User talk:Babbage/Discussion Archive I

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Angela 08:42, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)

Hello. Your editing of linear regression prompts this comment: Instead of writing [[dog|dogs]], write [[dog]]s. That has exactly the same effect and is more efficient. Similarly [[apocryphal]] and the like. Michael Hardy 01:19, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip, Michael. -Pat User_talk:Babbage/Todo

Nice fast efficient edit

Good work on the re-edit of my edit on Sudan, I was going to make a similar change, hit an edit conflict, and your version is better. Thanks, keep up the good work!Pedant 21:20, 2004 Nov 9 (UTC)

Hi Babbage, the panoramic photo of Bethesda was taken from the roof of the Marriott hotel on Waverly Street (right across from the Air Rights building where Ruth's Chris is). Steven 02:48, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Sudan Project

Good suggestion. I'll contribute a few things. Mr. Billion 06:46, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Second welcome

Some more quicklinks for your enjoyment. You might also want to add your Sudan project as a link from the Systemic Bias wikiproject. +sj.+ 09:57, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week

I would like to revive Spanish Translation of the Week. Are you interested in working on it? — J3ff 05:59, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hello :)

Just drop by to says Hi! :) -- Bact 19:45, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

SpaTra

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Calaveras Skull

Hi, you tagged this as a copyvio, but it's not. The link you specify was indeed my primary source, but I included information from the other links I listed in the References section as well. Additionally, copyvio tagging is a two-step process. You also have to list it in WP:CP. Regards, howcheng {chat} 06:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Mass content adding, next step

After a long time, a week ago I started to work again on the project Mass content adding. And after some suggestions, I realized that the best place for localization of the content is WiktionaryZ (http://www.wiktionaryz.org). The main problem with working on content on Meta is because Meta is strictly GFDL licensed and WZ is double licensed (GFDL and CC-BY), which makes work on Meta incopatable with work on WZ (and CC-BY should be used for all data because we don't need any kind of complex license for data). --millosh (talk (sr:)) 02:25, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

The next step is to translate names of the countries, including all names' cases. I am not sure in what languages you want to participate, so, please, send me a list of them with the case system of that languages (what number of numbers / singular, plural, .../ what are the cases /nominative, genitive, dative.../) so I can make templates for languages in which you want to work. You can contact me via email (millosh@gmail.com), too. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 02:25, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Feel free to call anyone to join the translation in any other language. Also, headquarters for the project is on the meta page, but there are a lot of issues which should be done on WZ (like cases templates; you can see an examples on http://wiktionaryz.org/Countries, http://wiktionaryz.org/Countries/srp, http://wiktionaryz.org/Countries/rus). --millosh (talk (sr:)) 02:25, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:Earliest Documents by Language

Great idea with this category! However, I moved it to Category:Earliest known manuscripts by language, in order to fit the style of Wikipedia, as words in category names should not start with capital letters. bogdan 17:04, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Also, often they are not the earliest, but earliest known or surviving. bogdan 17:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I dunno if Sinckan Manuscripts fits your description, but perhaps it does. See ya round WikiProject Endangered languages. --Ling.Nut 04:22, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Post scarcity

Good addition. Have built and (hopefully) clarified a bit further on what you did. MadMaxDog 08:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Misantla Totonac

I have bought Carolyn McKays Misantla Totonac grammar from Amazon.com (it is very cheap) and I will receive it in a few days. When I do I will start working on a page about the language if you are still interested in the subject your help will be appreciated.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 12:26, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Sudan

HI Mr Babbage. PLease can a member of your project try to expand the articles on the states of Sudan. They are very poor indeed . You would expect some more detailed articles on major states of countries but often they are only two lines long and cover an area of like 400,000 sq miles!!! I have seen much improvement in a number of articles obn Sudan though . Keep up the good work its just I feel this is very important -there must be some information available somewhere. THanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 10:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

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List of basic linguistic topics

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I noticed you have an interest in linguistics. Could you please look over List of basic linguistics topics, and improve its coverage?

Just fill in anything that's missing that you think should be there.

If you can find sources to verify their reason for being there, that would be even better.

I look forward to seeing your improvements to the list.

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Cicco Simonetta

I left an answer for you on my "talk" page. --SUSSI (talk) 14:12, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

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