User talk:Mahagaja

Happy New Year, Mahagaja!

Happy New Year!

Mahagaja,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Invitation to join the Twenty Year Society

Dear Mahagaja,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Twenty Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for twenty years or more. ​

Best regards, Chris Troutman (talk) 16:25, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

American English transcriptions

Hi, there! As someone knowledgeable in IPA and Wikipedia IPA conventions, perhaps you'd be interesting in contributing to this talk page discussion: Talk:American_English#Consistency of IPA phonemes for American English dialect pages. Wolfdog (talk) 16:59, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Irish dialect sources?

Hi there! I've just been reading your amazing work on the Irish phonology page, and have noticed you've cited many different descriptive works for the various dialects. I'm currently working on some materials from the Doegen recordings and there's a handful of dialectic descriptions I haven't yet been able to lay hands on (I have a bunch already, but can't afford to buy any more and don't have institutional library access). I was wondering if you happen to have digital copies of any monographic dialect descriptions? In particular, I'm looking for any of the following studies:

• de Burca 1958 (Tourmakeady)
• Lucas 1979 (Ros Goill)
• Mhac an Fhailigh 1968 (Erris)
• Breatnach 1947 (Ring)
• Sommerfelt 1929 (South Armagh)
• Stockman 1974 (Achill Island)
• Hamilton 1974 (Tory Island)

If you have any of these materials, I'll gladly provide my contact details (unfortunately I've forgotten my Wiki login details, so in the interim I'll try to dig out my login, or will set up a new account if I can't). Thanks very much in advance! 58.179.70.149 (talk) 09:18, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't have digital copies of any of those, only paper. You could check whether any of them has been added to archive.org, though I wouldn't hold my breath. —Mahāgaja · talk 09:23, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

All good, I just thought I'd ask. I've been able to lay hands on a number of dialect sources (I have copies of the monographs on Iorras Aithneach, Cois Fhairrge, Aran Islands, Rathlin, Dingle, Tangaveane-Commeen, Meenawannia, West Muskerry, and also a digital copy of Stockman and Wagner on the Irish of Tyrone), I'm just trying to expand to as many sources as possible so I can establish isoglosses using additional material beyond what's included in LASID. Thanks anyway! 58.179.70.149 (talk) 14:32, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

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Identifying an American accent on Language Ref. Desk

You sure answered that as far as it could be answered. I didn't feel motivated to even try... AnonMoos (talk) 21:15, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

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A kitten for you!

Thanks for the essays and elephants. That is all.

– SJ + 20:08, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Power abuse on Wiktionary

Hello Mahagaja, and happy new year. I might have given you a heart attack with the title, but it's not about you :)

Yet again have I been blocked by the same admin (Fenakhay) who is extremely possessive on Arabic and Maltese entries. All I did was this edit - I invite you to judge whether it is vandalism.

My 2600+ voluntary edits have been awarded with being blocked for 1 year, cannot edit my talk page, cannot email anyone. I've only had negative interactions with this admin, who has a long record of unsubstantiated reverts and other tyranny - which is why I guess he needs to constantly delete his talk page which is clogged with complaints. (Use Internet archive if you wish)

The gist of my message is: Do you think I am being treated fairly? Synotia (moan) 18:39, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

FYI, the question of a Punic substrate in Maghrebi Arabic is not even that fringe, you can send our friend this for example. Synotia (moan) 14:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Happy First Edit Day, Mahagaja, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 04:46, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:07, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

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A blast from the past

In 2006 you made an edit to Dallas County, Missouri, adding a percentage of people speaking Pennsylvania German or German at home, along with a citation, presumably documenting the percentage. link to edit

That citation is a bare link and I'm working on cleaning up bare links. In some cases it is straightforward to convert the bare link to a proper link, but that doesn't work if the link no longer goes to the correct page. I see that the link goes to a odern language Association page, but I'm assuming they've reorganized their site so your link no longer works. Could I talk you into trying to find the information? You can either add it as a properly formatted link to the article or just let me know the link and I'll take care of it. S Philbrick(Talk) 11:29, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Nevermind.

I reached out to the help desk because I knew there was a tool to help me find the editor who added that information, and I illustrated my query with the edit in question. Not only did somebody respond promptly with the relevant tool, but somebody else responded with the updated site for the Modern Language Association. I use the tool to find the exact number you added and updated the citation.

Wikipedia:Help_desk#"Who_wrote_that"_tool S Philbrick(Talk) 11:43, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

UBX abortion is immoral???

Hi! Pretty confused by that there userbox over yonder. You think abortion is immoral??? Why? And why make a userbox about it on an encyclopedia? Are you aware of Wikipedia:Userboxes#Content_restrictions which says Userboxes must not be inflammatory or substantially divisive. and names Propaganda, advocacy, or recruitment of any kind (commercial, political, religious, or otherwise) as stuff that is not allowed. See also WP:UPNOT you may not include in your user space material ... which is likely to give widespread offense. Very confusing. Polygnotus (talk) 20:15, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

I also discovered User:Mahagaja/life and choice which probably also should be deleted, I don't even know what it means so it seems to convey no information. I was under the impression that stuff like Category:Abortion user templates was all deleted. Why does it still exist? I am also very confused by User:Mahagaja/Carlson, but I think that one should be preserved because it is funny. Polygnotus (talk) 20:29, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Do whatever you must. —Mahāgaja · talk 06:39, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

I don't feel that answer the questions. Also, the things I must do are the things I least like to do, usually. So why do you think that, why make a userbox about it, and can you delete it please to comply with the stuff I cited. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 06:42, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

If you want to nominate them for deletion, go ahead. See WP:MFD for instructions. —Mahāgaja · talk 06:51, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

You are an administrator, and have been for 20 years. I am sure I won't have to nominate stuff in your userspace, right? If you disagree with me you can voice your opinion here instead of in a deletion nomination. Polygnotus (talk) 06:52, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

My being an administrator has nothing to do with it. If you think pages are out of scope and should be deleted, nominate them for deletion so there can be a wider discussion. —Mahāgaja · talk 06:55, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

There is obviously a reason why you don't want to talk about it, and why you don't want to delete it. I don't understand. But I hope you have a better day. Polygnotus (talk) 07:28, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

Guide to temporary accounts

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Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)