Talk:Basque verbs
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[edit] Personal reflection?
I don't agree that "this article is written like a personal reflection", as the tag placed on it says. It was actually written as part of the Basque grammar article (is that also a "personal reflection"?) and split off late in the day, mainly for reasons of length. Perhaps the first section (How complex is the Basque verb?) helps to give the wrong impression of a personal reflection, although what it actually says is objectively quite straightforward and factual: it is a fact that the Basque verb is widely considered very difficult and that it hogs the attention of many descriptions of Basque, as the beginning of the section points out, and the list of reasons contributing to this impression is actually a list of objectively true and uncontroversial generalisations about the Basque verb. I think it's more a question of "angle" than of the content covered. But in any case, the rest of the article (after the introduction) is purely encyclopaedic in my opinion, being part of a grammatical description. Would omitting the introductory section help to correct the impression of a "personal reflection"?
I am ready to agree that some things are missing from the article to complete it, such as references to sources and internal wikilinks to concepts and terms used, inter alia. I pointed out as much on the Basque language article's discussion page when announcing this and the Basque grammar article, a few hours ago. I explained that work needs to be done on this and invited help with it.
Do others agree about the "personal reflection" criticism? Alan --A R King 21:43, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
- Nobody has responded to the above questions and comments, and I'm anxious to do something about this, so I have decided to go ahead and follow my own tentative suggestion (previous comment) and REMOVE THE FIRST SECTION ("How complex...?"), on the assumption that this is perhaps largely responsible for the "personal reflection" judgment. On that same assumption, I shall now remove the "personal reflection" tag. That of course does not imply that the article doesn't need further work, and I'd be most grateful for anyone's help with that as my own time to devote to further work on this article, except for fleshing out the bibliography, will probably be very limited (let's say I feel I've already done my part). Naturally, if others think it still sounds like a personal reflection, they are welcome to say so and put the tag back again if they see fit. Please do not take this as an aggressive or angry reversion, but as a constructive attempt to resolve a problem that has been noted, in the absence of the feedback requested. Alan --A R King 07:00, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
- Great work! A treasure for learners like me. - Txalapartari (talk) 21:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Nor-Nori-Nork
I have a digital version of the Nor-Nori-Nork table that I made myself some time ago, does anybody think a graphic (I don't fancy doing the table in wiki hypertext :b) would be useful to people? Akerbeltz 22:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
