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257:. That happened when Ukraine was a part of Soviet Union, so the vast majority of first-hand information available was written in Russian, the SU official language. Hence the 'Chernobyl' transcription from Russian language got recorded and still exists in most of written sources, while the 'Chornobyl' transcription from Ukrainian language remains much less known. Knowledge does not try to set any standards or judge on correctness, but rather just summarize and report what reliable sources say. When the use of 'Chornobyl' prevails over 'Chernobyl' in English–language TV news, newspapers & books, then Knowledge almost surely will change it, too. -- 527:. If someone has a broken pipe, do you wait until after the plumber has done their work, then go up to them and say "Honestly, mate, I had no idea how to fix your pipe"? If someone's car isn't working, do you wait until after the mechanic has fixed it to say "Honestly, cars are a mystery to me. I had no idea how to fix your car". If you do, that's 665:
that appears to be the cause of this, it looks like the editor redirected the first template I mentioned to the article instead of the second template I mentioned, so anytime the first template is added, the article appears. If my explaination makes any sense, can someone check this. Like I said, the
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Don't worry too much about it, Colin, I already took care of it. No need to fret over such a small thing as not knowing something like what Janner means. There's things we all don't know. We don't all feel the need to advertise it though. It takes a strong person to admit to their own ignorance.
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Hi! Knowledge is using russian spelling of Chornobyl. "ChErnobyl" spelling is russian and incorrect. You should use either ukrainian version or create a new english one. But using russian spelling in English is incorrect. Chornobyl page is blocked from editing, so please correct it. Thank you. Taras
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Hi, I was trying to fix what I think is a mistake and now have myself confused, so I hope this makes sense. I think there may be a problem with a redirected template and can't figure how to fix it. Basically an editor was adding the template {{Contract Research Organizations}} to articles resulting
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I did not get the publisher of this reference (number 7) - it is from a journal from 1921. Please fix and leave in quote. I have gotten the page number incorrect too - the placing of it (it should say "p" - not the actual page number, that is correct. I hope this makes sense. Sorry - thanks
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has only become the standard English spelling in the past 2 years, but not before then. It doesn't seem like the spelling of Chernobyl to Chornobyl has happened yet in a preponderance of English sources, but maybe it has. Make the case on the article talk page and see what happens.
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is almost unreferenced, and in particular there is no reference given for his being born in Plymouth. By Knowledge's rules I am entitled to remove that information (and lots of other unreferenced information) from the article; but I have chosen instead to tag it with
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removed the whole question because to them it was gibberish, and if I hadn't tried to reply to it and got "this section does not exist" and got looking, maybe nobody would have noticed or replied to it. Perhaps Blaze Wolf jumped the gun; but to them
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and searched for "Janners". Given this, it is very unhelpful to use the word in a request. In fact, another editor removed your request entirely, because they couldn't make head or tail of it. I restored it, in order to answer
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Thanks, I had myself confused over something easy. I was actually trying to edit the wrong template page. I also think the redirect was meant to be to the lower case template, and the editor leftout the template part.
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If a template says someone need to find references for particular phrase (not a catchphrase, but a spelled-out acronym) would I just look for reputable sources using it in their writings or is there something else?
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ref number 8 is all wrong . I cant work out how to put the page number in correctly, and there is a problem with the date - but I think I have got that part correct. Please fix and leave in quote - thanks
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Ultimately, we're a encyclopedia, so content is our most critical aspect. It's also really help to do even if you find something else of more interest (as I have). So, I'd first take a read through
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Hello, Taras. The question is not "which name is correct", but rather "which name is commonly used". The town became widely known in the world, in the English–speaking world in particular, due to
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Hello. First of all, Knowledge is read and edited by people all over the world, and most of them have no idea what "Janners" means (I'm English, and I didn't know until I looked at the article
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That was indeed part of it. "Famous Janners:*paragraph break* Missing is*paragraph break* Robert George 'Bob' Downes...." made absolutely no sense to me. ―
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The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the
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Robert George 'Bob' Downes born in Plymouth 22 July 1937, flautist, saxophonist and composer in the fields of jazz, rock and ballett
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Then find some articles that interest you (I imagine STEM ones would be a good place to look?) but could use some improvements.
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Unclear? Rewrite. Unsourced? Add a reference. Straight up wrong? Find the references to confirm it and then change and source.
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There was an unneeded comma in the date field which generated an error message. I removed it. The page number seems to be OK.
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is best known for the nuclear accident in 1986. At that time, the spelling in news stories was Chernobyl which has become the
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didn't understand it. You don't need to respond to things you don't understand. Even doubly unnecessary in your comment is
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Please tell us which article you are talking about. It is hard to give helpful advice when people are not specific.
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for words or terminology defining the term explicitly. Merely showing people using the term is probably
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I've reverted the edits to the template. I haven't time at the moment to discuss this matter with
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I'd like to help help improve the encyclopedia. Where should I spend my time to do the most good?
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sufficient, you need to show that other reliable sources have explicitly defined it. --
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that show that the change has happened in English that you describe. It can happen,
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articles are fixed, but I have no idea what can be done with the redirect.
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to Chicken Kyiv because Russia is off the Christmas card list. The article
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also notes the Ukrainian spelling of Chornobyl in the opening sentence.--
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is the subject of a Knowledge article, and so could be added to
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appearing at the bottom instead of the template like this edit
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problem has been fixed. It doesn't need any additional help --
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from a previous version. Both templates were authored by
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Your Homepage tab should also suggest a few edits to you.
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Taras: The correct place to have this discussion is at
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Index

Knowledge:Help desk
Archives
Help desk
November 2
Oct
November
Dec
November 4
current Help Desk
Beighton Cup
115.70.23.77
talk
04:06, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
STEMinfo
talk
06:54, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
STEMinfo
Help:Intro
Nosebagbear
talk
09:47, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
91.245.223.50
talk
10:25, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
Chernobyl
WP:COMMONNAME
Chicken Kiev
Chernobyl
♦IanMacM♦
10:34, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

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