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August 2020

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  Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Kasbah. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. — Lauritz Thomsen (talk) 15:19, 2 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

A clarification of the year is needed

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The text says, "Upon graduation he settled in Lowell, Massachusetts where he set up his medical practice in 1867. By 1885, Dr. That same year,..." Presumably 1885 is meant. The article "Moxie" in Wiki says "It was created around 1876..." Is it possible to settle on one date for both articles? S. Valkemirer (talk) 14:22, 9 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

The text says: "(more or less contiguous with the territory of the kingdom of Israel". The writer should have said coterminous instead of contiguous S. Valkemirer (talk) 19:50, 9 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Redundancies

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My conment concerns the following three lines:

Official languages None (de facto) English (de jure) French (de jure)[Note 1][2]


Since English and French are listed under the heading "Official languages," it is redundant to label them "de jure," which is just another way of saying official (de jure means 'by law').

At first I thought that None was the name of a language. It is not. If so, it is impossible to understand what "no language is de facto official" (= my reading of the first line if None is the English word none meaning 'not one').

The words "None (de facto)" should therefore be deleted.S. Valkemirer (talk) 23:59, 9 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

"the regular preliminaries of laying out"

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It would be good to explain the phrase "the regular preliminaries of laying out."S. Valkemirer (talk) 23:32, 24 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Not "roughly contiguous" but "roughly coterminous"

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Not "roughly contiguous" but "roughly coterminous"S. Valkemirer (talk) 17:15, 6 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Another pertinent article.

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Several hundred Israeli Hebrew reborrowings from Yiddish are given in this article:

Gold, David L. 1989. "Material for a Study of the Influence of the Hebrew-Aramaic Component of Yiddish on Israeli Hebrew." Jewish Linguistic Studies. Vol. [1]. Pp. 104-136 [additions and corrections in vol. 2, 1990, pp. 551-557S. Valkemirer (talk) 18:22, 6 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

"Middle Spanish"?

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What does "Middle Spanish" mean? What is the original Spanish term of which "Middle Spanish" is presumably a mistranslation?S. Valkemirer (talk) 02:06, 24 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Origin of the name Duluth

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So fa as I can see, the origin of the name of the city is not givenS. Valkemirer (talk) 07:54, 21 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

There was a character named Bozo before Livingston created his charfacter. See

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See:

Brown, Peter Jensen. 2014. “What Came First - Bozo or Bozo??? - an Etymology of Bozo.” Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog: Tracing the origins of now-familiar (or forgotten) tid-bits of pop-culture. 14 March [1].

___. 2015.“Hobos, Gazabos, Tramps and ‘The Great Bozozo!’ – A Bozo Etymology Update.” 10 November [2].S. Valkemirer (talk) 16:46, 22 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Heinrich Marx's father was the rabbi of Trier, a role which his older brother would later assume

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Make clear whether "his" refers to Heinrich Marx or to his father.S. Valkemirer (talk) 14:46, 20 April 2022 (UTC)Reply