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Draft:county of Achalm[edit]

I saw that you went through and got rid of a copyedit on my draft page for the county of Achalm. I have noticed that some people question the historical accuracy of Achalm existing as I have stated it in the entry, and I was wondering what your take on it is.


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Hello, Killarnee. Thank you for your work on Li Fangwei. User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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Et cetera[edit]

I don't understand why people dot "etc", but I suppose they're welcome to do so. For me (and not only me), the dot is mere clutter. Am I so very wrong? -- Hoary (talk) 02:43, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. As with every abbreviation there comes a period after etc., and despite what the guardian's internal style guide says, all I can find on Google is that one should use a period after etc. By the way, etc. without a dot is on the Wikipedia list of common misspellings as
<Typo word="Etc." find="\b(?:and\s+)?([eE])(?:tc\b(?<!/etc)([^\.\w])|ct\b\.*)" replace="$1tc.$2"/>
<!--avoid /etc the Unix file directory-->
and thus it's not just my opinion only. Killarnee (talk) 05:56, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, and the dot is so necessary that it should be added to instances of "etc" within other users' signed comments? Conceivably yes it is; but if you could shed some light on the mysteries (or simply my incomprehension) described in Draft talk:Celebrating Matsu, that'd be so much more welcome. -- Hoary (talk) 07:35, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Ah I'm seeing it now first, it was your comment and not the actual article. This was not intended but the regex currently is not able to differentiate between this and as many typos as I remove, mistakes can sometimes happen.
I would be happy if I could help but I do not speak Chinese too. I think that Lky269 created several drafts covering similar topics and all got declined because of missing reliable sources is even more mysterious. If anyone can shed light on this, then probably only Lky269 can?
Have a nice day Killarnee (talk) 11:18, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Donkey Kong (arcade game)[edit]

Wanna alert you that despite marking the article as moved, Donkey Kong (arcade game) was not moved to Donkey Kong (1981 video game). Emiya Mulzomdao (talk) 04:28, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reminder, I have done it now (Special:diff/1216329349). Killarnee (talk) 12:04, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Killarnee. Regarding your closure of this move request, the 1982 TV program is the most likely primary topic for "Today (Australian TV program)" and should be kept there, having aired for 44 years in comparison to the 1960 TV program's one year. Would you be able to either move the 1982 article back or reopen the RM discussion? Happily888 (talk) 04:49, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today (1960 TV program) is an Australian television program too, so disambiguation by country wouldn't fully disambiguate these two articles but by year does. Or do you mean something different? And because of the primary, naming the article just today doesn't work either, so the article needs disambiguation either way.
@Pppery: What do you think? Killarnee (talk) 17:12, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Personally I'm against partial disambiguation in pretty much every situation, including this one, but the other viewpoint is not inherently unreasonable. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:14, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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