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Appeal

You deleted my page about Simon Fraser. Can you please tell me why? And if you're not able to, can you please give me my page back, I really need it. It has some important information. Thanks lad! — Preceding unsigned comment added by CalvinEDU (talk • contribs) 03:06, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Responded at WP:Requests for undeletion#user:CalvinEDU. Jay 💬 08:58, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

I would like to contest a article which has been tagged speedy deletion. This article is not a advertisement or marketing as Dr. Goldfarb is retired. He has made unique contributions to his field both a inventor and innovator Dgentman (talk) 01:53, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Both I and the deleting administrator felt that it was unsuitable for Wikipedia. It is hard to draft an appropriate article when you are closely linked to the subject, as I believe you are in this case. See WP:AUTO for more. If you do want it to be undeleted, please follow the instructions at the bottom of the deletion notice on your talk page, and contact the deleting administrator. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 01:59, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Stade nantais redirect

Hello. In many cases, French proper nouns only have the first letter of the first word capitalized. I believe this is such a case. That's how it is written on the French Wikipedia, although plenty of people, even among French speakers, don't follow the rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/France-_and_French-related_articles#Capitalization Thank you.

Redacwiki Yeah, but I looked at the club's web site before making the move, and they consistently capitalize Nantais. See https://www.stadenantais.fr/articles/D7A88F62-2297-4E35-9507-A9AEA9326296 and https://www.stadenantais.fr/articles/F07D9630-D3FF-414B-921E-A343DA70DB71 for example. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 02:49, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

rsjaffe Yes, that's probably done to highlight their brand within the text, to make it more important, or because it's done in English. It's a common practice but it's incorrect and not done in the context of an encyclopedia. It's a bit like some companies who capitalize their entire name. It's tolerated in certain contexts, but not considered the actual spelling. You can see it here with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_fran%C3%A7aise. And yes, that means that thousands of Wiki articles have had it wrong for years.

But WP:MOSFR says to use the capitalization used in the organization’s official publications. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 13:23, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

The "Capitalization" section of the MoS mentions about works of art that: "For consistency of French titles on the English Wikipedia, the consensus has been to follow the first method [which is the] Imprimerie nationale / Académie française method [It adds that] Titles which adhere to these rules may, however, differ from the form of capitalization originally adopted by the author, the cover's graphic artist, or the publishing house [...] The MoS does say to use "the punctuation, spelling, ect. used by the organisation's own publications" at one point, but there is no direct mention of capitalization. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) also says: "Capitalization of expressions borrowed from other languages [...] For French, see for instance WP:Manual of Style/France and French-related § Works of art. In French, the capitalization rules (for books, works of art, and many other topics) are different from those in English." That doesn't seem to imply differences in treatment between works of arts and other topics. So if I understand correctly, for works of arts, Académie française and fr.wiki spelling rules take precedence over "vanity" capitalizations made by the publisher, but for institutions, it's the opposite?

I'm looking at the section on Names of organizations and institutions (Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/France-_and_French-related_articles#Names_of_organisations_and_institutions) and it states Subject to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies), names of organisations and institutions (e.g. orchestras, musical ensembles and groups, concert halls, festivals, schools, etc.) should follow official usage (i.e. the spelling, punctuation, etc. used by the organisation's own publications.... To me, this makes sense, as works of art don't have someone to insist on a particular capitalization, so you follow the general rules, while corporate names do have someone insisting on capitalization (the organization itself) so that should carry the day.— rsjaffe 🗣️ 19:01, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

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Udy

Hello! You edited my new article Udy (village) but seem to have caused an error. You added the article to the category "Articles with unsourced statements from September 2,022" which is not a legitimate category. I assume you meant to put it into the category "Articles with unsourced statements from September 2022 "but I can't figure out how to fix it. Could you please correct this? Many thanks, Physeters^✉ 20:07, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

I checked, and it is in the correct category here. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:53, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

At the bottom of the article it is listed as "2,022". Will this just correct itself? Physeters^✉ 21:02, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

The Population Estimate field in the infobox re-formats numbers with commas, which added a comma to the CN date — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 21:17, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Thanks for fixing it! Physeters^✉ 22:03, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Parrvnya

Isn't it a better idea to wait the standard 10 minutes before tagging the article? --Ferien (talk) 21:27, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Ferien. The author wanted it deleted. It ended uo as G7 — rsjaffe 🗣️ 05:37, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

What does UTC actually mean? Hope8384 (talk) 05:16, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Coordinated Universal Time — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 06:57, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

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(t · c) buidhe 21:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi dear what was the copyright problem ?

I’m not sure that what was the copyright problem ? Xxmadamex (talk) 20:44, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Look at this report: [1]. There is copy/paste from at least two sites. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 20:51, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for help!

I am really grateful for reminding me of the Arabic wikipedia, and that's really helped me actually. i am not that new to wikipedians community but i contribute ever now and then. and i would really like to participate more. is there any spicific activities that i can do rather than translating articles? i would like to know and understand what i can do and how much i can do in the first place. Thanks <3. you are welcomed to my talk page if you have any questions, حسام أبوزينة (talk) 11:05, 30 September 2022 (UTC)