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			== Twentieth anniversary on Misplaced Pages!! ==
	Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti’s body has not yet been recovered yet, you can check any media source, so how can you say hes dead? Please, unblock spinster678 and neville123.
	Nawab Bugti is not JIMMY HOFFA, remember that. When his dead body is found, whosoever wishes can pronounce him dead on wikpedia. In the meanwhile, please unblock these two users, its quite frustrating really since they’re family members of Nawab Bugti while all these other idiots are people who have nothing to do with Pakistan, let alone Nawab Bugti. Thankyou!
	:This has nothing to do with whether the man is alive or not. The images have been deleted from Misplaced Pages because they have no source information allowing users to verify that they are ]. I will unblock the users if I can be assured they will not continue to upload problematic images. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]).</small> 15:06, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
	::I know you probably don't care, Angr, but they today. —<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">]</span> 05:23, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

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	I have nominated ] for ] again. The discussion can be found ]. Since you were involved in the previous VfD, I'm sure you could contribute important points to the debate and I invite you to become involved and vote. ] 03:00, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

			== American English transcriptions ==
	==Copyright upload help==
	Hi Angr, I have come across your edits on more than a couple of occasions, and you appear to be familiar with image copyright tags etc. Well, I have got permission from artist ] secretary to use "Sons of Erin", only on Misplaced Pages, from website .
	They have sent me a higher resolution image for that purpose which I have now on my computer. If you could help me on this, with proper tags ect, that would be most helpful. Thanks. ] 16:46, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

			Hi, there! As someone knowledgeable in IPA and Misplaced Pages IPA conventions, perhaps you'd be interesting in contributing to this talk page discussion: ]. ] (]) 16:59, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
	:Thanks for the advice. I see other images on WP have a "copyright notice" attached to their upload info page. How can they still retain copyright and not others? ] 17:08, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

			== Irish dialect sources? ==
	::If the said image was a low resolution <<Promotional>> image by the artist. Then would it be OK to use it on ] page? And, will copyright still be held by the artist etc? Thanks! ] 16:00, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

			Hi there! I've just been reading your amazing work on the ] page, and have noticed you've cited many different descriptive works for the various dialects. I'm currently working on some materials from the Doegen recordings and there's a handful of dialectic descriptions I haven't yet been able to lay hands on (I have a bunch already, but can't afford to buy any more and don't have institutional library access). I was wondering if you happen to have digital copies of any monographic dialect descriptions? In particular, I'm looking for any of the following studies:
	==Request for admin attention==
	I'm requesting some Misplaced Pages administrators to communicate with a user, Aeusoes1, who is causing some problems for the ] article. Please look at the article's talk page, section "Edits by AEuSoes1", especially "Edit 3". If it's appropriate, in your opinion, please consider a temporary block for that user. Otherwise, perhaps you can reason with him. Thanks. ] 16:42, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

			* de Burca 1958 (Tourmakeady)
	== ] ==
			* Lucas 1979 (Ros Goill)
	This stuff was undeleted... --] 08:14, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
			* Mhac an Fhailigh 1968 (Erris)
			* Breatnach 1947 (Ring)
			* Sommerfelt 1929 (South Armagh)
			* Stockman 1974 (Achill Island)
			* Hamilton 1974 (Tory Island)

			If you have any of these materials, I'll gladly provide my contact details (unfortunately I've forgotten my Wiki login details, so in the interim I'll try to dig out my login, or will set up a new account if I can't). Thanks very much in advance! ] (]) 09:18, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
	==Request for Admin attention==
	Sir: I'm referring to ] which an IP editor keeps changing. I'd like my to stand, for reasons that I've enumerated in the IP editor's talk and on the ] (where I received ]'s support). If you'd like me to restate my reasons, I can do that. However, what I don't want is a long revert war. Do you think semi-protection might be justified? ] 16:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

			:Sorry, I don't have digital copies of any of those, only paper. You could check whether any of them has been added to archive.org, though I wouldn't hold my breath. —] · ] 09:23, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
	== re: ==Worldwide View== on Talk:International Phonetic Alphabet by ] 05:07, 26 August 2006 (UTC) ==
			::All good, I just thought I'd ask. I've been able to lay hands on a number of dialect sources (I have copies of the monographs on Iorras Aithneach, Cois Fhairrge, Aran Islands, Rathlin, Dingle, Tangaveane-Commeen, Meenawannia, West Muskerry, and also a digital copy of Stockman and Wagner on the Irish of Tyrone), I'm just trying to expand to as many sources as possible so I can establish isoglosses using additional material beyond what's included in LASID. Thanks anyway! ] (]) 14:32, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
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	Was the image removed by the time you removed the tag?] 10:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

			You sure answered that as far as it could be answered. I didn't feel motivated to even try... ] (]) 21:15, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
	:No. I about twelve hours before I . ] 10:30, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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	:I've already asked the original uploader, ], for source information. --] 00:34, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
			Thanks for the essays and elephants. That is all.

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			== Power abuse on Wiktionary ==
	Four ]. Know that you are appreciated. ] 17:24, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

			Hello Mahagaja, and happy new year. I might have given you a heart attack with the title, but it's not about you :)
	== Happy Admin Promotion Anniversary! ==

			Yet again have I been blocked by the same admin (Fenakhay) who is ''extremely'' possessive on Arabic and Maltese entries. All I did was - I invite you to judge whether it is vandalism.
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	Greetings on your Admin Promotion Anniversary! --] 15:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

			My 2600+ voluntary edits have been awarded with being blocked for 1 year, cannot edit my talk page, cannot email anyone. I've only had negative interactions with this admin, who has a long record of unsubstantiated reverts and other tyranny - which is why I guess he needs to constantly delete his talk page which is clogged with complaints. (Use Internet archive if you wish)
	== Memories of the AUM scare ==
	For about a week in mid January 2006, you edited some articles (e.g. , , ) to remove calls of the "book reference" template, citing a then proposed (and later rejected) policy "WP:AUM". I'm not calling anybody a troll, I believe everybody acted in good faith. But in retrospect the entire incident sounds like a medieval witch hunt, or perhaps the parody of it in '']''. This time I guess it all ended with on January 21. But on January 6, that "Netoholic is certainly right that we have to avoid meta-templates". I don't know if I have found all parts of this discussion. It's not easy to dig up history about Misplaced Pages. Have you tried to summarize these events? How much can you recall? Do you keep a diary about your WP life? (I must admit I don't, and I regret that.) Have you got any idea if more people were involved in removing book reference template calls, and how many articles could have been touched by this? When trying to analyze the monthly dumps, the template calls mean I can find data and know what they mean, but the substituted plain text is opaque. So not only did you waste your time doing these edits, but you also reduced the value of the articles. Book reference has since been replaced by the template "cite book", currently used in 36,300 articles, and the entire syntax for conditionals has been introduced. --] 22:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
	:I'm aware of all that. I use {{tl\|cite book}} myself now regularly. When I wrote "Netoholic is certainly right that we have to avoid meta-templates", ] was marked as being policy, so I was doing my bit to implement it. I don't know who else might have been removing the old book reference template, nor do I know now what articles I removed it from, though you could certainly dig through my contributions from about that time if you really want to find out. It wasn't systematic: if I was reading an article and noticed the book reference template in it, I usually removed it, but I didn't make any especial effort to try to find them all and remove them. ] 06:58, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

			The gist of my message is: Do you think I am being treated fairly? ] (]) 18:39, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
	== Sorry to bother u ==
	But you gotta go down to the ] article fast! They are vandalizing the shit out of it! Please bro, you gotta lock it up.] 01:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

			:FYI, the question of a Punic substrate in Maghrebi Arabic is not even that fringe, you can send our friend for example. ] (]) 14:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
	== Mast Destoryed... Again! ==
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	We note from the history of Peterborough that the picture of one of it's prominent landmarks, the Morborne radio mast, has been removed. Why?? 22:59, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
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	:Probably it didn't have a source or licensing information, or it was suspected of being a copyright violation. If you tell me what the file name was, I can look into it. ] 07:12, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
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			== Invitation to participate in a research ==
	Where are you getting your Unicode information from? It doesn't match that shown on the Unicode website. E.g. you changed ] to say that its capital is at U+0245, but says U+0245 is capital ]. --] 12:17, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
	:Oh crap, it looks like they changed it or made a mistake earlier or something. I have an earlier version where there is no small letter glottal stop, but U+242 is capital B with a stroke, and that whole column from capital B with a stroke down to lowercase Y with a stroke is one position earlier. And the fonts I have installed on my computer (AbRomanSerif and Aboriginal Sans) have that encoding too, so the changes I made look right on my computer. Have I screwed everything up for people with more up-to-date fonts? ] 12:57, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
	::Are you making sure that your source materials are formally approved standards? We do change things during the ballot period. <span class="internal" title="View my user page" style="white-space: nowrap;">-- ]·]</span> 18:17, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
	:::Well, it all came from http://www.unicode.org/, so I thought so. But it doesn't match up with the link Ptcamn supplied above, and neither do the two fonts I have that include characters between U+0242 and U+024F, AbRomanSerif and Aboriginal Sans. In both of those fonts, U+0242 is capital B with a stroke, U+024E is lowercase y with a stroke, and U+024F is empty. And since those are the only fonts I have installed, that's how they appear for me: &#x242; is ɂ, which for me looks like capital B with a stroke, but is supposed to be a lowercase glottal stop, while &#x24e; is Ɏ, which for me looks like a lowercase y with a stroke, but is supposed to be the capital. Very annoying, especially since there are so very few fonts that have this series of characters to begin with. Do ''you'' know of a free font that has them correctly encoded? (I'm sorry, I know you sell fonts for a living, but my soul is repulsed by the idea of spending money on fonts.) ] 19:11, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
	::::The latest version of AbRomanSerif has them in the right places. --] 19:16, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
	:::::You're right, it does; so does Aboriginal Sans. And now the characters look like they're supposed to, so I'll go back and try to repair the damage I've done (oy vey)! ] 19:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

	I've found another set of errors in AbRoman Serif and Aboriginal Sans, and these are still there in the current version. According to Unicode 5.0, U+2C65 through U+2C6C are supposed to be, in order: small letter a with stroke, small letter t with diagonal stroke, capital letter H with descender, small letter h with descender, capital letter K with descender, small letter k with descender, capital letter Z with descender, and small letter z with descender. Instead, in these fonts, the small a and t with strokes come at the end of this series instead of the beginning of it. ] 20:04, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

	== Consensus or Keep? ==

	Could you look at and rule as to what the text should in these boxes? Ta. <span class="internal" title="View my user page" style="white-space: nowrap;">-- ]·]</span> 17:58, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
	:It's probably not so important, but I suppose "Keep" might have encouraged a third one. Ah well. <span class="internal" title="View my user page" style="white-space: nowrap;">-- ]·]</span> 17:41, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

	==Two minor Irish questions==
	Hi, Angr! It's been a while since I bugged you, hasn't it? :) I have just two really minor questions this time. If you could answer them whenever you have a spare minute, I'd be very grateful.
	#How is ''abhaile'' pronounced? According to ], it's supposed to be {{IPA\|/'aulʲə/}}, but what I hear is more like {{IPA\|/ə'walʲə/}} (which kind of makes sense, when you think that ''abhaile'' is a form of ''baile''). Still, which is right (standard)?
	#:I say , if that helps. <span class="internal" title="View my user page" style="white-space: nowrap;">-- ]·]</span> 21:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
	#In sentences ''Bheinn ansin'' (I would be there) and ''Bhínn ansin'' (I used to be there), is ''bheinn'' pronounced exactly the same as ''bhínn''? That is my impression based on the pronunciation guidelines. If they ''are'' pronounced the same, how would I know if the speaker means "would be" or "used to be"? If they are not, what is the difference?
	#:I say and , if that helps. <span class="internal" title="View my user page" style="white-space: nowrap;">-- ]·]</span> 21:33, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
	Thank you!--] 20:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
	:Thanks for the tips, Evertype! Whether it helps or not depends on which dialect of Irish you are speaking. In order not to get confused to death, I stick with Caighdeán/Connacht (I may move on to incorporating other dialects in a few years). Which part of Ireland are you from?--] 21:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
	::I agree with Evertype's answers. ''abhaile'' is indeed basically "a-bhaile", it belongs to the class of Irish adverbs that begin with unstressed . And ''bheinn'' is an exception to the rule that ''ei'' is usually pronounced ''i'' before nasals; as we talked about last time, these forms of "tá" like to play by their own rules. ] 06:29, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
	:::Darn, I knew I should have asked you about ''all'' forms of ''tá'' just in case! Anyway, I see that Evertype indicated above that he pronounces ''bhínn'' as {{IPA\|/vi:ɲ/}}. What is that {{IPA\|/ɲ/}} sound? Is it the same as {{IPA\|/nʲ/}}, {{IPA\|/ŋʲ/}}, or something completely different (sort of like {{IPA\|/ɲ/}} in French ''ga<u>gn</u>er'', maybe)? I don't see this particular symbol anywhere else in the ] article. And speaking of Irish orthography, I see that you a couple exceptions for the ''ea'' and ''eo'' combinations (which was very helpful to me, by the way). Two questions about that: are ''(an)seo'' and ''seomra'' not qualifying exceptions as well? Is the {{IPA\|/o/}} sound in ''beag'' really {{IPA\|/o/}}? On the tapes I listen to (with one of them, however, being Munster-based), it kind of sounds like {{IPA\|/o/}}, but it's not really the same {{IPA\|/o/}} as in other words. Am I just being too concious about such minor details, or am I just listening to the wrong tapes?
	:::Finally, are there other (common) adverbs structured in the same way as ''abhaile''?
	:::As usual, there is no end to my gratitude for your invaluable help. If it weren't for you patiently answering my questions, I would have probably put my Irish studies to end soon after I started. With your help, it will be my first anniversary next week, ''and'' I am excited to report that I find myself understanding 40-60% of content of unabridged Irish texts (such as the ''Lá'' articles or articles in Irish Misplaced Pages), or 70-80% with a dictionary (although I'm not having that much success on the speaking front, nor is it easy for me to write in Irish myself yet). Thanks again!--] 15:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
	::::{{IPA\|/ɲ/}} is basically like in French ''ga'''gn'''er''. It's used in northerly dialects (Mayo (where Evertype lives) and Donegal) as the "tense" equivalent of {{IPA\|/nʲ/}}. ''Seomra'' has a long vowel AFAIK, but you're right that ''(an)seo'' is another exception; I forgot it before. The vowel of ''beag'' is certainly phonemically /o/ in most accents (though in Donegal it sure sounded more like /e/ to me), but phonetically it's probably rather fronted because of following a palatalized consonant. Keep in mind that the color (backness vs. frontness) of short vowels in Irish is almost entirely determined by the quality of the surrounding consonants. If when pronouncing ''beag'' you're careful to make the ''b'' properly palatalized and the ''g'' good and back, just get the height of the vowel right (mid, not high or low), and the color will almost take care of itself. There's a whole slew of adverbs starting with an unstressed : besides ''abhaile'', there's ''abhus'', ''anseo'', ''ansin'', ''ansiúd'', ''anall'', ''anonn'', ''aduaidh'', ''aneas'', ''anoir'', ''aniar'', ''anuas'', ''aníos'', ''inné'', ''inniu'', ''anocht'', ''amárach'', ''anuraidh'', ''arís'', ''arú'', ''amach'', ''amuigh'', ''isteach'', ''istigh'', and probably several more I'm not thinking of right now. Are you active at ] at all? ] 15:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
	:::::The reason why I thought ''seomra'' is supposed to be pronounced with short {{IPA\|/o/}} is because it is (kind of) a recommendation of the Irish People lessons (namely , but they do mention it's only true "in parts of Ireland").
	:::::I'll have to study more about the color/height concepts—I've never seen sounds explained in those terms—and it looks like they may be quite useful in my studies.
	:::::Also, thanks for the extensive list of the {{IPA\|/ə/}}-adverbs. While I knew most of them, I didn't know them all, knew a couple of them wrong, and never thought of putting ''abhaile'' in the same row.
	:::::As for the ga:, no, I'm not really active, although ]. I'm planning to increase my participation there as my Irish progresses, but that probably won't be for another year or so. For now, I'm just using the articles as study materials, tracking a few discussions, and adding interwikis when I see that an article I am reading lacks them. Nothing too grandiose :)--] 16:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
	::::::Vowels have always been described in terms of ], ], and ]. (Use of the term "color" for "frontness/backness" isn't very common, but it's very convenient, and I like to promulgate it where I can.) ] 16:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
	:::::::You are right, of course. "Color" is what threw me off; I was aware of the height, frontness/backness, and roundedness concepts.
	:::::::By the way, I forgot to ask you this. Evertype gave pronunciations of ''bheinn'' and ''bhínn'' as {{IPA\|/vejŋ/}} and {{IPA\|/vi:ɲ/}}. I am sure it was a simple oversight on his part, but just to make sure--all consonants in these two words are supposed to be palatalized, aren't they?--] 19:39, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
	::::::::Yes. In fact, before front vowels like that, it would be difficult ''not'' to palatalize the /v/ sounds. ] 04:56, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hi, there! As someone knowledgeable in IPA and Misplaced Pages IPA conventions, perhaps you'd be interesting in contributing to this talk page discussion: Talk:American_English#Consistency of IPA phonemes for American English dialect pages. Wolfdog (talk) 16:59, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

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Hi there! I've just been reading your amazing work on the Irish phonology page, and have noticed you've cited many different descriptive works for the various dialects. I'm currently working on some materials from the Doegen recordings and there's a handful of dialectic descriptions I haven't yet been able to lay hands on (I have a bunch already, but can't afford to buy any more and don't have institutional library access). I was wondering if you happen to have digital copies of any monographic dialect descriptions? In particular, I'm looking for any of the following studies:

de Burca 1958 (Tourmakeady)
Lucas 1979 (Ros Goill)
Mhac an Fhailigh 1968 (Erris)
Breatnach 1947 (Ring)
Sommerfelt 1929 (South Armagh)
Stockman 1974 (Achill Island)
Hamilton 1974 (Tory Island)

If you have any of these materials, I'll gladly provide my contact details (unfortunately I've forgotten my Wiki login details, so in the interim I'll try to dig out my login, or will set up a new account if I can't). Thanks very much in advance! 58.179.70.149 (talk) 09:18, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't have digital copies of any of those, only paper. You could check whether any of them has been added to archive.org, though I wouldn't hold my breath. —Mahāgaja · talk 09:23, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

All good, I just thought I'd ask. I've been able to lay hands on a number of dialect sources (I have copies of the monographs on Iorras Aithneach, Cois Fhairrge, Aran Islands, Rathlin, Dingle, Tangaveane-Commeen, Meenawannia, West Muskerry, and also a digital copy of Stockman and Wagner on the Irish of Tyrone), I'm just trying to expand to as many sources as possible so I can establish isoglosses using additional material beyond what's included in LASID. Thanks anyway! 58.179.70.149 (talk) 14:32, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

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Hello Mahagaja, and happy new year. I might have given you a heart attack with the title, but it's not about you :)

Yet again have I been blocked by the same admin (Fenakhay) who is extremely possessive on Arabic and Maltese entries. All I did was this edit - I invite you to judge whether it is vandalism.

My 2600+ voluntary edits have been awarded with being blocked for 1 year, cannot edit my talk page, cannot email anyone. I've only had negative interactions with this admin, who has a long record of unsubstantiated reverts and other tyranny - which is why I guess he needs to constantly delete his talk page which is clogged with complaints. (Use Internet archive if you wish)

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