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Labelling or labeling

In UK English either spelling is acceptable so please do not make minor changes from one to the other in articles where UK English applies. There is a full explanation at WP:ENGVAR detailing how to decide what variety of English applies. Nthep (talk) 19:12, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello and thanks, but please look closely: I only removed misspellings with a third (!) -l-. I Hope that helps to resolve the matter... Best wishes--Herfrid (talk) 19:23, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Apologies, so you did. I need to wear my reading glasses more often. Nthep (talk) 19:25, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Environmental racism in Europe: Edits

Hi Herfrid,

This is a friendly notification to inform you that one of your edits has been reverted in the Environmental racism in Europe article. Most of your edits were deemed helpful. One edit, however, has been changed.

Please note that I made several minor changes to my edit summary (via undoing and re-doing my edit). Wording is tricky here and I made a few errors in my haste to provide a timely correction. In summary, Romani, Yenish, Irish Traveller, and Indigenous (Komi, Nenets, Sami) groups are distinct from racialized immigrant / migrant / other racialized minority groups, because they were living in Europe hundreds or even thousands of years prior to the existence of the modern European states (and their constitutions) that exist now. Immigrant / migrant groups are much more recent arrivals generally, and therefore generally have a different political status. These distinctions are widely written about, and can be found in the references used for the article, and in the main Wikipedia articles about Romani people, Irish Travellers, Indigenous groups in Europe, etc.

Also...see the talk page for the article, which provides a link for things to read up on prior to making changes to articles concerning race / ethnicity / gender / identity. It is easy to simply revert without giving a rationale to save time and energy, but not giving rationales can be very problematic. Please ensure that you understand the material well before making changes! Introductory sentences are very important (which is why I was in such a rush to correct it), and are thus quite sensitive to minor changes in wording. Classifying Romani people (or Indigenous groups for that matter) in the same category as recent immigrant groups is all but guaranteed to be reverted.

Thanks! Sturgeontransformer (talk) 06:51, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Sorry and thank you, too, very much for fixing that!--Herfrid (talk) 19:32, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for understanding! Best, Sturgeontransformer (talk) 22:52, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Language desk question

You asked for some clarification, but your original question has aged off the language desk. If you post a follow-up, I will answer it there. μηδείς (talk) 01:15, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

@Medeis: Done. Greetings--Herfrid (talk) 13:00, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

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