User talk:WilliamThweatt
Welcome! Hello, WilliamThweatt, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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hello...mr what is the problems about Ho people wikipedia why are you vandalising the HO TRIBE wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biswajeet34 (talk • contribs) 10:29, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Wiki page[edit]Is this article typed correctly? Historian5920 (talk) 05:07, 2 January 2016 (UTC) Your GA nomination of Khmer language[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Khmer language you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.
@Maunus: Thanks. I'm working on an overview of clause syntax right now that should be finished tonight, then I was hoping it would be ready for you to review again. Thanks, by the way, for recommending the Haiman book. I wasn't aware of that one but his data is exhaustive (and, at times exhausting, it took me a while to get through it), although, as he predicted in the forward, a few of his conclusions are iffy.
As you note, I am indeed struggling with formatting the examples. I'm not satisfied with the current method either; I experimented with tables but that resulted in way too many small tables. The language not being written in a Latin alphabet adds a degree of complexity to it. In addition to English language, I've been looking at the GAs Mongolian language and Biblical Hebrew (the latter has hardly any example sentences). The Mongolian article doesn't use the native script in giving examples. What is your opinion of including Khmer script with all of the examples? I'm partial to it, but then again, I can read it...I'm starting to wonder how much it really adds to the article for the average reader.--William Thweatt TalkContribs 03:53, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
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Hey There, The page on Thailand is locked (yes, I know, to prevent vandalism), but I would like to correct a punctuation error. Perhaps someone can do that for me instead. The error is terribly simple, but easily missed when read: the second paragraph needs a period at the end after the closed parentheses. Unless, however, the author would like the time period in parentheses to be independant of the previous sentence then place a period at the end of that sentence, plus a period at the end of the sentence within the parentheses. Thanks very much! Rockviolet99 (talk) 03:31, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for supporting my RfA[edit]
Brian Martin article[edit]I saw your post on User:Goolwong's page re WP:Judith Wilyman PhD controversy[1] I have just put Judith Wilyman's professor WP:Brian Martin[2] 's page onto BLPN. [3] However I have no faith in WP proceedures. Having been burnt. Could you please have a quick look at Martin's page in a week's time and check that things are going OK. A very quick scan suggests that Woolgong may be serially misrepresenting the content of sources and creating an inaccurate negative representation of Martin. I AGF however an article by Martin "Mobbing of a PhD student: lessons and responsibilities" [4] prompts vigilance. It's been almost 10 years since I last edited and hope that it will be at least another 10 before I do so again. Good luck and edit safely. 124.171.109.96 (talk) 18:07, 4 February 2016 (UTC) References Your GA nomination of Khmer language[edit]The article Khmer language you nominated as a good article has passed DYK for Middle Khmer[edit]
Hi William, I saw that your Khmer language article has been promoted - congratulations! I'm in the midst of copyediting through Sihanouk's article, as I hope to promote it to FA status sometime in the middle part of this year. (Pardon me, progress is a bit slow as of now.) As I saw that you have contributed to this article in the past, I thought it would be good to invite you to take a look at the article. I have put up a Peer Review, and you are welcome to suggest or give your opinion to any parts of the article which you see that it might need improvement, if you like or see fit. You're coordially welcome to the PR, though please don't feel obliged or pressured if you are unable to do so. Cheers! Mr Tan (talk) 16:06, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Khmer language[edit]
Collapsed[edit]Hiya! Hope you don't mind I collapsed the discussion to not derail the thread any further. Feel free to revert if you disagree. The Quixotic Potato (talk) 04:52, 4 April 2016 (UTC) Ramblin' Wreck from Bottombang[edit]Hi there. I just saw your post on JCW Beckham's talk page from forever ago. Are you related to the fellow with the same name on the 1917 Georgia Tech football team? All I know of Cambodia, aside from "Angkor Wat is a thing"; I have been told they have some neat flute music. Cake (talk) 14:13, 15 May 2016 (UTC) Hindi language speakers[edit]I know the article Hindi is on Modern standard Hindi. But for your kind information, I want to say that Census of India groups all mother tongue languages of Hindi under Hindi language as clearly indicated by my source from official site. All these languages are officially and informally written in script of your "modern standard Hindi" be it Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Marwari and what not. The Indian Census count these dialect speakers as Hindi speakers. Please explain it. Vibhss (talk) 17:33, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
khmer origin[edit]I think friends the khmer people are originated from kambojas Ipradyuman (talk) 12:23, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC) Chaktomukh[edit]Hi William. The idea that "Chaktomukh" means "four faces" first arose in the 19th century with the French, but rivers never have faces either in French or Khmer - in a situation like this,m in both languages it would be normal to speak of "four arms." The actual derivation is from the Foiur-Face Buddha, which was a major iconographic inovation of the post-Angkorean period. This is represented either as four Buddha images arranged around the four sides of a pillar (actually a stupa), as at Lovek and at Wat Phnom, or simply as four faces, as seen on the spire above the throne hall of the Royal Palace in PP. The images/faces are those of the Four Buddhas (the Buddhas of the past 3 ages plus the present one); also closely associated, as a separate image, is the Future Buddha. This is what we see at Wat Phnom. The image has a royal connotation: the king piously hopes that he shall see the coming of the Fifth Buddha. I wish I could find the books to illustrate this, but they're all packed away. You might like, though, to contact Ashley Thompson, who did a lot of work on it, or perhaps Vittorio Roveda, whose blog is here: https://plus.google.com/104456227087511996860 PiCo (talk) 03:05, 27 December 2016 (UTC) Azerbaijani/genetics[edit]I noticed this summary[3]. The subject of "genetics" is both shady and moreover irrelevant since it can never be certified that it applies to every single person identifying as "Azerbaijani". When also you consider that Azeris are native to eastern Turkey and the question of whether one is Turkish or Azeri is only down to identification in the first place (meaning one sibling may declare Turkish, the other Azeri), such an argument can only imply that Turks must also be related to Iranian peoples. What people need to realise is that in order to be Turkic speaking, it is impossible not have some Turkic ancestry, otherwise the individual would have found himself as one of the other nations among whom Azeris live (i.e. proper Iranian, as most Azeris live in Iran). With this, one needs to realise that to whom an individual is related/descended is not the same as to whom a nation is related, because it is universally accepted that people assimilate, people intermarry, and ethnicity is fluid. Nobody disagrees that many Iranic people became assimilated by Turkic people, but this is history. They gave up their identify to mix with other nationals and now they can only claim descent in the ancestors of those nationals - no different to Turks who forced Turkish identity upon local Kurds (i.e. Iranic people) meaning that many outwardly "Turkish" people have Kurdish/Iranic roots. I don't know if you were alluding to "culture" being closer to Iranian than Turkish, but if so, I'll just say quickly that culture is not a property of origin, and that it is subject to continuum and history, and as such, the Azeris of Turkey and those nearest the Turkish border are very different culturally to those deep into Iran, but all are similar to their neighbouring ethnic groups. I went into more detail on the talk page (but this was some weeks back). --OJ (talk) 17:14, 2 April 2017 (UTC) HRC[edit]Thanks for your recent edit on Hillary Clinton. I provided some rationale for your/our version on the talk page, in case someone sees fit to revert you. Oh, and not that it's germane to anything, but I notice that you and I both starting editing Wikipedia in the very same month! (September, 2005). Cheers! Unschool 18:10, 10 April 2017 (UTC) Disputed non-free use rationale for File:9-ghost-house-IMG 4604.jpg[edit] Thank you for uploading File:9-ghost-house-IMG 4604.jpg. 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Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 06:49, 11 April 2017 (UTC) Regarding Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Biswajeet34 reported by User:WilliamThweatt (Result: Protected), if you believe that you have a set of grammar and punctuation fixes ready to go, why not use the {{Edit fully protected}} process to make a request on the article talk page. I'm actually the second admin to comment. User:GB fan had noted that both parties were warring and only the other guy had used the talk page. Though you have the advantage over the other party in experience, we admins have to go through the usual steps regardless. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 21:00, 10 October 2017 (UTC) @EdJohnston: Thanks for the reply. As I noted at AN/EW, I had tried communicating on the user's talk page where I knew he would see it but I didn't get an answer. I have since posted on the article talk page as well, but again, no answer. I have been gathering and reading sources for near a month in order to overhaul this article. FPER seems a rather annoyingly tedious way to go about it. Frustrating & discouraging. But if that's what it takes, I guess I have no choice now since I would really like to see the article improved. In any case, thanks for volunteering your time to tend to matters such as these, it is appreciated even if we may not completely agree in this case.--William Thweatt TalkContribs 05:53, 11 October 2017 (UTC) Biswajeet34[edit]Could you revert your copyvio warning as I'd already made one. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 07:59, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
A concern[edit]Hi William. I noticed a disruptive and questionable user on some pages you seem to be interested[4][5][6][7][8] possibly related to this user. Their edits and Cyrillic username reminded me some sockmasters, LouisAragon knows better. 183.89.121.17 (talk) 06:26, 4 November 2017 (UTC) Hi. This month The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There is over £3000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. Wikimedia UK is putting up £250 specifically for editors who produce the most quality new women bios for British women, with special consideration given to missing notable biographies from the Oxford Dictionary of Biography and Welsh Dictionary of Biography. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate independently this is also fine, but please add any articles created to the bottom of the main contest page even if not competing. Your participation in the contest and contributing articles on British women from your area or wherever would we much appreciated. Thanks. Ayutthaya[edit]Hi- so I don't disagree that eventually lan xang fell to the Burmese - the issue I have is that firstly the discussion is about "social classes" according to the heading so what purpose is there to mentioning that history there? Secondly the entire paragraph as written is flawed. It talks about the sixteenth century implying Lanna fell, the lan xang then ayutthaya, which isn't accurate. That editor consistently presents pro-thai bias (for instance claiming khon has no Khmer connection). Lanna/Chiangmai fell to the Burmese, then ayutthaya. Lan xang didn't fall till after the death of Setthathirath. As written the article denies a key moment in Lao history where it was the only Tai kingdom left standing against the Burmese. The article goes on to talk about Narusan so clearly the chronology needs work. StampyElephant (talk) 21:12, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
@WilliamThweatt I think we are on the same page with the editor. Again, I also don't deny that Lan Xang fell to the Burmese in the 1570s after Setthathirath's death. However, it wasn't easy...the Bayinnaung and Binya Dala pages are based on Burmese chronicles, and make that clear (terrain and malaria helped) however there was also a good deal of military strategy on the Lao side (well documented on those pages by other editors). The point is that Lan Xang was able to resist several Burmese attempts to invade...it was not the case that Ayutthaya was the only source of power in the region at the time. Especially since trade with Vietnam via Phuan regions was always possible. Easy pickings is too strong for the time period (eighteenth century- sure). Given the complexity of the issue- that editor was just making a misleading statement to imply a false inevitability wrapped up in nationalism StampyElephant (talk) 01:17, 5 November 2017 (UTC) Ivar The Boneful[edit]He's STILL going. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Racism_in_the_United_States&action=history By this point, he's reverted at least 10 times, in the face of at least 3 editors who disagree with him. He's also called us "racist" repeatedly and accused me of sockpuppeting.2601:84:4502:61EA:65A6:1187:CF1C:195C (talk) 18:47, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
please add full refs[edit]the publ date is way more important than the accessdate you added here.--Wuerzele (talk) 20:25, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
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Sinn Sisamouth Stuff[edit]Hello again William, I was hoping to round up several editors who have recently worked on the Sinn Sisamouth article but it's pretty much you and Rhododendrites. If you have a little time, please see Talk:Sinn Sisamouth#Citations and Verifiability. Thanks. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 15:28, 15 February 2018 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:Ek Thi Rani Aisi Bhi.jpg[edit] Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 18:03, 18 February 2018 (UTC) Insertion of Wikipedia's "List of Led Zeppelin songs written or inspired by others"[edit]If you disagree with my particular insertion of Wikipedia's "List of Led Zeppelin songs written or inspired by others," and thus chose to revert my edit without discussion -- okay, no problem -- but please then get it into the body of the text in the "correct" Wikipedia manner. Not referring to it in some way AT THE POINT where I inserted it -- the ONLY mention in the article of the numerous and and well-documented accusations of plagiarism against Zep -- to me shows a clear lack of disinterest on your part as regards the subject. Christian B Martin (talk) 04:09, 17 March 2018 (UTC) Cambodian Names[edit]Hi William, I was just wondering why all those other names do not have sources. I am sure you are an expert on the Khmer language as to know the surname Khiev for instance means blue. I do not see any sources saying that Khiev is derived from Chinese 喬 (qiao). My apologies if it seems like my sources look like I am fabricating stories, but if you feel that way about that particular surname (Ros), why not treat all the other surnames the same way as well? Shouldn't they have reliable sources to back up their claims on which language their names came from? Anyways, you will probably not respond back based on the other questions posed to you that been left blank. I just wanted to make sure that you're not editing these pages for the sake of your own personal agenda. Please try to keep an open mind and not be a hypocrite when making these edits. Thank you. -NewEditor, 5/10/2018 9:25 pm (UTC)
The romanization of Thai names[edit]If you have time, I would appreciate your thoughts on this. Khiikiat (talk) 11:37, 15 July 2018 (UTC). Cambodian New Year article[edit]
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ArbCom 2018 election voter message[edit]Hello, WilliamThweatt. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC) My questions & clarification to you![edit]Your remark is really unacceptable! I quoted from yr comment: [(e.g. "mighty Khmer kingdom..." Chenla was neither mighty nor a kingdom and possibly not even Khmer, stick to known facts)] 1.How do u know Chenla was neither mighty nor a Kingdom? Where does yr argument base on? Source? > Chenla was a Kingdom recorded in Chinese document. This Kingdom located in the upper Mekong Valley, North of Funan. > This Kingdom was mighty, that's why it can subjugate Funan which regarded by historian as the earliest powerful Kingdom in Southeast Asia! > Chenla was mighty as proofed in a inscription dated to 633 AD during the reign of King Isanavarman of Chenla "The great King Isanavarman is full of glory and bravery. He is the King of Kings, who rules over Suvarnabhumi until the sea, which is the border, while the kings in the neighbouring states honour his order to their heads” 2."Chenla...was possibly not even Khmer. Stick to known facts." What is yr bas or historical references to DENY that Chenla was possibly NOT even Khmer? > Chenla is generally accepted by most scholars as Khmer/ Kambuja (Cambodia)! > In Zhuo Daquan's record "The Customs of Zhenla/Chenla", Zhuo mentioned that the people of Zhenla called their country as Kampuchi (equivalent to Kampuchea/ Cambodia). > Inscription K.600 dated 611 AD is the earliest Khmer inscription to be found and inscribed during Chenla Kingdom. 3. If Chenla is NOT Khmer, what was it belong to? Indian? Thai? 4. These are known facts! Should I stick to known facts or you should yrself? 5. I am suspicious about where you come from! Only Thai people deny Khmer historical connection to Funan, Chenla, and even Angkor (Khmer Empire) 6. By the way, u removed my writing without notify me or even give me time to revise my text before being removed. Other authors did notified me and discussed what should be improved! I need yr reply! Thanks Maine Ferrick (talk) 01:03, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
I feel I cannot engage more with yr arguments since u literally denied most of the historical data by some scholar like Coedes as u claimed base on modern scholarship or those of Coedes & others are outdated to discuss about Chenla. However, in my point of view, Chenla is still Khmer as archaeological evidence proofed. By the way, during Chenla period, many inscriptions (Sanskrit & Khmer ) were made while some of them were written in Khmer language and I never heard the inscriptions of this period (of Chenla) were made in other language (of Phnong,Kui, or Samre) rather than Khmer, although having the same ancestral (Mon-Khmer). Moreover, the ethnical name for Kmer/ Khmer were mentioned in many inscriptions during Chenla period! If Khmer did not rule Chenla,how can there be inscriptions in Khmer recording about the offering of servants & else to the temples by the rulers! About the word Kambuja here,I just want to connect it with Kampuchea/Cambodia, although it is a Sanskrit name, but we cannot use this to deny the linkage with Khmer as most Indianized states in Southeast Asia used Sanskrit names or ancient Indian cities' name for their respective Kingdoms, polity, and cities such as Champa. Chenla has to belong to somebody (ethnic group) since Chenla could amass its political power in this region with it political centres based in many ancient cities such as Srethapura, Sambhupura, & finally Isannapura! About the argument about whether Chenla was unitary Kingdom or collection of politics with local rulers, how made it far from a simple sense! Most Kingdoms or states in the ancient time all having this characteristic, there were a central power ruling our various local rulers or warlords! Then the history of all states in human history need to change to as "collection of polities" rather an as an unitary state or Kingdom! Anyway, I want to read your scholarly articles (if u have done some) as I want to see yr argument & archaeological evidence to proof that Chenla was not Khmer or was possibly not rule by Khmer! Thanks! Maine Ferrick (talk) 03:05, 12 September 2019 (UTC) By the way, thank you for yr respectful & patient long relies! My early writing was quite aggressive, sorry! >< Maine Ferrick (talk) 03:12, 12 September 2019 (UTC) ArbCom 2019 election voter message[edit]
Khmer article[edit]In a historical article it is better to link years. Kapeter77 (talk) 10:32, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
Answer[edit]Hi WilliamThweatt. Probably you don't know what's going on in this page, so let me tell you the whole story. That page is about a certain dog breed named "Maltese". Such a word is actually an English word, but in this case, i.e. when it refers to this dog breed, also the Italian pronunciation is used. Indeed, that pronunciation has been in the page for years, and the countless editors who modified it (among whom also certainly lots of persons who were familiar with this dog) have never removed it. So, if a consensus should be reached, is for removing the pronunciation, not for restoring it. Unfortunately, a registred user who wasn't at all familiar with the content of that page, after rollbacking a vandalism thought, wrongly, that the pronunciation should be removed too... It took me days to explain and convince him that he was doing a wrong thing, but finally he seemed to have understood and stopped removing it. But now an anonymous user (I can't understand where he comes from...Canada, okay, but what the hell has he has to do with all this?!) who uses different IP ranges started making an edit war against me, and I'm just restoring a sourced content which has always been in the page, nothing more... In case you have doubt about the fact that an Italian pronunciation is useful there, you should know that: "Maltese" is also an Italian word which indicates that dog; the patronage of that dog is Italian; the origin of the dog is generically the Central Mediterranean Sea zone, not the island of Malta itself; the name of that dog doesn't come from the island of Malta as commonly thought but from the semitic word "màlat" from the which both the dog's name and the name "Malta" come. Information confirmed by the International Cynologique Federation (FCI). As you can see "The Maltese (Italian: [malˈteːze])" is the most proper way to start the head paragraph of the page dedicated to the Maltese dog, because it's provided also the information about the Italian pronunciation which can be used to indicate specifically that dog just like the English pronunciation which, however, can also be used to indicate the people and language of Malta. For the moment I'm waiting before restoring pronunciation and source again, in case you have questions I'll be glad to answer. Let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.64.188.62 (talk) 08:49, 18 January 2020 (UTC)  The file File:Awkun1.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Help request[edit]Hi WilliamThweatt. Your user page indicates you've got a good understanding of Khmer so maybe you can help out an editor named
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