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Hi Siva.  I'm currently working on rewriting the section on Carnatic theory for the nynorsk wikipedia to make fewer references to Western musical concepts, and explain basic theoretical notions in more detail.  In connection with that, I've added a few comments to the [[Talk:Carnatic_music#Tonic_Vs._Key|'Tonic v Key' debate]] on the [[Carnatic music]] article which, hopefully, will be of some help.  --[[User:Vadakkan|Aravindhan]] 17:57, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

== [[Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week]] ==

I would like to revive this project.  Are you interested in working on it? [[User:J3ff|J3ff]] 06:48, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
:I'm almost surprised to see myself typing this, but I don't think I'm interested in it. I think that what we really need is better and more complete articles in es:. Personally, I see less point in translating ''to'' English than in translating ''from'' English.--[[User:Skal|Siva]] 02:01, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

== Just some questions for Skal==

Hi i was reading your user page. it says that u come from sydney and grew up in the suburbs. you said you were of dravidian ancestry and are now living in the U.S. Where you born in australia, united states or another country. Just curious. How long have u been living in the U.S?? By the way, im an american-born tamil from Jacksonville, FL ( Birthplace is San Jose, CA)
:That's a classified secret :-). I was born where I grew up. --[[User:Skal|Śiva]] 18:01, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
:P.S. Talk pages are for discussing mainly Wikipedia-related issues. Just thought you should know.
 --[[User:Skal|Śiva]]

Thanks for your reply. Sorry if i broke any rules. So my guess would be that you grew up in Australia. Welcome to the U.S. anyway (: Im proud to be indian-american bcoz we contribute greatly to our nation's prosperity!!

== Unusual Request ==

checkout my comment on. [[Wikipedia:Unusual_requests#Favour_for_me._.5Bslightly_edited.5D]] --[[User:Spundun|Spundun]] 03:11, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

== Dental ==

Please see the discussion page on the latin pronunciation article.[[User:Magicalsaumy|Cygnus_hansa]] 19:30, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

==Image copyright problem with [[:Image:Latrunculi.png]]==

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:Thanks. The image is under the "fair use" license. I'm not sure what specific fair-use tag to apply, so I just put in a generic one. When I find time, I will verify the nature of the license. --[[User:Skal|Siva]] 00:38, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

== WikiProject WS ==

Just letting you know I have created a userbox for WikiProject Writing Systems at [[:Template:User WikiProject WS]]. It looks like this:
{{User WikiProject WS}}

Just add <nowiki>{{User WikiProject WS}}</nowiki> to your userpage. BTW, any questions or comments should be directed to the project's talkpage, as I will be spamming this message to all current members. Thanx!--<tt>[[User:Ikiroid/Esperanza|<font color="green">'''The'''</font>]]</tt> [[Imaginary unit|<font color="black">'''i'''</font>]][[user:ikiroid|<font color="blue">'''kiro'''</font>]][[Ego, superego, and id|<font color="black">'''id'''</font>]] <small>([[user talk:ikiroid|talk]])</small><sup>([[User talk:Ikiroid/Help Me Improve|Help Me Improve]])</sup> 22:35, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

== Help for template ==

Hi, this is [[User:Ikiroid|the ikiroid]] again, trying to scout out help for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing systems]]. I'm looking for anyone who can help contribute to [[:Template:Infobox Writing system]]. It's an esoteric sort of template, copied from [[:Template:Infobox Language]] that now needs to be revised for writing system pages. All ideas and comments about it should be directed to [[Template talk:Infobox Writing system]]. [[User talk:Ikiroid|Contact me]] with any questions or comments. Thanks!--<tt>[[User:Ikiroid/Esperanza|<font color="green">'''The'''</font>]]</tt> [[Imaginary unit|<font color="black">'''i'''</font>]][[user:ikiroid|<font color="blue">'''kiro'''</font>]][[Ego, superego, and id|<font color="black">'''id'''</font>]] <small>([[user talk:ikiroid|talk]])</small><sup>([[User talk:Ikiroid/Help Me Improve|Help Me Improve]])</sup> 21:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

== Featured article work for WikiProject Writing Systems members ==

Hello WikiProject WS members, it's the ikiroid again, spamming for help.....this time, it's for working on an article. We're trying to bring the article about the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] up to featured status, and it would be great if anyone from our project would be willing to lend a helping hand. You can make suggestions about what to improve in the article [[Talk:International Phonetic Alphabet#Featured article work|here]], where we're keeping track of the article's renovation. Thanks for reading. Feel free to ask me any questions about the article's improvement.--[[User:Ikiroid|The ikiroid]] ([[User talk:Ikiroid|talk]]·[[User:Ikiroid/Desk|desk]]·[[User talk:Ikiroid/Help Me Improve|Advise me]]) 23:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

== Reference desk ==

Another editor replied to your reference desk query [[Language#Father Pons' Sanskrit grammar|here]]. [[User:EvocativeIntrigue|'''EVOCATIVE'''INTRIGUE]] <small>[[User talk:EvocativeIntrigue|'''TALK'''TO'''ME''']] | [[Special:Emailuser/EvocativeIntrigue|'''EMAIL'''ME]] | [[User:EvocativeIntrigue/Feedback|'''IMPROVE'''ME]]</small> 15:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
:Where? The link doesn't take me to the reference desk, but rather to the [[Language]] page. And at the reference desk, I can find only one answer to my query. --[[User:Skal|Siva]] 17:22, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

== Visigothic ==

I did look at the page, and I saw that it does have some references to Visigothic script, but it's just a newsletter from some SCA-type internet newsgroup. I don't think it's quite what we want for an external link. [[User:Adam Bishop|Adam Bishop]] 05:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

== Barnstar and some other stuff ==

I know we're not anywhere near completion, but I've been wanting to give you this anyway.

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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For making a ton of edits in order to improve [[International Phonetic Alphabet]]. Thank you!!!!! [[User:Ikiroid|The ikiroid]] ([[User talk:Ikiroid|talk]]·[[User:Ikiroid/Desk|desk]]·[[User talk:Ikiroid/Help Me Improve|Advise me]]) 16:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
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By the way, you don't need to mark so much stuff as a minor edit. Many editors exclude minor edits from their watchlist, so if you did more than revert vandalism, fix spelling, or link a word, you can mark it as a major edit. You don't need to be so humble :-) [[User:Ikiroid|The ikiroid]] ([[User talk:Ikiroid|talk]]·[[User:Ikiroid/Desk|desk]]·[[User talk:Ikiroid/Help Me Improve|Advise me]]) 16:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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== Pitman shorthand consonant table ==

I was glad to see that you added a table of the consonant outlines to the Pitman shorthand article. But I thought you'd like to know that some of the outlines don't display properly on my computer. I wonder if you'd have the time to have a look at this and see if it's possible to improve them.

My computer is fairly conventional - Dell, three years old, running Windows XP - but only the p, b ch, j, th, dh, s and z display correctly. (Though having said that, the ch looks as though it is a thick stroke while the j is a thin one - shouldn't it be the other way round? Sorry if I'm wrong on this, it's a long time since I used Pitmans on a daily basis.)

The other characters come up as follows: the t and d are both broken in two instead of being a single vertical stroke. The difference in thickness isn't really visible either.

The k and g look too short, as though they are halved.

The f, v, sh, zh, l and r all come up as square boxes, which is a symbol I've see before when my computer doesn't know how to display a character.

And lastly, w, y and h don't appear at all.

I'd be happy to try and fix this myself, except that I don't know how you've managed to produce the strokes at all, so I thought it would be best just to let you know about the display problems in the hope that you can identify what's going wrong. [[User:Adrian Robson|Adrian Robson]] 09:09, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

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Hello Skal. I tried to search in the Commons, but couldn't find a scann which, showing clearly the basic typographical format, will be useful to you. I can upload some if you need them. But are you going to make a East Asian-style book? In that case you also need to know about the binding, as well as the typographical convention. You can take a look at [[traditional Chinese bookbinding]] first. Cheers.--[[User:K.C. Tang|K.C. Tang]] 01:24, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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