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Romanization[edit]

According to the MoS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Spelling_and_romanization), "if there is a common English form of the name (Tchaikovsky, Chiang Kai-shek), use that form instead." Sohn Won-yil is the case. It was romanized as since 1940s. See the caption for the picture of the following link as an example: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=25589

As the google search on the name shows, that romanisation for that name is not "common". Rhialto (talk) 11:31, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
That is because there are many 손원일s. But here we are talking about one unique person, 손원일 (born in 1909), who happened to spell his name as Sohn Won-yil. Do google search for Lee Seungman (이승만). there are 1,240,000 results. And do the same for Syngman Rhee, then there are 273,000 results. The number is smaller, but the president 이승만, did spell his name as Syngman Rhee, which is not a systematically romanized name. And the wiki article is under the name of Syngman Rhee.

Please discuss this on the relevant page for the article. And feel free to use a wikipedia signature. Rhialto (talk) 11:58, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nice edits on that article. So do you like the song? :) Mushintalk 16:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

JMSDF[edit]

Please indicate why you don't think it will be a blue-water navy in the future on the talk page. I have read plenty of reports that indicate it's going that way. Do you think the new DDH is just for fun? John Smith's 14:14, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indian navy[edit]

Made changes in the blue water navy discussion section. Check it out.

Describing Viraat as "old and unreliable" strikes me as both POV and probably less-than-factual in any case. On the other hand, describing her as "modernised and refurbished" is also an opinion and POV. Therefore, I think it would be more appropriate to term it a "2nd generation aircraft carrier," rather how FS De Gaulle or the Italian carrier (although she is older than those) is decribed. None of those units are possibly a match for Stennis or Truman and they dont claim to be, but they are powerful units in thier own right. Also, to be honest, you don't need a Stennis or Truman or even a De Gaulle to maintain air superority over Pakistan or Bangledesh , which is the primary function of Viraat Cheers V. Joe 14:50, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My original text was to note it as having been out of service for repairs, giving exact amount of time comissioned and amount of time under repair, and letting the reader form their own conclusion. Our Indian friend refused ot let that stand, saying it was too wordy. Since that level of detail is precise and neutral (no one has yet claimed it was pov), I7ll put it back that way. Rhialto 14:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me with a WIKI arbitration on the India-Pakistan section of FN CHarles de Gaulle. There is a user who keep on reverting to claims that are (in my opinion) not WIKI rules. Please arbitrate. I do not know how to call for an arbitration. Thanks. 217.136.68.138 23:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm taking a break from anything to do with wet navies, and especially disputes, at least until after Guy Fawkes Night. Rhialto 23:59, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]


(If you wish) There is a Straw Poll in the discussion page of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, can you kindly participate and if you have other persons who can provide an unbiased opinion that can help. Thanks a lot. Natobxl

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Humour[edit]

Hi there; I am sorry, I had no wish to offend you or anyone else. As the edit log shows, I did wait six minutes before adding the tag. May I respectfully suggest that, if you are creating an article which may involve some pauses for thought, you insert at the top of the page the template {{underconstruction}}? This will indicate that you are still working; I am sure you are aware that a lot of less serious editors do create articles of only a few words with no intention of adding to them. Happy wikying.--Anthony.bradbury 21:04, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Light-year[edit]

I posted on the article talk page about why I tagged the article. Kncyu38 05:32, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Replied there. Kncyu38 13:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I took our discussion into consideration and boldly edited the article, please have a look and let me know if you're happy with it. Kncyu38 07:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work with the table on Light_year! Kncyu38 23:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Specification of Units[edit]

Only units named after an individual such as Newton, Pascal, Amp, Volt etc are capitalized. All others are lowercase. 23:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

another bot error[edit]

Over on Conversion of units, the bot converted cental (a unit name) to central, which isn't the same thing at all. Rhialto 03:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Rhialto, I'll make a note of it so it doesn't happen again. Cheers, Cmdrjameson 09:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Requested Move at Case Closed[edit]

I write to you because I have read your contributions for the RfC for the name of the article Case Closed/Detective Conan (Currently archived at Talk:Case Closed/Name dispute discussions#Comments. A page move request has been made to move the page (and 11 related pages) to Detective Conan; please comment it on Talk:Case Closed#Requested Move.--Samuel CurtisShinichian-Hirokian-- TALK·CONTRIBS 13:21, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Maltese Wikiproject[edit]

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Thank you for Joining the Maltese WikiProject[edit]

Dear Rhialto, I would like to thank you for joining WikiProject Malta, a collaborative effort that aims to improve, write, expand and organise material related to the island nation of Malta. We currently need as many members as we can get, and you are a valued addition to the list of members. Please see our To-Do list if you would like to further contribute to the project, or help construct our project page. If you have any questions, or require assistance, then please contact me at my talk page. Thankyou, Anonymous Dissident Utter 06:44, 19 May 2007 (UTC) (founder)[reply]

On the basis of the discussion at WikiProject Council, I have been BOLD and set up WikiProject Measurement. I hope you are still interested and that you will join the discussion as to how to progress from here. Best wishes, Physchim62 (talk) 11:32, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. In the process of adding a foreign language link to the light-year page, your bot seems to have randomized the alphabetical order of the foreign language links. Rhialto 14:19, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm afraid it's you who randomized it by your changes. My bot put the links in a strictly alphabetical order... Have a look at the page now please .Benoni 00:04, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The current version looks sorted because I edited it. Here's some of teh source from your bot's last version...

ang:Lēohtgēar ar:سنة ضوئية ast:Añu lluz bn:আলোক বর্ষ zh-min-nan:Kng-nî be:Сьветлавы год

I fail to see how zh fits between bn and be in alphabetical sorting order.

Rhialto 05:17, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, it was sorted before you edited it. Now it is not sorted anymore!Benoni 15:37, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
zh-min-nan:Kng-nî is for Ban-lam-gu... It is not the code which is important but the name of the language.Benoni 15:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Seeing as how the name of the languages are written in a multitude of different scripts, it makes no sense to sort by that data field. Russian/Chinese/Arabic/Thai characters cannot be meaningfully be sorted amongst English letters. [[1]] suggests that sorting by the 2-letter code is a perfectly valid approach. Rhialto 16:17, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Well, but you should read it entirely:

"There are numerous way to sort the interlanguage links. The preference is for sorting according to either the two-letter language abbreviation or the name of each language in that language. The vast majority of articles are currently sorted the second way: by order of alphabet, based on local language, as described at m:Interwiki sorting order, so new articles should be sorted in that way." And all the bots on this wikipedia (and in the other languages as well) are programmed to sort that way. So the next bot going on this page will sort it again the way my bot did...Benoni 23:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

fine then. ill leave sorting to the bots, since they are obviously more intelligent than me Rhialto 07:04, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dear member of WikiProject Malta, I'd like to invite you to participate in an ongoing Article for Deletion debate about St John's Square in the capital of Malta. We'd like your input about whether the article should stay and go (and if you want to expand the stub, that would be great too!) All the best, Eliz81(talk)(contribs) 21:21, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Roman measurements[edit]

Thanks for that - got a bit carried away, and didn't want to make a further edit re: WP:3RR rule
Mariya Oktyabrskaya 16:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

:O[edit]

like... oh my god! how come you reverted ALL of my edits to the maltese language page? im sure that it was not possible for all of them to be wrong! omg i spent ages on that! you cant just get rid of the whole lot Iamandrewrice 19:07, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In a book i have. release of 51, in Russian, it's called Russian Premiership: History of Russian science, they notice that a Russian system existed since ancient Rus. They haven't invented during Peter, but only adjusted it to the English. In the version you reverted to you get the impresion that they simply copied it from the English. Look what i wrote there. Log in, log out (talk) 12:02, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that revision looks fine. Rhialto (talk) 12:18, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Changing the names of the Maltese village articles[edit]

There is currently an ongoing debate about whether the articles on Maltese villages should be given their English names. Kyarichy has already gone and renamed a bunch of articles such as as Kalkara citing these changes from an old obsolete paper and http://www.geody.com, even though these names are no longer in use.

The naming conventions clearly state that foreign location names commonly used in English should be used as the article names.

It would be appreciated if you could assist us in this discussion. ~ ► Wykebjs ◄ (userpage | talk) 11:00, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't indiscriminately delete when you haven't been following the history of the discussion. That taklk page has been plagued by an anonymous IP ranter about the genetic inferiority of evil European Jews for a number of months, and it would have been much better to just revert his recently-added rant, rather than deleting a whole section which contains some perfectly legitimate comments. AnonMoos (talk) 14:33, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Additon of Russian Navy[edit]

What's your opinion on adding the Russian Navy into operational blue water navy?Chanakyathegreat (talk) 13:45, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In which article? Rhialto (talk) 15:26, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
If you mean Blue-water navy, then no. Ballistic missile submarines are effective tools for controlling land (or at least, for control foreign policy with threats of ballistic missile strikes), but not for controlling contested waters. Their sole aircraft carrier has a history of reliability issues. Rhialto (talk) 16:11, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quinqueliteral (5-letter) roots in Maltese[edit]

Hi Rhialto! Could you maybe help me out: I would like to know if the Maltese language exhibits any roots with five or more consonants – also if they only exist only in slang. If it does, are these roots inflected as verbs, as nouns, as adjectives etc.? Are these inflections problematic? How does the National Council for the Maltese Language address these roots? How do speakers of Maltese regard these roots? Any information (and many examples!) would be greatly appreciated! Please write me here on my talk page. Thanks very much, Dan 12:51, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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This is regarding my change that you have undone on Feb 20th with comment "Undid revision 596300596; actually, it does: http://www.iau.org/science/publications/proceedings_rules/units/" -

The content of this IAU site is either inaccurate or more likely obsolete. As an example - Astronomical Unit has an exact definition in metres (149,597,870,700m as of 2012) but the site shows old incorrect approximate value. It has the same inaccurate data for Parsec. So, my comment is accurate that lightyear and AU have exact definitions in metres. That is not (yet) true for Parsec. Even PI (3.14...) Parsec is approximately (but not exactly) equal to 180x60x60=648000 au, because Tan(1sec) is approximately (but not exactly) equal to 1". This makes AU and lightyear different from Parsec in terms of exact vs. approximate value in SI metres. Let me know if you still disagree or need more information - Wikipedia pages on AU and lightyear have accurate data and substantiating evidence and I can provide more if needed.

Please revert your-Feb 20th-undone and add my comment back into the page. Thanks.

--- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.71.214 (talk) 02:10, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have no fault with your recent correction to the parsec article - in English-language countries, 10^12 km is indeed a "trillion km" and not a "quadrillion km" although it is a "quadrillion (or 10^15) m". The problem is that, in most countries where English is NOT the principle language, a quadrillion is 10^24 instead of 10^15, a trillion is 10^18 instead of 10^12, and a billion is 10^12 instead of 10^9, as noted in long and short scales. Hence the recommended solution is to use either an appropriate thousand / million combination (such as "31 million million km") or, even better, a less-wordy SI prefix as is already done in the next paragraph ("30.857 petametres" or Pm). In fact, the Spanish, who in numbers use a period for our comma and vice versa, call the parsec "30.857 mil millones kilómetros" (30,857 thousand million km). Although admittedly, you'll still see the American press refer to Congress as currently dealing with a "$14 trillion" deficit and neither a "$14 million million" or a "14 teradollar" deficit. Those reporters are not the Wikipedians we are. —— Glenn L (talk) 12:56, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's great. I really feel those people who don't have English as their first language have every opportunity to use localised versions of WP in their own language. The English WP is written for people whose native language is English. WP is primarily a facts repository, not a language-learning tool, and so should not need to be simplified to account for non-native speakers, especially since WP also exists 9or can exist) in many other languages, including theirs. Rhialto (talk) 20:51, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Twenty-foot equivalent unit: Equivalence[edit]

Looking at your recent change to the TEU article, I wonder whether it might be better to use a consistent number of significant figures as below rather than the currently inconsistent 1 or zero decimal places since, as is stated in the article, "the TEU is an inexact unit, and hence cannot be converted precisely into other units."

TEU capacities for common container sizes
Length Width Height Approximate Volume TEU
20 ft (6.1 m) 8 ft (2.44 m) 8.5 ft (2.6 m) 1,360 cu ft (39 m3) 1
40 ft (12.2 m) 8 ft (2.44 m) 8.5 ft (2.6 m) 2,720 cu ft (77 m3) 2
45 ft (13.7 m) 8 ft (2.44 m) 8.5 ft (2.6 m) 3,060 cu ft (87 m3) 2[1] or 2.25
48 ft (14.6 m) 8 ft (2.44 m) 8.5 ft (2.6 m) 3,264 cu ft (92 m3) 2.4
53 ft (16.2 m) 8 ft (2.44 m) 8.5 ft (2.6 m) 3,604 cu ft (100 m3) 2.65
High cube
20 ft (6.1 m) 8 ft (2.44 m) 9.5 ft (2.9 m) 1,520 cu ft (43 m3) 1[2]
Half height
20 ft (6.1 m) 8 ft (2.44 m) 4.25 ft (1.30 m) 680 cu ft (19 m3) 1[2]


Your thoughts would be appreciated over at Talk:Twenty-foot equivalent unit. Thanks. Longwayround (talk) 13:45, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback[edit]

Maybe we should expand other navies.. Srikar Kashyap (talk) 13:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Widening table for class=wikitable[edit]

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Hello. I see that you are a member of WikiProject Malta. I've found a few non-RS that state that Madeleine Collinson has died. I'd like to include her death in the article but would also like a reliable source to back it up with. Her article states that she moved back to Malta at some point. Do you know of a Maltese reliable source that might mention her death? As I said, I can't find one in English. Thanks, Dismas|(talk) 06:13, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It was not put in as a reference. WP: 3rr. 7&6=thirteen () 14:48, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm sure you're well meaning enough, but it does create less needless work for the rest of us if you look things up before you "correct" them. "Stade" is not only an English word, it's four separate ones. (Of which the primary is the anglicized form of the Greek stadion which is not identical to the Old English furlong, which was based on a separate rod/acre system.) Granted, it's increasingly common to simply leave the Greek untranslated, but go run the numbers at Google Scholar and ngram and post it to the talk page. — LlywelynII 15:46, 6 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"stade" exists only as an archaic and obsolete anglicisation of the ancient Greek unit that nowadays is translated as the stadion. It has no more place in a modern encyclopaedia as words such as "verily" or "forsooth". Which is to say, only when writing an article about the word itself. Rhialto (talk) 13:51, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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What level are you?[edit]

I found your name at Category:User js (probably because you posted the corresponding userbox on your user page), in the level-unspecified list of JavaScript programmers.

I was wondering how experienced you are at JavaScript, and whether you might be interested in getting involved with developing user scripts, hobnobbing with other JavaScript programmers, and organizing and improving JavaScript articles and support pages.

We do all of that and more at the JavaScript WikiProject.

Scripts undergoing development, and the state of JavaScript on Wikipedia, are discussed on the talk page.

For an overview of JavaScript coverage on Wikipedia, see Draft:Outline of JavaScript and Index of JavaScript-related articles. For everything on user scripts, see User:The Transhumanist/Outline of scripts.

The WikiProject also organizes every resource it can find about JavaScript out there, such as articles, books, tutorials, etc. See our growing Reference library. If you know of any good ones, please add them.

If you would like to join the JavaScript WikiProject, feel free to add your name to the participants list.

Hope to see you there! The Transhumanist 16:58, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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