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Caught by a web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. Using Wiki at work, with VPN. Trang Oul (talk) 10:19, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Please disable your VPN in order to avoid this block. Note that doing so may have implications, however. Yamla (talk) 10:48, 24 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Your change was reverted by someone else, but I wanted to point out the flaw in your reasoning. ${\sqrt {x^{2}}}\neq |x|$ , it's equal to ± $x$ - you can't assume you take the positive root, as there won't even be one if $x\notin \mathbb {R}$ . -mattbuck (Talk) 02:27, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination for English conjugation tables

Since you have edited the article or its talk page, I'd like to let you know that the article English conjugation tables has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/English conjugation tables. Duoduoduo (talk) 17:26, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop moving pages

Please immediately stop moving pages - your mass moves require consensus but they also violate WP:MOS - in most cases dismabiguators are not capitalized. CUPIDICAE💕 12:58, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Use of language

What is "correct" in a language is determined by how the language is actually used and understood, not by your or my or someone else's opinion of how is should be used on the basis of some criterion such as etymology. However words may have been used in classical Latin, "Quaternary" is in much more normal English use for a fourth degree than "Quartary". JBW (talk) 16:21, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Since posting the above message I have seen another, and far larger-scale, attempt to impose your own view of how English "should" be used. Treating "sinologist" as a proper noun is not supported by normal English usage, nor by Wikipedia's manual of style, nor by logic, since the word is not a name or title. JBW (talk) 16:36, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@JBW: By logic, "sinology" should be the same case as "Egyptology" or "Japanology". Please compare this with that. The numbers of terms in each case are similar, but most of the lower case terms are derived from "sinus", not "China". Some of the upper case ones also have alternative lower case forms listed (such as "sinocentrism"), but many do not ("sinophilic").

As a prescriptivist, I thought Wikipedia would use its position to correct such mistakes. But OK, I will no longer fix bugs that became features, if it is frowned upon. Not worth to waste my time on. Trang Oul (talk) 13:44, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! So there are still people in the world who openly describe themselves as "prescriptivists". I thought they were extinct. However, whatever your personal view may be, Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are totally unambiguous on this issue: we seek to reflect what is generally accepted, not to impose what one or more people who have chosen to edit Wikipedia regard as "correct". And using loaded words such as "bugs" to describe things that you don't like doesn't somehow give more authority to your views. JBW (talk) 16:56, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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