Talk:Sinhalese

Sinhalese font

I installed this font to get Sinhalese support on my computer:

[1] --Anatoli 05:41, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Or get FM MalithiUW46.ttf here. —Stephen ^(Talk) 06:19, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

These two letters wouldn't display on my work PC: ඏ (l̥) (0D8F - iluyanna) and ඐ (l̥̄) (0D90 - iluuyanna). --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 06:19, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup.

This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.

---

Sinhalese

The definitions have been bouncing back and forth between an older version that was deemed inaccurate and a newer version that is circular (definition using the word itself). Can people please help with cleanup? --EncycloPetey 20:11, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused, because you fixed it before adding the tag and posting here, but either way, it's fixed, so, striking. —Ruakh_TALK 21:16, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Please don't strike an entry until it's been dealt with. I only made changes to part of the problem. Please don't push your point of view by shunting people away from this cleanup item by misleading people into thinking it's been completed. --EncycloPetey 03:47, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Fine. The entry now explains in three separate places that Sinhalese relates to “the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka”. Ya happy? —Ruakh_TALK 03:54, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Happy about the gratuitous abuse you wrote while doing so? No. That was very rude and uncalled for. Happy about the entry wording? Yes, it's an improvement. This item should now remain for a few days, at least, to allow others to contribute. --EncycloPetey 03:58, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

You repeatedly restored inaccurate wording even after it was pointed out to you that it was (1) wrong and (2) offensive. Only after several reverts did you make anything resembling a constructive change (i.e., removing phrasing you didn't like, replacing it with — nothing), and then you further brought the entry here claiming that the older version was merely "deemed inaccurate". Maybe in the morning I'll feel differently, but at the moment I'm pretty happy with the gratuitous abuse. Good night! —Ruakh_TALK 04:03, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

You've done a very good job of also describing your own edits, which repeatedly replaced a previously-existing actual definition with (effectively) "Sinhalese means Sinhalese". You didn't seek anyone else's opinion, and tried to suppress the involvement of others when I asked others for assistance. So, not only did you eliminate content, persist in circularity (even after that problem was pointed out), but you actively tried to keep other people from providing assistance and then abused me for asking for help. So, who here was actually being rude? --EncycloPetey 04:15, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Nonsense. The very first definition on the page explained that Sinhalese are the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka; further-down definitions had some problems of circularity, but even they made clear that the term relates to an ethnic group (which, in some sense, is all you can say — ethnic groups really are somewhat self-defining). I don't know what you mean by "You didn't seek anyone else's opinion"; I became aware of the situation after a discussion was already underway. I also don't know what you mean by "You […] tried to suppress the involvement of others when I asked others for assistance" and "you actively tried to keep other people from providing assistance"; you must be referring to my striking this section and removing the {{rfc}} tag, but I didn't remove this section, so that hardly suppresses anyone else's involvement. And I think I was right to strike this section, given that it falsely claims that the word was being defined using the word itself: no, the noun was defined using the adjective, the latter having been defined higher up on the page. But yes, we were both being rude. I have no regrets. :-)   —Ruakh_TALK 07:11, 12 July 2010 (UTC)