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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alphax τεχ 13:47, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cfd question

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Hi, you asked a question on the discussion of Category:Hellenic_languages_and_dialects Cfd: there is a comment here that say "as this CFD day has concluded" (?) where is "the current day page"? can someone explain the comment (to my talk page) --Lucinos 09:43, 18 September 2005 (UTC). The note is left by the bot NekoDaemon to let users know that the day has ended and entries (NOT votes) should be made on the appropriate day page. This just helps keep users from adding new Cfds to the wrong date. Hope that answers your question. Who?¿? 02:58, 19 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

thank you --Lucinos 05:13, 19 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Electrodynamics

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Electrodynamics does not need its own article; the electromagnetism article discusses the term and what it means, and that's all that's needed. -- CYD

I didnt said it should be its own article, I say that it should be disambiguation page. --Lucinos 05:40, 21 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

The two categories

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It looks better, but it would be best if you could change the descriptive line at Category:Hellenic languages and dialects to say exactly what belongs there and what belongs at Category:Greek language, and also put the same line at Category:Greek language. If someone were to write an article on Romano-Greek, they should be able to look at the description of the two categories and immediately decide which category it belongs in. At the moment, Category:Hellenic languages and dialects says "This category includes all Hellenic (Greek) languages and dialects, both ancient and modern", which would seem to indicate that's the right place; but then if one sees Category:Greek language one might be tempted to put it there. Category:Greek language needs to say explicitly why it is a more specific category than Category:Hellenic languages and dialects. --Angr/tɔk mi 09:58, 22 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Okay, I think what you're going for is to have Category:Hellenic languages and dialects be for articles about languages/dialects only, and Category:Greek language to be for articles about linguistic aspects of (all periods of) Greek. Right? I've rephrased the messages on the categories to that effect. --Angr/tɔk mi 17:22, 22 September 2005 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedians in Greece

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Hi, I understand that you are either Greek Wikipedian or a Wikipedian living in/with an interest in Greece.

The category page Wikipedians/Greece has been replaced with Category:Wikipedians in Greece but your name still appears on the old list. You might considering moving it. You might also consider adding adding Template:Greekwiki to your user page.

A Wikipedia:Greek Wikipedians' notice board has been in existence for some time but is terribly underutilised. It would certainly benefit from your involvement.--Damac 12:22, 23 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

"Oldest language"

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Hi Lucinos, yes, I basically agree with you. If we were to spell it out correctly, it would run like this: Greek is the language that has been spoken for the longest time

  1. in the same core geographical area
  2. by an (at least partly) continuous population group
  3. without splitting up into daughter languages to a significant degree
  4. without getting demoted into a "dead" or purely "classical" language
  5. after it got written for the first time.

Note that (5) doesn't say it was continually written (because there's a gap between Linear B and the alphabetic script); (3) is really not very meaningful linguistically, but is sometimes implied in people's claims about "oldest language". (4) is important in order to exclude competition from Aegyptian; (3-4) in order to exclude competition from Semitic. I don't remember about Chinese right now. The Indic languages (Vedic) would be competitors; they have a very long attested history that is reconstructed, as the Vedic texts are really quite old but got transmitted orally until they were written down much later. Without (5), of course, any number of languages would count as equally old or older than Greek on criteria (1-4), think only of Basque, which must have been around for ages. All in all, the conjunction of criteria (1-5) indeed filters out anything except Greek, but then, all these criteria are not really related to each other, so their combination is not linguistically very meaningful either. Lukas (T.|@) 10:29, 16 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

WikiChess

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Hi. I'm sorry but it seem that pl:Wikipedysta:Klin is no longer active on WikipediaPL. I started to work with new wersion of this template, wchich allows to use somekind of "styles" for more than only one 8x8 board game. Now, there are only chees and reversi styles. But i hope to resolve any problems fast. You can see the new version at: pl:szablon:szachownica --MonteChristof 18:14, 9 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Category Deletion

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Please visit [1] and weigh in!  NikoSilver  (T) @ (C) 23:08, 21 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Ancient Greek wikisource

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Please add your comments to meta:Requests for new languages/Ancient regardint an Ancient Greek wikisource.   Andreas   (T) 21:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

POLL

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No, no, no, not what you think! This time is for something that all of us need:

Improvement of the <ref> function.

Please weigh in at Wikipedia talk:Footnotes#Poll! NikoSilver  (T) @ (C) 18:11, 8 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

and another Poll...

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Hi. There's a debate about how much "X-ian" one must be in order to be considered "X-American" (or X-Yian for that matter) and be categorized as such. The poll is here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethnic groups/Rules for lists of X-Americans. Kindly weigh in! :NikoSilver: 22:04, 9 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Well, that'll be the first article we're not bitching too much about! :-) :NikoSilver: 22:12, 10 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

2 Polls that may be of interest...

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Hey, kindly check:

Thanks. :NikoSilver: 01:16, 23 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Edits to Necronomicon

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"I'm Greek; I just know this!" is not an adequate reason for an edit. We only accept edits based on published, verifiable reliable sources. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:36, 30 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Your account will be renamed

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01:13, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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15:38, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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