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, quibus insertis nomen tuum et dies apparebit. Quamquam vero in paginis ipsis nisi lingua Latina uti non licet, in paginis disputationum qualibet lingua scribi solet. Quodsi quid interrogare velis, vel Taberna vel pagina disputationis mea tibi patebit. Ave! Spero te "Vicipaedianum" fieri velle!
-- Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 12:45, 12 Iulii 2015 (UTC)
I should explain why sometimes -- as I said at Disputatio:Pasta vermiculata -- I want to limit my participation in terminology discussions. The topic interests me (it even obsesses me) but in some cases, in the context of modern Latin and in the context of Vicipaedia, it is bound to be inconclusive. You have found, I personally think, what appears to be a better-supported choice currently for spaghetti -- I would support a move -- but none of the sources yet cited is a "good secondary source" in English Wikipedia terms. Suppose next year we find a 17th/18th century Latin book by someone who knew Italian food and listed the forms of pasta? Perfectly possible, it is happening often: it would be a better source than all of ours, and the discussion starts again ... Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:04, 6 Aprilis 2023 (UTC)
I reverted your page move of Oxygenium: it needs discussion, as you realise. I hope I conserved your new citation: it looks interesting but from the quoted text it sounds speculative rather than decisive: I haven't time to read more tonight. Notice the citation that we already give in the first note: it has been useful in many cases.
If you want to move a category, you should either edit the dependent pages and subcategories yourself, or ask at the page Vicipaedia:Automata/Petitiones de categoriis movendis for this work to be done by UVbot. If you don't do this, those pages and subcategories get left behind. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 19:24, 13 Aprilis 2023 (UTC)
I thought I'd mention this to you here before adding more complication to the discussion on the Taberna. It appears to me that two things about the proposal are against general Wiki policy and practice: 1, naming editors on an encyclopedia page; 2, counting votes. I'm sure both apparent problems could be dealt with, but it might be easier if the formula were placed not on the enyclopedia page but on the talk page (like, for example, the estimates of page quality that are fitted into project banners on the talk pages of en:wiki). It could be argued that all Latinitas estimates belong there really. If this were proposed and agreed, we could ask a bot to transfer the existing Latinitas templates to the talk page in every case. What do you think about that?
The other question in my mind is, considering the number of active editors, is it realistic to expect three estimates of each page? I myself give very few of these estimates, because I rarely take the time to read and judge a whole page, unless it's very short and very bad. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:06, 16 Iunii 2023 (UTC)
I felt "Romanes eunt domus" was an unwise name to choose, so I'm glad you are thinking of moving the formula. Its obscurity to any encyclopedia user who doesn't happen to watch old English films; the fact that it doesn't say what needs to be done; and the distracting link, were my main objections! Just to clarify, three other objections, more delicate, are these:
Hi, Grufo. There's an error somewhere, perhaps in {{Nexus ad Vicidata absunt}}, resulting in unwanted text "|exhibitio" at the foot of a page e.g. "Bread and cheese and kisses". Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 13:43, 24 Iunii 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping an eye on new edits. I would have missed these but for your use of the Salve formula!
One of those new edits I reverted because it added a picture gallery with captions in Portuguese to a page that is crying out for more text ... but not for pictures. Additions of picture galleries by unknown users are nearly always reverted, because "Vicipaedia is not a picture gallery", and especially if the user hasn't added Latin captions.
The edits by a second user you greeted have been reverted and the user blocked. They follow a long term pattern, sometimes by anonymous IPs, sometimes by new usernames, of adding false information about praenomina beginning with the letter "H". You'd be surprised. By all means keep on looking out for this contributor, who has produced many of our illustrated pages about praenomina but, sadly, tends to go off-piste. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:00, 6 Augusti 2023 (UTC)
{{subst:salve||f}}
). The question is: What is the correct behaviour when a username is clearly masculine or feminine (e.g. “Usor:Votre Provocateur”) but the user did not specify any gender? Do you think we should add it manually, because it is clear, or do you think we should leave it unspecified instead? What would you normally do? --Grufo (disputatio) 11:24, 6 Augusti 2023 (UTC) Hi, Grufo. I cleared out this category, but I left two items because each still has an incoming link, Please check them -- you'll see what needs to be done, I'm sure. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 16:11, 8 Augusti 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Grufo. I considered hiding some edits in the history of this talk page, but I found that the spam website is mentioned in all of them, so eventually, since it contained nothing useful, I deleted the talk page, and protected it, so that it can only be recreated and edited by named users. I hope you don't object to this protection and deletion? By all means discuss. Thanks for trying to keep spam out! Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 08:37, 24 Augusti 2023 (UTC)
Why do you constantly mark pages written entirely in Latin as "not Latin"? Yuzerneim (disputatio) 22:43, 14 Septembris 2023 (UTC)
I put up the October pagina mensis already, because I'll be travelling later in the month. So I used {{PagMens}} inside the appendicula, and it seems to work fine, it's a very good idea, but it would be better still if it could also put the gold star on the top line of the page: at present a separate formula {{FA stella}} is needed. Can the two be combined? What do you think? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:20, 17 Septembris 2023 (UTC)
Non quis ut deleniti. Propono quid delere. Volo ut amplio hunc articulum. Revertere ad "lingua latina". 70.68.226.203 07:46, 20 Septembris 2023 (UTC)
Forgive me for editing your work without an explanation. Whenever I encounter a page with more than two lemmas, or more than three versions of the name in total, within the first sentence, I always try to reduce them to make the first sentence clearer and simpler than before. This page came up in the Nuper mutata so I did it here. I think there are several ways to add extra versions of the name without making the first sentence more complicated to read -- e.g. put them in a footnote as I did here, or put them in a later sentence, or have a paragraph about names and etymologies ... I feel entries in a grown-up encyclopedia ought to be easily readable, especially at the beginning: this is one way in which Wikipedia hasn't grown up yet, especially en:wiki. But tell me what you think ... Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 12:27, 3 Ianuarii 2024 (UTC)
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Hi! I am sorry to bother you but I was wondering whether you could possibly sign this petition in order to get the Wikipedia in Ancient Greek approved. Thank you so much for your help. --Jon Gua (disputatio) 07:20, 16 Februarii 2024 (UTC)
We did our best, but maybe he was devoted to other causes all the time, and was never likely to remain a user. Who knows? People vary endlessly, Vicipaedians likewise :) Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 17:02, 4 Martii 2024 (UTC)
I moved to the standard transliteration Iroha, from the title in Japanese script, because we agreed back in 2019 that this was how we would treat books, films etc. whose titles have no known Latin translation. Previously their titles had always appeared in original script. In the intervening period I have moved many of them myself, but a few remain under Categoria:Paginae scripturis non-Latinis intitulatae. Hence, althougn anonymous IPs can't move pages, the anonymous IPer was undoubtedly correct in this case in wanting a move :) Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 12:25, 4 Aprilis 2024 (UTC)
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