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Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, July 13 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 00:01, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
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Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum You're invited to the Luce and Lunder Edit-a-thon, part of a series of edit-a-thons organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to add and expand articles about American art and artists on Wikipedia. This event will include a catered lunch and special tours of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art and the Lunder Conservation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 9:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 19, 2013 Capacity is limited, so please sign up today! If you would not like to receive future messages about meetups, please
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Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, August 24 at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 03:41, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello Cbrown1023, I want to talk to you about pornographic actress Deauxma's article, which you deleted on May 11, 2007 and fully protected it. This is understandable since the article was recreated over and over again a total of four times, three of those being in one month, and I don't see how Deauxma could have possibly passed WP:PORNBIO back then either. Here's the thing, it's been over six years and Deauxma has come a long way since then. She does pass the notability criteria on WP:PORNBIO now since she has received three performer award nominations from two major adult industry award ceremonies ( AVN & XBIZ awards) which I have listed and sourced on my sandbox so you can take a look at them. Would you please consider restoring this article and/or removing the lock from it? Rebecca1990 ( talk) 16:24, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next DC WikiSalon, which will be held on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at our K Street office.
The WikiSalon an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 11:16, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Are you free on Saturday, September 14? If so, please join Wikimedia DC and local Wikipedians for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) at 6:00 PM. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages are welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please visit the meetup page. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 18:32, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 5 at our K Street office.
The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 14:31, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
Please join
Wikipedia Takes Brooklyn scavenger hunt on September 7, 2013! Everyone gather at the Brooklyn Public Library to further Wikipedia's coverage of— photos and articles related to Brooklyn, its neighborhoods and the local landmarks. -- EdwardsBot ( talk) |
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Deauxma. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Rebecca1990 ( talk) 09:16, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Stiarts erid has been calling me a bully and an illiterate, ever since he started the edit war on The Fog (2005 film). I am sure that he is reading this post now. He causing an edit war and he insults people. He has no respect of Wikipedia's terms, and instead he do whatever he wants. He needs to be block now!!!!!!!!!!!-- NeoBatfreak ( talk) 21:51, 12 September 2013 (UTC) Well actually all I did was contribute to it then to be told no but they would not listen to what i had to say and made no effort to comprimise so we were both happy. This shows very stubborn behaviour. This editor NeoBatfreak ( talk) is known for his illiteracy and although my spelling is not great, his grammar can be very bad to the point of not making sense. In his archives other editors have also noted this. I also believe he is a sock puppet account to make it look like other editors are siding with him. He will not stop trying to be right and can't accept other editors make contribbutions too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stiarts erid ( talk • contribs) 08:00, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
If you look at my talk page you will see I made several attempts to be civil and resolve it so we were both happy but this was refused point blank. If you can't cope with being called a name in the heat of a moment disscusion you can't cope with much. I called two people names so that is not everyone and it was provoked as no one would take any notice of what I wanted to say just focused on what they wanted. This editor can not let it rest and let my version stay and is being very stubborn and awkward about it like a spoilt little brat in many ways. If he would as much as consider my edits I would be happy even if it was not how I wrote them originally. ( talk —Preceding undated comment added 16:18, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for our next WikiSalon, which will be held from 7 to 9 PM on Thursday, September 26 at our K Street office.
The WikiSalon is an informal gathering of Wikimedia enthusiasts, who come together to discuss the Wikimedia projects and collaboratively edit. There's no set agenda, and guests are welcome to recommend articles for the group to edit or edit on their own. Light refreshments will be provided.
We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 05:26, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
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Wikimedia NYC Meetup on October 5, 2013! Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for education, museums, libraries and planning WikiConference USA. -- Pharos ( talk) 21:30, 1 October 2013 (UTC) |
Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for a special WikiSalon at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library's Digital Commons Center. We will gather at 3 PM on Sunday, October 13, 2013 to discuss an important topic: what can Wikipedia and the DC area do to help each other? We hope to hear your thoughts and suggestions; if you have an idea you would like to pursue, please let us know and we will help!
Following the WikiSalon, we will be having dinner at a nearby restaurant, Ella's Wood Fired Pizza.
If you're interested in attending, please sign up at the event page. We look forward to seeing you there! Kirill [talk] 01:46, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
I feel an over whelming need to thank all of you who contribute to this truly incredible endeavour. W is a beautiful thing. Thank you.---- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sparhole ( talk • contribs) 14:51, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
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Please join
Wikipedia "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon on November 2, 2013! Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for Greenwich Village articles on the history and the community. -- Pharos ( talk) 21:21, 29 October 2013 (UTC) |
Hey, a friend called attention to this wiki about Gabriel Over the White House as being too politically slanted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Over_the_White_House
Could someone review it, please? I don't know the movie at all, but even I can tell the article has a strong anti-FDR slant.
Thanks.
wheatdogg ( talk) 10:56, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
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Please join
Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon on December 6, 2013! Everyone gather at Queens Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for borough articles on the history and the communities. Drop-ins welcome 10am-7pm!-- Pharos ( talk) ~~~~~ |
'Linear A is one of two currently undeciphered writing systems used in ancient Crete.'
This is not correct
Here is the history of it's translation:
'During the second half of the1980ies, Kjell Aartun, who had been engaged in the study of Old Semitic languages and culture for more than 40 years, was able, due to his vast knowledge of these languages, to identify some words on the Minoan Disc from Phaistos (ca. 1600 BC), written in a hieroglyphic script, which gave a clue to the decipherment of the whole disc. With the phonetic values of the hieroglyphs identified on one side of the disc, the correctness of the decipherment can be proven by applying the phonetic values to the other side. If an understandable text in the same language and grammatical system, and even consistent with the content of the text on the other side, then appears, the reading of the disc must be correct. The deciphered words belong to an old South Semitic language. The iconography of the hieroglyphs, the content and style of the text, fitted perfectly into the framework of old Semitic tradition and fertility religion. Dr. Aartun gives ample evidence in Die Minoische Schrift. Band I that the Minoan culture is predominantly Semitic.
Applying this discovery to the Linear A script, based on the phonetic values of the deciphered syllables of Linear B, he was able to read the Linear A tablets. Thus, through his decipherment of the tablets, the forgotten Minoan language was identified as a South Semitic language, spoken in the Southern part of Arabia (Yemen) in the Early Bronze Age. Those interested in Dr. Aartun’s method of decipherment and his readings of all Minoan written evidence discovered and published until then, in Linear A and in the hieroglyphic script, should consult his treatises published by Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, Die Minoische Schrift. Sprache und Texte. Band I (1992), and Band II (1997). The printing was supported by the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. In 2001 Dr. Aartun was awarded the King’s Gold Medal of Merit for his Decipherment of Minoan script and language, recommended by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The first volume contains his method of deciphering the phonetic values of the Minoan hieroglyphs and his translation of the Phaistos Disc and other hieroglyphic inscriptions, and the second volume his translations of all the Linear A tablets and inscriptions. The languages of the disc and of the Linear A tablets proved to be Semitic, and he also establishes a grammar of the Minoan languages, which are structurally South Semitic languages.'
I found this at:
http://jarnaes.wordpress.com/1-minoan-crete-linear-a/
The sixth paragraph after the third picture (about the third screen, if scrolling).
I was unable to follow the convoluted method for contacting the correct person. I am no longer the man I was as a professor. In my age, I hope you shall give this to the proper person to change this wonderful discovery!
Herb Diehr
Willis, Michigan
-- "Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference in the world. Marines don't have that problem." President Ronald Reagan, 1985
Please Note: cbrown102312@hotmail.com no longer works.
69.136.147.200 ( talk) 03:25, 16 December 2013 (UTC)