Hello Faster than Thunder, can you please explain why you created a template that is out of the scope of this project? I would have given you some latitude if you were a brand new user to Wikimedia, but it seems you have not learned your lesson from Wikibooks and your block on the incubator shows that too. Please explain what the purpose of that template is for, or else it may be deleted. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 05:53, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

I will stop. I created it, because on the English Wikipedia, there are warning templates as well.

I will only create templates with consensus from now on. Faster than Thunder (talk) 05:56, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

I hope you do realise that you have been warned about your conduct several times on multiple wikis and reflected on b:Wikibooks:Requests for permissions/Faster Than Thunder, w:User talk:Faster than Thunder, m:Meta:Requests for adminship/Faster than Thunder and I really could go listing pages. If you really wanted to do something useful or namely, not take the piss on several wikis, you need to stop, reflect and assess your actions. I'm sorry to say, if you're going with your behaviour the way you are, you're not going to get a lenient unblock like you did on enwiki. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 06:05, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

m:Steward requests/Miscellaneous/2022-03#My edits on Incubator being reverted by MF-Warburg without explanation doesn't convince me either. Per Wikivoyage:How to handle unwanted edits#User ban, you could be blocked at anytime without a ban nomination due to your block on the incubator but you should be very cautious about your conduct thruout Wikimedia. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta.wikimedia) 08:39, 26 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

So basically, I was too caught up in focusing on positions of trust like adminship rather than building the actual project? (basic things like reverting vandalism do not count since they help the actual project) Faster than Thunder (talk) 00:18, 7 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Well I sure hope you've grown since 3 years ago. //shb (t | c | m) 00:38, 7 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Re: this edit:

ja sam vegetarijanats: Is that pronounced with a J as in "Judge"? I would have guessed it was like a Y.

molimo vas dane koristite ʒivotiɲske masti: What is ʒ? We don't have that letter in English, unless it's a funny-looking Z. I'm guessing it's "zh", with the sound of "g" in "rouge".

moʒete li, molim vas, kuxati bez masti: Is the X pronounced "ks" like we do in English? Do you perhaps mean "kh" with the sound of "ch" in "loch"?Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:44, 4 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

On ʒ: Kind of both, I assume. Wiktionary says that ʒ is based on a medieval cursive form of the letter z and represents a voiced palatoalveolar sibilant, and your guess on the pronunciation seems right, according to the sound sample. And yes, IPA x is the sound in loch, and IPA j is like the y in yellow.

Faster than Thunder: we don't use IPA. There have been discussions on introducing it in phrase books, but the consensus seems to be that too few English speakers know it for it to be useful.

–LPfi (talk) 08:21, 12 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I didn't know that was supposed to be IPA because it wasn't identified as such. IPA is not very intuitive for English-speakers. Ikan Kekek (talk) 15:39, 12 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

It surely doesn't look like our pseudo-pronunciation, square brackets are often used for IPA, and the change of just a few characters, to odd ones, gave it away. –LPfi (talk) 19:32, 12 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Please refrain from edits like this, which clearly show that you are not familiar with the cuisine in question. In the Philippines, fish sauce and shrimp paste are used everywhere and it would be exceedingly difficult to avoid them in a local restaurants. Jpatokal (talk) 10:54, 7 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

In Manila, will some restaurants avoid these condiments if asked? Faster than Thunder (talk) 22:00, 7 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

I wouldn't count on it. Even if they agree to skip them for a single dish, cross-contamination is virtually guaranteed. Jpatokal (talk) 03:42, 8 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

A lot of vegetarians like me would tolerate fully vegetarian food prepared on equipment that also handles meat/fish (no fish sauce or shrimp paste in the dish itself). Faster than Thunder (talk) 05:21, 8 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Right, and your argument about kosher food is that it doesn't need a kosher certification, but for a heck of a lot of people who keep kosher, it does unless it's fresh fruit or vegetables eaten on disposable plates - because plates, silverware and glasses have to be kosher, too. People make various compromises, but it doesn't serve the people who are trying to follow the letter of the law very well to tell them they can do x, y and z cheat, unless it's made abundantly clear what the cheating or compromise element(s) is (are). Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:31, 8 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

+1. It's also doubly pointless because people who do keep kosher are already well aware of these pitfalls. Jpatokal (talk) 08:50, 9 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

My edits on no certification being required were only for purely vegetarian restaurants since they avoid cross-contamination with nonkosher foodstuff. The materials used to handle the food were most likely purified in some equivalent of a mikvah. Faster than Thunder (talk) 15:48, 9 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

They were purified in a mikvah, you say? What in the world do you mean by that? You don't seem to understand kashrut, and you appear not to know what a mikvah is, because how or why would someone "purify food" in a mikvah? Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:21, 9 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

My mistake. I am sorry for my previous comment. I meant to say that many Jews outside the ME make compromises to not requiring mikvah purification, especially in purely vegetarian restaurants. Faster than Thunder (talk) 21:08, 9 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

What does a mikvah have to do with kosher food? Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:16, 9 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

It ensures that materials used for kosher food are free from cross-contamination with impurities like pork. However, these impurities are basically nonexistent in purely vegetarian restaurants since they serve no meat. Faster than Thunder (talk) 16:03, 20 June 2025 (UTC)Reply