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August 2024

Nina Dobrev has an RfC

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Nina Dobrev has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Anthony Whitaker (talk) 10:22, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Nitpicky

About this edit summary: There's only one Clause in that sentence. Whether we should put a comma between the Phrases "a correct name for A, B, and C" and "or a valid name for D and E" probably depends less on rules and more on our best guess at whether people might misread the phrases as "a correct name for A, B" and "[either] C or a valid name for D and E". WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:54, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I was using "clause" in the vague sense, as a shorthand, not being linguistically precise. They are really distinct complex items in a two-item list (item 1 is "a correct name for plants, fungi, and algae" and item 2 is "a valid name for animals and protozoa". Given that one of these items contains its own internal commas, an argument would actually be sensible for a semicolon between them, but a comma seems to suffice. No punctuation at all does not suffice, as it results in ambiguity which may be confusing and require the reader to stop, re-read the sentence, and consider how to to parse it to arrive at a sensible (and the probably intended) meaning. This stoppage is more likely for someone not already deeply familiar with the terms and their referents, but we have to assume that the average reader of any guideline here is not a subject-matter expert. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 02:10, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

If it weren't such a short section, I'd suggest a two-item bulleted list. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:22, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Wouldn't mind. A two-item bullet list can actually be helpful as a form of emphasis, and perhaps these two criteria really should be emphasized as elements of some precision. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 03:19, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm trying to avoid any changes at all to that page until the RFC is settled. But perhaps next month, assuming it gets adopted, we'll make that formatting change. (If it doesn't get adopted, then we'll have to think about whether to preserve it in its {{historical}} state or to re-write it.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:58, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Ah, yes. Chaos avoidance! — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 05:12, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

(Confused) That doesn't sound like you. Van Isaac, GHTV^cont_WpWS 05:15, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Well, I'm generally not one to change a text (meaningfully) that is under active discussion. While adding a comma for clarity isn't likely to arouse objection, reformatting stuff into a list might, so holding off on it seems reasonable. More broadly, much of what I do around here is preventing and defusing chaos. I tend not to run away from the chaos, but dump cold water on it. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 11:25, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

Oral tradition taskforce

I notice that you are a template editor, in the very old days I used to request help from John Carter and or Tim! both long gone, I was wondering if you could cast your gaze over the Oral tradition taskforce categories that frame the project. It would be appreciated. I think that I totally dont get the mix with the literature project at the same time, but then the whole thing seems fraught these days...

Any help would be appreciated - even if I got it totally wrong for that matter. JarrahTree 13:46, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content forks § Where was the WikiProject process fork move review and RfC?

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content forks § Where was the WikiProject process fork move review and RfC?. 142.113.140.146 (talk) 15:21, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Red (slur) for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Red (slur) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Red (slur) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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– sgeureka ^t•c 08:20, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

August thanks

Thank you for improving article quality in August! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:43, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Consistent capitalization of racial descriptors "black" and "white"

Per your comment here:

There is a consensus against capitalizing "Black" but lower-casing "white".

And previous discussions like this one:

Consensus against changing MOSCAPS to capitalize "Black" when used as a racial or ethnic descriptor.

Would you mind editing the protected article Reverse racism accordingly? Thanks. 2001:569:7F6A:800:11B5:41BD:6BA6:8324 (talk) 19:09, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Will think about it. People like to argue and fight about this stuff, and my tolerance for "drama" is low right now. But yes, it either needs to be "Black and White" or "black and white", but not "Black and white" and certainly not "black and White". I would lean toward the uniformly capitalized option, since these are serving as ethnonyms (a form of proper name), and it's less jarring in a long string of those to have them all capitalized than to have one or two lowercased as if to denigrate them (e.g.: "East Asian, Hispanic, black, South Asian, Pacific and Austronesian, white, Semitic, and Native American demographics ..."). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 23:50, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

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Vehicle hyphen/dash question

I moved Holt gas electric tank to Holt gas-electric tank (it was already hyphenated within the article), but then I noticed Petrol–electric transmission, Diesel–electric powertrain, and Turbine–electric powertrain. Should that be Holt gas–electric tank instead? —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 01:20, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@BarrelProof: Methinks yes, since it's like "Mexico–Guatemala border", and "archaeology–ecology interdisciplinary study": a relationship between two independent/equal things. A gas–electric vehicle has two independent power sources, and there's no such thing as "gas[-]electricity" as a unitary but multiword term (like "static electricity") that would be hyphenated as a compound modifier ("a static-electrical dicharge"). — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 03:57, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 05:06, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

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