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Urdu

I think you are missing the point, no one is saying the 'urdu language' is mongolian or Altaic, instead the word urdu or historically spelled 'ordu' is taken from the turkish/altaic language and means army as the urdu language was historically related to the army camps of south asia. Khokhar (talk) 03:30, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, it's a Turkic word, yes. Altaic is already controversial as most linguistis dispute the existence of such a language group. Whether it was first spelled 'ordu' or 'urdu' is rather insignificant and hardly relevant to the introduction, as it wasn't spelled in the Latin alphabet at all at the time.Jeppiz (talk) 03:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

You seem to be a lot more knowledgable than me regarding this matter so I'll leave it to you to catergorise the origin of the word 'ordu', it does seem relevant as urdu was a synthesis of many languages including Turkish by the the Mughals; who were themselves Turk. Khokhar (talk) 03:39, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi again. Don't get me wrong, I don't dispute that. It's the Altaic part I have a problem with. If ever such a language existed, and most linguists doubt it, it was spoken around 5000-6000 years ago.Jeppiz (talk) 03:42, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

I have made the necessary corrections. Khokhar (talk) 03:52, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Basque Misplaced Pages version of the village of Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht

Kaixo! Zer moduz?
Dia dhuit! Conas atá tú?
Hej! hur mår du?
I know that the inhabitants of those irish towns named by the Irish in their names, I lived in Kerry, Clare, Galway Counties about 6 months and I was at several towns of them, I have as a first language Basque language, I also used the names of the Basque localities in Basque language version (but some of them have two official versions, normally the big cities: basque/spanish, french or gascon), I can understand your linguistic point of view . But the problem is this: I do not know the current language policy of the Government of the Republic of Ireland on the name of the people of the Gaeltacht area, if the official name is the only bilingual version or only the Irish version, as for example in the town of An Daingean has arisen in this regard. If you have any exact information about this topic please send me because I've read so far is quite vague.

If it´s like me you say, you can be sure that I´ll change the titles of articles in its Irish version.

Goraintziak Euskal Herritik Suediara!
Greetings from the Basque Country to Sweden.

--Euskalduna tell me here 20:00, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

O.K. I just see the website of the Údarás na Gaeltachta and I decided that as of now to create more articles on towns in the Gaeltacht area uses the official names given in this website. Of course, the changes that You made in the articles that I created will be fully respected. I hope to create more articles on the Basque language locations starting from Cork and Waterford county in the south and ending in Donegal county in the north.

Agur! Hej då! Slán agat!

--Euskalduna tell me here 20:25, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Aftonbladet

Hi Jeppiz, no offence, but the section you removed was perfetly referenced and NPOV. It did not accuse Aftonbladet of being antisemitic, it just covered the allgations of others, something there's no reason for the article to ignore. It's very much an issue. While criticism of Israel is not antisemitic, by singlehandedly removing it you're simply ignoring the fact that it can be. In any case, would have been nice to talk about it beforehand. Poliocretes (talk) 22:47, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

It would have been even better to talk before inserting a paragraph that can be seen as highly offensive. And it did not "cover the allegations of others", it covered an article that said that Aftonbladet is not antisemitic.Jeppiz (talk) 22:49, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Take a look in the history section, Jeppiz. That paragraph was written by someone who does actualy seem to speak Swedish (it wasn't me btw, though you seem to think so). Anyway, the point is that several people, who from the look of it come from very different backgrounds, have all contributed, and simply blanking out the section without discussing it first was uncalled for. Poliocretes (talk) 23:04, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Removals

Please refrain from large removals of discussion that help to build our encyclopedia as the best possible encyclopedia, in this case seeking the assistance of editors knowledgeable in the Hindi language and Devanagari script to add such script to articles that need it. Thank you for this consideration. Badagnani (talk) 00:37, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I've answered on your talk page, but here goes in short: The purpose of talk pages is to discuss how to improve the page to which the talk page belong. Requests for translations from Hindi belong at the talk page of articles to which they refer, not on the talk page of Hindi. Talk pages of every language article would turn into translation services if others followed your lead.Jeppiz (talk) 04:33, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

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Al Ahmamr

I was about to self revert, because I really didn't want to get into this discussion. I showed why it was not RS, and you didn't even provide a reason, outside of "it has been discussed before". It was, but I provided further evidence. Discuss it. Find a reason why a paper that promotes the blood libel should be RS. When everybody agrees that it is okay to use a paper that promotes the blood libel as RS, feel free to revert. Until then, please leave it alone.Sposer (talk) 16:35, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

No offense, but you seem to have misunderstood Misplaced Pages's rules. What you're saying with your "When everybody agrees that it is okay to use a paper that promotes the blood libel as RS, feel free to revert. Until then, please leave it alone" is that it is you who decide what is RS or not unless everybody else agrees otherwise. I suggest you read up on Misplaced Pages's rules before making similar claims.Jeppiz (talk) 18:10, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

My apologies

Remember me from Corsican language? I was just reading some stuff from Ethnologue and you're right, sometimes they're so far off the mark that one can't even give them points for cleverness. I apologise for reverting you. Ultimate Destiny (talk) 07:01, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Edit war

Hello. You appear to be involved in an edit war on Scandinavia. While the three-revert rule is hard and fast, please be aware that you can be blocked for edit warring without making 3 reverts to an article in 24 hours. You are not entitled to 3 reverts and are expected to cooperatively engage other editors on talk pages rather than reverting their edits. Note that posting your thoughts on the talk page alone is not a license to continue reverting. You must reach consensus. Continued edit warring may cause you to be blocked. Toddst1 (talk) 20:48, 18 June 2009 (UTC) Toddst1 (talk) 13:04, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

WP:BLP

Please be aware that our policies on biographical articles on living persons require a high standard for sources, especially for any controversial or negative information. Many of your recent edits at Mallika Sherawat are inconsistent with this policy and your edit-warring to include controversial information without reliable sourcing is unacceptable. I am assuming that you were unaware of these policies, but please be more careful in future since violating WP:BLP and/or edit-warring may lead to your account being blocked. Abecedare (talk) 17:45, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

"Greater Persia" map on World language

I think the idea of the "Persian" map was "at greatest extent of the language's influence", not "current nation's political borders", sort of the way the Turkic map parallels the later heyday of Genghis Khan's greatest conquests. But if you're going to leave the map down, could you at least put the "No Map" verbiage up, as with other boxes having no maps? Thanks. — Sizzle Flambé (☎/✍) 07:47, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Never mind, I found the previous (and better) map and put that in its place. Thanks. — Sizzle Flambé (☎/✍) 23:44, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Excellent! I'm sorry for not answering before. I found a German map earlier today that also was better, but let's stick with this one!Jeppiz (talk) 23:50, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

"France vs Ireland"

thanks! getting used to this whole process.kevinharte —Preceding undated comment added 22:06, 21 November 2009 (UTC).

I don't want to start an edit war, but I am going to remove the POV tag for a second time (I personally have only done it the once. If you are going to undo this, please could you first kindly point out how specifically the article is "biased" on the article's talk page, so that we can work towards addressing this, and/or consensus can be achieved on whether this amounts to bias.

The amount of coverage given to the reaction is clearly ridiculous (hence the "undue" tag), but it's not bias to reflect the fact that there is nowhere near a 50-50 split in opinion on the matter. WFCforLife (talk) 18:22, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. It goes without saying that tags should always be backed up, and I did back it up the first time I put it there, although not this second time as I feel the same arguments apply. I'm in a bit of a hurry now, but I'll come back to it. In the meantime I won't put the tag back before having had the time to outline in more detail why the article does not satisfy WP:NPOV.Jeppiz (talk) 18:54, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean by references in the text. MoodFreak (talk) 19:00, 27 November 2009 (UTC) When I look at the code under the page for those reference, it is very complicated. Is there an easier way to add the references? ~!MoodFreak (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:36, 28 November 2009 (UTC).

mind your own business

It's not for you to say what I can or should not do.get a life.--Kevinharte (talk) 06:32, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

You vandalised another user's personal page and I restored it and commented on how it's not for you (nor anyone else) to start undoing editor's edits to their own talk pages as long as the edits are in line with Misplaced Pages policies. I don't know why you try to start confrontations with all people. Nobody gains from that.Jeppiz (talk) 07:19, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

All people? That not a bit of an exageration? Jeppiz,I don't want any contact with you,don't write on my page.--Kevinharte (talk) 17:17, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't write on your page to seek contact, I've merely pointed out politely when you violate Misplaced Pages policies. Many others would have reported you or blocked you long ago.Jeppiz (talk) 17:24, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

A Brief Word of Thanks

I very much appreciate your efforts on the Jonathan Cook AfD. Quite frankly, I find such debates to be tedious and exhausting. So I thank you.
--NBahn (talk) 01:14, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Help

In http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Incipient_edit_war_at_Josip_Broz_Tito you suggested to me to report DIREKTOR's and Alasdair's removal as vandalism. Can you please tell me where i can report them? Thanks for your help --AndreaFox2 (talk) 22:13, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Restating banned user's language

I would ask you to delete (and not just cross out) your restatement of the banned user's language. As the Arbitrator's decision makes clear, that is an unacceptable circumvention of the ban. Many thanks, my friend.--Epeefleche (talk) 02:42, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi and thanks for your comment! I'll gladly do that, but I'm not 100% of which diff you mean. Is it the one where I summarized the points made by a topic-ban user on the AfD on Cook? Just tell me whether that's it and I'll remove it right away. Have a nice evening!Jeppiz (talk) 02:55, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that was it, and thanks for your openness to considering my request. But perhaps its a moot point now, as (IMHO in violation of bans) the topic banned editors and Slim have inserted the material. On another point, I hadn't thought we had reached consensus to delete the "according to his website" clarifications, but noticed that you've deleted it/them. Have I missed something? Many thanks, and kudos for being one of the few to have retained balance and good humor throughout this somewhat testy AfD.--Epeefleche (talk) 19:11, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

I've removed it now. I've more or less left the AfD since a few days. In my experience, many AfDs start out well enough with people making reasonable arguments for deleting and for keeping, but after a few days both sides get more extreme and less polite. As this is a topic on which I don't have any personal feelings, and as I've made the factual arguments I wanted to make, I've left it behind me. It was a pleasure reading your comments; even in the cases where we did not agree, you always made your point in a well-articulated and polite way. As for the "according to his website", you're very welcome to change it as you see fit. For me, it was only a question about smooth reading of the article, but if there are other motives for keeping it, I don't have anything against including it again. Cheers and keep up the good workJeppiz (talk) 19:52, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

I hope I have the good fortune to work with you again. It's been a pleasure, as I've felt that you were one of the few always willing to listen to others' views, and reconsider yours if you felt appropriate. This project needs more of that. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:13, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

schifo

Per l'articolo sul dittatore Broz puoi contattare l'australiano user:Sir Floyd attaccato dal solito DIREKTOR. Se puoi, lascia un messaggio in user talk:Jimbo Wales per un appello finalizzato a sbloccare user:Luigi 28, user:Barba Nane, user:Ducatista2, user:Miranovic, user:Trusciante, user:Pantaleone, user:Vastaso che son stati messi al bando su istigazione delle famigerate utenze slave che hai già segnalato come problematiche: difatti agiscono una in sostegno dell'altra contro il regolamento che definisce questo comportamento meatpuppetry sanzionabile con la messa al bando. Considera inoltre che DIREKTOR ha ricevuto 3 blocchi per guerre editoriali e fu ristretto ossia limitato in una serie di articoli nei quali insiste con il suo POV: leggi qui Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Dalmatia#DIREKTOR restricted dunque se lo bloccano ancora una volta è prossimo alla messa al bando. Questi slavi negano la pulizia etnica contro i cittadini italiani ordinata dal dittatore Broz e di conseguenza vogliono fare qui pulizia istigando gli amministratori contro utenze italiane e non che si oppongono alla loro agenda politica, che è pure sanzionabile con messa al bando. Per avere un'idea guarda qui e successivi interventi, poi qui con successivi interventi; ancora leggi qui con l'ennesima guerra editoriale prima e dopo questa modifica; posso continuare con altri articoli nei quali DIREKTOR nega la pulizia etnica fatta dai croati nella guerra interslava dopo il 1991 e attacca utenze serbe: insomma è inaccettabile questo schifo!--Mengardo (talk) 18:02, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, you better not make the same mistake again you cunt. AlasdairGreen27 (talk) 18:11, 12 December 2009 (UTC)