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User talk:Sapphire
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Sapphire would like the AutoTransBot to translate this article from English to DE. A finished version of the translated article can be found at Talk:Sapphire/DE_AutoTransBot.
If you're looking for a particular comment or discussion and are unable to find it, try looking through my archived talk pages. If you want to add a comment or ask me a question click here.
Just a quick FYI - this expired recently, maybe you want to renew it: [2] ~ 203.144.143.4 21:03, 18 January 2008 (EST)
- If it happens again, I'll protect the page. Seems you were the last person to edit and I suspect that was a while ago, right? -- Sapphire • (Talk) • 07:19, 19 January 2008 (EST)
- Today - 02:00, 19 January 2008 203.144.143.4 (Talk) (347 bytes) (revert) ~ 203.144.143.4 09:33, 19 January 2008 (EST)
Purely a coincidence, I assure you. :-) --Wandering 12:24, 25 January 2008 (EST)
[edit] Annoyed
So the top of this page says I can post when I'm annoyed. Well, I'm annoyed. Can someone tell me how to set up a proxy that will give me an American IP address? Thanks. -- Sapphire • (Talk) • 18:51, 23 September 2007 (EDT)
- You can google for public proxy or if you want to spend some money get yourself a virtual private server (google a bit, pricing starts at around US$5/month) and set up a proxy just for you. --NJR_ZA 05:21, 27 September 2007 (EDT)
Hey Andrew, I started with Georgian before I went there—using an old Soviet teach-yourself guide in Russian (I don't recommend this approach). I studied it a bit while in country, but I mostly just spoke Russian while traveling around (except more remote areas). I audited two quarters worth of Georgian after coming back, and we used what is probably the most useful book in English, Howard Aronson's Georgian: A reading grammar. It's not ideal, and not terribly practical if you're looking to learn useful phrases for a basic travel vocabulary, but it still is the best thing available. I somehow came across a pdf version of it—you might be able to find one online. If you don't, shoot me an email and I'll see if I can't send it over the internet (35MB). In any rate, the alphabet and pronunciation are a lot of fun, but the grammar is kind of nightmarish. I don't know if you're in to poetry at all, but the Georgians have produced some really cool stuff.
I'm in Toledo on the campaign trail for Obama, hoping to see an upset here. Knocking on doors isn't terribly fun, but I definitely wouldn't call it the worst place on earth. The weather has actually been pretty warm, there's a great pizza place by where I'm staying, and I was amazed at how great the art museum is, given that this is a rather small and poor city. But hey, my next stops are Detroit and Hell, so it would be odd to complain about Toledo! --Peter Talk 13:49, 3 March 2008 (EST)
[edit] Thanks for fighting vandals (Lame and 84.42.254.138)
OldPine and Sapphire, I just came across the vandalism by Lame and 84.42.254.138 on March 4. Thank you for your diligent work to clean it up, and so quickly. You had it all done before I even noticed the problem. I hope those vandals are feeling unfulfilled. JimDeLaHunt 17:43, 5 March 2008 (EST)
I came back to the U.S. from Japan midway through last year, actually. Gorilla Jones 20:36, 9 March 2008 (EDT)
[edit] Pomeranian Voivodship
I redirected them all the Pomeranian Voivodship, since most English speakers have heard of "Pomerania" (if only because of the dog breed) but most have never heard it as "Pomorskie" (including me). Texugo 11:14, 12 March 2008 (EDT)
[edit] Interwiki links on article templates
At first glance I thought, hey what a cool idea, but then, won't the {{subst:PAGENAME}} links not work, since they need to be in the foreign language? And might these provisional links confuse the interwiki language linking bot (which I suppose is not running right now)? --Peter Talk 12:05, 12 March 2008 (EDT)
- You're kinda correct. The {{subst:PAGENAME}} can simply be replaced by the localized name, but for cities like Paris, which essentially has the same name and spelling in most languages, it's not an issue. Not sure about DorganBot (I'll ask once I've tired myself with Poland), but we've been using this system for months, if not a year, on de: and it's been effective and helps to keep everything nice and organized. Also, DorganBot operates on de: and I haven't been clued into any issues, thus far. -- Sapphire • (Talk) • 12:14, 12 March 2008 (EDT)
[edit] Comments please
Hey, I left a couple of questions I'd like to have you comment on, at Talk:Poland, Talk:Greater Poland and Talk:Kujawsko-Pomorskie_Voivodship. Thanks! Texugo 08:39, 16 March 2008 (EDT)
- Knocked out comment out, but, alas, I must go forth into the world, so I'll need to comment on the other two later. Cheers. -- Sapphire • (Talk) • 08:55, 16 March 2008 (EDT)
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