Missing Wikipedians revert

Why did you revert? It does say Wait at least a year... unless you have some other reason... Is an abrupt stop and continuing gap after 210 months of continuous consistent edits, not reason enough that we need to wait for an year? Jay 💬 06:32, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That was funny

I presume this was intended as a joke. Haha! TiggerJay (talk) 02:37, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A reasonable inference. —Tamfang (talk) 02:48, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Good Humor
The Barnstar of Good Humor is presented to you for brightening my day with a humorous project talk page edit that you then reverted on yourself, almost double the fun! Cheers to you! TiggerJay (talk) 03:26, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Always a pleasure to know that I have brought a smile. —Tamfang (talk) 04:27, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding...

...this,[1] you might have figured it out anyway, but he's not asking for medical advice. He's the India-based troll who's always griping about plot lines in TV shows. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 09:55, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I know; it was a new way to yank the chain. —Tamfang (talk) 21:32, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Clever! :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 23:38, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Eldho@1234

Eldho@1234 42.105.158.23 (talk) 05:28, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You don't say. —Tamfang (talk) 05:35, 20 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Removed edit

Hey why did you remove my edit of the 51st state page? I had a valid source, and it was accurate so it should have been fine. GibleGamingYT (talk) 23:53, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your source does not support its relevance to that article. —Tamfang (talk) 05:20, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

False friend

Hello! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that you've removed a paragraph (diff) and said "none of these are cognates". That is true, but per the first line of the article, "a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning"; I don't see how that paragraph is irrelevant.

I have not reverted your edit, but I'd like to know your rationale. Thank you in advance :) x RozuRozu • teacups 23:10, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My main reason for removal is that a list of chance resemblances could go on forever. One has no right to expect English foot and French foutre, say, to have similar meanings. Cognates are more dangerous: English actual and French actuel have the same origin, so it is reasonable to expect them to have the same meaning.
(I am curious about Catalan gos and French gosse !)
Perhaps the article ought to mention, if it does not already, that chance resemblances exist for any pair of languages, particularly if their phonotactics are as similar as those of Catalan and English. —Tamfang (talk) 23:17, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spherical cube

@Tamfang Just found a source about the spherical cube, but is the modelling explanation way too short? I might need a hand as long as it sticks to the source. Feel free to ask if you have some questions regarding the content. Dedhert.Jr (talk) 07:05, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tamfang
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