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Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Why "Kingdom of Bicycles" and not "自行车王国", but "məθkʷəy̓" and not "Muthkwey"? Americanist phonetic notation is not written in English or the Latin alphabet, although some parts resemble it, and is unintelligible for probably more people here than Mandarin (or Cantonese or whichever is used). We don't use "Цэцэйхэн" for Checheyigen either, even though that one as well has some recognisable characters. Fram (talk) 11:53, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    If this were about the title of the article, I would fully agree with you. However, given that this is a hook in DYK, and furthermore is the "quirky" hook as well, I'd be inclined not to say this is a hill to die on. Put it this way - there have been significantly more egregious liberties taken in the quirky slot over the years, that I'd be consider more worth fighting than this one...  — Amakuru (talk) 15:53, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    That's the attitude that just makes these issues go on and on and on though... There is nothing "quirky" about a hook being unreadable for most readers, and there seems to be no reason why this is done in this case and not in others (and it is a good thing it isn't done in other cases). Fram (talk) 16:59, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    More generally, the article itself does not meet accessibility standards (MOS:OTHERLANG) and MOS:FORITA. Making the hook and article accessible for all readers, instead of most, seems a rather good hill to die on to me. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:23, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Speaking of italics, {{lang}} doesn't automatically italicize Halkomelem-language text; AFAICT this is because it considers it to be written in a non-Latin script. If that's correct, then we need to transliterate it per MOS:NOTLATIN. Otherwise, it should be manually italicized. jlwoodwa (talk) 18:36, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've unpiped it.--Launchballer 23:02, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I think it should be wrapped in {{transliteration|hur}} now (displaying as muthkwey), per WP:DYKMOS § C10. jlwoodwa (talk) 01:43, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In which case the article itself also needs to be updated to match, and the above accessibility concerns addressed. If this needs more time, we can replace this and run it later.  — Amakuru (talk) 11:38, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think that would be a good idea. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:45, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Done  — Amakuru (talk) 23:41, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Amakuru @AirshipJungleman29 I'm confused about the status here. Your comments above make it sound like the hook was pulled, but it's in the currently live version of {{Did you know}} RoySmith (talk) 00:37, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You sure about that? I see "Buy Cash" as the final hook in the set.--Launchballer 00:48, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
... that China was once the "Kingdom of Bicycles"? in slot 5 RoySmith (talk) 00:52, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Launchballer maybe I'm just confused about which hook we're talking about. This thread started out with Why "Kingdom of Bicycles" and not "自行车王国". So are we not talking about the Kingdo of Bicycles hook? RoySmith (talk) 01:04, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Fram:'s starting sentence is "Why "Kingdom of Bicycles" and not "自行车王国", but "məθkʷəy̓" and not "Muthkwey"?" and they then talk about the American phonetic alphabet, which "自行车王国" isn't written in.--Launchballer 01:21, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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There probably shouldn't be two American hooks next to each other, so I'd swap it anyway.--Launchballer 00:40, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Today's OTD

Sherman's March to the Sea is POTD, so it should probably be swapped out on OTD (technically it's not the bold article on OTD, but it's still repetitive).:Jay8g [V•T•E] 03:20, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. I've swapped it out.  — Amakuru (talk) 00:09, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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(November 15, today)
  • There are three redirects in the blurb
CJ E&M - pipe to CJ ENM Entertainment Division JennyOz (talk) 05:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Mnet Asian Music Awards - pipe to MAMA Awards JennyOz (talk) 05:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Big Bang (band) - pipe to BigBang (South Korean band) (nb no space in band name) JennyOz (talk) 05:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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(November 18)
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