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Ideas for vital articles (10'000)

Hello fellow vital project member, I had many ideas for additions to the vital 10'000 whilst away and busy. But thought I would ask others opinions of the almost 100 articles that came into my mind before flooding the project talk page with them. If you have time let me know which articles you like and which you dislike, I am still looking for removals as well by the way. (I listed my ideas on my own talk page, here). Carlwev (talk) 20:26, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

I added Miriam Makeba under "Folk and popular music", but not under "non-English language singers." Please feel free to correct this if I'm mistaken. Cobblet (talk) 01:53, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

I am impressed that went through. Where she is located is of minor importance.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 14:23, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

mathsci

Currently under full site ban: Misplaced Pages talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Race and intelligence#Request for clarification (October 2013) NE Ent 23:27, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

I know.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 14:07, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Monomyth category

Hi! I've started a discussion on the monomyth category on this talk page. Let's continue there. --Devadatta (talk) 17:02, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Great idea.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 17:24, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

And I've taken him to ANI because he is mass removing it from articles without discussion. See for instance The Oxford Companion to World Mythology which doesn't mention Campbell. He isn't actually looking to see if the articles are discussed in terms of monomyths by reliable sources, he's just reverting. Dougweller (talk) 19:23, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

You're invited: Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March

Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March - You are invited!

New England Wikimedians is excited to announce a series of Misplaced Pages edit-a-thons that will be taking place at colleges and universities throughout Massachusetts as part of Wikiwomen's History Month from March 1 - March 31. We encourage you to join in an edit-a-thon near you, or to participate remotely if you are unable to attend in person (for the full list of articles, click here). Events are currently planned for the cities/towns of Boston, Northampton, South Hadley, and Cambridge. Further information on dates and locations can be found on our user group page. Questions? Contact Girona7 (talk)

"Subtiaba-Maribo"

Hi Maunus,

Do you know anything of Maribo/Maribichicoa/Guatajiguala? Sapir thought it might have been Subtiaba, or perhaps closest to Subtiaba, and Campbell apparently questioned that, but I can't find any details. — kwami (talk) 04:12, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Not off the top of my head. I'll take a look when I have a moment.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 01:18, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For hard work and high quality. bobrayner (talk) 23:54, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! I don't know where our paths have crossed exactly, but happy you liked my work.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 17:55, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Template:Wtf? listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Wtf?. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Wtf? redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Codename Lisa (talk) 17:53, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Mixtec

Hi,

Not claiming it's the native name, or even a native name, but I've seen "Ñudzahui" in the lit as a synonym for Mixtec, sometimes without explaining that's what it means. Sure, it's used in the sense of "the language of the Ñudzahui", but it still might be something people need to ID. AFAIK, none of the names you provided are used as an English name for Mixtec, or for the complex as a whole. — kwami (talk) 05:11, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

ñu means people, tu'un means language, dzavui means rain (not sure in which variety). So Ñudzahui refers to the people of the rain, and tu'un dzavui to the language of the rain. It is of course likely that someone somewhere in the literature made the simple translation mistake of using the word for the people also for the language given that in Spanish and English they are the same. That doesnt mean we need to repeat that mistake. Much less in the infobox. The nomenclature is discussed in the section about that and Ñudzahui is not mentioned. Yavidaxiu whose edit you undid, is coincidentally a native speaker. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 12:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

It is mentioned as the name (yes, of the people) in the naming section as "Classical Mixtec", which basically just means colonial sources, though as usual in English, the name of the people can be used for the language. Good to have native speakers here. I'm doubtful listing dozens of local variants of the endonym does much for the article. Certainly good to have them in the individual Mixtec-language articles, though. — kwami (talk) 20:08, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

The mention of Classical mixtec says does not say that ñu dzavui means Mixtec language, but that tuun ñu dzavui does, i.e. "language of the mixtec people". It makes no sense to say that "I speak Englishmen" or that "I speak German people" in English. It does make sense to say I speak mixtec, but that is opnly because it is borroed from the Spanish which uses Mixteco as an adjective, though the original Nahuatl also referred only to the people.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 21:26, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Ken Ham

Thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. Sorry if "wordiness" rubbed you the wrong way. Your proposed language was good, clear, readable prose. I meant no offense. I am an advocate of a highly concise summary in the lead. I disagree with your characterization "slogans". These are personal differences in editorial style and opinion and I am more than open to compromise. I think you are making a valuable and balanced contribution to the discussion and sincerely hope you continue to participate. I would like to see some of the content you are suggesting for the lead in the body with some expansion and sources. I will look for the sources and if you are interested I can post what sources I find here (I'll likely post them to the talk page anyway). I am more of a red pencil editor and researcher than a writer so if I find material that you could adapt to prose I think it would benefit the article. Best wishes. - - MrBill3 (talk) 16:49, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

No worries, and of course characterizing the pithy prose strategy as writing in slogans was also hyperbole on my part. I do think it reads very bad when skeptical type editors insist on appending "which is considered pseudoscience" or "which has no basis in modern science" to every sentence that mentions one of their pet peeves. It makes for poor prose and can be avoided by simply describing belief as belief, fringe theory as fringe theory and science as science. I think wikipedia would do good to maintain a view of science and religion as non-overlapping magisteria. Ham's business is in the latter of course.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 16:57, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

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Please clarify your way of approaching this revert?

I see that you have deleted my previous request for comment on repeatedly reverting my edit here on your talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=User_talk%3AMaunus&diff=603489665&oldid=603489081

And I see that you have reverted one more of my edit on another article, when I noticed I have stopped. I would want to understand your concern before making similar edits.

This time, here is my edit summary: Indian independence movement: The citation has no validity as "internal Congress report published in 1947" and it does not mention the content on page 135. Please reinstate with valid reference only.

When you reverted you gave this edit summary: Undid revision 603493570 by Jyoti.mickey (talk) reinstating, please dont remove referenced content in this aggressive way, if you must then add a citation request tag.

My questions is when I have provided in the summary "The citation has no validity as "internal Congress report published in 1947" and it does not mention the content on page 135." then why should I leave it around with citation needed tag? That book is definitely not a "internal Congress report published in 1947" and the content was not available in referenced place so I considered removing it. Can you please clarify your viewpoint? Jyoti (talk) 20:26, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Please conduct further discussions at the talkpages of the articles in question. Whether or not the book that is cited IS the report is irrelevant since it may very well mention the report. I am currently investigating that, but you leave me little time with your aggressive removal fo anything you can find an excuse for removing. You clearly do not check the books to verify the citations, or look very far for other ones so I have to do that now and reinstated the citeable material you have removed.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 20:31, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

I already said "when I noticed I have stopped.". I take objection to your wild accusation "You clearly do not check the books to verify the citations" -- I did. I will wait for you to cross-check. Jyoti (talk) 20:53, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Your good edit at president page.

Hi Maunus; Your recent good edit for subsection title refinement at the Obama page was brought to question about neutrality. The new title looked usable and possibly you could look at the Talk page there and leave a drop-in comment. Perhaps you could glance at this. FelixRosch (talk) 15:47, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

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Notice of RfC and request for participation

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WWII infobox

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Spørgsmål

Er du Dansker? Jonas Vinther (talk) 18:24, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Ja.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 18:26, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Ban

You proposed a ban w/o providing any evidence. Would you provide some page links so we know what you're talking about? — kwami (talk) 19:06, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

The evidence is there for everyone to see in your edit history, and in your long history of of disputes and grievances over undiscussed controversial moves. I am sorry about this, you know I respect you as an editor and linguist, but it is just getting too ridiculous what you and Skookum are fueling. You also know that I generally agree with you in relation to move requests, but move warring is disruptive for everyone, and helps noone. Ideally you would both simply agree not to move any articles but to file move requests and then let admins do the moves - but somehow I dont think such a mutual agreement is likely to happen. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 00:48, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

There was Halkomelem, where I contributed *one* move in a move war. At least recently, where else is there? I would appreciate it if you specified what you're talking about.

I've also been trying to get people involved. If people agreed on the changes that Skookum wants, fine, I just don't think we should move ≈5,000 articles without some actual consensus. — kwami (talk) 01:38, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Please answer. You say I've been move warring in Native American language articles. In the past month, I've done that once. You've never complained on my talk page, you've never emailed me saying I need to cut it out, nothing. If you're going to call for a ban, the least you can do is present the evidence. — kwami (talk) 01:32, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

I really would like an answer. Not something from two years ago, since I stopped those moves when people got irritated, but something relevant to today. — kwami (talk) 08:02, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

You are right you have only moved warred once in this month on the Halkomelem article. Skookum has been doing it more recently, and you more in the past. Given the circumstances I couldnt ask for just one of you to be sanctioned. I hope you understand.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 03:48, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

I don't. Responses should be proportional. — kwami (talk) 04:47, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

It doesnt seem likely that there will be any response.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 12:47, 15 May 2014 (UTC)