User:Sortior

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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

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What I have been doing

I finished up the city project, and the orphaned categories...so I am looking for a new project And as always am open to suggestions...

Interesting Categories I've added

• Category:Shrines
• Category:Sideshow attractions
• Category:Circuses
• Category:College football teams
• Category:Commodity exchanges
• Category:Medical testing equipment
• Category:New York train stations
• Category:Creation stories
• Category:Abolitionists
• Category:State fairs
• Category:Fads

I spend lots of time categorizing...

Recently Done

• Horse racing categorizationCategory:Horse racing
• the world of Category:Circuses is wide open
• Category:College football is a mess
• fix Category:Illinois state highways
• fix Category:European Union member states

To Do

• Pictures for LA Class submarinesCategory:Los Angeles class submarines up to Baton Rouge
• standardize state subcategories-- this is on hold for now
• organize US regional culture... right now culture in the US is a mess
• organize the Catholic Church regions of the US especially dioceses
• fix ghost towns
• working on Category:Orphaned categories
• American Civil war is a categorization mess.... I'll work on that too...
• Fix prisons category.... this is a weird one
• Category:United States Navy monitors needs help
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax
• I have the feeling that oceans, bays, seas et al need categorization...
• work on Category:Battles
• fix Category:Roman archaeological sites
• fix Category:Artillery
• fix Category:Chicago
• make Category:Veterinary medicine

Cut & Paste

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• [[Wikipedia:Untagged Images|Thousands of images have no copyright tags. You can help sort this out by clicking on this link!]
• Hi! Thanks for uploading the following images: *[[:Image:Decant01.jpg]] *[[:Image:Chäfärzte01.jpg]] I notice it currently doesn't have an [[Wikipedia:Image copyright tags|image copyright tag]]. Could you add one to let us know its [[copyright]] status? (You can use <nowiki>{{gfdl}} if you release it under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]], <nowiki>{{fairuse}} if you claim [[Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]], etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just ''let me know [[User talk:Sortior|at my talk page]]'' where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. P.S. You can help tag other images at [[User:Yann/Untagged_Images]]. Thanks again.

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