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Hello fellow Wikipedians, due to changed circumstances in my private and professional life I am currently hovering somewhere in between "busy in real life and may not respond quickly to inquiries" and "semi-retired". I'll probably be around from time to time, but please don't rely on me for quick admin action or the like, for the time being. All the best, – Fut.Perf.☼ 05:27, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
Archaic Greek letters
Hi, you are evidently more knowledgeable about this than I am, so I just want confirmation in one direction or another; for either Qoppa or Heta, are their lowercase forms found in more modern sources as you said with Digamma, or was I correct to remove the forms on those? Thanks! ~ oklopfer (💬) 13:19, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for reaching out, and sorry for all the reverts – I realize I'm a bit nitpicky here. The fun thing about all these marginal letters is that the case of each is basically unique in a way. For Qoppa, I'd say it's more like Digamma, in that it's been around in regular Greek text typesetting for at least since the 19th century, so there is a genuine uppercase-lowercase pair Ϙϙ just as there is one for Ϝϝ. For digamma, the main reason for its solid presence in print is that it's been a staple of discussion in the context of Homeric studies, ever since the 18th century. It's a bit different yet again for the "numeric" Qoppa glyphs (ϟ), which are historically minuscule in origin and where it's the uppercase variant that is marginal. For Heta, my feeling is that we shouldn't list a specific letter shape in the lead sentence at all, because the article isn't actually about "Ͱ" as such; as the intro sentence says, it is about Greek "Η" in its consonantal function in general, covering the specific variant "Ͱ" only in a subsection. I don't think there's ever been much use of a lowercase-styled "Ͱ" in print (although Jeffery might have used one, I don't remember). "tsan" and "archaic sampi" would be yet more cases where the lowercase forms were basically only invented for Unicode purposes in the early 2000s, and to my knowledge haven't ever really taken off in actual use in print. Fut.Perf.☼ 13:39, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
thank you! I will restore lowercase qoppa then and remove the heta symbol from the lede. I too am a nitpicker and absolutely understand your rationale, I had been trying to be consistent in displaying the symbols, but that must be balanced with historical usage. ~ oklopfer (💬) 15:02, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
I appreciate your patience with me on the San article🙂 ~ oklopfer (💬) 09:27, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
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Thank you for being such great admins for this site! (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 17:42, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
Happy First Edit Day! Hi Future Perfect at Sunrise! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:53, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
As a random user passing by, I also admire the 20 years Future Perfect was active on Wikipedia. Totally incredible! From Alba, Celtoi, (talk) 08:07, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
This article is sad copy of the Armeno-Parthian war article that, I believe, you redirected to Military campaigns of Tigranes the Great. It would appear this needs to be done again. --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:34, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
Already redirected.--Kansas Bear (talk) 20:52, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
Said editor appears to be mentioned in an SPI. --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:37, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
Also, perhaps an Admin should warn them about copying articles from other languages; Armenian-Parthian War(Russian) and Siege of Narbonne(French). These are two I've found so far. The French sources for the so-called Siege of Narbonne don't check out and Buminkhagan has ignored the talk page and edit warring. They've been making articles within minutes. --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:51, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
Would you want Siege of Narbonne (719) deleted? Currently it would qualify under WP:CSD#G5, unless somebody else starts substantially editing it. Fut.Perf.☼ 06:50, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
