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@Mutt Lunker: Thanks for the "good faith" tag. I transferred it from Scots Wikipedia, so I assume it's correct, but I agree that I shouldn't have added it without a source. I can find uses in primary sources (e.g. The National Scots-language articles); are these acceptable? Or does it have to be a dictionary or something? – Gormflaith (talk) 22:19, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Regarding the use of Wikipedia as a source, and why that is to be avoided, you can check out WP:CIRCULAR; the rest of the policy should also be informative. Also, I haven't participated much in the Scots Wikipedia for a number of years but, unless things have changed lately, the only regular contributors there were not native speakers which isn't to say that the content has no validity but caution would be advised. The terms you added are reasonably familiar jokey colloquial pronunciation spellings but I think it would be pushing it to give them the status of legit Scots. All the best. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:33, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

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Good job with all your redirects! Reading the names of all the pages linking specifically to Chrodegang made me laugh as I went through them - so thanks for that :) I see you're a fairly new editor so if you ever need any help feel free to reach out! SEMMENDINGER (talk) 16:52, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

@Semmendinger: Thanks! I've been on Wiktionary for a bit, but Wikipedia is pretty new to me. I'll be sure to reach out if I find myself stuck in Wikipedia's huge amount of policies and unwritten rules :) – Julia (talk) 17:24, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

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Just FYI on edits like this the lang code for the Neapolitan family is nap and not nea which is the code for the Ngadha language of Indonesia.Le Deluge (talk) 11:10, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

@Le Deluge: I don't know why that happened. All the other edits I made (I think) were with nap ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks for telling me though, I don't want to be sprinkling wrong ISO codes all over Wikipedia. – Julia ☺ 12:42, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

No worries, I know how easy it is for things to slip through when you're doing a lot, and you can see how your subconscious was thinking with nea! The only other one was Acquappesa - I only caught them because I was working through red-link categories and they were automatically putting themselves in Category:Articles containing Eastern Ngad'a-language text.Le Deluge (talk) 13:00, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

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Please can you help to fix the incoming links to Newport, Vermont? It's hard for editors who don't know the area to determine accurately whether text is about the city or the town. Thanks, Certes (talk) 11:12, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

@Certes:  Done Julia ☺ 17:13, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

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Garza and Schwartz

Is Alicia Garza's birth name Schwartz? The New Yorker just said that she grew up using that name, which is not the same as saying she was born with it. I see that her stepfather is Jewish; what is his last name? If he's a Schwartz then her birth name is very likely something else. Binksternet (talk) 00:04, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

@Binksternet: I changed it because the wording was awkward, not thinking that "grew up as" probably doesn't mean "born as". I'll change it, thanks for pointing that out. Julia ☺ 00:13, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

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@Celestina007: It's a disambiguation page, why was it moved? Julia ☺ 17:53, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

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@Joseywales1961: Yes I was about to nominate myself. I'm dealing with this thing right now; I was going to split Routledge (surname) into a condensed version of the History... page and make another article with the list of people, but have since decided to keep it all in Routledge (surname) which I am working on now. Thanks, Linshee ☺ 13:57, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

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I came across your contributed "Neapolitan" name for Cardito, which you wrote as "Cardít". I know there is no official spelling for Neapolitan, but removing final vowels is a pain in the eye. I'm not going to fix it, but please let's talk about it. 193.207.147.10 (talk) 19:20, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Lists of official languages

Hi Linshee, I thought I had a good proposal at Talk:List of official languages by country and territory#Split into multiple articles?. Unfortunately nobody seems to have commented. I ran into similar problems at List of official languages. I've now asked for advice at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lists#List of official languages and List of official languages by country and territory. You may find it interesting! Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 12:45, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

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