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Hello :), since you have protected this thread , then can you please help in a little dispute? as you can see on the Revision history, this guy removes sourced edits. Thank you :). --HistoryofIran (talk) 18:39, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

I really don't want to get into another stupid nationalistic edit war. Take it to the talk page or one of the Wiki projects? — kwami (talk) 18:47, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Alright, sorry for bothering, and thanks for at least answering me unlike others who can't even bother to write that they don't have time to do it, or won't. --HistoryofIran (talk) 20:07, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

There are probably quite a few editors who are tired of this. There's also ANI, 3rd comment, etc. if you're not getting any attention. — kwami (talk) 21:20, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of duplicate minor planets lists

I believe you created most of the lists of numbered minor planet names, and I would like to suggest a small clean-up by deleting duplicate pages. The links are listed below, after a copy of the discussion on my talk page. I suggest using the db-g6 speedy deletion tag on them, as I did before it was reverted. — M3TAinfo (view)

You need to notify the articles creator when nominating an article for deletion. I don't really understand your reasoning in the first place. Also, the user that created them has over 320,500 edits and, thus, presumably knows what they are doing. -- John Reaves 04:28, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

I was trying to fix an issue with old pages still showing up in the category index for minor planet names. The lists of names are all in blocks of 500 for minor planets numbered under 10,000, so the pages for e.g. 5001-6000 that simply include the two pages for 5001-5500 and 5501-6000 are redundant and can be deleted. Additionally, for some reason the 3001-3500 block is split into groups of 100, which I had copied to the 3001-3500 page instead of the include directives, and then deleted the content from the 3001-3100 etc.pages to prevent duplication and confusion. I have notified User talk:Kwamikagami about this. — M3TAinfo (view) 04:54, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Meanings_of_minor_planet_names is the correct category index, but viewing gave some unnecessary duplication. This Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–3500 now contains the data from pages holding groups of 100 names, to conform to the rest of the pages under 10k that are arranged in similarly sized blocks.

The following pages are the source of that content, and can now be deleted:

• Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–3100
• Meanings of minor planet names: 3101–3200
• Meanings of minor planet names: 3201–3300
• Meanings of minor planet names: 3301–3400
• Meanings of minor planet names: 3401–3500

These pages simply included two blocks of 500 and can also be deleted:

• Meanings of minor planet names: 2001–3000
• Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–4000
• Meanings of minor planet names: 4001–5000
• Meanings of minor planet names: 5001–6000
• Meanings of minor planet names: 6001–7000
• Meanings of minor planet names: 7001–8000
• Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–9000
• Meanings of minor planet names: 9001–10000

The first set appear to be redundant now, and could be safely deleted, assuming no differences in content have crept in since you consolidated them. Personally, I would turn them into rd's in order to preserve the article histories, though I don't know if that is actually recommended by our guidelines. (That would have the added benefit of not having to go through the hassle of a formal deletion.)

The second set, however, are required for navigation. There isn't any actual duplication of content, since they are transclusions of the pages with the data. Those pages could presumably be merged into the target pages, as you did with 3001–3500, assuming they don't run up against WP:SIZE. Though if I remember right, SIZE might be the reason they're in blocks of 500 in the first place.

Or you could recode the footer template in the MP lists to display the 500-block name lists for n < 10,001. That's may be the more elegant solution, but is more than I wanted to bother with. — kwami (talk) 05:29, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

I've redirected the 3001-3500 block sub-pages, as suggested. I'm not sure how to do the template editing you describe, so I'll leave that for the moment, but it's something to look at. Thanks for the help. — M3TAinfo (view) 12:18, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

The easy way would be to duplicate the template and change that one thing. Trying to figure out if there is a way to automate it in a single template is more trouble than I think it's worth.

If we do create a variant template, then if the higher name ranges ever bump into SIZE, it would be easy to split them and change from template1 to template2 on the list page. But that might never be needed. — kwami (talk) 19:46, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I just checked and the template already does this (goes in 500 blocks until 10k, then in 1000 blocks) and the footers for these pages are incorrect, linking to the previous/next 500 size blocks. So, I'm going to do the same redirect thing as for the 3000's pages on each of these. I'll redirect to the lower 500 block in the range.

Shame, as I was wanting to play around with templates. Thanks. — M3TAinfo (view) 23:23, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Actually, no. I checked again, and the lists still link to names in the 1000's, so you can still play with the template to fix this. I'm reverting your edits for the 2nd set. — kwami (talk) 00:04, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Where are they linked to? In the 1000s template, even when it is used for the 500-size blocks, the middle link goes to a 'List of minor planets' covering a 1000-size block, like this: List of minor planets: 2001–3000, not this: Meanings of minor planet names: 2001–3000, and there were redirects for those, which are not needed any more, since I fixed the template. Ah - my mistake - I see that the lists of minor planets link to the 1000-sized lists of names. I'll take another look at the template and see what I can do to fix it. Sorry, I didn't notice that before, so thank's for checking. — M3TAinfo (view) 05:00, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, I wasn't clear where I was looking. — kwami (talk) 05:15, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

re: Sicilian Sign Language

hi, ok thanks for answer in User:Ntennis. yes, for SSL. --SurdusVII (talk) 11:17, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Kenyan English

Hello Kwamikagami. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kenyan English, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a recently created redirect - consider WP:RfD. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz /_Stalk 13:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Okay, turned it into a circular link and tagged it as not being disfunctional. — kwami (talk) 22:22, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Signed Polish

The article Signed Polish has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

As written, fails WP:GNG. Longer Polish article also doesn't seem to be well referenced

While all constructive contributions to Misplaced Pages are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 17:04, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

You don't get the best results if you only search in English; it's just as notable as Signed English (to the extent that Polish is as notable as English, anyway), and WP is trying to address its anglocentric bias. — kwami (talk) 22:20, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

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