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Phaistos Disc
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The Phaistos Disc is a disc of fired clay from the Greek island of Crete, dating possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium BC). It bears a text on both sides in an unknown script and language, and its purpose and original place of manufacture remain disputed. Discovered in 1908 by the Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier, the disc is made of fine-grained clay, intentionally and properly fired, and is approximately cylindrical with a diameter of around 16 centimetres (6.3 inches) and a thickness of almost 2 centimetres (0.79 inches), with rounded edges. The disc is an early example of movable-type printing, with the embossed signs that comprise its inscription resulting from separate stamps that were pressed into the soft clay before firing. It has captured the imagination of amateur and professional palaeographers, and many attempts have been made to decipher the text, which comprises 241 occurrences of 45 distinct signs. The Phaistos Disc is now on display at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum on Crete.Artefact credit: unknown; photographed by C messier; edited by Bammesk

Welcome

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Voting History (since I started keeping track)

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  • No -- on replacing the image of a clitoris with an anatomical drawing. This isn't the Dark Ages.
  • Yes -- on enforcement of the Three Revert Rule


Talk Stuffs

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Hello there! :) I was just wandering around Wikipedia and sumbled into your talk page. Since you're keeping track of what you vote, I got interested on where are these votes. :) --Ekevu (talk) 17:45, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)


Lurking

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Thanks. can you comment on the talk page then, both on the research and the vote? Thanks FT2 21:56, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)


Urgent: Vote re Ciz

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The arbcom post is being processed shortly. can you indicate on my talk page User:FT2 whether you would support a full wikipedia ban for Ciz? Thanks FT2 21:08, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

iff vs. if

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Hi there, I just wanted to let you know while it's a very good thing you're watching out for spelling mistakes, "iff" is actually the correct word in articles like unfoldable cardinal - it's a word used mainly by mathematicians that means "if and only if". ^^ -- Schneelocke (cheeks clone) [[]] 15:09, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yidlix

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...is Yidlix no more, apparently. Many thanks for helping block this in-DUH-vidual. - Lucky 6.9 02:19, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • Glad to be of service. }:) --Sillydragon 02:37, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks.

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Thanks for rv my userpage. :) – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 13:09, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

you are a silly dragon, yes you are, yes you are!

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Hey! If you're interested, I started a series of userboxes for the game NationStates. Feel free to add any or add your own!-🐦Do☭torWho42 () 05:08, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A 2001 edit

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Hello, I'm going through usernames in the August 2001 database dump, trying to match them up to edits from that time where possible. I've found an edit under your username that I was able to import. I hope that was you ... if you're sure it wasn't, I could have the edit re-attributed. Graham87 (talk) 08:52, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Yes, that would have probably been one of my very first edits after seeing the original wikipedia announcement on Slashdot, I think it was. I do remember making it. Sillydragon (talk) 18:33, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]