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[edit] Regarding ==Chinese Language==

Thank you very much for your reply Diderot, but I dont' understand what you mean by '...Chinese is muhc less unique...'. It's either a language, or a group of dialects, or via extention, a language family:S.

68.148.165.213 12:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caught you!

Okay, if you're not this guy, how is it that you just happen to have edited this page? *Hmm*? —Steve Summit (talk) 15:13, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] iu.wp

Hi Didero,

as I've seen you are an admin on iu.wp. Could you delete the nonsense pages you can see on http://iu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges? Thanks in advance, Pill- 17:02, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi. You wrote that you are no longer active on iu.wp really. Since the "unknown"-vandal is active tough, please could you give me sysop rights there? I will have a look on that wiki. Since my knowledge on Inuktitut is not that high (I know some grammar but no vocabulary and script) I can not contribute but, at least, I can revert and block open proxies (and such things). (Btw., not that you're wondering, Suisui gave me the rights only for some minutes to revert and block the IPs, I also blocked the main page to "autoconfirmed".) Greatings, --Thogo (Talk) 16:52, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Sure. Just tell me how to? --Diderot 20:02, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
You're bureaucrat there, so you have access to a special page iu:Special:Makesysop. It's still everything in English there, so't should be no problem. (Hope some day an Inuktitut speaker translates all these pages... :o) ) Grtx, --Thogo (Talk) 17:24, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
It should be done now. --Diderot 20:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I've seen it. Thank you. :o) I will look well after the wiki. Grtx, --Thogo (Talk) 20:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] iu:User:Escarbot

Bonjour,

Peux-tu me dire ce qu'il faut faire pour obtenir le statut de robot sur iu: ?

Merci d'avance.

Vargenau 06:14, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Ce qu'il faut faire? Aviser d'autres administrateurs sur :iu qui sont plus actifs. J'essaie de me dégager de toute responsibilité sur Wikipedia, vu que ma thèse m'occupe à plus ou moins 100%. --Diderot 06:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Bonjour, you're the only available Bureaucrat on iu.wp, other sysops can't set bot flags. But I request Bot flag for Escarbot on Meta, that should work either. --Thogo (Talk) 09:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] J.-H. Rosny

Hi - in this article you said (two years ago!) that both brothers wrote Quest for fire, however according to this source [1] (a 1967 edition dust jacket) it was the older brother, and also the J.-H. Rosny article says after 1909 the brothers stopped working together and Quest for Fire was published in 1911. Do you have any sources or info to help clear up the contradictions? See also the talk page for Quest for Fire. Thanks! -- Stbalbach 15:57, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

The French Wikipedia page says so. --Diderot 06:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Munich

I'm wondering if you would be interested in joining WikiProject Munich Kingjeff 01:41, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Olesia

Could you look at the syllabics on this article. They don't look right to me. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 15:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I should have noticed the syllabics. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 21:09, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Culture & the internet [2]

Fantastic, mesmerising post... thank you for making my day. Anchoress 20:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

You're very welcome. I certainly enjoyed writing it more than writing the obnoxious little hashing function I was avoiding at the time. --Diderot 23:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Mmm, that sounds interesting too. ;-) Anchoress 23:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your userpages

In Dutch page: 我是加拿大人，在比利时住。不好说荷兰语, 说很好法语和英语。我看中文一点。我翻译荷兰文的条目成英文和法文。

I suppose "不好说" means you don't speak it well. :) "不好说" here means "Don't speak Dutch" or "Not good to speak Dutch".

You may say: 我是加拿大人，在比利時住，荷蘭語說不好，說很好的法語和英語。我懂看一點中文。我翻譯荷蘭文的條目成英文和法文。

Note that 語 and 文, when used as names of languages, are the same, though 文 specifically refers to "text". Also, 荷蘭語說不好 may be put after "English". It's more natural to put less important things at the back.

In Chinese page: 你不知道荷兰语吗? 我也不好说。

I suppose you mean "You don't speak Dutch? I also don't". But how do you translate Dutch into others? :) --Fitzwilliam 16:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified

Two years ago, you made these edits to this article, adding block quotations of Song Ci's writing without using inline citations to cite your sources properly with page number and author. Well, now it is coming back to haunt you. Lol. I am working on getting the article Society of the Song Dynasty up to Good Article status, and there is information about Song Ci in the article that is crucial to the article's success in passing. Since you were able to provide Song Ci's writing, I am presuming that you own McKnight's book that translates Song Ci's writing, and if this is so, I need you to properly cite those block quotes. Thank you, it actually means a lot if you could do this, I would be incredibly grateful.--PericlesofAthens 23:38, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bot bit iu:User:SieBot

Hi Diderot. A while ago I made a request for a bot bit to be set for iu:User:SieBot at iu:Wikipedia:Bots#Bot_bit_request_SieBot. Could you please set the bit? Thanks. Siebrand 09:30, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Emgann

Bonsoir.

Vous voudrez bien excuser cette intervention en français, je crois que vous préférez l'anglais. J'ai modifié dans l'article "Emgann la phrase soulignée.

Le procès de mars 2004 n'a (hélas!) rien éclairci sur l'Affaire de Quévert. Les quatre personnes poursuivies pour "complicité" , sans que personne ne soit poursuivi comme "auteur" matériel, ont été ACQUITTEES dans cette partie des poursuites et ont été condamnées pour d'autres faits. Le parquet a fait appel sur trois de ces acquittements, mais il demeure une sérieuse controverse de savoir si cet appel est régulier, et ce pour différentes raisons assez techniques. Toujours est-il qu'aucune date n'est fixée pour ce procès en appel.

|This theft was followed by a series of bombings attributed to the ARB, including a fatal explosion at a McDonald's in Quévert (Côtes-d'Armor). Ultimately, a former spokesman for Emgann was found guilty of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts for the bombings in Quévert and elsewhere. [3]

Vous pouvez me répondre ici ou me joindre sur ma page de discussion du Wiki en français.

Cordialement.

Claude Le Duigou —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.1.145.217 (talk) 21:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

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