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Inuite
I was looking for misspellings of Inuit created by sticking an "s" on the end. I ended up at Inuit and Inuk which says in French that "Inuite" is used to mean "Inuit women". I realised that Inuite is used in several articles as well as some non Wikipedia material. So is there another use of "Inuite" in French that does not refer to women? Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 22:14, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * In French and many other European languages every noun is grammatically either masculine or feminine, even nouns for abstract concepts or inanimate objects. And adjectives often change their form depending on whether they are used with a masculine or a feminine noun. So for instance, the French word culture is feminine, so Inuit culture would be la culture inuite, although this has nothing to do with women. Note however that the French word inuite here is an adjective rather than a noun.


 * This grammatical accord of inuite in the feminine version is recommended by the Office québécois de la langue française. The plural versions of these adjectives would be inuits (masculine) and inuites (feminine). -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 16:32, 6 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks. That makes sense. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 17:55, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jacques Rose


The article Jacques Rose has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * As per WP:BIO1E. Outside of the October Crisis, individual has no notability. Can be mentioned in that article, if necessary.

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 * Well, I won't oppose this, as your cited reason seems valid. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 02:38, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of Laura-Leigh for deletion
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Joseph-Jean-Pierre Laurent‎ on it.wiki
Hello PT, thank you for the advice: the italian version has been enhanced to reflect the evidence from the letter to Valz. Great example of interwiki cooperation!Ysogo (talk) 10:45, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

Great suggestion
Hi, the article Le SuperClub Vidéotron is up to date but the same in Wikipedia in French Here is out of date, with this text source of this: Sandbox, you could select all the text source of that page, copy the text source and then paste the text source on the article in Wikipedia in French, don’t forget to remove the actual text source of the article, the text source will work correctly on Wikipedia in French.

I don’t know why, I tried but I’m not able, maybe because that I don’t have account.

Thank you to do that for me, the article will be better after with the logo of today and a more appropriate color infobox...✋😀--72.51.45.70 (talk) 15:00, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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