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	For your excellent series of articles on PLAAF Air Divisions. Are you aware of https://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF182.html ? Chapter 9 Appendix G has some amazing extra data!! Do keep up the good work and consider doing more division articles!! Happy to help as required.. Buckshot06 (talk) 04:29, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! RightQuark (talk) 22:40, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

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		For your contributions to vast swaths of Wikipedia's coverage of the People's Liberation Army and peerless contributions to public understandings of Chinese intelligence satellite constellations.
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Thank you! RightQuark (talk) 22:41, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

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These sites are clearly Wikipedia mirrors. User should be more judicious is their application of speedy deletion tags. RightQuark (talk) 20:08, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you, but you'll notice that WP:NOTATT specifies that the sole author of the copied content need not attribute their own work - which is the case here. RightQuark (talk) 17:36, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

Technically attribution is not needed if you are the sole author. Sorry I did not realize that was the case with this edit. So it might be useful for patrollers such as myself if you had included the attribution edit summary regardless. — Diannaa (talk) 21:07, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

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How are you editing so fast?

I was listening to edits on listen.hatnote.com and couldn't help but notice you dropped dozens of edits at once on Pakistani tehsil articles. I also noticed the edits don't have an AutoWikiBrowser tag, so how did you submit so many edits at once, manually? Kind regards, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI (^{talk to me!}/_{my edits}) 10:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm too simple to have explored the AutoWikiBrowser yet, so just a combination of Ctrl V, Shift Tab, and Ctrl Enter. Hope I didn't send your hatnote audio into an allegro. RightQuark (talk) 10:30, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

All good! It was just surprising, is all. Kind regards, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI (^{talk to me!}/_{my edits}) 10:45, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Tribes

Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes). Based on that I've moved those three back as there is no need for a disambiguation. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 15:04, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I noticed WP:NCET doesn't have anything to say about parenthetical disambiguation. This naming convention specifies that article names, in most cases, should be "Quraysh" not "Quraysh Tribe" and "Navajo" not "Navajo Tribe". The goal here is not to rename "Salarzai" to "Salarzai Tribe" as a more accurate title, it is to parenthetically disambiguate in certain cases where tribes and administrative subdivisions share, and are referred to by, the same name. Similarly, WP finds it acceptable to name an article "Orange (fruit)" but not "Orange fruit". You'll also find few articles named "X Tribe" but 378 articles named "X (tribe)". Open to your thoughts. Thanks! RightQuark (talk) 01:31, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

The box at the end of the section Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes)#General conventions and disambiguation mentions parenthetical disambiguation. My feeling is that Mamund doesn't need to disambiguate with (tribe) as there is nothing to confuse it with. The one possibility is that Mamud is singular and would need moving to the plural. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 12:37, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

You're right, WP:NCET does actually mention parenthetical disambiguation. All it says about it is "In some cases, parenthetical disambiguation will be necessary, especially when there are more than one ethnic group that share a name." This supports that parenthetical disambiguation is permitted, when appropriate, and is not countermanded by the naming convention. You state there is nothing to confuse it with, the only reason I've parenthetically disambiguated Mamund, Salarzai, et al., and not all the tribes, is because they can be (and are often) confused with the administrative subdivisions for which they serve as an exact eponym. When one hears or searches the terms Wazir, Mamund, Salarzai, Alizai (as opposed to Durrani, Karlani) it is unclear whether the reference is to the tribe or the administrative subdivision of the exact same names. I'm not sure what you mean that "Mamund is singular and would need moving to the plural." This is a simple example of no-WP:PTOPIC parenthetical disambiguation and this reversion is unnecessarily disruptive. RightQuark (talk) 03:03, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Some things. If "Mamund" (and other) redirects to "Mamund (tribe)" (and others) then it indicates that there is no need for a parenthetical disambiguation, and that Mamund, the tribe is the primary topic. Or "Mamund" should be changed from a redirect to a disambiguation page. Either way I think a move discussion for all of these pages is now required to deal with them. I could also suggest that moving them from a long standing title to an unneeded disambiguation was also "unnecessarily disruptive". However, I took it that you, as was I, were working in good faith. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 16:14, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Kakki Tehsil

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Kakki Tehsil and Kakki Union Council/Town (Kakki I) are just as separate as the city of Bannu is from Bannu Tehsil, Bannu Tehsil from Bannu District, and Bannu District from Bannu Division. To conflate the Tehsil and town/Union Council would be to submit the article Dallas County for deletion as a duplicate of Dallas. Simply sharing a name is insufficient grounds to allege duplication. RightQuark (talk) 11:54, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

The content is nearly identical and your article has no sources. If the content was different it wouldn't be an issue. The articles Dallas and Dallas County are completely different and are both well-sourced. AusLondonder (talk) 13:24, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Miryan Tehsil

Hi, I see you restored this back to mainspace. It remains completely unsourced though. All articles need sourcing for verifiability. Could you consider adding sources to articles you create? AusLondonder (talk) 11:19, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm also not sure these articles need to have tehsil in their name. AusLondonder (talk) 11:21, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, my goal is to organize the disjointed and generally poorly-written tehsil and district articles - many of which are stuck in various parts of NWFP/FATA/KPK historical evolution. This begins with building an orderly base each articles and then individually outfitting them with their unique histories, statistics, geographies, etc.

Also, with regard to 'tehsil' in the article names, imagine them as U.S. counties. From the Kakki Tehsil confusion, it's clear that the reader will benefit from both use of the proper subdivision name, especially as these tehsils inherit the names of subordinate places and share them with higher. If the city name is Bannu, and we're to have the articles Bannu Division, Bannu District, why would we not label it Bannu Tehsil? Beyond place names, many of these share their names with resident tribes (Salarzai, Alizai, Wazir, etc.). RightQuark (talk) 12:05, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks anon, but this is clearly not vandalism. Please check out the page Wikipedia:Vandalism for more information on what constitutes vandalism. RightQuark (talk) 22:57, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

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