Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Language/Non-ISO

message: Given that the use of English is exploding - for instance, in the near future I am expecting to see the emergence of EN-JA(panese) - and given how very many regional dialects of English there are (England has many, many more than are represented thus far, and I daresay that Canada, India, etcetera, also have a goodly number), would it not be better to...
make all non-iso dialects be a +"-XX" extension of the most appropriate ISO code?
For instance, rather than assign "Old Bristolian" the code OBR, or EN-OB, it would be EN-GB-OB.
Obviously, this couldn't be done with some languages, such as Dolphin or Klingon.
Another reason why I think this is should be changed, is that there are a number of places (e.g. Boston in the U.K.) whose inhabitants wandered the globe naming places (e.g. Boston in the U.S.A.) after their home towns. Rather than have people squabbling over codes, if we make this change we increase the potential number of codes available.
What do you think?
--James Chenery (talk) 09:25, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Codes for Non-ISO sub-dialects of English - Change?

message: Why was Koine Greek placed on this page? It is a real language, just an extinct one. It was the standard form of Greek for several centuries, and is the language used by both the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and the earliest Christian writers. It is the equivalent of Biblical Greek. It is therefore NOT on the same level as Klingon and dumbass. --EncycloPetey 08:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As it's listed on Babel and that's linked before the non-ISO link on the project page, I'm taking it off. --Alf melmac 21:28, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The reason I put it on this page was because I made up the code ke for it—it's not actually an ISO 639 code.  If I understand right, there actually isn't a code for Koine Greek, only one for modern (el) and ancient (grc) Greek.  But, I see now that it probably oughtn't be on this page, since this is mostly reserved for silliness.  However, I must say Quenya is a real language also, and, in my opinion, shouldn't be here either.  –Benjamin  (talk)  03:19, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Koine Greek

message: Under the gb section (gibberish), I dont think a user box for Great Britian should be there. — Moe ε 22:37, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking that myself. I will move to brition or something I think, and make gb the gibberish it is meant to be. Ian13ID:540053 22:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: gb

message: Should there be some userboxes under this category, with text like "In Soviet Russia, Yakov Smirnov cannot speak this user, or can speak this user with considerable difficulties." Scott Gall 03:34, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's Wikipedia, man. Make all the userboxes you want. (In Soviet Russia, the userboxes put YOU on THEIR userpage!) ^_^ Cernen 08:50, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Yakov Smirnov

message: I didn't realize that the userboxes here were already defined and so made my own box reflecting my own laziness in capitalization.  It's unlikely that anyone else will use it, but I humbly request that someone place the userbox  in this collection anyway.  If this is impossible due to the "standard format" of the userboxes, then ignore this.  thanks  Niffweed17 08:05, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why it shouldn't be included, and I'd put it in if I knew how. --¿ WhyBeNormal ? 05:58, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add this 

message: How do you add a new userbox to the page? I wanted to add the following as a counter to the controversial AmE-0 userbox:
(This is called "Template:AmE-67")
How would I do that? -- Mwalcoff 23:03, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Or how about one entitled, "Like 67% of English speakers, I speak American English, however an occasional 'Labour' slips into my writing".  Or maybe that's just me.  Xyzzyva 04:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to add a new userbox? 

message: I added a template for Minnesotan, for Minnewegian/Scandahoovian wikipedians. shaggy 22:29, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Minnesotan (en-MN)

message: Some languages that should be added are Gnommish from Artemis Fowl and Parseltongue from Harry Potter.
Seems fair; I imagine Parseltongue could be done with "hssss hss ss hsss hsss" or something to that effect, but can anyone find the appropriate Gnommish text? 24.85.210.146 04:10, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I could get the gnommish text (have it as a font, because I'm that much of a dork) but the problem with gnommish is that the only actual word we know from the books is D'Arvit.  (Unless Eoin released ANOTHER book while I wasn't looking, that had gnommish in it.  Which he hasn't.  Sigh.)  Tomoyan 23:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Novel based languages 

message: and
...are dead linked. I didn't see a merger either, unless you consider the active CalE the same as CalE-N. Someone want to fix it? --Wilhelm Screamer 11:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to California English 5 and N? 

message: We need something of a 0-plus level for some of these userboxes. For instance a Quenya 0+ level would be "This user does not understand Quenya, but has interest in it, and has quite possibly dabbled with it."
Is there a way that a user can create a new userbox?
Linguofreak 21:06, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  0-level userboxes 

message: I've created a series of user boxes for Bostonion-English, but I thought we weren't supposed to put user boxes in the Template namespace anymore, so their in my User space. Should I put them on the page as is, or should I move them to Template:? B.Mearns*, KSC 15:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bostonian English 

message: Why not have userboxes for Newspeak? Although I'm not an expert or an Oceanian, I suspect they would be something like this:
*nws-0: This user oldspeaks (or newspeaks doubleplusungoodwise).
*nws-1: This user newspeaks ungoodwise.
*nws-2: This user newspeaks.
*nws-3: This user newspeaks goodwise.
*nws-4: This user newspeaks plusgoodwise.
*nws-5: This user newspeaks doubleplusgoodwise.
*nws-N: This user bellyfeels newspeak.
Seahen 15:06, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good to me. Why don't you make some? (I don't know how to make templates.) CameoAppearance 10:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually did make them. They've been added to the page. CameoAppearance 09:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newspeak 

message: I fixed the en-au-0 template for those of you whom wish to use it. The Coldwood 00:19, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixed en-au-0 

message: I've expanded the sole, nonstandard-coloured dolphin userbox to a full set in the standard colour scheme and accompanying categories. The old one could be deleted (being redundant) or not, as desired. CameoAppearance 10:53, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dolphin 

message: Hi..
In response to a a rather bad joke (not on WP),
I and another contributer have been working on a 
constructed lanaguge, Sigsumeidsi or Portal.
(The origion of the name is rather complicated ;-)
In order to further develop the langauge, a  Sigsumeidsi mini wiki has been established  
based on some initial notes
Would this 'language' class as a 'joke' langauge for userbox purposes?
Does it even qualify?
Incidentaly the title of this comment is the closest Sigsumeidsi translation
I could come up with...
it says  'Make the set of Sigsumeidsi userboxes member of the set of all userboxes?
or more concisely 'Create Sigsumeidsi userboxes?'
ShakespeareFan00 17:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Only if I can make a set of Uryuomoco userboxen. CameoAppearance 17:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I think I just might do that anyways. CameoAppearance 17:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  cons Sigsumeidsi-userboxen mem su'nouserboxensi squel? 

message: Does anybody want to make Elmer Fudd userboxes? 
If one goes to google and clicks on language tools,
Elmer Fudd is listed (as a joke language)
Evan W. 18:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would do them, but I don't really know how to write in Elmer Fudd. CameoAppearance 04:07, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Good point Evan W. 01:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a good idea... BunnyFlying (talk) 02:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elmer Fudd 

message: I have another suggestion: userboxes showing the level of communication through pictures. The ID boxes could contain pic-0, pic-n, etc. The infoboxes could contain (from 0 to 5, and then n and then just plain "pic" followed by nothing else):
This user can talk, and uses the ability as a sole form of communication.
a small form of :Image:Child scribble age 1y10m.jpg, with a caption saying, "This user has a basic understanding of communication through pictures." 
a small form of :Image:Child Art Aged 4.5 Person 2.png, with a caption saying, "This user has an intermediate understanding of communication through pictures."
a small form of :Image:Faroe stamp 041 childrens year (children of different skin colour).jpg with the caption, "This user has an advanced understanding of communication through pictures."
a small form of :Image:Frans Koppelaar - Mother.jpg with the caption, "This user communicates through pictures at a near-native level."
a small form of :Image:Mona Lisa.jpg with the caption, "This user communicates through pictures so often that it almost replaces speech."
a small form of :Image:Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes 003.jpg with the caption, "This user is a native communicator through pictures."
a small form of :Image:BigPinkHeart.jpg with the caption, "This user communicates through pictures."
--Gray Porpoise 16:31, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Communication through pictures 

message: Sorry if I'm overloading you with suggestions. Under "Ciphers, games, and other English linguistic phenomena", I think there should be userboxes for Ubbi Dubbi. For example:
Thubis ubusuber cuban spubeak Ububbubi Dububbubi.
--Gray Porpoise 14:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ubbi Dubbi 

message: How about userboxes for Internet slang? For example:
*IntS-0: This user has no interest in Internet slang.
*IntS-1: This user is a lamer at Internet slang, but lieks to throw in teh occasional "lol" or "omg" on their blog.
*IntS-2: This user's Internet slang is k, but TBH, they're mostly a lurker.
*IntS-3: This user's a tweedler w/Internet slang.
*IntS-4: This tweedler uses uber Internet slang that will pwn you.
*IntS-5: Tihs tweedler's Internet slang will make a n00b say, "ZOMG!"
*IntS-n: Tihs tweedler uses Internet slang IRL.
("Tihs" is not an actual Internet slang word, but the article says that common typing errors are sometimes integrated.) --Gray Porpoise 16:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internet slang 

message: Sorry for so many suggestions, but a dialect of English for which a userbox could be made is African American Vernacular English. --Gray Porpoise 16:20, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have two more suggestions for English dialects: Engrish, and Yoda. ("Speak like Yoda, this user can.") --Gray Porpoise 20:56, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Engrish is a nice comedy idea - however, Japlish would be better.  I use Japlish on an almost daily basis.  As for Yoda... my old Japanese martial arts sensei was fluent in Yoda: "Let's better balance, make!"  He has some great lines.--James Chenery (talk) 08:39, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

text: What about regional dialects? "This user speaks with a Southern accent." Never mind, y'all it's been done:   -- Alarob 15:15, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  English Dialects 

message: Perhaps there could be userboxes for chickadee calls, consisting (other than the level 0 box) of a combination of fee-bays, chick-a-dees (w/varying numbers of "dees"), seets, and the like. --Gray Porpoise 00:36, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chickadee 

message: On Test Wikipedia and Beta Wikiversity, the default "Languages" in the preferences are "test" and "beta", consecutively. A set of userboxes for those could be made as a joke. --Gray Porpoise 20:49, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonexistent Languages 

message: Any chance of a Vulcan language box series, per Klingonaase?  Trekphiler 15:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was move — Mets501  (talk)  19:42, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Live long and mute? 

message: Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
*Support. —Psychonaut 16:35, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: On an episode of The Simpsons, Marge had a Flanders → English, English → Flanders dictionary. Userboxes for talking like Ned Flanders would be hilarious. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 01:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flanders 

message: We have Middle English userboxes that use the code en-me. The ISO code is enm. Should we change it, and can someone advise me how? 
I have no problem editing the templates themselves, but wonder about renaming them and doing redirects. Is it more trouble than it's worth? How is it done? 
These UBXes survived a recent challenge to their presence in user space. There are about 50 unique users associated with them. -- Alarob 15:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing Middle English en-me to ISO enm 

message: Nursery rhymes often contain nonsense words... bum, bailey, dickery, dare (used in a nonsensical context here), eeny, meeny, miny, moe, eencey, weencey, itsy, bitsy,hi-ho, derry-o, fee, fie, foe, fum, fiddle (in that context), dee, standers, dilly-danders, crookers, wig-wag, goosey, diddle, hickory (in that context), dickory, dock (in that context), higglety, pigglety, diller, Hokey-Pokey, vintery, mintery, zum, gali, and probably countless more. Maybe userboxes can be thrown together for these, or perhaps playground slang. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 21:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another suggestion... 

message: See section title for suggestion. --Gray PorpoisePhocoenidae, not Delphinidae 01:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be awesome. Lol. Together with Mermish, Gobbledygook, and all those Harry Potter languages.  Esethethsetthesss~!! Sang'gre Habagat (talk) 09:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Parseltongue]] 

message: My only (non-native) languages are Latin, Klingon, and C++, so I think this userbox would be appropriate.  I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation!  Antony-22 14:42, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "This user would like to learn a ''real'' language." 

message: I'm planning to add "zh-wen-zh (Classical Chinese based on dialects of spoken Chinese)" because I'm quite surprised to see that it's completely empty and the Classical Chinese is simply too hard to understand. Also, I think we need to split up the Chinese categories because there're 2 types: Traditional and Simplified. Traditional chinese is used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Simplified is used in the mainland China. They have different writings (for some words). Anyways, anyone willing to help?
Note that you have to know how to type in chinese (either traditional or simplified is good)
OhanaUnited 06:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese 

message: I've done several userboxes for the French Quebecois language/dialect.
Here they are!
|SUBZ3R0| 11:40, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello. Thank you for making these userboxes. The "fr-qc" link leads to "English language", which might just be wrong. It should link to "Quebec French". Thank you.--Vintei 00:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sub-Z3R0 is now Sebleblanc.--Auric  talk 00:10, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  French Quebecois 

message: I want to make userboxes for swearing habits. Am I allowed to use coarse language in the userboxes?
OhanaUnited 04:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swearing habits 

message: I propose a set of boxes for this dialect. They are made up at User:Alarob/languages#Appalachian English userboxes. 
Please visit the page and comment. If anyone can guide me on setting up these boxes in User space, it would be appreciated. -- Rob C (Alarob) 18:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dialects of English: Appalachian 

message: I found that there are different userboxes for Classical Chinese, which are "zh-wen-x" and "zh-classical-x". Can we please work together to unify these!!?? I'm so f***ing tangled up over here!!!! SOS!!!! --Edmundkh 01:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classical Chinese 

message: I've noticed that in the boxes they all have linked the name of the language described but some have linked to the actual language entry in wikipedia (Internet Slang for example), while some have linked to the current users speaking that language (Canadian English for example).  Could we get some sort of consensus on which choice is better and proceed to change them all to one type?
Any thoughts on the best option?
Linelor 19:00, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language Links 

message: hello. I've been through this page several times, and there are some bad links(red ones). Could anybody repair them? Thanks.--Vintei 14:02, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad links 

message: IS there a good substitute for northeastern english/mainese on this list? --Tikuko 17:13, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nor'east English 

message: I made another userbox for Coño, a.k.a., Englog, Taglish, or just plain Philippine English. Haha. Any comments? Sang'gre Habagat (talk) 10:02, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: More [[Englog|Coñospeak]]

message: There is a crying need for editors who can understand sources written in postmodern and explain them to the masses. I can't think how to word such a template, but one might look for inspiration here or here (which is explained here). ireneshusband (talk) 10:25, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Postmodern 

message: Moved this from Wikipedia talk:Babel
I am a native speaker of Jutish, a major Danish dialect very distinct from Standard Danish. I developed a writing style for it too, so I would really like to show it on my profile and be able to find fellow speakers. The first two letters are obviously da, but is there any ISO norm for the dialect designator? Jutish/Jutlandic would in English be shortened ju, in Danish jy (for jysk). --Sasper (talk) 23:30, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems the ISO code jut is already listed here: ISO 639:j. Is this really an official ISO code or just based on the dubious source of Ethnologue? And does it mean the babel code should be jut or da-jut? Somebody please give me advice :-) --Sasper (talk) 23:53, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Jutish]]

message: What happened to the other sarcasm userboxes? --WPholic(user)(talk) 11:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sarcasm 

message: I added a new language topic: Troscann. (It is a language I created myself, I will try to add more information on my user page/new article page).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mapar007 (talk • contribs) 15:42, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Troscann]]

message: When this users says "Please", like many people from the Cincinnati Ohio area, they wants you to repeat what you just said.
In Cincinnati Ohio and the general area is the only place  where the word "Please" is used to indicate a request for someone to repeat something said.
example: "I was down in the docks with the ducks" response "Please?" 
How would i go about adding this to the project if it wants the user prefix templates? Yami (talk) 22:05, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  the meaning of Please in Cincinnati Ohio 

message: I was thinking maybe we should create Engrish userboxes to use. Stuff like 'The special level of Engrish it can contribute this user' or 'This user is the person who speaks Engrish native language.' You can use this site to translate an English phrase to Engrish if you like.
Come on, you already have 1337, Pig Latin and Bullshit. Add another Non-ISO userbox. For great justice! jordsta (talk) 07:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Engrish? 

message: We obviously need a section in the "American dialects" section for speakers of Texan -- which is not the same as "Southern," as any Texan (or non-Texan Southerner) will tell you. It's very much a distinct pronunciation and word use, and there are millions of native speakers. --Michael K. Smith (talk) 01:22, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Texas Twang? 

message: Anyone feel up to creating some 'Yeshivish' userboxes? Tzurvah MeRabannan (talk) 20:04, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Yeshivish

message: Both of these langages are using the code CRS.
I would suggest renaming Cockney Rhyming Slang to EN-CS.
--James Chenery (talk) 08:23, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code conflict - Seychelle's Creole and Cockney Rhyming Slang 

message: As a "serious" language box, I'm considering preparing a user box for East North Germanic, i.e. Danish, Norwegian and Swedish that are pretty much mutually intelligible. For the interested, similar language boxes could be prepared for Romance and Slavic language areas with mutual intelligible. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 09:40, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think gmq-ø. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 09:57, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: East North Germanic

message: does anyone know if there is a template to give notice to a dyslexic user? --IIVeaa (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 13:37, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dyslexia

message: Shouldn't Tengwar be in the writing systems list?
--Looodi (talk) 00:16, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Á cenë! User:Celtic Minstrel/Userboxes#Tengwar. Double sharp (talk) 21:29, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tengwar?