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Invitation to a research survey
Hello Dbachmann, I am Qi Wu, a computer science MS student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Currently, we are working on a project studying the main article and sub article relationship in a purpose of better serving the Wikipedia article structure. It would be appreciated if you could take 4-5 minutes to finish the survey questions. Thanks in advance! We will not collect any of your personally information.
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Surya Siddhanta
Hi,
I see that you used to help clean up fringe stuff on Surya Siddhanta. I found a paragraph there which I think lies somewhere between fringe research and deliberately misleading, and removed it. I have also added a discussion on the talk page, could you please review?
Best wishes -- Raziman T V (talk) 10:51, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
I agree with your assessment. [1] This is bunk. Stuff related to the Society for Scientific Exploration may be mentioned, but only with due caveats that this is about WP:FRINGEcruft. --dab (𒁳) 17:42, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks! I was worried I was being a bit too harsh -- Raziman T V (talk) 10:20, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
Category:Medieval Persia has been nominated for discussion
Category:Medieval Persia, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:59, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
Southern Arabs
A redirect you created at the dawn of time has been nominated for deletion. – Uanfala (talk) 03:20, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
Scythia/Parthia image
Hi dbachmann, you made an image: [2] several years back. It's a great image but somebody added "Georgia" and "Armenia" to the map which are not relevant and Georgia didn't even exist during ancient times. Could you re-edit this to get rid of it? DA1 (talk) 09:44, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
- Also if possible, could you move the "Uralic tribes" a little more to the left because it's straying too far from East Scandinavia and Northwest Russia where the Uralic people dominated, and could you turn the "Turkic tribes" a little counter-clockwise to appear a bit more straight, otherwise it gives the impression that it's representing East Asia as opposed to the border region of North Asia and Central/East Asia. DA1 (talk) 00:46, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
- I might redraw it in svg so changes can be made. But of course if people want to make undiscussed changes to a map they should have the courtesy of uploading their version under a different filename. --dab (𒁳) 06:29, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
- fwiiw, it might be fair to label "Armenia". For Georgia, "Iberia" could be used. But if we're beginning to start labelling such small entities, the map will just end up covered in dozens of labels unrelated to its main scope. --dab (𒁳) 06:35, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
- Right, that's why it's a bad idea. There's just too many entities you could name and it's irrelevant and tedious. Also 'Iberia' only factors central Georgia, the west would be 'Colchis', whereas eastern Georgia and the East Caucasus (north Azerbaijan and south Dagestan) would be 'Albania'. DA1 (talk) 22:49, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Origin of the name Khuzestan
Dab, do you know anything about this subject (see recent article/talk-page history for current dispute), or know of editors who can act as honest brokers? Abecedare (talk) 20:46, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- Afaics, Xuz = Susiana = Khuzestan seems credible enough. The material is all there, it's just presented in a bizarre way.
- Clearly, this isn't about a factual dispute at all, but about excitable editors (who call "vandalism" on removal of their quotefarms of completely unrelated to the topic). I fail to see why, if the name was fully established in the 12th century, we would need a full list of literature, 12th to 18th century, of every occurrence of the name. Whatever is going on here, it clearly isn't the "origin of the name Khuzestan" that is under discussion. Perhaps ask people to take material on the history of Khuzestan to the Khuzestan page, and the details on etymology to wikt:Khuzestan (which already has a perfectly good entry on the name's etymology).
- --dab (𒁳) 20:57, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks Dab. You and Doug_Weller had similar read of the article! Lets see if an effort to trim the article can be made to stick (will give it a try later this week). Abecedare (talk) 23:28, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Indulging
in a cleanup of Subhash_Kak. Advices or criticism are immensely welcome:-) Also, see User_talk:Doug_Weller#Fringe:-) ∯WBGconverse 16:49, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
Capaldi
Hi dbachmann, could you add the variant Capaldo[3] (a notable is Nicolás Capaldo), which is the more widespread spelling in Italy ([4]) please? I've been struggling trying to paraphrase it. Theo Mandela (talk) 07:55, 10 April 2019 (UTC)