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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 02:20, 17 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Typography of French edit

Hi,

For information, in French, proper names for churches (and others things) like Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica (Q2886917) start with a lowercase initial.

Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 09:41, 17 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

@VIGNERON: Sorry, I did not realize that. Thanks for pointing it out. Ergo Sum (talk) 15:06, 17 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

P6428 (P6428) edit

Hello. I have come to say that I have just nominated this property for deletion, as it is superceded by the newest LoC HABS/HAER/HALS place ID (P8655), which now allows us to provide direct links to the relevant content. Which honestly is great news, I believe. Thierry Caro (talk) 23:39, 27 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, @Thierry Caro:. I'm glad to hear that. I tried for the longest time to get a property for HABS. Ergo Sum (talk) 23:54, 27 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
The 'problem' is that there's now a ton of IDs to add here! But I agree this is far better than no links at all! Thierry Caro (talk) 00:21, 28 September 2020 (UTC)Reply