Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby - Vicipaedia

# Disputatio Usoris:Andrew Dalby

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## [recensere] Fortasse ...

...ut magistratus nobis factus est, incipias nuntia hic accipere =]. Congratulationes!--Ioshus (disp) 22:11, 5 Februarii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] Templates

Honestly ... I had in mind to tune them a bit: borders, margins, images, ... Ok, I'll try to control myself as much as possible. ;-) --Rolandus 18:11, 21 Februarii 2007 (UTC)

  I added padding:25px; margin:25px;. ;-) --Rolandus 18:57, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] Incepta collaborativa

Huh, I thought you lived farther up North. Probably just a rash assumption based on the fact that you're English. Anyway, now that Moretum is page of the month, perhaps you want to look it over again and see if you can add anything? Also, see Disputatio Formulae:PaginaMensis#March 2007. I know I've seen you express a wish for more herb articles. Want to help out with that? --Iustinus 19:51, 1 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] reddenda

No, I did no rating, I just changed "reddenda" to "latinitas|reddenda". Sort of cleanup. In my opinion 99 % of these "reddenda" are meant to be "maxcorrigenda" or better. I think the reddenda-template mostly has been misused. See Disputatio_Formulae:Non_latine#reddenda. Please adjust the rating. I hope we will get rid off "reddenda" soon. Better to use "non latine", which is rarely misused. ;-) --Rolandus 21:39, 8 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] No interwiki links

What about having a category like Categoria:Pagina vix in Vicipaediis aliis for pages where it might be impossible to add interwiki links because there might be no other Wikipedias which have or even will have these pages? At least to avoid that I will add "nexus carentes" again. ;-) Or, another aspect: These pages are our speciality and should be marked. --Rolandus 17:21, 10 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] {{nexus carentes}}

That's why the bottom of it says "si sint". The template was designed to be in pages even when there are no interwiki links. This lets people know we aren't lazy, there just aren't any intervicis. That way, when and if someone starts an article in another language they will change the template then. Thoughts?--Ioshus (disp) 17:25, 10 Martii 2007 (UTC)

    Yes, I understand that. In practice, though, I usually see {{nexus carentes}} on pages where there ought to be interwiki links but no one has yet identified them. I think we maybe need to distinguish this type of page from the other type, in which, having checked, we are pretty certain that Vicipaedia has got there first. Hence I really like Rolandus's idea very much indeed --
  Maybe we could categorize such pages, see above. --Rolandus 17:33, 10 Martii 2007 (UTC)
    Yes indeed. I was playing with a snappier name like Categoria:Latine solum. What do others think? Andrew Dalby 18:18, 10 Martii 2007 (UTC)
      Maybe add a iam. I don't want to sound as if it's necessarily a good idea that it is only Latine ad tempus.--Ioshus (disp) 19:21, 10 Martii 2007 (UTC)
  OK, I have made a variant template -- please see explanation at Vicipaedia:Taberna. Andrew Dalby 13:24, 11 Martii 2007 (UTC)
    I like that that the layout is consistent with our small yellow button on {{nexus desiderati}}. :-) --Rolandus 13:37, 11 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] Reading strange alphabets

I can read the Sanskrit, but not the Burmese. That's because I don't have the proper fonts installed. As for my egyptian, I suspect the part you're having trouble with is the Coptic equivalents, which you can likewise read if you install the fonts. Try the font links at en:Coptic Alphabet#External links. If you're having trouble with the characters I used for transliteration, well then honestly I don't have any idea what fonts to direct you too. You might try a unicode font that includes IPA. --Iustinus 05:51, 11 Martii 2007 (UTC)

  No, it'll be the Coptic. I should no doubt have realised that ... It explains why pages like en:Egyptian hieroglyphics didn't seem to offer me any help! Andrew Dalby 08:50, 11 Martii 2007 (UTC)

    OK, and in return I have downloaded a Burmese font ;) --Iustinus 01:04, 12 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] TUGS

I think you are right. The template explains what someone can do now. I will add the option of merging the content with an other article. --Rolandus 18:13, 12 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] Fabula tempus cum Thomas

I have made a {{latinitas|pessima}} template, however, this template refers to the whole page, not only to the title. Maybe we need a template saying "title is nonsense". ;-) --Rolandus 06:27, 13 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] utopica/res futurae

Salve! Categoria:litteratura de rebus futuris et categoria:litteratura utopica conferendas esse puto. --Alex1011 11:24, 16 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] duae columnae

Dic si erro, at nonne rogavisti de quo modo duas columnas in fontibus facias? Invenisti:

     <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count: 2; column-count: 2;">
     <references/>
     </div>

Vide Infinitas#Fontes. Exeo, bene dormi!--Ioshus (disp) 05:31, 19 Martii 2007 (UTC)

  Ahhh, fuit Iacobus. Mea culpa...--Ioshus (disp) 17:16, 19 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] thanks

For cleaning up my typos!--Ioshus (disp) 13:32, 20 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] redirect

Yeah, I think this might be the best idea. In any other language, as I said, this would not really be a problem, certainly cf en:Athenaeus, but at la, I think we need to be careful, because this was just a regular word for Athenian before this particular author.--Ioshus (disp) 13:44, 22 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] Athenaeus

Thanks for the note. Bleh, I need to get some more real life work done so that I'll have time to catch up on wikipedia. As for the Latinization of Δειπνοσοφισταί, you are right that Deipnosophistae is more common even in Latin (that is, in Latin editions of the text and similar references--I don't beleive the word shows up in any Classical texts), but I have no idea why: so far as I can tell that ει is indeed a diphthong, so it should come out as ī in Latin. --Iustinus 03:49, 25 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] occifialis

Kanths rof xifing my sputid mikastes!!

## [recensere] portmanteau

Agricola? Agri+incola...--Ioshus (disp) 03:54, 27 Martii 2007 (UTC)

  agricola <= [agri] "gen. 'of the field'" + stem [col-] "pertaining to cultivation/habitation." [col-] is also the base of colo, incolo, colonus, Grk. βουκόλος, βουκολέω; incola develops also along these lines, from [in] + [col-], related to but not the origin of agricola. --Sempronius Tyro 14:26, 27 Martii 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Not quite what Carroll had in mind. As I have just said at Disputatio:Portmanteau, I think we need an article Verbum compositum. Will you start it, or shall I? Andrew Dalby 14:59, 27 Martii 2007 (UTC)

  If you haven't gotten to it by tonight, after I translate Jollyroger's scherzo for him, I will start it. Even if I do start it, it will require some help (I certainly defer to your superior linguistic prowess =]).
  Semproni, of course I understand the root col-, i just thought that in this specific instance agricola was formed from incola as cola itself is not usually used in this agent sense of "one who lives" the way that the prefixed form is.--Ioshus (disp) 15:18, 27 Martii 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] Zacynthus

Thanks for cleaning up.

Yes, I try to automatically detect some strange constellations in order to find pages which need cleanup. The output you'll find on Usor:Rolandus/temp/Dump-20070328. This one uses the XML dump of 28th, March 2007.

--Rolandus 04:59, 2 Aprilis 2007 (UTC)

## [recensere] SORGLL

Andrea, quaeso, inspciasne hanc paginam et http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/, translationem meam inter Anglicam sententiam conferens? Quippe nolo Societatem contumelia afficere mala sententiae conversione =] Gratias!--Ioshus (disp) 15:53, 3 Aprilis 2007 (UTC)

  Thanks, Andrew. And yes, you're certainly correct that nominis is the appropriate word.
  Would you mind going back to the Vicipaedia:Taberna#Professors of classics (or Classics)? I think the Anglophone and the Latinist in me need sorting out =] --Ioshus (disp) 20:16, 7 Aprilis 2007 (UTC)

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