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Qurt

Could you please add the Kazakh spelling for this word (in Cyrillic script)? In Tajik cuisine it is called qurut and I wonder if perhaps the same transliteration also applies to the Kazakh dish. Your article should generalize beyond Kazakh cuisine. Best, --Zlerman (talk) 04:06, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi Zlerman, I just recently created the article and will be updating it as best I can in the future. I added the Kazakh Cyrillic transliteration in the article just now. I haven't seen the Kazakhs use the extra vowel at the end, but it essentially seems to be the same dish from what I've seen. I initially only mentioned Kazakh cuisine because my first experience seeing it, and eating it, was in Kazakhstan. Oral Thrush (talk) 04:14, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, I cleaned up the qurut article some (I moved the page, since "qurt" is the result of Kazakh-specific changes—"qurut" is the original form / generalisable term; and maybe I overdid the categories and stuff..), threw in a picture from wikimedia commons, and of more relevance, fixed up some of the language stuff. A picture of ball-form qurt might be good, and anything else that would improve the article further. Congrats on beating me to creating the article ;) Keep up the Central Asia contributions, and don't hesitate to ask me for especially Kazakh and Kyrgyz translations and transcriptions. —Firespeaker (talk) 06:01, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Changing username

Hi, I followed you here from the link in your ZBB profile. Nice to see you here; it looks like either you've used Wikipedia before or you're a quick learner. However, you cannot change your username to Uvula because changing username is only allowed when the target username has 0 edits. Sometimes they will make exceptions, but usually you have to be a long-established editor to do that. In fact generally speaking they don't seem to like new people claiming 0-edit usernames at all, although I haven't been paying attention to this page for a while so that policy could have changed.

If you need help with anything Wikipedia-related you can ask me on my userpage. I'm very active right now and although I am going back to college soon I will still be here pretty much every day.

Also, to answer something I meant to answer awhile ago: Wycoval has been gone for a while; he said in an email that the ZBB just didn't suit him very well and so he didn't fit in. Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 03:46, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Liveinternet

A tag has been placed on Liveinternet, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising that only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of Liveinternet and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from independent reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 20:42, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Liveinternet

A tag has been placed on Liveinternet requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company or corporation, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for companies and corporations.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the article or have a copy emailed to you. Cerejota (talk) 04:40, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

notability

Notability is not subjective, nor is it solely based on sources - neither is it the only reason to delete articles about businesses.

Basically you have to convince fellow editors of two things:

1) Encyclopedic value - This includes notability, but also things such as the information deserving its own article (rather than being part of another article). To a lesser degree, but somewhat important is that the article be well written and matches our Manual of Style.

2) Reliably sourced and verifiability - This is also called "no original research". This means all information must come from sources that are considered (or become considered) reliable, and that any potentially controversial claims (such as leadership in the market or user figures) must be verified by multiple independent reliable sources.

Please read and udnerstand The Five Pillars of Wikipedia, reliable sources and verifiability policies, our Notability guideline for corporations, and our Manual of Style.

I highly recommend that before you create the page in the mainspace again, you create a "dummy" page under your own userpage. You can do this by adding a "/" and the article name you want after your whole userpage URL.

I also suggest that you start with the minimum amount of information, and stick to hard facts. For example, a company history is not necessary unless it is covered and verified by reliable sources. Avoid peacock terms...

Since the article has been deleted multiple times, this is evidence that the community feels that your efforts have not proven to us that the content is neither encyclopedic nor reliably sourced to warrant inclusion. This can change, but it requires you work it. The suggestion of a dummy page, from which you can ask other editors for opinions, might help ease it in.

If any of this seems complicated, you can always seek assistance from me or any other editor (as I will not be able to reply right away). Thanks!--Cerejota (talk) 08:06, 13 January 2009 (UTC)