User talk:Oolong

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Obama

Thanks for your contributuions. As to Obama#Guarani, what is the source for this? Also, it belongs at obama, if it is real. DCDuring TALK 12:32, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

It's from a Paraguayan friend - unfortunately I can't find a really good dictionary for the language online, but it's readily verified that 'ba' (or 'va') means 'transform', and she seems to be correct in telling me that the -ma ending is a suffix for simple future conjugation. As I understand it the O attached to the beginning is the Guarani way of dealing with the pronoun here. But fair enough if all this doesn't live up to Wiktionary's marvellously rigorous standards of verification - and you are right, of course, that it shouldn't be capitalised. --Oolong 21:57, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I'm going to copy this conversation to the talk page at Obama. DCDuring TALK 22:32, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

A minor thing

For entries like god dag, we already have god and dag linked to in the headword, so it's unnecessary to add them anywhere else. Thanks --Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:50, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Oolong. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Oolong~enwiktionary that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

00:01, 18 March 2015 (UTC)