User talk:Keir~enwiki

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Polari
Regarding your list of Polari words which have entered mainstream English: I am rather confused. The only dates the artcile gives for Polari is the 1950s and 60s; yet several of the words from your list vastly predate the 50s and 60s. ('Bloke' is the most obvious example; 'bimbo' is regularly used by P. G. Wodehouse; and I have to say that I have my doubts about 'drag' and 'mince' too.) So if you're right in saying those words entered English from Polari, then clearly Polari must have older origins. Please explain! Doops 21:49, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

''I didn't create the entry on Polari. I simply added my limited knowledge to it. To answer your question, at a guess I would suggest that either (1) Polari is older than the entry suggests and was around in Wodehouse's time; or (2) Wodehouse drew the words from the same Romani sources. I think theory no (1) is probably more likely. Polari doesn't have a strict etymological definition and hasn't been particularly well documented AFAIK, so the Wikipedia entry could be wrong.''Keir

Image Tagging Image:Sweeneyjim.jpg
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Image:ERICERNIETHEDANCE.jpg listed for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Puppywolf


A tag has been placed on Puppywolf requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Nomination of Puppywolf for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Puppywolf is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Puppywolf until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:33, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Keir Thomas for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Keir Thomas is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Keir Thomas until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Keir. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Keir~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 00:54, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 14:53, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Keir Thomas for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Keir Thomas is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Keir Thomas& until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Tacyarg (talk) 11:34, 18 July 2020 (UTC)