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Level 5 Subpages

People History and geography Society STEM

Introduction[edit]

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15 days ago: 05:19, 10 May 2024 (UTC) (Purge)
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Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 6 January 2024[edit]

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Please Insert {{Icon|GAN}} before [[Society]] Alex26337 (talk) 16:26, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit extended-protected}} template. Shadow311 (talk) 16:00, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 2 February 2024[edit]

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Update Society assessment: → 172.112.199.166 (talk) 00:51, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Already done – this list is maintained by a computer program, it just takes a little while sometimes. Tollens (talk) 09:52, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Should be cascadingly protected[edit]

These are extremely important articles and should be cascadingly protected like the main page: -The arts -Earth -Human -Human history -Life -Mathematics -Philosophy -Science -Society -Technology 222.152.99.203 (talk) 01:05, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thus making them unable to be improved. Great work! ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 16:05, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Half way...[edit]

5/10 articles of Vital 1 are either GA or FA. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 07:10, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos to those involved. Cobblet (talk) 14:35, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish translation[edit]

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Hi,

I would love for this project to be available to Spanish speakers.

Sadly, there is no option to translate the page. I don’t know if this limitation is related to the extended protection it enjoys.

If there’s any way around this, I would love to contribute to the translation. AnFerMa (talk) 08:24, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there is an EC restriction on translations (however, if you are (auto)confirmed, I think you can translate but you can't keep the translation anywhere else than draft space). Unfortunately, while I do know a bit of Spanish and could help translate, this is something that would have to be discussed with eswiki, and probably can't just be translated. thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 00:47, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AnFerMa thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 00:47, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AnFerMa, I'm not sure translating this page would be a good idea. Information should ideally be recorded in a centralized manner — translating the vital articles list into multiple languages would make it exponentially harder to keep organized, as the lists would immediately start going out of sync.

There is meta:List of articles every Wikipedia should have, which is a language-independent list to the extent that it's hosted on Meta, so maybe use that? Even that should probably be merged with the Vital Articles list (or vice versa), as the idea behind it is basically the same, and this list aims (at least in theory) to avoid giving any preference to English language topics.

Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 00:58, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, I forgot to add those things in my reply. Thanks @Sdkb! thetechie@enwiki: ~/talk/ $ 14:21, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]