User talk:Sinclairian

January 2024

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that in this edit to Mastanesosus, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 07:42, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

There were three infoboxes for three different kings on a one page about a single king. Why would I not remove them? Sinclairian (talk) 07:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

It was removed due to the speeches of the Republican politician Donald Trump having nothing to do logically with the nazi concept of "blood and soil". From personal research from myself, as a Latin, I can't see any correlation whatsoever and I found it adequate and tasteful to remove this part of the article to better inform people about truth. 2804:14D:90A7:445B:1358:5883:FC7C:E790 (talk) 18:21, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Reversion of redirect

Hello, I noticed your edit on the list of flags with Islamic symbolism. I didn't notice that there was another list with the same topic prior to actually getting to creating the list but i don't see a reason to make my list into a redirect of the older one considering the fact that my list actually has all of the stuff which which it doesn't, sources, quality and reliability. I think it would be a better idea to make the older list into a new redirect to my list. I did some quick research and some of the flags on this older list didn't even have any relativity to Islam at all (i.e. Singapore). For now i have reverted your edit and made the older article into a redirect instead. As for the flags which the older article mentions but i didn't, i'll get to them in a little once i find reliable sources for them. Thank you. Hjemt (talk) 18:50, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024

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Welcome

Welcome! You have made 365 edits in just 19 days! That's quite fast. Seems like you're not a stranger to Wikipedia editing, judging from your contributions. That's why I didn't use the welcome template. — Python Drink (talk) 00:33, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

Citations

Did I cite incorrectly? IncandescentBliss (talk) 21:19, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

You should try and use the actual templates, and failing that, be more explicit. Use {{cite journal}} for articles, don't just give author, title, and incomplete attribution. Get ISBNs, publishing information, etc., see if the articles have electronic hostings and then link them if they do. Run down WP:REF. Things like that. Sinclairian (talk) 21:22, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I’m new. IncandescentBliss (talk) 21:40, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Are there websites that autogenerate citations proficiently? It’s a bit of a tedious process. IncandescentBliss (talk) 22:21, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I am unaware of any, personally. Sinclairian (talk) 23:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Actually, check out WP:CITETOOL, it has a few tools that you might find useful. Sinclairian (talk) 16:40, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

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About Uzair page

How are you? I want to talk to you about the topic of Uzair page. I want you and I to agree about some edits topics that were removed from the page, such as: Two Hadiths about Uzair and the title of ''son of Allah in islam and what is the mean of Uzair son of god Hzea (talk) 18:31, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Hadiths themselves do not constitute reliable sources. What’s more, you often simply copy-paste their contents onto the page, which isn’t proper, and your English at times borders on incomprehensible. I’d recommend familiarizing yourself with the manual of style to figure out how to better format your additions.

Also, if other users have reverted your edits for violating the website’s copyright policy, please don’t just re-add the content without changing anything!! Sinclairian (talk) 15:22, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Kabbalah

Hi, @Sinclairian. Regarding the use of {{cns}} in Kabbalah, span tags like this are typically used when only a small portion of a sentence or paragraph needs citation, it's not usually used for entire paragraphs or sentences. For sentences, you can use one {{Citation needed}} at the end. For an entire section, you can use a single {{Citations needed|section}} at the top of a section, without applying {{Citation needed}} after every sentence. For an entire article, just one {{Citations needed}} at the top is fine. You can see Wikipedia:Tagging pages for problems for more information. Thanks. – Primium (talk) 22:33, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Did you delete all of my edits?

I’m confused. I’m primarily just summarizing historicity sections and occasionally adding recent scholarship. For example, in the Adam and Eve page, every article is supposed to have its sections summarized in the lead. You deleted my summary of an important section. If it’s not relevant, delete the section too. But you’re just deleting my edits. Please work for compromises rather than deleting my hard work. I have a degree in the Hebrew Bible and am willingly giving my time to help out around here! All the best! IncandescentBliss (talk) 00:47, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Cuneiform and Anatolian hieroglyph entries

Hello. I've had to revert several of your edits relating to the transcription of Hieroglyphic Luwian and Neo-Assyrian Akkadian written in cuneiform because you replaced the reconstruction of several terms and names by linguists with the strict modern transliterations of the signs.

Please make yourself familiar with the transcription and reconstruction of Akkadian and Luwian in the cuneiform and hieroglyphic scripts instead of engaging in such disruptive edits again. Antiquistik (talk) 16:44, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Noted. Can you recommend any learning resources that might assist me in such an endeavor? Sinclairian (talk) 15:23, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

For Luwian, the Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions (volumes 1, 2 and 3 are available via the Wikipedia Library) as well as the Annotated Corpus of Luwian Texts and the Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Ancient Anatolian Corpus Languages are good places to begin.

For Akkadian, the The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a good place to start, although you would also need to cross-reference from multiple sources by linguists and historians (such as the Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, also available via the Wikipedia Library) in the case of proper nouns such as anthroponyms and toponyms. Antiquistik (talk) 21:53, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Much thanks for clearing up some confusion

I thank you for clearing several confusions regarding interpretation, including the qoph/ṣirar (brought up by someone else) and ayn/pay (brought up by myself) problems. INFIYNJTE (talk) 18:21, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Also, apologies if I bothered you with the lack of consistency regarding the n/a template.

I focus mainly on putting the glyphs and connections and rely on the help of others for the formatting. After all, this is a collaboration. INFIYNJTE (talk) 19:00, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

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Hebrew romanisation

Hi there! I reverted your edit because it is not, in fact, the standard romanisation of Biblical Hebrew. Standard manuals are available such as Geoffrey Khan's work on Tiberian Hebrew, which is the standard for Biblical Hebrew. Ogress 15:42, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Your romanization standard is in direct contravention of both the accepted phonological standards for Biblical Hebrew (as was explained to you here) and the accepted MOS for Hebrew transliteration. This is plainly visible in the vast majority of transliterated Hebrew names found across the site. Sinclairian (talk) 15:48, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

These pages do not say what you claim: "Generally a long hireq is indicated by hireq-yodh". You mark all i as long. Please do not post incorrect information; I find your response deeply suspect. Ogress 15:56, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Again, this is not true. I recommend you read free guides, and also stop making claims that WP standards support your claims when they specifically do not. Ogress 15:56, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Khan's method is not the system Wikipedia employs. His model is only recently elucidated and not even wholly original – not to mention Tiberian Hebrew is not the same as Biblical Hebrew. You, on the other hand, as fairly clearly exemplified by your continued insistence on Ḥizqiyyāh and Yəḥizqiyāh, do not even account for basic Hebrew syntax. Again, clarify the system with which Wikipedia uses for transliteration. Sinclairian (talk) 16:00, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Is your suggestion then to invent a new system rather than use Tiberian, which is employed by every liturgical work in Hebrew? Khan's work is merely a recent example of work done on Biblical Hebrew and is a free resource. As for your comment about mappiq, חִזְקִיָּהוּ appears alongside the form without final h, indicating a final h is likely correct here despite the text. The form Yah is standard; yā is a deeply irregular romanisation. Ogress 16:12, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

The MOS naming conventions are not a manual for technical transliteration, which are always in addition to, not instead of, its recommended English spellings. So the use of diacritical marks, etc. are consistently used in this context, despite being banned by WP:HE for the use-cases to which it applies.

As you both seem to claim justification in my comments on Lilith, let me weigh in to say that in this case I believe that Ogress is correct about the vowels. Both hireqs in "Hezekiah" are short, unlike the hireqs in "Lilith", which are long. The reason for this is that neither is followed by a yodh-vowel (the only yodh is a consonant).

In the discussion on Lilith I recommended the recordings produced by Jeremy Wieder, which are more accessible than the underlying syntax. Specifically, Hezekiah is mentioned in the opening verse of Isaiah, so his recording of the "Haftarah to Devarim" includes "Hezekiah" correctly pronounced in its opening seconds. This recording may be obtained through his "Haftarah: VaYavinu BaMikra" app or his "Leining Master" CDs. I also have the recording as an mp3 if you want me to send it to you directly.

I also recommend Charles Loder's transliteration tool (link). I don't know exactly what his process was but I've used it for years and the output is almost always what I'd want. You can see that it correctly distinguishes between the hireqs in outputs yǝḥizqiyyāhû and lîlît.

I haven't mentioned the final-he dispute because I don't really have anything to offer, sorry. In my own transliterations I do include it. GordonGlottal (talk) 19:34, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

There's also https://www.alittlehebrew.com/transliterate/ , which provides a variety of outputs depending on your needs. Ogress 02:11, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Biblical Hebrew, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. MOS:HE does not state what you claim. Ogress 15:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)