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Apocalyptic events

Hi there. I've reverted some of your edits to the List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events as they went against the consensus established at the FLC. Note that the first comment at the FLC was advising me that "Featured lists no longer begin with "this list..." nor make any references to the list as they are considered tautological." This is an accepted standard for list articles, though unfortunately many non-featured lists still contain language like this. I've also removed the image you added as placing an image there made the entire table skewed. I didn't think having the entire table shortened was worth the addition of the image, though we can discuss it on the talk page if you like. Have a nice day. Damien Linnane (talk) 05:50, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

You're right. I've restored some of those edits, but this time with a justification in the talk page. - Alumnum (talk) 13:26, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

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Matriarchy article

Stop WP:Edit warring. Discuss at Talk:Matriarchy. And "discuss" obviously does not mean "post on the talk page and then re-add the disputed material." Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 11:46, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Alright. I will start a discussion later. Sorry for the inconvenience. - Alumnum (talk) 17:46, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

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Etymology for "alumnus/a/um"?

I note that the etymology in Wiktionary on "alumnus" disagrees with your version of "unenlightened" – I am not going to fling a "" at a user page, but do you have one? Moreover, to mix the Etymology 5 (Ancient Greek) of "a-" with Latin "lumen" sounds like a dubious heterolingualism (or alteroglossality)! PJTraill (talk) 19:26, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I honestly believed in this folk etymology of alumnum all this time since a primary teacher of mine once said that it used to be a pejorative term because it means "without light". It made sense to me since the Greek morpheme a- represents a negation and lumnus did sound like "light", so I never looked it up. I think I should have asked this teacher where she got this from. The more I live, the more I see how unenlightened I am! - Alumnum (talk) 21:00, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

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