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Always precious

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Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:57, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Considering starting a CFD

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Hello Brigade Piron, I wanted to reach out about your essay at User:Brigade Piron/"Luxembourg", "Luxembourgish" or "Luxembourgian"?. I stumbled across something and it's been bugging me for a bit, and I was considering proposing a mass renaming of ~637 categories to change "Luxembourgian" to "Luxembourgish" for adjectival usage in category names (see the list here). Your essay seems to support this idea, but I wanted to run it by you first as a sanity check before I make this type of mass edit. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:21, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hey man im josh, thank you for your comment and apologies for the delay in responding. I fear that this is rather an impossible task given the resistance of a large number of US-based editors, but I wish you luck. Among all possible choices, "Luxembourgian" is certainly the least used and frankly the least logical choice. I think the other two are pretty much evenly split. But if you are up for the fight, definitely - go for it! It can't hurt. —Brigade Piron (talk) 10:17, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also @Eric: who was interested in this question some years ago.—Brigade Piron (talk) 10:21, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The bourg is back! Or is it the burg? Hi to you both. Josh, not to be boorish, but you mean Luxembourgish, no? I would be one American voice supporting this, though I can't help liking Luxembourgeois (Brigade: why don't I see this in my 1985 OED?). FYI, before I saw the link in Josh's sandbox, I ran this n-gram out of curiosity. Eric talk 14:43, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I definitely did @Eric, my bad on the typo! I think Luxembourgeois could make sense, but I agree with @Brigade Piron, "Luxembourgian" is probably the worst possible choice, and any move away from that is a good move. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:55, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think go for it then! I'd personally advocate "Luxembourgish" and work from there. But it's the first step that is most important. —Brigade Piron (talk) 15:01, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, I expect to make the mass nom at some point today or tomorrow. Pinging @Eric to let them know. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:04, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey man im josh, did I miss it? —Brigade Piron (talk) 13:46, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Speedy deletion nomination of Category:United Nations contingents in Korea

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A tag has been placed on Category:United Nations contingents in Korea indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 23:31, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The European Destubathon

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You are invited to participate in The European Destubathon in April. Almost $3000 in Amazon voucher prizes which can be used to buy books for content, though it can also be treated as an editathon if you're not interested in competing! Minimum content to be added to each article just to ensure that they're over a stub. Entries at the end of the contest will be tipped into the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge and European Challenge. Previous contests were really enjoyable and I'm hoping this one will be too! Sign up if interested. Thanks! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:50, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Malawi

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Hi BP. I went to the Malawi Wikiproject and made a posting.... but no one answered. I went through the other older members and you seem to be the only one still active. Are you still interested in Malawi? I'm a recent convert but making some progress in Scotland. Understand if you have changed your focus. Happy editing. Roger aka Victuallers (talk) 15:15, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Victuallers sorry for the delayed reply. I don't do a massive amount of editing on Malawi although I did once push Chilembwe uprising to GA and have done a few other (mostly) history-related bits and pieces. Happy to assist with any project if I can but I'm afraid most of my time is now spent on Congo-Kinshasa and Burundi which I know better. Good luck! —Brigade Piron (talk) 10:31, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

John McCracken (historian)

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You recently reverted an addition of a photo of him citing no evidence. I understand that. However there is evidence here. This evidence is refed in the image description and the article about the partnership. Could you advise how I could make this evidence more obvious? Its the first time I have gained permission for a complete archive and I'm unsure of how to record it. Cheers Victuallers (talk) 16:05, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying. I'm no expert, but I think at a minimum you'd need to add: (a) "Scotland Malawi Partnership" to the "Author" field (if it isn't theirs, they can't give it away) and (b) {{Cc-by-sa-4.0|Scotland Malawi Partnership}} tags (as they insist on specific attribution). The problem is that people are always uploading items with dubious OWN or CC tags and, without any obvious way of verifying this, I think you may find others make the same assumption I did.
It may also be worth creating an "Institution" template for all Scotland Malawi Partnership if there are enough to justify it. For an example of what these look like, see the "Source" line in this item from a Swiss collection: File:ETH-BIB-Der König der Mossi (Moro naba) umgeben von seinen Stammeshäuptlingen anlässlich des Neujahrsempfanges-Tschadseeflug 1930-31-LBS MH02-08-0867.tif. I would suggest asking at the Commons Village Pump as a first step. —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:20, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The World Destubathon

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You are invited to participate in The World Destubathon. It's currently planned for June 16-July 13, partly due to me having hayfever during that period and not wanting to run it throughout July or August in the hotter summer and will be run then unless multiple editors object. There is currently $3338 going into it, with $500 the top prize. As 250 countries and entities is too much patrol, entries will be by user, but there is $500 going into prizes for editors covering the most countries. Sign up if interested! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:12, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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