Maunus

A Wikibreak? Cold turkey?? I get back from my summer break and here you go running off somewheres without us. Well, be back soon. Madman (talk) 01:44, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

References

Hi! Hope you'll be back soon. I nominated Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos at WP:FAC. One of the comments requests that page numbers be added to ref. "Lippy, Charles H, Robert Choquette and Stafford Poole (1992). Christianity comes to the Americas: 1492 - 1776", which you added to the article. Unfortunately I don't have access to this book, so I cannot add them myself. Possibly also references 30 and 32 which are from the same book and have identical page numbers, should be combined in one. If you let me know the page number, I could add it to the article. bamse (talk) 16:11, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

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Welcome back

It's nice to see you back in action again. (I found that you were back just by chance; I'm not stalking your contribs or anything.) I hope you feel more comfortable now with whatever issues caused you to leave in September. -- Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 16:32, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Soap, I appreciate it. It was just a general wikipedia overdose. I'll be taking it easy for awhile, but I'm rady to start editing again.·Maunus·ƛ· 01:00, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikibreak

Hi Maunus! Your page popped up on my watchlist, so I wanted to let you know that I'm happy to see you return. Hope you had a relaxing and productive wikibreak! Good to see you back here. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 02:57, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Just stumbled across this. I'm so sorry I made so many mistakes. Will be taking a wikibreak myself now. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 22:31, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Please don't pay him any mind. He is just a troll in my opinion. He doesn't know half as much as he thinks he does and he constantly commits the same mistakes that he accuses others - he just camouflages them behind that smug selfrighteousness. You are a good copyeditor and I will be happy to work with you on any article.·Maunus·ƛ· 05:57, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the perspective! Troll is the correct definition; and it's best to ignore trolls. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 22:01, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Request for Assistance

I am inviting members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion/New religious movements work group in on the discussion of Move/name change/notability/merge discussion on New England Institute of Religious Research Currently PelleSmith (talk · contribs) and Weaponbb7 (talk · contribs) seem to have reached a roadblock in discourse with Cirt (talk · contribs). Any help would be appreciated! Weaponbb7 (talk) 23:15, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I searched Melton and turned up nothing

Maunus, you may wish to change your mind once again. I looked through every edition of Melton and turned up nothing about the New England Institute of Religious Research. I have left notes on John Carter's talk page as well as the entry. I can't say for sure that no mention whatsoever exists in the book as it is quite long, but all the entries are definitely indexed and no index of any addition turns up anything. Regards.PelleSmith (talk) 00:51, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I'll wait and see what John Carter responds - maybe he meant another encyclopedia. If it doesn't have an entry in any then I'll of course change my opinion back.·Maunus·ƛ· 10:32, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Language

Hello there Maunus. I see like me you enjoy cleaning up linguistics articles. I don't mind your reversion at all; I can't say as mine was much better. Actually this is the first reversion I have had on this article. I didn't expect to conduct a cleanup without some flak. I'm sure you well undertand what I mean. The things I am looking at on these articles, which they seem to have in common, are the references, the formatting, the quality of the English, the illustrations, the organization and all those details that make a good article. I'm only interested in content where the current content is unsupported, wrong, or oversimplified. So, whatever you said before I finish is likely to be said after. This one was noteworthy to me because the referencing appears to be unfinished. There's a lot of those. So, that is what I am doing here. When we can get a modicum of linguistics articles that are reasonably complete and might be good if evaluated I will move on. You probably aren't going to need your one-revert rule. I'm looking mainly for improvement. If I can't improve it, there is no point on my being on it. If you notice something that is not an improvement, go ahead and revert. I shall presume quality is your prime concern, or you would not work on corrections. By the way, Merry Christmas! Ciao.Dave (talk) 17:30, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry christmas to you too! And yes I am very happy that you are taking an interest in these articles that I agree are not in a wikipedia worthy condition. I am also sure that the wording of the "connection between language and culture" phrase can be better I just didn't think the addition of "specific" and plural made it better in this case, but rather that it gave a false sense of precision. Lets keep working on it! ·Maunus·ƛ· 18:39, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Middle East

Maunus, there's a guy edit warring at Middle East. I changed the relationship of Turkish to Turkic from "Altaic" and noted that Altaic is not a widely accepted term. He keeps reverting back to Altaic even though he's not a linguist and doesn't know what he's talking about. I need some support there. (Taivo (talk) 20:17, 26 December 2009 (UTC))

Thanks for chipping in :) I always love it when someone writes, "Well, I have 15 PhDs". Reminds me of the, "Well, my dad can beat up your dad" exchanges in grade school. (Taivo (talk) 15:06, 27 December 2009 (UTC))

Yeah, not much substance in that argument. That's why I usually avoid mentioning my academic credentials (which aren't that great anyway I don't even have one Phd yet) when I am in an argument with other editors, it usually just comes of as arrogant and ticks people off more. ·Maunus·ƛ· 16:07, 27 December 2009 (UTC)

Sources on Lakota language

Thank you for rating the page Lakota language. In your edit summary you mention "insufficient sourcing". Do you mean the number of sources, or their quality, or some combination of both factors? (By the way, it might be handy to have your response at either Talk:Lakota language or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages. I'll watch your talk page for response, so you don't need to {{tb}}.) Thanks, Cnilep (talk) 15:39, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I have given my rationale at the Lakota talk page.·Maunus·ƛ· 16:04, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Very nice; thanks again. Cnilep (talk) 16:16, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Greenlandic language

Haluu Maunus. Jeg har kigget på ovennævnte artikel (med din opfordring på, at kigge på grl. sætnings eksempler). To små rettelser lavede jeg. Disse eksempler synes jeg er gode, men virker firkantede (de skal de være siden de skal forklares på engelsk), og hvis nogen skal rette på dem til mere grl. daglig-tale, vil det blive alt for komplicerende. Ellers gode værktøj til dem som vil lære grl. Har du ellers andet spørgsmål (om grl. sprog) kan jeg være behjælpelig. (Undskyld min elendig dansk). Ajunnginna Qaqqalik (talk) 20:36, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

replied in case you missed it. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 01:23, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Guaraní

Hi Maunus!

Wanting to work on a new article, I found Guaraní in the list of articles needing copyediting. Can you have a look and suggest some sources? It's potentially a decent article, but needs some work. I'm assuming you know about the subject. Btw -- Happy New Year! Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:32, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

I haven't gotten around to this yet. Ill look at it when Im done with Greenlandic.·Maunus·ƛ· 06:07, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Actually try these:[1][2][3]Template:Pt icon·Maunus·ƛ· 06:21, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Adding to above: oddly there is a current move discussion on the talk page regarding the spelling of Guaraní which needs your expertise! See here. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:43, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

It seems to have been resolved as no consensus - i dont feel strongly about it anyway.·Maunus·ƛ· 06:07, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Copyediting Greenlandic

Hi Maunus! I only found two problems:

• Is obligatorily a word? I couldn't think of what to replace it with, so I'm leaving it to you.
• Should indo-european be Indo-European?

It's a nice article -- one of your better ones! If you decide to try for a FAC then I'd suggest removing some of the noun plus - ing, and maybe have fewer sentences that begin with "this". I'll do another quick read through in a few days with fresh eyes. Sorry about the delay. Things got a bit busy. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 01:49, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi Truth. I am quite surre obligatoriy[4] is a word. Indo-European should of course be capitalized. I am not going to nominate it for FA - I am fairly disenchanted by that process.·Maunus·ƛ· 06:08, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

That's why I didn't take it out. Sometimes when I look at a text too long things start to look a bit odd, and I need to take a break. Yes, the FA process can be a disenchantment. I only mentioned it because you've created a nice article here. But my view is that not all Wikipedia articles have to be FA, and often the energy necessary to get that status is counterproductive and can be used instead to create good articles! Truthkeeper88 (talk) 12:29, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Thats what I'm going to use my energy for anyway - anyway its a crying shame that there are hardly any language GA's so Ill work on those for awhile. BTW what did you mean by noun plus -ing?·Maunus·ƛ· 14:01, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot to link to Tony's copyediting exercises: User:Tony1/Noun plus -ing. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 15:06, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

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Gaelic

Hi there, been a while. Remember Loch Ryan? Well, we have another anti Gaelic crusader on hand, Special:Contributions/DvdScott, this time focussing on the Borders (see discussing at Talk:Selkirk. I was wondering if you might chip in as he just reverts without backing any of his ludicrous claims up. Cheers. Akerbeltz (talk) 09:48, 21 January 2010 (UTC)