Alkaitagi
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Deletion of sourced content
editAn advice: Hi, do not delete any content with sources. --Karthax (talk) 15:19, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
- Hello. I apologize if I've violated the rules. Can you point at the mistake, please? Alkaitagi (talk) 15:20, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
Hey Karthax. Writing here regarding the Kaitag language page. I get it that deletion of sourced content is a bad thing, but what if the sources were updated? You've brought back the reference on Ethnologue page of Dargwa, but that was fixed a few months ago. No longer Kaitag is listed as a dialect on Ethnologue, and no longer Russian Academy of Sciences considers it to be a dialect either.
That's the first point. Secondly, you refer to "Peoples of USSR" to provide dialectal division. That source is obsolete compared to the latest 2000+ research by Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dear Karthax, I'm once again pointing you at the fact that the statement "The Ethnologue lists it under the dialects of Dargwa but recognizes that it may be a separate language" is not correct. Please, go to the Ethnologue Dargwa page and see yourself that Kaitag is no longer listed there as a dialect, it now has its own full page. Furthermore, "Until 1930 Kaitak was considered a distinct language" is also implying that it is still not a language, while here's the link to the latest 2022 registry of languages of Russian Federation by the Academy of Science. We can put that obsolete but sourced info into the History section, but I don't see how listing the old data right in the first paragraph can be a good thing.
I'm calling Sm8900 to arbitrate this situation in case I get something wrong. Alkaitagi (talk) 13:09, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- hi. I'm very pleased that you consider my input to be helpful in general; however, on this topic in particular, sorry, but I do not know enough about this topic to offer input. sorry. you may want to try the WP:Dispute Resolution pages. --Sm8900 (talk) 14:02, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
I'm moving this discussion into the corresponding Wiki page.