User talk:Vuo
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I'm a Finnish guy, with a D.Sc. Tech. in chemical technology.
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Karelian dialect[edit]In your recent changes to the Karelian language article, you've replicated a lot of the points one of my elderly relatives used to make in her frequent jokes about the (slow) Savolax people. She had spent her childhood somewhere at the western Ladoga shore, in some smallish village whose name I've forgotten. The article states that it is not about what Finns consider as a Karelian dialect, but with your recent changes I curiously wonder if this still holds true. --Johan Magnus 16:37, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Karelian lakes[edit]Could you please comment your changes here? Thank you!—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 21:28, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC) Labialization of /ʃ/[edit]
Estonian[edit]Hi Vuo, Thanks for your clarifications of length in Estonian. I knew something was off with the old wording, but am not familiar with Fennic languages myself. kwami 18:01, 2005 August 23 (UTC) |
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Sauli Niinistö[edit]I probably should feel offended about your blanking of Talk:Sauli Niinistö. Are you a Niinistö voter yourself? =) JIP | Talk 19:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Åland Autonomy[edit]I would like to inquire if your comment regarding the autonomy of Åland is the result of ignorance or contempt for the Åland Islands. It amazes me that a Finn, who by all standards should have at least basic knowledge about the autonomy of Åland, expresses such misinformed views. --Nappilainen 14:27, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Candidate numbering[edit][2] – If '1' is so problematic, then, why is it used normally in all the other numbers (10, 11, etc)? If you have some kind of authoritative source for your information, could you mention it in the discussion? --Jonik 15:17, 22 January 2006 (UTC) MTBE[edit]your revisions to MTBE make no sense. Have you read the arthur d little study? it is totally superficial as well as erroneous. what is the length of your experince with MTBE? have you ever worked on an MTBE cleanup? i have worked in the field of groundwater contamination from leaking fuel tanks for over 30 years and know this subject. MTBE is a known carcinogen and of a concern at very low concentrations. you have reverted this article so that it is essentially a pawn of the MTBE industry. i will not let the article stand with the bias you have instilled. but i will give you the courtesy of awaiting your response and invite any others knowledgable in this matter to comment. let us be scientific and correct in what we impart here.Anlace 21:03, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thanks for your response...here are the issues 1. the part you quote in italics was not my contribution and i agree its almost meaningless 2. MTBE is a known carcinogen 3. as with many carcinogens it is difficult to have long term data to show effects. how many decades did we wait before acting on smoking as a danger after someone knew it to be carcinogenic?? 4. you still havent told me whether you read the a d little article 5. you still havent said how many MTBE cleanups you have worked on. 6. i agree this is no place for a political statement and will heed that in any further revisions. i am not a political person, but rather a scientist. 7. im not trying to sound scary, but MTBE is an enormous problem. in the usa alone the cleanup costs already mandated will be staggering 8. i will give you more references to this matter on my next edit 9. above all i appreciate this discourse, even though we seem to disagree; im not sure how much we will disagree once we share all the relevant facts sincerely Anlace 22:07, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Kemira Growhow[edit]Vuo: I do not see your point in changing the fresh 2006 Kemira Growhow data that was there into some old figures from 2004? The fact that Kemira Growhow web site has some outdated information is not good reason to have outdated information here, right?
modifying noun cases[edit]re your edit at [[3]]
I have great respect your knowledge of Finnish and grammar so have not changed your edit, but you may wish to think about whether you want to change it yourself. Regards Tom 12:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the illative----[edit]Ok I'm picking on you again! In the article on illative (Finnish noun cases) you put this as the introduction...
I honestly do not think that most Finns would regard there as being an elided h in most forms of the illative. It seems to me that adding the 'h' is a simple way of overcoming the problem of extending an already long vowel. This is how Finnish is taught to us learning the language by professional teachers, and it seems perfectly logical. The Pohjanmaa dialect I agree is interesting and, although you have not claimed it, it may, for all I know, have some historical significance too. BUT, I'm not sure that the exception makes the rule! Would you re-consider this? I am trying to encourage the use of WIKIs for learning the language. Although I am aiming to create this away from the Wikipedia, the Wikipedia is a good reference point and we may update it if we think it necessary. It is nice to have them in step with each other, but *-hən and a usually elided 'h' is going to be a hard sell to my Finnish Grammar teacher. Can you re-consider it?
Well I accept that it works and is understood, but I still think it is wrong, because in the standard language, the elision is standard and so we need to state the rules for the elision. The standard teaching is that the form is 1. -Vn (where V is the last vowel on the genetive singular stem).
2. -seen on the genetive stem
3. -hVn
I think this is still the better explanation as it always gives the right answer in Standard Finnish. Tom 13:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC) Palatalization[edit]Hi, please take a look at Talk:Palatalization. Regards, Amir E. Aharoni 10:03, 21 April 2006 (UTC) Michael Reaction[edit]Please see the comments on the talk page. What language?[edit]That was just a general example of what quality vs. quantity means, so I wrote "/k/ with /g/" as an example of change in quality of voicing, because /k/ vs. /v/ would represent only Finnish. It wasn't meant to be from any specific language. If you want a specific language, /k/ vs /g/ could pass for Karelian. --Ryan 19:58, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Historical stuff[edit]Still curious on your source for the following: There are also traces of earlier gradation patterns, predating the current system. For example, the noun case partitive (a very common case, usage about 15% of all instances) and the verb form I infinitive share the ending -ta/-tä. However, more often than not, this is gradated to -a/-ä. For example, the noun jousi has the partitive jousta with the original -ta, but the noun kylä has the partitive kylää, from *kylätä. With verbs, assimilation may occur, e.g. tulla ← *tul+ta. The t-deletion occurs whenever a simple long vowel results in standard Finnish. The Karelian dialect, in particular, sometimes does not delete the intervocalic 't'. Not that I don't believe it, of course, as it seems to be a plausible explaination. I haven't found it in Hakulinen's book, though I may not have searched deeply enough. --Ryan 20:03, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
The living fish swims in water[edit]I will accept your edit if I cannot convince you, but I do feel that I should explain that I used the word "tenuous", to which you objected, because I have read reports concluding that the Finnic and Ugric languages are not in fact descended from a common ancestor. Therefore, they would have a tenuous connection rather than a distant divergence. Again, as you seem to do lots of editing in this field, I will defer to your final judgment. --M@rēino 01:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Proto-Uralic[edit]Terve, tein vähän isompia lisäyksiä aloittamaasi artikkeliin Proto-Uralic, ja lisäsin puuttuvan artikkelin Proto-Samoyed. Jos sinulla on kommentteja tai ehdotuksia uusiin versioihin, niin kuulen niistä mielelläni. --AAikio 11:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC) Dynamic Universe AfD[edit]Can you please respond to GarthBarber's comments in this AfD? Thanks, Crum375 13:04, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi[edit]There is a very close vote on the WW2 discussion page going on at the moment about the overview of WW2. I would like it if you could vote, as I am very worried that the "narrow" viewpoint will win. Thank you. Wallie 00:00, 8 August 2006 (UTC) Did a Finn give California its name?[edit]Hi Vuo. What do you think about this idea? Inflection?[edit]Hi, Vuo... I was at the Finnish language page today, and saw in the first paragraph, "It modifies the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs depending on their roles in the sentence." I was thinking of an edit to say something like:
I don't speak Finnish, though I dated a Finnish girl in college, and so thought I'd raise the question with you here because of your contributions to the page and your knowledge of the language. The little I know tells me (as a native English speaker) that Finnish definitely is inflected, and maybe deserves some mention on the Inflection page as well. — OtherDave 13:41, 17 August 2006 (UTC) Finnish phonology: diphthongs[edit]Hello! I'm glad that you keep an active eye on the article about Finnish phonology as you seem to have good knowledge about it. However, I have to disagree with you concerning the phonological representation of diphthongs. Please see the new section on the respective talk page. Thanks. --Oghmoir 17:16, 26 August 2006 (UTC) Template:mergefrom-multiple and languages[edit]Hi! I really like the way your mergefrom notice is obvious in the article! However, I was under the impression that the Right Thing to do was a WP:TIE I'm wondering whether there's any way to combine the advantages of a WP:TIE listing and a template note, maybe by just including a category tag in a new template and adding a pointer on TIE to that category. Until then, just a heads-up that doing both a TIE listing and the note might be more effective for now (and, of course, a request for information on what the best practice is .. I read foreign Wikipedias, though there are few languages I understand well, and I'm a bit distraught at how so much valuable information is only available in a secondary language). I'm pondering giving Template:Translateandmergefrom a shot ... RandomP 00:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
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Education system in Finland[edit]Hi, You have contributed to the article related to Education in Finland. I would be interested in your opinion about some issue that I detailed on the mentioned article talk page about a point of your contribution in the Adult education section. I thank you for your attention. Best regards. --nha, from Lyon, France. 12:02, 15 November 2006 (UTC) disambig pages[edit]Hi, I noticed that you put [[ERM]]. ERM is a disambig page, and generally, linking to them is discouraged, especially when it clearly refers to something on the list. No big deal. But I just thought it's better to get it right the first time so that people working on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links would have less items to do. Cheers! --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 01:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC) |
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Consensus decision-making and the Polder Model[edit]just a heads up to let you know i've reworded the lead on Consensus decision-making after your edit to include the Polder Model. i made this edit to keep the tone of the lead more 'generalist' and to balance it so that Polder Model didn't get more verbiage than other, equally important, models/groups ie Quakers. Now, in light of your edit, i realize that this article does need to include Polder Model in more detail somewhere in the body. my first reaction is that it should get a sub-section under Consensus_decision-making#Models_of_consensus_decision_making. Looking for opinions! -- frymaster 15:43, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
Uses of Poison[edit]"The uses of poisons because of their toxicity is limited." Do you mean "Some poisons are used because their toxicity is limited."? --DryaUnda 15:07, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. In Shelling of Mainila you recently added that Yeltsin admitted in 1998 that the incident was fabricated by the Soviets. Do you have a reference for this, by any chance? I'm not able to find any sources that back up that claim. I would appreciate if you could help out. -- IlyaHaykinson 06:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for the prompt and informative citation! That's one of my coolest Wiki experiences yet. Potatoswatter 09:03, 12 March 2007 (UTC) Fair use rationale for Image:Carc.png[edit]Thanks for uploading Image:Carc.png. The image description page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 22:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC) BuLi[edit]Dear Vuo: As you can see, I reorganized the n-BuLi page a lot. I hope that you are not offended by such a big change, because you have made several valuable edits. Eventually we'll get a real organicker on to this article. If you feel that my changes were too strong, then feel free to revert or re-edit as you think is best - none of us owns this page. Cheers and best wishes for further productive changes. --Smokefoot 04:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC) Orphaned non-free media (Image:Carc.png)[edit]
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BuLi[edit]Very nice pics.--Smokefoot (talk) 04:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC) Korjasin takaisin "korjauksesi" tekstiini sekä täydensin ja järjestelin lisäystäsi. Vilkaise ja korjaa lisää, ellet ole tyytyväinen. Taneli HUUSKONEN (talk) 23:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC) I'm not sure why you reverted my edit to Ä [5] as vandalism [6] since the text I added is correct and common knowledge for many Swedes. Could you please explain your actions? –panda (talk) 16:08, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Operation Barbarossa[edit]There's some back-and-forth editing you might be interested in at the Operation Barbarossa page. I deleted a paragraph you first wrote back in January 2007. Do you have the reference for the paragraph about large numbers of Soviet maps showing Germany and Russian=>German phrasebooks for asking where the German SA is? And a reference for the fact that Soviet maps were scarce in the Soviet Army but German maps were plentiful? You might be able to return the paragraph's clarity. Binksternet (talk) 01:12, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
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Winter war![edit]You are a Finn?? I see! Must be a KGB insurgent in Finland no doubt. BTW prove me wrong boy!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.102.43.193 (talk)
This file cannot be deleted because it does not exist here, it exists on Wikimedia Commons, where it may be used by any wikimedia project (other language wikipedia, wikibooks, etc). Please stop adding deletion tags to it. —Random832 14:37, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
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Sorry, but I don't understand your reason for reverting the edits I made to Swedish as a foreign language. Besides reverting grammatical errors, you've also re-added a bunch of POV that is only a personal opinion about the Swedish language. The text you added appears to come from someone who has had a very negative introduction to the Swedish language, and also included errors about the grammar. If you can back up the text with citations, then feel free to do so. But re-adding it by only commenting "reverted Panda's edits; he's been complained about before" [10] is not a valid reason for any revert. –panda (talk) 16:26, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Family name - Finland[edit]In the article Family name#Finland, you wrote:
Can you specify? In my opinion, even the first name is modified in inflection: Mikko -> Mikon, Klaus -> Klaun. The particular -nen -> -se inflection does not take place, but that is only because Finnish first names do not end with -nen, not because of any grammatical reason. --MPorciusCato (talk) 11:53, 11 March 2008 (UTC) Organic elements[edit] Another editor has added the Comment on Orthomolecular medicine[edit]Hi there, thanks a lot for commenting. Just to be absolutely clear, and avoid anybody misinterpreting your remarks, could you say if you prefer version 1 or 2 of the lead? Tim Vickers (talk) 16:32, 26 March 2008 (UTC) Hi there, just a note to alert you to the fact that one of the editors of this article is now edit-warring to remove the sourced criticism that was agreed to in this RfC. Tim Vickers (talk) 18:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC) Kosovo[edit]Well... i do not like your "spelling/style corrections". And it is my right to dislike it... I will not undo it because i am less stubborn than you are. Have a nice day and please contribute to this article with some original content. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shanticm (talk • contribs) 15:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC) RfC regarding Brainiac: Science Abuse[edit]Since you had participated in the discussion earlier, I thought you should know that there is now a Request for Comments on whether the TV show Brainiac: Science Abuse counts as science, pseudoscience, or something in-between. If you have further comments on the subjct your input here would be appreciated. -- HiEv 20:06, 21 June 2008 (UTC) Hello, I read the Finalnd article discussion area and noticed that the user Turkuun has also caused some problems in Finland article with his radical edits. We have a similar situation with the Estonia article where he is trying to restructure and rewrite the existing and approved article chapters and headings. I was wondering if you could provide some help or advice in dealing with such contributor as Turkuun is? Karabinier 00:35, 29 June 2008 (UTC) August 2008[edit]
Patria[edit]Hi. Could you add some sources to your last addition to the affair article? Since the media coverage is good, there shouldn't be a problem to find any. Thanks. --Tone 19:47, 6 September 2008 (UTC) Swedish/Finnish ranks[edit]Thank you for your contributions :) --Malin Randstrom (talk) 03:56, 17 September 2008 (UTC) I appreciate all your edits; but your claim that a vänrikki, who has only 12 months of military service, is assigned as commander of a battery or company upon mobilization seems very unlikely. Please verify this. --Malin Randstrom (talk) 05:54, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
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source request[edit]hello. could you provide a source for your statement on the Talk:Fluoride poisoning talk page that "the toxicity of organofluorines is entirely compound-dependent and not related to fluoride release." (italics added)? I am not sure that your assertion is correct, due to methoxyflurane page, (and fuzzy memories), but I would like to learn more in case you are right. Thanks. -Shootbamboo (talk) 21:28, 1 January 2009 (UTC) subst:[edit]Just a heads-up: when placing warning/information templates on user talk pages, always remember to subst the template. See WP:TM/UTN for more info. Thanks! haz (talk) 21:18, 7 January 2009 (UTC) Teboil[edit]Hi, Vuo. You started article about Teboil last summer. Therefore, I would like to ask your comment about some issues listed at the talk page of this article. Thank you in advance. Beagel (talk) 19:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC) A centralised discussion which may interest you[edit]Hi. You may be interested in a centralised discussion on the subject of "lists of unusual things" to be found here. SP-KP (talk) 17:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC) Proposed deletion of Werner Wanker[edit] A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Werner Wanker, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:
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Hi! Would you be interested in helping to establish a WikiProject covering all aspects of tobacco? If so, please sign up here - cheers! bd2412 T 06:06, 8 June 2009 (UTC) RFC Health effects of tobacco[edit]An RFC is being conducted at Talk:Health effects of tobacco, I thought you might be interested. 04:25, 9 June 2009 (UTC) Thanks for the revert[edit]Thank you for reverting my sloppy edit to peroxide and figuring out that we probably needed to guide readers to H2O2.--Smokefoot (talk) 20:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC) |
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Finnish military ranks[edit]Hello, in your edit to Finnish military ranks, you say that Finnish reserve officers are non-commissioned. Could you please discuss this at the talk page of the article? --MPorciusCato (talk) 16:45, 26 March 2010 (UTC) Hi! I'm interested by your edit. You say: "The rank of most senior chaplain, Chaplain General, is also considered to be a general officer rank." You are now a Reviewer[edit] Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010. Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages. When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here. If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 01:17, 18 June 2010 (UTC) Green diesel[edit]Hi, Vuo. There is a discussion to merge Green diesel article with Vegetable oil refining and/or Biomass to liquid articles. As one of the main editors of the Vegetable oil refining article, your input is highly appreciated. Beagel (talk) 09:20, 28 August 2010 (UTC) Barnstar[edit]
Käyttäjäsivuasi on muokattu[edit]Jostain kumman syystä käyttäjäsivusi User:Vuo näkyi uudelleenohjaussivuna artikkeliin Kajaani kun katsoi kyseisen kaupungin "What links here" -erikoissivua. Muokkasin käyttäjäsivuasi niin, että poistin sieltä kaiken muun paitsi Your contributed article, Taxation in Finland[edit]
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Nice find on the drug[edit]Like that addition. I am going to request a photo of the actual plant that makes fluoroacetate (poison leaf is most common) and then change that out for the fluoroacetate molecule. (leave yours as the more interesting structure). And sorry if I come across as aggressive on the talk pages. No one here to punch me in the nose, since it's the Internet. ;) TCO (talk) 18:23, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
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How to post an externally verifiable proof
[edit]Hi vuo I am the author of the undone fine chemical article due to an uncertain copyright situation. I have now managed to get the admission from Wiley in pdf to post it on Wikipedia. I cannot post a page at Hikal as you suggested. How can I provide an externally verifiable proof accapted by Wikipedia? Thanks --PeterRPollak (talk) 14:35, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Party subsidies
[edit]Dear Vuo, if you are still interested in the subject, please check what I have done to your article. Khnassmacher (talk) 15:31, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
Biophoton
[edit]'there's nothing unscientific about photochemistry' I agree but the issue is about 'biophotons' which look to be the pseudoscientific version of photochemistry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtpaley (talk • contribs) 23:51, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Valtioneuvos
[edit]Hei! Ei se valtioneuvoksen titteli salaneuvoksesta periydy vaan vastaavasta valtioneuvoksen tittelistä, jos mistään. Tuo teksti on nyt väärin artikkelissa Valtioneuvos. --Pxos (talk) 21:34, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
I removed the sentence about derivative titles altogether as unsourced and very likely incorrect. --Pxos (talk) 22:21, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Sissi (Finnish light infantry)/ famous sissi troops
[edit]I'll add a longer comment about the matter here; the United States military states that the only groups within United States military that can be called "Special forces" are the United States Army Special Forces (aka. "Green berets") and 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (aka. "Delta Force"), end of discussion. Ape89 (talk) 00:37, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
- in addition to the last comment; because US military is strict about the distinction while pretty much everyone else seems to call every American special operations forces -unit just "specia forces" I think it's necessary to use the (more or less-) full name of the "Green berets" when it is the US Army Special Forces that the article/notion in an article is about. Also sorry for the double post. Ape89 (talk) 00:44, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Varma move
[edit]I'm a bit taken aback by your move of Varma to Varma (name) in order to allow the former to be used as the page for a Finnish company. I'm particularly taken aback given that immediately prior to that move, you left this edit summary elsewhere. Your move was bold but I doubt that it is without controversy, so it might be better to revert and open a discussion. - Sitush (talk) 22:31, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
- I understood it so that Varma is an alternate spelling, and as such it should not be primary title of the article in the first place. It appears to be so because a-macron is harder to enter than just 'a'. For instance, I have moved 'Jyrki Jarvilehto' to the correct 'Jyrki Järvilehto', and I doubt anyone would protest. The article appears to list several alternate spellings, of which any could be selected. Furthermore, articles on names are often of the 'Title (name)' pattern. Your comment on the previous edit is unnecessary and has no relation to this issue. (In there, I just happen to have a pet peeve for people deleting content from an article because it doesn't suit their whatever.) --vuo (talk) 22:48, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
- It is not so much an alternate spelling (eg: Brown/Browne, White/Whyte) as a name with a shared theme: India is a country with well in excess of 20 official languages and names there are often based on honorific or caste-related themes: historic transliteration between them is affected also by by recent transliteration from the various scripts to Western alphabets but the pronunciation remains distinct. Given the size of the India/Pakistani etc population and its diaspora, Varma and its variants are incredibly common. I see that you've now created a dab page: that is better but I'm still not entirely convinced. I've got no particular horse in this race: I've no connections to the subcontinent or to Finland etc. I'll have a think. - Sitush (talk) 10:53, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
- You might want to compare to the situation at the Finnish Wikipedia. In particular: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varma_%28nimi%29 --vuo (talk) 22:25, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
- Ok, I've had a long think about this and I am going to be reverting you per WP:COMMONNAME. I don't care what Finnish WP might say, Varma is by far more common as an Indian surname than some insurance outfit. If Finnish WP want to do things differently then that is up to them but, obviously, they've got a systemic bias when it comes to representation of Finland-based articles. I have spoken to someone else about this and they agreed ... but I've forgotten who it was! I'll see if I can dig out that info before reverting, just so that you can see the rationale. - Sitush (talk) 16:06, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- I don't believe that Wikipedia has a "bias", or should avoid a "bias", etc.; that's terminology from journalism. It's not the job of Wikipedia to represent things in any sort of an "equal" way, because there's no "airtime" to share; anyone writing "Varma" to the search page has only one click extra effort to choose which page he meant. Having a disambiguation page is an inherently neutral choice. Trying to put "larger" or "more important" things first leads to unavoidable and unnecessary arguments about the hierarchy. Also, WP:COMMONNAME is about another topic, choosing between possible names, not about disambiguation. --vuo (talk) 08:24, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- :WP:SYSTEMIC? You entire rationale in renaming was that the financial services outfit was better known. Which it is not. - Sitush (talk) 09:30, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
- My whole argument is that it doesn't matter which is better known. There's no "bias", there's even no need to avoid a "bias". --vuo (talk) 08:43, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
- Ok, I've had a long think about this and I am going to be reverting you per WP:COMMONNAME. I don't care what Finnish WP might say, Varma is by far more common as an Indian surname than some insurance outfit. If Finnish WP want to do things differently then that is up to them but, obviously, they've got a systemic bias when it comes to representation of Finland-based articles. I have spoken to someone else about this and they agreed ... but I've forgotten who it was! I'll see if I can dig out that info before reverting, just so that you can see the rationale. - Sitush (talk) 16:06, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
- You might want to compare to the situation at the Finnish Wikipedia. In particular: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varma_%28nimi%29 --vuo (talk) 22:25, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
- It is not so much an alternate spelling (eg: Brown/Browne, White/Whyte) as a name with a shared theme: India is a country with well in excess of 20 official languages and names there are often based on honorific or caste-related themes: historic transliteration between them is affected also by by recent transliteration from the various scripts to Western alphabets but the pronunciation remains distinct. Given the size of the India/Pakistani etc population and its diaspora, Varma and its variants are incredibly common. I see that you've now created a dab page: that is better but I'm still not entirely convinced. I've got no particular horse in this race: I've no connections to the subcontinent or to Finland etc. I'll have a think. - Sitush (talk) 10:53, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Vuo, I removed that paragraph because it (especially the second sentence) made no sense. Why would Comecon want to thwart Soviet influence? Heavy Knife (talk) 22:05, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Can we keep looking at FL angle
[edit]Your concerns are well taken, but the article needs to not just be written for synth org folks like me, rather it has to include the biochemists (who are actually measuring such angle crystallographically), and it has to be clear how it is similar to but different from the BD. As it stands, the figure is so confusing, the legend has to become enormous to make clear to readers what the angle actually means. Also, it has to be clear that while Bürgi, Dunitz, et al measured angles in crystal structures to get this whole field going, with the FL, the numeric angle values of the trajectories are inferred (based on reaction outcomes and product ratios)—this plus a very little bit of theoretical work. Then there is the confusion engendered on the BD side, that cannot be allowed to spill onto the FL side —"the BD angle is 107 deg", as opposed to 107 in simple systems, and whatever else it might actually be measured to be in any other system studied (e.g., approaching 90 deg in proteases apparently). When you put these explanatory challenges alongside the problem with the image, we are faced with a daunting task. We either parrot what is in undergraduate textbooks (often incorrect); or we are encyclopedic, and write for all, including the laypersons, and those interested most in chemistry, biochemistry, crystallography, etc.
Bottom line, I want your fine mind involved in this. My vote would be we improve the FL image, then begin to discuss your specific objections to the "wall of text". The real concept and breadth is not as easy as a short lede and one picture (though with a good picture, a better lede could easily be written, before getting into the details). Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 21:47, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Flippin out
[edit]Really do want you involved, to help make this practically useful. Ping me any time with ideas—especially, if you have a good secondary source you you want to discuss, or the like. ALWAYS WELCOME. (Look back in a couple of days, new images going in.) Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 03:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
- Sorry, I haven't been involved in this for a while. As it stands the article is quite far from being a general text, and it would take consirable expertise to bring it to that point, which I admit I don't have. Originally, I got involved as a student of Koskinen, but I haven't been there for half a decade. --vuo (talk) 21:55, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
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[edit]Yup, I'm officially not thinking. Thank you for correcting me! Double sharp (talk) 22:20, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Finnish language in Soviet ruble article
[edit]You reverted my edit with explanation "Finnish language, not Finland; Finnish was a language of the Soviet Union also"
Well, the part is in a table with this just above it: The name of the currency in the languages of the 15 republics, in the order they appeared in the banknotes:
Finland was not a republic of Soviet Union, nor was Finnish name of ruble in the banknotes (as you can see from the reverse of 1961 ruble note in the infobox).
Of Finnish being language of Soviet Union, that should belong to Languages of the Soviet Union. Which claims (without source) that Finnish was "not generally considered a language of the USSR", but was official in Karelia. 82.141.95.243 (talk) 01:21, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, the idea was that Finnish was an official language in Karelia. Since the Soviet Union was an ethnically diverse country, a dividing line on which languages to include and not include is always arbitrary. However, I think it would be better to err on the side of providing more information than less, since the number of languages is still fairly limited. Finnish could be counted as a language in which native use of the words "rupla" and "kopeekka" within the Soviet Union, in official contexts, occurred. It was not a "foreign" language. --vuo (talk) 13:59, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
- But is clearly said before the table those are the languages which appeared in banknotes. Finnish did not, so it should be removed from the table. And it also says "in the languages of the 15 republics", and with Finnish there are 16, not 15. 82.141.95.243 (talk) 21:48, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
- I didn't notice that. In that case, the languages on the banknotes will of course have preferential treatment. --vuo (talk) 23:51, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Technopolis Oyj
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Sibilant offglide
[edit]Hello Vuo, I have a question about an edit of yours at Talk:Palatalization (phonetics)#Sibilant offglide. Regards, — Sebastian 04:08, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
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[edit]This addition to the FL article is the perfect sort of addition I had been hoping to see: [11], and I thank you for it. I would ask though, if at all possible, to make this fully yours—could you go back and choose and insert the best reference or two that supports your point, so that it does not later become seen as OR? I would appreciate it. I could of course choose something, but I would rather wait until you have time, so this edit is fully to your credit. Cheers, Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 06:04, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hey, in case I have not said, I married a Finn, a Laitinen. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 06:05, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
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So, the chemical substance article
[edit]...is back to being the confusing nonsense it was before August 2015, failing to distinguish between the various meanings of the title term in use, on the objection that my replacement lede was too long and technical (despite solid, scholarly sourcing). That is to say, instead of integrating the solid material into the article, and summarising it for the lede, the same naive lede tripe that had earlier existed there, was returned and so continues to exist.
As well, in your contributions, I see you have part and parcel added material without source, to the definitions section—paragraphs long material in fact. So, I give up. We clearly have differing understandings in terms of what is meant to follow WP:VERIFY, and to make these articles excellent. We now have a lead that is easier to read, but that is inaccurate to the uses the readers will find in their general reading, and want explained. And we have a definitions section, while accurate in large parts, that is "just trust me" material, based on your expertise, creating a trajectory for that section that will be fine until you are gone, in which case, the next editor, who thinks they know the field, changes it, likewise, without sources, since that is the pattern that has been set.
We are not editing the same encyclopedia, so we cannot edit the same articles. I, despite significant expertise, do not add material from that expertise, but only add material from sources. And I do not let anything that is incorrect or inaccurate stand just to be readable, and so an article looks good. So we part company. Know that no one anywhere, with any chemistry expertise, will sent entry level students to this article, as it is currently exists. We have written it to please ourselves, and its real utility is thus constrained. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 07:38, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Ways to improve Directive 2012/18/EU
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Need for sources for your "Draft evasion" material
[edit]Dear Vuo, - I have spent much o the last month improving the Draft evasion article by streamlining its prose, adding reliable sources, and eliminating unsourced content. (See the "View history" tab there for the details.)
On 9 August 2016 you contributed a sub-section on Finland to the article. It is a wonderful piece of writing and I would like to retain it. However, in order to keep it I will need to verify its content (see WP:Verifiability), i.e. I will need to add reliable sources to each of its paragraphs. Otherwise I will have to eliminate it, as per WP:RS.
Because you added the sub-section so long ago, it may be difficult for you to add sources to it. If you cannot add specific sources to every assertion, you could add sources at the end of each paragraph, preceded by the phrase, "This paragraph draws material from the following sources." (See footnote #88 in the Draft evasion article for how to structure this. Obviously, if you can give page numbers, so much the better.) If mnost or all of your sources are in Finnish, that is OK. All you'd have to do is put at the end of each one, "Finnish-language publication."
It may be that you are too busy to do this. If so, please let me help you. Just put the sources you used, or could have used, in your reply below, and I will code them and put them into the sub-section, meanwhile giving you credit on the article's "View history" page.
Your contribution really brings the Finnish draft-evasion experience to life– that is why I want so much to retain it. I look forward to your response below. Best, - Babel41 (talk) 02:43, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
- Hi Vuo, - Thank you so much for promptly adding new material and citations to the Finland sub-section of the Draft evasion article! You will see that I have eliminated your last paragraph (reason given on the "Edit history" page of that article), but I hope you will integrate it into Wikipedia's Conscription in Finland article, where that material more properly belongs. In addition, I have lightly edited your contribution, largely in an effort to make your citrations resemble those in the rest of that article, something WP wants us to do (see WP:CITESTYLE). You might want to double-check my work there, as my knowledge of Finnish is nonexistent. Anyway, thank you again for your substantial work on the Finland sub-section. I want our whole article to someday be rated as a Good, and then a Featured, article. Unfortunately, young people around the world may need it. Best, - Babel41 (talk) 00:57, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Image at Cold-weather warfare
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Ways to improve Forcing a safeguard
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The article Surma (Finnish mythology) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) requirement. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant English-language coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page here in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back through WP:ECHO or by leaving a note at User talk:Piotrus. Thank you.
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Hello, I'm Apaugasma. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Alcohol (drug), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 21:36, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
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Nomination of University of Technology, Jaipur for deletion
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Good article reassessment for Continuous distillation
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[edit]Dear Colleague, 
Thank you for contributing to the article on Finnish profanity, and for providing a source, as you did here. Unfortunately, the reference you added links to a website page about an incident that took place during the recent Paris-Roubaix cycling race, instead of an explanation of the word you added to the article, munaton. Therefore, whenever convenient to you, please provide a new source that explains that word. If it's easier, please feel free simply to add it in your reply below, and I will then use it to create the appropriate template into the article for you, instead of a bare url. Many thanks once again for your contributions to our encyclopedia.
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