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Leiber dab (yeah, i'm learning some german), I agree with you on both counts. I thought about it too. My first problem was, I couldn't figure out how bounties given to users work. Does a user decide to get the bounty, and after that other users are excluded from working on that article? If not, how does the bounty get shared? Also, I thought giving money to wikimedia would help the project in two ways in one go - with the article as well as financially, and I hope that for most serious editors here, that should be incentive enough to try to claim the bounty for wikimedia. As for working on circum-Paninean articles are concerned, you're absolutely right. Afterall, all we know about people from that era is the work they did -- we hardly know anything about their personal lives -- not even when exactly they were born. Let me see if I can change it from Panini to Ashtadhyayi. Regards, deeptrivia (talk) 05:48, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for chipping in on the Rigveda Page. I decided to use your talk page because 'my' skepticism about the oral transmission of the Vedas is irrelevant to that discussion. I was wondering if you can point me to references that show that claims of oral transmission for millennia, with no change even in pronunciation, aren't just tall claims. As I see it, a number of ancient literary works claim oral transmission back to the stone age, but there remains no way of verifying such claims, though special allowances seem to be made for religious works. Kingsley2.com 15:30, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think you could block me for the next 41 hours? I have a lot of work to do and Wikipedia is getting in the way!

Thanks — Yom 00:32, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, strike that. It wouldn't prevent me from actually browsing the site, so it'd be useless.

Yom 00:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Rajput loon (the banned guy -- I can no longer remember all his socks) is not only reverting Rajput to his POV version, he's stalking me and reverting all my edits. In articles where he knows nothing, has never participated, no edit summaries, just reverts. Can he be blocked? Zora 11:09, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've unlocked Assyrian people if you'd like to put in your change now. Tom Harrison ^Talk 13:51, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think we need semi-protection at Mannaeans... There is a very persistent anon with three different IP numbers who is constantly reverting to his version, that is silently blanking out a couple of paragraphs without explanation... He has ignored invitations to explain on the discussion why he wants to do this, and just simply reverts without any explanation all day long for 4 or 5 days now... Thanks for looking into this... ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 14:23, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi dab. May I request the protection of the article Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) from anon editors to prevent further edit-warring? Miskin 23:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've put some discussion up at Talk:Lingua Ignota that you might want to look at. I thought this would be perferable to starting an edit war. CRGreathouse 03:53, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is an ongoing initiative to create a Wikisurce in Ancient Greek. Please provide your comments at meta:Requests_for_new_languages/Ancient#Ancient_Greek_Wikisource.  Andreas   ^(T) 13:43, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dieter, are you watching Ancient Macedonians? I think it needs some work, a couple of people have been turning large sections of it into something that approaches a POV fork of Ancient Macedonian language, and seems rather full of WP:OR for my taste. I've been trying to do some cleanup, but at one point I capitulated and just blanked a whole lot - it would be better to do a proper rewrite but right now I don't find the time and energy to do it alone. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]