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This week's article for improvement (week 22, 2019)

Josephine Bornebusch in 2013 Hello, Nigos. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Josephine Bornebusch Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Letter (alphabet) • Sashimi Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 May 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Please comment on Talk:Jean-Pierre Petit

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Jean-Pierre Petit. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 23, 2019)

The official logo of the latest HTML version, HTML5 Hello, Nigos. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: HTML Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Josephine Bornebusch • Letter (alphabet) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 June 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

This week's article for improvement (week 24, 2019)

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This week's article for improvement (week 25, 2019)

Bookworm damage inside a book Hello, Nigos. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Bookworm (insect) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Karla Faye Tucker • HTML Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 June 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Hello, concerning revision of word.

My name is Joshua Gibson. I have put a non-existent word as my slogan for my company and plan on using it for a new science I would like to birth with an algorithm of mine. I see this is not a word anywhere. I was wanting to ask about this. Organomical (talk) 02:30, 19 June 2019 (UTC)6/18/19

@Organomical, thanks for the message. However, advertising your business is not allowed on Wikipedia. Your edits seem to be advertising your business. Wikipedia is also not a dictionary. Wiktionary is a dictionary for those kinds of articles. Thanks! Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 02:37, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Rollback granted

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Thanks! Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 06:02, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Indo-European languages page's part having been changed

Hello, I see that you actually removed my "claim". Look, I am Greek in origin and I think you are too- if your actual name is Nikos. There is an article, which, for some reason, I cannot find on the Internet and is contained in a book about the history of the Greek language, talking about toponymic findings that there were Neolithic civilizations in Greece, the Sesklo and the Dimini after the first one, in a period among 7.150 and 5.000 B.C.E (3.200 B.C.E if the Cycladic civilization is added before the arrival of the primarily known Hellenic tribes at 3.000 B.C.E) whose people spoke languages closely related to Proto-Greek and really divergent from the Proto-Indo-European language of the Yamna culture on the Crimean coast. Now, about Babiniotis• in his book "A brief history of the Greek language", he classifies Greek as Indo-European. This book was written in 1998. Around 1 year after its release, he was interviewed by Georhe Papadakis in his breakfast show on television and was asked what changes he would make to the book. Babiniotis responded saying that he reclassifies Greek as an isolate (the sole survivor of the Hellenic language family) due to a significant number of words whose origin is not Indo-Europoean. Furthermore, he stated that Greece played an important role in the evolution of many languages, especially Latin, because of the ancient Greek colonialistic policy and the the conquests of Alexander the Great, and that any Greek word looking like any other word of a foreign language is due to borrowing or language contact.

P.S: Please sign this for me, because I do not know how.

Thanks for the message. A language cannot be classified as another language family just because one soirce says so. Besides, there needs to be a lot of supporting evidence for such a claim. Thanks! Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 00:29, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

To sign your messages, just type ~~~~. Happy editing! Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 00:35, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

According to National Geographic in a book published in 2014, Greek is an Indo-European language.

Demoule, Jean-Paul; Perlès, Catherine (1993). "The Greek Neolithic: A New Review". Journal of World Prehistory. Here is a journal article about the existence of the Sesklon culture at 7.150 B.C.E although it does not refer to any language. Just to clarify, most Greek linguists classify Greek as an isolate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.210.251.100 (talk) 11:09, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

What do you meen by "isolate"? Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 13:24, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

I mean that the sole survivor of the, divergent from Indo-European, Hellenic languages is Greek and, thus, it is genetically a language isolate (owing to the death of the Sesklon language, the Dimini language, the Cycladic language and, perhaps, Mycaenean and ancient Macedonian). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.210.251.100 (talk) 15:41, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Ok, I get what you mean. It is an isolated language, but isn’t it still part of the Indo-European language family? Thanks! Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 00:21, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

No, it is not, because just above I was talking about the Hellenic languages not being a part of Indo-European, and since every Hellenic language except for Greek is dead and since Hellenic languages are not Indo-European, Greek is a language isolate with no genetic relatives. Thank you for responding to my messages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.210.251.100 (talk) 06:23, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

The Indo-European language category is a very broad one. Thanks for replying to me! Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 14:18, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

I know that the Indo-European languages entail the most languages but Greek is not Indo-European. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.235.182.59 (talk) 19:37, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

Ok. Should we move this discussion to Talk:Indo-European languages and get a Request for comment? Thanks! Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 04:57, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

Good idea. We should start talking about it at the talk page, but who will begin? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.210.251.100 (talk) 05:31, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

I'll just bring up the topic there. Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 05:38, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2019)

Hello, Nigos. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Legislator Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Bookworm (insect) • Karla Faye Tucker Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 24 June 2019 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Fiona Phillips (politician)

Please see Talk: Fiona Phillips (politician) for my proposed edit . Newystats (talk) 02:43, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

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Please read, not wipe.

Please discuss it on the talk page first before re-adding it. Thanks. Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 08:09, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

You cannot discuss, I guess.

What? I don't get what you meant. I like your edits; they are just too essay like, and there messages on your talk page telling you to discuss on Talk:Napoleon III. Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 08:12, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Please correct, not wipe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.92.126.42 (talk) 08:48, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Ok Nigos (t@lk • Contribs) 09:49, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Please excuse my lack of restraint. We all want to know the truth, and so we get a little heated. :)