User talk:ExRat

September 2025

Hi @ExRat, I marked Rapolas as an AfD (discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rapolas a few months ago when I was not an experienced editor. You disagreed and you were correct. But I marked it due to confusion with draft:Rafael (name page). User:Clarityfriend explained why, saying "I'm one of the !voters who voted against your proposition. The names are simply too different. Your draft got declined because there are already numerous Rafaels listed in Raphael (given name)#Rafael, though either keeping them together or splitting them off is generally considered acceptable. (Also, the disambiguation "name page" is non-standard.) In fact, I will do the split, since there are separate dab pages, Raphael (disambiguation) and Rafael." And someone else said "The relevant page you were duplicating was Rafael (given name) not Raphael (given name) despite the reviewers posting the wrong link though they really should know better. The failure on behalf of User:Pythoncoder and User:Gobonobo to correct the error of User:Kovcszaln6 is unfortunate and led to confusion but the declines were correct. The page was also poorly formatted, omitted many valid entries and used an incorrect disambiguator though admittedly that is fixable during new page review." This is why. Thanks, ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 23:22, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again...

Hi @ExRat, you reverted https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rapolas&oldid=prev&diff=1312706631. Although both "variant" and "cognate" is generally acceptable, I thought that "variant" is a better term since you called it a variant at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rapolas. But thank you for your contributions to support Wikipedia. PS: Remember to view my comment above if you have not since you never responded... ~Rafael (He, him) • talk • guestbook • projects 22:16, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]