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16:03, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Removals of interwiki links

Hello, I'm HaeB. I noticed that you recently removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:03, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello HaeB! I removed some wrong iwiki links, or those which were already present on wikidata. --Lavidav (talk) 09:04, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation! But please also mention this in your edit summaries, to help the people who may be reviewing your edits understand their purpose. Regards, HaeB (talk) 09:06, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to List of tram and light rail transit systems, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Just to be clear, most of the interwiki links you deleted in this article aren't wrong at all. Yak79 2.0 (talk) 22:52, 17 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Yak79 2.0, those were iwiki to List of town tramway systems. therefore I deleted them. You should add only iwiki which correspond directly to the article's topic. --Lavidav (talk) 07:17, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose you'll agree with me if I say what really matters in evaluating an interwiki link between two articles is their content, without taking in account differences in the title's wording (rather plausible, considering that every Wiki works in whole autonomy from the others). Well, in English Wikipedia the List of town tramway systems includes all the cities that hosted a tramway system at some time in their history, whereas the List of tram and light rail transit systems is limited to those that currently have an operational one: in terms of content, out of six interwiki link you keep deleting, three (Czech, Dutch and Japanese) point to the equivalent pages of the latter and another one (French) is quite similar, since the related article contains only active systems; the remaining two don't actually match with the List of tram and light rail transit systems and their deletion would have been justified, but one (German) doesn't match because it regards a narrower group (solely the LRT/Stadtbahn systems). Thus, only in a single case (Russian) the reason you're giving it's true: a bit 'too little. Furthermore, your removal of the Dutch local interlanguage link brought out the one in Wikidata, no longer overridden, which is far less suitable: it links to a more generic catalogue of both trams and metros.

Now, I reverted again your edit, removing the Russian link and replacing the German one: I hope this settled the issue and that in the future you'll be more prudent, attentive to the content of the article rather than its title and diligent in providing edit summaries. Sincerely, Yak79 2.0 (talk) 23:49, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yak79 2.0, I should agree with you, therefore I have corrected links on wikidata. --Lavidav (talk) 12:27, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit of Ukrainians

Hi, I reviewed this your edit and confirmed that the author of the source cited is of controversial repute, hence source is indeed unreliable in this context. At the same time I noticed that this author is cited in another Wikipedia article, Little Russian identity, so you may want to review it as well. Unfortunately I do not have much time for this. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:50, 18 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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