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I've spent quite a bit of time revamping the portal, adding date-based rotating content, and adding a few new secitons. I have just submitted it for portal peer review, and invite everyone to participate, here: Wikipedia:Portal_peer_review/Linguistics/archive1. --Msanford (talk) 00:44, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I just created Chinese exclamative particles, should this be added to WP Linguistics? -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs 11:05, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I asked the following question at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy), but it might be better to ask it here.
Articles about language belong to the category Linguistics. I have noticed that many editors are not aware that Linguistics is a distinct academic field. That is, they naturally assume 'Linguistics' is the domain of Literature professors, Educational bodies/Boards of Education, or published grammarians. This is understandable, since modern Linguistics doesn't hit 50 until next year.
How best to redress this in the policies and guidelines, and what is the process for getting it done?
I left out common knowledge ("I speak English, so I know what the vocabulary is/how English works" etc).
I think it's partly a matter of adding a page or section to the Reliable Sources sections of Policy and Guidelines for where to look for reliable sources for the category, and so being able to reference it. This might cut down on unnecessary discussion. I don't see it as a problem with the technical articles, naturally, but there are many more articles concerning (English, particularly) language and language use than these.
Thoughts appreciated.
Ddawkins73 (talk) 17:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
I am astonished that a standard arrangement of phonemes has become institutionalized at Wikipedia. I refer to putting nasals on the top row. If I have ever seen this in the literature, I can't recall it. How did this happen, and how can it be undone? Dale Chock (talk) 05:17, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Notable? ChildofMidnight (talk) 02:24, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm looking for assistance in writing the Linguistics Wikibook, and I had heard that Wikipedia might be the best place to ask at. The book looks promising, but I don't feel like I have the time or knowledge to work with more than the first few chapters. Mo-Al (talk) 06:56, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Input from those with expertise would be much appreciated at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Elements, where the proper respelling pronunciation of -ium is being disputed. --Cybercobra (talk) 23:51, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
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I see that WP Linguistics is currently without a userbox, so here's a simple one that you might like. Suggestions for improvement are most welcome. Thanks, MuffledThud (talk) 09:20, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
I have created the page Positive anymore, as requested on the project page. Your additions, changes, etc. are most welcome. I've also added the project banner to the talk page, if anyone would care to suggest quality and importance ratings. Cnilep (talk) 18:29, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I've created the stub Informant (linguistics), but it needs expansion. Please add, chop and flame as required. Thanks, MuffledThud (talk) 22:12, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
Is correct way using dagger like this『†Tyranousaurus』or『† Tyranousaurus』or both? For more infomation see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Palaeontology#"Extinction dagger" guideline needed. Thanks. --Snek01 (talk) 14:59, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
I have some concerns about the file 'Languages world map.svg', which was recently added to the {{Linguistics}} template. The color-coding seems to represent an odd mix of language families, sub-family groups, and ad-hoc groups containing multiple families. For example, the Western hemisphere has three colors representing "Germanic languages", "Romance languages", and "Native American languages". As contributors to this project probably know, Germanic is a branch of the Indo-European family and Romance is a major division of the Italic branch of Indo-European. Native American languages, on the other hand, do not comprise a family but encompass many families including Caddoan, Chinookan, Iroquoian, Muskogean, Na-Dine, Siouxan, Uto-Aztecan, and many others (and those are all represented in North America; the map uses the same color for South America). The map also shows "Australian Aboriginal languages" as a single color.
I realize that color-coding by family and mapping the most commonly spoken language in a region (I assume that is how the map is drawn) would make most of the world look Indo-European, which would be problematic. An alternative might be to map presumed areas of origin by family, or an estimate of (say) pre-1500 distribution, but each of these has its own controversies and problems.
I don't know what the best solution might be. But I don't think that this map is very informative as a logo for linguistics-related pages. Thoughts? Cnilep (talk) 16:10, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Implemented it for now. What does everybody think? --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 20:39, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
The old map is much more informative and should be restored. To say that the new map displays much of the world as Indo-European because "that's the way of the world" applies equally to displaying the Germanic family as the world's second largest and most wide-spread. The prior map is accurate and more informative and should only have been replaced, if at all, by a more detailed and not less detailed one.μηδείς (talk) 02:37, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
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Cantonese (Yue) (iso3=yue) is being polled again for renaming, because with Standard Cantonese (Canton dialect) now at Cantonese, some feel the article names are too similar. Input welcome. kwami (talk) 12:07, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
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Any reason why this project isn't subscribed to WP:AALERTS? (See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Linguistics/Archive 2#Article alerts). Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 23:58, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
I set up a temporary page at User:Cnilep/WikiProject Linguistics project content using JL-Bot/Project content with all project parameters. If other members of this project like the look of it, it might be moved to a subpage of the project page. Cnilep (talk) 22:08, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Because of a lot of problems with original resource and factual disputes, I've pretty much eviscerated this article; it used to have a long list of mutually intelligible languages, and I removed everything without a source (essentially the whole list) and added notes saying not to add anything to the list without a source. Further explanation is here. If anyone knows of languages that can be re-added to the list, you are welcome to make sourced additions; hopefully this way we can gradually get the article built back up, and at a higher quality than before. Thanks, rʨanaɢ talk/contribs 21:53, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
I've been populating Category:Euphemisms and started Category:Dysphemisms recently. I'm wondering if we have any editors who are knowledgeable about such things that can bring their perspective to Enhanced interrogation techniques. I'd like to resolve a disagreement on the talk page over placing that article in the euphemisms category. Thanks, Gobonobo T C 23:28, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
I've just noticed that the page Interactional sociolinguistics was deleted last November as copyright infringement. Rather than getting an admin to review the old page, I've created new content based on Gumperz (1982) and description of the subfield by Deborah Tannen in an intro textbook. The page is quite short now, so (well-sourced, non-copy-vio) additions are requested. Cnilep (talk) 16:54, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
The article titled Finnish numerals has been nominated for deletion. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finnish numerals and don't just say KeeporDelete; give your arguments. Michael Hardy (talk) 06:46, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
An editor is questioning notability as well as altering presentation in ways I feel are unhelpful. Would appreciate your input at Talk:Borean languages. --JWB (talk) 20:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
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I have "prod'ed" Classifiers with Number Morphology. A sanity check from a member of this project would be most welcome.
--Cje (talk) 17:15, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi there,
The term Portmanteau is attached to the Spanish term Parasíntesis in Wikipedia. This link is not correct since they refer to different things (both are word formation processes, however parasíntesis does nos imply the shotening of two words - as in a+el=al - but, roughly speaking, the union of a lexeme and a prefix and a suffix in which the group prefix-lexeme and lexeme-suffix separately have no meaning as in a-naranj-ado). Portmanteau is though correctly attached to the term "Contracción".
Could this link be eliminated, please?
Thanks,
Margaritas a los cerdos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.121.231.182 (talk) 17:29, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
I've updated my list of missing topics related to languages and linguistics - Skysmith (talk) 12:36, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
The Italian language in the United States page does not talk about the differences with standard Italian, but it is often called a dialect I saw by Googling, but it is a mix of some bastardized English words (non basic words) and all the basic Italian words, which would make it a creole, but only a single google book calls it as such though. Is it? And could someone who knows add it there? Thanks --Squidonius (talk) 02:27, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I nominated Proto-Indo-European root for GA. Comments welcome. --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 15:46, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
The page Abuse of language was apparently created as a translation of the French stub fr:Abus de langage in March 2009, substituting English examples for French ones. An anonymous user attempted to add some sources, but they consist only of surnames and dates; I don't know how to access the supposed sources. I'm not even sure I understand what points these sources are meant to support.
I don't quite know what to make of the page. It seems to be so much linguistic peeving, veiled as a discussion of the preferences of unnamed people or groups (e.g. "Abuse of language is using a word in an... often criticized sense"). The French page is clearly a collection of judgments:
(Note that manchot is the French word for penguin, while pingouin is, at least according to my French-English dictionary, used for either penguinsorauks.)
I'm almost inclined to propose deleting the page, but wonder if it can be somehow cleaned up and saved. Does anyone know of work under this heading? Or can anyone suggest a proper target for a redirect? Thanks, Cnilep (talk) 21:29, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Word (language) is an import of the Citizendium article, and needs merging into Word, as they are the same subject. I thought someone with knowledge of linguistics could give it a go. Fences&Windows 15:53, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I can't edit the Linguistics page, under the subject Philology. An online dictionary is quoted, to the effect that the term "Philology" is first attested in the eighteenth century. This is inaccurate. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first English occurrence of "Philology" ("Philologie") is in Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" from the Canterbury Tales. And of course the word has a Classical background, e.g. Martianus Capella (5th c.) and his "Marriage of Mercury and Philology". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garciala1 (talk • contribs) 13:59, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
There is was a very juvenile argument going on at Japanese phonology, but one which raises an important point, whether Japanese has diphthongs. Various sources hint at what they might be, and how they differ from vowel sequences, but nowhere can I find a clear account laying them all out. And of course there's the traditional description of Japanese having no diphthongs. I don't know how well supported these approaches are in the community. This also ties into what exactly is a diphthong, and how one determines whether s.t. is one. — kwami (talk)
An editor has suggested (atTalk:Grammatical aspect#Intuitive Description of Aspect) to explain aspects and tenses with something like a ball-and-stick model. I went ahead and created two templates ({{Aspect line}}, the "ball and stick", and {{Infobox aspect}}, an infobox for use in articles about aspects/tenses). A usage example is at the mentioned discussion. The templates certainly need to be expanded (e. g. a colour scheme could be installed to distinguish between action and result, the present moment could be marked etc.) Suggestions welcome. --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 17:50, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
The rosetta Stone article, a FA candidate, has a fairly long section on languages and decipherment. If anyone would like to read and comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Rosetta Stone/archive1, all such comments would be welcome! Thanks -- Andrew Dalby 14:49, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
The talk page for the above article has a lot of interesting unanswered questions. I managed to answer two, but added one. :) Can anyone from the project help there? I'm particularly interested about sections 4 and 9. Also, it would be nice if someone could add Lithuanian uniformly to all the examples. Balabiot (talk) 18:53, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
RfM based on the claim that there is a field of Admiralty Island linguistics with its own terminology, that's independent of the Loyalty Islands or Solomons or any other subgroup of Oceanists. — kwami (talk) 06:00, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
A move request has been made to move Loyalty Island languagestoLoyalty Islands languages. --Taivo (talk) 15:02, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
We need an expression (language)/expression (linguistics) article, and it looks like Sentence (linguistics) should be its basis. Propose a move. Talk:Sentence_(linguistics)#Move_to_"expression_(language)" - -Stevertigo (w | t | e) 01:01, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
Manner of articulation was recently moved to Manners of articulation. I have requested that it be moved back. Comments and suggestions are welcome at Talk:Manners of articulation#Requested move. Cnilep (talk) 18:10, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
A discussion on Aorist has taken place on whether the article should remain essentially as-is, or should be rewritten the replace Greek-related grammatical terms like "aorist" by other terms. Input would be greatly appreciated at Talk:Aorist#RfC. -- Radagast3 (talk) 00:02, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to link all Wikipedia language articles with lists in Wiktionary's Swadesh lists appendix to their respective lists. Wiktionary currently has lists for around 200 languages, many of them in language-family rather than individual lists — see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Swadesh_lists. I have personally created and finished around 20 different Swadesh lists, with more coming on their way. I'm wondering if it's possible to do so in the {{Infobox Language}} template, or to create a separate template for this purpose.
My dream is for there to be a 'big database' on the Internet where anyone can access the basic vocabulary words (in standardized topical lists) of all the world's languages. Wikipedia has information on the grammar and demographics of languages, but does not often include vocabulary, which is the core and essence of language. The closest things we have to a massive comparative database on world languages are the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, Intercontinental Dictionary Series, and of course, Wiktionary's Swadesh lists. As a side note, even though this is basically the Rosetta Project's goal, the website is still quite unwieldy for ordinary users, has a very low Alexa site ranking, and does not allow wiki-style contributions. The Rosetta Project has also pulled off Swadesh lists that used to be on there, and does not have any searchable vocabulary databases as of now. And why do this? To help in language preservation, comparative linguistic studies, language learning, and more.
Or perhaps we can even create a separate "WikiVocab" website, similar in style to WikiSpecies! If we do create a big, unified, and searchable database for all the world's languages — all in one place — I believe it will be one of the greatest human achievements in modern times.
Thanks for your considerations! — Stevey7788 (talk) 10:41, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
See the same message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages. It may be best to keep the discussion in one place. Cnilep (talk) 13:20, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
I notice that at least three articles (Pronoun, Adverb and Origin of language) make a specific point of mentioning the opinion of the Azerbaijan Linguistic School. I do not wish to cast any aspersions on what may well be a fine institution, but in the broader scheme of things is the opinion of this school important and distinctive enough to be singled out for mention? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.174.161.119 (talk) 13:18, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
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There is a request for comment at Talk:Croatian language. --Taivo (talk) 15:28, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
The article List of English words containing Q not followed by U was just nominated for Featured list removal candidates. It just needs a bit of work, and there are some potential references at the bottom of the article's talkpage.
The article is not currently tagged with this project's banner, but from the other entries in Category:List-Class Linguistics articles, it seems to fit here. HTH. -- Quiddity (talk) 01:44, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Readers of this page may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albanian exonyms, relating to one of a number of similar lists that were previously discussed in 2007 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of European exonyms.--Arxiloxos (talk) 18:13, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
WP articles indiscriminately use two Unicode modifier letters for pharyngealization, U+02E4 'small reversed glottal stop' ‹ˤ› and U+02C1 'reversed glottal stop' ‹ˁ›. It would seem that the former is the IPA letter, but then what is the other one for? Both are encoded as superscript forms of ‹ʕ›! Is the 2nd supposed to be used in Semitic transliterations, maybe? (In Gentium, e4 looks like a small cap, and is serifed, while c1 looks like a diacritic.) — kwami (talk) 11:09, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
The article Folk etymology on the technical term from historical linguistics needs attention from editors with a knowledge of the subject. There is a current dispute as to whether the term "folk etymology" is properly regards change caused by the reanalysis of borrowings and old compounds or whether it refers without distinction to backronyms and urban legends. Comment would be appreciated.μηδείς (talk) 17:00, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
The saga continues, for anyone who is interested. — kwami (talk) 18:18, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Members of this project may be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob L. Mey. Favonian (talk) 00:15, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I patrol new pages. Recently, an editor has created lots of new articles that are apparently related to your project. Most of these appear to be written poorly; I really have no idea what to do with these articles as far as nominating for CSD, AfD, or just fixing them up. Please have a look at these and do what's appropriate. Really need a subject matter exert. — Timneu22 · talk 17:05, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
I would appreciate comments from editors knowledgeable about linguistics at Talk:Sign language#Animals' use of LANGUAGE, where an editor is trying to make an argument that animals such as apes, dogs, and horses use language. Thanks. Cresix (talk) 17:32, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:43, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
A new WikiProject Toponymy was suggested here, and it was recommended that instead it would be made a part of WikiProject Linguistics. Comments from this project's members would thus be much appreciated. Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); November 29, 2010; 19:02 (UTC)
Is there an idioms taskforce?Smallman12q (talk) 01:56, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Tahash (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I'm hoping to get some additional eyes on the Tahash article. While primarily a biblical topic, there is a great deal of unreferenced and possibly original linguistic material in the article, particularly in the extensive discussion of its etymology and discussions of language change. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 18:40, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
I added a request at Village pump (technical)[2] to bring in the Books Ngram Viewer dataset to Wikipedia and to create a template to make use of it. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:10, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
This keeps bothering me. I know there are lots of unconfirmed and perhaps spurious languages, but Angaur language is allegedly the official language of Angaur State in Palau, which makes our coverage embarrassing. We shouldn't be in doubt as to whether official languages exist or not. There's a passing mention of it in the ELL, but not in the article on Palau, and so it might have simply been copied from the CIA, which might be the source. Is it spurious? Is it a local dialect of Palauan? Should we delete the article? — kwami (talk) 08:36, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
I think we should clarify how we want to handle hyphenation of family names per WP:ENDASH, since there have been sporadic disputes over it.
By almost any style guide, en dashes are used to join compound names together, or to prefix a compound name. That is, if one of the elements contains a hyphen or a space, then an en dash is used. This isn't always reflected in Google books, because OCR often doesn't recognize it, and also of course many sources are set with unprofessional systems such as typewriters or MS Word.
One objection is that we need to follow our sources. However, we're talking about orthography here, and it's clear from our sources that different authors and editors have different takes on this, and that that has nothing to do with the name itself. Many sources use hyphens, simply because they're easier, but that does not mean that only hyphens are official or standard.
So, a case like Trans–New Guinea is straightforward. Every style guide from the Atlantic Monthly back in 1921 (and probably further back than that) up to the most recent I've found for 2010 specify that en dashes should be used in such cases; the InDesign typography guide for example states that a hyphen is an error. Hyphens are common of course, but Ruhlen uses an en dash, "Trans–New Guinea", where Ross uses a space, "Trans New Guinea". The latter is idiosyncratic, but in any case it's clear that "Trans-New Guinea", "Trans–New Guinea", and "Trans New Guinea" are merely orthographic variants and not distinct names. Such usage is disambiguating: in "Trans-Fly–Bulaka River", for example, the trans- applies only to Fly, and so takes a hyphen, and this Trans-Fly is secondarily joined to Bulaka River with an en dash. "South-Central Papuan" with a hyphen are a south-central branch of Papuan languages, whereas *South–Central Papuan with an en dash would mean the southern branch of *Central Papuan. This is sometimes a crucial distinction.
However, while all typographers agree that en dashes should be used when joining compounds (including open compounds such as "New Guinea"), it's less common to specify them for junction of equal attributive elements. The Atlantic Monthly does, as does Webster's New World punctuation (2005), but most guides (generally more elementary) fail to address them. This would be a major issue for us, since it would affect families such as Niger-Congo. (Note that Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, and Sino-Tibetan would not be affected, since the en dash is only use for joining two attributive nouns, not for prefixes.)『Niger–Congo』is found with an en dash in professional publications such as CUP and Nature, again without any indication that this is anything more than a stylistic/typographic choice, but it does seem to be minority usage. This would generally not be disambiguating, since AFAIK no family is named after a hyphenated entity. (In the case where the attributive elements are people's names, en dashes are required, to dab attributive hyphenated names: Michelson–Morley experiment (named after two people) vs. Lennard-Jones potential (named after one person).) The argument then, as I see it, would be that en dashes reflect a more professional standard, as befitting an encyclopedia; the argument for hyphens would be that they are easier to type and are more common. — kwami (talk) 00:01, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
As per common practice, shown by example of the links English, Welsh, French, German, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Navajo, etc., all of which are disambiguation pages, the link Māori (which was the name of the article on the Maori people) was recently moved to Māori people and the title Māori was reused as a disambiguation page just as with the above ethnonyms. This was reverted with various objections. The question as to whether the move should proceed is now open, and your comments here would be appreciated. μηδείς (talk) 20:36, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
A claim in the article Gerund (that the subject of "Eating this cake is easy" is "cake") has been tagged with {{fact}}. I'd say that the subject is "eating this cake", but I haven't got an English grammar book I could use for verification and as a source. Could somebody clarify this? --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 09:57, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
The ASL article was embarrassingly bad. I've copy edited everything but the history section, but I'm sure someone here must know it better than I do. This is an article that IMO we should try to get to GA. — kwami (talk) 03:29, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Jussive mood oddly states that "let's" is a jussive (addressing the 2nd person plural) but "let us" is an imperative (addressing the 3rd). I've always thought that the former is just a contraction of the latter. Could someone clarify? --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 11:08, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
I asked some time ago if Croatian Sign Language were distinct from Yugoslav Sign Language. Turns out that it isn't (apart from normal regional variation dependent on local schools). I therefore moved the article to YSL; I don't know if that's the best name, but it's the only one I've seen that isn't specific to Croatia, Slovenia, or Serbia. (I suspect that Macedonian Sign Language is also a variant of YSL, but my source had no info on it.)
Anyway, this being Croatia, there was of course an immediate argument about it. So, does anyone have a ref that CSL is a distinct language? And is there a better name than YSL? — kwami (talk) 22:57, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as {{citation}}, {{cite journal}}, {{cite web}}...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place |id=
(or worse {{arxiv|0123.4567}}
|url=http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567
), now you can simply use |arxiv=0123.4567
, likewise for |id=
and {{JSTOR|0123456789}}
|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789
→ |jstor=0123456789
.
The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):
Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:02, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Linguistics WikiProject members, this is being discussed at:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Names of small numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Names_of_small_numbers#Names_of_small_numbers
Please also consider what additional sections from binary and other numbering systems and from educationally, historically, linguistically and epistemologically significant concepts and works, including fractions and parts of wholes other than simple number-base exponential systems, including terms from currencies, agriculture, art media, and pre-modern English language names of small portions should be made to this topic as a kept article, especially subtopics which may not be generally known by Wikipedian editors in other particular fields. Etymology for some SI and Metric terms is included in their respective articles to which this one is linked; please consider what portions and extents of etymological information from those sources and what other sources are appropriate to add to this article as well.
Thank you. Pandelver (talk) 04:04, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}}
will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jerzy•t 07:57, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Proto-Indo-European verb has been moved to Proto-Indo-European verbsbyUser:CJMiller. I think this doesn't fall under any of the exceptions listed in WP:PLURAL, but seeing that some pages like English verbsorGerman nouns are pl as well, I want to ask before moving any of these pages. Verb and Noun are sg, by the way. I asked at User talk:CJMiller#Move of PIE verb, but this user isn't very active. --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 14:05, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
FYI, I have split the mess formerly at formal semantics, so there's now a formal semantics (linguistics). Get busy adding to it. (I realize that there may be no competent Wikipedians in the area, because the theoretical linguistics sub-WikiProject is practically dead.) Tijfo098 (talk) 18:33, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Also, I'm of the opinion that the article on semantics should be only about natural languages, because the other ones have separate articles, and because that's what I get when I type "semantics" in google books. You may want to weight in on that on talk page there. Tijfo098 (talk) 18:33, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Also there is a turd of template {{semantics}} that has the same problem: needs splitting. Tijfo098 (talk) 18:40, 6 April 2011 (UTC)