Nil Blau~enwiki

Hi, Aubadaurada, how are you doing? 83.179.132.228 (talk) 09:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Kawir

Hi, I deleted your recent Kawir article because it did not provide independent verifiable sources that it meets the notability guidelines. It had a stub notice, so looked finished Jimfbleak (talk) 15:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Penzance

How did you check the Cornish SWF spelling of 'Penzance'? You've made it 'Pensans' but in the specification of the SWF it says quite clearly "In compounds words, an initial element like 'penn-, pedn-, kamm- (camm-), kabm- (cabm-), retains its double (or pre-occluded) consonant because of secondary stress. Therefore the SWF writes <mm, bm, nn, den, ll, rr> rather than <m,n,l,r> in compounds like 'pellgowser'."
In the word list in the specification there are a number of examples of 'penn-', all of them with double 'n' - 'pennseythun', 'pennsevik', 'pennskol'.
On this basis, the SWF spelling of Penzance would be 'Pennsans' (which also happens to be the commonest version of the spelling in use in revived Cornish, so some people won't like it).
Treylyer (talk) 14:48, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice. I trusted Evertype who knows Cornish very well, please take a look there: User talk:Evertype#Orthography of Pennsans. I suggest you to discuss with him.--Nil Blau (talk) 20:42, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

It is Penzans in KS because *Pennzans would imply an alternation with *Pednzans which does not occur. If the SWF has failed to maintain this distinction, it is a fault in the SWF, because it would disadvantage speakers of Late Cornish and encourage them to pre-occlude a word which is not to be pre-occluded. -- Evertype·✆ 17:52, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

That is all well understood. However, when you were asked, you stated that Penzance is Pensans in the SWF (see your user page). This was wrong, according to the SWF specification. The SWF for Penzance is Pennsans. It is clear that the KS group will add this to the many faults that they have found in the SWF and propose to rectify it.

At the moment the article on Penzance gives two Cornish versions of the name. Neither of them is in the SWF, and neither of them is the most commonly found Cornish spelling of the name - Pennsans.

Many have commented on this, but nobody can be bothered to change it because they all know you will simply revert and start an edit war. Life's too short, and there's more meaningful work to get on with.

Treylyer (talk) 19:26, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

The SWF specification doesn't actually cover place-names (explicitly). The list commissioned by the CLP from Craig Weatherhill (after the publication of the SWF specification) gives "Pensans". And, by the way, "pensans" gets 499,000 hits while KK "Pennsans" gets 2,090. -- Evertype·✆ 19:36, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

That's absolutely correct, so you were wrong on two counts to specify Pensans as the SWF rendering of Penzance. The Craig Weatherhill list has not been agreed yet, and when it is Pensans will be the agreed Cornish spelling of Penzance for official purposes. Whether it will make sense to call it a SWF spelling, given that it flies in the face of the specification of that orthography, remains to be seen. Treylyer (talk) 20:05, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Nissart

Hope now we can agree. --Merighi (talk) 23:31, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

I suggest you to read the book of Cerquiglini Histoire de la langue française 1945-2000. Co-edited with Gérald Antoine. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2000.--Merighi (talk) 00:29, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello Nil Blau. This is not Ligurian activism and I think you deserve a heads up. You may not know I wrote to Merighi (see [1]) because I believe he is a new account (and potential sock) for a well known racist promoter of fascist ideals. I've had my eye on him for a while and, in the spirit of good faith, I allowed him to continue with edits on this subject, even though I believe him to be full of shit. Please feel free to revert if you believe his claims are without support. I regret having brought the subject up! Dionix (talk) 22:19, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

A note about page moves

Hello, Nil Blau. I came across the page Skolt Sami, which you moved to Skolt Sami language in May of this year. I wanted to remind you to please use the "move" button at the top of the page to move articles, instead of using copy/paste. The reason for this is that unless the page is moved via the "move" button, the article is separated from the edit history. This is a problem because the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (the terms under which all Wikimedia content is licensed) specifically requires that all contributors be credited for their work; this is accomplished through the edit history. By severing the two, the GDFL is essentially voided. I've undone the move to Skolt Sami, and merged the histories, so don't worry about this one. If you've moved other pages in this manner, please let me know so I can merge them back together. Also, if you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Regards, Parsecboy (talk) 00:25, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Cote d'Azur

Your recent redefinition of the limits of the Cote d'Azur is at odds with the definition shown in Wikipedia (French). Can you tell us how you reconcile that, please?

Your claim that "French Riviera" is 'quite unknown locally' is a statement of the obvious, because the local language is not English, whereas this Wikipedia article is an English article. If you meant that the juxtaposition of the words Riviera and Française are unknown locally, then this is at odds with the content of the official website http://www.riviera-francaise.fr. So, either way, your comment does not appear to stack up. Can you tell us how you reconcile this, please? --JHB (talk) 00:08, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Please see my response at talk:French Riviera.--Nil Blau (talk) 08:26, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Cote d'Azur 2

I have a third reconciliation question for you. How do you reconcile changing the first sentence from "French Riviera......." to "Cote d'Azur......" with the following extract from the Manual of Style:-

First sentences

[edit] First sentence content The article should begin with a short declarative sentence, answering two questions for the nonspecialist reader: "What (or who) is the subject?" and "Why is this subject notable?"[2]

If possible, the page title should be the subject of the first sentence:[3] ? --JHB (talk) 17:36, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I agree with you about this idea: we should replace the title "French Riviera" by "Cote d'Azur".--Nil Blau (talk) 08:25, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

An American has spoken out from Moscow. His note is at the top of FR discussion page. The discussion is now continuing at the foot of that page. --JHB (talk) 10:25, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

See latest note on FR discussion page, under penultimate heading 'Cote d'Azur' - timed at 11.21 today. I'm holding out for that definition. Toulon / Cassis hold no attraction. --JHB (talk) 11:34, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Eleccions al Consell d'Administració de la Wikimedia Foundation

Benvolguda,em permeto posar-me en contacte amb tu, perquè com veuràs a la taverna [[2]] hi ha eleccions al Consell d'Administració de la Wikimedia Foundation.

La meva comunicació amb tu la realitzo perquè segons el teu historial de contribucions veig que tens dret a vot i molt poca gent llegeix la taverna. Em permeto comentar-te que seria molt interessant poder portar membres de la nostra comunitat al Consell d'Administració de la Wikimedia Foundation, però certament tots nosaltres votem individualment i en consciència.

Cada vot és molt important. A les eleccions de l'any 2009 la diferència entre ser escollit o no va ser de 60 vots i aquest any està votant menys gent. Et demano disculpes anticipadament si consideres aquesta comunicació incorrecte, rep una cordial salutació.

Pots trobar instruccions de com fer-ho per votar [3] --Gus.dan (talk) 09:26, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Re: Occitan

Hello, I have never made any major edits to the article about the Occitan language; all I did to it in the edit that you cited (with the correct link) was importing an old edit from the Nostalgia Wikipedia. Graham87 15:59, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Agni-Kuči

Perhaps you missed it, but I opened a discussion on this issue at Talk:Tocharian languages#Agni-Kuchi or Agni-Kuči. Please respond there. Kanguole 19:33, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

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