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Welcome!

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@John Maynard Friedman: Thanks Xain36 (talk) 06:23, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

February 2019

Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

  Hello, I'm Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Mulberry Violence— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Shellwood (talk) 09:40, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

@Shellwood: Do you mean this: [1]? Xain36 (talk) 09:42, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
@Shellwood: I think there is a misunderstanding between this massage. I was reverting vandalism. Xain36 (talk) 09:48, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Zawiślak

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Xain36, I have reverted your edit to Zawiślak because it was created (and is tagged as) a surname page. I don't think that there are enough articles with names similar to Zawiślak to warrant a disambiguation page, and pages shouldn't be tagged with both {{surname}} and {{disambiguation}}. Leschnei (talk) 13:54, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

@Leschnei: Thanks for appraising me. Xain36 (talk) 14:13, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

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1993 Aurora shooting

Latest comment: 5 years ago14 comments4 people in discussion

FYI, you moved 1993 Aurora shooting before one week of discussion. Usually, one week should elapse before closing a discussion without WP:SNOW. --Jax 0677 (talk) 15:34, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

@Jax 0677: I thought 7 days are over (24 Feb-17 Feb = 7 Days). Is there any way to find out the exact time? Regards, Xain36 (talk) 15:56, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
  • Reply - See "Walk Like an Egyptian (talk) 22:04, 17 February 2019 (UTC)" signature that started the conversation at 1004 PM. --Jax 0677 (talk) 17:58, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
@Jax 0677: Oh! I got it. Currently I am using my native's time zone, that's why I couldn't notice. Xain36 (talk) 00:11, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Yes, it's still very much being discussed. The other Aurora RM discussion was just relisted; so should this one. Please revert your close and relist. Thanks. --В²C ☎ 19:11, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

@Born2cycle: Sorry, but I couldn't get the point about "other RM". Did you mean these "Talk: Aurora, Illinois shooting" and "Talk: 2012 Aurora shooting"? Also the "1993 Aurora" discussion's result is totally clear crystal case as 5 Support and 3 Oppose. Xain36 (talk) 00:34, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
Um, 5 to 3 is not “crystal clear” especially when you closed it early and when the discussion was still recent. I’m just requesting a relist so others can weigh in. Why the reluctance? —В²C ☎ 05:51, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
@Born2cycle: Sorry, I can't reopen the discussion because I already moved the article. I'm afraid because I am a new user and I don't know what is the fact of "reopen". Also, this discussion little discouraged me from editing. :( Xain36 (talk) 06:11, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
As a new user you should not be closing RM discussions. Anyway, the move can be reverted. If you can’t move it, file a technical request after you revert your close explaining you’ve re-opened the RM per request and need the corresponding move reverted. —В²C ☎ 06:52, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
  • Reply - @Xain36:, you may want to justify your closure beyond what you wrote for the closure, per WP:VOTE, else @Born2cycle: could file an appeal at WP:MR. --Jax 0677 (talk) 01:01, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

@Dekimasu: As a new editor, I need your help. Xain36 (talk) 06:19, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Hello Xain36, please don't be discouraged. In this case I would suggest reverting by going into the history of the talk page and re-saving the last edit before your closure. Then you can relist the discussion using {{subst:relisting}}. The move back to 1993 Aurora shooting does not appear to be blocked so you should be able to undo it, but let me know if you need help. It is true that not all move discussions need to be reopened upon request, but I generally agree with В²C that the outcome is still unclear in this case, since the outcomes of move discussions are based upon the strength of the arguments, not by the number of editors supporting or opposing a move alone. Dekimasuよ! 06:59, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
  Done ;-) Dekimasu. Regards, Xain36 (talk) 08:27, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
  Thank you --В²C ☎ 18:00, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Info this da person from jojo siwa btw

Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

It is true that her brother is a volgger if you haven’t seen his channel and the episode where he says to jojo that he is a vlogger. Ilikehorses123457 (talk) 22:04, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

@Ilikehorses123457:Why are you telling me again? I already claimed on the talk page that the edit was a false positive and I have fixed that. I strongly recommend you to provide a verifiable/reliable source for your edits. Regards, Xain36 {talk} 04:35, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Zara

Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Hello Xain36,

This image was shot in NYC protesting company's treatment of workers. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.202.25.98 (talk) 16:35, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for apprising to me. I have a little issue about your edit, where you provided a photo - "Shame on you Zara!", that's why I reverted your edits. Glad to see you reverted my edit [2]. If need any help then send me a message. Regards, Xain36 {talk} 16:43, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! This image was in SoHo, Manhattan wikicommons category. And is new pic as it was shot in early Feb. Regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.202.25.98 (talk) 16:50, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome! Xain36 {talk} 16:54, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #354

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Added monolingual language code tlb (Tobelo), thanks User:Mbch331! (T216798, will be deployed next week)
    • Integrating the termbox with Wikibase (phab:T214679)
    • Viewing historic revisions and fetching the termbox data from Special:EntityData (phab:T210615)
    • Fixing emoji breaking the termbox (phab:T217244)
    • Renamed special pages under Wikibase to avoid confusion with Schemas special pages (phab:T216719)
    • Removed unsupported php 7 constant in production, causing a notice and potential undefined behavior ([[phab:T217241
    • Investigated wb_term normalization solution (phab:T215902)
    • Fix for outdated cached WB datatypes on client-side (phab:T216728 (blocks enabling new datatypes, e.g. phab:T216730))
    • Allowing access to wikibase entities from multiple (wikibase) databases (phab:T214557)
    • Allowing to return a proper API error on 'wbformatvalue' action (phab:T207479)
    • Providing open-graph title and discretion meta-tags for lexemes (phab:T206414)
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    • Splitting edit parts on Schemas (phab:T215395, phab:T215393, phab:T215392, phab:T215394)
    • Improving support for multilingual edit comments in MediaWiki (phab:T215637)

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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 16:20, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

Result of move request for Sinhalese language

Latest comment: 5 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Xain36! Could you please explain why for Sinhala language "The result of the move request was: Not Moved per consensus"?

Wikipedia:Deletion_guidelines_for_administrators#Rough_consensus says "Consensus is not determined by counting heads, but by looking at strength of argument, and underlying policy (if any). Arguments that contradict policy, are based on opinion rather than fact, or are logically fallacious, are frequently discounted."

I provided many mostly strong or medium pieces of evidence in favour of the move, one user provided evidence against that was "based on opinion rather than fact, or ... logically fallacious", one user provided anecdotal evidence in favour, another user provided anecdotal evidence against, and one user provided medium evidence in favour of the move. Here is my rough breakdown on the strength of the evidence presented:

Strong For Medium For Weak For Anecdotal For Inconclusive Anecdotal Against Weak Against Medium Against Strong Against
Consensus reached three times before
Google Trends
Google Ngrams
Seven instances of consensus, attempted moves, and discussions
The New York Times
BBC
Encylopaedia Britannica
Media Wiki (Wikipedia)
Google Books
not yet in reliable published sources
WP:CRYSTAL
the correct term is Sinhala
Sinhalese is still the clear common name in English-language sources
The 'ese' ending is usually used for something that has relation to some proper noun
There is no such thing for Sinhala, the language name stands in itself
"Sinhala" is also the internationally accepted standard name, for e.g. by Unicode Consortium
Majority of the references to "Sinhalese" must come from old texts
5 3 2 2 2 3 0 0 0

If "Strong" is 4, "Medium" is 3, "Weak" is 2, "Anecdotal" is 1, "Inconclusive" is 0, "For" is positive, and "Against" is negative, the total is 20 + 9 + 4 + 2 + 0 - 3 - 0 - 0 - 0 = 32 on a scale from -68 to 68, or re-scaled from 0 to 100: 73.5. On just this evidence, it is almost 3:1 in favour of the move. Maybe these weights should be more like [10, 6, 3, 1, 0, -1, -3, -6, -10], but that doesn't change the final figures by enough to make a significant difference. If more evidence is needed, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla, Unicode, etc. only call the language "Sinhala". The International Standards Organisation (ISO) says "Sinhala" is the primary name, "Sinhalese" is the secondary name. The language organisations Glottolog (a main article reference), Linguasphere (another main article reference), WALS, Ethnologue, and Omniglot all call it "Sinhala", sometimes recognising "Sinhalese" as an alternate name. Of course, you could disagree with the strengths of some of the evidence, but I don't think it's possible to reasonably reclassify enough evidence to support "Sinhalese" over "Sinhala", or even decide that it's inconclusive overall.

It seems pretty clear to me that the consensus was For, not Against. If my reasoning is wrong, I'd like to have it explained to me. Danielklein (talk) 04:39, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

@Danielklein:, Well, per consensus: Sinhalese is still the clear WP:COMMONNAME in English-language sources. Also, please see this: 2 and 2. As you pointed Google Trends, shows the ratio of "Sinhala": "Sinhalese" in searches was 4:1 in 2004, increasing to greater than 80:1 since October 2015. No country had fewer searches for "Sinhala" than "Sinhalese", with ratios varying from 8:1 (Canada and the US) to 99:1 or greater (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Oman, Italy, Japan). But please see this example: Bengali has known natively/endonym as Bangla. In Google trends, Bangla is most searched on Google. But it doesn't mean we need to change the name of the Article. Bangla and Sinhala are known for native languages and Bengali and Sinhalese is known or written as English-language. Simple. Xain36 {talk} 06:35, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Bangla is an interesting case! According to the Unicode Consortium, "Bangla" is the name used in the US, but "Bengali" is the name used in Australia. As an Australian, I didn't even realise there was another name until I saw this on Unicode's website! The trend for "Bengali/Bangla" is quite different, since it shows a consistent 2:1 preference for Bangla:Bengali, i.e. both terms are growing at the same rate. I will continue to call the language "Bengali" because that is the preferred term in my country, despite "Bangla" being preferred world-wide, and also being the name in its own language. If "Bangla" becomes more widely used in Australia, I will change to using that name.
I already addressed the two Google Books links you provided. They include all books including ones published in the 19th century and early 20th century, and those same books republished recently with a new date. Therefore, "Sinhalese" is over-represented in the data, unless you limit it to recent years. "sinhalese language" (23 books),"sinhala language" (27 books).
Out of the 23 "Sinhalese language" books, 3 were published before 1940: two in 1938 and one in 1891. One recent book had no preview to verify the ratio of "Sinhalese language" to "Sinhala language". Seven books surprisingly actually used "Sinhala language" more times than "Sinhalese language". Some books contrast "Sinhalese language" with "Sinhala language", some contrast "Sinhalese language" with "Sinhala" (without the word "language"), decreasing the data set, i.e. "The name of the Sinhalese language is Sinhala." It is necessary to count the occurrences along with their meanings, which is hard to do. However, it is important to be aware of the biases in the data. Some occurrences of "Sinhalese language" only appear in titles in bibliographies, because the older books exclusively use "Sinhalese", never "Sinhala". Long story short, you can't just do two basic searches on Google, compare the number of hits and make a decision. You need to look carefully at the data first, discounting old data and duplicated data. The initial data I've seen so far seems to indicate that authors are more likely to add "language" to "Sinhalese" than "Sinhala", further skewing the data. Just on the surface, of the 19 "Sinhalese" books published after 1986 the ratio of "Sinhalese language":"Sinhala language" is only 12:7, with a further two preferring "Sinhala" to "Sinhalese". A search in the text of these two books shows that "Sinhala" is being used as the name of the language. The final ratio is therefore 10:9, almost even. Of those 4 use "Sinhalese language" 2 to 5 times as much as "Sinhala language", 11 use both terms about the same amount, and 4 use "Sinhala language" 2 to 14 times more than "Sinhalese language".
I rate the statement "Sinhalese is still the clear common name in English-language sources" as anecdotal, because I provided verifiable contrary evidence, and no evidence was provided to back that statement. The evidence that news organisations seem to only use "Sinhala" seems to have been ignored in the final decision. News organisations don't call Ivory Coast "Côte d'Ivoire" despite that country saying that the French name is the only name allowed in any other language. So, since the BBC and the New York Times, etc. call the language "Sinhala", they must have a good, English language reason for doing so. Danielklein (talk) 10:16, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
@Danielklein:, As a Bangladeshi citizen, we used "Bengali", when we wrote something or spoke in English. For your clarification, "Bangla" is an incorrect spell, you can use Spell Checker, and check which is a correct spell in US and UK. Regards, Xain36 {talk} 12:04, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for your comment, however, I fear this discussion has got off-topic because what Bengali is called in English has nothing to do with what Sinhala/Sinhalese is called in English. Both names are correct, but I can see no strong evidence that Sinhalese is still the preferred term, and lots of strong evidence that Sinhala is now the preferred term. E.g. over a dozen of the largest: technology companies and news organisations that provide services in Sinhala, and language organisations all using Sinhala exclusively, or in the case of some language organisations making it clear that "Sinhalese" is an alternative or secondary name. Why would so many top institutions fly against convention and choose the lesser used name as the only name or main name? I see no reason why they would. If "Sinhala" is good enough for them, including Media Wiki (the software that runs Wikipedia!), then I see no reason why the articles should not go with the established convention and use "Sinhala" as well.
Please let me know if you are reconsidering your close decision, or if your decision is final. I don't want to keep writing you messages if they're doing no good. Danielklein (talk) 00:12, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #355

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
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Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:55, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Please review WP:RMNAC

Latest comment: 5 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Xain36. Multiple people are complaining about some of your RM closes. As an editor with limited experience I advise you to stick to closing RM discussions where consensus of the participants is nearly unanimous. —В²C ☎ 15:35, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

@Born2cycle:, Oh! I am not aware of this. Where is the source of my reports? Xain36 {talk} 17:14, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
See User_talk:Born2cycle#New_editor_making_poor_choices and Wikipedia:Move_review#Sinhalese_language. Agan, I advise you to participate in RMs rather than close them. You need to develop a better understanding of the system. If you don’t pay heed to my advice, I’m concerned the community will take formal action. In fact, the MRV and this friendly advice I’m providing now may serve as evidence against you if you don’t stop. —В²C ☎ 18:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
@Born2cycle:, Ok, I got it. Xain36 {talk} 18:29, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #356

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
 
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Development
    • Prepare new constraint icons (phab:T191322)
    • View history revisions of entities on new termbox mobile (phab:T210615)
    • Caching termbox output on the Wikibase side (phab:T214679)
    • Fix emojis breaking the termbox layout in Chrome (phab:T217244)
    • Work on multilingual support for schemas (phab:T215387)
    • Implement a length limit for the schema text (phab:T216148)
    • Replace the heading/title for schema pages similar to what Wikibase does (phab:T215759)
    • Deploy the shex-simple website, which can be used to check entities against a schema in the browser, on Toolforge (phab:T217333)
    • Deploy the score data type to production

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