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January 2025
I noticed that you tagged Draft:Bashir Muhammad Hussari Galadanchi for speedy deletion. I have removed the tag from the page because it does not meet the criterion or criteria specified. Please fully read Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion before tagging pages for speedy deletion. Thank you. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 02:30, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Rsjaffe: Your comments have been noted. Thank you. QEnigma talk 02:39, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- Just a quick note that you probably shouldn't MFD drafts unless there's extraordinary circumstances. Most declined drafts are automatically deleted after 6 months of no edits via WP:G13. That's the normal way that these are handled. Hope this helps. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:14, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Novem Linguae: Thank you for your advice and comments. They have been noted and are much appreciated. QEnigma talk 11:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Novem Linguae: Hello, I would like to draw your attention to the draft article Draft:Ahmed Jaha, created on 7 January 2025, and the mainspace article Ahmadu Usman Jaha, created on 27 December 2024. Both articles refer to the same individual. I have already declined the submission of the draft article. Could you kindly advise on the appropriate action to take in this instance? Should the draft be nominated for CSD or XfD or left alone? Best regards. QEnigma talk 13:02, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hey QEnigma. Thanks for the question. In these cases I like to redirect the draft to the mainspace article, to discourage folks from working on the draft, which would just be wasted work since there is already a mainspace article. You can redirect the draft by editing the wikicode and replacing the entire page with
#REDIRECT [[Ahmed Jaha]]. Hope that helps. –Novem Linguae (talk) 13:09, 7 January 2025 (UTC)- @Novem Linguae: I appreciate your input. Thank you. QEnigma talk 13:15, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hey QEnigma. Thanks for the question. In these cases I like to redirect the draft to the mainspace article, to discourage folks from working on the draft, which would just be wasted work since there is already a mainspace article. You can redirect the draft by editing the wikicode and replacing the entire page with
- @Novem Linguae: Hello, I would like to draw your attention to the draft article Draft:Ahmed Jaha, created on 7 January 2025, and the mainspace article Ahmadu Usman Jaha, created on 27 December 2024. Both articles refer to the same individual. I have already declined the submission of the draft article. Could you kindly advise on the appropriate action to take in this instance? Should the draft be nominated for CSD or XfD or left alone? Best regards. QEnigma talk 13:02, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Novem Linguae: Thank you for your advice and comments. They have been noted and are much appreciated. QEnigma talk 11:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
- Just a quick note that you probably shouldn't MFD drafts unless there's extraordinary circumstances. Most declined drafts are automatically deleted after 6 months of no edits via WP:G13. That's the normal way that these are handled. Hope this helps. –Novem Linguae (talk) 11:14, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Linux Article
Hi, QEnigma, I'm not new to Wikipedia I'd say.
As for a lack of sources, there's no source to say that the "unix shell" is the default "shell" on Linux either as there is no shell on Linux. The boot process launches PID 1 (the init) which is responsible for spawning every other process from there on. A Linux based system has no obligation to have a shell, and many don't by design.
As for being inspired by Unix, I forgot to add a source. TotallyNotSkyNet (talk) 05:04, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not great at citing sources manually. I mostly prefer the visual editor. If you can help, here's a source for Unix influencing / inspiring Linux
- https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/unix-linux-history
- Also citation 15 on the History of Linux article: History of Linux and this specific blurb mentioning com.os.minix, the POSIX standards, the Unix course that helped inspire Linux,
- "On 3 July 1991, in an effort to implement Unix system calls in his project, Linus Torvalds attempted to obtain a digital copy of the POSIX standards documentation with a request to the comp.os.minix newsgroup. He was not successful in finding the POSIX documentation, so Torvalds initially resorted to determining system calls from SunOS documentation owned by the university for use in operating its Sun Microsystems server. He also learned some system calls from Tanenbaum's MINIX text that was a part of the Unix course."
- and:
- "Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention Freax, a portmanteau of "free", "freak", and "x" (as an allusion to Unix). During the start of his work on the system, he stored the files under the name "Freax" for about half of a year. Torvalds had already considered the name "Linux", but initially dismissed it as too egotistical."
- So I think it's fair based on all the sources cited in this article to say Unix did influence Linux to some degree. TotallyNotSkyNet (talk) 05:10, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- @TotallyNotSkyNet: Thank you for reaching out. The inclusion of reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject is essential. Wikipedia articles must not contain original research. Any content added without proper references can be removed because it might not meet these standards.
- If your latest edit is reverted due to a lack of source material, please refrain from engaging in an edit war or violating the three-revert rule, as this could result in you being blocked from editing. The most appropriate manner to seek a consensus is to commence a discussion in the article talk page. Please refer to WP:DR as well.
- With regards to your comment on difficulty in citing sources, please make use of the ProveIt gadget to aid you in future. Please note the responsibility for providing citations policy: All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution. Best regards. QEnigma talk 06:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
Pala Pothupitiya article
What are the peackock terms that I have used in the said article and what sources are sources I have used that are not independent, reliable, published sources? Chandboju (talk) 09:31, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
Speedy deletion declined: Draft:Gormé Sings Showstoppers
Hello QEnigma. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Gormé Sings Showstoppers, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: @QEnigma: This would appear to me to be an attempt - howsoever malformed, but still made in good faith - to write about an album by Eydie Gormé. Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:05, 8 January 2025 (UTC). Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:05, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Shirt58: Thank you for the update. Best regards. QEnigma talk 10:11, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- @QEnigma and SonicBoomSpaceMen3: Thanks for your reply, QEnigm. SonicBoomSpaceMen3, have done somewhat admittedly cursory WP:BEFORE to see if meets WP:NALBUMS, which it probably does. However, it would appear to me much the text of this draft contains content either similar to or substantially the same as this on the Discogs website. I note that at the bottom of each page is "© 2025 Discogs". Please also see Wikipedia:DISCOGS for why this this website is not acceptable as a reference. Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 11:00, 8 January 2025 (UTC)