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Proposed deletion of Optical axis (disambiguation)

The article Optical axis (disambiguation) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No need for a dab page. Only two distinct meanings; WP:MOSDAB recommends using dablinks instead in this case.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Srleffler (talk) 04:58, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

• I agree with deletion. Ufim (talk) 13:59, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Great. You could speed up the process by adding the tag "{{db-author}}" at the top of the article. Since you created it and there haven't been any other significant contributions, you have standing to request "speedy" deletion. Otherwise, deletion will take about a week.--Srleffler (talk) 16:44, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Common People/Common people

Hi. It's fine to just "be bold" on Wikipedia, but if you had asked on article talk pages before moving Common People, other editors might have explained why it's probably a bad idea.

• it's confused over 50 incoming links that were to the song
• there's no reason for a phrase such as "Common people" to be capitalised as "Common People" (in fact it shouldn't be), and the two articles could co-exist with hatnotes to cross-reference them. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization)
• the term "common people" is not well-defined in English; it usually has overtones of class but is basically just a conjunction of an adjective (that can be applied to many objects with a potential meaning of class) and a noun; it can also mean the people as a whole "a common people with a common destiny". For example, the article on socialist William Morris doesn't refer to "common people" (only "common life"), and even when it did the meaning isn't quite what you seem to want. Basically, Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Perhaps the article "People" gives the wrong impression, but that's what most of the uses in your edit refer to. (See also the disambiguation page Class war for capitalisation examples.)
• There are already articles for phrases with clearer meaning, such as lumpenproletariat, hoi polloi, plebs, commoners. Surprisingly there doesn't seem to be for the history of the concept demos.
• Certainly the song is not the prior meaning, but if you do a web search for "common people" you will find the song is the most common usage online.
• the term "commons" does not refer to a group of people as claimed in the lead you wrote, and "rabble" usually has class connotations but is also not synonymous.

If you can provide references where the term is used in English in a defined way, then I would support the article creation, but not under the current title which wrongly capitalises the second word. --Cedders^tk 10:00, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree with changing from Common People to Common people. However, if I try to move it, an error message arises.

I think there should be an article about the entity (non-elite majority of the population). The articles hoi polloi, plebs, commoners are dictionary articles about words or idioms now. The meaning of hoi polloi is identical to common people, but I am afraid I can spoil the hoi polloi article by merging. If you merge these two articles to an encyclopedia artice, I agree. Ufim (talk) 10:45, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Coup of June 1907

I fail to understand your question. I tagged the sentence as unreferenced. If you don't understand what the sentence says then it has much worse problems than I thought. (To answer your qustion without bitching, all what you listed (even "something else") requires sourcing.) By the way, the whole article thoroughly lacks citiations since 2009. And by further way, your external links are primary sources, which is far from enough for wikipedia. Please see the rules about sources to be cited in wikipedia. Lovok Sovok (talk) 23:56, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Streich

Please do not add nonsense to articles. Just because something was said on the internet doesn't make it true or worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia. Especially, do not use Russian language news blogs[1] in order to substantiate local stories about Switzerland. See also Daniel Streich. --dab (𒁳) 14:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

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Town

Hi there! Thanks for your comment, but I think we are talking about completely different things here. I don't at all disagree with the points you mentioned on my talk page—they are entirely correct. The problem is that you are talking about how Russians translate the English word "town", while the article in question deals with the concept of a town, and the "Russia" section deals with the concept of a town in Russia. The concept is, of course, described by the Russian word "город", which in turn can be translated as either "city" or "town", which is what the statement in question is about. Perhaps the sentence should be revised to make its meaning more clear, but it is most certainly neither wrong nor obsolete.

The "factual errors" I was referring to in my edit summary are with regards to the criteria an inhabited locality needs to meet in order to qualify for the city/town status. In your revision, you state that in Russia, a settlement can become city (gorod) only if it has more than 12000 inhabitants and the occupation of no less than 85% of inhabitants must be other than agriculture. That was true in the Soviet times, but is no longer the case after the adoption of the 1993 Constitution. Currently, the criteria are set by each federal subject individually; there is no federal regulation to that effect. While it is true that many federal subjects retained the Soviet set of criteria in some form, others did in fact diverge from it (in Khabarovsk Krai, for example, the 12,000 population limit is retained for the towns of district significance, but the limit for the towns of krai significance is 50,000, and the agricultural aspect is no longer numerically defined, while in Dagestan there is no district/republican aspect and the threshold is 50,000 for all cities/town; the agricultural aspect is also not explicitly defined).

Hope this clarifies the rationale behind my edit. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); August 17, 2011; 13:41 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification.Ufim (talk) 15:13, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Syllabus (disambiguation) for deletion

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Re: Windows 10 DPI

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