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Today I had to correct an edit claiming the Kwegu to be a Nilotic group. Linguistically, Kwegu is a Southeast
Surmic group, and as such they are on a different Branch of
Eastern Sudanic languages than the Nilotic languages. So any relationship between Surmic and Nilotic groups is is going way back, and should not be dwelled on in such an article. It's like claiming Swedish is related to Romance languages. Not entirely wrong, but also certainly not true.
Landroving Linguist (
talk)
08:15, 12 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Thanks for your approval! Please note that I made that edit almost ten years ago. Beyond their classification as Surmic, I know almost nothing about the Kwegu, so there wasn't much for me to add. Thanks for your great additions to the article! Now it really has some substance.
LandLing15:29, 3 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Merger proposal
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Agree: Apparently the recent editor didn't know about the capitalization rules of Wikipedia. This version here is more recently edited (today), and also fits the rules better than
Kwegu People, so if
User:Temechegn.bira agrees, the other page could just be deleted, and we stick to this one here.
LandLing10:29, 3 July 2021 (UTC)reply
I can do it. Please confirm that all information that is on
Kwegu People that you want to copy over to this page is already here - I think it is, as this is what you have probably done yesterday, but it is good to be sure. Then I can set the redirect. Probably I won't get to it before tomorrow.
LandLing15:39, 3 July 2021 (UTC)reply
It looks like we won't get more people to contribute to this merger discussion, and Temechgn didn't voice any objections, although we already had some interaction elsewhere since my last edit here. Therefore I will replace the content of
Kwegu People with a redirect marker.
LandLing10:12, 4 July 2021 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Today I had to correct an edit claiming the Kwegu to be a Nilotic group. Linguistically, Kwegu is a Southeast
Surmic group, and as such they are on a different Branch of
Eastern Sudanic languages than the Nilotic languages. So any relationship between Surmic and Nilotic groups is is going way back, and should not be dwelled on in such an article. It's like claiming Swedish is related to Romance languages. Not entirely wrong, but also certainly not true.
Landroving Linguist (
talk)
08:15, 12 November 2011 (UTC)reply
Thanks for your approval! Please note that I made that edit almost ten years ago. Beyond their classification as Surmic, I know almost nothing about the Kwegu, so there wasn't much for me to add. Thanks for your great additions to the article! Now it really has some substance.
LandLing15:29, 3 July 2021 (UTC)reply
Merger proposal
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
Agree: Apparently the recent editor didn't know about the capitalization rules of Wikipedia. This version here is more recently edited (today), and also fits the rules better than
Kwegu People, so if
User:Temechegn.bira agrees, the other page could just be deleted, and we stick to this one here.
LandLing10:29, 3 July 2021 (UTC)reply
I can do it. Please confirm that all information that is on
Kwegu People that you want to copy over to this page is already here - I think it is, as this is what you have probably done yesterday, but it is good to be sure. Then I can set the redirect. Probably I won't get to it before tomorrow.
LandLing15:39, 3 July 2021 (UTC)reply
It looks like we won't get more people to contribute to this merger discussion, and Temechgn didn't voice any objections, although we already had some interaction elsewhere since my last edit here. Therefore I will replace the content of
Kwegu People with a redirect marker.
LandLing10:12, 4 July 2021 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.