User talk:Dalf

I am a pretty new user to wikipedia, though I created this account a while back. I had actually forgotten that I created an account and was making a few edits (mostly typo corrections and one or two factual corrections) as just my IP. I Speak Romanian, though my written romanian is probbly not good enough to compose pages in Romanian. I can manage an ok job translating into english however so if anyone is working with that sort of thing let me know. Dalf | Talk 23:30, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Translation

Hi Dalf,

There are a few Romanian-English bilinguals. User:Jmabel for one. More generally, you might want to check out or for resources on translating within Wikimedia, how to translate articles from Romanian, giving proper credit, etc. Peace, DanKeshet 19:54, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

My Romanian is not really at the level of correcting grammar and usage. (It pretty much all comes from 6 months in Romania combined with a general knowledge of Romance languages.) I'm pretty sure what you wrote is wrong on a couple of points, but I wouldn't presume to assert what is correct. Try User:Bogdangiusca. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:23, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Have you spent any significant time in Romania? -- Jmabel | Talk 05:42, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Yes I have been 6 (or was it 7) times between 1992 and 1999:

• 3 weeks in the summer of '92 (in Craiova)
• 60 days in '93 (mostly in Craiova but also Timisoara, and Sinaia (the southern one)).
• Took an informal (and ungraded) course in Romanian at the University of Missouri - Columbia.
• 70 days in '94 (in Bucuresti)
• 11 months 1996-97 as an exchange student in Sibiu though I traveled around most of the country.
• 2 or 3 weeks in 1999 driving around visiting people and places.

I must have visited Brasov 10 or 15 times, theres a really good chinese restraunt in pt. sfatului.

In any event my writing ability in english is not even that good, so I am mostly poking around looking for easy stuff to fix and clean up that does not require brillian writing skills. As to translations, I think I am probbly going to do some pratice ones from romanian into english and have some one look them over before I actually create any pages from translating. Dalf | Talk 06:00, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yazd

Hi Dave. Is it true that Khatami and Katsav come from Yazd? I deleted it because I thought someone had just inserted it because both had shaked hands at the Pope's funeral. I see I was wrong (checked Moshe Katsav page). My apologies! Please at it back. Luis rib 11:29, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the follow up, reverted and changed to reflect place of birth. I'm Scott BTW, Dalf is just a nick. Dalf 22:07, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Supercategories

Would it be taken as friendly or unfriendly if I went through what you wrote and fixed your spelling? -- Jmabel | Talk 04:19, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

• I don't think it's intractable, and your comments are a good contribution. I'm too busy with other things now to really focus on that one, but I you make good points. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:54, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
• & I take it from your remark about the spell-checker that you will try to clean that up yourself, so I won't bother. Nothing incomprehensible, but several words (including "navigation") consistently misspelled. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:57, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)