training and basic editing brochures. It would be great to get any feedback on the draft by April 18th. Would you be interested in taking a look? Thanks for considering! Cassidy (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:11, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Let me know what you think of this proposed transition from Siculo Arabic to Maltese [3]. This might be true to part of the Maltese population, the rest being previously Arabic speakers or later Arabized new settlers. Droveaxle (talk) 07:40, 4 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there. I appreciate if you don't think that's a reliable source; it seemed to confirm what some unsourced information elsewhere said so I figured it might be reliable. Anyway, can you find me one please then? As for the rest being "only remembered (and rarely used) by the oldest members of the groups", I feel like I already got that across, no? Wolfdog (talk) 16:18, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Any sources? Wolfdog (talk) 15:14, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
User:Wolfdog, What page are you talking about? I edit dozens of pages a week, sometimes on a single day, and I can't remember every little edit and comment I make and on which page I make them. --Taivo (talk) 16:26, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, well this was from 3 June, when I made an edit to Indigenous languages of the Americas as follows: "Nearly 200 of these languages are still spoken today in North America, though they are heavily endangered, with not even 40 percent used by young adults or children.[1]"
References
^Ahtone, Tristan (2017). "[inthesetimes.com/rural-america/entry/19945/talk-on-the-rez-english-prosody-and-the-native-american-accent Talk on the Rez]". In These Times. In These Time and the Institute for Public Affairs.
You reverted my edit and left the following edit summary: This is not accurate and is not based on a reliable source. "Still spoken" implies daily use. Only a handful are in daily use, the rest are only remembered (and rarely used) by the oldest members of the groups. Your correction could well be true, but can you tell me where you got this information from so I can provide the page with better info and a better source? Wolfdog (talk) 21:15, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a professional linguist and this is simply axiomatic in the field. It's like a geographer constantly having to say "the earth isn't flat, it's round". The very definition of "spoken" is "used". The vast majority of Native American language in North America and most in South America are "remembered", but not in daily use. A more accurate wording would be that approximately 200 in North America have one or more speakers. That's different than saying they "are spoken". But from my experience as a specialist in Native America, 200 sounds awfully high even if we are counting "one or more speakers". That source is still not a reliable one. --Taivo (talk) 22:40, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I appreciate your knowledge on this and am not personally worried about your own credibility as an editor. I'm just worried that an unsourced sentence to that effect can be easily removed. Just wondering if you knew some source that made this plainly obvious. And I didn't mean to quibble over words like "spoken" or "used"; I'm happy to use a wording like "hav[ing] one or more speakers". Wolfdog (talk) 23:21, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that there is no really accurate count. The US Census is a self-identification document and includes hundreds of speakers of these languages who might know a few words and thereby call themselves "speakers". Only qualified linguists who can accurately determine the competency of speakers can make speaker surveys. If I come across some number that is more reliable than not, I'll put it in, but until then using inaccurate numbers are worse than no number at all. --Taivo (talk) 00:36, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Deleting a whole introduction of Chakavian page
Why delete everything I put, with extensive academic articles? Please, if you want to delete some parts that you feel are not in line with consensus (as you say Wikipedia talks still dont agree, contrary to linguists, that Chakavian is a separate language), delete only those parts and not a work of hours which is methodical and academically right/referenced.
All things Serbo-Croatian are controversial in Wikipedia and major revisions require discussion on the Talk Page--it doesn't matter how long you worked on it. You must discuss and reach WP:CONSENSUS on the Talk Page if there are any objections. You also fail to understand the meaning of "Serbo-Croatian". It is not just Shtokavian, but encompasses all the dialects of non-Slovenian West South Slavic. That is a standard linguistic usage (outside the Balkans among neutral linguists). Recently Kajkavian has been removed for sound linguistic reasons (since it is an intermediate form between Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian). Chakavian, however, is still considered to be one of the two constituent dialects of Serbo-Croatian along with Shtokavian. --Taivo (talk) 19:20, 3 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It is not, except by nationalist circles, which you for some reason consider to be "sound linguistic reasons". The two most exposed and definitely most famous/quoted living linguists of today in Croatia consider it a language of its own: Josip Silic, Snjezana Kordic. And still I don't understand why you don't undo only the 1 "controversial" part, but have to undo all others which are not controversial too, it's so unkind and unfair.
1) Croatian linguists are not politically neutral and if you had any experience editing in Wikipedia's Balkans articles you would know that. 2) I don't see much of anything in your edits that isn't about your fundamental misunderstanding about the position of Chakavian and the meaning of the term "Serbo-Croatian", so they are all controversial. --Taivo (talk) 15:10, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I see that you reverted my edit for a "See also" on the Paiute page. I am guessing that I am not the only one that got confused when they got to that page when looking for the Paiute of Utah...
Sorry, but this discussion determined that Paiute would not be a disambiguation page, but a set index page. As such it is a combination guide and definition, but not a full-blown article with a list of every page that includes the word "Paiute". These individual pages must be linked to either Northern Paiute people or Southern Paiute people since there is no such entity as "Paiute". If you look at the Paiute Tribe of Utah page, you will see that it is clearly labelled and linked to Southern Paiute. --Taivo (talk) 16:49, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Will that mess of an article ever be "fixed"? Altaic is "widely accepted"??? Ha. Also, a long diatribe about the politics of Ba'athist Iraq that really has nothing to do with the language. I know it is a losing battle with the pan-Turk editors, but good Lord ... HammerFilmFan (talk) 15:10, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
"Possible" Vandalism
I love when an anon editor writes "They suck big donkey d...s" and the registered user who reverts it writes "reverting possible vandalism" or "reverting good faith edit" in the edit summary. Possible vandalism? LOL. --Taivo (talk) 08:08, 15 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Why? Anything you have to say you can say here. There is a good reason why we protect our privacy with editors we don't know. --Taivo (talk) 17:55, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Οκ. I have read Pericle's answer. I must have not seen it beforehand. the Macedonians spoke Greek and were every bit as Greek in ethnicity as any other part of Greece. Therefore I ask you, why do you not see the Macedonians as Greeks?--Robandrew (talk) 18:36, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
I do hope I get an answer? --92.15.197.246 (talk) 19:31, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The lead to the article is quite clear and the language section makes it even more clear. If you're still uncertain, then read Ancient Macedonian language as well for more detail. The Macedonians spoke either a dialect of Greek or a language that was closely related to Greek. There is solid evidence for both points of view. If they didn't speak Greek, then you can't say they were Greeks. Officially, the government used Koine Greek, but that wasn't the vernacular, the common language. It wasn't until a few centuries later that the local Macedonian dialect/language went extinct to be replaced by Koine Greek. Read the Ancient Macedonian language article for the evidence and a long list of reliable sources. It is this scholarly uncertainty as to the language of the common people that makes a categorical statement "The ancient Macedonians were Greek" impossible to make honestly. That is why we leave the ambiguity in the article. Pushing an exclusively Greek point of view is a violation of WP:NPOV and ignores a large number of reliable sources. --Taivo (talk) 21:48, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
We have discussed this at various ancient Macedonian articles over and over and over again and the current wording is a WP:CONSENSUS. Pay attention to Pericles. He's right, it is a dead issue, decided long ago by Wikipedia's editors as the most neutral wording. --Taivo (talk) 21:50, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Right Taivo, Good morning. If you have checked my post on the forum in the Ancient Macedonia page you would have realise this was all a work of my 13 year old brother.
However, I'd still like to ask you something: There is no evidence that Ancient Macedonians actually had there on language; all documents found are Greek with, at most, a twist. That is indicative of a dialect, not separate language. Here are some answers to the question "What languages did the Ancient Macedonians speak?"
"All in all, the language of the Macedonians was a distinct and particular form of Greek, resistant to outside influences and conservative in pronunciation. It remained so until the 4th century BC when it was almost totally submerged by the flood tide of standardized Greek."(Nicholas Hammond, British scholar and expert on Macedon, "A History of Macedonia" Vol. ii, 550-336 BC)
“The Pella curse tablet has been judged to be the most important ancient testimony to substantiate that Macedonian was a north-western Greek and mainly a Doric dialect.” (Roisman, Worthington, 2010, "A Companion to Ancient Macedonia", p. 95)
"In favour of the Greek identity of the ancient Macedonians is what we know of their language (Doric Greek), their place names, names of the months and many of their personal names especially royal names which are Greek in root and form. This tells us that they did not merely use Greek as a lingua franca but spoke it as natives, though with a local accent." (Richard Stoneman, Honorary Professor of Greek, Exeter University)
Also;
The elite would speak nicely Attic Greek as soon as it became fashionable in the 5th century bC. Before that, just Doric Greek.
The man-in-the-street ? Doric Greek from the very beginning of the Macedonian kingdom (8th century bC), and even earlier. There is not a single word of evidence that they did not speak Greek.
I'd like you, personally to counter that with evidence you can post here.
Read Ancient Macedonian language. You will find that scholarly opinion about the Macedonian VERNACULAR (the common language, for which there is lexical and phonological evidence) varies widely. I'm not going to rehash the evidence here when you can read it for yourself. --Taivo (talk) 06:45, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Heavy going, isn't it? I've seen similar WP:POV-pushing on Assyrian- and Turkic-related topics too; not only on Wikipedia, but also on another popular website. A dear friend, now no longer with us, spent her last days moderating yet another site for Ukraine-related garbage.
If you would ever like input from an independent editor on issues such as these, feel free to {{ping}} me. I will support you if I think that you are right, and I will slap you down if I think that you are wrong. It is only WP:CANVASSing if you're trying to recruit known cheerleaders. Narky Blert (talk) 21:55, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You are, of course, perfectly right. I agree that it's always better for an uninvolved party to close, and if one of the active parties had objected, they would be entirely justified in reverting the close. I would have said a couple of Mea culpas in penance to the Wikipedia demigods who enforce the rules. But this time none of the combatants has said a word so it must have been a welcome "mercy killing". --Taivo (talk) 09:39, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Book of Mormon
Hi, I added the link to List of Gospels because the Book of Mormon was included on that list under the "Modern Gospels" section. I did not add the Book of Mormon to the List of Gospels, just added a reciprocal link to the Book of Mormon. Some apparently consider it Gospel so it deserves inclusion. Unless there is a definite reason to remove the link, please revert your edit. I'm assuming good faith, so I will not revert the edit myself - cheers - Epinoia (talk) 01:09, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Dyeus
This might be premature, but I, a mere anonymous IP, have tangled with another anonymous IP at the Dyeus article over the PIE forms. Might I ask you to glance at the recent edit history and to edit/leave a note on the talk page as you see fit?
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Thank you for being understanding about my understanding. I think that if I ever had time to get properly involved with the Balkans disagreements and related matters -- about which I have very strong opinions, of course -- I would be so busy disagreeing with so many different people at once, that no-one would have the slightest idea what I was talking about from one moment to the next. MPS1992 (talk) 05:14, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Caution
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New developments regarding the R. of (North soon?) Macedonia
I am positive somehow, that the Prespa Agreement is going to be a milestone in ending once and for all this dispute about Macedonia. I feel I want to ask everyone here in Wikipedia to pray that the Agreement passes from the Parliament this week. That will be such a relief and a shinning light in these dark times for the entire region. Question is: What about WP:MOSMAC? Will there be a need for it to be updated or can it stay as such? I feel this may be in need for a update to avoid disruptive editors citing it to refer to the Republic of Macedonia by a name other than its new constitutional name (assuming that the ratification is successful; the Prespa Agreement is expected to go into force by the end of this month, January 2019, after its ratification this week in RoM and next 2 weeks in Greece). --👧🏻 SilentResident 👧🏻(talk ✉️ | contribs 📝)22:49, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
User:SilentResident, my preference would be to change WP:MOSMAC without a lot of fanfare and if the Prespa Agreement is finalized then I hope that the nationalist nonsense (on both sides) can accept the new world. Going through official arbitration is a HUGE hassle (as one who participated in WP:ARBMAC). Let's try for the least amount of effort first. --Taivo (talk) 23:13, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Taivo! Perhaps you would be intersted in helping me with adding subtitles to the video that is used to illustrate Borscht? I already asked for help at [Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ukraine]], but there doesn't seem to be much traffic over there. What I need is a transcription, in Ukrainian, of what is being said in the video. I can read Ukrainian, but don't undertand spoken Ukrainian very well. Once I have a transcription, then I can translate it into English and the subtitles. Would you like to work on it? — Kpalion(talk)13:12, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! You seem to be quite involved in Serbo-Croatian stuff. How do you think this should be presented? I believe Wikipedia uses "Croatian" as a term for the Croatian standard of Shtokavian, while this editor insists on using some idiosyncratic definition which includes Kajkavian, Chakavian and all Shtokavian (i.e. "Serbo-Croatian" in the terminology I'm familiar with). Is this okay? Just thought you might want to look at this. 2A01:11BF:610:8B00:3142:3957:AEA9:EDF (talk) 17:36, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'm personally okay with the current lede. I posted that as a response to Sorabino's edits to Serbian and Croatian, thinking he would be able to rewrite it better and put forward something more linguistically sound than his nationalist POV, but it doesn't seem like he's actually willing to cooperate. --Nama.Asal (talk) 09:46, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed after looking at it more carefully that it was for Croatian and not for Serbo-Croatian. I agree, he's not willing to cooperate. --Taivo (talk) 10:59, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think ANI was really necessary - there are other problems too, as I explained in my comments - but then again I'm perhaps not seeing the whole story. At any rate, I'd like to provide my input by reviewing Serbo-Croatian because - first and foremost - it might benefit the article, but it also may help with the dispute. For that, I need at least a couple more days. GregorB (talk) 20:10, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. I know that the Sociolinguistics section needs serious attention, not just because of repetitious wording, but because the original author was clearly not a native speaker of English. Any observations you have would be most welcome. (I'm not in a rush actually--I'll be away on business over the weekend and don't know the quality of the hotel's internet.) --Taivo (talk) 20:19, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I saw that you reverted an edit at List of linguists with the summary NO. If a person doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, they are not notable. The two adds that the IP user made both include the Wikidata links, at which I can see there are pages in six other wikis for Ibn Jinni and arwiki for Hamza Al-Mozainy. WP:CSC says Red-linked entries are acceptable if the entry is verifiably a member of the listed group, and it is reasonable to expect an article could be forthcoming in the future., which seems to apply here, no? —[AlanM1(talk)]—15:12, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
"An article in the future" means nothing, especially when the proponents of an entry don't seem to be English speakers (they left a message for me on the Arabic Wikipedia in Arabic). So it's not "reasonable to expect" an article in this case. We've been very solid in the past on this list removing redlinked entries. --Taivo (talk) 15:35, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Zaporizhzhia
We would like to ask to correct the transliteration of the city name.
Argumentation:
In accordance with the decision of the executive committee of the Zaporizhzhya City Council, dated August 28, 2017, No.476, the transliteration of the spelling of the geographical name of the city of Zaporizhzhia on maps and other publications in Latin was approved as - "Zaporizhzhia" [6], in accordance with the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated January 27, 2010 N 55 "On the ordering of transliteration of the Ukrainian alphabet in Latin "(which is valid).
Unfortunately, my editing has been rejected.
At this time, mistakes occur oftenly while using the Latin name of the city. I consider it would be appropriate to prescribe the correct name of the city in English in the article.
What do you feel is the best course of action for me to take regarding Eswatini? I'm thinking about starting a discussion there about how the name change from Swaziland was rather premature, but due to visual stuff and my blindness I have a hard time with templates and what not.
Also I do want to note that due to e-mail issues an dhaving been hacked several years back I won't be creating an account until I have some thigns looked at.
Sorry guys for the lack of account but yeah.
Anyway, what is your suggestion for going forward with Eswatini? I do see how some people feel that renaming SwazilandEswatini but not Kiev to Kyiv looks a bit unfair, as I fee lboth Kyiv and Eswatini do not meet commonname, but I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something.
I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on User talk:Deepkang. I do not think that User talk:Deepkang fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because WP:UP allows "limited autobiographical content" and I do not see an infobox as exceeding that. Also, we do not normally delete the main user talk page of an editor. I request that you consider not re-tagging User talk:Deepkang for speedy deletion without discussing the matter on the appropriate talk page. DES(talk)DESiegel Contribs15:33, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
User:DESiegel, I did not make that edit. I don't know what's going on, but that edit was not me. If you click on my User Contributions, you will see that I made no such edit. --Taivo (talk) 15:39, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
User:DESiegel, if you click on the "contribs" portion of the tag on that diff, you will be directed to this page, which is quite different from my own User contributions page here. When I first began editing in the English Wikipedia, I was Taivo. But then when all the international wikis standardized their editor names about a decade ago, there was another Taivo somewhere who had seniority, so I changed my editor name to TaivoLinguist. This is very strange (and the first time it's happened). Are you an admin who can fix this? --Taivo (talk) 15:48, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict)I am an admin, but dependingt on what the issue is, i may or may not be able to fix this. If there is a simple redirect, that will be easy. I will look into it.
It looks as if when you were renamed years ago redirects were created from your old name to your new name, and now the new Tavio has started to edit here. I have removed the redirects and welcomed to other user. My apologies for the confusion. DES(talk)DESiegel Contribs16:02, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Really? Because while it may seem obvious to you, it was rather confusing to me, considering that there at least four ways that the word "Macedonia" can be understood, and it made sense to actually state which was which on a map that depicts two of them but not the other two. But whatevah. A loose necktie (talk) 11:11, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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I am asking as a courtesy that you reopen the discussion on the moratorium at Kyiv. As an involved editor it was inappropriate for you to close this discussion only 22 days after it began. Especially, since the discussion was ill-constructed and chaotic. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 13:08, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
There is no article called "Kyiv". You were not involved in the discussion at Talk:Kiev and, as far as I have been able to tell, you have never participated in Ukraine topics. What is your interest there? I might ask, "A courtesy to whom?" None of the participants objected at the time or in the week since the moratorium was established. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 13:18, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Disarrangement of phonological tables on various North American language pages
I'm not sure if you have been noticing, but there have been a lot of disarrangements on the phonology sections of many pages of North American languages. They are been done by these "student editors" all of which are from California State University, Los Angeles. If you see any of them, please tell them to stop messing around with the phonological charts. They recently did it to the Kiliwa language, and I had to undo each of their mess-ups of the phonological chart. Fdom5997 (talk) 02:10, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Wow. I don't follow any of the pages where this happened, but it seems that someone in the linguistics program at CSULA might be pushing an "anti-phonology" agenda for phonemic inventories. I'll keep my eye open and dig around a little to see if there is an underlying (pardon the pun) motivation for the movement. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 08:33, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Amen to that, Taivo! Iryna Harpy (talk) 06:06, 26 January 2020 (UTC) [Feel free to transcribe that to your 'boasts': obviously a little simplistic, but truly deserved. I think it's what we soon all become - if not already are - when we get an account an vow to follow the Wikipedia 5 pillar plan! There is no NPOV outside of empirical fact, which is what makes it a fantastic exercise in debate, and picking out the YouTube and forum buffoons at a single glance.][reply]
The Defender of the Wiki Award
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
I've been working alongside you for years on a tiny number of mutual articles and, having become aware of your academic knowledge, and the integrity with which you balance all factors demonstrates before making any decisions or commenting on an issue. You follow the spirit of Wikipedia with diligence and intelligence. I ought to know: I'm always turning to you for sage advice! Please keep it up. Wiki needs you. Iryna Harpy (talk) 06:08, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
One question
Why the Croatian linguists, including those from Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina say Serbo-Croatian language doesn't exist, including also my former Croatian teacher, while some linguists from outside say it exists? What you think about that? Also, I'm from Croatia. -Space2006 (talk) 10:45, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Since Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin are mutually intelligible, they comprise a single language. That language is usually called "Serbo-Croatian" by linguists. That name doesn't refer to the national standard used in the former country of Yugoslavia, it refers to the linguistic entity that is the single language spoken by Bosnians, Croatians, Serbians, and Montenegrins. That language has been codified and standardized in four different ways in the modern states of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro that differ from the way that it was codified in the former Yugoslavia as "Serbo-Croatian". But codification of four slightly different variants of a single spoken language doesn't make four different languages. They are still one language, codification doesn't make new languages except for nationalistic and political purposes. Thus, since the codified "Serbo-Croatian" is no longer a nationally-authorized codification of the very real language, nationalists claim that it no longer exists. The codification no longer exists, but the actual language is still alive and well in all its spoken variants. Because of the confusion between the codification called "Serbo-Croatian" and the actual language called "Serbo-Croatian" and the nationalistic passions that flare with the word "Serbo-Croatian", linguists are slowly starting to switch the language label to something like "Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian" (abbreviated BCS) or some other variant, but there is no standard form used in the scientific literature yet and "Serbo-Croatian" is still the most common term in the literature. So there is only one spoken language--"Serbo-Croatian". Four different mutually-intelligible variants (not even different enough to realistically be called "dialects") of this language have been codified (standardized) in the four countries of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro with the labels "Bosnian", "Croatian", "Serbian", and "Montenegrin". Wikipedia follows scientific usage, not political usage, and calls this single language "Serbo-Croatian". --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 11:22, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Taivo! I understand that you wanted to retract your comment, but just removing it is not the recommended way. I was actually preparing a comment when the text I was commenting on suddenly disappeared. Striking it out with <del>...</del> would have been better. Anyway, no big deal. Regards! --T*U (talk) 10:11, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Just noticed semi-recent shenanigans in the lede: " .... however, some linguists hypothesize that Elamite and the Dravidian languages of India belong to the same language family.[6] In accordance with geographical and archaeological matches, some historians argue that the Elamites comprise a large portion of the ancestors of the modern day Lurs[7] whose language, Luri, split from Middle Persian, which Potts disagree[8] ..." -- can you address? The cite is to some philosophy prof, I believe(!) bad grammar, also ... Thanks - HFF
Then talk about it in the article, we're not going to turn the infobox into a catalogue of every country that has a Ukrainian or Russian restaurant. This has been explained to you and other many times over the years. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 20:51, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ukrainian or Russian restaurant? What? Have you read this book? It is called Estonian Tastes and Traditions. Estonian people cook and eat borsch at home, not in a Ukrainian or Russian restaurant. Fugitive from New York (talk) 21:15, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"we're not going to turn the infobox into a catalogue of every country that has a Ukrainian or Russian restaurant." Did you write this? How does this relate to Estonia? Fugitive from New York (talk) 18:18, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps you missed the very first thing I wrote: "Then talk about it in the article". Perhaps you missed my edit summaries: "This is not mentioned in the article" --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 19:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"Whatever that is" from Talk:Ukraine
Well, I got interested and ran the text of the article linked to through Google Translate:
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will engage in projects to improve content on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. This also applies to versions in languages other than Ukrainian.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the association "Wikimedia Ukraine" intend to start joint projects aimed at "engaging as many people as possible to fill Wikipedia with information about Ukraine," the Unian agency said on Wednesday citing the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The cooperation of Ukrainian diplomats and Wikipedia aims to "counteract misinformation about Ukraine and disseminate information about this country in different languages on Wikipedia."
The cooperation of Ukrainian diplomats and Wikipedia aims to "counteract misinformation about Ukraine and disseminate information about this country in different languages on Wikipedia."
As stated by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kułeba, Wikipedia articles are a source of information for millions of people around the world, "so it is very important that the information about Ukraine in this encyclopedia be as objective and accurate as possible." He justified the involvement of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in improving Wikipedia by saying that the strategic task of Ukrainian diplomacy is "to defend the truth and counteract misinformation."
The first stage of cooperation will be the start of the online marathon "Ukrainian diplomacy month". Within a month, the authors of Ukrainian-language Wikipedia will fill in the gaps and correct inaccuracies regarding "Russian aggression, Ukraine's integration with the EU and NATO, relations with other countries, activities in international organizations and public diplomacy." The marathon will start in May.
I might have had lengthy discussions around disputes with you in the past and I still do not share your views on some topics but I appreciate your scientific approach and way of thinking in every comment refined with your advanced knowledge in linguistics. You are definitely an editor of the kind that Wikipedia needs to have more. Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 16:37, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Viktor O. Ledenyov
He seems to be attempting to continue his campaign by editing while logged out. Shouldn't he get at least a short term block for that? --Khajidha (talk) 19:46, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In case you missed it: 08:37, 28 May 2020 Creffett talk contribs changed block settings for Viktor O. Ledenyov talk contribs with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked) (Abusing multiple accounts: Please see: w:en:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Viktor O. Ledenyov - upgrading to indef per discussion) --Khajidha (talk) 23:40, 28 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
File:Taras Shevchenko Statue in Rivne.JPG listed for discussion
Not sure if this should be brought to WP:ANI or directly to WP:ARBCOM, because as some other user has commented this involves private evidence (though strictly speaking, we are not responsible that other people may be ripping off our replies and calling us things publicly at Twitter lmao). But maybe input from ANI could be gathered to ascertain whether the RM should be summarily closed as disruptive in such a canvassing situation? I think there's enough on-wiki evidence to support that anyways, though my main concerns are on the disruption being caused by the RM rather than on any particular desire to see any consequence being imposed on the canvassers. Impru20talk09:14, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Some of your comments today at Kiev were about conduct rather than content. This can escalate a fraught discussion. Consider reframing comments like this by omitting things like the first sentence which personalizes it. Barkeep49 (talk) 03:55, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Regarding your edit summary here: “Sorry, but I didn't understand that this was a page where only the pro-Kyiv faction could contribute.” I am sorry you feel aggrieved, but that is not a fair comment. I’d like that page to fairly represent the situation regarding usage in up-to-date, reliable sources, as the guidelines on page titles recommend. That means including your “faction.”
But I don’t think your addition of a Google search link represented “Reuters,” as you labelled it, and the search results I saw were misleading, as they had content written before the period you stated, and non-Reuters content, etc. They only demonstrated why WP:COMMONNAME discourages the use of raw Google searches.
The fact that the Book of Mormon is one of the most translated books in the world is fact, not hyperbole. It has been translated into over a hundred languages. This is documented, and you removed it, because of your personal prejudices. You also reverted to an out of date reference which dates from the early 2000s. Thanks for that
Sorry, I speak in plain English, not arcane abbreviations. Please do likewise. It's pretty clear what happened here, i.e. you only glanced at the article and made a snap decision.
I notice you also removed several modern editions of the book. Again, no relevance to claims of hyperbole and padding. More factual information, which one can independently verify.
Thank you for reminding me why Wikipedia has headed down the toilet in the last few years. Next time spend a bit more time reading article content, and less on WP:Whatever please.-213.205.241.175 (talk) 17:28, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
If you don't like Wikipedia, and are unwilling to understand the editing process by clicking on links to policies, then don't edit here. It's a simple remedy for your bile. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 17:34, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You removed factual material as "hyperbole". The BoM is in the top twenty of translated books of all time if you wish to stand by this website. I don't consider Wikipedia particularly reliable, but it is probably right on that score.
Wikipedia is a poorly run bureaucratic mess where vandalism stays up for years and facts get removed. There was a major howler in the biography of Alec Guinness for at least five years, which no one corrected. I could name others. I can't stand what Wikipedia has become. However, social media and Google etc are turning it into the ready reference for many people so that's why I feel persuaded to say something. -213.205.241.175 (talk) 17:46, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
User:VladOz I'm not really a specialist on foods. I can't remember how I got involved in the Borscht article, but it wasn't because of the food. I think someone asked me, as a linguist interested in Eastern Europe, about the conflict between "Borsch" and "Borscht" as the English form and the title of the Wikipedia article. But it was many years ago. It's interesting that everyone calls them pierogi (or something like that) except for Ukraine. My wife is a Russian speaker from Ukraine and she doesn't use the Russian word, but the Ukrainian word. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 18:29, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Kiev/Kyiv results with Google Ngrams
Thanks for what you are doing at Talk:Kiev. I posted a message on the subject of errors with using Ngrams on that page.[7]
One of the problems of the Google Books Ngram facility is that it is easy to make mistakes with it.
One editor suggested this Ngram, but for 2019: this gives 3,161 for kiev excluding chicken kiev and dynamo kiev, and 2,263 for kyiv excluding dynamo kyiv. It also gives an error message: "Case-insensitive searches and compositions cannot be combined. Ignoring case-insensitive option."
Computer error messages worry me. They often indicate that the results people think they are getting are not the results they are actually getting. (It is rather like buying an airline ticket to Boston, and ending up in Massachusetts when you wanted to go to Lincolnshire and not realising your error when you get there.)
I also remembered the point you made in discussions about the common name in English of Ukrainian cities, and as the Ngram facility has a button for English, compared with American English and British English. Though smoothing can be a great facility, if people think that usage is changing from year to year, looking at results without smoothing seemed prudent.
The link I used for the combination Ngram was this.
The 2019 default-smoothed frequencies of capitalised Kiev/Kyiv (1,257,970 and 532,131) are much greater than for Chicken Kiev/Kyiv (7,227 and 116) and Dynamo Kiev/Kyiv (4,097 and 2,617). So as long as people are capitalising correctly, it is not that important if people forget to exclude the food and the sports team.
Case sensitive
2019
English
American English
British English
Smooth 0
Smooth 3
Smooth 0
Smooth 3
Smooth 0
Smooth 3
kiev
3,110
4,831
867
1,815
8,529
13,563
kyiv
175
2,263
347
271
0
0
% kyiv
5%
32%
29%
13%
0%
0%
Kiev
1,236,214
1,257,970
1,429,016
1,272,304
1,936,230
1,828,199
Kyiv
506,130
532,131
536,141
501,558
426,427
833,403
% Kyiv
29%
30%
27%
28%
18%
31%
Dynamo Kiev
3,207
4,097
1,318
3,154
17,783
13,333
Dynamo Kyiv
1,916
2,617
494
1,774
5,799
5,659
% Kyiv
37%
39%
27%
36%
25%
30%
Chicken Kiev
9,162
7,227
17,298
10,702
18,169
13,909
Chicken Kyiv
42
116
% Kyiv
0%
2%
0%
0%
0%
0%
(Kiev - ((Chicken Kiev) - (Dynamo Kiev)))
1,230,259
1,254,840
1,413,035
1,264,753
1,925,843
1,813,261
(Kyiv - ((Chicken Kyiv) - (Dynamo Kyiv)))
508,004
534,632
536,635
503,331
432,225
839,062
% Kyiv
29%
30%
28%
28%
18%
32%
Calculated from the above figures for comparison with Google's combined results
I had already raised the issue at User_talk:Barkeep49#IP's_behaviour_at_Talk:Kiev. This is just the last in a string of unilateral edits from this IP user showing an absolute reckless behaviour on the issue. They seem to have no remorse at manipulating others' comments nor at refactoring Talk:Kiev the way they see as most favourable to their interests, while clamping down on anyone not supportive of those (such as when they casted unfounded aspersions on both me and BMK). This is just a very unpleasant behaviour. Impru20talk18:45, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I know Wikipedia tells us that we should assume good faith, but some of the time it is best to assume that you are dealing with a sockpuppet troll. Sometimes this assumption turns out to be correct, and sometimes incorrect. The aim of a troll is to bait you into saying things that will make you look bad, so that all your many good comments will ignored. Wikipedia rules make it very hard to voice suspicions without risk to yourself, so it is usually best to say nothing and appear to be friendly and to assume good faith, until you have evidence for WP:AE, WP:ANI, or WP:SPI.-- Toddy1(talk)09:44, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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I meant disputed as many Bulgarians (heck, even most Slavs) do not recognize the existence of the Macedonian language. I am Bulgarian, and everyone that I know think the Macedonian people are just brainwashed Bulgarians => the language does not exist. So, I added "disputed". Please tell me how I am wrong. BonsMans1 (talk) 18:57, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Objective linguists almost universally treat Standard Macedonian as a different language from Bulgarian. The "disputed" tag is for situations, like Altaic, where objective linguists line up on both sides of an issue. In this case, the only linguists who dispute separating Macedonian from Bulgarian are Bulgarian. Bulgarian linguists cannot in this case be counted as "objective", just like Greek linguists dealing with the Ancient Macedonian language. The relation of Ancient Macedonian to Ancient Greek is another example of a dispute relationship among objective (non-Greek, non-Macedonian) linguists--it is either a dialect of Ancient Greek or a closely-related but separate language from Ancient Greek. Your political POV and nationalistic racism against Macedonians is completely unwelcome on Wikipedia. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 21:46, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Kiev
Hi Tavio. In the time since I restored the partial ban on the IP, I see that there have 127 edits made to Talk:Kiev, of which 24 are from you. I suspect if I were to sort by bytes it would be an even larger percentage. At this point I think you've made your case and I would ask that you let others continue the discussion, so you do not bludgeon the discussion. Barkeep49 (talk) 19:32, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't really care about whether the page is named "Kiev" or "Kyiv", really. The two positions were perfectly defensible. I'm rather outraged at how some of these arguments have been pushed: with off-wiki canvassing in July, then now with overt personal attacks, aspersion-casting, bludgeoning and even some behaviours that could be close to personal harassment (by singling out specific editors in the discussion and addressing every one of their comments, mostly with accusation-ridden replies). I've been involved in many lengthy and difficult discussions in my almost 9 years in Wikipedia, but I think this is the first time I've seen such a level of obsession and dirty play on the part of a minor group of users in order for their goal to be accomplished. For now, my only interest on the issue is for the accusations describing me as being willing to racially discriminate anyone or of promoting "bigotry and racism" are stricken or withdrawn (the discussion may be over, but those are still there for anyone to come and see, and that's disgusting). Impru20talk10:32, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Impru20I agree that this has been the ugliest debate in the 11 years that I've been active in the Kiev-movement debates. I attribute it entirely to one user--the anon IP/sockpuppet/troll who started it minutes after the previous moratorium expired. Without his constant poison, this debate would have remained a lot more civil. It would have reached the same conclusion, but would have been much more civil. One of the reasons that I pushed to close the RM is to disappoint him in his desire to continue editing. I'm just going to ignore his bullshit posting. The admins are smarter than to take seriously isolated comments from eleven years of editing. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 12:44, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nonetheless, it's true that, probably, you got yourself too heavily involved there (though I acknowledge this is somewhat misleading, since for example over half of my 131 comments there involve having to defend myself from unwarranted attacks, as well as the addressing of the canvassing issue in July). Impru20talk13:42, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I imagine that the editors who so wanted the move are now discovering that there are hundreds of pages with links, names, etc. that now have to be changed and moved. The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting what you want ;) --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 17:18, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There are bots and bot-type editors that will do this badly, and I expect them to do that. The trouble is that they tend to change titles of sources, quotations and sometimes URLs.
It is likely that there will be a name purge. This happened to lots of articles after the Ukrainian Government did its big change of place names in May 2016. If you spent time in an archive going through handwritten records and try to check the spelling of place names, the deletion of old names by nationalistic editors greatly devalues Wikipedia as a resource. (Handwriting is not always clear, so it can be most useful to search the internet for what I think the writing says.)
If "it has been the form through history until (and including) now", the recent change of the article's name contradicts to our policy.
Note, I am not discussing the renaming, I am just pointing your attention at the fact that the article's name and this section are incompatible. And the section is well sourced, relevant to the article, and factually correct. --Paul Siebert (talk) 01:20, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
There is no contradiction at all. The recent change of name (if you read the detailed discussion at Talk:Kyiv) is based on the trajectory of the name "Kyiv" becoming more and more common and being the name preferred by Ukraine and Ukrainians. The evidence is still clear that "Kiev" is more commonly used, but "Kyiv" is becoming the form preferred in style guides. "Kiev" is by no means extinct or in danger of becoming extinct. It doesn't matter one bit that the statement and the article's name are "incompatible" to you. What matters is the fact of the matter. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 01:27, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Meanwhile, I already pointed out that popularity of alternative names of many European cities (Praha, Beograd, Munchen, Koln etc) started to increase in the XX century, however, each of them reached some maximum, and stabilized at some level below their old English names. No evidenced have been presented that the situation with "Kyiv" will be different, and it is quite likely that "Kyiv" will stabilise at the present level (which is below that of "Kiev").
I'm not trying to justify what happened, just describing the result and the arguments that swayed a majority of editors to prefer "Kyiv" (in addition to unpunished canvassing and raising the nationalist flag on various extra-Wikipedia websites by editors and even the Ukrainian government). I personally opposed the move to Kyiv, but when the closing admin made the decision that a move was justified, I accepted it. As you have correctly pointed out, many of the arguments were in violation of well-established policies or guidelines. But the result is what it is. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 05:51, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The more I am looking at the renaming discussion, the more I realize the policy and guidelines were violated. I am not sure that was the closing admin's fault, because they were not supposed to do their own research; the decision was a result of insufficient arguments presented by "Kiev" proponents, especially their inability to point at the obvious fact that the search engine results were obtained not in accordance with teh procedure described in guidelines, and at other technical problems. Therefore, the renaming is by no means final. I am going to return to that issue next September.--Paul Siebert (talk) 19:16, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Personally, I just got tired of the overwhelming flood of nationalists assaulting anyone who tried to argue Wikipedia policy and search results. I was literally spending three to four hours every day working on the issue and it was too much. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 23:08, 11 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding your last comment at the article's talk page, it is not a good place for discussion of user's behavioural issues. I don't think you want to have problems, because AE is very time consuming and unpleasant process. It is better to remove it before someone commented on it.--Paul Siebert (talk) 00:27, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nationalist POV editing
I've finally had my fill of counter-factual nationalist editing at places like Kyiv, Macedonia (ancient kingdom), and the like and have removed about 200 pages from my watchlist. If you have a specific request for my opinion at a page that I'm no longer watching, post it here, but I'm not going to guarantee that I care. The last straw? When a sockpuppet was allowed to edit unhindered for three weeks at a controversial request for move. He was allowed to accumulate and publish all the evidence upon which the move was based, illegally canvass for support among nationalists outside Wikipedia, argue for the move vociferously and make personal attacks freely against his opponents, and then not be banned until the very end. Long-time editors like myself knew exactly what was happening and that he was a sockpuppet, but admins did nothing to stop the attack on Wikipedia. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 08:46, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Taivo, it seems you overestimate admins' capabilities. They are just humble mortals, who have no sacred knowledge. Admins (when they are acting as admins, not as editors) have no previous knowledge about the subject of the dispute. They can act when properly informed, but they cannot do their own research of facts and evidences: that would make them involved users, which automatically deprives them from an access to administrative tools in the area of the dispute. I looked through the Kiev RM discussion, and I think the closing admin almost correctly summarized the discussion. The admin correctly noted that the number of votes was not a decisive factor, but the arguments of Kyiv supporters were more convincing. The problem is that the arguments presented by Kiev supporters appeared to be insufficient. However, that doesn't mean all arguments were presented. Unfortunately, I was too busy in September, and I learned about that RM only post factum. I see many flaws in the arguments presented by Kyiv supporters, which directly contradict to guidelines and/or policy, and some arguments that could be presented by Kiev supporters (but never presented). However, it would be unfair to expect the closing admins to dive that deeply into this matter. It was a responsibility of Kiev supporters to identify and show the flaws in their opponengts' argumentation. However, they failed to do that. I am going to do this job next September, and meanwhile, the goal is to preserve the "Name" section in the Kiev article in the present form. Actually, your participation would be extremely helpful.
With regard to the sockpuppet case: I don't know what you are talking about, but I know that admins are expected to use CU tools only after they have been properly requested to do that. However, as soon as a sockpupped has been identified, all its contributions can be reverted, which may affect all decisions made with sock's participation (if its participation significantly affected their outcome). That is just a technical job, so your emotional reaction is quite understandable but is absolutely not productive. Similarly, if some off-wiki canvassing took place, why that question was not brought to arbitrators attention? If I knew about that, I would addressed to ArbCom (if the case had important consequences). Usually, any case of off-wiki canvassing is thoroughly examined by ArbCom, and that may lead to bans or prolonged blocks. However, it is not admin's or arbitrators job to identify such cases, that is our job.
If you will allow various nationalists to expel you from the areas of your interest, Wikpedia may lose a good and intelligent contributor. Don't make a harm to Wikipedia, don't quit so easily. Please, don't give up.--Paul Siebert (talk) 18:16, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
User:Paul Siebert, thank you for your kind response. The anon IP whose contributions you see throughout the move discussion, whose evidence constituted 90% of the movers' case, and who was eventually blocked at the end, was clearly a sockpuppet. Several of us non-admins were warning the admins who would show up about the anon IP being an SPA sockpuppet and doing illegal canvassing outside Wikipedia. A case was filed on one of the admin noticeboards, but it took forever to adjudicate and no admin really pushed at it to get it moving along expeditiously. By the time that the RM was being decided all the sock's posts and evidence were still being used as the primary evidence for the move. Many of us who had been active in the past presenting evidence against the move were being shouted down regularly by the swarm of nationalists and canvassed SPA accounts as well as the anon IP who was extremely aggressive. The anon IP also had the full-throated support of a certain admin who you suggested earlier that I not call out by name. I'm simply tired of the nationalistic furor that these topics in Eastern Europe (I was also active on the whole issue of Macedonia's name) stir up and the time that I was wasting in them, sometimes fruitfully, sometimes not. I'm not leaving Wikipedia, but just retreating for now into my Western US Native American language and culture academic specialty. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 21:51, 13 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Taking into account that sockpuppetry and of-wiki canvassing is a serious violation, and keeping in mind that "Kyiv/Kiev" issue has important political implications and mayh negatively affect Wikipedia's reputation, I think these evidences should be discussed with ArbCom. If you have evidences about involvement of admins in that activity (or of an indirect support of it), that may also be discussed with ArbCom. Can you drop me the diffs? I would like to take a look at all of that.--Paul Siebert (talk) 00:52, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I looked through the last RM, and I don't think the situation is as dramatic as you describe. The canvassing issue was acknowledged, and I am not sure it had any effect, for the closing admin explicitly explained that they didn't count votes. If canvassing brought fresh arguments, that is not a big problem: it doesn't matter where strong arguments are coming from, if people are incapable of addressing them, that is their fault.
I would say, canvassing could be a problem if a closing admin said: 80 votes for Kyiv, 50 votes for Kiev, so the article will be renamed. That didn't work like that: the admin clearly explained that they find the arguments of Kyiv supporters more convincing. That is normal, and I would not see any drama in that.
The only unclear thing is the anonymous sock: who is a sockmaster, and why their posts were not removed? But that is not a big problem either: I do not find its contribution decisive.--Paul Siebert (talk) 04:29, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
User:Paul Siebert, thank you for your concern, but I just don't want to take the time to gather the diffs and make a case. The article was moved and it's not going to be moved back, despite the errors in administering the article. I don't think that the uninvolved closing admin was acting in bad faith, but the whole process was painful to watch as the anon IP ran amok. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 05:58, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Taivo, while I haven't been involved in this specific issue, I understand the situation. It's difficult and frustrating, and Wikipedia's structures don't really handle the problem well. There's simple not enough admins familiar with these issues, despite the discretionary sanctions involved. I've gone the same route before, pulling out of areas that are simply unmanageable, and even out of Wikipedia completely. It helped me. Your voice has always been useful and productive in the Eastern European spaces we've crossed paths in, but Wikipedia should feel enjoyable and productive, and it's a shame it's often not. CMD (talk) 05:07, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
User:Chipmunkdavis thank you for the kind words. Like you, I think I just need a break from anything controversial. In the articles that I'm keeping on my watchlist, I'm actually one of the world's leading authorities in the real world, so it's pretty low stress. Maybe once the batteries are recharged, I'll venture forth into the wider world again. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 05:58, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"intersperse"?
Um, maybe I'm completely unaware of how WP even works and all, but... who gave you the right to just out and delete my comments? If you consider them wrongly misplaced, maybe moving them to appropriate paragraphs would've been a more logical edit? I sincerely regard this as an action at least owning a personal apology from your part, as you've clearly disrupted a consensus I was trying to reach on that talk page. Regards, --Whydoesitfeelsogood (talk) 03:57, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Whydoesitfeelsogood:WP:TPO says "Generally, you should not break up another editor's text by interleaving your own replies to individual points. This confuses who said what and obscures the original editor's intent. In your own posts, you may wish to use the {{Talk quotation}} or {{Talkquote}} templates to quote others' posts." Your edit did this, so it got reverted. Have a nice day.-- Toddy1(talk)09:03, 18 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I would call this "protecting" the article Borscht. Weird that blocking editors for warring is allowed, but protecting articles like this doesn't bring out a warning in itself. Why protecting? Because, for starters, you did not revert my edits in Shchi, yet you aggressively revert every edit to Borscht what wipes out "Ukraine" from it. Remember, edit warring implies more than one editor, so you are right now as much "in the wrong" as I am. Cheers ;), --Whydoesitfeelsogood (talk) 16:22, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
First, I did not revert your edits in Shchi because I don't follow that article and I don't follow you around. Second, you agreed to participate in a discussion BEFORE you edited the text, an agreement that you proceeded to violate with your first edit after the agreement. Third, read WP:BRD. You clearly have not. --TaivoLinguist (Taivo) (talk) 16:46, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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I laughed so hard at these words of yours:
"I went to an entire three-day conference on linguistic pluricentrism and pluriareality last February in Münster. Here's the program. It's a serious scientific linguistic thing, not just something from the imagination."
Please, you shouldn't be surprised if other editors (such as me) start copying your fine writing skills elsewhere to make up for their lacking skills! 
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and Tunica's ISO-639-3 entry for the most recent information on the Tunica language. Plandu (talk) 18:44, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
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Done AfD now closed correctly. Hhhhhkohhhhh (talk) 12:40, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Rise of Macedon. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you. By the way, I think it's very unlikely you will get blocked. But, I do wish you would be more tolerant of people who do not share your viewpoints. MPS1992 (talk) 05:05, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
