User talk:JeffreyN

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Contents 1 Invite to Nursing wikiproject 2 Black Death Article in Swedish 3 User:Doremítzwr and metropolises 4 Pertaining to -polis plurals 5 Stub sorting 6 Talk:Saudi Arabia 7 Mennonite

[edit] Invite to Nursing wikiproject

— Rod ^talk 14:51, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Black Death Article in Swedish

Hi there! This is sort of a random request, but I see you editing the Sweden article a lot and assume you have a Swedish wikipedia account? If so, I hope that you might be able to make a change to the article Digerdöden [1]. The map shown there is old and this one Image:Bubonic_plague_map_2.png is much better. I don't speak, read, etc. Swedish and it appears I need an account to edit articles on the Swedish site! Do you think you could change the map for me? Thanks! JeffreyN 00:00, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I just attempted to, but Image:Bubonic plague map 2.png is not uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. I'll fix it later though. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 10:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User:Doremítzwr and metropolises

Hi ... this is going on on the wikt too. He can't quite get (doesn't want to get) that standard English is not "etymologically correct", English borrows words and makes standard English plurals (metropolis->metropolises), just like every other language. (One of my favorites is that Hebrew borrows "brake" from English, then makes a standard Hebrew plural: brāksīm.) We just keep fixing things. Robert Ullmann 11:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC) (en.wikt sysop, wikt:User talk:Robert Ullmann)

Jeffrey: I reverted User:Doremítzwr's modification to my comment in violation of WP:TPG, together with the other changes made at the same time. This user has been repeatedly warned by multiple users (admins and not) on the en.wikt not to modify other's comments on talk pages, and clearly it has not gotten through. It is fine with me if you add his comments back in here, but I have no intention of tolerating his modifications of my signed comment(s). Your talk page, please do as you please. Robert Ullmann 00:18, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pertaining to -polis plurals

I have replied to you on my talk page. Thank you for remaining civil, even when I have been not entirely so myself (the lack of reply from me thus far is not due to an unwillingness to communicate, but that I wanted to write at length if I was going to write at all).

I see that you’ve received a message from Robert Ullmann. He is one of two people with whom I have frequent disagreements on Wiktionary (I generally get along well with all the other editors). However, in all truth, I am a far more useful editor for Wiktionary that I am for Wikipedia. Here, I tend to be a minor force for good; reverting vandalism, correcting errata, improving grammar and typography, adding tracklists to music album articles — nothing major (I don’t feel that I have much to contribute here — not like on Wiktionary, where I feel that I am making discernable improvements). However, my use of some anything-other-than-the-common-as-muck spellings can, has, does, and most likely will, cause conflicts at times. My use of them is well meant. I’ll explain further and attempt to bring this conflict to a close on Talk:Ecumenopolis in the near future. Kind regards, Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 19:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stub sorting

Hello JeffreyN,

I noticed you marked an article as a stub using the {{stub}} template. Did you know that there are thousands of stub types that you can use to clarify what type of stub the article is? Properly categorizing stubs is important to the Wikipedia community because it helps various WikiProjects to identify articles that need expansion.

You can view the full list of stub types at WP:STUBS.

If you have questions about stub sorting, don't hesitate to ask! There is a wealth of stub information on the stub sorting WikiProject, and hundreds of stub sorters. Thanks! — jmorgan (talk) 23:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Saudi Arabia

Frankly, I think the anon has a point. What's the use of archiving a discussion consisting largely of personal attacks and flaming? None of it's relevant to the article to any reasonable extent.--chris.lawson 15:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough, but see also Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines#Maintain_Wikipedia_policy and Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines#Behavior_that_is_unacceptable. If you want to archive it, go right ahead. I just don't think it's worth the trouble, and we'd all be better off if the flame war were simply deleted.--chris.lawson 16:15, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mennonite

I knew that, which is why suggested that you not change it. In Canada, we spell it labour, not labor as you do in the United States. Since it's a section on Canada, they would have done labour and not labor. Let's keep it spelled (or spelt as they say in the UK) Canadian. If you insist on spelling it the American way, I will not revert your edit again, but I trust that you have a better reason than mine. --Walter Görlitz 06:00, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

The original edit I made was to return it to labour since it made sense in context. That is why I made the change. Sorry if I offended you by being incomplete in explaining my logic. Not at all offended. I just needed to explain the logic better. --Walter Görlitz 14:40, 4 April 2007 (UTC)