User talk:Nannus

Pictish language

I suspect that your additions re. Lockwood are in the wrong place. They need to appear before the Forsyth/Price material, which post-dates Lockwood by a couple of decades. Angus McLellan (Talk) 22:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Cameroonian template

Basically, I'm fine with your idea, so go ahead. However, I am planning on replacing the current array of "music of" boxes with a standardized format (see User:TUF-KAT/countrymusicbox for my rough demo). I tend to think we ought to remove the francophone grouping completely from those templates - I know I'm the one that put them there to begin with, but I guess I've changed my mind. I suggest moving to a strictly region-based division (so the template would have "Central African" rather than "Francophone African" lists). Tuf-Kat 01:10, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I think the East/North/Central/West/Southern is the most common division - that's already how it is everywhere on the continent except for Francophone countries (there's also a Lusophone box, IIRC, separate from the countryboxes - not sure about that one. Tuf-Kat 01:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Music of Africa

I commend you on your great edits on Music of Africa. Well done. --Ezeu 17:43, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Maraba Coffee

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Wikiversity

Hi, I heard that you were interested in wikiversity, and since I'm one of their "Recruiters" I thought I'd stop by and see if you had any questions.--Rayc 18:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Diaspora vs. Africa

I think you could help us sort out the scope for WP:AFRO I think I agree with the reasons you changed the pan-African template-- perhaps you should put your changes back. (?) This project is quite new and I'm not an expert-- it's been difficult for me to find the exact scope of the project. Can you help separate "Pan-african" from "African diaspora" from "African" by looking at how we have defined the scope of the diaspora on the project page? I think I understand the distinction, but I don't know if it is clearly outline in any place and it would help the people in the project avoid confusion over what we should, or should not include.futurebird 17:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Lamell[ao]phone

Hi, I've repaired that move for you. In future, if you have technical problems with moves like that, please call in an admin right away or go to WP:RM. Never move pages by cut-and-paste, it destroys the recording of the page histories. And the ring-move trick doesn't work either, as I think you found out now... Best, Fut.Perf. ☼ 00:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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Project templates

Project templates go in article talk pages. --Ezeu 20:38, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikicat/Wikicite

Hi Nannus,

I'm the lead project member (well, only project member :) for the Wikicat and Wikicite projects. Sorry for being so late to reply, but I did not see your comments until this weekend. In any case reading your description of your work on Wikiversity it seems we have very similar ideas for building a bibliographic/scholarly infrastructure for the various Wikimedia projects- in particular I recommend you read my ideas for a citation analysis tool on the WikiTextrose project description page.

Currently I an in the early stages of development for Wikicat. Please send me any questions you may have. Thanks.

Jonathan( Jleybov 00:00, 10 April 2007 (UTC) )

Portal:African Philosophy

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Suggesting a Source for your Racism Course at Wikiversity Western States Center (www.westernstatescenter.org) has many dismantling racism resources including a history of race and racism. It might give you some useful info and resources.

Merger proposed: Dance ethnology → Ethnomusicology

It has been proposed to merge the content of Dance ethnology into Ethnomusicology. Since you have previously edited one of these articles, I thought you might be interested. You're welcome to participate in the discussion if you like. --B. Wolterding 14:38, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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Request reason:

I have been blocked and I have absolutely no idea why. I want to know the reason because I am not aware of any violation of the principles of Wikipedia. I have occasionally made corrections and small improvements to several pages recently, mostly regarding philosophy and microscopy. I want to know what did I do that caused me to be blocked. What can I do to remove the block? Please look at my Contributions page to see what I did recently. Besides what is shown there, I have added some pages (of people) to a category regarding notable people in the history of microscopy (on the German Wikipedia, where my account seems to be still working normally). If I did anything that was in violation of Wikipedia's rules, please point this out to me. Otherwise, please unblock my account.

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This account is not blocked, and never has been. Presumably you are affected either by a block on your IP address or by an autoblock due to a block on another account. In either of those cases we have no way of knowing what block is affecting you unless you tell us, so we can't do anything about it. Please make a new unblock request, this time telling us what message you see that tells you that you can't edit. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:39, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

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Nannus I don't see that you are blocked in any way. What block message are you getting when you log on? RickinBaltimore (talk) 02:04, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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Request reason:

This is the message I see: You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia. You are still able to view pages, but you are not currently able to edit, move, or create them. Editing from 185.251.0.0/16 has been blocked (disabled) by Berean Hunter for the following reason(s): Wikipedia Checkuser.svgThis network has been used improperly by someone on your network. It has therefore been blocked as a precaution to prevent abuse and damage to Wikipedia. Wikipedia tries to be open, but we sometimes must block IP addresses to prevent editing by abusers, vandals, or block evaders. Anonymous editing and account creation may be currently blocked for this IP or range. Registered users, however, are still able to edit. These blocks can affect users who have done nothing wrong. If you are a legitimate user, follow the instructions below to edit despite the block. Users who are the intended target of a range block may still appeal the block. If you do not have an account (IP editor): If you do not currently have an account and wish to bypass this block, an account can be created to allow you to edit. Please follow the instructions at Wikipedia:Request an account to request an account under your preferred username. If you have an account (registered user): Please login to edit. : UPE spammers This block has been set to expire: 2021-07-12T17:06:37. Even if blocked, you will usually still be able to edit your user talk page and email other editors and administrators.

Accept reason:

I've changed the block to allow existing accounts to edit. This range was previously used by spam socks but we can be optimistic that they have perhaps moved on.
 — Berean Hunter (talk) 21:10, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

• I have posted a message to the blocking administrator, Berean Hunter, asking him to look into your unblock request, and put your request on hold. However, after doing so I noticed that he hasn't edited for a week, so you may have a long wait for him to respond. I can't just go ahead and deal with the request myself without waiting for him, because it needs a CheckUser to do so. I hope Berean Hunter will be back soon so that you don't have to wait, but if you don't get any response within a day or so then I suggest that you post a new unblock request, and this time specifically ask for a CheckUser to look into it. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:45, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

  @JamesBWatson: I think it is time for a CU to get involved. —usernamekiran(talk) 02:32, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

I've given you IP block exemption for a month, which will hopefully be long enough for Berean Hunter to respond. I'd rather not change Berean Hunter's block without talking to him first. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:29, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

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Since Berean Hunter has now made the block anon-only, IP block exemption should not be necessary, so I have removed it. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:08, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

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