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Linear B needs some mentoring. An enthusiastic editor is doing a lot with it, but some of it involves removing valuable content from the article. Please everyone have a look, also at the Talk page and revision history. -- Evertype·✆ 17:43, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
The infobox line "Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode" is not always appropriate. I'm thinking in particular of SignWriting and Stokoe notation. These writing systems are designed for writing or transcribing sign languages, for which IPA is irrelevant. I'd like to make a modified version of the infobox without that line, but I'm not that wikiskilled. --Thnidu (talk) 23:29, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
It appears that the article Kufic is based almost entirely on a non-academic polemic article written for a clear religious purpose. It should be rewritten on the basis of scholarly sources. McKay (talk) 12:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
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I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 11:01, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Does anyone recognize the script in the photograph to right? The inscription allegedly comes from the mosque of the village of Koothanallur in Tamil Nadu. The editor who uploaded the image —who is not, incidentally, the same as the "Professor HJ Mulliner" listed as the author— suggests that the inscription has something to do with a 13th migration of Seljuq Turks to southern India. Two users, User:Jamaldn and User:Mdnet, have made this improbable claim over half a dozen articles, always with the same citation: "J. P. Mulliner. Rise of Islam in India. University of Leeds chpt. 9. Page 215." I have failed to find any trace of the book anywhere, including the library at the University of Leeds, and believe that the citation is spurious. The whole thing seems to be a hoax —a hoax involving some pretty remote places and obscure history to be sure, but a hoax nonetheless. Can members of this project offer any light? Aramgar (talk) 23:37, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
I just asked the guy some questions about it, but FYI that book does not exist on Amazon, and that author does not appear to exist at least via Wiki and Google searches. So now the question remains, though. What is that picture of!? Msheflin (talk) 20:28, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Does anyone know about this? Fairy alphabet 76.66.193.90 (talk) 00:49, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks. — Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:53, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)
Does your project care about what happens to the talk pages of articles that have been replaced with redirects? If so, please provide your input at User:Mikaey/Request for Input/ListasBot 3. Thanks, Matt (talk) 02:33, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Please see my recent post at Talk:Chinese_character_classification#Ideogram_vs._Pictogram. Agradman (talk) 18:57, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
I've put this message on the Bulgarian wikiproject page too. There is an IP user:168.7.241.58 which is busy putting Peter Dobrev's fringe theories about the influence of Bulgarian runes on the development of glagolithic and cyrillic. Can an admin please handle this as I'm getting annoyed reverting so much, and I don't want to contravene WP:3RR.VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 03:03, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, there.
I'm not sure if this is the right place to give this feedback. I gave feedback on the Japanese typographic symbols talk page, but the page hasn't been touched since March 2008, so I though I'd try to find a talk page that is monitored regularly.
I am almost completely ignorant of the Japanese language and wanted to find out how the Japanese type their language on a keyboard. I quickly found Japanese typographic symbols, but the article didn't include this basic information. Nor could I easily find links about where this information could be found.
Maybe there is some kind of jargon -- possibly related to typography, or character-based writing systems -- included in the article that was intended to direct the reader to the information. If so, I'm also ignorant of this jargon, so I still couldn't find the information.
To give you an idea of the info I can't find: I'm looking for the very basics of Japanese keyboard symbols. How are words entered? If they can type characters from a keyboard, how do they do it? How are the characters divided up for placement on the keyboard? Do they use an alphabetic transliteration for keyboard input, the way the Chinese use pinyin?
If this kind of information is not appropriate for the scope of the Japanese typographic symbols article, I can't tell where to go to get the more basic information.
Best regards, Rosmoran (talk) 15:47, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Here's a discussion about subject development you might find interesting.
The Transhumanist 23:38, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, there is a contest/dispute against/over totally undiscussed cut-and-paste blanking/merging/splitting of East Asian calligraphybyAsoer (talk · contribs). I don't see any active discussion to justify the edit, so there is naturally no consensus for that. Since it is pertinent to at least "four WikiProjects" (China/Japan/Korea/Vietnam) as well as art/writing system related, I'm drawing your attention to the article and hope you would give some useful input on the matter on Talk:East Asian calligraphy. Any active members who are interests in East Asian culture/art would be greatly helpful for the issue. Thanks.Caspian blue 03:37, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
I've just become aware of these, because of the Hebrew one being added to Israel. I think there is a problem with the inserted box being a different width to the info box below and consequently the top of the article is ugly. I notice similar problems with the Japanese box e.g. at Honda and suspect it is a recurring issue. Could something to be done to make warning tempaltes match the layout of the articles in which they appear?--Peter cohen (talk) 12:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
I discussion has come up at Middle Bronze Age alphabets that I am not qualified to deal with. I reverted some material that struck me as OR, but it may not be so simple.
User Msheflin argues that both authors used for the Wadi el-Hhol section, Darnell and Colless, are unreliable, that all we have of Colless is his blog (which the article is suspiciously similar to), with nothing published, and that he treats the Wadi el-Hhol inscription as proto-Hebrew rather than more general Semitic, while Darnell is not a Semiticist but an Egyptologist, who has financial incentives for sensationalizing his find.
He thinks the article should be split in two, and also mentions a Saqqara script which I have never heard of, which is evidently supposed to be older than Wadi el-Hhol. There are certainly problems with the edits he made that make many of them inappropriate, but I'm finding his prose difficult to follow, and I can't evaluate the claims behind his edits, so I thought it would be best to call attention to them here. kwami (talk) 07:19, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
(I beg your pardon) And just quickly: I have mentioned that what was found in Unas's tomb was a Canaanite dialect written in hieroglyphs. It is not an alphabet, it was a straight-up adaptation of Egyptian hieroglyphs for one snake spell. It proves that Semitic had been "written" (though not alphabetically) earlier than these scripts regardless of the dating of the latter. It is not related, except in that small way, to this article or discussion (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070205-snake-spells.html). Msheflin (talk) 15:43, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Guys... I need your help. I am very new to this, and was more interested in producing quality information than being embroiled in debates with somewhat ignorant and overly zealous editors. I am going to edit the Middle Bronze Age alphabets article later... pretty drastically... Removing anything not cited, attempting as best I can to cite what is valid there now, and providing a slew of citations for the accepted argument that is currently eviscerated by the information presented as wikifact presently. However, I know that this editor is going to summarily revert my citations, and that I am thus going to have to figure out some means of recourse. If there is anyone who could offer advice, support, help, or expertise, I would be very appreciative. Sincerely. Michael Sheflin (talk) 23:43, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I am looking at the above article from the project Wikipedia:Unreferenced articles where it is one of the longest {{unreferenced}} tagged articles that does not meet at least the barest minimum of verifiability. It has been tagged and completely without references since August 2006. It would be extremely helpful if anyone here knows of any sources that could be added to the article to support it's notability. I have been unsuccesful in finding any relevant online refs for SKATS, Standard Korean Alphabet Transliteration SystemorKorean morse equivalents. Any help or suggestions (even an alternative wikiproject to ask) would be much appreciated. regards, ascidian | talk-to-me 14:20, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Will someone with expertise in Chinese please have a look at the article for Radical 24 ? Much of the information seems to be confused with that for Radical 12. RLM1961 (talk) 22:21, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
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