User talk:Rodii/archive1

Micronesia and others...

No one has contested? I do not think that I will have to elaborate. Micronesian is a branch of Proto Remote Oceanic. But it does not include all the geographic Micronesian region. Chamorro is not Micronesian. Yapese is not Micronesian. Palau is not Micronesian. And are not closely related. You are confused between Nuclear Micronesian and the Micronesian Region. And you probably have no better source than Ethnologue. Please, have a look to The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic, The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic Society, 1. Material Culture, — 2. The Physical Environment. edited by Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond. ISBN 0 85883 507 X (v. 1) & 0 85883 539 (v. 2). It's not only a concept of outliers (from Polynesia or elsewhere). The history of these frontiers is far more interesting (and delicate) that you could imagine. The 3-Division of Oceanic is a non-sense... Excuse my poor English (I am Italian and French) and not even able to make me understood easily.

Enzino 18:39, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Excuse me again and I do apologise for what I've written: as I do not speak very well English, I may have been too rude for a very delicate matter (I do not understand obnox...). The point is, and you're right, that Micronesian is not very precise word, both linguistical and geographical. The new geographers (since 1970) do not divide Oceania in the 3 traditionnal parts. And this 3-division is no more helpful for linguists. Jules Dumont d'Urville decided these 3(4)-division in 1831...Enzino 14:55, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Polynesian languages

I changed what I had originally written (rather badly) in the Polynesian languages article, which you rightly objected to, specifically, my apparent nonsense wrt the "late evidence of protoX in its daughter languages". Hopefully my alterations to the article have clarified what I was trying to say. Time permitting, I'll make a Proto-Polynesian language article in the near future, unless someone beats me to it. The info I was drawing from came from "Current Trends in Linguistics" vol. 9, published, I believe, in the late 1980s. Tomer ^TALK 07:12, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations on your internet cafe

"mine has wireless access and coffee in the common house, but not in a "cafe" format"

That's what I meant. You've got a Hotspot, possibly a desktop computer somewhere, some chairs, possibly some chairs outside and a Nutrimatic or similar somewhere. What else constitutes an Internet cafe? Waitresses? --Fasten 17:57, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

"Calling it an internet cafe evokes something quite different to me, and using it here seems idiosyncratic."

I agree I am stretching the term but I've sponsored a WLAN together with some friends for our favorite cafe, which already had one single desktop computer available for customers and a DSL flatrate. We didn't call it an internet cafe but it would have qualified, in my opinion. Where do you draw the line? --Fasten 11:23, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

concerning the message you left me.

We aren't going to allow your pedestrian geographic expertise to obstruct our legitimate work. This is years of research come to life!

Charlie's complaint

Please learn to comment on other's efforts a bit more sympathetically and with reason. Blanket statements are uncivil. Charlie 11:20, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Fixing your user page

No problem, and in the future, I'll leave it for you to. I completely understand where you're coming from, and I respect that it feels a bit "invasive" to have others moving things around in your user space. :) On another note, I've come across this article, which I think you've had some opinions on: The Fictional Southern Mauristemo Islands. Am I missing something here? This seems like a no-brainer, in that it doesn't belong in Wikipedia - indeed, you clearly opposed the article, as one of the above comments shows. I've gone ahead and nominated the article for deletion, so feel free to vote, or post any comments you have on the related page. Cheers! --PeruvianLlama^(spit) 02:56, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Sebastian Prooth

Hi there. I already added Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sebastian Prooth to the main AfD page for today. It's toward the bottom. -Splash^talk 03:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, it was someone else I guess. The afd got transcluded into one I was writing twice, and I just looked at the history and saw your name. You probably just edit-conflicted with someone. I haven't edited the debate myself. -Splash^talk 04:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry! I think that was my lame attempt at AFD'ing. Gulp! Schmiteye 01:53, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

AfD on Sakosa tribe

Hi. Thanks for bringing the problem with my AfD nomination to my attention on my user talk page, but I can't see the problem -- it showed up as a weird red link earlier, but the nomination seems to look and work like the others now. Could you describe the problem you noticed in case there's still something wrong that I'm not seeing? Thanks a lot. Sommers 17:15, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

AfD on Wikifiddler

Hi. I was wondering if you could reconsider your stance here. You favor merger into CoW, but CoW seems like a general article on criticisms of Wikipedia and this a very specific attack on Wikipedians. I favor keeping the article the way it is and maybe making a new article Attacks on Wikipedia and using some of the information contained within this article. Aucaman 01:00, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Julian May

Hi. I noticed you changed the intro line in the biography section on Julian May. Now it repeats the birth date given in the introduction. I don't like having it in basically two consecutive sentences, but I wanted to check in with you to see if you just hadn't noticed that. Usually the birth and death dates go in the intro paragraph. --Syrthiss 12:50, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Heh, not a prob. I haven't changed it, I wanted to check with you. I rarely would just revert something that isn't clearly vandalism. :) --Syrthiss 13:00, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Redirecting Caddoan

To reidrect Caddoan all you have to do is edit and delete the following line; #REDIRECT [[Article name]], and add your text like you would at any other article. Let me know if you need any further asistance. -JCarriker 06:30, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Larvatus

Thanks for the support on the AfD. You might be interested in the Request for comment I've filed against Larvatus. See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Larvatus. Thanks. FCYTravis 20:16, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Piecraft weighs in

Piecruft - bravo! for that you are a tool! —the preceding unsigned comment is by Piecraft (talk • contribs) 21:20, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Good to see you again

Hi there, fellow inhabitant of the Lake Erie watershed, and a Happy Rodiimas to you. Avogadro 20:43, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Zingerman's

Unfortunately, I can't verify that the shop is nationally known (in fact, I only heard about Zingerman's about a year ago, and that was when I was still in Ann Arbor). I could try to find out more about Zingerman's, but at the moment I am in the middle of other things. Pentawing 21:40, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

• I reinserted mention of Zingerman's into the Ann Arbor article. Hopefully, there are no further problems. Pentawing 22:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Sorry about the wording. Just my way of talking. Pentawing 23:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Precipitous delete

Note that despite being a holiday there were already quite a few "delete" votes, and arguments on both sides... But you have a point. I will probably restrict myself to AfD debates at least some days old. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 01:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)