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Why this disambiguation?

Can anyone offer any insight into this question? ---> Talk:Chernobyl (disambiguation)#Why is this entry included?. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 00:30, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

See Chernobyl#Etymology.  Card Zero  (talk) 01:41, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Fixed. --184.144.97.125 (talk) 07:32, 2 March 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.144.97.125 (talk)

This is the second time: the explanation in the disambiguation page was removed in 2019 by User:Leschnei, leaving edit summary "format tweaks". I don't know if that was by accident or whether it was over-fussy application of some rule about keeping encyclopedia content out of disambiguation pages.  Card Zero  (talk) 08:07, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

I don't know why I did that. I should have just unlinked Chernobyl and left the link to Artemisia vulgaris. Thanks for fixing it. Leschnei (talk) 12:23, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, all, for both the explanation ... and the intervention / fix. Much appreciated. Thanks! Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 03:06, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Resolved

Vietnamese and Cantonese `no'

Is the Vietnamese word for `no' cognate with the Cantonese word? Or is that just a coincidence?

Duomillia (talk) 16:22, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Could you specify which Vietnamese and which Cantonese word you are thinking of exactly? Fut.Perf. su 16:27, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

The words listed at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no/translations#Particle don't seem similar... AnonMoos (talk) 02:12, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

I was thinking không and m̀ but then I saw on wiktionary that không comes from a different word so my answer is no. Duomillia (talk) 04:14, 3 March 2022 (UTC)