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Hugh O'Neills

I've proposed Hugh O'Neills, an article you edited but didn't create, for deletion. --I dream of horses (talk) 02:50, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

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I dream of horses (talk) 21:06, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

Question re: article tagged as Orphan

Hi. There was an article that I believe you tagged as an orphan, and it now has been linked to from at least three other articles. I'm wondering if it would now be OK to delete the orphan warning.

The article in question is A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents, referenced now within the following articles:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/Polish_name#Polonia
• http://en.wikipedia.org/Genealogy#Place_names
• http://en.wikipedia.org/Polish_language#See_also

MervynP1972 (talk) 03:26, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Re this edit: surely we have a bot that dates maintenance tags? More importantly, will you please go to "my preferences / editing", tick "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" and always provide edit summaries in future. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 19:07, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Why do you think edit summaries are not needed? — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 02:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

I noted your excellent advice to leave an edit summary. I suggest you follow it yourself. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 12:28, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Orphan tags

Please, do not call removing a useless tag that does nothing "vandalism". It's not vandalism at all, and care to tell me what purpose the orphan tags serve other than being useless and doing nothing.--Giants27 (c|s) 01:55, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Orphan tags

i`ve linked the anti-crime association to the various universities listed accordingly, therefore, I`ve removed the orphan tag. Please message me back if this was done correctly. Thanks Jenn —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jennstarfish (talk • contribs) 02:54, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Could you please explain further...

Could you please explain why you europeanized the sort keys for Ezatullah Zawab? Geo Swan (talk) 16:41, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

I got your reply. Arabic names, with very few exceptions, should not have Europeanized sorting keys. They are not like Chinese names, where the surname comes first. There are two parallel Arabic naming styles. Neither one use European style inherited lastname-surnames. Ezatullah Zawab is an Afghan. But names there follow the Arabic style, even though they are not Arabic speakers.

You have probably heard the old aphorism, "to err is human, to really screw things up requires a computer"?

There are a bunch of robots which (used to?) blithely insert calculated Europeanized sort keys. There are a bunch of robot assisted editing tools which also blithely suggest Europeanized sort keys. I am afraid I have found those responsible for these robots unhelpful and resentful. I am trying to determine when a good faith quality control volunteers added Europeanized sort keys based on the misplaced advice of a bad robot.

Do you think a robot suggested this changes?

Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 22:30, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

I'll change this one. Unfortunately those who make these changes based on the advice of robot assisted editing tools don't read the notes I leave on the talk page, or in the edit summary, or in html comments right by the category section. Some articles I have had to un-Europeanize half a dozen times. Geo Swan (talk) 23:13, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

June 2009

Thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary for your edits. Thank you. Jenuk1985 | Talk 11:09, 30 June 2009 (UTC)