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Links to Spanish 101

I'm just passing by to say that I've deleted the links to the two pages I Template:d'd. The links came from a template/module so I didn't actually have to edit other mainspace pages (this might be why the What links here page hasn't updated yet).

It should be OK to delete the two pages now. MedK1 (talk) 15:35, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

@Svartava Also, I wonder if eleven thousand, fifty thousand, and nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine should go for the same reasons? The last page passed an RFD, but the grounds for it were that it's SOP, not that it breaks CFI. MedK1 (talk) 16:27, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

@MedK1: The last page was RFD-kept was before the vote; the reasons are about the same, I'll look into speedying them if possible. Svārtava (tɕ) 16:37, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Todo/Lists/Broken links to Wikipedia

Two language blocks of these have been around for a long, long time:

1. Apabhramsa
2. Ashokan Prakrit

The majority of these are due to templates defaulting to the name of the site/locality, which doesn't have a Wikipedia article. In the case of Ashokan Prakrit a lot of them are on rocks in the middle of nowhere, and the nearest named place becomes the name cited. There are articles like Minor Rock Edicts that might be the only ones that cover them. In other cases, I'm sure that the Wikipedia article exists, but the name doesn't match, or there's an article that covers more than one named place.

I was hoping that you, as someone more familiar with the history and geography behind these, might be able to make the appropriate changes to the data modules to retire most of them, and maybe fix a few that are due to errors in the entries themselves. It would take me much, much longer to get up to speed enough to do it myself.

Of course, Wikipedia links aren't the first thing that anyone uses, so it's obviously not a priority. It's just sad to see these month after month because no one else is interested. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 03:08, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this up! I have fixed the links of the two language blocks by creating two (very basic) articles for the Apabhramsa lects and relinking the some of the Ashokan Prakrit ones to w:List of Edicts of Ashoka, since that is consistent with what is given in the label module: Module:labels/data/lang/inc-ash also. Svārtava (tɕ) 12:06, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

नाम परिवर्तन का अनुरोध

मैंने देखा है कि आपने मुझे एक नाम सुधार के लिए धन्यवाद दिया है। उसके समान टंकणगत अशुद्धियाँ हिन्दी विकिपीडिया में उपस्थित हैं।

https://hi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/दाल_मखानी https://hi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/चिकन_मखानी https://hi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/लाल_मास

मैंने इनके वार्ता पृष्ठों पर नाम परिवर्तन का अनुरोध प्रकाशित किया है। यदि संभव हो सके, तो कृपया उन्हें स्वीकार कर दें। धन्यावाद! The Sorter (talk) 13:39, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

@The Sorter: मैंने यथानुरोध स्थानांतरणों को पूर्ण कर दिया है। इस विषय पर मेरा ध्यान आकर्षित करने के लिए धन्यवाद! Svārtava (tɕ) 17:21, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Removal of communities who use certain titles and surnames.

Hello, you have recently been removing the names of the communities who use certain titles and surnames from entries for Hindi, Gujarati, and Panjabi languages. You have charactarized this content as "Irrelevant informatino/not dictionary material", but if this were the case the dictionary writers themselves would not have included this information. References can be provided from dictionaries to suppport the lexical meaning.

• दुबे: name of a Brahmin community
  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दूबे”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
  • Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “दुबे”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
  • Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “दुबे”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• वर्मा: surname used by Kāyasths or kshatriya groups from Madhya Pradesh
  • McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “वर्मा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
  • Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “वर्मा”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• ઠક્કર, held by Lohāṇās, Khatrīs, Khojās, and Bhāṭiyās.
  • ભગવતસિંહ [bhagvatsĩh] (1944) “ઠક્કર”, in ભગવદ્ગોમંડલ [bhagvadgomaṇḍal], India.
  • “ઠક્કર”, in Gujaratilexicon.com [Gujarati-English dictionary], Arnion Technologies, 2009.
  • Belsare, Malhar (1981) “ઠક્કર”, in ગુજરાતી-અંગ્રેજી ડિકશનરી [Etymological Gujarati-English Dictionary]‎^[1], Asian Educational Services
• ਸਿੰਘ
  • Singh, Bhai Maya (1895) “ਸਿੰਘ”, in The Panjabi Dictionary, Lahore: Munshi Gulab Singh and Sons.
  • “ਸਿੰਘ”, in Mahan Kosh [ਮਹਾਨ ਕੋਸ਼] (in Punjabi), Patiala: Languages Department of Punjab, 2025
  • “ਸਿੰਘ”, in Punjabipedia [ਪੰਜਾਬੀਪੀਡੀਆ] (in Punjabi), Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

These can be provided for all of the removed meanings if necessary. Also compare the entries for the English occupational surname Walker or the Latin clan name Iulius. Chariotrider555 (talk) 19:27, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

@Chariotrider555: Like I said, I don't think this is relevant information for us to include on pages.

See Appendix talk:Arora surnames#RFD discussion: November–December 2021: Furthermore, dividing this list by literally caste seems unproductive, as we do not mention caste (or religion) in our entries.

The English Walker says: A northern English surname originating as an occupation from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it. This much information is provided by our Indic language entries already as well, e.g. the etymology of ગાંધી (gā̃dhī) says it originates from "perfumer", झा (jhā) says it originates from "teacher", etc.

We are not bound to follow any dictionary writer and often independently decide whether some information or word has to be included or not. Svārtava (tɕ) 03:21, 14 February 2025 (UTC)