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Thank you for your welcome and thanks for all these links - what a great repository of info and resources! Will take a gander around them. Mongrelmusings (talk) 01:25, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

"Claiming"

Please see WP:CLAIM. tgeorgescu (talk) 00:07, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Hiya! Apologies, I'm quite new here so still finding my way around Wikipedia and how editing etc works. I saw that you tagged me with a comment in response to an edit I suggested. I was wondering if you could explain why the term "claim" is controversial in this instance? I inserted it for style / copy reasons, as the original English wording reads quite clunky and appeared biased to me. I assumed it was due to a non-native speaker having possibly translated the German original and, due to not being native, having lacked the necessary feel for accurate as well as idiomatic (vs non-idiomatic) style & writing. Could you kindly outline, specific to this example, why the word "claim" would be inappropriate here? (Genuinely asking out of curiosity here so that I can learn - and not to start a vicious online argument!) Thanks in advance for your time and patience, a fellow knowledge & learning enthusiast Mongrelmusings (talk) 00:39, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Well, I'm not a native speaker, so I refrain from commenting upon the best grammar for that statement. I only stated that the consensus of Wikipedians regards "claim" or "claiming" as problematic. tgeorgescu (talk) 01:19, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Ah, okay – understood! Thanks for pointing this out. Mongrelmusings (talk) 00:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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