User talk:Roberta F.

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Again, welcome! --Ivan Štambuk 20:30, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Croatian declensions

Hi,

I've asked your colleague too: could you please trim the trailing whitespace in the generated {hr-decl-noun} inflections? It would be very much appreciated :) Cheers --Ivan Štambuk 20:30, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. --Roberta F. 22:12, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Also, please begin all section names with a capital letter, such as ====Declension====. --EncycloPetey 02:39, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

vrpca

[1] - Perhaps you're "offended" by seeing Serbo-Croatian instead of Croatian (which I find an amusing symptom of nationalism disease), but note however that you've deleted during the "undo" process a certain amount of useful information which wasn't present before. In the future, please refrain from content deletion, and try the copy/paste instead.

BTW, I generally only merge entries which were created by me, Dijan, Bogorm and other SC regulars (and all of which I have on my watchlist, and that's how I know so that I don't need waste time checking page history), and I'm not sure how that one escaped me. --Ivan Štambuk 09:44, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

You deleted valuable content during your undo. Furthermore, by your replacement of ==Serbo-Croatian== with ==Croatian== you also removed any kind of notice that the word vrpca is nothing peculiar of Croatian language standard (it's all there is to the so-called "Croatian language" - a particular standard of pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language), but also spoken by 15 million non-Croats, i.e. also valid modern standard Bosnian, Serbian and Montengrin. You were fully aware what you were doing. You could've simply copy/pasted the expanded ==Serbo-Croatian== section to ==Croatian== (like some of your colleagues as Elephantus (talk • contribs) have been pointlessly doing), or restore the previous version of the ==Croatian== section from the page history, but you didn't. To me, that kind of behaviour motivated exclusively by non-practical, non-linguistical concerns is a symptom of petty Balkanic nationalism, but that could be just me. If I asked you what language(s) the following section describes:

==XXX==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|/ʋřptsa/|lang=sh}}
* {{hyphenation|vr|pca}}

===Noun===
{{xxx-noun|g=f|head=vr̀pca}}

# [[ribbon]], [[tape]], [[streamer]]

====Declension====
{{xxx-decl-noun
|vrpca|vrpce
|vrpce|vŕpcā / vŕpcī
|vrpci|vrpcama
|vrpcu|vrpce
|vrpco|vrpce
|vrpci|vrpcama
|vrpcom|vrpcama
}}

Whether it's Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Serbo-Croatian, Croato-Serbian, Serbo-Bosniako-Croato-Montenegrin...you couldn't answer, because it's all of them simultaneously. Anyone with a minimal knowledge of real-world linguistics (i.e. dialectology) knows that the probability of one written word having the same meaning, pronunciation, etymology, inflection in 7 cases and 2 numbers in 4 really different languages is 1 : ∞.

Your "undo", after a month of a complete inactivity on this project, comes only hours before Robert Ullmann's Beer Parlour notice of his silly bot, which is hardly a coincidence, and which strikes me as a deliberate provocation. I can only guess what your real motives are, but it would be much more appreciated if you could channel your efforts to something actually productive content-wise. --Ivan Štambuk 14:31, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Block.

I have blocked you (this time for three days, instead of indefinitely) because it's pretty clear that you don't actually want to contribute, you just want to make trouble for the people who are actually contributing... because you don't agree with the view that you speak the same language as your neighbors. The variants your group have been describing in no way separate Bosnian from Serbian or Croatian any more than flashlight and torch separate British and American English. — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 19:19, 27 April 2010 (UTC)